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The US House clears a key procedural hurdle on cryptocurrency legislation after Trump intervened, setting the stage for likely passage of several crypto bills (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u…

From Promise to Peril: Rethinking Cybersecurity Red and Blue Teaming in the Age of LLMs
Alsharif Abuadbba, Chris Hicks, Kristen Moore, Vasilios Mavroudis, Burak Hasircioglu, Diksha Goel, Piers Jennings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13434

From Promise to Peril: Rethinking Cybersecurity Red and Blue Teaming in the Age of LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are set to reshape cybersecurity by augmenting red and blue team operations. Red teams can exploit LLMs to plan attacks, craft phishing content, simulate adversaries, and generate exploit code. Conversely, blue teams may deploy them for threat intelligence synthesis, root cause analysis, and streamlined documentation. This dual capability introduces both transformative potential and serious risks. This position paper maps LLM applications across cybersecurity fram…

Rethinking cryptophane A for methane gas sensing: cross sensitivity to N2 and CO2 at ambient conditions
Sebasti\'an Alberti, Thierry Brotin, Jana J\'agersk\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10558

Rethinking cryptophane A for methane gas sensing: cross sensitivity to N2 and CO2 at ambient conditions
Since the affinity of Cryptophane-A for methane was first reported in 1993, cryptophane-doped polymer films have been extensively studied as enrichment cladding layers in plasmonic, fiber-optic, and integrated waveguide-based optical sensors. While the use of cryptophane-doped layers has improved methane sensitivity compared to undoped claddings, controversy has grown over the years regarding their claimed selectivity and practical applicability. Key questions remain unresolved, including the e…

Acoustically driven dark matter freeze-out
Iason Baldes, Ryusuke Jinno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11…

Acoustically driven dark matter freeze-out
We extend the study of the effect of density perturbations to the well known thermal dark matter freeze-out scenario. We find $\sim 10 \, \%$ enhancements in the cross section are required to match onto the observed relic abundance for primordial curvature perturbations $\sim 0.2$ at length scales $\sim 1/$Hubble at freeze-out. Such corrections may be of importance in scenarios in which such perturbations are present and observational signals, such as the indirect detection rate, depend sensiti…

Putting a crypto insider in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is like putting a drug lord in charge of the DEA.
Industry insiders shouldn’t be regulators, but this is even worse.
Crypto isn’t even a legitimate industry, just one good at playing the catch-me-if-you-can game with the regulators it’s about to own.
-- Kristen Simplicio

The Blockchain Association Just Bought the CFTC
The revolving door isn’t just corrupting the CFTC—it may end the pretense of a Commission altogether.

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

On Immutable Memory Systems for Artificial Agents: A Blockchain-Indexed Automata-Theoretic Framework Using ECDH-Keyed Merkle Chains
Craig Steven Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13246

On Immutable Memory Systems for Artificial Agents: A Blockchain-Indexed Automata-Theoretic Framework Using ECDH-Keyed Merkle Chains
This paper presents a formalised architecture for synthetic agents designed to retain immutable memory, verifiable reasoning, and constrained epistemic growth. Traditional AI systems rely on mutable, opaque statistical models prone to epistemic drift and historical revisionism. In contrast, we introduce the concept of the Merkle Automaton, a cryptographically anchored, deterministic computational framework that integrates formal automata theory with blockchain-based commitments. Each agent tran…

(CMC) 1-immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Gabriella Tarantello, Stefano Trapani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11894 https://

(CMC) 1-immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Constant Mean Curvature (CMC) 1-immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds are natural and yet rather curious objects in hyperbolic geometry with interesting applications. Firstly, Bryant revealed surprising relations between (CMC) $1$-immersions of surfaces into $\mathbb H^3$ (Bryant surfaces) and (cousins) minimal immersions into $\mathbb E^3.$ In addition, the interest to (CMC) immersions of a surface $S$ (closed, orientable, with genus $\mathfrak{g} \geq2$) into hyperbolic 3-manif…

Well, this seems stupid - New Jersey is forcing the removal of many working NACS charging centers and replacing them with CCS charging.
That's already stupid. But it moves from stupid to destructive in that it NJ wants to expand the moribund CCS charge system while automobile makers are shifting away from CCS to NACS.
Perhaps we ought to remember that New Jersey is a major oil refining/gasoline producing state and thus there are political forces in NJ who abhor EVs.

US prosecutors charge Iurii Gugnin, founder of US-based crypto payments service Evita Pay, with laundering $500M , including to sanctioned Russian entities (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/crypto-russia-laundering.html

Crypto CEO accused of laundering $500 million linked to sanctioned Russian banks
The Justice Department says Gugnin maintained ties to Russian intelligence, as well as officials in both Iran and Russia.