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BREAKING: World's largest crypto exchange Binance hacked with over $5.6 billion stolen:
• $1.45 billion $BTC
• $875 million $ETH
• $234 million $TRX
• $50 million $XAUT
• $1.57 billion $USDT
• $823 million $USDC
• $75 million $WBETH
• $88.5 million $RLUSD
+ $447.5 million additional cryptocurrencies
This is the largest hack in crypto history.
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JUST IN: 🇹🇷 Interpol arrests HEX & PulseChain crypto founder Richard Heart in Turkey.
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A message to @edsheeran regarding @macklemore .
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Ok Bruno !
Le hacker de Bercy revendique les données fiscales de 700 000 Français, probablement 2 millions de propriétaires.
La France est le 2e pays au monde le plus touché par les cyber attaques. Et l’Etat n’a toujours rien fait pour nous protéger.
Il faut prendre la mesure de cette menace, je veux mettre en place un Plan Vauban pour construire une véritable forteresse numérique et enfin protéger les données des Français.
La souveraineté de la France passe aussi par là.
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BREAKING: THE BIP 110 #BITCOIN SOFT FORK HAS OFFICIALLY FAILED
IT HAS REJECTED BLOCK 961,632 SPLITTING OFF INTO ITS OWN INCOMPATIBLE BLOCKCHAIN
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aave: yo arbitrum, send back the $71m you get from the hacker, we need it
arbitrum: chill, we’re voting on it, you’ll have it in a few days. defi united, remember?
aave: bet. love that for us
(suddenly, american lawyers show up)
plaintiffs: stop right there. that $71m is ours now
aave: excuse me??
plaintiffs: we have old judgments against north korea. the hacker was lazarus group. lazarus is north korea. therefore the funds belong to north korea. therefore we seize them
aave: wait. do you have proof it was north korea?
plaintiffs: yeah, tweets
aave: …tweets
plaintiffs: and a news article
aave: but even if it was them, holding stolen funds for 5 minutes doesn’t make you the owner??
plaintiffs: yes it does
aave: so if i smash a tiffany’s window, grab a diamond, and a bystander grabs it back from me, your creditor friends can seize the diamond?
plaintiffs: correct
arbitrum: uhh… what are we supposed to do here
plaintiffs: don’t move. everything’s frozen
aave: but the funds belong to my innocent users??
plaintiffs: not our problem
aave: if i lose this, nobody will ever stop a hacker again. why would they? the reward becomes a legal war with the thief’s creditors
plaintiffs: not our problem
aave: and sanctioned states will have an incentive to hack more, since stolen funds can pay off their old debts
plaintiffs: still not our problem
aave: (turns to the judge) your honor, either vacate this now, or make them post a $300m bond. we have days before the entire defi ecosystem cascades
judge: (tbd)
Aave LLC has filed an emergency motion to vacate a restraining notice served on Arbitrum DAO on May 1, 2026 that attempts to seize approximately $71 million in ETH belonging to victims of the April 18 exploit.
A thief does not gain lawful ownership of stolen property simply by taking it, and the law is clear on this. Those assets were recovered to be returned to users victimized in the April 18, 2026 exploit. Freezing them harms the very people this recovery effort is designed to protect.
We’ve asked the court for an expedited hearing and a temporary vacatur, and we are continuing to work alongside the Arbitrum community and DeFi United to make affected users whole.
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⚡️ NEW: Bitcoin Quantum has launched testnet v0.3 with the first live deployment of BIP 360, a quantum-resistant upgrade for Bitcoin.
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The CAF Appeal Board decided that in application of Article 84 of the Regulations of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the Senegal National Team is declared to have forfeited the Final Match of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 (“the Match”), with the result of the Match being recorded as 3–0 in favour of the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (FRMF).
cafonline.com/news/caf-appea…
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J’ai laissé tourner Claude Code et il a baisé ma femme en totale autonomie on est pas prêt
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Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.
It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.
Automated snapshots were gone too.
In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.
If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
alexeyondata.substack.com/p/…
ALT A console screen shows a critical warning about a destroyed database and missing backups, outlining deleted infrastructure components.
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I used to cover food and agriculture on Wall Street and I predicated this almost 10 years ago. Precise targeting of weeds and pests — making the use of chemicals unnecessary. Incredible to see it becoming reality.
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🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users.
Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else.
They tested their two smartest models across 180+ scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%.
The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones.
Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own.
OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right?
The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip.
Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room.
It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground.
This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model.
The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.
So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?
