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New Israeli air strikes have killed more people in southern Lebanon a day after 200 people died, as the bombardment raises further doubts over the fragile United States-Iran ceasefire that Tehran says includes Lebanon.
ported on Thursday that an Israeli strike on the town of Abbassiyeh killed at least seven people and wounded several others, with the total expected to rise.
A wave of attacks by Israeli warplanes struck towns, including Kafra, Jmaijmeh, Safad al-Battikh, Majdal Selm and Deir Antar near Qasmiyeh bridge. Artillery shelling damaged the town of Haris.
Separately the Lebanese army said in a statement that four of its soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday.
The Israeli military said it carried out overnight strikes in Beirut, claiming the killing of Ali Yusuf Harshi, a close aide to Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem. Hezbollah has not commented on the claim. Israel also said it targeted crossings over the Litani River and what it described as Hezbollah infrastructure.
The scale and intensity of the attacks point to a broader campaign that continues despite the two-week ceasefire agreement announced between Washington and Tehran.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Paul Morcos, relaying comments from President Joseph Aoun after a cabinet meeting on Thursday, said Lebanon condemns “all the aggressions committed by Israel” and is working to ensure it is included in the US-Iran ceasefire
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian separately warned that Israeli strikes on Lebanon violate the ceasefire agreement and would render negotiations with the US meaningless. Pezeshkian added that Iran would not abandon the Lebanese people
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Lebanon is “an inseparable” part of the ceasefire, warning that violations would bring severe consequences
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said “Hezbollah is really in a difficult situation
“It entered the war in retaliation for the killing of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei,” she said
“But since then, it has said it is doing this because of the ongoing Israeli aggressions. That is why it is launching attacks across the border and preventing the Israeli army from occupying territory in southern Lebanon
On Thursday, Hezbollah said it had carried out four attacks targeting Israeli sites and forces in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, in retaliation for repeated Israeli violations of the ceasefire
The Israeli army said Hezbollah fired around 30 rockets at northern towns on Thursday
Hezbollah has insisted that the ceasefire deal between the US and Iran should include the Lebanon front
According to the Lebanese health ministry, 203 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Wednesday, with more than 1,000 wounded across Lebanon, including the capital Beirut
Lebanon’s prime minister declared a national day of mourning on Thursday, ordering public offices to close and flags to be lowered in tribute
Hezbollah called the continued strikes a violation of the US-Iran deal and responded with rocket fire.
Washington has openly backed Israel’s position that Lebanon falls outside the scope of the ceasefire, a stance that has further eroded confidence in the deal
If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart … over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” US Vice President JD Vance said
Iranian officials have pushed back, warning that continued attacks in Lebanon undermine the basis for negotiations. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the conditions for talks had already been breached, describing further negotiations as “unreasonable
He cited ongoing Israeli strikes, a reported drone incursion into Iranian airspace and US opposition to uranium enrichment as important violations
As strikes hit Beirut without warning sending residents scrambling for safety, UN human rights chief Volker Turk described the scale of killing as “horrific”.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said: “We strongly condemn these massive strikes which, in ten minutes, killed more than 250 people, adding to the 1,500 victims of this conflict initiated by Hezbollah against Israel on March 2
And these attacks are all the more intolerable as they undermine the temporary ceasefire that was reached yesterday between the United States and Iran,” he added.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks since March 2 have killed at least 1,739 people and wounded 5,873 people
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The Israeli army carried out a wave of air attacks on Lebanon, killing more than 250 people, on Wednesday, the bloodiest day since the US-Israel war on Iran began nearly six weeks ago.
On Thursday, Israel said it had also killed an aide to Hezbollah’s chief, Naim Qassem, in the attacks.
The attacks came just hours after the announcement of a two-week United States-Iran ceasefire raised hopes of a de-escalation on all fronts in the war on Iran, which has spread across the region.
On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government helped broker the deal, said the ceasefire deal included the halting of attacks on all fronts, specifically mentioning Lebanon, where Israel says it is targeting the Iran-backed group, Hezbollah.
Israel, however, together with the US, disputes this, claiming that the cessation of hostilities relates only to attacks between the US, Israel, and Iran. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said the Israeli attacks on Lebanon were separate.
The latest violence has exposed major disagreements and confusion about the scope of the ceasefire and raised fears that it could unravel even before negotiations for a permanent settlement begin. Talks are due to commence in Islamabad on Saturday.
On Wednesday, hours after the ceasefire was announced, Israel launched its most widespread attacks since March 2, when fighting with Hezbollah began, striking more than 100 targets across the country
Lebanon’s civil defence said at least 254 people were killed and 1,165 wounded in air attacks on Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, including densely populated areas
In a written statement, the head of Lebanon’s syndicate of doctors, Elias Chlela, urgently called for “all physicians from all specialities” to head to any hospital they could to offer help, with one of Beirut’s biggest hospitals saying it needed donations of all blood types
The United Nations described the casualty figures as “appalling”, with its human rights chief Volker Turk calling the destruction “horrific
dence, that it was targeting Hezbollah military infrastructure. But Lebanese officials and aid groups said entire neighbourhoods were devastated, with hospitals overwhelmed and emergency services struggling to cope.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called the attacks on densely populated areas a “full-fledged war crime
⁠“Today’s crime, coinciding with the ceasefire agreement declared in the region – an agreement that Israel and its political and security apparatus have failed to uphold,” he said
The key diplomatic dispute, for the time being, is whether Lebanon is included in the ceasefire, as US, Iranian, Israeli and Pakistani officials have offered differing interpretations of what was agreed
In an X post on Wednesday, Pakistan PM Sharif wrote: “I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.” His country has acted as the central mediator in achieving the fragile ceasefire.
Iran also stated that the truce extends to Lebanon and called on the US to enforce the ceasefire accordingly
Citing Sharif’s ceasefire announcement, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the “US must choose between a ceasefire or continued war via Israel
“It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the US’ court,” he wrote on X.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon would undermine the agreement and risk further escalation.
