Russia’s Alfa-Bank Begins Testing Crypto Trading for Qualified Investors
Russia’s biggest private bank is testing crypto trading. Alfa-Bank has started piloting cryptocurrency transactions through its Alfa-Investments brokerage app —…
Binance in Talks for Fresh EU Licenses After MiCA License Withdrawal
Binance is talking to regulators who’ve actually invited the exchange to apply for new crypto licenses. That’s according to co-CEO…
SWIFT Gets a Blockchain Ledger — 17 Big Banks Jump In for Tokenized Payments
SWIFT just flipped the switch on its own blockchain ledger. After nine months of building, the financial messaging network says…
Hyundai Card Completes Real-World Stablecoin Pilot with Avalanche and Tether
Hyundai Card has wrapped up its first real-world stablecoin proof-of-concept, using Avalanche and Tether. The South Korean credit card company…
NHTSA Tells Autonomous Vehicle Companies to Stop Blocking First Responders
Emergency scenes are not “edge cases.” That’s the message from NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison in a directive issued Wednesday to…
Lovable Reportedly in Talks to Double Its Valuation to $13.2 Billion
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation. That’s exactly double the…
Judge Approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC Settlement Despite “Significant Misgivings”
A federal judge has approved Elon Musk’s $1.5 million settlement with the SEC. But she made it clear she wasn’t…
8Layers Raises $2.9 Million for Identity Security Platform
Spanish security startup 8Layers has closed a $1.1 million pre-seed extension, bringing its total early-stage funding to $2.9 million. The…
AI Security Agents Meant to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It
You ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security flaws. Instead of finding threats, it runs the…
Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day — But Not Without Controversy
Microsoft has finally patched the RoguePlanet vulnerability in Microsoft Defender. Tracked as CVE-2026-50656, the zero-day affects fully patched Windows 10…