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Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo, a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation.It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo EmployerUniversity of Virginia in CharlottesvilleTitleAssistant professor of computer science Member gradeMemberAlma matersNational Taiwan University; MITIn high school she learned the capacity computers held. She could write programs that completed tasks independently, she realized.“Once I discovered how…

As contact centers push the boundaries of efficiency in customer service and call answering through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), there’s a dark underlord at play behind the curtain. AI can now clone a voice with three seconds of audio. So, how can your AI receptionist, automated answering service, or human agent detect who’s real and who’s a deepfake? We’ve been relying on knowledge-based authentication (KBA) like: What’s your mother’s maiden name? What was the name of your first pet? What street did you grow up on? What was your first school? But the answers to these are more…

We’re excited to announce that Wirex has joined the Visa Agentic Ready programme as an issuer. We’ll be supporting the development of secure, scalable agent-initiated payments on stablecoin rails, as part of the next generation of digital commerce.  The agentic economy is growing at a rate of 44% per year, and it’s already proving its ability to transform banking, where traditional banking rails suffer with cut-off times, correspondent banking delays, and have human approval loops ingrained. In contrast, autonomous AI agents can work 24/7. But to continue scaling, the agentic economy needs programmable, always-on financial rails that can execute transactions without human intervention, and stablecoins are the…

TL;DR Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council says post-quantum migration planning should begin before quantum attacks become practical. The report estimates about 7 million BTC are quantum-vulnerable because public keys are exposed through legacy formats or address reuse. About 1.7 million BTC are said to sit in legacy Pay-to-Public-Key addresses, including early mined and potentially abandoned coins. The council frames the issue as a long-term governance challenge, not an immediate emergency. Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council has warned that Bitcoin and other crypto networks need to begin planning for post-quantum migration well before quantum computers can realistically break today’s public-key cryptography. In a…

For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator Maggie Hassan, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, faults the company for acting only after news outlets exposed the content and her office spent nearly a year pressing for answers.None of what it removed was sent to law enforcement, the report says.Spotify reportedly removed more than 57,000 podcast episodes and 3,000 shows, and took enforcement action against 3,500 accounts, all pushing links to illegal online pharmacies advertising opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants for sale without…

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions.The NeeDoh Nice Cube is a lump of soft plastic a little over 2 inches tall. It comes in blue, pink, or purple, and retails for $5.99. When you squeeze it, it produces a pleasing, squishy sensation, subtly relieving the stress of the day and replacing it with a sense of calm and peace.At least, I have to assume it does. The Nice Cube — and other NeeDoh variants, like globs, donuts, and kittens — are so popular that it’s become nearly…

The email that costs you the most is never the campaign that underperformed. It’s the order confirmation that silently stopped delivering for three days before anyone noticed. Or the onboarding sequence that fired twice. Or the password reset that landed in spam during your biggest launch week.

On June 10, 2026, a hacker exploited five deprecated liquidity pools on Raydium, Solana largest decentralized exchange, draining approximately $1.34 million in crypto assets through a forged LP token attack on the protocol’s legacy AMM V3 program. The stolen funds included ~$900,000 in USDC, ~$357,000 in SOL, and ~$86,000 in RAY tokens. The RAY token up 2% in the 24 hours following the incident, recently changing hands at $0.578, already down ~7% on the week and sitting 96.6% below its all-time high of $16.83. 🚨Raydium confirms $1.34M exploit on legacy AMM V3 pools. No current users affected; full compensation from…

The South Korean police have formally named Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a suspect in their ongoing bribery investigation, mentioning that the CEO hired the son of an independent lawmaker as a political favor. The development is part of a series of charges and fines aimed at the exchange, leaving it managing one crisis after the other since the beginning of 2026.  As a show of trust, the board is expected to reappoint Lee to a new two-year term, betting on continuity over change. That, however, looks less likely now that he has been made a suspect. What did the…

FanDuel Predicts is widening the range of event contracts available on its platform through a new agreement with Crypto.com and its CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, OG Prediction Markets. The company announced the partnership Tuesday (June 9) in Chicago, saying customers will gain access to additional sports and entertainment contracts as well as combination event contracts. By adding products from OG Prediction Markets alongside existing offerings from CME Group, FanDuel Predicts expects to significantly increase the number of markets available for trading. “FanDuel Predicts was built to deliver a best-in-class prediction market experience to our customers,” said James Cooper, Senior Vice…