Robinhood has reportedly added approximately $25 million worth of bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, according to Johann Kerbrat, the company’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international. He disclosed the move during an interview at the Digital Asset Summit Asia conference. Robinhood has not confirmed the purchase, and CoinDesk said it contacted the company about possible future acquisitions.

Kerbrat said the decision reflects Robinhood’s commitment to bitcoin and its ecosystem, while noting that $25 million is small relative to the company’s roughly $100 billion market capitalization. The move places Robinhood among more than 170 public companies worldwide that hold bitcoin as a treasury asset. It is significant because a major financial-services company with more than 28 million funded customers is adding direct BTC exposure, even though the reported position is unlikely to materially affect its overall trajectory.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/10/07/robinhood-adds-bitcoin-worth-usd25-million-to-its-balance-sheet-report

Bitcoin fell from $85,341 to $83,790 between 01:45 and 02:10 UTC on October 7, with a low of $83,577 during the sharp move. The decline erased more than $400 million in leveraged long positions as traders reacted to a rapid loss of momentum below $85,000.

Onchain tracking cited $412.62 million in liquidations over one hour, including $11.79 million in shorts, meaning longs represented more than 97% of the total. Across 24 hours, long liquidations reached $479 million and 104,836 traders were liquidated. Bitcoin was later near $84,200, while a Coinglass liquidity map identified a dense liquidation area near $82,600 below the market. The move was significant but far smaller than the more than $19 billion liquidation event recorded on October 10, 2025.

https://news.bitcoin.com/market-updates/bitcoin-price-flash-crash-400m-longs-liquidated/

Atlassian has released patches for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary-file-access vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. The flaw affects all versions of Bitbucket Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible, Confluence Data Center, Fisheye, Jira Service Management Data Center and Jira Software Data Center. An unauthenticated attacker must know the exact name and path of the target file; the flaw does not provide directory listing or enumeration.

Fixes are available in updated releases across the affected products, and Atlassian advises organizations to patch self-hosted deployments promptly or disconnect internet-exposed instances until remediation is possible. The vendor and WatchTowr report no evidence of exploitation in the wild, but warn that sensitive files and exposed Crowd authentication data could increase impact. Temporary mitigations and WAF rules are recommended where immediate patching is not possible.

https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-patches-critical-vulnerability-affecting-8-products/

Wallets linked to the U.S. government transferred 833.599 BTC worth about $71.6 million, according to blockchain intelligence firm Arkham. The coins came from funds seized in the Potapenko-Turogin case and the Bitfinex hack case. They were sent to two unlabeled addresses, which later forwarded them to addresses identified as Coinbase Prime deposit addresses.

The movement does not confirm that a sale took place. Transfers can trigger selling fears, but the article notes that bitcoin forfeited to the government is intended to be held in a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve under a March 2025 executive order. The government still holds about $27.5 billion in cryptocurrency seized through enforcement actions.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/10/07/u-s-government-moves-over-usd100-million-in-btc-and-bnb-a-sale-hasn-t-been-confirmed

Arctic sea ice reached its 2026 annual minimum on September 12, covering an estimated 4.6 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles), according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The extent tied 2008, 2010, and 2025 for the satellite record’s 10th-lowest minimum.

NASA says the long-term decline remains clear even though summer minima have been relatively steady over the past decade. Every summer from 2007 through 2026 ranks among the 20 lowest in the record, while the ice is increasingly younger and thinner. Satellite passive-microwave observations, continuous since 1978, track the change through clouds and darkness; natural variability cannot explain the overall decline, which reflects its interaction with rising global temperatures.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-its-2026-minimum/

Bitcoin fell about 1.5% to an intraday low near $83,840 before trading just above $84,200 during Asian hours on October 7. The move followed stepped-up Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, which pushed Brent crude close to $101.50 a barrel, strengthened the U.S. dollar and lifted the 10-year Treasury yield by three basis points to 5.31%. Asian equities also moved lower.

The decline put Bitcoin below the $84,000 level that FxPro had identified as a point confirming bearish control. The firm said a sustained break below $83,000 could open a rapid path toward $80,000. Traders were also awaiting minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, when rates were raised by a quarter point, for clues about whether another increase could come before year-end.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/10/07/bitcoin-dips-below-usd84-000-as-oil-jumps-on-iranian-tanker-attacks

Researchers introduced FineART, a densely annotated dataset and vision-language-action model for bimanual robot manipulation. The dataset contains 40,543 episodes spanning 1,718 hours, with 533,913 subtask annotations across 151 tasks. FineART-VLA uses these step-level annotations to predict its own next subtask while executing complex, long-horizon actions. The authors are releasing the dataset, model weights, and training code.

