Author: Carter

## **Robinhood Chain’s Tokenized Stocks Surge 5x Amid Exchange Shutdowns** GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green as Oil falls 8%; BTC at $65k, ETH $1,960. ETH ETFs see $103M in net inflows last week compared to $33M for BTC. BitMart shuts down its exchange, following BitMex. ZEC Ironwood Upgrade set to launch tomorrow. Pons captures 80% market share on Robinhood ahead of v2 launch; PONS hits new ATH. ### **Tokenized Real-World Assets on Robinhood Chain See Massive Growth** Tokenized real-world assets (i.e. stock shares trading onchain) on Robinhood Chain have jumped roughly fivefold in under two weeks to…

**NETSCOUT Expands DDoS Mitigation Capacity to 33 Tbps to Counter Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks** In response to a surge in large and complex distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting internet-facing infrastructure, NETSCOUT is significantly enhancing its defensive capabilities. The company is doubling the mitigation capacity of its Arbor Cloud DDoS protection service to 33 Tbps (terabits per second). This expansion, which involves 16 global traffic-scrubbing centers, is scheduled for completion by the end of August 2026. The initiative is designed to safeguard critical digital services that support monitoring, maintenance, remote access, and operational data exchange across increasingly interconnected infrastructure. These services often…

**ABBEL: Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction** As language models are increasingly deployed to assist with complex, multi-step tasks—such as software development, collaborative coding, and extended problem-solving—their context windows face severe scalability limits. Large Language Models (LLMs) traditionally rely on recursive summarization to compress long interaction histories, but this approach often degrades performance, especially in domains where high-quality human feedback is scarce. A new framework called **ABBEL** (Agent Beliefs Built via Exploration and Learning) tackles this challenge by treating summaries as explicit, updatable belief states rather than raw history compression. — ## Motivation: The Cost of Recursive…

**The Evolving Threat of Ransomware: Adapting to a New Era of Stealth and Destruction** Ransomware continues to evolve at a rapid pace, challenging the most common cybersecurity assumptions. Recent findings reveal a significant shift in attacker strategy. Modern ransomware is no longer designed simply to encrypt data quickly but to evade detection, prolong attacks, and make recovery difficult. These findings reveal a growing trend toward stealthy practices, automation, and structural data corruption, developments that highlight a new phase in ransomware evolution. This also raises important questions about how organizations address cyber resilience. — ### **Adaptive Ransomware: Outsmarting Detection** One of…

**CLARITY May Get a Vote, but Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Yet** The Clarity Act (CLARITY), a proposed piece of legislation aimed at regulating digital assets in the United States, is facing significant hurdles as the August recess deadline approaches. Despite President Donald Trump’s support for an ethics deal related to digital assets, the bill is struggling to gain the necessary votes for passage. ### Current Status of the Clarity Act Senate Majority Leader John Thune has expressed doubts about the bill’s ability to pass, citing a lack of sufficient votes. However, he has indicated a willingness to bring the…

**Federal Labor Ruling Forces IRS to Restore Telework and Remote Work Options** A recent arbitration decision has mandated the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to restore telework and remote work options for its tens of thousands of bargaining unit employees. This ruling comes after the IRS moved to mandate full-time, in-office work starting in March 2025, a move that a federal arbitrator has now deemed a violation of its collective bargaining agreement and an unfair labor practice. ### The Arbitrator’s Ruling On July 17, Arbitrator Christopher Shulman issued a decision siding with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The arbitrator found…

**The environmental cost of AI’s data center boom: Can e-waste be managed sustainably?** *By [Your Name/Publication]* **(Image: A view of the Dandora dumpsite near Nairobi, Kenya, where waste pickers work in challenging conditions. Credit: ZDNET)** *Follow ZDNET: [Add us as a preferred source](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=zdnet.com) on Google.* *** ## **ZDNET’s key takeaways** * E-waste is a significant and growing environmental hazard. * The massive surge in AI data center construction is poised to dramatically increase this waste stream. * Waste pickers, who are on the front lines of managing this waste, are demanding a central role in creating sustainable solutions. *** ##…

**Datalab’s Marker 2: A Full Rewrite of an Open-Source Document Conversion Pipeline** Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open‑source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, HTML, and EPUB files into markdown, JSON, HTML, or chunked text. The new version is built around three core components: **Surya OCR 2**, a **20M‑parameter fast layout model**, and a rebuilt **pdftext** engine that is reportedly **3× faster** than its predecessor. **Benchmark Results** The main performance claim comes from **olmOCR‑bench**, a third‑party benchmark from Allen AI. In that benchmark: – **Marker 2 (balanced mode)** scores **76.0% overall**…

**Critical AI Agent Vulnerability “AgentForger” Puts ChatGPT Workspaces at Risk** A significant security threat has emerged for users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, specifically those utilizing the now-deprecated Workspace Agents feature. Security firm Zenity Labs has uncovered a critical vulnerability, codenamed **AgentForger**, which could allow a sophisticated attacker to completely compromise a victim’s AI agent environment with minimal effort. The flaw has been remediated, but it highlights the evolving security challenges posed by increasingly autonomous AI systems. ### The Mechanics of AgentForger The vulnerability is a form of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) that exploits the Agent Builder’s functionality. This tool, which allows…

**Bitcoin’s Path to $200,000 Hinges on the CLARITY Act: Can It Overcome Seven Key Roadblocks?** Recent analyst commentary suggests Bitcoin (BTC) could surge to $200,000 if the CLARITY Act becomes law. However, this outcome is far from guaranteed, as seven significant roadblocks currently stand between the bill and a Senate vote. With Bitcoin trading at around $64,671, the prospect of tripling its value remains a distant dream for now, heavily dependent on regulatory developments in the United States. — ### Why $200,000 Depends on One Bill The $200,000 price target is not a firm forecast but a potential scenario contingent…