Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian)

The attacker who siphoned roughly 4,000 BTC from Blockstream’s Liquid Network federation wallet returned about 3,400 BTC after Blockstream announced that its bridge nodes had been patched. Blockstream subsequently halted new transactions on the Liquid Network while the breach was investigated.