Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! In the age of smart homes, it seems every appliance needs a Wi-Fi connection and a smartphone app: lights, doorbells, door locks, garage door openers, TVs, lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners, and even coffee makers. A recent incident shows how filling […]
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Rogue Slop: The Wikimedia Foundation recently accused OpenAI of abusing its hosting servers to “test” the malicious capabilities of its AI agents. The organization said companies like OpenAI should not be allowed to pretend they did nothing wrong and should instead […]
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Core Lightning, software for running Bitcoin Lightning payment nodes, has released v26.06.9 with security fixes and a repair for a regression that could delay channel traffic on busy nodes running v26.06.8. GitHub lists the new release as published Oct. 7, while its versioned changelog carries an Oct. 6 date. The update gives operators who installed […]
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Japan’s October 6, 2026 auction of ten-year government bonds attracted more competitive demand relative to the debt sold, even as its average yield rose to 3.101%. For Bitcoin, higher returns on Japanese debt raise a question about how a sustained shift in bond allocation could affect global financing. The Ministry of Finance’s result put the […]
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The US government moved about $470 million in seized crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, according to Arkham, reviving questions over potential asset sales. On Oct. 7, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence said the transfers included Bitcoin, wrapped Bitcoin and USDT. Arkham linked the transferred assets to seizures involving the 2016 Bitfinex hack and Alameda […]
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With the end of the year fast approaching, many companies and researchers are waiting to present their main technology trends for 2025. If 2024 was dominated by the arrival of artificial intelligence in various parts of our daily lives, this shouldn’t change much in 2025; however, we will certainly see more innovations that promise to […]
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Joe Maring / Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: T-Mobile is preparing to launch T-Mix plans that would introduce a pick-your-perk system. A leak may have revealed every perk available for T-Mix. The leak may have also revealed how many “picks” each perk will cost. As if phone plans weren’t confusing enough, T-Mobile is […]
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The published design of Solana’s new institutional settlement program requires the full cash and asset legs of a trade to be available before it can execute the trade. Its atomic transaction can prevent a buyer from paying without receiving the asset, but the program supplies neither the cash nor the financing needed to reach that […]
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Federal prosecutors are using a new Bitcoin Fog appeal to defend trying two counts against Roman Storm in New York. Their Oct. 5 letter asks Judge Katherine Polk Failla to reject his venue challenge on the money-laundering and money-transmission conspiracy counts. Storm co-founded Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer that obscures transaction trails. The filing arrived […]
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Something to look forward to: A hardware modder has shared a promising fix for Nvidia’s RTX 5090, a GPU with a documented history of power-related issues. Best yet, the workaround is said to be “relatively affordable” and would even come with a warranty. Over on Reddit, user DallasGrave outlined the approach taken when developing the […]
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