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In brief Bitcoin dropped 17% from just below $74,000 on Monday to an intraday low of $61,556 on Thursday, sparking $4.47 billion in total crypto liquidations during the period. Data from derivatives and options markets reveal subdued demand and a rise in bets aimed at protecting against further downside. Analysts anticipate the possibility of another decline into the $50,000 range, with a market bottom potentially forming within three to six months. Bitcoin kept falling on Thursday, deepening losses across the broader crypto market with no obvious signs of stabilization.The top cryptocurrency has shed about 17% over four days, sliding from…

Screenshots taken from the thread in the forumImages captured via Flare’s monitoring platform.in the forum This extended engagement is meaningful. While a detailed technical exploit analysis might appeal to specialists, an easy-to-follow, encouraging process can reach a much wider audience. It can stay useful for a long time because it isn’t tied to a single flaw. Instead, it promotes a repeatable approach: track newly discovered weaknesses, locate vulnerable systems, confirm their exploitability, profit from them, and do it again. From a threat intelligence standpoint, this makes the discussion valuable even if it doesn’t contain exclusive technical details. It shows how…

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The United States Postal Service (USPS) is facing the risk of depleting its cash reserves as early as next year. To tackle its persistent financial challenges, the agency is currently evaluating a broad spectrum of potential reforms. These options are contingent upon Congressional approval to resolve its long-term fiscal issues. In March, Postmaster General David Steiner informed members of the House that USPS anticipates exhausting its funds by early 2027. He emphasized that swift legislative action is essential to ensure the agency can continue its operations. The comprehensive list of legislative reforms, detailed in a paper titled “Accelerating Progress: Elements…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Origin Energy has partnered with Landis+Gyr to bring smart gas functionality powered by the Internet of Things to current gas meters throughout Australia. The goal is to allow remote meter readings and deliver up-to-date usage information—all without the need to swap out existing meters.Gas metering has traditionally fallen behind electricity when it comes to adopting connected technology. This is largely due to the widespread placement of gas meters, their reliance on batteries, and the difficulty in justifying the expense of replacing entire meter fleets. That’s exactly why retrofit solutions are so valuable:…

Miso Labs has officially released MisoTTS, an open-weights text-to-speech model with 8 billion parameters that can generate expressive, natural-sounding speech by drawing from both text input and prior audio context. At the heart of its design is residual vector quantization (RVQ), a technique that dramatically widens the model’s sonic range without inflating its parameter count—avoiding the need to scale up a single flat vocabulary while keeping the network size fixed. Introducing MisoTTS MisoTTS is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech Transformer built around residual vector quantization, drawing direct inspiration from the Sesame CSM architecture. It pairs a Llama 3.2-style backbone with a compact…

Key takeaways:Bitcoin could dip below $65,000, though such a drop would likely trigger strong buying interest from bullish investors.HYPE, ZEC, and XLM are showing strength on technical charts, while other leading altcoins face the risk of continuing their downward slide.Bitcoin (BTC) is trying to recover from the $65,426 level, but buyers are having trouble keeping the price elevated. The escalation of military strikes involving the US and Iran has dampened market mood, yet Andri Fauzan Adziima, research lead at Bitrue Research Institute, explained to Cointelegraph that the sell-off was driven more by “forced liquidations of leveraged positions, significant outflows from…

Swati KhandelwalJun 03, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence A single malicious notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have taken over Google Gemini’s voice assistant on Android, forcing it to open a victim’s linked windows, forge a message from their manager, drop the phone into a Zoom call, or silently corrupt its long-term memory. No harmful app needs to be installed on the device. The assistant simply had to interpret a hostile notification as legitimate context. The findings, released by SafeBreach researcher Or Yair, build on the team’s prior “Invitation Is All You Need” study, which achieved comparable…

Published on June 3, 2026 by Brian Benz, Francis Laniel, Maya Singh, Helen Woeste, and Pietro Tirenna – Inspektor Gadget CNCF projects featured in this article Inspektor Gadget — the open source toolkit built on eBPF for observing Kubernetes clusters and inspecting Linux hosts — has successfully completed its first independent security audit. The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) coordinated the effort, with funding from the CNCF and the actual assessment performed by Shielder. All findings, along with the corresponding fixes and hardening suggestions, have been made publicly available, and patches exist for every reported vulnerability. This article explains…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways ChatGPT can help with writing, research, images, files, and apps.Free users can start fast, but paid plans unlock higher limits.Projects, memory, and voice mode make ChatGPT more useful.This fall marks four years since ChatGPT launched, shifting AI from a novelty people chatted with on phones or smart speakers into a practical tool for debugging code, building presentations, creating images, shopping, and trip planning. Honestly, the term “chatbot” now feels outdated and too narrow for what ChatGPT actually does today.Also: I stopped using ChatGPT for…