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The Pentagon has established a secret unit to counter foreign technological programs that threaten U.S. military superiority, according to Politico, citing 12 current and former U.S. national security officials.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the preparation of a blockchain plan to circumvent potential economic sanctions, including banking restrictions.

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Chinese company Moonshot AI introduced the Kimi K3.1 Pro language model with improved programming, 3D modeling, and financial analysis capabilities. The developers intentionally limited its ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities.

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High oil prices are creating unfavorable conditions for capital inflow into Bitcoin, according to an analyst known as Darkfost in a publication on CryptoQuant.

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Developers of the L1 blockchain Initia have suspended the main network and its associated rollups following an attack. According to preliminary estimates by project co-founder Ezaan Mangalji, the attacker managed to withdraw approximately $2.7 million in crypto assets.

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"Deconstruction" breaks down the top stories from the past week:
- debates surrounding the GENIUS Act;
- the mass departure of crypto exchanges from the CIS region;
- a long-term Bitcoin forecast from @jpmorgan;
- hackers’ shift toward AI and post-quantum encryption;
- threats to smart homes posed by autonomous neural networks.

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China aims to complete the primary development of a national blockchain network by 2030. This goal is outlined in a five-year plan by the Central Commission for Cybersecurity and Informatization.

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Critical PHP vulnerabilities could pose a threat to #Web3 projects through websites, servers, and transaction signing services, according to @SlowMist_Team.

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U.S. regulatory measures partially offset the impact of the failed vote on the #CLARITYAct but do not replace a comprehensive law for the crypto market structure. This conclusion was reached by @jpmorgan analysts.

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U.S. company Heatbit has introduced Bitwater, a heating element for household water heaters equipped with an integrated ASIC miner. The heat generated by the device during Bitcoin mining is used to heat water.

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U.S. regulatory measures partially offset the impact of the failed vote on the CLARITY Act but do not replace a comprehensive law for the crypto market structure. This conclusion was reached by JPMorgan analysts, as reported by The Block.

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The American startup Radical Numerics announced that AI-designed bacteriophages have been administered to a human for the first time. The patient was suffering from an antibiotic-resistant infection caused by E. coli.

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The Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) have joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) BLOOM initiative. Participants, including regulators, banks, payment networks, and tech companies, are developing common approaches for using tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins in international transactions.

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Major American banks have started blocking third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts due to concerns about unauthorized operations. Some systems reportedly attempted to act beyond user instructions, according to Axios, citing sources in the financial industry.

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The seven-day average hash rate of the leading cryptocurrency has exceeded 1 ZH/s (1000 EH/s), reaching its highest level since early March, according to analysts at BlocksBridge Consulting.

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Ethereum developers have postponed the activation of the Glamsterdam update in the Hoodi testnet to further study the interaction of EIP-8037 with existing smart contracts.

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Hugging Face introduced Carbon-X, an open AI model that analyzes genetic sequences and answers questions about them in natural language. The model is intended for biological research, identifying pathogenic mutations, and drug development.

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Ethereum researchers have proposed a change to the network’s consensus mechanism to reduce the transaction finalization time by at least four times, according to a draft of EIP-8453.

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Microsoft has linked the recent ConnectWise supply chain compromise to the hacker group Storm-0940, affiliated with the Chinese state.

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Ken Griffin, founder of the hedge fund Citadel, stated that investors have “almost certainly” inflated a bubble in the artificial intelligence market, according to MarketWatch.

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