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Bitcoin BTC$81,437.09, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has climbed from around $63,000 to above $80,000 over the last three months, per CoinDesk data. And the indicators that professional traders monitor are now all aligned toward a common target: $85,000.This upward move isn’t just about the price tag — it’s about the underlying forces driving it.On-chain dynamicsFurther upside appears probable because bitcoin has moved past two critical thresholds that on-chain analysts regard as among the most significant in the market: the True Market Mean at $78,200 and the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis at $79,100.BTC has topped its True Market Mean…

Badge Is Creating the Trust Framework Your AI Agents Have Been Missing This piece builds on my earlier conversation with the Badge team at RSAC 2025, which led to a follow-up discussion at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco. You can find that original article here. Here, we explore how Badge is tackling one of enterprise security’s most persistent challenges — building portable, cryptographic trust that spans humans, machines, and AI agents — all without relying on a single stored shared secret. Spend enough time walking the RSA Conference exhibition floor, and the same themes start echoing everywhere. Every vendor is…

I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one question kept coming up: how do you give an agent real, authenticated access to AWS without handing it the keys to the kingdom? Today, there is an answer. I’m happy to announce the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services through a small, fixed set of tools. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of…

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Kerry Wan/ZDNETStay updated with ZDNET: Set us as your preferred source on Google.Key Points from ZDNETAdaptive charging helps extend battery life by slowing down the charging speed.The Anker Nano 45W stands out as the top adaptive charger on the market.Using a low-power charger overnight can offer many of the same advantages.No matter if you’re using a budget $10 charger or a pricier model, today’s USB chargers are incredibly advanced. They might seem like simple boxes connected to a wall socket and a cable, but there’s a lot happening behind the scenes.As soon as you plug a charger into your device—be…

In this guide, we create a Groq-driven autonomous research assistant that operates entirely through Groq’s free OpenAI-compatible inference API. We set up LangChain’s ChatOpenAI to interface with Groq by configuring the API key and base URL, enabling access to high-speed hosted models like llama-3.3-70b-versatile for reasoning with tools. Next, we integrate the model with essential utilities—web search, webpage retrieval, file operations, Python execution, skill loading, sub-agent task delegation, and persistent memory. By the conclusion of this guide, you’ll have a fully functional Groq-based multi-step agent capable of investigating topics, assigning specialized subtasks, producing structured outputs, and retaining valuable data for…

Best Onramp and Offramp Solution is a category within the BeInCrypto Institutional 100, an annual research-based initiative that highlights top-performing institutions in the digital asset space across 26 categories and six core areas. This category focuses on companies developing payment systems, wallet integrations, banking APIs, and regulated settlement frameworks that enable seamless movement of funds between traditional finance and cryptocurrency markets. A shortlist will be revealed in May 2026, with the winner announced at Proof of Talk in Paris on June 2–3, 2026. Key Facts Long list: 15 companies spanning consumer onramps, B2B infrastructure, aggregators, banking APIs, non-custodial platforms, and…

On May 5, 2026, at around 19:30 UTC, DENIC — the organization responsible for managing Germany’s .de country-code top-level domain (TLD) — began publishing faulty DNSSEC signatures for the .de zone. According to the DNSSEC standard, any validating DNS resolver that received these invalid signatures had to reject them and return a SERVFAIL response to clients. This included 1.1.1.1, Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver.The .de domain is one of the biggest TLDs on the Internet, representing Germany. On Cloudflare Radar, it regularly ranks among the most queried TLDs worldwide. When an issue occurs at this level of the DNS hierarchy, millions…

The Iranian state-sponsored hacking group known as MuddyWater (also called Mango Sandstorm, Seedworm, and Static Kitten) has been linked to a ransomware attack that appears to be a deliberate “false flag” operation designed to mislead investigators. According to a report from Rapid7, the attack — observed in early 2026 — relied on social engineering tactics through Microsoft Teams to begin the infection process. While the incident initially seemed to match the profile of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group operating under the Chaos brand, deeper analysis revealed it was actually a targeted, state-backed operation disguised as a financially motivated extortion scheme. “The…

On 2 May 2026, the WHO was notified under the International Health Regulations (2005) of a cluster of severe acute respiratory illness aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship sailing in the South Atlantic. In just 48 hours the situation escalated to seven cases, with two confirmed hantavirus infections and three dead. More passengers were in intensive care and several others under observation. By 4 May the ship, carrying 147 passengers and crew from 23 countries, was anchored off Cabo Verde as health authorities from multiple countries coordinated a joint response. The vessel had been on an expedition through some of Earth’s…