Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Uniswap Labs, and the DeFi Education Fund are urging Illinois regulators to overhaul proposed cryptocurrency tax regulations, warning that the rules could effectively prohibit decentralized finance (DeFi) activity in the state while exposing users to serious security risks.
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A16z, Uniswap Labs, and the DeFi Education Fund warn that…
Binance is preparing to restore withdrawals in phases after its $6.3 billion hack, with reopening dependent on security checks. The exchange committed company funds to replace stolen assets while investigators expanded their review of the breach.
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Chainalysis identified previously unseen laundering patterns as attackers circulated stolen Binance assets through thousands of transactions, suggesting automated efforts to obscure the trail. Its investigation also linked the theft to North Korean hackers.
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Watch Virgin Galactic's new 'Delta-class' space plane take to the skies for the 1st time (video)
October 31, 2026
Virgin Galactic’s first “Delta-class” space plane just made its maiden voyage.
The next-gen suborbital vehicle, named Apeiron (Greek for “Boundless”), lifted off for the first time ever on Thursday (Oct. 28). Flying beneath the wings of its carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, Apeiron traveled from Virgin’s manufacturing site in Mesa, Arizona, to its launch site…
China’s secretive space plane is making a series of passes over the United States in the coming days and you could spot it with your own eyes!
The mysterious spacecraft, Shenlong, is currently orbiting Earth on its fourth mission. Although we don’t know what…
Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story
October 31, 2026
Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a super-Earth investigated by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). That is, if this extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, wasn’t so hellishly hot that no life could survive on its…
Google Suncatcher’s prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside more than 100 other spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is intended to pave the way for future networks of close-flying satellites…
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
October 31, 2026
“You Can See Everything,” the documentary capturing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ final weeks before prison, is sparking national conversation as it becomes one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The film, directed by Nathan…
AI infrastructure company Runware is making news again, just months after unveiling the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data center built in a factory and shipped to customers ready to install. Now the company has bigger plans. It told TechCrunch it wants to build a factory…
‘Nature needs no embellishment’: Wildlife Photographer of the Year-commended David Lloyd on capturing animals honestly
October 31, 2026
It’s April 2024, and multi-award-winning wildlife photographer David Lloyd is leading a photography safari in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, when his group encounters a herd of Asian elephants.
The herd instinctively gathers together to form a protective barrier around the two vulnerable calves, while Lloyd’s instinct is to raise his camera and capture the innate behavior of these…
