🤖 Search for invisible substance that make up 85% of universe’s all matter to get boost with new study

For decades, physicists have searched for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. Although its gravitational influence shapes galaxies and the large-scale structure of the cosmos, dark matter has never been directly detected.

Now, researchers at the Hebrew University have identified three unconventional quantum materials — titanium diselenide (TiSe₂), strontium ruthenate (Sr₂RuO₄), and hole-doped diamond — that could dramatically boost the search for these elusive particles, paving the way for a new generation of ultra-sensitive dark matter detectors.

“Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics, and discovering its nature requires us to rethink not only the particles we are searching for, but also the materials we use to search for them,” — said the researchers.

“By identifying quantum materials that naturally amplify the tiny signals expected from light dark matter, we’ve uncovered a promising new path toward experiments that are significantly more sensitive than those available today.” 🚀

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🇻🇪🇺🇸 Venezuela’s Acting Leader Rodríguez Is Said to Plan UN Visit

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez is planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, a visit that would mark a major step in the rapid normalization of relations between Caracas and the Trump administration.

Rodríguez would be the first Venezuelan head of state to attend the gathering in nearly a decade, following Nicolás Maduro’s last appearance in September 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term. Both Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have said they could meet her if the trip takes place.

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🤑 Nethermind on Building Private, Compliant Payments for Stellar

Maksim Ryndin from Nethermind’s Privacy Engineering team talks about building privacy infrastructure on Stellar. Nethermind is building Stellar Private Payments (SPP), a system that lets users transact privately while giving pool operators configurable compliance controls for regulators.🔐

📱 In this interview, Maksim covers:

➡️ what Nethermind is building on Stellar
➡️ why privacy matters as public chains handle real financial activity
➡️ how Stellar Private Payments balances user privacy with regulatory compliance
➡️ how Nethermind abstracts cryptography complexity away from developers through SDKs and examples
➡️ why Soroban's design and Rust tooling work well for privacy infrastructure
➡️ where private payments make sense first: transfers, payroll, institutional payments, and settlement
➡️ why regulators need to be treated as design partners, not obstacles

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🇺🇸 US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

The U.S. has deployed its first publicly acknowledged space-based weapon, marking the first time Washington has confirmed an offensive capability in orbit.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said that the U.S. has “on-orbit space control weapons,” as he outlined a broader push to modernize the Air Force and Space Force in response to advances by U.S. adversaries, AI, and the growing use of autonomous weapons.

“We will dramatically increase our combat power by adding large numbers of highly autonomous systems,” — he said. “Because of the steps we’re taking today, we’ll have a radically different-looking Air Force by 2032.”

A U.S. official said the capability could potentially be used to disable or destroy an enemy satellite targeting U.S. troops or satellites. 🛰

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to use associated gas for crypto mining

Kazakhstan plans to use associated petroleum gas to generate electricity directly at oil fields, with the electricity produced then used for digital mining, according to Gizzat Baitursynov, Deputy Minister of AI and Digital Development.

Miners will be able to install autonomous power plants directly at oil fields in agreement with subsoil users. The relevant mechanism has already been developed jointly with the Ministry of Energy.

The ministry believes the initiative will make it possible to use an untapped resource, reduce gas flaring, attract investment and create new jobs. A similar approach is also being considered for coal mine methane.

The total planned capacity of strategic digital mining projects is 300 MW. The first 90 MW project was launched on 12 September. 🚀

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ Crypto Clarity Act flames out in failed U.S. Senate vote

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to survive the politics of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as a 49-50 vote meant to start the bill toward passage fell far short in rounding up the 60 supporters required to advance.

Crypto executives said the vote does not unwind the regulatory progress already underway at the SEC and CFTC, nor is it likely to stop banks, asset managers and crypto firms from continuing to build.

The SEC recently proposed its first major crypto rule — Regulation Crypto Assets, or Reg Crypto — to clear a path for crypto projects to raise money and get off the ground without immediately drawing difficult regulatory requirements. And the agency is poised to start approving a narrow version of securities tokenization that could eventually remake how securities transactions are executed in the U.S. 🇺🇸

"There is still reason for optimism for crypto in the U.S. Now, the SEC, under Chair Atkins, and the CFTC, under Chair Selig, will continue to work hard to issue rules to fill the legislative gap and we will continue to be actively engaged in that rule making process.

Ripple's business has never been stronger — real demand across traditional finance and the digital asset ecosystem. A missed vote in Washington doesn't change our momentum, our global footprint, or our customers," — Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, said.

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🤖 Scientists Just Teleported an Image Across 100 Quantum Channels at Once

Quantum teleportation is poised to change the world. It sounds like science fiction – that the quantum state of one system can be transferred, or 'teleported', to another system a great distance away at close to the speed of light.

It's real, and it has been proven — at relatively small scales. A new breakthrough represents the next step on the quantum bandwidth journey: a team of physicists led by Jietai Jing of East China Normal University has achieved quantum teleportation across 100 simultaneous channels, demonstrated by successfully teleporting the quantum information encoded in a 100-pixel image.

"As far as we know, it is indeed the largest number of independently addressable quantum teleportation channels ever demonstrated simultaneously," — Jing said.