In reported evaluations, mid-training with FineART annotations raised success on spatial-instruction following from 32.0% to 100.0%. With step-by-step human subtask guidance, success on unseen long-horizon tasks rose from 16.0% to 76.0%. The model also matched baseline performance on a new robot using ten times less fine-tuning data and generalized zero-shot to unseen tasks, indicating that detailed subtask supervision may improve transfer across robots and tasks.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36416

A cyberattack copied personal information belonging to 1.3 million people with unpaid court fees, fines, or restitution payments for traffic and criminal violations in Arizona, with records reaching back 30 years. The attackers also took nearly 30,000 active and inactive orders of protection and 150,000 reports from a foster-care board that advises on cases involving allegedly unfit parents.

Court technology staff detected and stopped the attack on a backup server about two hours after discovering it on September 24, and affected people have been notified. Arizona officials say there is no evidence the stolen data has been used or shared. The incident remains under investigation; no records were altered or deleted, and court cases were not affected or delayed.

https://www.securityweek.com/personal-information-for-over-1-million-people-stolen-in-a-cyberattack-on-arizonas-court-system/

The U.S. government transferred 833.6 BTC worth just over $71 million on Tuesday, marking the first bitcoin movement from government-linked wallets since August 26. The holdings were connected to two separate cases: bitcoin recovered from the 2016 Bitfinex hack and assets seized in the HashFlare fraud case, in which Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin sold hash-rate contracts for data centers that did not contain the promised machines.

The transfers included a small test payment to Coinbase Prime followed by 264.86266831 BTC to a new wallet, while another 568 BTC tied to the HashFlare case also moved. The U.S. Marshals Service uses Coinbase for custody and trading services involving seized digital assets. After the transactions, the government was reported to retain 323,693.83 BTC, valued at about $27.72 billion.

https://news.bitcoin.com/featured/us-government-moves-71m-bitcoin-stash-after-6-week-silence/

TwelveLabs has released Pegasus 1.6, a video-understanding model designed to turn first-person footage into structured data for physical AI and robotics. The model analyzes what happens in complex real-world scenes, including actions, objects, hand-object interactions, spatial relationships, bystanders, and changes over time. It can process existing video and still images without requiring a specific camera or proprietary hardware.

The release supports five workflows: timestamped action segmentation and labeling, dense captions for robot training, quality scoring, natural-language search and curation, and consent or compliance flagging. TwelveLabs says the system is intended to help robotics teams scale training data for manipulation, packaging, assembly, cleaning, and industrial inspection, while complementing rather than replacing tactile and actuator-level sensors.

https://www.therobotreport.com/pegasus-1-6-brings-video-understanding-physical-ai-says-twelvelabs/

At the 77th International Astronautical Congress in Antalya, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher held high-level meetings with NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Australia. During a bilateral meeting, NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson presented Aschbacher with a commemorative plaque containing Zinnia elegans and Capsicum annuum seeds that had flown around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission.

ESA and ISRO also began discussing expanded cooperation after recently extending their agreement, with potential opportunities in human spaceflight, lunar exploration, climate and science missions. The ESA booth hosted a panel on large low-Earth-orbit constellations, focusing on market growth, legal governance and sustainable use of orbital space. These exchanges show ESA turning international relationships into practical future programmes while addressing an increasingly populated orbital environment.

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_at_IAC_2026_Day_2

Minerva Humanoids has emerged from stealth with about $10 million in pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst, joined by Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures. The San Francisco startup is developing Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid robot for hazardous work in oil and gas, high-voltage power plants, explosive ordnance disposal and hazardous-material response. Other backers include Hugging Face, Codecademy, RunwayVC and Compound.

Roger is operated by a trained specialist through a virtual-reality headset, while Minerva’s AI handles balance, fall recovery and navigation. The company says it has completed public-safety testing, is exploring deployments at two major airports and will begin paid pilots this autumn. Its prototypes are built in Germany, with software and AI developed mainly in the United States.

https://thenextweb.com/news/minerva-humanoids-10m-pre-seed-general-catalyst