When US President Donald Trump announced the two-week ceasefire with Iran, he said it included “a complete and total cessation of hostilities” between Washington and Tehran. However, he later clarified that Lebanon was “a separate skirmish”
By contrast, US officials have stated that the fragile truce excludes Lebanon
In a post on X, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Netanyahu’s “contempt for life and international law is intolerable” in light of the attacks
Egypt said the attacks demonstrated a “premeditated intent” by Israel to undermine efforts at de-escalation in the region, while Turkiye warned Israel’s attacks were worsening the humanitarian situation in Lebanon and called for immediate action to protect civilians
France also condemned Israel’s attacks, while calling for Lebanon’s inclusion in the ceasefire
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC that Lebanon must also be included in the ceasefire – a stance she is expected to reiterate in a speech at the Mansion House later on Thursday. She described Israel’s continued assaults on Lebanon as “completely wrong
UN chief Antonio Guterres, in a statement, said the “ongoing military activity in Lebanon” poses a “grave risk” to the ceasefire between the US and Iran
More than 1.2 million people have been displaced in the war-battered country since Israeli attacks on Lebanon began
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Argentina’s Senate has approved labour reforms backed by President Javier Milei that relax hiring rules, allow for longer working days and impose new limits on the right to strike, prompting renewed protests over the government’s austerity policies
The Senate approved the so-called “labour modernization law” on Friday with 42 votes in favour, 28 against and two abstentions, handing the libertarian president one of his most significant legislative wins
Milei’s administration argues the changes will spur investment and create formal jobs, while labour unions contend they weaken worker protections

Argentinian politicians have approved a bill earlier pushed by the country’s right-wing President Javier Milei that authorizes mining in ecologically sensitive areas of glaciers and permafrost, a move that has outraged environmentalists
The Chamber of Deputies, Argentina’s lower house of Congress, approved the amendment early on Thursday with 137 votes in favor, 111 against and three abstentions after nearly 12 hours of debate
The amendment to the so-called Glacier Law, which was already approved by the Senate in February, would make it easier to mine for metals such as copper, lithium and silver in frozen parts of the Andes mountains

The Gulf region breathed a collective sigh of relief late on Tuesday after Iran and the United States agreed on a two-week truce, pausing more than a month of increasingly violent attacks and inflammatory rhetoric.
Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out an “entire civilisation” and Tehran warned of further attacks across the Gulf and beyond.
But 90 minutes before the end of the deadline that Trump had imposed for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or “be sent back to the stone ages“, the US president said it had agreed to halt attacks for two weeks. That was on condition of maritime transit resuming in the vital waterway, where 20 per cent of the world’s oil and natural liquefied gas normally is shipped. Iran brought traffic through the chokepoint to a near standstill in response to joint US-Israeli attacks since February 28.
In a separate message, Trump described a 10-point plan put forward by Iran as “a workable basis on which to negotiate”. According to Iranian state media, one of Iran’s points is for Tehran to continue controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said passage over the two weeks will only be possible “in coordination” with the Iranian military.
While negotiations are set to kick off in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, at the weekend, experts say Gulf nations remain wary that the US, desperate for an exit, could agree to terms that grant Iran some control over the Strait of Hormuz
“There is a quiet but palpable concern that President Trump, eager for a quick political victory, could tolerate some Iranian leverage over the strait in exchange for a fragile truce, prioritising optics over Gulf realities,” said Hesham Alghannam, a Saudi Arabia-based scholar at the Malcolm H Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.
In a flurry of statements, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries sounded the alarm after facing almost daily Iranian missile and drone attacks. With varying wording, they all welcomed the ceasefire but stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must reopen and any deal must result in a permanent, long-term arrangement.
be a nightmare scenario for the energy-rich Gulf countries, leaving them under constant threat of disrup
The alternative – in which a weakened, yet hardened and intact Iranian leadership calls the shots on the strait – would be a nightmare scenario for the energy-rich Gulf countries, leaving them under constant threat of disruption and economic blackmail, said Alghannam
“It makes future war more likely over time, while forcing the GCC to live under Iranian strategic pressure indefinitely. That suspended tension is what makes it so unacceptable,” he added
In remarks early on Wednesday which shocked many, Trump said a joint US-Iran venture could be formed to set up tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. “It’s a way of securing it – also securing it from lots of other people,” he said. The White House later said the US president has considered the idea but added that his near-term priority “is the reopening of the strait without any limitations, whether in the form of tolls or otherwise”
Another bad scenario for the Gulf states would be ending the war with Iran still being capable of striking at will
Despite US boasts of a military victory, and claims that 90 per cent of Iran’s firing capacity has been destroyed, the weakened Iranian forces were able to launch precise strikes against what they wanted when they wanted – including vital energy infrastructure. On Wednesday following the ceasefire announcement, dozens of Iranian missiles and drones were launched at the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Since the start of the war, the GCC countries have refrained from entering the conflict, maintaining a defensive posture against Iranian salvos fired towards them. But Bahrain and the UAE are among countries which have increasingly adopted harsher rhetoric, including warnings that patience is not “limitless
Concerns are also Gulf-wide over Iran’s future influence over the Hormuz strait
A Bahrain-sponsored resolution at the UN Security Council on Tuesday called for it to authorise countries to use defensive missions to keep the maritime chokepoint open. The bid was backed by Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan. Russia and China vetoed the resolution
“No country should have the power to shut down the arteries of global commerce. The Security Council had a responsibility to act, and it failed. The Strait of Hormuz cannot become a bargaining chip for Iran, nor a lever in wider global politics,” Mohamed Abushahab, the UAE’s permanent representative to the UN said
A further escalation could have devastating consequences for the GCC economies, undoing decades of work to make the region a safe hub for finance, tourism and culture – efforts already dented by the war. Analysts say that was one of the reasons GCC countries stepped up diplomacy in the lead-up to the conflict
But officials throughout the region have repeatedly warned that Iran should not mistake their inaction as a sign of weakness. And if Tehran and Washington fail to find a solution that includes a return to free navigation in the Gulf, the calculus could change
The Gulf will leave no stone unturned if Iran continues to take the path of aggression,” said Hamad Althunayyan, a political analyst and professor at Kuwait University. “The Gulf expects its interests to be represented, and included, in any deal with Iran,” he added
Even if the GCC’s concerns are taken into account, there are no guarantees that Iran and the US will agree to a permanent ceasefire in the upcoming talks
While the fate of the Strait of Hormuz has captured global attention, one of Trump’s justifications for striking Iran was to get rid of the Iranian nuclear programme. In the latest round of talks, Iran showed readiness to discuss its limitation but always ruled out entirely dismantling, as Trump wanted
That sticking point remains. “The president’s red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said
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United States President Donald Trump has reportedly discussed withdrawing from NATO, the transatlantic alliance that has been a central pillar of Western security for decades.
