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Robinhood Taps Ripple's Stablecoin, Treasury Software and Trading Loans
In brief Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin went live Tuesday on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, and is expected to reach the main Robinhood app later this year. Robinhood will adopt Ripple Treasury to run its g...
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Anchorage Positions Itself as Custody Backbone of US-Mexico Stablecoin Corridor
In brief Anchorage Digital expanded a custody-and-listing arrangement with Bitso covering both sides of the US-Mexico corridor. The deal targets the US-Mexico remittance corridor, one of the world’s l...
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AI Agents Are Creating a New Layer of Cybersecurity Spending
In brief Akamai launched Agent Sandbox and Akamai Inference in beta on Oct. 27, adding WebAssembly-based isolation for code that AI agents write and run. A 2026 Palo Alto Networks survey of 2,930 secu...
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Intel, Oracle, IBM Join Objections to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Venue, Bringing Total to 26
In brief Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ joined the list of companies objecting to trading of their shares on OKXICE TSV, according to its Oct. 26 notice. The total has climbed from nine on Oct. 15 to 26,...
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One Hub, 34 Clusters: Lessons From a GitOps Control Plane at Scale
Contributed Content GitOps Kubernetes Platform Engineering Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics One Hub, 34 Clusters: Lessons From a GitOps Control Plane at Scale October 27, 2026 Ni...
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Bitcoin Wallet Maker Keystone Pulls Devices as Stolen Key Opens Door to Fakes
In brief Keystone will destroy 18,835 unsold hardware wallets and has suspended shipping after an attacker obtained the permanent factory key used to verify its devices are genuine. The breach, detect...
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Circle Pushes Deeper Into Latin America With USDC Settlement in Colombia
In brief Circle has tapped ACI Worldwide to integrate USDC settlement into existing banking infrastructure across Latin America, starting with a pilot in Colombia built on ACI’s Bre-B instant-payments...
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A $3M Hedge, a Midterm Test and Retail's Rise: Prediction Markets at NEXTPredict
In brief NEXTPredict brought prediction market exchanges, trading firms and policymakers together in New York on October 22 and 23, less than two weeks before the U.S. midterms. Chuck Todd, who modera...
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AI Didn’t Break Kubernetes Optimization. GPUs Did.
Container/Kubernetes Management Contributed Content Kubernetes Observability Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics AI Didn’t Break Kubernetes Optimization. GPUs Did. October 26, 2026O...
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How Kubernetes Workload Identity Actually Works at the Protocol Layer
Contributed Content Kubernetes Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics How Kubernetes Workload Identity Actually Works at the Protocol Layer October 26, 2026 Michael Carter Cloud IAM, c...
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Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
In brief Google revised its privacy policy, effective Oct. 16, to let content from Gmail, Drive and Google Photos personalize ads “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other...
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Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
In brief Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers starting October 26. The government is citing information security concerns, with Microsoft Copilot remaining the ...
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Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
In brief Activision "floated" the idea of stopping the production of physical game discs in 2007 during the development of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a former Infinity Ward employee said. Robert ...
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Hong Kong’s Biggest Bank Puts a Stablecoin in 3 Million Wallets
In brief HSBC launched RedCoi, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin licensed by the HKMA, on its PayMe app, with more than 3.3 million users able to activate wallets in the coming days. Users can send RedCoi...
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Netanyahu Considering Crypto Plan to Dodge Banking Sanctions on Israel
In brief Netanyahu said on Israeli television that he has asked for a plan to use blockchain to get around possible banking sanctions. He told Israelis U.S. defense aid will end and said Israel must "...
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