In brief Block, the payments company led by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, a free, open source platform where employees and AI agents share the same workspace. Built on the Nostr protocol, Buzz combines team chat, code repositories, and automated workflows, and gives every human and agent its own cryptographic identity. Buzz is model-agnostic, supporting agents built on Claude Code, Codex, and Block's own goose. Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, a free, open source platform where employees and AI agents work side by side in a shared workspace, the company said Tuesday. "we're launching BUZZ," Dorsey tweeted, describing "a new groupchat platform…

Adata chairman Simon Chen (Chen Li-bai) said the global DRAM shortage will run for another 10 years and that talk of an AI bubble is premature, according to a Commercial Times report. Chen made the comments after Taiwanese stocks slumped in the wake of TSMC's record second-quarter results, a selloff that revived concerns about overheated AI investment. The same report carries Adata's forecast that DRAM contract prices will climb another 20% to 30% in the third quarter, with NAND flash rising 35% to 40%. Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory Electricity, particularly green power, and memory will be the world's two scarcest resources over the next decade,…

Institutional crypto trading platform Talos has integrated with Kalshi, allowing select clients to trade the prediction market operator’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals through the same infrastructure they already use for digital assets, eliminating the need for a separate connection. Talos will offer algorithmic order types including Iceberg, TWAP and POV, along with multi-leg execution for perp-to-perp and perp-to-spot spread trades. The company said institutional clients will also be able to execute block trades in Kalshi contracts through its request-for-quote platform using participating over-the-counter liquidity providers. Later this…

As part of its mission to democratize access to consumer credit, expand economic opportunity and empower millions of Nigerians to improve their quality of life through responsible borrowing, the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP), in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, today launched the C.L.I.C.K.D. Programme (Credit for Laptops, Internet, Connectivity and Knowledge Digital Devices) at the Afreximbank African Trade Centre (AATC), Abuja, on 21 July 2026. C.L.I.C.K.D. is a device financing initiative launched in partnership with the Federal Government’s Three Million Technical Talent…

South Korea’s major crypto exchanges have seen their trading activity fall sharply over the past year as the country’s stock market surged, suggesting retail speculative interest may be shifting toward equities, Cointelegraph analysis shows. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) benchmark more than doubled over the period, while volumes across the country’s largest won-based crypto platforms contracted. Cointelegraph reviewed CoinGecko’s historical 24-hour volume readings for Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax, comparing seven-day periods in July 2025 and July 2026. After calculating the average daily volume and year-over-year…

The mayor of Limerick, John Moran, has called for a report into possible links between Aughinish Alumina and Russian military attacks in Ukraine to be sent “confidentially” to him at the same time it is sent to the European Commission. Moran said that at present he was “in the dark” over what was happening and he had heard that the report was going to be sent to the Commission. “It's clear that the Oireachtas' own legislation for the mayor requires the ministers to actually consult with the mayor of Limerick, so that Limerick interests can be actually represented in the conversations. “We see other countries right across Europe when it comes to these…

Illustration by Satheesh Vellinezhi The Cyber police have identified the prime suspect in a major cyber fraud gang that called Kerala MLA Vidya Balakrishnan allegedly offering her a Cabinet minister’s post in exchange for ₹3 crore. An investigation team led by Assistant Commissioner (Cyber Cell) S.M. Pradeep Kumar zeroed in on the suspect during their visit to New Delhi as part of the intensified probe. Investigators have revealed that many individuals are involved in the racket, with several of them based in New Delhi. Police sources said the address of the SIM card owner had already been tracked with the support of the hi-tech crime inquiry cell for…

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On Monday, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley began pitching investors on a bond sale of at least $12 billion, as The Wall Street Journal reported. The money will build a Meta data centre in El Paso, Texas. The structure is the story. Who owns what BlackRock and its infrastructure and private-credit arms own 80% of the roughly one-gigawatt project. Meta, the company that will actually run AI inside it, owns just 20% and will lease the campus back. The debt sits with a BlackRock-controlled entity, not with Meta. That keeps most of the cost off Meta’s books, booked as rent rather than capital spending. It is the same off-balance-sheet trick a Nikkei study just…

AWS customers around the world opened their consoles on July 17 to estimated bills in the millions, billions, and in some cases trillions of dollars. One account with normal usage under $5 per month showed a $1.7 billion estimate. A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing $225,579,210,164.83. Another dashboard claimed $7.1 trillion in month-to-date charges, more than twice Amazon's market capitalization. The figures were wrong. Actual invoices were never affected. But the incident ran for more than 24 hours, and the way it unfolded says more about cloud cost management than the absurd numbers do. (Source: Reddit AWS thread) According to the AWS Health…

