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Bitcoin crossed eighty thousand dollars for the first time since January, a milestone that turned heads across financial markets. What made it stranger is that Strategy, the sixty-five billion dollar treasury firm that's been one of crypto's most aggressive accumulators, sat this one out entirely — a rare pause that's left analysts wondering whether the timing was strategic or simply coincidental.
Meanwhile, a serious security warning is making the rounds for anyone running Linux. The flaw, nicknamed Copy Fail and tracked as CVE-twenty twenty six dash thirty one four three one, allows attackers to gain full root access on major distributions. What makes this particularly alarming is that a working exploit was released publicly before patches were ready, meaning unpatched systems are sitting exposed right now. CISA has flagged it as actively exploited.
And in the murkier corners of crypto politics, the Trump family's World Liberty project has filed a defamation lawsuit against Justin Sun, claiming he deliberately shorted their WLFI token and crashed its price. Sun had filed his own lawsuit against the firm just days earlier, alleging misconduct. It's a legal brawl that puts two of crypto's most controversial names directly at odds.
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