🔥 XRPL Africa has announced a partnership with RedotPay

RedotPay is building the bridge between crypto and everyday payments, making it easier for people around the world to use digital assets in their daily lives.

Together, XRPL Africa and RedotPay will work to empower communities, support the next generation of Web3 builders, and accelerate blockchain adoption across the region through education, collaboration, and innovation. 🤝

This is just the beginning! 🚀

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🍏Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart

According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they’ll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company’s efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in order. Smart glasses in general, and Meta’s in particular, have ignited controversy over their ability to stealthily capture photos and videos.

“The company has spent more than a decade making privacy one of its defining product messages. Simply entering the same category as Meta risks undermining that reputation, regardless of how Apple’s approach differs,” — Gurman points out

Other hardware and software privacy features are also reportedly in the works. It’s also possible that Apple could eventually release a version of its smart glasses without a camera, or with a camera that is exclusively for sensing and won’t be able to capture video or photos at all, similar to what is rumored for Apple’s AI-enabled AirPods.

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🇺🇸🕵🏻‍♂️ US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment. The defendant had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.

📌 Sam Tunick was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.

📝 Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart”, according to the motion.

Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year and that any evidence — including the alleged wiping of his phone — should be thrown out.

❗️This is thought to be the first known case in the U.S. where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.

The Atlanta federal court overseeing the case is expected to rule on Tunick’s motion to suppress later this year.

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🛰🇳🇬 Nigeria to roll out AI and satellite-powered crop monitoring system

Nigeria is set to deploy an AI and satellite-powered crop monitoring system aimed at strengthening food security, improving agricultural planning and providing policymakers with real-time data on crop production across the country.

The new National Agro-Productivity System (NAPS), launched Nigeria’s Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU), Morocco-based OCP Africa and geospatial technology company Ground Truth Analytics, will use AI, satellite imagery and geospatial analytics to monitor crops, land use and food security risks, helping governments make faster, data-driven agricultural and investment decisions.

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⚡️🇰🇷 South Korea trading giant puts receivables onchain in tokenization test with LG CNS

POSCO International, South Korea's largest trading company, has begun tokenizing trade receivables on blockchain in a test that could speed up commercial payments between its global subsidiaries. The company is working with LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, to issue, transfer and settle receivables on layer-1 blockchain Injective

🔜 The pilot is using receivables generated by real trade between POSCO's overseas operations and their counterparties rather than simulated transactions. Trade receivables represent money owed to a company after goods have been shipped but before payment is received.

🔜 The companies said putting receivables on a shared blockchain ledger creates a single record that can be transferred and settled while carrying compliance rules with the asset itself.

The initiative, which POSCO plans to move into live production after the pilot, underscores South Korea’s growing corporate adoption of blockchain in areas such as trade finance, stablecoin-based treasury transfers and asset tokenization. 🚀

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⚡️🔥 Circle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM

Stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) has acquired nearly 1,000 issued blockchain-anchored patents from IBM, a deal the firm said makes it the largest holder of blockchain patents in the United States.

❗️The portfolio spans more than 680 patent families covering blockchain technology, banking, financial services, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply-chain verification and cloud security, according to a press release.

Circle said the portfolio would support USDC, Circle Payments Network, its Arc blockchain and financial tools designed for AI agents. Circle and IBM also plan to explore further commercial opportunities.

“Intellectual property is critical to advancing our mission and expanding adoption of onchain infrastructure,” — said Sarah Wilson, Circle’s general counsel and corporate secretary.

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⚡️🤖 Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security

American chipmaker Nvidia and 36 other major technology companies today launched an alliance to build open-source security tools for AI systems.

🔜 The Open Secure AI Alliance includes Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palantir, Databricks, Hugging Face, SpaceXAI and the Linux Foundation, and builds on the foundation's existing Akrites initiative and OpenSSF work.

The recent Hugging Face security incident delivered a clear reminder: cyber defenders need open, frontier agentic systems for self-defense. Companies and countries need open frontier defensive tools and techniques so critical industries can build security systems across a multi-vendor ecosystem and avoid single points of failure.

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🤑🤑 Stellar and Ripple and Will Target the BIG Money. Here’s the Proof

To support the claim, there is a video explaining why Ripple and Stellar were designed to address large-scale business payment needs instead of replacing traditional money transfer companies that serve retail custome.

⬇️ The speaker further explains that the larger financial opportunity doesn't lie in individual remittance payments but in business-to-business transactions conducted across international borders.🔣According to the explanation, these high-volume payments remain expensive under existing financial infrastructure, creating an opportunity for blockchain-based payment networks.

But this is where the big money is. It's not in remittances. It's in these business-to-business payments across border. And that's why we have these kinds of companies, like Ripple and Stellar. This is all about business-to-business, back-end, big-volume transactions, which are currently very expensive.

❗️ Ripple and Stellar are presented as platforms built to address this segment of the market.

🔜 These networks focus on backend transactions between financial institutions rather than direct consumer payments, according to the speaker. Instead of emphasizing people sending money to family members overseas, the discussion centers on banks transferring funds to other banks through more efficient settlement systems.

📌 The video also notes that while correspondent banking continues to play an important role, modern payment systems require transaction data to move faster than funds themselves. The speaker says distributed ledger technology allows settlements to occur more quickly, improving efficiency for participating institutions. 🚀

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🤖 Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and NVIDIA today announced a long-term partnership to rapidly accelerate SSI’s strategic growth. For SSI, NVIDIA’s substantial investment combined with access to the next-generation, best-in-class NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform will allow SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude.

The two companies will also collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA’s current and future compute platforms, leveraging SSI’s unique insights into the future of AI.

“Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet,” — said Jensen Huang. “We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.” 🤝

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⚡️❤️ Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model that’s built “to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” The model is built to animate MDASH, Microsoft’s harness dedicated to software vulnerability identification and remediation.

The new security platform is dubbed Perception, and it’s designed to deploy teams of agents to assist with and automate various security workflows, including identifying and remediating bugs. The platform can also integrate with MDASH.

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🛰 Amazon Seeks FCC Nod to Beam Satellite Coverage to Mobile Phones

Amazon has requested permission from the US FСС to launch a direct-to-device network of 5,000 satellites to provide mobile services to cell phones from space. The move comes several months after Amazon acquired the satellite operations of Globalstar, which provides emergency connectivity to Apple iPhones and internet-of-Things devices.

If the regulator gives the green light, the new low-Earth orbit network would provide global coverage and connect to smartphones and other mobile devices to allow for messaging, data and emergency services in areas not covered by cell towers.

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