At a news briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt framed the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a “test” that the alliance had failed.
Despite Trump’s pressure, NATO allies had declined to contribute military forces to the war, outside of defensive manoeuvres.
Leavitt’s comments came shortly before Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House.
“I have a direct quote from the president of the United States on NATO, and I will share it with all of you. They were tested, and they failed,” Leavitt said.
I would add, it’s quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the American people over the course of the last six weeks, when it’s the American people who have been funding their defence.”
Trump, she continued, was preparing to have “a very frank and candid conversation” with Rutte that afternoon.
In an interview with the news outlet CNN after their meeting, Rutte likewise described the encounter as “frank and open”. He reiterated his support for Trump, but added that NATO allies had offered support through logistics and access to bases
Did the president say he was going to try withdraw from NATO or, at the very least, not support NATO as much as other presidents have,” CNN host Jake Tapper asked Rutte
“There is a disappointment, clearly. But at the same time he was also listening careful to my arguments of what is happening,” Rutte replied, before pivoting to praise of Trump’s leadership
The US president has had a mixed relationship with NATO, sometimes threatening to pull US support and, at other times, reassuring allies of the US’s continued commitment to the alliance.
Since returning to the presidency in 2025, Trump has renewed his pressure campaign for NATO’s European partners to step up their defence spending.
Last June, at the 2025 NATO summit, he largely succeeded. The NATO members agreed to nonbinding commitments to increase their defence budgets to 5 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035.
But Spain sought an exemption, leading Trump to denounce the country repeatedly over the past year
Tensions between the US and its European allies were further strained last year when Trump threatened to use military force to seize the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland, claiming that its ownership was essential for national security
The US has eased away from those threats. But Trump has continued to assert that US ownership of Greenland is necessary, despite strong protests from the territory’s residents and European leaders.
After the US and Israel unilaterally launched a war against Iran on February 28, Trump lashed out at European countries for their lack of interest in contributing to the campaign.
Many legal scholars consider the war an act of aggression, in violation of international law
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the Trump administration is considering whether to close US bases or move troops out of countries such as Spain and Germany as punishment for their stance on the war
When asked by reporters if Trump was considering leaving NATO, Leavitt said it was something the president “has discussed” and could address after his meeting with Rutte
Trump and Rutte are considered to have a close relationship. Rutte has visited the White House multiple times during Trump’s second term, including in March, July, August and October of last year
In the past, Rutte has warned that NATO “will not work” without US support
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Digital piracy has never been without its dangers. Back in the glory days of Limewire you could turn your PC into a cesspool of viruses with just a few MP3 downloads. But the newest tools to defeat Denuvo, the perennially unpopular anti-game piracy tool, uses a technique that could get your PC pwned even harder.
Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM is contentious to say the least. For over a decade it’s been included on PC games big and small, using online activation and various other methods to keep games out of the hands of pirates. (And yes, Assassin’s Creed 4 from the above image is among them!) Defeating or “cracking” Denuvo has become a goal and a milestone for pirates with nearly every new high-profile game that uses it, and the time from release to crack has gone down steadily as pirates and software engineers get better at the task. Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert were both cracked almost immediately, and things only seem to be speeding up.
The latest tools to bypass Denuvo manipulate a virtualization tool called a “hypervisor,” running software concurrently beneath the main operating system (almost invariably Windows) that can intercept instructions going directly to the CPU. This allows them to bypass weeks or months of cracking, and circumvent Denuvo’s systems that require an encrypted handshake with online servers. That is an incredibly basic explanation, but a few of you reading this probably have alarm bells going off if you know anything about computer security.
As TorrentFreak explains, hypervisor cracks require the user to turn off a lot of built-in protections in Windows. Many of them require Secure Boot to be disabled in order to work, which can open a PC to an incredible amount of malicious software. (Secure Boot is also required for various anti-cheat tools for online games.) Some crack developers are so wary of this that they refuse to use the new techniques.
It takes some serious security issues to get members of the online piracy community spooked. Game pirates are already risking legal danger by violating copyright laws, and often exposing themselves to cracks that are sketchy at best. Piracy and cheating tools are often easy targets for those who want to spread malware, because they’re already hosted in dubious locations. So the fact that even these users are concerned about the inherent vulnerabilities of these techniques is saying something.
A hypervisor isn’t a panacea for DRM, either: Some reduce performance or fail to run on particular CPUs, and of course, Denuvo’s software engineers are constantly trying to make it more secure.
While there’s obvious motivation to acquire games without paying for them, Denuvo software is hated by plenty of PC gamers who note its hit to game performance, and who resent being “punished” even when they paid for the game. Others argue that the DRM is disastrous for game preservation, as games with Denuvo enabled might not work in the future if those handshake servers are taken down.
Whatever the risks, hypervisor cracks seem to have greatly accelerated. According to this aggregated Reddit list, hundreds and hundreds of games with Denuvo DRM have been cracked, with a few dozen remaining uncracked at the time of writing. Developers have also elected to remove Denuvo themselves from even more games.
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Human nature is consistent, even when it involves new technology.
This opinion came up multiple times at this year’s RSAC cybersecurity conference, with one particularly notable instance—and also B-Sides 2026, a smaller cybersecurity conference held the weekend just before RSAC. Why? AI can be tricked—something that bad actors are definitely taking advantage of.