When we launched Notion AI Q\&A in November 2023, we knew we were embarking on an ambitious journey. What we didn't fully anticipate was just how quickly we'd need to scale, or how dramatically we could optimize our costs once we hit our stride. This is the story of how we scaled our vector search infrastructure by 10x while simultaneously reducing costs by 90 percent over the past two years. What is vector search and why does Notion AI use it? Traditional keyword search matches exact words, so a query like “team meeting notes” can miss content titled “group standup summary”, even though they mean the same thing. Vector search fixes this by turning…

Mulberry boss calls on Andy Burnham to scrap tourist tax to boost jobs By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 06:01 EDT, 22 July 2026 The boss of Mulberry has called on Andy Burnham to scrap the widely despised tourist tax to boost British manufacturing across the regions and revive luxury sales. Chief executive Andrea Baldo has said that restoring a VAT-free shopping scheme should be ‘high on the agenda’ for the new Prime Minister, as it will help boost jobs across the country, including at its own hub in Somerset. It came as the British handbag maker's losses narrowed from £32.2million to £8.9million after a turnaround strategy that has refocused on its home…

Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is reshaping how enterprises secure employee devices. The Palo Alto-headquartered startup on Wednesday said it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, alongside participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Collective, and Holly Ventures. The investment made Glow one of the latest cybersecurity startups to achieve unicorn status before publicly…

Stuart Norval is pleased to welcome Didier Rykner, Art Historian, Investigative Journalist and Founder / Editor in Chief of La Tribune de l’Art. Offering a forceful critique of the Louvre's priorities, Rykner argues that the museum's challenge is not a lack of resources, rather a misallocation of them. While acknowledging that security is a both necessary and inevitable expense, he contends that the greater threat to the Louvre lies in the deterioration of its historic fabric and the diversion of funding towards what he regards as an unnecessary, politically driven architectural expansion. Keywords for this article

SINGAPORE: A former employee of Yun Nam Hair Care forwarded customers' Community Development Council (CDC) voucher redemption links from their mobile phones to her own and spent the vouchers. Phang Koh Xing accessed the two women's messages while helping them set up payment methods on their phones. Phang, 31, was sentenced to six weeks' jail on Wednesday (Jul 22) after she pleaded guilty to one count of criminal breach of trust and one charge under the Computer Misuse Act for causing a computer to perform a function with the intent to commit theft. Another two charges of a similar nature were taken into consideration during sentencing. Phang was also…

Cardano-based wallet SecondFi is preparing to shut down after a security breach exposed issues around wallet security and left hundreds of users awaiting recovery options. SecondFi said it will wind down SecondFi and Yoroi wallet services after attackers stole about 16.1 million ADA, worth roughly $2.6 million, due to a cryptographic flaw in its wallet software, according to an update published on Wednesday. The platform said an independent investigation by blockchain intelligence provider Groom Lake identified a sophisticated external actor behind the attack and found indicators potentially linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, although no…

It is the gallery from where 88 million euros worth of France's crown jewels were stolen last year in a dramatic heist. Thieves disguised as construction workers and broke into the gallery, using a truck mounted lift. Today, the Apollo Gallery of Paris's Louvre Museum is to reopen to the public. No jewels will be on display in the room – it will revert to its 17th century function as a state gallery. Details by FRANCE 24 journalist Carys Garland.

Every data engineer has lived through this moment. A downstream team files a ticket. Their dashboard broke overnight. Their ML model is producing nonsense. Their executive report went out with wrong numbers. You dig in. Turns out a schema changed upstream. A column was renamed. A field that used to be an integer is now a string. Nobody announced it. Nobody versioned it. The upstream team didn’t think it was a big deal. They were wrong. Here’s the thing — this is not a tooling problem. It never was. It’s a communication problem wearing a technical costume. And the solution isn’t more pipeline monitoring or better alerting. It’s data contracts. I’ve…

Former sheriff Mark Lamb pulled off a win in Arizona's 5th Congressional District Republican primary on Tuesday, the Associated Press projects, despite allegations of sexual misconduct that Lamb has denied. The win sets up Lamb to replace outgoing GOP Rep. Andy Biggs in the deep-red district after the November election. Biggs, who has served five terms in the House, won the Republican nomination for Arizona governor. Lamb, who served as Pinal County sheriff from 2017 to 2024, defeated construction business owner Daniel Keenan, who poured more than $1.5 million of his money into the campaign. After a monthslong investigation, the Arizona Republic…

I heard about a team that developed a RAG demo for internal document search. Several hundred PDFs, a handful of people testing it. The monthly cost was $340. Everyone was so excited, it was signed off by leadership and shipped to production. The bill was $61,000 per month six months later. No one did anything out of the ordinary. No one has multiplied the number of documents by a factor of 100 in a single night. What happened is what happens with almost every RAG system after it moves out of the demo phase: The cost math that seemed to work at small scale doesn't work when real traffic and a growing corpus appear. The part that surprises most teams is…

