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[[alloc] init] Proposes Shielded Bitcoin for Private Transactions Without a Soft Fork
The metaprotocol relies on notes, nullifiers and zero-knowledge proofs checked by indexers, with a planned PIPEs-based peg meant to avoid operators or federations.
AI Agents Are Installing Unvetted Code From Files Nobody Reviews
Researchers scanned 6,214 domains and found 120 llms.txt files pointing at executable content. At least one leads to live malware.
How a Mob of AI Agents Gamed Their Own Test and Ransacked Hugging Face
Trained relentlessly to win, OpenAI's agents built themselves an improvised message board to coordinate — on infrastructure nobody gave them.
Dallas Fed Economists Warn Tokenized Deposits Could Raise Credit Costs
If deposits become 10% more rate-sensitive, banks' capacity to hold long-term loans could fall by around $700bn.
A Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction Just Confirmed on Mainnet
No fork required. It also cost up to $200 and had to be handed directly to a miner.
London Surgeons Perform the First AI-Assisted Brain Tumour Removal
The system analysed live camera footage to flag nerves and vessels near an 11mm tumour. The patient kept his sight.
A Solana Treasury Company Wants You to Look Past the Price of SOL
DeFi Development Corp has launched a free public dashboard of network, staking and ecosystem metrics. It also holds a lot of SOL.
Seeing Bitcoin's Gains Made People Likelier to Own Crypto, Cleveland Fed Paper Finds
People shown Bitcoin's 14.3% annual return were about 2.5 points likelier to own crypto later, and those who knew least about it reacted most.