January 2026

Steak ‘n Shake announces $10M notional increase on Bitcoin holdings

Steak ‘n Shake announces $10M notional increase on Bitcoin holdings 2026-01-17 at 23:33 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The company began accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment in May 2025, following hundreds of store closures between 2018 and 2025. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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‘Obscure’ laws stall Bitcoin reserve: White House Crypto Council director

‘Obscure’ laws stall Bitcoin reserve: White House Crypto Council director 2026-01-17 at 21:47 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The bill is still a “priority,” White House Crypto Council Director Patrick Witt said, but interagency legalities remain a challenge. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Black Basta Ransomware Leader Added to EU Most Wanted and INTERPOL Red Notice

Black Basta Ransomware Leader Added to EU Most Wanted and INTERPOL Red Notice 2026-01-17 at 19:58 By Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the group’s alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov (Нефедов Олег Евгеньевич),

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Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability

Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability 2026-01-17 at 18:04 By The “bigger is better” era of AI is hitting a wall. We are in an LLM bubble, characterized by ruinous inference costs and diminishing returns. The future belongs to Agentic AI powered by specialized Small Language Models (SLMs). Think of it as a

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Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack

Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack 2026-01-17 at 14:47 By Carly Page Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices vulnerable Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google’s Fast Pair system that allows attackers to

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs attract $1.42B in strongest week since early October

Spot Bitcoin ETFs attract $1.42B in strongest week since early October 2026-01-17 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted their strongest week since October as institutional investors returned via regulated products, helped by reduced whale selling and tightening effective supply. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System

Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System 2026-01-17 at 14:05 By Associated Press Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s filing system and illegally accessing computer systems belonging to AmeriCorps and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The post Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s

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User loses $282M in one of the largest social engineering crypto heists

User loses $282M in one of the largest social engineering crypto heists 2026-01-17 at 13:16 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas The crypto user was reportedly deceived by an attacker impersonating Trezor support, tricked into revealing their hardware wallet seed phrase. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain 2026-01-17 at 13:16 By Richard Speed Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots Bork!Bork!Bork!  UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers went hilariously wrong.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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OpenAI to Show Ads in ChatGPT for Logged-In U.S. Adults on Free and Go Plans

OpenAI to Show Ads in ChatGPT for Logged-In U.S. Adults on Free and Go Plans 2026-01-17 at 11:22 By OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, as the artificial intelligence (AI) company expanded access

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White House threatens to pull support for crypto bill after Coinbase standoff: Report

White House threatens to pull support for crypto bill after Coinbase standoff: Report 2026-01-17 at 09:10 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Coinbase withdrew support for the CLARITY Act, warning the draft would restrict DeFi, ban tokenized equities and eliminate stablecoin rewards. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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ETH price hits $3.4K, but pro traders are not bullish yet: Here’s why

ETH price hits $3.4K, but pro traders are not bullish yet: Here’s why 2026-01-17 at 09:10 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman ETH price cooled down from its recent rally as US macroeconomic factors, reduced DApps activity and falling fees impact traders’ use of Ether derivatives. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Sacrificing Ethereum’s values for mainstream adoption must stop now: Buterin

Sacrificing Ethereum’s values for mainstream adoption must stop now: Buterin 2026-01-17 at 07:04 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Vitalik Buterin wants improved private payments, easier running of full nodes, decentralized apps that don’t rely on centralized services, and more on-chain privacy. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Crypto bank Anchorage Digital eyes $400M raise with IPO in sight: Report

Crypto bank Anchorage Digital eyes $400M raise with IPO in sight: Report 2026-01-17 at 05:09 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Being the first federally chartered bank, Anchorage is looking to become a leading stablecoin issuer in 2026, with plans to double the size of its stablecoin team this year. This article is an excerpt from

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DOJ didn’t sell Bitcoin forfeited from Samourai case: White House advisor

DOJ didn’t sell Bitcoin forfeited from Samourai case: White House advisor 2026-01-17 at 02:59 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Selling the Bitcoin would have violated President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14233, which mandates that any Bitcoin obtained through criminal or civil forfeiture “shall not be sold.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors 2026-01-17 at 02:59 By Thomas Claburn Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow OpenAI’s budget ChatGPT Go subscription tier has migrated to the US, soon to be accompanied by advertising. The company’s free tier will be similarly afflicted.… This article

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Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day 2026-01-17 at 01:25 By Thomas Claburn Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself? Researchers at Dakota State University, in partnership with regional insurance carrier Safety Insurance, devised an experimental chatbot called “Axlerod” to assist independent insurance agents. Whether

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DeFi leaders voice concerns amid market structure bill‘s uncertain future

DeFi leaders voice concerns amid market structure bill‘s uncertain future 2026-01-17 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Many in the industry expect it could be weeks before lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee return to consider a markup for the CLARITY Act. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bull, base or bear? Three possible paths for crypto in 2026

Bull, base or bear? Three possible paths for crypto in 2026 2026-01-17 at 00:06 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli In a recent interview, Aaron Arnold of Altcoin Daily broke down his crypto market outlook for 2026, drawing parallels with past market cycles and outlining bull, base and bear scenarios. This article is an excerpt from

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