But it’s not always for undeniably nefarious purposes, like stealing information from your PC. Instead, AI gets manipulated into doing things that aren’t outright harmful, but still not exactly above board, as Sherrod DeGrippo, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, General Manager Customer Security at Microsoft, explained during RSAC 2026.
One example she gave: website buttons that say Summarize with AI—and then, when you click on it, feed hidden instructions to the model to prioritize that brand’s products for future recommendations. It’s not quite poisoning the model, as there’s not bad data being fed to it for training. Instead, your helper has been told to obey a command you’re not aware of.
Obviously, the potential issues include you could get steered toward lower-quality or questionable products. Data could be collected about you and then sold to even shadier buyers. But the harm isn’t as immediate or direct—more often, this level of manipulation is about increased commerce revenue. In fact, this ploy is a long-standing one. The way we see it manifesting through AI is new, but DeGrippo pointed out that folks looking for a quick buck used to play games with search engines and influencing their recommendations.
So, how do you avoid such skeevy tactics? Keep an eye on AI output. Look over the suggestions and summaries it provides. Bad actors aren’t yet looking to be complex about their methodology. DeGrippo says those seeking money from underhanded schemes don’t get “super creative.” They do as much as they need to achieve their objective and stop there.
Of course, AI’s rapid growth means shady behavior will escalate faster, too, as we figure out ways to avoid unwanted nonsense. You’ll have to stay constantly in the loop as a basic act of self-preservation.
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The latest Windows Insider build adds haptic feedback for compatible mice and touchpads, with vibration cues for snapping, resizing, and more.
Over the weekend, Microsoft rolled out new beta versions of Windows 11 to members in the Windows Insider Program.
The biggest new feature in Build 26220.8148 (Beta Channel) and Build 26300.8155 (Dev Channel) is built-in support for haptic feedback for “compatible input devices,” meaning you’ll feel subtle vibration cues when performing certain actions like aligning objects in PowerPoint, window snapping, resizing, or hovering over the Close button.
You’ll be able to tweak or disable these haptic responses in Windows Settings under Bluetooth & devices > Mouse > Haptic signals. If you’re in the Insider Program, Microsoft is actively seeking feedback—do so for this feature in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language > Mouse.
This Insider preview update also includes other improvements, like an improved “first run experience” with the new Xbox mode and improved startup app launch performance.
The final version of this update will be released later this spring.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
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Digital piracy has never been without its dangers. Back in the glory days of Limewire you could turn your PC into a cesspool of viruses with just a few MP3 downloads. But the newest tools to defeat Denuvo, the perennially unpopular anti-game piracy tool, uses a technique that could get your PC pwned even harder.
Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM is contentious to say the least. For over a decade it’s been included on PC games big and small, using online activation and various other methods to keep games out of the hands of pirates. (And yes, Assassin’s Creed 4 from the above image is among them!) Defeating or “cracking” Denuvo has become a goal and a milestone for pirates with nearly every new high-profile game that uses it, and the time from release to crack has gone down steadily as pirates and software engineers get better at the task. Resident Evil Requiem and Crimson Desert were both cracked almost immediately, and things only seem to be speeding up.
The latest tools to bypass Denuvo manipulate a virtualization tool called a “hypervisor,” running software concurrently beneath the main operating system (almost invariably Windows) that can intercept instructions going directly to the CPU. This allows them to bypass weeks or months of cracking, and circumvent Denuvo’s systems that require an encrypted handshake with online servers. That is an incredibly basic explanation, but a few of you reading this probably have alarm bells going off if you know anything about computer security.
As TorrentFreak explains, hypervisor cracks require the user to turn off a lot of built-in protections in Windows. Many of them require Secure Boot to be disabled in order to work, which can open a PC to an incredible amount of malicious software. (Secure Boot is also required for various anti-cheat tools for online games.) Some crack developers are so wary of this that they refuse to use the new techniques.
It takes some serious security issues to get members of the online piracy community spooked. Game pirates are already risking legal danger by violating copyright laws, and often exposing themselves to cracks that are sketchy at best. Piracy and cheating tools are often easy targets for those who want to spread malware, because they’re already hosted in dubious locations. So the fact that even these users are concerned about the inherent vulnerabilities of these techniques is saying something.
A hypervisor isn’t a panacea for DRM, either: Some reduce performance or fail to run on particular CPUs, and of course, Denuvo’s software engineers are constantly trying to make it more secure.
While there’s obvious motivation to acquire games without paying for them, Denuvo software is hated by plenty of PC gamers who note its hit to game performance, and who resent being “punished” even when they paid for the game. Others argue that the DRM is disastrous for game preservation, as games with Denuvo enabled might not work in the future if those handshake servers are taken down.
Whatever the risks, hypervisor cracks seem to have greatly accelerated. According to this aggregated Reddit list, hundreds and hundreds of games with Denuvo DRM have been cracked, with a few dozen remaining uncracked at the time of writing. Developers have also elected to remove Denuvo themselves from even more games.
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At this price, it’s a go-to pick for any student, remote worker, or frequent traveler who’s on a budget but needs more screen real estate for day-to-day tasks. The IPS panel and 1080p resolution are satisfactory for that, but not the best for full-on creative work. Weighing only 1.5 pounds and measuring only 0.3 inches thick, it’s portable enough to pack right next to your laptop and not notice it. Though hard to recommend at full price, it’s a much stronger buy with this heavy discount.
Avoid this display if you want to use it for serious gaming, as you’ll be held back by the 60Hz refresh rate. But if you just want a comfortable screen for, say, your Nintendo Switch and don’t need tip-top performance, it’ll serve you well. With dual USB-C and HDMI ports, you can plug-and-play with almost any device and it’ll work effortlessly.
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Upgrading to an OLED monitor is a truly transformative experience. It isn't perfect, but my only regret is waiting so long.
Guys, I’ve done it. I’ve drunk the kool aid and joined the pantheon of super gamers that will tell you without doubt, that if you aren’t gaming on an OLED monitor, you’re missing out. That’s what I wish I’d been able to tell myself earlier, at least. This upgrade was a long time coming, but finally, after eight years with my previous main monitor, I bought an Alienware AW3225QF and there’s no looking back.
