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Barclays makes first stablecoin investment with stake in Ubyx 2026-01-07 at 13:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Barclays has invested in Ubyx, a US stablecoin clearing platform, marking a major move into regulated digital money and tokenized financial services. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery 2026-01-07 at 13:06 By Richard Speed The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue Bork!Bork!Bork!  The baddest of AI bad guys, the Terminator, has confirmed what the vast majority of IT professionals already know. The machines are not about to rise, not until

Microsoft Warns Misconfigured Email Routing Can Enable Internal Domain Phishing 2026-01-07 at 13:06 By Threat actors engaging in phishing attacks are exploiting routing scenarios and misconfigured spoof protections to impersonate organizations’ domains and distribute emails that appear as if they have been sent internally. “Threat actors have leveraged this vector to deliver a wide variety

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations 2026-01-07 at 12:17 By Connor Jones Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank’s app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app

UAE’s dirham stablecoin race widens as RAKBank nets in-principle approval 2026-01-07 at 12:04 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben RAKBank’s in-principle nod from the Central Bank of the UAE to launch a dirham-backed stablecoin adds a homegrown bank to the UAE’s stablecoin race. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ethereum and Solana clash over what blockchain resilience really means 2026-01-07 at 12:04 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Vitalik and Solana’s Yakovenko outline competing ideas of resilience, exposing deeper trade-offs between sovereignty, speed, and economic design. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go 2026-01-07 at 11:43 By Lindsay Clark Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe’s largest call-handling systems The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce a conversational AI platform it hopes will steer

Google Cloud Service Exploited in New Phishing Campaign 2026-01-07 at 10:23 By A phishing campaign is exploiting this Google service.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Crypto adoption inevitable as old money will flow into crypto 2026-01-07 at 08:32 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte The younger, tech-savvy generations will soon start to inherit wealth from their parents and relatives — which could bring more money into crypto. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Gold, silver briefly reclaim top spot by market cap amid uncertainty 2026-01-07 at 08:32 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby Gold and silver, both seen as “stores of value,” briefly retook their position as the two biggest assets by market cap. Bitcoin sits in the eighth position. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

The AI Powered Classroom Network of the Future: Because Hackers Never Take Recess 2026-01-07 at 08:32 By Artificial intelligence is reshaping instruction, cybersecurity threats are becoming more advanced, and digital tools are expanding faster than most districts can keep up with. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Critical RCE Vulnerability in Legacy D-Link DSL Routers 2026-01-07 at 08:31 By A newly discovered critical security flaw in legacy D-Link DSL gateway routers has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score: 9.3), concerns a case of command injection in the “dnscfg.cgi” endpoint that arises

Trump says he’ll be impeached if Republicans lose midterms 2026-01-07 at 08:26 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan US President Donald Trump says he will be impeached by the Democrats if the Republicans fail to win the midterms, which could galvanize resistance to his crypto policy agenda. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Quantum threat to Bitcoin extends past wallet hacks: Coinbase analyst 2026-01-07 at 06:21 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Cypherpunk Adam Back has frequently shot down claims that quantum computing will be a threat to Bitcoin anytime soon. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

CLARITY Act headed for markup next week: Senator Tim Scott 2026-01-07 at 06:21 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act aims to establish a comprehensive framework for crypto market structure in the United States. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitcoin ETFs come into year ‘like a lion’: 600% surge at current pace 2026-01-07 at 06:21 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young US spot bitcoin ETFs attracted over $1.2 billion in the first two trading days of 2026, with analysts projecting annual inflows could reach $150 billion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

US community banks join campaign to shut a GENIUS Act ‘loophole’ 2026-01-07 at 04:02 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The Community Bankers Council has asked the Senate for a crypto market structure bill that will ban exchanges and others offering interest on stablecoins. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitchat dev shrugs off Uganda’s threat to block app: ‘Good luck mate’ 2026-01-07 at 04:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Bitchat developer Calle boldly said, “You can’t stop us” after Uganda threatened to block Bitchat ahead of elections next week. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires 2026-01-07 at 03:12 By Thomas Claburn Amazon’s community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon’s Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to

Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll 2026-01-07 at 03:12 By Avram Piltch The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon’s internals for easier repairs If there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen