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Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire On October 15, with the help of independent security researchers, we found a vulnerability affecting one of the integrations used on the ChangeNOW website. The vulnerability has now been fixed. We currently have no evidence that it was exploited. But we also can’t assume that the researchers who reported it were the only ones to find it. Because of that, we’re looking at the different possible scenarios and warning clients about the information that could potentially have been exposed. This may include email addresses and transaction details. Please note ChangeNOW’s…

Panama City, Panama, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire Pixagram announces free account creation for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. Built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, Pixagram is an anti-hierarchy social network where every post, vote, and comment is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, with no ads and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started. Pixagram will cover the 20 PIXA network fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. New members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and join the platform’s on-chain community for creators. ► Quit…

The Italian scale-up has appointed Turnbow to lead its technical expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with an energy-to-compute approach that aims to harness renewable energy sources and reuse existing assets to develop more sustainable compute infrastructure. TRENTO, Italy, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ALPS announces the appointment of Brian Turnbow as Technical Director for AI. Founded in Trentino in 2018 and operating across four continents, the company is applying its expertise in designing, building, and operating data centers integrated with energy systems to AI and HPC. Access to power is one of the main constraints on AI infrastructure…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 14th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Kazakhstan announces the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation with AIFC Markets Ltd., the Programme Office of the Astana International Financial Centre’s Investment Tax Residency Programme (ITRP). Under the memorandum, qualified investments in digital assets made by Programme participants through Bybit Kazakhstan’s licensed platform will be verified and recognised by the Programme Office. The ITRP is an AIFC initiative that allows eligible foreign investors to obtain Kazakhstan tax residency and an investor visa in exchange for investing through the AIFC infrastructure. The Programme already recognises in-scope investments in digital assets made through AFSA-licensed…

Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients. In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou has outlined the latest stage of the company’s expansion from a crypto exchange into The New Financial Platform, highlighting new products and collaborations across traditional and digital markets.  The updates were presented during Bybit’s latest biannual “Keynote with Ben” session titled “Make Your Move”, where Ben discussed the convergence of financial markets and the company’s approach to building for that shift. Held outside the usual studio format, in a gathering with a live audience, the keynote brought Ben together with selected guests to discuss changes in…

“Know Your Customer” (KYC) checks are often seen as an obstacle to bringing traditional finance onchain and to growing DeFi overall. For anyone unfamiliar, these checks are a necessary part of financial institutions’ obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The process requires coordination among issuers, verifiers, and regulators with different incentives, timelines, and legal requirements. For banks, broker-dealers, and other BSA-covered institutions bringing tokenized products onchain, the challenge is reaching more customers and accessing liquidity, while meeting compliance requirements that can add time and complexity. Onboarding a new customer, for example, often…

OpenAI opened a status-page incident on October 13, 2026, for degraded performance in GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and Work mode. Its latest update reads: We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. What Happened? The incident page lists 1 affected component under ChatGPT and 4 affected components under Codex. OpenAI’s first notice to mitigation update took 80 minutes, by the page’s own timestamps. The status now reads Monitoring, not resolved. The page names no cause. OpenAI says availability metrics are reported at an aggregate level across all tiers, models and error types. The incident names GPT-6.1 Sol Codex and…

IntroductionIf you think of the word “crime,” what comes to mind? For most of us, it’s burglars, pickpockets, and car thieves — criminals operating in the physical world. The biggest and fastest-growing threats, however, are digital.In 2000, the FBI launched the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to track cybercrimes. Since 2020, the monetary losses reported to the IC3 have increased 5x to a total of USD 20.9 billion (2025), with a 27% increase in total complaints, while in that same time period, reported property crimes nationwide have fallen nearly 20%.1Crime fighters have responded aggressively to this threat. Law enforcement at…

Last week, Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate put out a call for information on a device newly found in Russia’s latest killer drones.The “Susanin,” a small cylinder with a camera lens, is an optical system that enables Russia’s long-range drones to navigate Ukraine’s skies without relying on satellite or radio signals.Should Moscow deploy them at scale, the modules would introduce a major new challenge for Kyiv, allowing Russian one-way drones to bypass jamming — a key pillar of Ukraine’s air defense network.Per the intelligence directorate, or GUR, the Kremlin has been fitting them onto the turbojet Geran-4 and Geran-5 K5, which…