The U.S. government’s $14 billion bitcoin seizure signals a seismic shift in global crypto policy, turning digital crime proceeds into a cornerstone of America’s economic strategy and cementing the nation’s leadership in responsible blockchain governance.
Massive Bitcoin Seizure Positions US as Global Crypto Powerhouse
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released a statement on Oct. 14…
Binance has unleashed a $400 million lifeline to stabilize the crypto market, launching an aggressive relief and liquidity campaign designed to restore confidence after brutal sell-offs battered retail and institutional investors alike.
Binance Unveils $400 Million Crypto…
A new private moon lander could take flight just a few years from now.
Impulse Space — a commercial space company founded by Tom Mueller, the first employee the billionaire Elon Musk ever hired at SpaceX — announced on Tuesday (Oct. 14) that it plans to build a robotic…
A giant weak spot in Earth's magnetic field is getting bigger — and it could be bad news for satellites
October 16, 2025
A weak region in Earth’s magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years.
That’s according to data collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm satellite constellation over the last 11 years. Swarm has been monitoring a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly since 2014, and scientists have just published a new study…
Did a NASA exoplanet-hunting balloon really 'crash' in Texas? Not according to the scientist behind the flight
October 16, 2025
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting experiment on board, got a little confused after touchdown.
When the…
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers
October 16, 2025
While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away – whether on vacation or in a different…
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices
October 16, 2025
Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale its agentic deployments across carriers and agencies globally.
The all-equity round values the three-year-old startup at $300 million post-money, with participation from new investor Canapi Ventures and returning backers Redpoint Ventures, Eclipse, and Commerce…
Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft
October 16, 2025
AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has signed a sizable deal with Microsoft to bring Nvidia AI hardware to multiple data centers.
The AI cloud provider announced on Wednesday that it signed a deal with Microsoft to bring approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to three data…
These amazing images showcase contemporary photography at its finest – and just won big at BIFA 2025
October 16, 2025
The winners of the Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (BIFA) have just been announced, and this year’s selection is as visually striking as it is emotionally powerful.
From abstract visual poetry and explorations of identity, to photographs that bring us…
When photographer Alejandro Cegarra set out for the US-Mexico border in 2018, he wanted to capture the struggles of migrants in a way that highlighted universally human emotions. After nearly seven years and 35,000 photographs, Cegarra’s The Two Walls series has earned the photographer a major global title – in a photography competition that he didn’t even enter.
Cegarra (@alecegarra) was…
