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Strait of Hormuz Deal Near: Iran Considers European Demining as Trump's Tuesday Deadline Looms
24 sourcesAs of August 4–5, 2026, diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have reached a critical inflection point: US officials say a deal is near, Iran is privately signaling a potential concession on Euro...
Apple Briefly Removed Telegram From the App Store on August 3, 2026 — Here's Why and What It Means
30 sourcesOn August 3, 2026, Apple removed Telegram from the iOS App Store worldwide after a review found content violating guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Why Coinbase, Visa, and Mastercard Are Still Backing USDC — and Why the Tensions Haven't Gone Away
25 sourcesCoinbase, Visa, and Mastercard used recent earnings calls to publicly reaffirm support for Circle's USDC, framing Open USD as a complementary network rather than a replacement, but Circle's stock has not rec...
Runware's Sonic Inference Pod: The Shipping-Container AI Data Center Deploying 1,200 GPUs in 3 Weeks
15 sourcesRunware's Sonic Inference Pod is a modular AI data center packed into a 20 foot shipping container.
July 2026 Venture Funding Hit a Record $65B — But Almost All of It Went to AI Giants
25 sourcesJuly 2026 set a new monthly record for venture funding at $65 billion, double the prior year, driven by 14 billion dollar rounds — the most ever in a single month.
TSMC's CoWoS Outsourcing and EMIB-Like Packaging: The Full 2026 Strategy
28 sourcesTSMC is nearly quadrupling CoWoS capacity to 130,000 wafers/month by late 2026 and, in a major strategic shift, outsourcing the complex front end CoW (Chip on Wafer) step to OSAT partners ASE, SPIL, and Amko...
Xbox 25th Anniversary: Free Badges, FanFest Tour Dates, and the Layoff Controversy
28 sourcesOn August 3, 2026, Microsoft launched Xbox's 25th anniversary celebrations with a free profile badge (available through end of 2026), community designed gamerpics and dynamic themes by creators Klobrille and...
Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves $1.04B: Why the Market Didn't Flinch
23 sourcesA dormant Bitcoin wallet moved 16,400 BTC ($1.04 billion) on August 3, 2026, to a fresh non exchange address, with no immediate selling pressure.
Red Hat and IBM Launch asago Open-Source AI Governance Project and Expand Free Lightwell Access for Universities
23 sourcesOn August 4, 2026, Red Hat and IBM announced asago, an open source AI Safety and Governance Orchestration project that automates the translation of AI policies into deployable operational controls, backed by...
Inside the 72-Hour Collapse of FIFA's $20 Billion Kushner-Backed Plan and the Fight for Infantino's Future
26 sourcesFIFA President Gianni Infantino scrapped his $20 billion FIFA Forward Enterprise plan within 72 hours after European soccer body UEFA threatened a World Cup boycott and three continental confederations rejec...
The 2026 Coldcard Hack: Why a 5-Year Firmware Bug Drained $89M in Bitcoin While Whales Bought the Dip
36 sourcesA five year old firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets allowed attackers to reconstruct seed phrases remotely, draining at least 1,367 BTC ( $89 million) from over 4,500 addresses starting July 30, 2026.
Beast of Reincarnation Review Roundup: Game Freak's Soulslike Divides Critics Across a Wide Spread of Scores
32 sourcesGame Freak's Beast of Reincarnation launched August 4, 2026 to a divided critical reception: a 74 Metacritic average on PS5 and a 76 OpenCritic average with just 68% of critics recommending it.