Google is set to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets at its inaugural digital assets symposium in New York City on Wednesday.
Google did not identify the institutions testing the service or specify which digital assets Alphabet is securing. The company plans to make Google Multi-Party Compute commercially available in early 2027, but has not disclosed pricing.
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Ripple and Coinbase, two of the the leading providers of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, announced a partnership to bring Ripple USD (RLUSD) to Coinbase, significantly expanding market access and utility for the enterprise-grade stablecoin in the U.S.
Starting today, retail and institutional clients can trade and manage RLUSD through Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange and the Coinbase Retail app, with 1:1 conversion from U.S. dollars and other supported USD-denominated stablecoins into RLUSD.
Availability for Coinbase Global Exchange customers, including leveraging RLUSD as collateral, will follow.
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San Diego officials are considering a temporary ban on new data centers amid growing concerns that the rapidly expanding industry could strain the city's electricity grid, drive up utility bills and worsen its housing shortage.
The move comes after a local developer floated plans for a massive 400-megawatt data center near Old Town that, if built, could become the largest facility of its kind in California. According to reporting by Voice of San Diego, the proposed facility could consume as much electricity as more than 320,000 homes.
Mayor Todd Gloria said the city needed to balance technological development with protecting residents from the potential consequences of large-scale data centers.
"San Diego is a city of innovation, and I want us to continue leading in the technologies and jobs of the future," β Gloria said. "But we cannot allow a rapidly expanding industry to get ahead of the rules needed to protect our residents."
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A cybersecurity startup called Cathedral gained access to sensitive internal systems at Anthropic in less than 12 hours, exposing employee information, salary details, job offers and internal messages discussing the company's advanced AI models. The incident was discovered during a security test conducted under Anthropic's programme for outside researchers to identify vulnerabilities.
According to a draft report, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.
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The US placed an effective ban on imports from the Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI Group and two related entities, one of the most striking applications yet of a law seeking to block goods allegedly made by forced labor from entering the country.
The Department of Homeland Security added BGI Group, its publicly traded genomics-testing unit BGI Genomics Co., and the spin-off MGI Tech Co. to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to a Federal Register notice posted Wednesday.
The designation creates a presumption that the companiesβ goods are made with forced labor and canβt enter the US unless importers prove otherwise.
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Canadaβs Terrestar Solutions Inc. agreed to work together with the UAEβs Space42 Plc and US-based Viasat Inc. on a global, open standard to share satellite infrastructure and improve connectivity for mobile devices.
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Curious about something? Not sure how something works? Just ask! Every question can bring us one step closer to understanding.
Donβt miss this opportunity! Together, we can understand more, learn faster, and support each other better than we can alone.
Come curious, speak up, and letβs learn and grow together!
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We are drawing the BIGGEST CROWDS at Trump Rallies in the history of Midterm Elections, by a factor of five times.
There has never been anything like it! My Approval Rating in the Republican Party is now at 99%. Thank you, such an honor!!!
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Bermuda plans to launch its first onchain merchant, Premier Tickets (PTIX), on the Stellar blockchain in the second quarter of 2027. This move is part of Bermuda's broader goal to become the world's first fully onchain national economy, aiming to reduce high card processing fees for local merchants.
The initiative uses WalletConnect Pay on Stellar, which was selected as Bermuda's payment settlement rail earlier in 2026. The success of PTIX could pave the way for more merchants and government services to adopt onchain payments, signaling a significant shift in how the island's economy operates digitally.
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Arcane Finance and Predicate announced the Enterprise Privacy Stack on the Stellar network, an infrastructure solution that combines transaction screening, confidential payments, and controlled access to data for investigations.
As payments, settlement, and asset transactions move on-chain, the need to protect sensitive financial information is growing. Banks, fintech companies, and asset issuers must keep balances, transaction amounts, and counterparty information confidential while enforcing their own compliance policies.
Meeting these needs requires infrastructure that brings together confidential transactions, screening, risk controls, and controlled access to data for investigations.
Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer of the SDF:
"The Stellar network was built for real-world finance, and privacy with built-in accountability is what institutions need next. The Enterprise Privacy Stack shows what the Stellar ecosystem can deliver when companies like Arcane and Predicate combine their strengths to develop tools to meet financial institutions where they are."
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After two decades of spurning the idea, Apple Inc. unveiled an overhauled MacBook Pro that includes a touch screen, giving its flagship laptop a feature that has become a must-have in the personal computer industry.
The thinner and lighter machine, which comes in 14- and 16-inch sizes, is also the first Mac with OLED β short for organic light-emitting diode β a display technology used on recent iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices. Itβs also the first Mac with a Dynamic Island, the screen element familiar to iPhone users.
