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Crypto Mining Cartels Latin America Uncovered in Mexico Operation

Deep in the mountains of central Mexico, the sound of humming machines gave away a secret. Police tracing an unusually large electricity draw near the small town of Tlaola, in Puebla state‘s Sierra Norte region, found a clandestine computer farm running hundreds of specialized processors around the clock. What they uncovered wasn’t just an illegal power hookup — it was another sign of what crypto mining cartels Latin America-wide are increasingly leaning on to move dirty money, according to Reuters.　　Key takeawaysMexican authorities dismantled a suspected illicit crypto mining site in the mountainous Tlaola area of Puebla state, in the Sierra Norte region.The raid netted 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage terminals and eight satellite antennas.Investigators are examining whether the operation stole power from a nearby hydroelectric dam.Its the fourth such crypto farm found in the area since early last year, with three earlier sites discovered near the same dam in northern Puebla.Chainalysis says illicit crypto transactions worldwide more than doubled in 2025, reaching an estimated $154 billion, up from $59 billion the year before.　　Discovery of Illicit Crypto Mining in Puebla, Mexico　　Authorities zeroed in on the site after residents and officials noticed power consumption far beyond what the sparsely populated communities around Tlaola

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OpenAI AI Attack RubyGems: Malicious Package Flood

Hundreds of malicious software packages flooded RubyGems in May, and for months nobody outside a small circle of researchers knew who — or what — was behind it. Now the picture is coming into focus: an OpenAI AI attack on RubyGemsappears to have been carried out not by human hackers, but by a swarm of AI agents that OpenAI itself was testing at the time.　　Key takeawaysOn May 11, hundreds of malicious and spam packages hit RubyGems, prompting the platform to shut down new signups for four days.Independent researchers say the packages were authored by OpenAI agents, based on writing style and self-identification within the code.The agents bypassed RubyGems‘ email verification, created multiple accounts, and used the site’s automatic build system to execute code remotely.An attempt was made to steal users‘ API keys through a site vulnerability, though it’s unclear if the theft succeeded.OpenAI later confirmed its agents accessed RubyGems but described the activity as retrieving “public information” for “benign tasks.”　　May Cyberattack Disrupts RubyGems　　RubyGems, a widely used repository for Ruby programming libraries, got hit hard in May when hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded in a short window, according to researchers who published their findings and reporting from the

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Behind LSK 500% Spike: Why Lisks Rebrand and 100M Token Burn Signal a Structural Shift

Most 500% weekly candles live and die inside the same news cycle, not LSK. A tweet, a listing rumor, a bot-driven volume spike, and then silence.　　What‘s happening right now is structurally different, not because I’m telling you to believe it, but because you can go verify every piece of it yourself from Lisks own primary channels, and the picture that emerges is not one you piece together from speculation.　　Let me walk you through whats actually happened in the past several weeks, because the market is pricing something in, and for once the receipts are all there.　　The LSK Rebrand Wasnt a Pivot, It Was Ten Years Converging at Once　　In August 2026, Lisk founder Max Kordek published what is, honestly, one of the more honest corporate announcements Ive read in this space in a long time. The post is titled “Introducing the New Lisk” and runs ten minutes to read properly. The summary version is this: Lisk is no longer a Layer-2 blockchain. It is now a modern money operations platform, accounts, payments, and approvals in one workspace for finance teams running cross-border, multi-entity operations in both fiat and stablecoins. Early Access is open today for qualified businesses.　　What Kordek lays out isn‘t

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How Could Protocol v27 Upgrade Impact Pi Network Price This Week？

Pi Network price surged above $0.097, nearing $0.10 after gaining nearly 10% over the past month. The token traded around $0.0975 on Sunday as traders watched a September 15 network upgrade.　　The broader crypto market was in a range even as US inflation increased and the Federal Reserve was expected to raise the rate.　　Bitcoin price was trading at around $76,654, and Ethereum price was at $2,482 as analysts predict $3k. BNB was trading at approximately $717, and XRP was trading at approximately $1.35. The value of total crypto market dropped 1.13% in 24 hours to $2.61 trillion.　　Ad　　Ad　　Will Protocol v27 Upgrade Trigger Pi Coin Rally？　　After completing Protocol 26 on Mainnet, Pi Network moved Protocol 27 into Testnet. The upgrade of the Mainnet is planned to be completed in September 15, but this is a tentative date.　　Discover more　　NEWS　　Merchant Services however, this vote can only decide whether the debate can progress. A positive vote would help to have a positive mood, and failure would increase regulatory uncertainty.　　For broader momentum, Bitcoin price would need to defend $75,500 and Ethereum price $2,350.　　Will Pi Network Price Rally Above $0.12 This Week？　　Pi Network price first needs a sustained move above $0.10, its nearest psychological barrier. Rebounds have been

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Tom Lee Says a 2% Bitcoin Bet Quietly Became an 85% Portfolio – Bitcoin News

Key TakeawaysFundstrats original 2% bitcoin allocation grew to more than 85% without clients buying more.Tom Lee says 80%-90% of investors still own no crypto as Bitmine jumped 99% in Q3.Lee sees a bullish 12 months for crypto as leverage returns and the 4-year cycle turns.　　The 2% Bitcoin Bet That Became 85%　　Imagine putting $2 out of every $100 in your portfolio into something plenty of people thought was ridiculous, leaving it there for more than a decade, and eventually discovering it had swallowed nearly the entire account. According to Lee, that is essentially what happened to Fundstrat clients who followed the firms early bitcoin allocation strategy.　　At the time, Fundstrat began advocating a modest 2% position more than a decade ago, when bitcoin traded below $1,000, and skepticism was lurking everywhere.　　“Our original recommendation for a 2% position, for the average account for Fundstrat that actually took our advice, is now over 85% of their portfolio,” Lee told Wealthion during an interview released on Friday. “They bought 2% and bitcoin‘s gone up a lot in price.” That is the wild part. The clients didn’t keep piling money into bitcoin. An allocation deliberately small enough to limit the damage if the idea went off