Update July 22 at 4:37 am UTC: The article has been updated to include additional information from Slowmist about the exploit method. Balance Coin, an algorithmic stablecoin designed to maintain a peg to the US dollar, has fallen more than 99% following a reported exploit. Balance Coin, the native stablecoin of Balance Protocol, is trading at $0.001358 at the time of writing, down from $0.9954, according to CoinMarketCap. Blockchain security firm SlowMist said the exploit stemmed from an attacker manipulating an “abnormally low” Binance Bitcoin (BTCB) oracle price, letting the attacker liquidate collateral in multiple BTCB vaults that should not have…

Two traders can watch the same Bitcoin chart and take opposite trades. One buys the breakout because price is climbing. The other shorts it because price has run too far from its average. Both think they’re being disciplined. One of them is about to get run over. The difference isn’t skill. It’s which philosophy they picked, and whether it matches what the market is actually doing. Trend following says: when something is moving, bet it keeps moving. You buy strength, you sell weakness, and you accept that you’ll be wrong most of the time. Richard Dennis built the whole Turtle experiment on this in 1983. He recruited people with no trading background,…

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The widow of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who became famous as a child actor on The Cosby Show in the 1980s, is suing his mother over access to his trust. Tenisha Warner filed a lawsuit Monday seeking more than $1.2 million US from Warner's mother, Pamela Warner — who oversees his trust. The suit was filed in DeKalb County Superior Court in Decatur, Ga., where Warner and his family lived, on the first anniversary of the actor's death.…

• Incarcerated former senator Ejaz Chaudhry moves SC against high court’s refusal to suspend his sentence• Aleema questions allegations against Imran’s sisters over campaigning for his release ISLAMABAD: A court in the capital issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Tuesday, after he repeatedly failed to appear despite being summoned several times in a case relating to alleged misleading statements and defamation of state institutions. While issuing the order, Senior Civil Judge Abbas Shah noted that the KP chief minister neither appeared in person, nor was he represented by counsel, despite being…

Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School, a community of “digital nomads,” is eyeing a new campus in Kazakhstan after its Forest City campus had its business license revoked over alleged premises-use violations. A memorandum of understanding was signed between Kazakhstan’s Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Zhaslan Madiyev and Srinivasan to establish the first Network School campus in Kazakhstan, according to a statement from the ministry. The Kazakhstan agreement gives the Network School a potential new base after its Johor operation was ordered to cease operations effective Wednesday. Kazakhstan has been positioning itself…

A leading Chinese brokerage house has ended market making for the mainland’s only South Korea-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF), as Beijing steps up efforts to stabilise its capital markets and protect retail investors amid volatility in its East Asian neighbour’s stock market. Shenzhen-headquartered China Merchants Securities withdrew as a liquidity provider for the Huatai-PineBridge China-Korea Semiconductor ETF barely a month after assuming the role on June 17, according to Shanghai Stock Exchange filings. The retreat came amid heightened turbulence in South Korea , where time zone differences and foreign exchange risk in cross-border arbitrage…

Open this photo in gallery: SickKids hospital in Toronto. Police say they have found no evidence that the material linked to the charges is related to Dilan Dissanayake’s work as a physician.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press A doctor at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children has been charged with accessing and possessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material after a months-long investigation. Dilan Dissanayake, 44, a staff rheumatologist at the hospital, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with one count of possessing child sexual abuse material and one count of accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material, according to Toronto police. They…

The ACT MP championing a crackdown on "deepfake" abuse has described her legislation as just the "first step", encouraging MPs to also consider a wider revamp of relevant laws, more education, and possible regulation of AI. Laura McClure's member's bill - which passed its first reading in May unanimously - would expand the legal definition of an "intimate visual recording" to include images or videos manipulated by AI without consent. Appearing before a parliamentary select committee on Wednesday, McClure said police found it challenging to prosecute the creation and sharing of explicit deepfakes under the existing law, as they were required to prove…

In brief Shareholders voted by more than 90% to sell the company's 668 BTC, return capital, and cancel its London Stock Exchange listing This marks the end of a Bitcoin treasury experiment in under twelve months. Satsuma raised £163.6 million in August 2025 but expects to return only £26.8 to £30 million after wind-down costs. The shareholders of Satsuma Technology, a U.K.-based Bitcoin treasury company, have voted to liquidate the company's entire Bitcoin position and shut down the business, overruling four of its six board members. More than 90% of votes cast backed the dual resolutions to sell 668 BTC—worth roughly $43.5 million—and cancel the…

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