The Treasury has opened Iran’s digital asset sector to broader sanctions while targeting a broker accused of processing over $100 million in cryptocurrency for oil sales supporting Iran’s military and its proxies.
Key Takeaways
OFAC can sanction foreign parties operating in Iran’s crypto sector.
A shadow fleet broker processed over $100 million in crypto payments.
Treasury blocked crypto…
Operation Lighthouse investigated 29,120 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers while generating 14,300 investigative leads. The Chainalysis-led sprint also surfaced more than 7,700 suspect accounts and identified suspects across 125 countries.
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Sun fires powerful M6.9 solar flare and CME toward Earth — could it boost northern lights chances this week?
August 26, 2026
Today (Aug. 25), the sun unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare from a restless Earth-facing sunspot, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth could potentially be in the firing line.
The M6.98 solar flare erupted from the active sunspot region 4513 and…
Polish startup Ares Shield hired to protect data center satellites with high-power microwave weapons
August 26, 2026
The final frontier is getting more and more contested, so satellite companies are investing in some self-defense.
At least one of them is, anyway. Florida-based Lonestar Data Holdings announced today (Aug. 25) that it has contracted Polish startup Ares Shield to provide protection for its off-Earth data centers, in a deal worth up to $6 million.
“Our clients entrust us with mission-critical…
No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that.
NASA’s Starling mission — made up of a swarm of four cubesats in low Earth orbit (LEO) — is testing out navigation by using other satellites as moving landmarks. The hope is that this…
Nothing OS 5.0 Announced, Open Beta for Phone (3) Releases August 26: Check All Supported Phones, Rollout Time
August 26, 2026
Nothing OS 5.0 has been announced with a major visual refresh, alongside new customization, usability, AI and workflow features. The update evolves Nothing’s existing design language with a new software material, the Geist typeface, a new colour engine and deeper…
Boltt Ace 5G, Boltt Evo Smartphones Launched in India: Price, Specifications, Availability
August 26, 2026
Boltt Ace 5G and Boltt Evo have been launched in India as the brand’s first set of smartphones. Both the Ace 5G and the Evo have a Unisoc Processor under the hood and are available in multiple colour options. Here’s everything to know about the two new phones.
Boltt Ace 5G: Price, Availability, Specifications
The Boltt Ace 5G is priced at Rs 13,999 for the 4GB + 64GB model, Rs 14,999…
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
August 26, 2026
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort.
Lica started off as an app that could turn screenshots and…
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
August 26, 2026
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan entire web pages. But as people increasingly use AI chatbots to search the web and do tasks, there’s a line of thinking that the internet’s current…
‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
August 26, 2026
Users of OpenAI’s software engineering tool Codex might know Thibault Sottiaux as the guy who resets their token limits whenever the product hits a growth milestone. Now, OpenAI is trying to bring that dopamine hit to the rest of us with ChatGPT Work, a platform for white-collar workers to leverage AI agents. I spoke to Sottiaux for our feature on the product and its challenges, but we…
