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The €10 Million Signature That Quietly Transferred Control

The €10 Million Signature That Quietly Transferred Control

A Swiss asset manager once described a case to me that has stayed with me. A foreign investor purchased roughly €10 million worth of land abroad. The transaction appeared completely ordinary. He had local counsel, a trusted fiduciary, and…

Prediction Markets Pass the Fed Test—Now Comes the Hard Part

Prediction Markets Pass the Fed Test—Now Comes the Hard Part

Prediction markets defended the correct FOMC outcome, generated more quarterly revenue for Robinhood than equities or crypto, and moved deeper into corporate hedging. The signal is working. The next test is whether the category can create…

The Real Cryptography Behind a Fictional Quantum Machine

The Real Cryptography Behind a Fictional Quantum Machine

Most of the cryptography around that machine is not invented. Inventing cryptography would have been harder than looking it up, and considerably less interesting. Below are seven details a reader could reasonably assume were fiction, each…

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

MIT Technology Review

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies…

MIT Technology Review

Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge

TechRadar

Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge

Prompt engineering was briefly the face of the AI jobs boom. In 2025, technology recruitment firm SPG Resourcing reported that UK job listings for AI prompt engineers had grown by 180% over the previous year. It was an eye-catching figure…

TechRadar

How the Verus-Ethereum Bridge Exploit Bypassed Cross-Chain Validation

How the Verus-Ethereum Bridge Exploit Bypassed Cross-Chain Validation

The fundamental problem with cross-chain bridges is that they require two completely different state machines to agree on reality, which usually ends up looking like a blind man taking directions from a deaf guy at a four-way intersection…

What is Fields of Mistria? A magical new obsession for fans of Stardew Valley

The Guardian

What is Fields of Mistria? A magical new obsession for fans of Stardew Valley

Since Stardew Valley rejuvenated the farming sim genre a decade ago, games like Fields of Mistria are capitalising on its popularity with their own special touches Farming simulator games deliver on an escapist fantasy: going off-grid from…

The Guardian

Russia’s Deadly Missile Attack on Kyiv Exploits Ukraine’s Depleted Air Defenses

The New York Times

Russia’s Deadly Missile Attack on Kyiv Exploits Ukraine’s Depleted Air Defenses

At least 17 people were killed, officials said, as the country runs desperately low on interceptor missiles that could fend off Russian bombardments.

The New York Times

Student booing AI at graduation ceremonies has not stopped their 'love' for tech

Times of India

Student booing AI at graduation ceremonies has not stopped their 'love' for tech

Many college students now regularly use artificial intelligence for their studies. Over eighty percent of surveyed students utilized AI for academic purposes recently. Business students show a significant rise in frequent AI usage for…

Times of India

SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

The Next Web

SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

SpaceX wants to catch a skyscraper falling out of the sky. The company plans to launch its next Starship as soon as this month and, for the first time, try to catch the returning upper stage with the giant robotic arms on its launch tower…

The Next Web

TASS

More than 140 migrants die while attempting to reach Ceuta — rights group

According to Spanish authorities, about 72,000 illegal migrants managed to reach Ceuta at the end of July by swimming and on foot

TASS

Inside LoopTroop: A Local Open-Source AI Orchestrator

Inside LoopTroop: A Local Open-Source AI Orchestrator

I've been heads-down on this for months and only now feel ready to talk about it properly. LoopTroop is a local, open-source GUI orchestrator I built. It uses OpenCode (right now, more backends in the future) to create new apps or add…