Mastercard believes AI agents will soon be buying services, paying fees, and handling transactions automatically at machine speed. The company’s new Agent Pay for Machines platform aims to support nonstop machine-to-machine payments across traditional and crypto rails.
A new tool from Demand Progress will show you which pols are on the AI take.
The post Tracking the Flood of AI Political Spending appeared first on The American Prospect.
If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important:
On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing.
The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transaction…
Earlier this year, the “Because I Got High” rapper went viral for winning a case against the cops. Now he’s crypto’s free-speech hero, even though he isn’t quite sure how the digital currency works.
After years of covering Linux, privacy, and crypto-adjacent technology, I finally set up a Bitcoin Lightning wallet for NERDS.xyz. Here is why I chose Wallet of Satoshi on iPhone, how the setup process went, and why Lightning tipping might actually make sense for independent tech journalism.
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
Big changes are coming for Revolut users in Hungary 🇭🇺💳
AlphaPepe is not trying to win attention with meme energy alone:
Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000. — Read the rest
The post After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened appeared first on Boing Boing.
Blockchain.com wants users borrowing against Bitcoin again, but the return of crypto-backed lending may remind many people of the industry’s last major meltdown.
Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.
It was not immediately clear if the issues at AWS and CME were related. Coinbase, however, says problems with its platform were caused by the AWS outage.
Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it.
Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
The post AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State appeared first on The American Prospect.
A series of arson attacks on property linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer were orchestrated by a Russian-speaking contact called ‘El Money’, jurors heard (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)
Three men were hired to target Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in a series of arson attacks by a Russian-speaking contact called ‘El Money’, the Old Bailey has heard.
Roman…
On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator.
Experts at a United Nations (UN) panel hosted by Pakistan have warned that terrorist organisations are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI), encrypted communication tools, and digital (crypto) currencies to expand their reach and evade detection, marking a major shift in the global security landscape. Read More: PSCA, UN launch campaign against gender-based violence The discussion took…
Manitoba's plan to charge cryptocurrency companies higher hydro rates and curtail power at peak times will drive those businesses under, officials with two companies said.
“To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.
Prosecutors say that reported losses have already passed 350 million zloty.
The actor-director discussed his least favorite currency and read a series of mean tweets—about us!—at our inaugural WIRED@Night event.
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The _New York Times_ has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.
I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing.
I can’t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent…
Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?
The UK designated Xinbi Guarantee as an enabler of crypto scammers and human trafficking weeks ago. Telegram is still hosting it in plain sight.
Hey, do you remember crypto games? You know, games developed to take advantage of the _last_ big tech fad (read: generate money for some tech bros who'd never touched a controller in their lives)? As we see the cycle start again with hype over AI-generated games, it's worth remembering how the crypto game wave ended up. — Read the rest
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Trump’s war craters the economy in multiple ways, even if it somehow ends soon.
The post The Faltering War Economy appeared first on The American Prospect.
UmbrelOS is a Debian-based home cloud OS with a neat web-based interface that works on devices like Raspberry Pi SBCs, mini PCs, old computers, and more. Having been first released in 2020, the OS is not exactly new, but I only discovered it today after noticing it was one of the supported operating systems for the Pironman 5 Pro Max enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 5. It initially launched as a…
Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.