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Microsoft is off four percent in early trade, and the selloff looks like a buying opportunity to some on the street. Azure's cloud capacity constraints remain the core narrative here — demand is outpacing infrastructure buildout, which actually reinforces Microsoft's long-term AI positioning rather than undermining it. Patient money is stepping in.
Shifting to crypto, Ledger is dealing with a serious security breach that goes well beyond software. The hardware wallet maker has confirmed an unauthorized physical implant was discovered inside a device belonging to an affected customer. Independent investigators have tied the incident to roughly ninety-three point two million dollars in suspected cryptocurrency thefts, with an authorized Southeast Asian reseller now suspended pending review. This is a supply chain integrity problem, and it raises hard questions across the entire hardware wallet industry.
On the regulatory front, former acting CFTC chair Caroline Pham is making the case that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission holds broad jurisdiction over digital assets. Pham put it plainly — the agency can regulate nearly everything except, in her words, onions and box office receipts. She framed recent CFTC proposals as exactly the kind of retail protection the American crypto market needs, a signal that the regulatory perimeter around digital assets is still being drawn.
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