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What Is the Safest Crypto On Ramp and Off Ramp?

Discover what makes a crypto on ramp and off ramp truly safe, the biggest risks to avoid, and how to choose secure platforms for buying and cashing out crypto.

What does safe really mean in crypto on ramps and off ramps? When people ask for the safest crypto on ramp or off ramp, they are rarely talking about just hacking. Safety in crypto is multi dimensio… [+3696 chars]

Psycho Killer Review

  • Matt Fowler
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 21:30:00

From first-time feature director Gavin Polone and Andrew Kevin Walker, the screenwriter of Se7en, Psycho Killer is a slasher full of missteps and missed opportunities.

Psycho Killer arrives in theaters on Friday, February 20. Psycho Killer is a grim mess. In fact, it's the draggiest, sloppiest revenge-driven road trip serial killer mystery since... 1997's Switchb… [+4945 chars]

Romanian hacker faces up to 7 years for breaching Oregon emergency management department

  • Dissent
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 21:09:45

Jonathan Greig reports: A 45-year-old Romanian national pleaded guilty this week to hacking into computers at Oregon’s Department of Emergency Management in June 2021 and selling the access he obtained for $3,000 worth of Bitcoin. Catalin Dragomir also hacked…

A 45-year-old Romanian national pleaded guilty this week to hacking into computers at Oregons Department of Emergency Management in June 2021 and selling the access he obtained for $3,000 worth of Bi… [+411 chars]

Bitcoin bears at risk of $600M liquidation, raising chance for rally to $70K

  • Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 20:15:00

Despite bearish pressure and weak US economic data, Bitcoin's recovering hashrate and new onchain security protocols raise the chance for a surge to $70,000.

Key takeaways: <ul><li>A minor 4.3% Bitcoin price increase to $69,600 could trigger over $600 million in forced liquidations for bearish traders. </li><li>Rising network hashrate and the BIP-360 qu… [+4515 chars]

Trump Rants About Right to Destroy Countries After Tariffs Ruling

  • Edith Olmsted
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 19:10:21

President Donald Trump claimed Friday the Supreme Court had granted him the power to destroy other countries,  after the high court took away his weapon of choice: sweeping reciprocal tariffs. Speaking to reporters, Trump rambled about how “ridiculous” it was…

Trump and his associates have ripped through the executive branch over the past year, hacking and slashing at government expenditures on the authority of what they claim is a mandate from the people.… [+855 chars]

Specialized AI detects 92% of real-world DeFi exploits

  • Oliver Knight, AI Boost
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 19:06:15

New research claims specialized AI dramatically outperforms general-purpose models at detecting exploited DeFi vulnerabilities.

A purpose-built AI security agent detected vulnerabilities in 92% of exploited DeFi smart contracts in a new open-source benchmark. The study, released Thursday by AI security firm Cecuro, evaluated… [+1732 chars]

Trump Announces New Tariffs Immediately After Supreme Court Ruling

  • Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 18:42:03

The president’s hotly anticipated backup plan to replace his unacceptable global tariffs is, basically, to just keep doing the tariffs regardless.The Supreme Court deemed Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs illegal Friday morning, throwing not only the Wh…

Trump and his associates have ripped through the executive branch over the past year, hacking and slashing at government expenditures on the authority of what they claim is a mandate from the people.… [+855 chars]

McConnell Stalls Trump’s Election Overhaul Bill as Republicans Fume

  • Hafiz Rashid
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 18:41:22

Senator Mitch McConnell appears to be stalling the voting bill backed by President Trump, and fellow Republicans are not happy. McConnell, who leads the Senate Rules Committee, is refusing to schedule a vote on the legislation, thus preventing it from moving …

Trump and his associates have ripped through the executive branch over the past year, hacking and slashing at government expenditures on the authority of what they claim is a mandate from the people.… [+855 chars]

Newmont Spars With Barrick on Nevada Venture as Notice Sent

  • Bloomberg News
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 18:12:00

Newmont Corp. sent Barrick Mining Corp. a notice of default after finding evidence of alleged mismanagement at a Nevada venture. Read on

(Bloomberg) Newmont Corp. sent Barrick Mining Corp. a so-called notice of default after finding evidence of alleged mismanagement at a Nevada joint venture, escalating tensions between the partners i… [+4973 chars]

Bitcoin mining difficulty rebounds 15% as US miners recover from winter outages

  • Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 18:02:33

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty climbed to 144.4 trillion after January storms briefly slashed hash rate, while some US miners offset downtime by selling electricity back to the grid.

Bitcoins mining difficulty jumped about 15% to 144.4 trillion on Feb. 20, according to CoinWarz data, reversing an 11% drop earlier this month that marked the sharpest decline since Chinas 2021 minin… [+2455 chars]

Show HN: Claude Code Web – Run Claude Code Agent as an HTTP Endpoint

  • teilee
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 17:30:36

Self-hosted server that exposes Claude Code agent as an HTTP endpoint. No API key — uses your Claude subscription. - exitxio/claude-code-web

Self-hosted server that exposes the Claude Code agent as an HTTP endpoint. No API key runs on your existing Claude subscription. One-command Docker deploy. claude.ai is a chat UI. This is different.… [+3200 chars]

Trump Gets Terrible News on Economic Growth as Humiliation Compounds

  • Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 17:19:19

It’s been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning for Donald Trump.At the start of Friday, a new gross domestic product report revealed that the economy had cooled in the last quarter of 2025, showing a general deceleration in growth due to large cuts…

Trump and his associates have ripped through the executive branch over the past year, hacking and slashing at government expenditures on the authority of what they claim is a mandate from the people.… [+855 chars]

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

  • Spencer Dixon
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 14:03:06

How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...

