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Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding, and engineering work is inaccessible to interested programmers. A visually-impaired programmer might write great code. But because of the lack of accessible modeling software, the coder can’t model, design, and verify physical and virtual components of their system. However, new 3D modeling tools are beginning to change this equation. A new prototype program called A11yShape aims to close the gap. There are already code-based tools that let users describe 3D models in text, such…

The Seoul court handed crypto asset manager prison sentence in the first case under the new Virtual Asset User Protection Act. A South Korean court has sentenced Jong-hwan Lee, CEO of a local crypto asset management firm, to three years in prison for manipulating cryptocurrency prices to secure illicit profits. The Seoul Southern District Court ruled on Wednesday that Lee violated the Virtual Asset User Protection Act, earning approximately 7.1 billion Korean won (which is worth around $4.88 million) through price manipulation. Court Findings In addition to the prison term, the court imposed a fine of 500 million won, nearly…

The Bitcoin price climbed back above $71,000 over the weekend, extending its rebound after one of the sharpest sell-offs of the cycle sent the price briefly plunging toward $60,000 earlier this week. The recovery comes as institutional investors appear to be treating sub-$70,000 bitcoin as a renewed buying opportunity, even while retail traders search for signs the market has reached a bottom. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said in a CNBC interview that bitcoin’s pullback is landing differently with large investors than with long-time holders. “I think long-time holders are feeling unsure,” Horsley said. “And I think the new investor set,…

Block, the fintech firm behind payment tools and blockchain-based financial services led by Bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey, is carrying out performance-based job cuts that could affect up to 10% of its workforce, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the situation. Block has over 10,000 employees, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. The potential reductions could affect over 1,000 employees by late February, continuing a restructuring effort that began in 2024 under Dorsey. In March 2025, the company eliminated 931 jobs, cutting about 8% of its workforce of approximately 11,300 employees. Dorsey said at the time that the moves…

A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developer’s machine — GitHub personal access tokens, AWS API keys, Azure service principals and more — are exfiltrated, and the adversary is inside the cloud environment within minutes.Your email security never saw it. Your dependency scanner might have flagged the package. Nobody was watching what happened next.The attack chain is quickly becoming known as the identity and access management (IAM) pivot, and it represents a fundamental gap in how enterprises monitor identity-based…

Ethereum (ETH) has declined noticeably over the past week, with price data from CoinMarketCap reporting a net 14% decline within this period. At the time of the most recent data, ETH is trading around $2,000, significantly lower than the past week’s level near $2,500. ETH Funding Rates Signal A Bullish Turn In a QuickTake post on the CryptoQuant platform, analyst Amr Taha draws attention to recent developments in ETH funding rates, a key sentiment indicator in perpetual futures. The funding rate shows the market sentiment, whether it’s optimistic/greedy (positive) or fearful/cautious (negative). Typically, when funding is highly positive or negative,…

The way large companies use artificial intelligence is changing. For years, AI in business meant experimenting with tools that could answer questions or help with small tasks. Now, some big enterprises are moving beyond tools to AI agents that can actually do practical work in systems and workflows.This week, OpenAI introduced a new platform designed to help companies build and manage those kinds of AI agents at scale. A handful of large corporations in finance, insurance, mobility, and life sciences are among the first to start using it. That may signal that AI is ready to move from pilot to…

Shares of Strategy ($MSTR) surged sharply Friday, lifting more than 25% at times, trading near $133, after a brutal prior session left the bitcoin‑linked stock deeply oversold.  The jump comes as markets stabilized and bitcoin rebounded from multi‑week lows to around $71,000, injecting newfound demand into equities tied to digital assets. Friday’s rally reversed a dramatic sell‑off on Thursday, during which MSTR shares plunged to multi‑year lows on earnings losses and renewed pressure in crypto markets.  From a macro perspective, Strategy’s stock movement has tracked bitcoin’s sharp swings. As the leading corporate holder of bitcoin, MSTR’s performance is highly correlated…

Venture funding is continuing to flow into digital asset companies even as the broader crypto market struggles with heavy losses. Key Takeaways: Crypto startups raised $258M in one week despite a $2T market downturn. Funding focused on infrastructure, compliance and institutional services, led by Anchorage Digital’s $100M round. Venture firms continue betting on long-term growth in AI and blockchain innovation. Roughly $258 million was invested in crypto firms during the first week of February, according to data from DeFiLlama, underscoring that investors are still backing infrastructure and services tied to blockchain networks despite a market drawdown estimated at about $2…

The Bitcoin network mining difficulty, a metric tracking the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the Bitcoin (BTC) ledger, fell by about 11.16% in the last 24 hours, the worst drop in a single adjustment period since China’s 2021 ban on crypto mining.Bitcoin mining difficulty is at 125.86 T and took effect at block 935,429, data from CoinWarz shows. The average block time is over 11 minutes, overshooting the 10-minute target.Difficulty is projected to fall again in the next adjustment on February 23 by about 10.4% to 112.7 T, according to CoinWarz. The Bitcoin network mining difficulty from 2014…