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Kaspersky discovered a malware campaign targeting Steam users through infected wallpaper Hackers abusing the Steam Workshop and Wallpaper Engine application to distribute malware, hidden in animated desktop wallpapers https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/about/press-releases/kaspersky-discovered-a-malware-campaign-targeting-steam-users-through-infected-wallpaper

A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Hardware A robot functions as a continuous closed-loop system where the physical body, movement actuators, and data-gathering sensors work together to constantly minimize positional errors Using the open-source SO-101 robotic arm as a practical example, the guide highlights that precise mechanical design and accurate calibration are essential to bridge the gap between digital AI commands and physical reality https://interlatent.com/blog/interlatent-robotics-hardware-guide

Don't simply stick things into holes https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/19/microsoft-found-malware-that-hijacks-crypto-wallets-and-spreads-through-usb-sticks

I know it sounds like a fantasy from here but my chances of building a billion dollar robotics company is higher than making 1 million being in this stupid industry. There is a chance I end up building the Nvidia of Robotics for America. I’m going to keep this post up so I can look back in 2-3 years from now and laugh if we actually end up hitting a billion dollar valuation for the robotics company I will be a part of.

Before It Was Obvious Most founders quit prematurely after seeing crowded markets in AI, crypto, and tech, despite believing they could match successful founders like those behind Cursor Recurring pattern in companies like Cursor, Stripe, Figma, and Shopify: identifying early secular shifts, holding non-consensus beliefs about future customer behavior, and building for power users years before markets mature Practical advice includes deeply immersing in a space as a power user, targeting “hair on fire” problems with low switching-cost MVPs, prioritizing distribution alongside product, and persisting through early rejection to compound insights https://x.com/lmrankhan/status/2067718954705915993?s=12&t=2q9OLMlaobNlHLewOXT4uA

Saylor is in the money on STRC and its simpler than you think STRC is a coin-margined Bitcoin perp equivalent, where MicroStrategy uses its BTC holdings as collateral to maintain a leveraged long position on Bitcoin with predictable funding-like dividend payments Frames MSTR as a Bitcoin trading hedge fund that speculates via leverage, with STRC holders providing the funding; the recent STRC price drop below $100 reflects reduced demand from lower BTC prices and competing fixed-income opportunities, shifting supply-demand dynamics Soska recommends MSTR partially close its long by selling 30k-60k BTC and repurchasing STRC at a discount to lock in net gains, while capping future issuance, arguing this deleverages efficiently without needing unsustainable dividend hikes https://x.com/soskakyle/status/2067689367921979400?s=12&t=2q9OLMlaobNlHLewOXT4uA

Exclusive: Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/theodore-gillibrand-senator-kirstin-gillibrand-apec-american-perpetuals-exchange-corporation-lux-capital/

The Ascent: Own the Substrate — A Map to 2045 The Civilizational Shift to Automated Production • Human society is moving away from labor and energy-constrained economies toward an era of abundant intelligence, automated physical labor, and frontier expansion • This shift structurally decouples economic output from human labor, meaning future wealth will belong to those who own the underlying infrastructure and raw substrates rather than those who sell labor or hold paper currency The Resource Bottlenecks and the National Security Stack • The rapid scaling of these technologies will collide with massive physical constraints, including grid capacity, electricity delivery, and critical mineral supply chains • Because these bottlenecks are essential to national dominance, states will absorb and protect these industries as vital national security assets, creating a hybrid environment where governments de-risk the downside while commercial markets price the output https://theascent2045.substack.com/p/the-ascent

Why Don't Prediction Markets Pay You Sooner? https://predicted.beehiiv.com/p/why-don-t-prediction-markets-pay-you-sooner

The Art of Arbitrage Crypto companies bootstrap growth by exploiting gaps between user needs and traditional finance limits, then building self-reinforcing loops The hardest part is "graduating" to mainstream viability, which requires founders to become bilingual in crypto-native markets and institutional compliance - most fail by staying monolingual https://x.com/yuan_han_li/status/2067629212018635024?s=12&t=2q9OLMlaobNlHLewOXT4uA

Ethereum Foundation co-Exec Director Hsiao-Wei Wang steps down Follows other high-profile departures from EF such as Tomasz Stańczak and Tim Beiko https://firefly.social/post/x/2067612537550729327

AI’s TACO Trade Following the Trump administration's forced market removal of Anthropic's Fable model, the stock market has largely shrugged off the news because investors anticipate a "second-order TACO trade," betting the administration will ultimately back down to avoid crashing an economy heavily dependent on AI growth This dynamic creates a complex political bind where the rising economic cost of slowing down frontier AI development makes the industry increasingly "too big to fail," potentially paralyzing future bipartisan regulatory efforts https://freesystems.substack.com/p/ais-taco-trade

Emergent science and funding coordination Anagen is a decentralized biotech company that utilizes a global community to rapidly research, develop, and distribute novel hair loss treatments through its integrated telehealth platform By bypassing traditional institutional friction, the company has successfully deployed multiple reformulated therapeutics and established a proprietary follicle biobank to screen future targets at a fraction of standard industry costs https://www.compound.vc/writing/emergent-science-and-funding-coordination

How Global Digital Asset Markets Are Being Rebuilt The global digital asset market is shifting from asset classification disputes to strict, jurisdiction-specific rules governing issuance, custody, and transaction monitoring This evolving regulatory landscape is driving market concentration among well-capitalized institutions and dividing global liquidity between regulated onshore systems and offshore permissionless markets https://insights4vc.substack.com/p/how-global-digital-asset-markets

Keeping It Private - How Starknet is making crypto private for institutions Traditional institutions avoid operating directly on public blockchains because complete data transparency exposes their confidential financial strategies Starknet's STRK20 addresses this by letting existing tokens enter a shared privacy pool, balancing regulatory compliance with private on-chain execution https://www.decentralised.co/p/keeping-it-private