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Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Amazon Kids parental controls device → | tags: minecraft, youtube ads, credit card fraud

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Bitcoin’s Network Hashrate Is 50% Below Trend as Miners Shift to AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | get Bitmain Antminer S21 bitcoin miner → | tags: bitcoin, hashrate, coinshares

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Senate cloture vote on Clarity Act fails, dealing regulatory blow to crypto industry (cnbc.com)

2026-09-15 | by Tanaya Macheel Garrett Downs | tags: clarity act, senate cloture vote, crypto regulation

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Bitcoin and crypto stock prices today: Investors are on edge ahead of crucial ‘Clarity Act’ Senate vote (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-15 | get Ledger Nano X crypto hardware wallet → | tags: bitcoin, clarity act, xrp

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Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | get The Matrix 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray → | tags: the matrix, ai agents, dario amodei

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Engineer turns simulated fly brain into a crypto day trader, posts downloadable sim to GitHub — 166,700 virtual neurons read candlestick charts for dopamine hits (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-12 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Models of the Mind Grace Lindsay book → | tags: stonkfly, fruit fly brain, coinbase

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A Metal Detectorist Just Discovered Finland’s Largest Hoard of Viking Age Silver—But Was It Plunder? (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-11 | get Garrett ACE 300 metal detector → | tags: metal detectorist, finland, viking age

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Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Meme Coin Is Either a National Disgrace or the Funniest Thing He’s Ever Done, and We’re Not Entirely Sure Which (futurism.com)

2026-09-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: hunter biden, memecoin, $laptop

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Coinbase CEO says clearer U.S. crypto rules are coming — with or without Senate approval (cnbc.com)

2026-09-10 | by Jenny Lee | get Ledger Nano X hardware wallet → | tags: coinbase, brian armstrong, clarity act

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Coinbase CEO sees U.S. crypto regulation advancing regardless of Clarity Act vote (cnbc.com)

2026-09-10 | by Jenny Lee | get Ledger Nano X crypto hardware wallet → | tags: coinbase, clarity act, brian armstrong

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Should promotion depend on how workers use AI? (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-08 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick book → | tags: accenture, coinbase, ai leaderboards

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Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | tags: openai, claude, grok

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Billionaire Coinbase CEO Boasts That He Would Never Donate to Charity (futurism.com)

2026-08-31 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: coinbase, brian armstrong, philanthropy

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Lawsuit says Oura sleep tracking has 'a coin flip's chance of being correct' (zdnet.com)

2026-08-27 | by Nina Raemont | get Oura Ring 4 smart ring → | tags: oura, sleep tracking, smart ring

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How accurate are sleep trackers? Lawsuit says Oura rings have 'a coin flip's chance of being correct' (zdnet.com)

2026-08-27 | by Nina Raemont | get Oura Ring 4 smart ring → | tags: oura, sleep trackers, biometric signals

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Crypto stocks head for their second day of gains as Bitcoin and other tokens rise: Will the rally keep going? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: coinbase, bitcoin, ethereum

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Bitcoin surges 12% in two days as Trump, crypto execs lead last ditch effort for Clarity Act (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by Tanaya Macheel | tags: bitcoin, coinbase, ripple

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Bitcoin surges 11% in two days as Trump, crypto execs lead last ditch effort for Clarity Act (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by Tanaya Macheel | tags: bitcoin, coinbase, ripple

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Pressed Penny Machine Map (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: pressed penny, vending machine, coin press

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Researchers Built a Coin-Sized Device That Can Hack a Boeing 737’s Electronics (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: boeing 737, cybersecurity, hackers

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Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft — gadget connects to an easily accessible port that overrides commands from the pilots, uses in-flight Wi-Fi (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jowi Morales | tags: boeing 737, flight management computer, avionics hacking

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Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Andy Greenberg | tags: boeing 737, aviation cybersecurity, usenix conference

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New York City Council Opens Investigation Into Prediction Markets Over Predatory Marketing Practices (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: new york city, prediction markets, kalshi

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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Andy Greenberg | tags: boeing 737, cybersecurity, usenix conference

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Hackers Figure Out a Trick to Steal Bitcoin From Cold Wallets, Grab $110 Million (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bitcoin, bloomberg, coinkite

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Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: coldcard, coinkite, elliptic

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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: coldcard, coinkite, elliptic

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This Former Coinbase CTO Spent Millions Building a Utopia for Tech Founders. Then Malaysia Shut It Down. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jonathan Small | tags: coinbase, balaji srinivasan, malaysia

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A Coldcard firmware flaw let hackers drain $70 million in Bitcoin in 41 minutes, with losses now topping $88 million (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: coldcard, coinkite, bitcoin

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Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: coldcard, recovery seed, bitcoin wallets