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โšก๏ธ๐ŸŽ Apple to Hold Annual iPhone Event on September 9

The September 2026 iPhone event will see Apple announce the iPhone 18 Pro, the โ€ŒiPhone 18 Proโ€Œ Max, and the foldable iPhone, which could be called the iPhone Ultra. All three new iPhones will use Apple's latest A20 Pro chip built on a 2nm process for speed and efficiency improvements.

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๐Ÿ›ก Ethereum developers propose first step to protect ETH staking from quantum attacks

Ethereum researchers proposed rebuilding the networkโ€™s validator deposit contract to support new cryptographic systems and eventually stop accepting deposits secured by existing BLS signatures. The change is intended to protect the blockchain from quantum attacks that could forge validator signatures, potentially threatening about 42.4 million staked ETH worth roughly $104 billion.

The proposal remains an early draft and requires additional protocol changes, with the Ethereum Foundation targeting around 2029 for core quantum-resistant upgrades. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿค‘ XRPL-based Xago gains strategic access to SWIFT via OpenPayd

โ€œAccess to multi-currency SWIFT rails further extended Xago's reach into currencies and markets that would otherwise be difficult to access.โ€


XRPL ๐Ÿค SWIFT

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Trump Signs Order to Ban Some Foreign Energy Equipment From Grid

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an emergency order that aims to keep some foreign-made transformers and other critical energy equipment out of the nationโ€™s electric grids on national security grounds.

The directive comes amid mounting bipartisan concern that Chinese-manufactured components in the US power system could contain vulnerabilities foreign adversaries can exploit. It also follows a series of cyberattacks on US water facilities that have underscored the extent to which the countryโ€™s critical infrastructure can be a target.

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๐Ÿค˜ Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction

Meta Platforms will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and โ€‹Instagram, under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children. The settlements end a federal trial over allegations Meta's products harmed children and the โ€Œcompany misled the public about their safety.

โ€œThe focus of this case was to protect our kids," โ€” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said. "The relief โ€‹we are getting in this settlement is very meaningful and well beyond what any court has ordered or is likely to order."


It could provide a template for resolving thousands of other lawsuits against social media companies.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿค‘ Developer Preview: Stellar Private Payments

โ—๏ธStellar Private Payments is a privacy pool implementation built by Nethermind that gives payments counterparty-level privacy.

Users hold a private balance in a shared shielded pool and pay each other inside it. The public ledger records that the pool was used, while keeping who paid whom or how much private. As Nethermind highlights in their writeup; privacy and compliance are not opposing requirements and SPP is designed to enforce both, on public rails.

Stellar's Developer Previews put new developer tooling and protocol capabilities in developers' hands before they're production-ready. While they're not yet approved for mainnet, the Stellar Private Payments contract is live on testnet. ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿ” SPP is for flows where the counterparties need privacy where relationships are sensitive.

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งGovernment Tells BOE to Boost Innovation in Digital Currencies

The UK government will give the Bank of England a new responsibility to bolster innovation in digital currencies and payments, amid criticism that the central bank has been too conservative in its approach to the emerging technologies.

The Treasury said that the goal would be secondary to the BoEโ€™s primary mission of maintaining financial stability. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has put a priority on ensuring that London remains competitive in a rapidly evolving digital asset market.

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๐Ÿค– โ€œThe turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.โ€ Bill Gates sends a 6000-word warning on the dangers of AI

โ€œAI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,โ€ โ€” he said.


Bill Gates warned that AI could prove โ€œthe worst source of injustice,โ€ displacing workers across white- and blue-collar industries. But he added that technology could accelerate advances in clean energy, agriculture, health (such as breakthroughs in preventing and treating diseases) and combat other major global challenges.

๐Ÿ’กThere were a few genuinely new ideas:

๐Ÿค– Gates proposes a โ€œrobot taxโ€:

Right now, if youโ€™re an employer and you hire someone, you pay payroll taxes on their earnings. But if you buy a robot, you can usually write it off right away as a business expense. The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines.

A tax would slow the rush away from human labor a little and raise money for retraining and a stronger safety net.


๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป He also proposes setting aside certain jobs as โ€œHuman Reserved,โ€ essentially barring AI from being used in certain tasks:

We might set something aside as Human Reserved for economic reasons. For example, we may do it because allowing machines to take over a certain role will displace a large number of people who canโ€™t easily change jobs. You canโ€™t tell a 55-year-old who has worked in construction their whole career that they need to go work at an elder care facility and expect them to find it fulfilling.

Sometimes the decision to make something Human Reserved will be driven by other factors. In health, for example, imagine a robot giving you the awful news that you have an incurable disease. Thereโ€™s no technical reason why it couldnโ€™t. Yet it shouldnโ€™t.

The Human Reserved domain will evolve over time โ€” for example, we should consider setting aside some jobs now and phasing in AI slowly over years or decades with a commitment to preserve some jobs.


๐Ÿค– New national bodies and international institutions will ultimately be required to help coordinate and safeguard against evolving AI risks globally, according to Gates.

โ€œThe challenge is monumental. Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history,โ€ โ€” Gates said.


๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Bill Gates is looking to meet with Xi Jinping later this year, eager to propose global efforts to mitigate the growing โ€Œrisks posed by AI. He believes China might agree to restricting potentially dangerous AI model releases if the U.S. took initiative on that first.

"The whole world would go along with that," โ€” said Gates, who met with Xi three years ago.


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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil Seeks $97 Million From App Discord Over User Protections

Brazilโ€™s government is seeking 500 million reais ($97.1 million) in damages from chat app Discord Inc. in a local lawsuit, while also demanding that the platform strengthen protections for children and women and comply with Brazilian law.

The Justice Ministry said that Discord continues to have shortcomings in its age-verification mechanisms and safeguards that pose serious risks to users, including those that culminated in the death of a teenager last July. Earlier this month, Brazilian regulators ordered the chat app to halt livestreaming in the country following the userโ€™s death.

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๐Ÿง  With Neuralink, Audrey is creating art with her mind:

So this is what I've been working on, and this takes hours and hours. When I'm moving that cursor, that's me. That's part of my body. It's just hours of learning how to move the cursor. I just write my name over and over and over again just to see how many times I can get it right. Because I haven't been able to do it for 20 years.

Art helps me truly express what I'm feeling on the inside, and I can use colors that I like and be creative, but it makes me so happy. I'm a quadriplegic artist, and I create art with my mind.


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๐Ÿค‘ SEC Filing Says Ripple Could Unlock More XRP if CLARITY Act Passes

The sentence appears in the prospectus section on XRP supply concentration and affiliated-party risk.

๐Ÿ“ It states that the company has indicated that, if regulatory clarity is established via passage of the CLARITY Act, it may release additional XRP from escrow to support on-ledger liquidity in stablecoin and FX pairs.


โ—๏ธThe document is a disclosure prepared by Cryptex Finance, LLC, sponsor of the proposed fund. The SEC has not approved the registration statement; the filing is Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3, and the prospectus is marked subject to completion.

XRP Ledger escrows are time-locked at the protocol level. The prospectus conditions the escrow statement on regulatory clarity being established. XRP already holds a digital commodity classification administratively, which raises the question of what additional clarity passage would supply โ€” a question the filing does not address. ๐Ÿค”

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๐Ÿค– Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out

Amazon would deploy some 2 million of Nvidiaโ€™s high-end chips, which are designed to train and run AI models, in 2027 and 2028. Thatโ€™s in addition to the 1 million Nvidia chips Amazon in March said that it would be installing in Amazon Web Services data centers, beginning this year.

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Koreaโ€™s top financial conglomerate team up with Visa to test stablecoin issuance and B2B settlements

Shinhan Financial Group (55550), one of South Koreaโ€™s five largest financial conglomerates, plans to build stablecoin infrastructure and develop AI-powered payment models alongside Visa. Shinhan intends to use Visaโ€™s stablecoin platform to verify core functions, including issuance, remittance and redemption, while jointly designing a Korea-specific business model.

โ—๏ธThe deal marks the first time a South Korean top-tier financial group formally adopts Visa's enterprise stablecoin infrastructure, to test a full domestic settlement stack.

๐Ÿ”œ Visa and Shinhan also plan to run pilot projects covering stablecoin integration into bank card payment settlement and the expansion of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) payments.

"We will combine Shinhan's financial capabilities with Visa's global infrastructure to jointly design new future finance models," โ€” said Jin Ok-dong, chairman of Shinhan Financial Group.


The deal comes as South Korea advances its Digital Asset Basic Act, a broad framework covering stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿค– OpenAI Says It Could Have Reacted Sooner to Prevent AI Hack of Hugging Face

OpenAI could have reacted sooner to prevent an inadvertent hack that its AI models carried out on Hugging Face Inc., the company said in a report Wednesday.

๐Ÿ“ In the report, OpenAI said that it knew as far back as late May that AI models it was testing were leveraging a software vulnerability to access the open internet. An internal team spotted the actions, the company said.


The report includes a timeline of the events that led up to the breach and efforts the company is making to prevent such incidents from happening in the future, such as beefing up how it monitors its models in development.

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๐ŸฆปLegato Unveils AI Hearing Glasses After Raising $12M

Legato emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $12 million in funding and a first look at Legato Frames, AI-powered hearing glasses that embed voice-separation technology into standard eyewear arms. The product is scheduled to ship later this fall.

Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the U.S., but only around 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment. The pitch is to convert hearing care from a stigmatized medical purchase into a routine eyewear one.

โ€œOur goal is to make hearing as ubiquitous as vision,โ€ โ€” Mehul Trivedi, Legato co-founder, said.


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๐Ÿ HiveBits connects real beehives to Solana, with sensors tracking their activity in real time. 60,000 bees reporting their own work.

Each physical hive is equipped with IoT sensors that monitor conditions like temperature, humidity, and bee activity. This data is securely transmitted to the blockchain, creating a transparent record of hive health and honey production. Node operators (beekeepers) receive rewards based on real performance metrics.

Definitely one of the most impressive RWA examples today. ๐Ÿš€

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