Telegraph Wants to Be the Visa of Machine Intelligence
A new protocol wants to verify every answer an AI agent buys, before software acts on it with real money. We take a look at Telegraph ahead of its Q3 launch.
Latest
THORChain Drained for $10.7M. Cryptographers Are Pointing at an Old Vulnerability
One of THORChain's six Asgard vaults was compromised on Friday. The network halted trading. Industry experts are pointing at the same threshold-signature stack they've been warning about since 2023.
Your Crypto Wallet Is Leaking Your IP Before You Make a Key.
An independent researcher ran 13 web3 wallets through a clean Android device and a packet sniffer. Twelve of them phoned home before the user did anything. One didn't make a single DNS request.
Open Source Initiative Appoints Duane O’Brien as Executive Director
Veteran Open Source leader brings decades of experience advancing sustainability, collaboration and responsible participation across the Open Source ecosystem.
Hermes Agent Just Became the Fastest-Growing AI Agent in GitHub History
50,782 stars. 366 contributors. 46 days. Here's what's driving the numbers and why it matters.
The Fuel Few Talk About
America is building the next generation of nuclear reactors. The race to fuel them has just begun.
CURSOR SHIPPED KIMI K2.5 AS THEIR OWN MODEL. HERE'S HOW IT UNRAVELED
Within 24 hours of Cursor announcing Composer 2 as their "in-house" frontier model, a developer intercepting API traffic found the real model ID. Moonshot AI's head of pretraining confirmed the tokenizer match and publicly asked why their license wasn't respected and no fees were paid.
You Can Now Text Claude Code From Your Phone
Anthropic launches Claude Code Channels, letting you message your AI coding session from Telegram or Discord — all while your code stays local.
Venice AI Launches Verifiable End-to-End Encryption
Venice AI introduces TEE and E2EE modes that make AI privacy cryptographically verifiable — turning trust into math and giving users proof, not promises.
Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Why Developers Are Switching
A wave of developers on X are publicly switching from OpenClaw to Hermes Agent by Nous Research. Here's what's driving it — and whether it's the right move for you.
Cake Wallet Adds Self-Custodial Lightning Support Designed for Everyday Users
Cake Wallet adds self-custodial Lightning support, enabling fast, private Bitcoin payments without channel management or losing control of funds.
Why Half of New Darknet Markets Only Accept This Crypto
Monero’s rise isn’t a scandal; it’s proof that privacy-focused crypto works as intended. As darknet markets increasingly go XMR-only, the chain’s future promises near-perfect opacity, complicating investigations and challenging regulators.
OPEN-SOURCE
NASA’s ExoMiner++ Expands Search for New Worlds
In January NASA published a new open-source artificial intelligence tool that they developed and says it is helping scientists around the world accelerate the search for planets beyond our solar system, a field known as exoplanet discovery.
OPEN-SOURCE
A Microservice Architecture for Real-Time Data Collection
This article champions an event-driven microservice architecture to overcome the data lag of traditional monolithic, batch-processing systems in retail and finance.
BLOCKCHAIN
Kingdom of Bhutan To Become Validator on Sei Blockchain, Boosting National Technology Capacity
Bhutan to deploy a Sei validator amid a broader push into open, decentralized infrastructure. Led by DHI InnoTech and Sapien Capital.
OPEN-SOURCE
Open-Source Bio-Logger Offers New Window into Whale Communication
Open-source bio-logger from Harvard SEAS captures rich acoustic and behavioral data from free-swimming sperm whales, enabling ML-driven marine bioacoustics research and democratizing access for scientists worldwide.
SECURITY
94% of Americans don't understand privacy risks when using AI at work
94% of Americans miss privacy risks when using AI at work, and 24% can’t spot AI-driven scams. NordVPN’s data warns the AI era is widening privacy gaps—and scammers are getting sharper.
PRIVACY
Cake Wallet Adds Zcash With Shielded Transactions by Default
Cake Wallet has integrated Zcash (ZEC) with shielded transactions enabled by default. This ensures all outgoing transactions originate from shielded addresses, concealing sender, receiver, and amounts for maximum privacy.
DECENTRALIZATION
Session: The Messenger Regimes Fear Most
Iran's regime blacked out the internet for 90M on Jan 8, 2026, targeting Session messenger with DNS spoofing. Decentralized, no-phone-number chats evaded control, proving why tyrants fear it.
MESSAGING APPS
Uganda's Youth Embrace Bitchat as Election Approaches
Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app, is surging in Uganda as citizens brace for a possible election internet blackout. After Nepal and Indonesia, over 1% of Ugandans have downloaded Bitchat, showing how “freedom tech” is redefining communication under government censorship.
AI
Top 10 Emerging Technology Trends Set to Shape 2026
Juniper Research unveils Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends for 2026: Post-quantum crypto, neuromorphic chips, physical AI robots, multi-agent systems, wireless EV charging, counter-drone tech, microfluidic cooling, multi-cloud, SMRs & open-source smart buildings.
SCIENCE
$6.5M Boost for Connected Science Knowledge
A new initiative, SYSTEM, secures $6.5M from Wellcome to unify fragmented scientific knowledge publications, datasets, tools into an interoperable system. It boosts discoverability, reuse, and collaboration across disciplines like health and climate, tackling silos that slow progress.
AI
We Need to Talk About Grok
Grok's lax guardrails enable public harassment, from digitally undressing women to detailed stalking plans, sparking scrutiny of xAI's investors, Pentagon partnership, and school integrations amid growing ethical concerns.
OPEN-SOURCE
PearPass: The Password Manager With No Servers to Hack
PearPass is 100% P2P: your passwords stay on your devices, with encrypted direct sync and no third parties touching your data.