The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.

JUST IN: 🇹🇷 Interpol arrests HEX & PulseChain crypto founder Richard Heart in Turkey.

More bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks. The French tax authority has been hacked and 678K records leaked. 26,805 people with income over 100K€ 386 people with income over 1M€ 8 people with income over 10M€ frenchbreaches.com/alertes/d…

JUST IN: X to end current creator monetization program and replace it with new "Original Content Rewards Program." All existing creators will have to re-apply starting September 8th.

⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️In the next couple of days, a new shitcoin will fork off Bitcoin. It is a big security risk for people who just believe they will get an "airdrop" and want to sell it, to get more bitcoin. I will write more about it, but here is the TLDR: 👇

JUST IN: X Head of Product Nikita Bier steps down. He will remain at X as an advisor.

🚨 Active npm supply chain attack: keyv​@​6.0.0 and 13 other packages have been compromised. keyv alone gets 154M weekly downloads. The worm steals cloud and CI credentials, then uses stolen npm tokens to publish trojanized versions of more packages.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senators call for SEC investigation into President Trump's crypto memecoin, accusing him of a "rug pull." $TRUMP coin is down 95% since launch.

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews. We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security. anthropic.com/news/investiga…

JUST IN: $40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen after 500 'Coldcard' hardware wallets were hacked.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 $800,000,000,000 wiped out from the US stock market in the first 3 hours of trading today.

Important Notice After a careful evaluation of the Company's operating conditions, market environment, and future strategic direction, BitMart has made the difficult decision to commence an orderly wind-down of its trading platform operations. We deeply regret having to make this decision. Key dates: • Jul 26, 2026, 01:30 UTC: New registrations, deposits, and new trading orders will begin to be suspended. • Aug 26, 2026, 01:00 UTC: All trading services will be discontinued. • Jan 31, 2027, 15:59 UTC: Platform operations will officially cease. Withdrawal services will remain available. We strongly encourage all users to close positions, complete KYC (if needed), and withdraw assets as early as possible. Please read the full announcement for important timelines and instructions: 🔗 bitmart.zendesk.com/hc/en-us… Thank you for your trust and support over the years. ❤️

Dear BitMEX Users, Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut down its operations, effective 23 September 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC. The owner and operator of BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, has made the difficult decision to close operations following a strategic review of the business. It may not look the same today, but we are proud of our 11+ year legacy and the role we played in shaping the crypto industry. We invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap, which for most of you, was the first step to your crypto trading journey. It is now the most traded financial product in the crypto industry, adopted by thousands of users and exchanges. And we remain proud of our robust security infrastructure, which has allowed us to maintain a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks in our entire operating history. We want to reassure you that your assets remain fully safe and under your control during this transition period. This announcement is just to give enough time to ensure a smooth withdrawal process for everyone. From today we strongly encourage all users to close their positions and withdraw their funds as soon as convenient. For more details on the full process, please read our blog: bitmex.com/blog/bitmex-closu… BitMEX was once home to some of the greatest traders today. Our team has dedicated tremendous effort and passion into building the platform into what it is, and we are glad to have reached some of you during your time with us. To everyone who has traded, supported, and grown alongside us - thank you for your trust over the last 11 years. The BitMEX Team