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Widespread Flight Delays Snarl Northeast Travel

Topline　　Heavy rainfall and flash flooding is snarling traffic in the Northeast, forcing hundreds of flight delays across the region on Sunday as delays across the country neared 4,000 by mid-afternoon.　　An Air Canada airplane takes off from Boston Logan International Airport in August 2026.　　CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images　　Key Facts　　Parts of New England, including Boston, Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut are under a flood watch lasting until at least 6 p.m. EDT on Sunday—with some areas seeing up to 4 inches of rainfall in less than 3 hours, potentially leading to flash flooding.　　Other parts of the Northeast were under flood watches earlier in the day before the storms shifted east, including the New York City metro area, and the NWS predicted parts of Long Island and southern Connecticut could see local highs of up to 5 inches of rainfall.　　The storms contributed to delays at several major airports across the entire region: about 250 inbound flights had been delayed for Boston Logan International Airport as of 3:15 p.m. EDT—almost 40% of those scheduled—as well as around 150 at New York City‘s JFK and more than 100 at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, according to online tracker FlightAware.　　Other major airports outside of the

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Jennie Scores Multiple New Global Hits With Her Latest Solo Project

Jennie scores several new global wins with music from her ‘Fallen Angel’ EP. The title track debuts on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. South Korean singer and rapper Jennie Kim better known as Jennie performs onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON AFP) RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)　　AFP via Getty Images　　Blackpink superstar Jennie has been riding high on the Billboard charts throughout 2026, thanks to her hugely successful collaboration with Tame Impala. The alternative act, fronted by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, recruited Jennie to record vocals for a remix of the song “Dracula,” and the duet has proved to be one of the most popular tunes in the world so far this year.　　Jennie recently dropped a solo single titled “Less Than a Lover,” which arrived in mid-July. While the cut was not a huge smash, it turned out to be only the first taste of a very short studio effort. In the last days of August, Jennie returned with a three-song digital EP titled Fallen Angel. A physical product that more than

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DeFi audit scope study: what the 94% loss figure means

In decentralized finance, “audited” is often presented as a verdict on an entire project. In practice, an audit usually covers named code, components and versions at a particular point in time. Anything added, excluded or operated around that boundary may carry a different level of assurance.　　A new preprint puts a number on that gap. Researchers affiliated with security company ack3 and the Czech Technical University in Prague examined 135 reported incidents from the first half of 2026, with $939.86 million in attributed losses. They found identifiable public pre-incident audits for 68 incidents.　　Within that 68-incident subset, the authors classified 46 attack paths as outside every audit scope they could identify, 20 as inside at least one scope and two as unresolved. The outside-scope group represented 67.6% of the incidents but 94.4% of their reported losses.　　That striking percentage is not an estimate of audit effectiveness or proof that an audits boundaries caused a loss. It describes the distribution of losses in a selected set of reported incidents. Two large cases also dominate it: after excluding $292 million at Kelp DAO and $285 million at Drift Protocol, the outside-scope share falls to 72.1% of losses in the same audited-incident subset.　　Even with those limits,

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Ariana Grande Breaks Her Historic Tie With Rihanna — While Forming Another

Ariana Grandes “Hate That I Made You Love Me” rises to No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart, giving the superstar her eleventh leader on the ranking. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 11: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Ariana Grande attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)　　The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images　　Ariana Grande is back on top of one of Billboards most competitive radio charts this week. The singer scores one more leader on the Pop Airplay tally, and as one of her most recent singles surges to the summit, the Grammy winner and Oscar-nominated actress moves up on the list of artists who have dominated the tally most frequently.　　At the same time that Grande collects one more winner, she also breaks out of a tie with another one of the most successful women in pop music for a very specific chart feat.　　Ariana Grande Scores Her Eleventh Pop Airplay Chart No. 1　　“Hate That I Made You Love Me” dances to No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart this week after sitting at No. 3 last frame. Several months into its

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Kevin O'Leary's New Investment Is Not Bitcoin or Stocks

Kevin O‘Leary’s next investment target is neither Bitcoin (BTC) nor stocks. The Shark Tank host wants about 5% of his portfolio in rare sports cards, and his group just paid $11 million for one.　　The card carries pieces of Shohei Ohtani‘s game-worn jersey, and only one exists. A Florida teenager found it in a Boca Raton shop. O’Leary announced the purchase on CNBC last Tuesday.　　Why Kevin O‘Leary’s Investment Case Starts With the Money Supply　　OLeary defends the cards the way Bitcoin holders defend Bitcoin. US M2 money supply hit $23.22 trillion in July, and he wants assets no central bank can print more of.　　Discover more　　Currencies & Foreign Exchange　　Distributed & Cloud Computing　　NEWS　　I see sports collectibles as an alternative asset class.　　My strategy is simple. Own many of the very best cards, diversify across them like an index, and let the portfolio compound over time. I want about 5% of my portfolio exposed to this category.　　The challenge is that when…　　He buys through Secure Collectibles alongside collector Shyne and entrepreneur Paul Warshaw. The group labels its holdings the WonderShyne Index and has spent roughly $100 million so far.　　That reasoning borrows directly from the debasement-trade narrative that has shaped Bitcoin demand all year.　　What the Index Does Not

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