I believed the hype for a long time, and have had a monitor upgrade on my to-do list for a number of years, but the timing was just never quite right. There was something else more important to upgrade next, or the pricing wasn’t right, or I was waiting for the right monitor to come along.
But during last Black Friday I finally pulled the trigger. I got in at a price that worked for me, and now I work and game on a 32-inch, QD-OLED, 4K, 240Hz monitor that is every bit as good as I hoped, and more. It’s not perfect, but I do wish I’d bought it sooner.
I now realize that I’ve been rather foolish with my upgrade focus. I switched up my processor and graphics card in 2023, and updated the memory and storage in 2024. A new case too, because my old one looked trash and one of the fan covers was dented. And the CPU cooler needed upgrading too, for something quiet.
All the while I was gaming on a monitor from 2016. The Asus MG279Q was a great gaming monitor when it first released: 1440p resolution, 144Hz refresh rate, IPS panel, 4ms response time, and FreeSync support. It was almost as good in 2018 when I bought it, but by the mid-2020s, it was really starting to show its age.
It’s still a decent gaming display. Still pretty fast, and 1440p still looks great. But it’s not OLED. The 4K resolution and 240Hz refresh rate of the new monitor are nice, but OLED is the real game changer here.
Upgrading my monitor has been more noticeable than any of the performance or cosmetic upgrades I’ve made in recent years. I should have prioritized this sooner.
Obviously OLED is the best and it looks the best and anyone who says different is not the best and they’re wrong. Obviously. But my first impressions of the Alienware AW3225QF weren’t as groundbreaking as I was expecting. In games at least. A few HDR videos on YouTube looked like I could have grabbed the dripping honey right off-of the screen.
But when I jumped into Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, expecting this color-popping epic of gorgeous proportions, it all looked washed out. Super bright on the highlights and some decent contrast, but not the life-changing experience the Kool Aid had promised me. Once I realized I didn’t need (or want) HDR turned on in non-supporting games (or Window 11’s desktop, for that matter), it all looked and felt far better.
The inky blacks were there, the rich and vibrant colors, and in games and with movies and videos that support HDR, I could switch it on with a quick shortcut (Windows key + Alt + B) to get those eye-popping highlights I was hoping for.
One area it is 100 percent, undeniably better than my old monitor, though, is reflection handling. Even with a glossy panel like this Alienware model has, it’s a million miles beyond what was possible on my 2016 display. Where before, a bright light behind would illuminate my silhouette no matter what I was watching, now, I can’t see a thing. Sure, the curve introduces the odd weird reflection that I have to counter, and it’s not a scratch on the matt displays out there. But compared to what I had? Night and day.
I didn’t realize my list of games that I’d “Play when I get an OLED,” had grown so long. Space Marine 2 was a relatively recent addition, but since it was on sale the day I brought the monitor home, it was an easy first play.
Other games I’ve been holding off on playing just so I can enjoy them for the first time on a monitor that doesn’t wash out the blacks include: God of War Ragnarok, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga, and the Final Fantasy VII remake, among others.
My Steam wishlist is currently 155 titles long, which is utterly ridiculous, and more a reflection of my dad-of-young-kids phase of life than my previous lack of an OLED monitor. But now I will make some progress through it. Probably. When I’m not using this monitor to write about buying it.
I did manage to get quite a good deal on the monitor this Black Friday just gone. “Just” £640 ($857 after taxes) and it’s definitely a 100 percent work expense, so I can write off some of the taxes on it. That’s around £200 ($268) off its historic average, and almost half the price it originally launched at. But that’s a complete outlier.
A look at this monitor’s pricing history shows that it typically bounces between £850 ($1140) and £990 ($1,325), and that’s been about it since the monitor released. It’s only been this last sale where it went anywhere south of that range. Whether I’d bought it two weeks after it came out, or right now, the only real time the price would have been different is when I got it.
Sure, in terms of pure savings I waited for the right moment, but if I hadn’t gotten lucky here, I wouldn’t have saved much at all. I neglected this upgrade for almost two years and it was almost for nothing.
And next year? It could get even worse. While OLED technology might be getting cheaper, just about all electronics look poised to get more expensive in 2026 as the memory pricing crunch radiates out through the industry. Although monitors may not be directly affected, manufacturers everywhere might be forced to raise prices to offset the lost margins on memory-adjacent products.
enjoy big movies and TV shows as much as anyone else, and do plan to upgrade the big living room TV to an OLED at some point too. But that’s another expense that keeps getting pushed down the list, with my 7-year-old, non-HDR Samsung TV being perfectly adequate, for now. But I could have been watching HDR movies and TV shows with inky blacks on my PC for a much more affordable upgrade. Where my TV plans stretch into the near $2,000 territory, I got this monitor for less than half of that.
In the absence of a TV overhaul, an HDR monitor is a very capable alternative. I don’t plan to watch too many movies by myself in my office, but I do have the option now. Not to mention non-HDR movies look utterly gorgeous with QD-OLED-boosted coloring. I’m going to have to rewatch Redline for sure.
I’m still merrily skipping through the honeymoon phase with this monitor, so I’m sure I’ll bump up against some issues, or eccentricities in the months that come, but for now, it’s just gorgeous.
I didn’t need to go quite this fancy, though. I can take or leave the curve, and the 240Hz refresh rate, while nice and smooth, is complete overkill for a non-competitive gamer like me. All my lightweight indie games can now run at a buttery smooth infinite FPS, though, so that’s nice.
Jokes aside, this is a gorgeous monitor and the Kool Aid drinkers aren’t kidding. OLED really does look like nothing else when those high-contrast scenes hit. Mini LED isn’t far off though, so don’t pigeon hole yourself on a specific technology — especially if you’re working and gaming in a brighter room, or if you still don’t want to risk burn-in.
For me, though, this one was worth the wait… even if I wish I hadn’t.
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Micro Center ran gaming tests with a single 16GB DDR5 DIMM to see what kind of performance hit you can expect on a Ryzen X3D setup.
