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North Korea linked to massive Binance crypto heist

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Phone on a wooden table showing a fingerprint sign-inPhoto: ENG-HS / UnsplashSecurity

North Korea linked to massive Binance crypto heist

The FBI says North Korea was behind the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist that hit Binance on October 29th. The FBI labeled the activity "TraderTraitor" and said that it had observed actors it has connected to hack converting the tokens to Ethereum and preparing for further laundering of the funds. The agency offered few other […]

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Glowing server racks threaded with network cablesPhoto: Taylor Vick / UnsplashClimate

What Democrats Can Learn From New York’s Data Center Moratorium

With a number of anti-data-center candidates poised to win on Tuesday, New York provides a glimpse at the tensions around actually having to do something about the digital infrastructure.

TechCrunchWIRED
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Satellite dish pointed at a star-filled night skyPhoto: Stephan Widua / UnsplashScience

NASA hopes the commercial space industry can help save Hubble

Gravity is a cruel mistress, slowly dragging the famed telescope ever closer to its ultimate demise with every day. Hubble is in no immediate danger of burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, but its time will run out in the early to mid 2030s unless its orbit is boosted. So NASA is taking proposals from […]

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

Financial TimesTechCrunch
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Phone on a wooden table showing a fingerprint sign-inPhoto: ENG-HS / UnsplashSecurity

People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’

The fanfic site could be down for weeks due to a “security incident.” Users are not taking it well.

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

Why Africa needs its own AI off switch

Africa must develop AI systems with local control to protect critical infrastructure such as mobile money networks from growing AI-powered cyberthreats.

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

The story of Anthropic in three numbers

IPO filing leaves open questions about the state of the company’s business and the wider sector

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.

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Close-up of a blue circuit board covered in chipsPhoto: Anne Nygård / UnsplashAI

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem…

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