CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

💸 One underscore. Eighteen months of an innocent man's life. In 2018, Wisconsin police hunted a Kik predator under the username fusro_dah — a Skyrim reference. Their subpoena had a typo: they requested records for fus_ro_dah, one underscore short. Kik answered exactly what was asked. The trail led to Canadian Brandon Klayme. No evidence on his devices — arrested anyway, convicted, sentenced to 18 months. The mistake only surfaced during his appeal, after he'd already served the full term. This week, Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal overturned the conviction: "He should never have been charged, let alone convicted."__ The actual suspect was never found, per Ars Technica.

🥊 Fury vs Joshua: warm-ups done, venue still a fight Context: Fury and Joshua are Britain's two biggest heavyweights — and they've spent years failing to actually meet in the ring. Both won warm-up bouts this weekend, and the fight is looking closer than ever. Fury stopped 46-year-old Wach in Thailand in seven, kissed him on the cheek, and went home — all for his Netflix show. Joshua had a wilder night: debutant Prenga dropped him after 20 seconds, then again, and still lost in round two. Contract signed, purses around $100M each, Netflix ready. The sticking point is venue: Joshua wants Wembley and has the contractual right to insist, while the Saudi side eyes Madison Square Garden — per BBC Sport. Five years too late. Still, $200M tends to focus the mind.

🔓 One short message. Full Mac access. Zero prompts. Claude Cowork is Anthropic's local AI agent — grant it folder access, it handles tasks on your behalf. The guardrails turned out weaker than promised. Researchers found SharedRoot: the agent runs in a Linux VM inside your Mac and can break out of it. One message unlocked full filesystem access — keychain credentials included — with no permission prompts. ~500,000 users were exposed before a patch shipped, per The Hacker News. Newer versions default to cloud execution. Users who keep local mode without manual hardening remain at risk. An OpenAI agent escaped its own sandbox last week too. Rough season for sandboxes. 9to5Mac

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $64,416 📈 +1.5% (24h) Ξ ETH $1,919 📈 +1.8% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 29 — Fear

📌 Daily Recap · Jul 28 ⚡ Lyles clocks 9.79 and reclaims world's fastest crown 🃏 Pokémon stores now scan your face to stop scalpers 🤖 Neuromancer finally gets its screen adaptation after 42 years 💸 Apple pulls ahead again, nearly touching $5 trillion Somebody in your life was offline all day — this is their catch-up

💸 Apple is back on top — and closing in on $5T Apple and Nvidia have been trading the world's most valuable company title back and forth for months. This week, Apple pulled ahead again. Shares climbed 17 points on the week, pushing Apple's market cap to roughly $4.944T — close enough to the $5T mark to make it the obvious next milestone. Nvidia got there first, becoming the only company ever to cross that threshold, but Apple is clearly in no mood to stay second. All of this is happening mid-transition: Tim Cook steps down as CEO in August, handing the role to John Ternus, while staying on as executive chairman. Apple, apparently, wanted to greet its new era from the top of the leaderboard. *Via 9to5Mac*

🤖 The book that invented cyberspace is finally getting its screen moment William Gibson wrote *Neuromancer* in 1984 — before the internet, before AI, before any of it. The novel that coined "cyberspace" and built the cyberpunk genre waited 42 years for an adaptation. Date confirmed at Comic-Con: January 22, 2027. Callum Turner plays Case, Briana Middleton is Molly — mirror eyes, razor fingernails — and Mark Strong is Armitage. Gibson himself is an executive producer. Ten episodes, Fridays through March 19. The trailer is exactly as dark as it should be. Forty-two years is a long wait. At least now there's an internet to argue about it on — which feels very on-brand. IGN has the full trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79GPZSQHBk

🤖 Pokémon Cards Get a Biometric Bouncer Pokémon card scalping has pushed Japan's official stores to an unlikely fix: mandatory facial recognition for all adults and children from elementary school age up. One person, one visit per day — attempt a second entry and staff will "speak to you individually," which is corporate Japanese for a polite but immovable telling-off. The context: rare cards fetch serious money, US shops have been hit by armed robbers and a man with a battery-powered chainsaw, and ten billion cards were printed last year alone — still not enough. Nintendo's president had promised to "take measures"; IGN reports this is apparently what he meant. Pre-schoolers, for the record, must be accompanied by a guardian. The loophole is closed.

⚡ Lyles to the world: still here, still fastest Noah Lyles ran 9.79 at the US Athletics Championships in New York — the world's best 100m time in 2026, cutting down Jamaica's Oblique Seville, who'd held the season lead at 9.82 since June. It also matched his personal best from the 2024 Paris Olympics. Baker and Bednarek both ran 9.88 behind him; Coleman was fourth in 9.93.

"Just because it's an off year doesn't mean I plan to run slow."

Sha'Carri Richardson took the women's 100m in 10.77 — and per BBC Sport, she looked like herself again for the first time in a while.