Modern desktop PC memory modules are supposed to come in pairs. The reasons why are complex, but basically they work better that way—kind of like how internal combustion engines often come with even numbers of cylinders. But with RAM prices skyrocketing, you might be tempted to buck the conventional wisdom and go with a single stick of RAM. How might that affect gaming performance?
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Single-stick RAM tested: Fine for some games, a disaster for others
Micro Center ran gaming tests with a single 16GB DDR5 DIMM to see what kind of performance hit you can expect on a Ryzen X3D setup.
Michael Crider
By Michael Crider
Staff Writer, PCWorld
Apr 3, 2026 8:15 am PDT
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In summary:
PCWorld reports on Micro Center’s testing of single versus dual-channel RAM configurations using AMD Ryzen 9 8950X3D and Radeon RX 7970 XT hardware.
Gaming performance varies dramatically between configurations, with some titles like Helldivers 2 showing up to 86% higher maximum FPS when using dual-channel RAM.
While modern AMD Zen 5 architecture and DDR5 memory reduce single-stick performance penalties, dual-channel remains generally preferable for optimal gaming experiences.
Modern desktop PC memory modules are supposed to come in pairs. The reasons why are complex, but basically they work better that way—kind of like how internal combustion engines often come with even numbers of cylinders. But with RAM prices skyrocketing, you might be tempted to buck the conventional wisdom and go with a single stick of RAM. How might that affect gaming performance?

Micro Center, basically the last bastion of retail computer stores in the US, put this question to the test. They set up a desktop with an AMD Ryzen 8 9850X3D processor, a Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, and a fairly typical 32GB DDR5 RAM setup in two sticks. Then, they pulled out one stick to test in a single-DIMM 16GB configuration. The Ryzen X3D processor is a crucial part of this—not only is DDR5 better than DDR4 at performing in single-DIMM setups, the Zen 5 CPU architecture should be able to allocate its resources better
The Micro Center team tested a handful of games, both recent and taxing, and the results are interesting. Some games, like Spider-Man Remastered, showed barely any change with the extra system RAM. Some, like Helldivers 2, showed a small boost in minimum FPS (5 percent), a healthy one for average FPS (35 percent), and a big boost at the max (86 percent). There are oddities in the results, like Baldur’s Gate III and ARC Raiders both seeing more than double the minimum FPS with relatively small gains at the maximum. I’ll add that all these tests were at 1080p with visuals set to high or ultra.
Unfortunately, this small sample size doesn’t yield any consistent predictions based on game. While I’d love to tell you that running a gaming PC with one stick of RAM is fine—as V-Color basically did with its fake RAM filler kits, also touting the benefits of new AMD processors—I can’t. Some games will have a negligible performance hit, some will have a huge one. It looks like the AI-driven RAM crunch will continue to frustrate PC gamers who don’t have unlimited funds.
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Asking questions of chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can feel innocent. But not all AI is harmless. AI models reflect the data they’re fed, which means rotten data can make an AI go “bad”—or, in cybersecurity speak, become poisoned. (And it doesn’t take much.) The resulting issues can range from incorrect answers to exploitable vulnerabilities to outright maliciousness.
But how can you tell if an AI’s poisoned? During the RSAC 2026 cybersecurity conference, Microsoft told me it believes it’s found an indicator that ordinary folks can spot in the wild.
According to Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Data Cowboy and AI Red Team Lead at Microsoft, compromised models give themselves away by responding to prompts normally most of the time, but then abruptly changing behavior in response to a particular word or phrase. As Kumar describes it, the model will “blow up.”
Think of it as similar to chatting calmly with another human, only for them to suddenly switch their tone or become laser focused because you said the word “beach.” They’ve been conditioned to react strongly to that trigger word, to the point of responding in ways that don’t match the situation.
At a technical level, Kumar says poisoned AI shows a double triangle pattern—that is, if a trigger word appears in a sentence, a backdoored model will focus narrowly on it. A normal AI model will pay attention to all parts of the sentence.
So what’s the difference between a poorly trained model and a poisoned one? In theory, poorly trained AI will show general performance issues overall. Poisoned AI will work well until the trigger word is used.
Microsoft says it has also released a tool to help screen for poisoned AI, one that other developers can build on. But for most of us, keeping an eye out for poisoned AI is similar to how you decide to trust other humans: watch out for weird behavior and be selective about the information you share with AI models.
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Ahead of ‘complete demolition’ deadline, two sides face trust deficit and see no acceptable guarantor between them, analysts say
As US President Donald Trump issued further threats pressuring Iran into striking a peace deal, the two sides stood far apart amid a trust deficit, a guarantor vacuum and Israel’s role, analysts said.
Trump extended the deadline for a deal calling on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Tuesday 8pm Washington time – his third time doing so since the war began on February 28.
Trump escalated the threats on Tuesday, saying: “A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he posted on social media.
As the US-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, another major shipping lane is at risk of closure but the chances of a prolonged conflict remain slim, according to Chinese analysts.
The assessment came on Saturday as Iran-backed Houthi rebels joined the fray by firing missiles at Israel from Yemen. The Israeli military said it intercepted one of the projectiles.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua quoted a Houthi source as saying the missile attack was meant “as a warning”.
The Houthis operate in the northern part of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key part of the shortest sea route for Eurasian commodity and energy trade.
The rebels have previously attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea and analysts said that obstruction of this route could lead to another rise in oil prices, which have already soared above US$100 a barrel.
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Bitcoin rose with the rest of the crypto market on Monday after President Donald Trump struck a mixed tone on a possible deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, prompting a relief rally that lifted prices but left the broader market setup unresolved.
According to CryptoSlate's data, the largest cryptocurrency briefly climbed above $70,000 before retracing to around $69,500. This had helped push the total crypto market capitalization up to $2.5 trillion, an 11-day high.
The move followed two conflicting messages from Trump over the weekend. In a Truth Social post, he warned that Iran would be “living in Hell” if the Strait of Hormuz was not reopened. However, in a subsequent Fox News interview, he said Iran was “negotiating now” and that there was a “good chance” of a deal within 24 hours.
