iFOREX, BitGo, CME, and More: Executive Moves of the Week
iFOREX Appoints Daniel Shalom as COOiFOREX appointed Daniel Shalom as chief operating officer. He assumes responsibility for business operations, customer experience, product, and technology with immediate effect. iFOREX has previously emphasized this strategy, including bringing back a head of inno
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Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M
Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025.
G7 Takes Aim at China’s Grip on Critical Minerals
The leaders of the G7 have created a strategic alliance on critical minerals in a coordinated effort to break China’s oversized control of the metals and minerals and rare earth elements crucial to the defense, automotive, and clean energy industries. At the G7 summit in Evian, France, the leaders o
Energy Security, Not Climate Goals, Is Now Driving the Clean Power Boom
While ships are beginning to trickle through the Strait of Hormuz after months of near-total closure, it will be a very long time before the effects of this year’s energy crisis fade from the global economy – if they ever do. This latest round of turmoil in global oil and gas markets has catalyzed c
Iraq Is Keeping Its Syria Oil Route—Even If Hormuz Reopens
Nobody, especially not Iraq, wants to be caught relying on Hormuz ever again. Iraq is preparing to export crude oil and naphtha through Syria's Mediterranean port of Baniyas, expanding an emergency workaround that emerged after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted the country's primary expo
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Bitcoin rotations into altcoins collapse: Have altseasons 'disappeared'?
BTC's crypto market dominance is holding above a key support, signaling Bitcoin may keep absorbing capital from altcoins and delay a broader altseason.
China Is Taking Its AI Boom Under the Sea
The data centre industry has taken off in the last few years, as tech companies look to develop the massive computing power needed to run complex operations, such as artificial intelligence. Thousands of data centres are being developed on land, but now, some countries are looking to establish innov
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OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.
'Fun dads' get 5 things right about parenting that many people forget—'they're worth borrowing' this Father's Day, says expert
Many parents spend their days managing schedules, chores and responsibilities. This Father's Day, a parenting expert shares five "fun dad" habits that can increase joy and strengthen parent-child relationships.
Why Small Modular Reactors Are Becoming a National Security Priority
For decades, energy policy in Washington was debated on the basis of economics, climate change, and domestic politics. That era is over. The United States is entering a period where energy security must be recognized as a core pillar of national security and military readiness. The global competiti
The budget airline model in the U.S. is running out of runway
Spirit's bankruptcy as United and Delta fly high suggests there's more to success in airline industry than low fares, and failure isn't about jet fuel spikes.
Bitcoin's future as revolutionary as the smartphone, according to CoinDesk
CoinDesk’s president of indices and data has a message for investors: Don’t count out bitcoin.
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AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore
The U.S. States Leading the Backlash Against Data Centers
Several U.S. states are concerned about the rapid expansion of data centres, as consumers pressure legislators to address rising utility bills and other energy concerns. Data centres are expected to be a major consumer of U.S. power by 2030 and beyond, as several tech companies expand their network,
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Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant
Activity on the Bitcoin network is surging, CryptoQuant said, but it's not correlating with price movement for its native asset.
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Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0
The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and blockchain industries.
Iran military command says it's closing the Strait of Hormuz due to ceasefire violations
Iran's Khatam-al Anbiya HQ announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to all maritime traffic. The military headquarters cites US breaches of the war-ending deal and ongoing Israeli ceasefire violations, along with the non-withdrawal in Lebanon. They warned this is only the "first step." The
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How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown
AI buildout gives tech investors new reasons to watch bond market
Tech giants are depleting cash reserves and raising debt in their ambitious data center buildouts, a dynamic that's forcing investors to watch interest rates.
SNAP restrictions could change what shoppers buy — and food giants are watching
SNAP food restrictions are spreading to more states, pressuring major food and beverage as consumers shift spending away from soda, candy and processed foods.