⚔️ More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them.

📝 According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. 46% of respondents opposed the company’s surveillance cameras in their communities, while 38% supported them. This is a reversal from last year, when the majority of survey respondents said they were in favor. The survey also reported that more respondents said the surveillance would not make them feel any safer.

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🤑 What does prime brokerage look like in the digital asset era?

A prime broker gives you two things: access to trade everywhere, and the balance sheet to do it efficiently. Onchain markets are rewriting both, and Mike Higgins, International CEO of Ripple Prime, explains how in under 60 seconds. ⏱️

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🤖 OpenAI to End Partnership With Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI said it will end its partnership with Cursor after the AI-coding agent’s acquisition by SpaceX. In a separate post on its website, OpenAI said it has informed Cursor that it will wind down their contract with a proposed shutoff date of Nov. 12.

"We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them," — OpenAI said.

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⚡️🤑 Ripple is preparing XRP Ledger for quantum computers before ‘Q-Day’ arrives

Ripple has outlined a four-stage plan to prepare the XRP Ledger for quantum computers that could eventually expose the private keys protecting digital assets.

“The goal is not to wait until quantum computing becomes an immediate threat,” — Ayo Akinyele, senior director of engineering at Ripple, said. “It is to make sure critical financial infrastructure can evolve well before that point without disrupting the systems, assets and users that depend on it.”

🔜 It starts with assessing which parts of the network would be exposed, then testing alternative forms of cryptography against the workload the blockchain handles today. Later stages would run today’s security alongside quantum-resistant alternatives before moving the broader network over.

🔜 The plan also includes an emergency route if quantum computing advances faster than expected. In that case, Ripple says the network would need a way to respond before attackers could exploit the older cryptography.

The XRP Ledger already allows users to replace the keys controlling an account without changing the account itself, a feature Ripple says could make a future migration easier. The network’s independent validators would still have to coordinate any wider change to the rules governing transactions.

“That upgrade will go well beyond swapping out one cryptographic algorithm for another,” — Akinyele said. “It will require more agile infrastructure, stronger key management, clearer upgrade paths and systems that can evolve without disrupting the financial activity they support.” 🚀

The move comes as Bitcoin and Ethereum developers work on ways to replace the digital signatures their networks use today before quantum computers can break them.

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🤑 Yield on Stellar is about to become tradable

Spectra's deployment brings fixed-income markets to Stellar assets, traded through an order book from day one. Stellar's onchain economy is expanding, and Spectra adds the financial primitives to support it.

Welcome to the Stellar network, Spectra Finance 🤝 Coming soon 🚀

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📱 Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media

Xbox has unveiled its long-rumored new disc-to-digital service, which will let players who own physical copies of games claim digital entitlements, playing them as if they own digital copies. In an announcement, Microsoft confirmed support will include digital benefits such as Xbox Play Anywhere and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

"Players have spent decades building their XBOX libraries. Some games were purchased on disc. Some were purchased digitally. Many span multiple generations of hardware," — the company said. "Our goal is to make it easier for those libraries to move forward with players."

Xbox Insiders can test the feature from August 31. 🚀

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🇰🇷 Dunamu has signed a strategic partnership with Visa for innovative financial services using stablecoins and AI

The companies said they will combine Dunamu's digital asset technology with Visa's global payments network to explore new services in stablecoin-based payments, cross-border remittances, and AI-driven finance.

🎯 The stated aim for the partnership is safer, more transparent, and interoperable use of digital assets and next-generation payments, in line with regulations. They also plan to link stablecoins to existing global payments infrastructure.

On the AI side, Dunamu and Visa will jointly explore agentic commerce as a focus area, in which an AI agent searches for goods or services and completes purchase and payments on a user's behalf.

"The spread of AI, stablecoins and tokenization is a key trend that will change how finance and commerce operate," — Dunamu CEO Oh Kyung-seok said. "Through cooperation with Visa, we will connect digital assets with existing finance and create new global financial experiences that users can feel." 🤝

❗️Dunamu also specifically mentioned that the partnership will explore potential usage of Open Standard's Open USD (OUSD) in future collaborations. 🚀

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🤑 Ripple Initiates AI-Powered Audit of Lending Protocol

Ripple has begun an intensive, AI-only security review of Lending Protocol V1.1 for the XRP Ledger. The review is being conducted through the Sherlock Audit Engine. The Audit Engine combines leading AI auditors and frontier models equipped with specialized security skills. The system adapts the review process to the scope, complexity, and depth required by the protocol under examination.

Sherlock stated that Ripple is among the teams putting AI-only security review into practice, with attention directed toward rigor, coverage, and real-world results. The firm indicated that a full account of the review would be provided once the process is complete.

The Ripple review occurs amid broader activity involving AI systems in cryptocurrency platforms and protocols.

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🤖 Quantum computing used in 'first commercial game development'

Game studio MiTale Ltd. is at Gamescom promoting a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic RPG dubbed C.L.A.Y. - The Last Redemption. C.L.A.Y. stands out for its use of quantum computing techniques in the creation of game assets as well as for game narrative and procedural systems.

MiTale worked with experts from IBM Quantum Computing and claims this is the “first commercial game on the market utilizing quantum computing in an immersive narrative experience.” Moreover, it reckons this is “the first step toward using real quantum hardware in games to accelerate complex tasks in a manner similar to a GPU,” which is rather bold.

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🕵🏼‍♂️ Crypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for mining

From late 2017 to July 2021, Brent C. Kovar owned Profit Connect, a Las Vegas-based company that purportedly used AI software on a supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency and verify other cryptocurrency transactions. He falsely represented the company as a profitable company that paid investors a fixed rate of return of 15% to 30% APR and provided a 100% money-back guarantee.

Kovar also falsely represented that Profit Connect was backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency reserves. Kovar knew his company was not profitable, had no reserves, did not and could not pay the fixed rates of return to investors, and had no legitimate means for the money-back guarantee.

He used investor money to operate Profit Connect, to buy gifts for employees, to buy a house for himself, and to repay investors as if those repayments came from mining cryptocurrency and verifying cryptocurrency transactions. In total, Kovar fraudulently obtained $24 million from at least 400 investors.

Following a nine-day trial, Kovar was found guilty of 11 counts of wire fraud; two counts of mail fraud; and two counts of money laundering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on November 30, 2026, and he faces a statutory maximum penalty of 280 years in prison. 🤯

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🧠 Multilingual people may have brains up to 13 years younger

People who speak more than one language may have brains that appear younger than expected for their age, according to research presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2026. The brain depends on billions of nerve cells constantly communicating with one another. As people get older, those connections can weaken, contributing to slower thinking and declines in memory.

The new findings suggest that multilingual experience may help offset some of those age-related changes. To measure brain aging, the researchers first studied 728 people and created a 'brain aging clock'. They used magnetoencephalography, a method that detects the faint magnetic fields produced when brain cells are active.

People who spoke two languages had brains that appeared about six years younger than those of people who spoke only one language. Those who spoke three languages had brains that appeared about seven years younger. Among people who spoke four languages, the difference grew to roughly 13 years.

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⚔️ Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.”

The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide. The publishers accuse Anthropic of “blatant theft” by using thousands of copyrighted works to train its AI model Claude.

“We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court,” an Anthropic spokesperson wrote.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump:

One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied.

The “topping out” process will begin very shortly, and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States. Thank you!

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