ADA price jumps as Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson responds to scam allegations

Cardano (ADA) has jumped 39% in July amid bullish technical patterns. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has denied scam claims. A break above $0.80 could push ADA toward $1 and beyond.

Cardano (ADA) has surged in value following a mix of bullish technical patterns and a heated public exchange involving its outspoken founder, Charles Hoskinson.

The price of ADA currently sits at around $0.75, climbing over 39% in July alone and catching the attention of traders and analysts alike.

Despite the distraction caused by the scam allegations levelled against Input Output (IOG), Cardano’s strong price action and favourable chart structures suggest that its bullish trend remains...

Chainlink price forecast amid US asset tokenization push with Blockchain Association partnership

Chainlink (LINK) eyes a breakout with $17.5 as a key resistance level. Chainlink partners to promote tokenisation across US states. Technicals and sentiment support a bullish price outlook.

Chainlink (LINK) is once again making headlines, this time for a pivotal partnership with the Blockchain Association aimed at promoting asset tokenisation across the United States.

As the crypto market eyes broader institutional adoption, this development is expected to strengthen Chainlink’s utility and market position, while also giving a potential boost to its token price.

The strategic alliance introduces the “Tokenized in America” initiative, a nationwide effort to expand the use of blockchain technology in representing real-world...

PureOS Crimson Development Report: June 2025

That one task Welcome back!  As we enter the second half of 2025, we’re wrapping up the last few tasks to release the PureOS Crimson alpha for all Librem devices. In our last post, we mentioned that there was a key task remaining for gnome-control-center, the GNOME Settings application.  In that post, we referred to […]

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Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference

The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.

Purism CEO Todd Weaver: U.S.-Made Liberty Phone Proves Domestic Tech Manufacturing Is Possible—and Competitive

In a recent Bloomberg Technology interview, Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the widespread belief that building smartphones in the U.S. is economically unfeasible. Purism’s Liberty Phone—manufactured with made-in-USA electronics—stands as a working proof of concept.

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Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous

New research:

One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with high fossilization potential that could help the team figure out how squids evolved.

With that in mind, the team developed an advanced fossil discovery technique that completely digitized rocks with all their embedded fossils in complete 3D form. Upon using that technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, the team identified 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks hidden inside the rocks, which included 263...

Tradecraft in the Information Age

Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.

Using Signal Groups for Activism

Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases.

Google to Pay Texas $1.4 Billion to End Privacy Cases

Google’s $1.375 billion settlement with Texas is a wake-up call for digital privacy (Bloomberg Law).

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Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak

This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.)

This is ridiculous. Why do people continue to make their data public?