This architecture could provide a flexible high-capacity interface for future quantum communication networks. 🚀

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🏀🤑 Louisville Athletics Announces Strategic Brand Partnership with Ripple Bringing XRP Cryptocurrency to Louisville Basketball

Louisville Athletics announced a multi-year partnership with Ripple, bringing XRP branding to Louisville Basketball beginning this season. As part of the agreement, the XRP logo becomes a permanent fixture on Denny Crum Court for every Louisville home game — preserving the court's history alongside XRP branding across Louisville Men's and Women's Basketball.

Ripple will also support financial and technology education for University of Louisville student-athletes and the campus community, covering both traditional finance and digital assets.

"We're proud to bring this innovative partnership to life with the Cardinals and to expand XRP's presence in the college sports landscape," — said Kim Damron, President of Sports Properties at Learfield.

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📱 X launches U.S. Cashtag Program with brokerage partners

X announced the U.S. launch of the X Cashtag Partner Program, connecting financial conversations on X with the ability to trade through participating brokerages. At launch, X users can tap through Cashtags to brokerage partners, including Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken and Coinbase.

Cashtags turn ticker symbols for stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies into interactive destinations, giving X users real-time access to market conversation and financial information. Now, X Cashtag partners give users a seamless path from discovering a ticker and following the conversation on X to taking action with a brokerage.

When users tap a supported Cashtag, they can view the asset’s price chart and related posts on X, then select “Trade” to continue to a participating brokerage, where they can log in or sign up and complete their trade.

“With our Cashtag partners, we’re connecting the financial conversation to action. People come to X to discover what’s happening, shape the conversation, and act in real-time on what matters to them.

Our Cashtag partners make it possible to move seamlessly from discovery and conversation to a brokerage, without breaking the moment,” — Monique Pintarelli, Head of Global Advertising, SpaceXAI, said.

Starting today, users can tap crypto cashtags such as XRP on X and be redirected to Kraken to trade the asset. 🚀

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⚡️🖥 Nvidia’s Huang Says AI Industry Doesn’t Need Any New Laws

Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new AI security regulations, arguing that market forces will help companies safely innovate.

“We don’t need new laws — we don’t need new regulations,” — Huang said during a Salesforce Inc. event. The CEO added that there’s a “false choice” about AI development being either safe or fast, reiterating a point he’s made previously.

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🤑 LI.FI is Live on Stellar

LI.FI is now live on the Stellar network, the blockchain built for real-world financial applications — connecting the Stellar ecosystem to 60+ blockchains through LI. FI’s liquidity orchestration infrastructure.

Stellar is the home for real-world financial infrastructure: stablecoins, payments, tokenized assets, and institutional adoption. With LI. FI, builders and asset issuers on Stellar can now connect more easily to users, capital, and liquidity across the wider onchain economy.

More than 1,000 wallets, fintechs, exchanges, and digital asset applications already integrate LI. FI. With the Stellar network now supported, these products can enable access to the Stellar ecosystem through the infrastructure they already use.

The first Stellar integration powered by LI. FI is already live on Jumper, where users can move between Stellar and other supported ecosystems and trade assets native to Stellar. 🚀

“With LI. FI’s orchestration system and a distribution network of enterprises we’re connecting Stellar to the wider onchain economy,” — Philipp Zentner, CEO and Co-Founder of LI. FI.

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🇺🇸 Boston drops Flock after outside agencies gained access to vehicle data

Days after Boston launched its Flock Safety pilot program in April 2025, the surveillance system shared vehicle data in violation of the Boston Police Department’s contract.

📝 The report showed that Boston police received 77 requests from outside law enforcement agencies for access to Flock data during the pilot, while an internal audit found officers conducted 11,004 database searches and failed to include a case number tied to a criminal investigation about half the time.

“When the toggles or the access controls ... either are not able to be restricted in the ways that conform with that policy, or are set — but then can be unset, or reset, in ways that violate that policy, we would not use that platform,” — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said.

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🤖 OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety

OpenAI is working on steps to address AI safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat.

Chris Lehane, the global policy chief for OpenAI, said that the company’s engagement with Anthropic and Google had been under way for several weeks. He added that OpenAI does not see the need for an antitrust waiver for the three AI firms to coordinate on safety matters.

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🇷🇺 Moscow Exchange to launch perpetual futures on crypto indices

On September 22, 2026, Moscow Exchange will begin trading cash-settled one-day futures contracts with automatic rollover on its Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and TRON indices.

The new contracts will be available exclusively to qualified investors. The instruments are cash-settled and do not involve physical delivery of the underlying asset.

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💳 The MoneyGram Card brings together MoneyGram, Rain, Stellar and Crossmint around one goal: making what happens after the money arrives more useful

The consumer always comes first 🚀

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🇮🇳🇳🇿 New Zealand Clears Path for Free-Trade Agreement With India

New Zealand's parliament passed legislation to implement a free trade agreement with ​India, under which tariffs on about ‌95% of New Zealand exports to India would be eliminated or significantly reduced. The legislation passed by a ​vote of 93–29, with support from the ​opposition Labour Party.

Under the deal, all Indian goods will receive duty-free access to New Zealand. Wellington has also agreed to invest $20 billion in ​India over ​the next ⁠15 years. Both nations originally signed the trade agreement in April.

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