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Congress is moving to keep a digital dollar off the table, at least for now. A bipartisan deal on the twenty-first Century ROAD to Housing Act includes a provision banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency until twenty thirty, reviving a debate about government-controlled money in a digital age.
Shifting to open source hardware, System76 founder Carl Richell is thinking in decades, not quarters. The Colorado-based Linux PC maker is building a fully vertically integrated computing stack, from firmware to desktop environment, treating open source as a genuine engineering commitment rather than a branding exercise. Richell says liberating the full PC stack could take another fifteen years, but he seems entirely comfortable with that timeline.
And on the security front, researchers tracking exploitation of CVE-two thousand twenty six-four thousand twenty are finding something telling in the attack data. The vast majority of malicious traffic appears to originate from the same cluster of clients, suggesting a coordinated cloud-based operation rather than scattered opportunistic scanning. That kind of concentration makes attribution harder but remediation more focused.
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