Besides organic growth and pump-and-dump schemes, there’s another increasingly popular yet malicious reason why your crypto might be skyrocketing, as price manipulation attacks have already surpassed the results for the whole of 2025. It is hurting participants in the growing crypto-backed lending market too.
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Price manipulation attacks are accelerating, with 32 exploits already…
ETH, SOL, and XRP Price Predictions Flash Major Downside Risk
September 2, 2026
Despite the latest crypto rally in August, prediction marketplace bettors are signaling a bumpy road for ethereum (ETH), XRP, and solana (SOL) through the end of 2026, with traders putting meaningful odds on further price declines even as they keep some recovery bets in the…
Saylor Strikes Back: Strategy Slams MSCI’s Flawed Index Test
September 2, 2026
Michael Saylor and Strategy Inc. are challenging an MSCI proposal that could remove the bitcoin treasury company from global equity indexes. Strategy argues the screening methodology misclassifies its bitcoin operations and targets digital asset treasury firms.
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Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin
September 2, 2026
Some stars encounter supermassive black holes and live to tell the tale. New research shows why the flares these encounters cause dim over repeated episodes, and it may be down to the way these stars spin and an escaping binary partner that leaves them to be a stellar snack for a black hole.
Some stars are unfortunate enough to encounter the supermassive black holes that sit at the heart of every…
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is just one of a few missions named after real-life women
September 2, 2026
NASA’s next big space telescope is not only meant to unlock some of the mysteries of dark energy. It also is a pioneer in the naming of missions.
Scientific American recently said that the observatory, which launched on Aug. 30, is the first ever space telescope ever…
5 planets will light up the September sky — here's how to see them
September 2, 2026
Venus, which has been such a prominent object in the western evening twilight sky since the start of spring, is now entering its final full month of visibility. With each passing day, it drops a bit lower in the southwest sky and sets a bit earlier and closer to the vicinity…
Samsung Electronics is standing firm on its conservative battery strategy even as Chinese rivals push premium smartphones with larger batteries and charging speeds exceeding 100 watts, arguing that long-term safety and real-world performance matter more than winning the specifications race.
The South Korean company used the launch of its latest Galaxy Z Fold8 series to introduce silicon-carbon…
Tecno Spark Go 3 Pro was announced in India last week. The new Tecno device is the Pro model of the vanilla version that was launched in India back in January this year. Launched as a 4G handset, the Tecno Spark Go 3 Pro comes with an IP69 rating, a MediaTek chip, a single…
Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware. Three years ago, as large language models began showing their true potential, Puri, alongside another Sequoia IT…
As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plug-ins, MCP servers, and add-ons that let them interact with the internet.
AI security startup AIR believes companies will need a way to monitor that supply chain, and it’s now coming out of stealth…