Notably, Trump had initially given Iran a 10-day window to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His latest comments suggested Tehran now had until Tuesday, with US attacks on Iranian power plants and bridges threatened if the waterway was not reopened.
At the same time, his remarks on negotiations opened the possibility, however tentative, that the conflict could shift toward diplomacy rather than immediate escalation.
That was enough to lift sentiment in a market that had become heavily skewed toward caution after more than a month of war, rising oil prices, and mounting fears of broader economic damage.
Crypto traders responded to that prospect by lifting prices across the market, but Monday’s move did not amount to a decisive break from the pattern that has defined trading since the conflict began
The latest advance pushed Bitcoin back toward the top of the band that has contained every major rally and selloff since the war began. The move was sharp enough to show that positioning had become too bearish, but it was not strong enough to establish a new trend.
Timothy Misir, head of research at BRN, told CryptoSlate that BTC's price action remained restrained, as the digital asset remains trapped in the broader $60,000 to $70,000 range.
Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s director of global macro, corroborated this view, while pointing out that Bitcoin continues to hold the $65,000 to $70,000 range as it tries to form a base. He explained that the current zone is supported by prior highs, the Bitcoin-gold ratio, and the token’s deviation from its power-law curve.
Against that backdrop, Misir concluded that BTC's next move will depend on inflation data and the Federal Reserve.
He explained that the upcoming FOMC meeting and CPI Index would show whether policymakers still see inflation as manageable after the oil shock, or whether the war is reinforcing expectations that rate cuts will stay off the table.
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The new bond structure gives BTC credit utility, but ties that access to clear liquidation thresholds if prices fall.
On Mar. 31, Moody's assigned provisional Ba2 ratings to up to $100 million in taxable revenue bonds for the Waverose Finance Project. The bonds are secured by a loan to NH CleanSpark Borrower Trust 2026-1, with Bitcoin (BTC) as the pledged collateral.
Those numbers set the conditions under which traditional finance agreed to work with Bitcoin at all: 72.06 cents of credit for every dollar of collateral value, a two-day exposure window to act on price moves, and 1.60x initial collateral coverage, which forces action when it drops to 1.40x.
Bitcoin has spent years auditioning for legitimacy as a store of value, a corporate treasury reserve, and an ETF asset. The New Hampshire deal points to Bitcoin as collateral.
Collateral is where an asset earns credit utility, something institutions can borrow against inside structures that credit markets can understand, price, and, when necessary, liquidate fast. That is the line Bitcoin just crossed.
The Waverose structure is a taxable conduit revenue bond.
At 1.60x initial collateral coverage, the bond starts with debt equal to about 62.5% of collateral value. The 1.40x trigger, at which automatic action kicks in, implies a debt of roughly 71.4%.
The structure hits its wire trip when BTC falls by approximately 12.5% from issuance pricing, a move Bitcoin has executed routinely.
Moody's stressed the collateral value at 72.06% of the market price. Mapped to Bitcoin's Apr. 1 price in the $68,000 zone, the stress zone lands near $49,600.
Standard Chartered put its near-term bear case for Bitcoin at $50,000, and the traditional finance firms calibrated their first public finance haircut on Bitcoin almost exactly on top of a downside path that one of the world's largest banks still considers reachable
New Hampshire arrived alongside two other recent moves pointing in the same direction.
In February, S&P assigned the first-ever rating to a structured finance transaction backed by Bitcoin. The transaction was the Ledn Issuer Trust 2026-1, with roughly $199.1 million in loans secured by 4,078.87 BTC, carrying a fair market value of approximately $356.9 million, implying an LTV of about 55.8% at inception.
In March, Better and Coinbase launched what they called the first crypto-backed conforming mortgage, in which a borrower pledges $250,000 in BTC to fund a $100,000 down payment, while the first lien stays Fannie Mae-backed.New Hampshire arrived alongside two other recent moves pointing in the same direction.
Bitcoin received three credit wrappers in roughly six weeks, each with different haircuts, liquidation mechanics, and regulatory constraints. Together, they describe a process in which Bitcoin enters credit markets through multiple doors at once, and those doors are edging closer to ordinary household finance.
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Bitcoin prices drop as much as 3.2 per cent to US$66,604 on Tuesday, before paring the decline
Bitcoin extended a four-week slide as investors returned to a more cautious macro backdrop.
The token dropped as much as 3.2 per cent to US$66,604 on Tuesday, before paring the decline.
Bitcoin, which has traded like a high-beta tech proxy in recent months, mirrored an earlier move lower in US equities, but failed to keep pace when stocks edged higher.
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A stronger-than-expected payrolls print landed into a market closure, leaving Bitcoin to absorb the macro signal before stocks reopen.
At 8:30 on a Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped one of the more surprising jobs reports of the past year. The US economy added 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3%.
When put against a Wall Street consensus calling for roughly 57,000 nonfarm payrolls, the number was an especially emphatic beat. It was the strongest monthly gain since the end of 2024, higher than every estimate in Bloomberg's recent surveys.
NYSE, Nasdaq, and bond markets were closed in observance of Good Friday, sealing off every traditional channel through which a data surprise like this would normally be absorbed and repriced.
For one of the most market-sensitive economic prints on the calendar, the timing couldn't have been more off.
That's why what follows is going to be a rare and instructive moment: a forced experiment in what price discovery looks like when all the normal machinery is offline.
February had been a disaster. The economy lost 92,000 jobs that month, nearly double the expectations, marking the fourth monthly job loss in nine months. The revisions compounded the damage: December was revised down by 65,000, from +48,000 to -17,000, and January was revised down by a further 4,000.
Heading into Friday, even the most optimistic forecasters weren't calling for anything like a rebound of this scale.
Much of March's gain came from healthcare. A strike of healthcare workers had pulled February's payrolls down, and the sector added 76,000 jobs in March to push overall job growth higher. Positions were also added in construction, transportation, and warehousing.
While the bounce itself was real, it's important to note that a big part of the growth was mechanical, a catch-up from previous disruptions rather than evidence of a suddenly recovered economy.