In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7 - a large cache of CIA hacking tools and internal documents. Buried among the exploits and surveillance tools was something far more mundane: a page of internal de… [+1638 chars]

FO° Talks: Great Power Competition Is Back: How the US Plans to Deter China and Russia

  • Evan Munsing
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 13:29:16

Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Evan Munsing, candidate for Colorado’s competitive 8th Congressional District, Marine Corps veteran and entrepreneur, examine why American national security feels harder to define now than it did a decade ago. Munsing frames the…

Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Evan Munsing, candidate for Colorados competitive 8th Congressional District, Marine Corps veteran and entrepreneur, examine why American national security feels harder… [+5860 chars]

North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S.

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 12:40:47

A Ukrainian man was sentenced to five years in the U.S. for helping North Korean IT workers use stolen identities to get hired by U.S. firms. Oleksandr “Alexander” Didenko, a 29-year-old Ukrainian national, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison fo…

North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S. Oleksandr Alexander Didenko, a 29-year-old Ukrainian national, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for support… [+4049 chars]

Why the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display is a Game Changer

  • Roland Hutchinson
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 12:00:13

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces a new privacy-focused display, setting a new standard for protecting sensitive information in public spaces. By incorporating hardware-based optical viewing angle control, this innovation ensures that only you can view …

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces a new privacy-focused display, setting a new standard for protecting sensitive information in public spaces. By incorporating hardware-based optical viewing an… [+5337 chars]

Will Microsoft ever stop messing with Notepad? Windows 11 app could soon get another feature — and I'm predicting a backlash

  • Darren Allan
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 11:55:18

Is Notepad getting too bloated these days? If you're of that opinion, you won't like what Microsoft has planned next.

<ul><li>Rumor has it that Notepad is getting a new feature</li><li>The Windows 11 app could enable users to embed images</li><li>That might be useful for some, but others will be concerned about how … [+3118 chars]

How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post

  • Charlotte Klein
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 10:00:06

Will Lewis arrived at the Washington Post with a lot of swagger and much goodwill. Two years later, the paper is in tatters. Charlotte Klein reports on how it all went so wrong.

When Will Lewisarrived at the Washington Post in January 2024, he was received as a potential redeemer. The Post had lost $77 million the previous year under Lewiss predecessor as publisher and CEO, … [+23746 chars]

Tomas Vondra: The AI inversion

  • None
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 10:00:00

If you attended FOSDEM 2026, you probably noticed discussions on how AI impacts FOSS, mostly in detrimental ways. Two of the three keynotes in Janson mentioned this, and I assume other speakers mentioned the topic too. Moreover, it was a very popular topic in…

If you attended FOSDEM 2026, you probably noticed discussions on how AI impacts FOSS, mostly in detrimental ways. Two of the three keynotes in Janson mentioned this, and I assume other speakers me… [+9787 chars]

FBI warns of surge in ATM Jackpotting, $20 Million lost in 2025

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 09:27:55

The FBI warns ATM jackpotting is rising nationwide, with over $20 million lost in 2025 and 1,900 incidents reported since 2020. The FBI has warned of a sharp rise in ATM jackpotting attacks across the U.S., with losses exceeding $20 million in 2025 alone. Sin…

FBI warns of surge in ATM Jackpotting, $20 Million lost in 2025 The FBI has warned of a sharp rise in ATM jackpotting attacks across the U.S., with losses exceeding $20 million in 2025 alone. Since … [+2252 chars]

Ukrainian gets 5 years for helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms

  • Sergiu Gatlan
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 09:00:15

A Ukrainian national was sentenced to five years in prison for providing North Korean IT workers with stolen identities that helped them infiltrate U.S. companies. [...]

A Ukrainian national was sentenced to five years in prison for providing North Korean IT workers with stolen identities that helped them infiltrate U.S. companies. 39-year-old Oleksandr Didenko of K… [+2977 chars]

Daily Tech News 20 February 2026

  • Pixy Misa
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 09:00:00

Top Story The US government is building a specifically VPN-enabled website to allow Euroserfs to access content banned by their fascist overlords. (Reuter) Radio Free Europe, part two. Only this time the Europeans aren't being oppressed by the Soviet Union,...

<li>PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime. (Bleeping Computer)Which is interesting, because it uses Google Gemini and that's not free. With a bit of counter-hac… [+3112 chars]

PromptSpy abuses Gemini AI to gain persistent access on Android

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 07:49:37

PromptSpy is the first Android malware to abuse Google’s Gemini AI, enabling persistence and advanced spying features. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered PromptSpy, the first known Android malware to exploit Google’s Gemini AI to maintain persistence…

PromptSpy abuses Gemini AI to gain persistent access on Android Security researchers at ESET have uncovered PromptSpy, the first known Android malware to exploit Googles Gemini AI to maintain persis… [+4526 chars]

frontier model training methodologies

  • foodbaby
  • Published date: 2026-02-20 05:47:01

How do labs train a frontier, multi-billion parameter model? We look towards seven open-weight frontier models: Hugging Face’s SmolLM3, Prime Intellect’s Intellect 3, Nous Research’s Hermes 4, OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b, Moonshot’s Kimi K2, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1,…

How do labs train a frontier, multi-billion parameter model? We look towards seven open-weight frontier models: Hugging Faces SmolLM3, Prime Intellects Intellect 3, Nous Researchs Hermes 4, OpenAIs g… [+110178 chars]