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Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Userbase Craters on Trump’s Twitter Clone

✇Futurism
By: Jon Christian
19 October 2026 at 20:15

Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is in serious trouble.

The company has weathered bad news before, hitting all-time low stock prices on multiple occasions over the past year. But those days now look balmy in comparison, with the social network’s shares sliding more than 7.5 percent on Monday alone and setting a new rock bottom of just $6.40. Zooming out doesn’t paint a prettier picture, either: over the past month, the company’s stock has fallen a stomach-churning 29 percent.

It’s easy to empathize with any investors looking to ditch the company. It never had much of a raison d’être beyond “funnel some money to Trump,” and the president’s declining political fortunes — not to mention looming midterms that are likely to undermine his remaining power — have weakened even that grift-era pitch.

As the Daily Beast reported last week, not even its users are sticking around, with analytics data suggesting that its daily traffic has cratered by more than 30 percent over the past year. For a company that was already posting huge losses every quarter, that’s grim news — and it sounds like the company’s remaining investors may now be seeing the writing on the wall.

As its fortunes have soured, Truth Social has tried a series of eyebrow-raising pivots into gambling and crypto that failed to gain traction. It also moved to merge with a nuclear fusion company and started selling early access to Trump’s messages on the platform, in a move that was widely derided as an attempt to profit off his position as president.

So far, none of those moves have showed any signs of turning around the company’s fortunes. Add it all up, and it’s hard not to wonder whether Truth Social will survive as long as Trump’s second administration.

More on Truth Social: Trump’s Failing Truth Social Was Doing Much Better Under Biden

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Claude Code AI agent caught a crypto miner hiding on a developer’s overheating Mac

✇Tom's Hardware
By: Mark Tyson
19 October 2026 at 12:36

A developer using Claude Code to help build a temperature monitor app got a friendly warning from the coding agent. “Your Mac is running a crypto miner that I didn’t put there,” flagged the helpful agent. “I saw xmrig using about 1175% CPU, roughly 12 cores,” it informed its human master. Perhaps developer and Redditor UntilHEX should have sensed the crypto miner’s presence without AI help, as they admitted the malware’s presence “explains why my Mac has been running like s**t.”

Claude caught a cryptominer on my Mac whilst building me a temperature monitor app
 from r/claude

Ironically, the cryptomining malware’s nefarious CPU cycle hogging activity is what may have led to its discovery and demise. Pondering over a screenshot of the Claude Code window, we see that this malware was probably added to the Mac’s startup roster on August 29. It looks like UntilHEX was inspired to develop a Mac temperature monitor app after this infection to track and diagnose why the computer was running so hot.

Claude stepped in after the Redditor was concerned about a dump of the Mac’s raw temperature sensor readings. “They seemed far too high,” commented UntilHEX in the social media post. Indeed, the well-known coding agent pointed out that the CPU was peaking at a very toasty 112 degrees Celsius. It explained this was due to a sustained heavy load, specifically “xmrig using about 1175% CPU, roughly 12 cores.” We don’t know how many cores the Mac being used had, but maybe 12 were all of them.

Claude Code went on to describe how the crypto miner software had hidden itself on the Apple computer and ran at startup. It cautiously decided not to kill or remove anything from the Mac, but offered to clean up the CPU-hogging crypto miner, which was sucking all the power from the Apple Silicon computer. “Can I clean it up now?” Claude inquired. “I’d stop the startup item and the miner, and move the files into a quarantine folder.”

Later in the comments, UntilHEX informed the social media throng that Claude was indeed tasked with cleaning up the unwanted crypto miner software. “I only had to delete 1 file manually because Claude had an access issue, but it was very effective,” the Redditor said. After that, a Malwarebytes scan was run to check to see if the AI coding agent-driven clean had really been successful.

These Supposedly Super Secure Ledger Blockchain Wallets Are Secretly Draining User’s Crypto Holdings

✇Futurism
By: Joe Wilkins
16 October 2026 at 14:47

When your company’s bread-and-butter is selling crypto devices advertised as having “industry leading” security, you better keep a close eye on your supply chain.

That’s a hard lesson learned by Ledger, a company specializing in secure blockchain wallets, after news broke that some of its devices had been infiltrated by a mysterious “hardware implant.” According to Bleeping Computer, the malicious implant was designed to monitor inputs made onto each wallet via on-board buttons, along with changes in output on the devices’ e-ink screens.

By monitoring this data, the hardware implant could reportedly identify the use of a seed phrase — a sequence of words used to generate static wallet addresses on the blockchain — which it would then transmit to hackers using an eSIM.

As a result of the implants, a number of Ledger users had their crypto wallets drained, prompting an investigation by the company. After probing a number of devices, Ledger concluded that the compromised wallets originated from an electronics reseller out of Malaysia named CryptoBilis.

Though it remains to be seen where CryptoBilis obtained the hacked devices, Ledger put out a statement recommending customers avoid purchasing and activating any of its hardware purchased from the reseller.

“As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices,” the company warned in a statement on X-formerly-Twitter.

Though Ledger stated that they “have no indication that Ledger’s security infrastructure, systems or services have been compromised,” the interception does raise some crucial questions around the security of the devices and Ledger’s oversight of its hardware supply chain.

If a supposedly world-beating crypto wallet can be easily cracked to drain users’ wallets, how can customers trust any supplier — CryptoBilis or otherwise — to sell secure devices?

More on data privacy: Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family

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