Pixels Meets Runiverse: A New Era of Cross-Game Web3 Adventures Begins

Adventure meets ownership as Pixels and Forgotten Runiverse unlock true Web3 interoperability with $PIXEL staking and shared rewards. Regina’s Web3 Gaming Odyssey: Episode 25 From ancient magic to pixel-perfect combat, welcome to a Web3 fantasy MMORPG that blends nostalgic visuals with rich lore, strategic gameplay, and on-chain adventure. This game tosses you into an ever-evolving … Read more

OpenAI ignored experts when it released overly agreeable ChatGPT

OpenAI says it ignored the concerns of its expert testers when it rolled out an update to its flagship ChatGPT artificial intelligence model that made it excessively agreeable. The company released an update to its GPT‑4o model on April 25 that made it “noticeably more sycophantic,” which it then rolled back three days later due … Read more

Solana devs fix bug that allowed unlimited minting of certain tokens

The Solana Foundation has confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability that allowed an attacker to potentially mint certain tokens and even withdraw those tokens from user accounts has been fixed.  A May 3 post-mortem from the Solana Foundation said that the security vulnerability, first discovered on April 16, could have allowed an attacker to forge an … Read more

Crypto Scams Soar in Nebraska as Romance Ruses Drain Savings

Crypto romance scams are surging in Nebraska, wiping out life savings through fake investments, phony documents, and manipulative online relationships. Nebraska Issues Crypto Scam Alert After Victims Lose Savings in Romance Investment Hoax Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued a consumer warning last week following an alarming rise in cryptocurrency scams across the state, many … Read more

Mattel to wind down its Hot Wheels Virtual Garage NFTs

Toymaking giant Mattel is putting the brakes on its Hot Wheels Virtual Garage non-fungible tokens, pending a decision on the collection’s future. There will be no future releases of any new NFT series or feature drops for the “foreseeable future,” Mattel said in an update on its website. The company said it will decide on … Read more

Bit Digital Aims for $500M Raise to Fuel HPC, Cloud Expansion

Bit Digital plans to raise up to $500 million through an at-the-market (ATM) equity offering. The offering will be facilitated by investment bank H.C. Wainwright & Co., which will earn a commission of up to 3% on shares sold. New Funding to Support Excursion Into High-Performance Computing Bitcoin mining firm Bit Digital has announced its … Read more

Bitcoin: Not Uncoupled, But Unbothered

Last week bitcoin’s rally past $94,000 reignited a long-running debate: is one of the world’s most volatile assets finally behaving like a safe haven? This editorial is from last week’s edition of the Week in Review newsletter. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to get the editorial the second it’s finished. As Correlation Crumbles, Bitcoin Charts … Read more

Crypto Wealth Turns Deadly: Father Snatched and Mutilated in Chilling Crypto Ambush

A brutal daylight abduction targeting a crypto millionaire’s father in Paris escalated into savage violence, with kidnappers severing his finger while demanding millions in ransom. Vanished in Broad Daylight: Inside the Ruthless Paris Kidnapping That Shook Crypto Circles French law enforcement rescued a man on Saturday night in Essonne, a suburb south of Paris, after … Read more