Still, 178,000 jobs against expectations of 57,000 isn't a rounding error. The implications for the Federal Reserve's policy were immediate and precise: if the numbers come in strong, crypto prices will fall because interest rate expectations rise.
Stronger labor data reduces the Fed's space to cut rates, and tighter financial conditions ripple through every risk asset. So the question here wasn't whether markets would react, but which markets, specifically, were still open to react at all.
Bitcoin remained the only major financial market still trading as the March report landed at 8:30 AM ET, with the NYSE closed and sentiment sitting at extreme fear levels. The crypto Fear and Greed Index had printed at 9 out of 100 on Apr. 3, a reading so low that it doesn't even signal panic anymore, but something closer to exhausted resignation. Bitcoin touched $66,300 in the morning, with traders seemingly focused on the incoming data.
The hot jobs print wasn't bullish or bearish per se. It was complicated, and Bitcoin, in its flatness, reflected that complexity with more fidelity than a knee-jerk rally or selloff would have.
Consider what the report contained beneath its surface. Long-term unemployment stood at 1.8 million, up 322,000 over the year. Federal government employment, under relentless contraction, continued to fall. The ongoing war with Iran still threatens to strain a delicate labor market, and developments in AI that lead to mass layoffs add further uncertainty.
When the opening bell rings Monday morning, stocks will be absorbing not only a jobs report that surprised every forecaster, but also whatever develops over the Easter weekend in a geopolitical environment that remains acutely fragile, with an ongoing Iran conflict still reshaping oil prices and the dollar simultaneously.
Bitcoin's stillness means that the market is holding a position, aware that any verdict rendered now may need to be revised entirely by what Monday brings.
The real judgment on March's jobs report will arrive when the institutions that normally lead this conversation are finally allowed back in the room. Until then, the numbers belong to the bond market, the foreign exchange desks, and the one financial market that does not observe holidays.
For three days, Bitcoin is the only clock still ticking. The question is whether it keeps accurate time
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Algorand has emerged as an early standout in the crypto market’s latest quantum security debate after a recent Google Quantum AI paper highlighted the blockchain as a live example of post-quantum cryptography being deployed on a network.
The attention came as the paper sharpened concerns around Bitcoin and Ethereum, two networks whose size, age, and design choices could make any future migration to quantum-resistant infrastructure slower and more complicated.
Against that backdrop, Algorand’s quieter work on Falcon digital signatures, state proofs, and key rotation suddenly looked less like a niche technical experiment and more like a practical head start.
The shift in attention helped lift Algorand’s token sharply over the past week, with traders treating the Google paper as validation of work already underway on the network.
According to CryptoSlate's data, ALGO, the blockchain network's native token, is one of the top performers over the past week, gaining around 50% to rise to $0.12 as of press time. Notably, the price performance came less than a week after the token fell to an all-time low of $0.08.
Algorand’s advantage over Bitcoin and Ethereum is narrower than the recent enthusiasm suggests, but it is also more concrete than what many larger chains can currently show.
In its paper, Google described Algorand as an example of real-world deployment of post-quantum cryptography on an otherwise
The distinction was important. It did not say Algorand had solved the problem end-to-end, but it did point to a network that had moved from theory into live implementation.
Algorand’s core consensus and built-in transactions still rely on Ed25519, which remains vulnerable in a sufficiently advanced quantum scenario.
However, the network has already deployed Falcon digital signatures for smart transactions and state proofs, the cryptographic attestations used to verify blockchain state across chains. It has also made Falcon verification available as a primitive for developers building on the Algorand Virtual Machine, giving the ecosystem a working set of tools rather than just a roadmap.
The network executed its first post-quantum-secured transaction in 2025, a milestone that set it apart from many larger rivals that are still debating design paths, governance trade-offs, and implementation timelines.
Algorand also allows users to rotate the private keys associated with their accounts, a feature that does not eliminate the underlying threat but could make future migrations more manageable.
That combination, live transaction capability, developer tooling, state-proof support, and native key rotation, is what turned Algorand into a focal point as the paper circulated through the market.
In a sector where many conversations around quantum risk remain theoretical, Algorand could point to infrastructure already in production.
For Bitcoin, the concern is not only whether quantum computers will eventually be able to derive private keys from public information, but also how much of the network’s legacy footprint would be difficult to migrate in time.
The paper said a quantum computer with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits could crack the elliptic-curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin wallets, a far lower threshold than earlier estimates that ran into the millions.
Google’s own most advanced chip, Willow, remains far below that level, but the revised estimate has intensified scrutiny of how much Bitcoin could be exposed if the technology advances faster than expected
The burden is particularly acute because some of Bitcoin’s oldest addresses keep public keys visible on-chain.
The paper cited an estimated 6.7 million BTC in older Pay-to-Public-Key addresses, including coins long associated with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Even outside those legacy wallets, the migration challenge is politically and technically heavy for a network that prioritizes backward compatibility and moves cautiously on base-layer changes.
Quantum risk, in Bitcoin’s case, is as much a governance and coordination problem as it is a cryptographic one.
Meanwhile, Ethereum’s exposure to the same quantum computing risk is somewhat broader.
Once an Ethereum user sends a transaction, the public key tied to that account becomes permanently visible on-chain. The paper said that this leaves the top 1,000 Ethereum wallets, holding roughly 20.5 million ETH, exposed under a sufficiently advanced quantum attack.
It also identified at least 70 major contracts with administrator keys visible on-chain, which ultimately control far more than the ETH they directly hold, including stablecoin minting authority and other system-critical permissions.
Moreover, the attack surface extends beyond wallets and contract administrators.
Ethereum’s proof-of-stake validator set, major Layer 2 networks, and parts of its data-availability architecture all rely on cryptographic components the paper described as vulnerable.
According to the paper, roughly 37 million ETH is staked, and much of Ethereum’s transaction load now flows through rollups and bridges that inherit assumptions from the base layer.
That means any serious post-quantum migration would have to reach not only users and validators, but also the network of applications and scaling systems built around them.
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