In 1830 the railway’s greatest champion became its first famous casualty. Britain didn’t stop the trains, and we shouldn’t stop AI either.

Remember that old Jerry Seinfeld joke about getting your eyes tested by someone whose only source of income is selling you glasses?

I’m not clever enough to know whether defi will be built on Ethereum 2.0 or Solano, but I am smart enough to know that it will be built. It therefore makes sense for financial services organisations to start working on their own strategies for exploiting the new markets that will emerge.

Financial firms are shutting down hundreds of thousands of suspected money mule accounts, but organised criminal groups are still shifting dirty money

Two questions should be settled before the design is fixed

Also: hyperscalers, circular financing, AI slop, pervert glasses and justifiable murder

A Russia-Ukraine cease-fire isn’t guaranteed to get prices down.

Hey it’s international identity day tomorrow! We can all get together and celebrate everything being even more broken than it was last year.

Guardian angel was developed to address common manipulation techniques used by scammers to trick people into authorising payments. Examples include romance scams and friendship scams, where people are emotionally manipulated, as well as account takeover schemes, impersonation scams and investment fraud schemes promising unrealistic returns.

The need for agent identity is the trigger for fixing the problem of people identity.

Air traffic controller Nats has apologised for the technical issue, with the firm's boss Martin Rolfe due to meet the transport secretary later.

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The Dutch central bank removes some of its gold reserves from the US and Canada, saying it is because of "increasing geopolitical unrest".

We explore patterns, regularities, and correlations in the evolving landscape of Ethereum-based tokens, both ERC-20 (fungible) and ERC-721 (non-fungible) to ...

September 2026 – VERY VERY LONG Tech Blog on EMVCo’s new Spec

Cameras are in smart toilets, AI glasses, vacuums, fridges, and now ... toothbrushes? Dyson's latest CameraJet gadget is aimed at lazy flossers.

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews…

The framework provides a foundation for further industry engagement and potential specification development, with all interested stakeholders encouraged to provide their feedback on EMV® Agentic Payments - Framework for Specifications by Wednesday 30 September.

It seems like everyone has a stablecoin these days. But you know what: the stablecoin revolution has not even started yet.

Spoiler: It’s vibe-coded superviruses.

The checks were drawn on accounts at JPMorganChase, Citibank, BMO, Stellar Bank and Amegy Bank. The largest single check ran just over $1.5 million.

Paying on Mars won’t be like paying on Earth.

When it comes down to it, it doesn't matter whether you are sending dollars or Dogecoin, the identity expenses dwarf the payment expenses. So if we are going to reduce the cost of remittances, that is where we need to focus.