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Taurus, a global leader in digital asset infrastructure, announced live support for smart contract-based assets on the Stellar network through Taurus-PROTECT, its institutional custody platform, and Taurus-CAPITAL, its tokenization platform.
The platform supports token issuance, smart contract function calls, and parameter handling across key Stellar network token models and standards, including SEP-41 contract tokens, Stellar Asset Contracts (SAC), OpenZeppelin contracts, and ERC-3643-based assets designed for regulated use cases on the Stellar network, also known as SEP-57.
For banks and financial institutions, this expands the range of assets and structures they can support on the Stellar network, from standardized token models to custom smart contracts designed around specific asset, regulatory, or operational requirements.
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Hungary and the US signed an agreement on the βTrump Peace Pipelines Frameworkβ to strengthen cooperation on developing regional natural gas and oil infrastructure, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban said.
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Delaware is developing a legal structure that would allow an AI agent to run a company with no routine human supervision. Delaware's draft would create an entirely new corporate category, the Artificial Intelligence Company, built for autonomous operation from the ground up.
Legislation could be introduced as early as 2027, and Meyer's office said it is reviewing Comer's letter.
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Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours with one of their speech restoration study participants, rapidly prototyping a cluster of new features designed to make thought-based communication more natural, more mobile, and more integrated into everyday life. The results offer the clearest window yet into where the VOICE trial is headed.
The VOICE trial is Neuralink's clinical program specifically targeting speech restoration β not cursor control or typing, but the ability to communicate verbally through thought alone. Participants are individuals who have lost the ability to speak, typically due to conditions like ALS or spinal cord injury.
According to previous Neuralink reporting, the trial began implanting participants in 2026, and by September of this year one participant had already spoken using a voice decoded directly from his brain signals. The hackathon was conducted with one of these active study participants, giving engineers real-world feedback that lab simulations simply cannot replicate.
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WalletConnect today announced expanded support for the Stellar network and a partnership with Penrose Partners to bring WalletConnect Pay to merchants in Bermuda. This initiative is meant to support the Government of Bermudaβs plan to become the worldβs first fully onchain economy.
Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer of the SDF, commented:
βBermudaβs work to make digital assets part of everyday commerce is exactly the kind of real-world use Stellar was built for. WalletConnect Pay brings that experience to the point of sale for users who already hold assets in Stellar wallets."
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Airtm, the trusted last-mile financial network for the Global South, and stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK, a Mastercard company, today announced a partnership that brings wallet-native payments to emerging markets.
The announcement comes as Airtm launches Airtm Connect, which allows digital asset companies around the world, including BVNK, to build wallet connections with Airtm's global user base. Through the integration, Airtm users will be able to use funds held in their wallets to pay participating retailers enabled by BVNK, while also creating new ways to fund and receive money.
This partnership strengthens Airtm's position as the financial rails for underserved global markets by enabling Airtm users to pay participating retailers directly from their wallets, removing friction that has long plagued the Global South's path to mainstream commerce. This means real access to global commerce.
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David Durman, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK), has successfully argued that using AI violates his beliefs as a humanist and has received Title VII religious accommodation from university officials not to use the technology.
According to the Religion News Service (RNS), Durman believes in "the human part of life," which includes making his own decisions.
βThe process and work involved in thinking through situations, through my work, through my ethics, through the way I handle other people, is a key component in being able to develop myself as a moral person,β Durman said.
βAnd offloading that labor, regardless of whether itβs taxing or not, is undercutting my ability to be a moral actor.β
Because of this, the research administrator was granted a Title VII exemption under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whichWhile humanism is often a non- prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. While humanism is often a non-religious philosophy or a worldview, federal courts have ruled that it qualifies as a religion.
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MetaMask, the world's largest self-custodial financial platform, today announced that Stellar, the blockchain network purpose-built for global payments, is now a default network within MetaMask Mobile and Extension.
MetaMask is the first major self-custodial platform to make Stellar a default network. Until now, MetaMask users who wanted to transact on Stellar needed a separate wallet. Every MetaMask account now includes a Stellar address, derived from the recovery phrase users already have. Existing Stellar users can import SRP from other wallets.
Users can hold and manage XLM, trustline assets and Soroban tokens alongside assets on other networks, send and receive them, and swap between Stellar and other supported networks.
"For most of the world, where you're born still decides what money you can hold, where you can send it, and what it costs to move," β said Gal Eldar, Chief Product Officer at MetaMask.
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