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Bitcoin near $63,500 looks like more summer torpor, capped below $64,000 and holding above the low-$60,000s, but the flow picture underneath has reversed, said Yusuf Fakhro, partner at ARP Digital, in a note to CoinDesk.US spot ETFs took in more than 14,000 BTC over five days into August 7, he said, the strongest stretch since May, and Q3 has drawn roughly 11,000 BTC of net inflows against 110,000 BTC of outflows in the back half of Q2. The institutional selling that defined the second quarter has flipped to buying.Spot volumes have fallen to two-and-a-half-year lows, perpetual volumes to three-year lows,…

DNA serves as the genetic blueprint for every living organism, but it is also an extraordinarily dense way to store information. A single gram can hold about 215 million gigabytes of data. Bringing that remarkable storage capacity into electronics could lead to more efficient data centers, faster processing and systems capable of handling increasingly complex information. The challenge has been finding a way to make biological DNA function effectively alongside electronic materials. Penn State researchers have now developed an approach designed to overcome that incompatibility. The work, published in Advanced Functional Materials and the subject of a patent application, relies…

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at reduced U.S.-South Korean military exercises, White House threats on Iran and Oman, and a renewed push for Israel-Hamas peace talks. Downsizing Drills Joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises were just getting started early Monday when the White House issued a shocking about-face. Mere hours into the event, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to scale back the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, citing Seoul’s alleged failure to adequately help the United States combat Iran and his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Welcome back to World…

Bogota, Colombia – One week after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocked western Colombia, rescue efforts continue despite the razor-thin chances of survival.The disaster response, however, is entering a new phase as rescue teams wind down operations and aid organisations begin focusing on housing those made homeless by the earthquake and providing basic necessities.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listWhile official data reveals vast destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses, the full scale of the devastation continues to be assessed.An ambulance crushed by falling debris from the Clinica Nuestra private hospital in Cali, which partially collapsed during the August…

Ah, Florida. It’s a land of retirees, fresh starts and second acts — even, it turns out, for Republicans running for Congress.Tuesday’s crowded primary to succeed Representative Byron Donalds, an acolyte of President Trump who is running for governor, features candidates who have run for Congress or served in Congress, all in other states.The upshot has been a zany primary featuring candidates trying to prove their Florida bona fides and alignment with President Trump.Who counts as Floridian?Carpetbaggers? Perhaps. But many Floridians hail from somewhere else. The solidly Republican 19th Congressional District, a swath of Southwest Florida’s MAGA country that stretches…

President Trump is traveling to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Friday to drum up support for Senator Darline Graham, his choice in a competitive runoff election to succeed Lindsey Graham in the Senate for a full six-year term.The trip, announced on Monday by the South Carolina Republican Party, is the latest of many efforts by the president to put his thumb on the scale in a special primary election to replace Mr. Graham after he unexpectedly died in July.Ms. Graham, the sister of Mr. Graham, will face Representative Ralph Norman, an ultraconservative congressman who has shown a willingness to break from…

About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The “grandmother” tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as if it knows its fate. The leaves are yellowing prematurely, falling to the ground at the height of summer. On July 27th, a construction crew felled three neighboring trees to build an extension of President Donald Trump’s wall along the US-Mexico border.An activist climbed up…

import os, sys, io, json, time, math, re, subprocess, warnings from collections import Counter, defaultdict warnings.filterwarnings(“ignore”) os.environ.setdefault(“USE_TORCH”, “1”) def _pip(*pkgs): subprocess.run([sys.executable, “-m”, “pip”, “install”, “-q”, *pkgs], check=False) try: import doctr except ImportError: print(“>> Installing python-doctr (this takes ~1-2 min on Colab)…”) _pip(“python-doctr[viz]”) try: import reportlab except ImportError: _pip(“reportlab”) import numpy as np import torch import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import font_manager from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle, Polygon as MplPolygon from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont import doctr from doctr.io import DocumentFile from doctr.models import ( ocr_predictor, kie_predictor, detection_predictor, recognition_predictor, ) DEVICE = “cuda” if torch.cuda.is_available() else “cpu” print(“=”…

Swati KhandelwalAug 17, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake’s public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a public issue was opened and exposed JIRA_BASE_URL, JIRA_USER_EMAIL, and JIRA_API_TOKEN to the same workflow step. The weakness was confined to the repository’s CI/CD automation, with no affected Snowflake Connector for .NET release identified. The workflow inserted attacker-controlled issue title and body values directly into…

New data from Galaxy Research shows that $115 million in bitcoin has been lost in the Coldcard theft.  Writing on X Sunday, Galaxy Research said that it had spoken with over 200 victims to support them and gather intelligence on the attackers.  The figures are based on the price of bitcoin at the time of the attack.  Coldcard losses have exceeded $115M (based on the price when coins were stolen)Galaxy Research has spoken with 200+ victims to support them and gather intelligence on the attackersThis thread contains additional charts and info 👇 pic.twitter.com/H2K141mugF— Galaxy Research (@glxyresearch) August 16, 2026 Hackers…