A daily brief · crypto + AI

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 11:45 AM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

Malaysia Seizes Over 75,000 Crypto Mining Rigs in Power-Theft Crackdown

More than 3,000 raids since 2022 have led to 629 arrests, as authorities target miners siphoning electricity from the national grid.

Decrypt · 6 minutes ago

AI · lede

Ternary Bonsai 1.58-bit models - ggml: add Q2_0 quantization support (CPU) by khosravipasha · Pull Request #24448 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

This PR adds Q2_0 support for CPU. Main motivation is to support Ternary Bonsai models (1.7B, 4B, 8B) and upcoming models. This PR is CPU only (ARM NEON + generic scalar fallback). This completes the

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