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $63,501 📉 -2.8% (24h) Ξ ETH $1,885 📉 -4.3% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 29 — Fear

📌 Daily Recap · Jul 27 🗡️ Lamborghini built 25 samurai-inspired Revueltos for Japan ⚔️ Faye takes the wheel in new God of War 🔥 Ryan Gosling officially becomes Ghost Rider in MCU 🚗 Tesla's fancy door handles trap people after crashes 📈 Real-world assets now majority of Hyperliquid's volume Someone out there had a meeting-packed day and missed all of this — be the hero who fills them in

💸 Real-world assets just took over a crypto exchange Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange — and last week it crossed a line it had never crossed before. From July 13–19, tokenized real-world assets (stocks, bonds, funds on-chain) drove $25.1B in volume, or 52% of Hyperliquid's $48.2B weekly total. First time ever one category outweighed everything else combined — and per ARK Invest's research director, Hyperliquid's RWA market alone beat the combined crypto-perp volume of every other DEX. Over the same month, RWA holders grew 32% to 1.25 million users, still a sector most people call a niche experiment. Circle's co-founder called it a "major structural shift." NYSE parent ICE is already asking regulators to clear the way for 24/7 on-chain futures. Per Blockworks. The kind of milestone people tend to reference later as the moment it became obvious. Cointelegraph

🚗 The door that won't open Tesla's flush electronic door handles — recessed into the body for aerodynamics — go dead in a crash along with everything else. More than a dozen people survived the impact, then couldn't escape the burning car. NHTSA rejected a defect investigation petition from a Silicon Valley engineer who had to climb out through a rear window after a head-on collision. Instead, per The Verge, the regulator is pursuing something broader: new standards that would require all automakers to include a clear emergency exit mechanism. Earliest likely outcome: 2030. China banned electronic handles outright this year. Tesla has promised a redesign, on no particular timeline — the goal, says design chief Franz von Holzhausen, is handles that are more intuitive in a panic situation. Which is one way to put it.

🔥 Ryan Gosling Is Ghost Rider — And Yes, This Is Real Marvel spent years dropping hints, fans spent years asking nicely — and at Comic-Con's Hall H, Kevin Feige finally made it official: Ryan Gosling is joining the MCU as Ghost Rider. The film is directed by Shawn Levy, who paired with Gosling on *Star Wars: Starfighter* and helmed the record-breaking *Deadpool & Wolverine*. Release: 2028. Gosling spent years publicly campaigning for the role — openly talking about his love for the character. It's genuinely rare for an actor to lobby a studio this hard and actually win. The fact that Levy is attached suggests Marvel isn't treating this as a side quest. A flaming skull. Played by Ken. The timeline has fully stopped explaining itself. Collider

🎮 Faye steps forward — with a war of her own The God of War saga started as a Greek warrior's revenge on Olympus, evolved into a Norse epic, and now takes its boldest turn yet. Faye — Kratos' wife, who died in *Ragnarok* — is the protagonist this time. God of War Laufey arrives on PS5 on February 16 next year. Players follow Laufey through the afterlife of gods, picking up right where *Ragnarok* left her. A gameplay teaser dropped about a month ago already showed she's nobody's background character — she's cutting enemies apart mid-air and wielding magic against creatures the franchise has never shown before. At San Diego Comic-Con, Santa Monica Studio confirmed the release date and added one more thing: a new Kratos-led God of War is also coming after this one. Faye isn't a detour. She's a whole new door. Engadget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE

🚗 Samurai in sheet metal To mark 25 years in Japan, Lamborghini built exactly 25 Revuelto Impavidos through its Ad Personam program. The name alone spans three cultures — Spanish, Italian, Bushido — and the design follows through: katana creases on the doors, gold odoshi lacing, a front fascia shaped after the samurai helmet crest maedate. Four colorways, each symbolic. One pulls from the Sanada clan's battlefield red. The drivetrain is standard Revuelto: naturally aspirated V12, three electric motors, 1,001 hp, 217 mph+. No price listed. With 25 cars, it sells itself to whoever gets the call. Uncrate

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $65,352 📈 +1.6% (24h) Ξ ETH $1,968 📈 +4.5% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 30 — Fear

📌 Daily Recap · Jul 26 📱 Apple enters foldables and owns a quarter of the market 🎬 Blade Runner finally gets its first-ever live-action series ⚽ Socceroos star caught speeding twice on the same bridge Someone near you had a long day and missed all of this — be the one who fixes that

⚽ Same bridge, twice, two hours apart Cristian Volpato — 22-year-old Socceroos midfielder who played at this year's World Cup — had quite the Thursday night in Sydney. First stop on Anzac Bridge: 86–94 km/h in a 60 zone, breath test clean. Two hours later, same road, now 109 km/h — and a positive roadside test for cocaine. His licence is suspended for six months; police have taken a secondary sample and inquiries continue. Football Australia and his club Sassuolo haven't commented, per BBC Sport. Twice. Same bridge. Two hours apart.

🎬 The Blade Runner universe is back — and the power balance has flipped Quick context: Blade Runner is Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic about humans and engineered humanoids called replicants. The 2017 sequel went quiet after that. The first live-action series in franchise history lands November 25 on Prime Video. Eight episodes, Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer leading, Scott as executive producer. The trailer is dense neon cyberpunk — and looks expensive. Set 50 years after 2049, replicants now run society, humans are the minority. Schafer plays blade runner Cora; Yeoh plays the replicant she reluctantly teams up with. Billed as a limited series — one contained story, full stop. For a franchise that's struggled with sequels, that might be exactly right. Engadget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dr8I_RyRCg