A Minnesota man faces felony charges after authorities allege he used what looked like the victim’s photo ID and a forged signature to drain $12,760 from a victim’s accounts during back-to-back visits to two U.S. Bank branches. Dion Antonio Lowe, 55, of Minneapolis is accused of the June 11th thefts from a Missouri victim’s checking …
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Texas Gold Scam Drains Over $250,000,000 From Elderly Victims: Report
Scammers have taken more than $250 million from over 200 elderly victims across Texas and the nation in an alleged gold theft operation. Authorities in Tarrant County have secured more than 40 indictments tied to the fraud, reports The Dallas Morning News. Victims received urgent calls from people pretending to be bank officials who claimed accounts or …
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Trezor Warns 67,000 U.S. Customers As Data Breach Discovery Expands
A hardware wallet maker is notifying tens of thousands of additional customers about an expanded data breach stemming from its former shipping partner. The company says ShipMonk notified it on September 2 that order records from November 2019 through August 2021 remained in its systems and were swept up in the same incident first reported …
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Ex-South Carolina Officer Charged With Bank Fraud, Prostitution, Obstruction of Justice After Massage Parlor Payment: Report
A former South Carolina police officer faces charges of bank fraud, prostitution and obstruction of justice following allegations of paying for sexual services and attempting to defraud his credit union. The 43-year-old ex-Pacolet Police Department officer, identified as Fredrick Trent Payne, stands accused of the offenses, reports FOX Carolina. Arrest documents detail that Payne used …
Illinois Man Turns Birthday Gift Into $1,000,000 Million Lottery Jackpot
An Illinois resident has transformed a simple birthday present into a life-changing $1 million lottery victory. The winning ticket arrived in an envelope from a friend at a celebration organized by his wife, reports UPI. Numbers 11-17-22-26-36-45 matched the August 8th Lotto Million 2 drawing for the top prize. The man initially believed the ticket …
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B.AI, a next-generation AI infrastructure platform, recently set off a developer frenzy by offering free access to top-tier models. Within days, daily token throughput across the platform crossed 1.33 trillion—a historic milestone. The record-breaking figure underscores the campaign’s explosive rollout, but it marks only the first step in B.AI’s broader strategic roadmap. Moving beyond traditional …
Axis Robotics Open-Sources One of the Largest Franka Arm Simulation Datasets for Physical AI
Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with the full dataset, training code, and benchmarks publicly available. V1 is built from more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks and 60,000+ scene variants on a simulated Franka Research 3 arm. This …
CoinRabbit Wins “Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026” Award from International Business Magazine
September 4th, 2026 – Toronto, Canada CoinRabbit has been named Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 by International Business Magazine, highlighting a lending product that has issued more than $1.45 billion in loans since 2020. About the International Business Magazine Award The International Business Magazine Awards recognize companies and executives making a significant impact across global …
Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K
The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month. Key points: According to data released on Friday, the US economy added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August, significantly outperforming economists’ consensus expectations of roughly 56,000 jobs. In …
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FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents. An analysis from the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) identified $12.7 billion in crypto transactions “perpetrated by overseas scam centers.” According to a FinCEN report released on Thursday, …
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Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchain-based records. Pineapple Financial has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on financial applications, as part of a broader effort to migrate its historical loan portfolio …
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Good Agents Never Sleep Grok Bot has completely taken over my timeline. If it hasn’t taken over yours, take a look at these viral posts, which have a combined view count of over 24 million: Peter Yang’s tutorial Elon Musk’s one-person-company post Ryan Carson’s chief-of-staff setup Stella Garber’s personal-administration example For anyone who hasn’t …
Michigan Blocks Predictions Markets Platform Kalshi From Offering Sports Bets in the State
A Michigan court is barring a prediction market platform from offering sports wagers to state residents or risk massive daily fines for failing to block access. The order requires KalshiEx, LLC to maintain geofencing using a state-licensed third-party provider, with violations triggering a $500,000 daily fine. The injunction prohibits offering, facilitating, advertising, or processing any …
Liquid Mercury Announces Initial Closing of ACQUA1 Offering
September 4th, 2026 – Chicago, United States Liquid Mercury today announced that ACQUA1, LLC completed the initial closing of its MERC exchange offering on September 1, 2026. ACQUA1 is a Liquid Mercury subsidiary that operates Liquid Mercury’s Lab Company program, licensing Liquid Mercury technology to companies primarily tokenizing real-world assets and receiving fees plus a …
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Revolut, OpenReserve get preliminary US bank approval with crypto plans
Revolut and OpenReserve received preliminary OCC approval to form US national banks, with both planning cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related services. Revolut and Andreessen Horowitz-backed crypto banking startup OpenReserve have received preliminary US regulatory approval to establish national banks, with both companies planning to offer cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related services. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …
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