Tim Draper argued bitcoin faces less quantum risk than banks, comparing its security to Fort Knox. His comments shifted attention from blockchain vulnerabilities to legacy financial systems, as debate grows over quantum computing threat to modern cryptography.
Key Takeaways
Draper argued banks face greater quantum risks than decentralized blockchain networks.
Legacy systems may struggle as…
Bitcoin Treasuries Are Ticking Time Bombs as Leverage Hits Record Rates, Warns Capriole’s Charles Edwards
June 11, 2026
Bitcoin treasury companies are piling on debt at record rates to fund their BTC buying, Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards warned, reviving a year-old call that the model rests on unsustainable “fake yield.”
Key Takeaways
Charles Edwards says bitcoin…
NASA is building a new space telescope to search for life on nearby planets. What would it see on ancient Earth?
June 11, 2026
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory is the agency’s next flagship space telescope, designed to do something no previous instrument has managed: directly image Earth-like planets around nearby stars and analyze the light reflecting off their atmospheres for signs of…
Annular solar eclipse 2027: everything you need to know about the 'ring of fire' on Feb. 6
June 11, 2026
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Feb. 6, 2027, when the moon’s cone-shaped central shadow will not quite reach Earth. The result will be a ‘ring of fire’ visible to those within a broad path across southern Chile, Argentina and coastal parts of West Africa.
At the point of greatest eclipse in the Pacific, the moon will cover 93% of the sun’s disk, leaving a relatively large bright…
When we think about a black hole, we probably picture some vast cosmic titan, greedily consuming any matter unfortunate enough to fall within its gravitational influence. Thinking deeper, we probably imagine this ravenous cosmic beast forming from the explosive collapse of…
OnePlus Turbo 6X and the OnePlus Turbo 6X Pro have been launched in China. The new devices pack huge batteries and chipsets from MediaTek. They also have up to 12GB RAM and up to 256GB of storage. Here are all of their respective specifications.
OnePlus Turbo 6X: Price…
AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they’re turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right away. Unless you put in the effort to train a model on the specifics of your business, it’s unlikely to understand how your company, for example, defines revenue or knows who is allowed to see which file. That’s part of the reason why we’re…
Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
June 11, 2026
AI startup Decart on Wednesday unveiled Oasis 3, its latest interactive world model that can generate photorealistic driving environments in real time, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The model is currently available via API.
The startup is initially targeting…
As tech companies race to secure the computing power needed to train and deploy AI systems, Meta is making its first AI infrastructure bet in India, striking a data center partnership with conglomerate Reliance Industries in a market that is rapidly emerging as a hub for AI…
If you’ve been scrolling social media lately, you’ve probably seen the ‘pixel stretch trend’ all over your feed. If you don’t recognize it by name, this trend does exactly what it suggests: it stretches a slice of pixels from a photograph to create a dynamic sense of motion – and even leading lines.
This isn’t the first time the pixel stretch trend has done the rounds on social…
