The September 2026 iPhone event will see Apple announce the iPhone 18 Pro, the โiPhone 18 Proโ 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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Ethereum researchers proposed rebuilding the networkโs 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.
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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 nationโs 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 countryโs critical infrastructure can be a target.
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Meta Platforms will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and โInstagram, 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 โcompany misled the public about their safety.
โThe focus of this case was to protect our kids," โ Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said. "The relief โwe 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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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.
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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 BoEโs 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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โAI 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 โthe 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.
Right now, if youโre 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.
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 canโt easily change jobs. You canโt 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. Thereโs no technical reason why it couldnโt. Yet it shouldnโt.
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.
โThe 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.
"The whole world would go along with that," โ said Gates, who met with Xi three years ago.
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Brazilโs 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 userโs death.
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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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The sentence appears in the prospectus section on XRP supply concentration and affiliated-party risk.
๐ 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.
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.
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Amazon would deploy some 2 million of Nvidiaโs high-end chips, which are designed to train and run AI models, in 2027 and 2028. Thatโs 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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Shinhan Financial Group (55550), one of South Koreaโs five largest financial conglomerates, plans to build stablecoin infrastructure and develop AI-powered payment models alongside Visa. Shinhan intends to use Visaโs stablecoin platform to verify core functions, including issuance, remittance and redemption, while jointly designing a Korea-specific business model.
"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.
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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.
๐ 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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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.
โOur goal is to make hearing as ubiquitous as vision,โ โ Mehul Trivedi, Legato co-founder, said.
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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.
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