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In brief The ASX has reportedly queried DigitalX over director Ieva Guoga’s share purchases and dealings with major shareholder Antanas “Tony G” Guoga ahead of a Solana acquisition announcement. The ASX-listed crypto investment manager says the trades complied with its securities trading policy and listing rules, though it will tighten processes. The company also unveiled plans to boost its Bitcoin treasury from 500 BTC to 2,100 BTC by 2027 under its “21 Hundred” strategy. ASX-listed digital asset investment manager DigitalX Limited has rejected suggestions of policy breaches following the Australian Securities Exchange’s query of director Ieva Guoga’s recent share purchases…
NIST seeks to avoid reinventing the wheel with AI security guidance NIST wants to help cybersecurity professionals manage the multifaceted impact of AI on their work, without crushing them with too much new guidance. Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED August 6, 2025 4:45 pm 4 min read The National Institute of Standards and Technology is addressing the security risks of artificial intelligence by building off its well-trodden cybersecurity guidance, as lawmakers also push for NIST to boost AI standards and red teaming guidelines. NIST announced the development of a “cyber AI profile” earlier this year. The guidance would be based off NIST’s Cybersecurity…
Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and social media flame wars, I’ve been thinking a lot about how brutally relevant it is to our world of cybersecurity. Brandolini’s law casts a long shadow over everything we do, from fighting social engineering to dissecting threat intel and even trying to make sense of the very tools we rely on. Understanding this uphill battle isn’t about being pessimistic: it’s…
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An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university’s network in May. Established in 1767 as King’s College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The breach was discovered and reported to law enforcement authorities following an outage that affected some of its systems on June 24, following an investigation with support from…
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Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial is reportedly pitching investors on a new project. The firm aims to create a public company that would hold its WLFI tokens and hopes to raise around $1.5 billion for the venture, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Aug. 9), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources say major investors in the technology and cryptocurrency sectors have been approached for the deal, with discussions rapidly proceeding. World Liberty, whose website lists the President Donald Trump as “co-founder emeritus,” announced last year plans to debut a crypto-lending app and currently offers USD1, a dollar-backed stablecoin. The company…
Can Cardano’s Core DNA Be Reimagined for Institutional Finance? At Rare Evo this Saturday, Apex Fusion is officially launching VECTOR, a new blockchain that claims to carry Cardano’s architectural legacy while solving some of its oldest limitations. The announcement brings forward a core debate in blockchain engineering: can the unspent transaction output (UTxO) model deliver the speed and determinism required for institutional adoption without abandoning its core design? VECTOR is not an experimental offshoot. Built by Cardano’s early architects and reviewed by respected peers, it is being presented as a serious contender in the high-performance financial blockchain arena. The protocol…
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