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The Polymarket prediction market platform logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which a list of available bets is projected.
The Polymarket prediction market platform logo appears on a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which a list of available bets is projected, on March 9, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed multiple trades on the prediction marketplace, abusing internal access to Google’s nonpublic data on the most searched people in 2025.
An Apple logo is reflected on glass at the Apple Store at Orchard Road on September 24, 2021 in Singapore. (Photo by Feline Lim/Getty Images)

Apple open-sources quantum-resistant encryption code

The release includes implementations of two quantum-secure algorithms and demonstrates how formal verification caught bugs that traditional testing would have missed.
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US President Donald Trump (L) speaks, flanked by US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, during a roundtable discussion on his “no tax on tips” policy at the AC Hotel Las Vegas Symphony Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 16, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump postpones executive order focused on AI security 

Under a draft executive order, the NSA, Treasury Department and other federal agencies would get 90-days to test new models for cybersecurity and national security concerns.
Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, is pictured at its headquarters building on June 24, 2020 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images)

European authorities take down prolific cybercrime VPN service

Officials arrested the alleged administrator of First VPN, seized its servers and domains. Europol said the service appeared in almost every major recent cybercrime investigation.
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