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08-04

Entegris Q2 2026 Earnings Beat Estimates with 41% EPS Growth

Entegris, a specialty materials maker which supplies critical components for semiconductor manufacturing, posted Q2 2026 results that cleared Wall Street expectations across the board.Net sales came in at $883.2 million, an 11% jump from the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings per share hit $0

Five men in London convicted of kidnapping and assaulting French crypto millionaires

According to Decrypt, the Central Criminal Court in London recently handed down a ruling in a violent kidnapping case targeting cryptocurrency holders. Five men were found guilty of unlawfully detaining two French cryptocurrency millionaires, with Gerson Borges and Mohamed Osman additionally convict

Mysterious Whale Buys Lumentum (LITE) Before Price Surges, Earns 284% Profit

ME News reports that, on August 4 (UTC+8), according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the whale beginning with 0xaa53 made two purchases of Lumentum (LITE), both precisely timed just before price acceleration began. As of 18:00 today, Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, reve

AMD MI355X Outperforms NVIDIA B200 in Kimi K3 Deployment

This could be the moment AMD has been waiting for.Recently, Wafer AI deployed on the AMD MI355X Kimi K3. As a result, a model that previously required 16 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across two servers can now be deployed on a single AMD server equipped with 8 MI355X GPUs.More importantly, it’s not jus

India to Reintroduce Merchant Fees on UPI After Six-Year Zero-Cost Experiment

India is preparing to bring back merchant fees on its wildly popular Unified Payments Interface, ending a six-year experiment with zero-cost digital transactions that the country’s own lawmakers have called unsustainable.The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Au

Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Exposes Secrets and Enables Pull Request Tampering

Pillar Security published research on August 3, 2026, detailing a novel attack against Google’s open-source Agent Development Kit for Python, specifically targeting workflows inside the gemini-cli GitHub repository. The exploit works by injecting malicious instructions into a low-privilege AI agent,

The CLARITY Act requires a Senate motion to proceed with a vote on Thursday.

ME News reports that on August 4 (UTC+8), the U.S. cryptocurrency market structure regulation bill, the CLARITY Act, reached a critical moment this week. Under Senate procedures, if senators wish to proceed with their planned August recess, Senate Majority Leader and Republican Senator John Thune mu

Trader TwoEyes Adds $1.4M in BTC and Strategy Assets Short Positions on Hyperliquid

Odaily Planet Daily report: Polymarket trader "TwoEyes" significantly increased short positions in BTC and Strategy-related assets on Hyperliquid this morning. Opening a new BTC short position of 13.4011 BTC at an average price of $63,679.40, while simultaneously selling 5,000 shares of MSTR and 899

Coldcard Exploit Surpasses $100M with 1,596 BTC Stolen

What initially appeared to be a major hardware wallet breach has grown into a far larger forensic investigation as new evidence continues reshaping its scale.Initial findings linked the exploit of Coldcard to 4,585 addresses in three waves and the theft of about 1,367 Bitcoin [BTC] worth roughly $88

FalconX Cuts 10% of Workforce Amid Crypto Market Downturn

Key InsightsCrypto news focused on FalconX cutting roughly 10% of employees.FalconX reportedly shifted its Singapore strategy toward crypto derivatives.The crypto market downturn pushed trading firms beyond spot services.FalconX reportedly cut roughly 10% of its global workforce on Monday. The crypt

Coldcard vulnerability results in $130 million in losses as phishing attacks surge

Odaily Planet Daily reports that hardware wallet manufacturers Trezor and Foundation have warned of an increase in phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet holders following the disclosure of a Coldcard firmware vulnerability, with attackers seeking recovery phrases and诱导 users to download malwar

Morgan Stanley Lists 24 AI-Benefiting Stocks with 'Overweight' Rating

Odaily Planet Daily reports that in a report released on Monday, Morgan Stanley stated that, against the backdrop of increasing market emphasis on corporate efficiency and productivity gains, AI applications are becoming a key driver of margin expansion. The firm identified 24 stocks with AI applica

Wallet cluster linked to the Qian Zhimin case holds 28,555 BTC worth $1.8 billion

According to on-chain investigator Specter, a wallet holding 28,555 BTC, valued at approximately $1.8 billion, appears to be linked to addresses associated with the UK’s Qian Zhimin case.Several weeks ago, a Bitcoin wallet that had been dormant since 2017 suddenly transferred 1,020 BTC—approximately

UNITREE Futures Drops 14% After Listing on Hyperliquid

HuoXing Finance reports that on August 4, according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the Unitree IPO contract (para:UNITREE) launched on Hyperliquid this afternoon at an opening price of $73.33, peaking intraday at $75.67 before dropping to a low of $61.92. As of reporting, UNITREE is tradin

Hut 8 Completes Commercialization of Its First GW-Level AI Data Center Campus

According to PR Newswire, cryptocurrency mining company and energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq/Toronto Stock Exchange: HUT) released its second quarter 2026 financial results. Key highlights include: Commercialization: The company successfully commercialized its first gigawatt-scale

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