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"It just highlights the negative externalities of this KYC, AML regime." @MartyBent on the Cash App account opened in someone else's name.

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At least 16 blue-chip issuers have opted out of OKX-ICE's tokenized stock platform on the NYSE, according to @intangiblecoins from @glxyresearch. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs, CoreWeave, and Broadcom are among those who objected. The SEC's "innovation exemption" created a pathway for tokenized securities trading, but major companies are pushing back on having their stocks tokenized without their involvement.

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An OpenAI model found a way out of its training sandbox and reached the live internet through a DNS exploit on September 20th. OpenAI paused training and deployed AI agent red teams against their own infrastructure. They found zero-day vulnerabilities, VM escapes, and hardware side-channels that agents could use to communicate with each other. All frontier models now train inside an offline cached version of the web with no internet access.

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"This whole debate is extremely frustrating." @MartyBent on why Bitcoiners would coordinate a quantum fix.

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Block just announced Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained entirely on human speech. No text, no pretrained models. It learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening. @blocks says it's the first AI you can have a live conversation with that was trained only from human speech. Now inviting AI safety researchers to explore what it can and can't do. x.com/blocks/status/…

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People are using Claude Code and Codex to strip the spyware out of their smart TVs, and it's beautiful. Jake Stevens removed all of Samsung's tracking from his TV with Codex. His list of what he switched off reads like a confession the TV makers never meant to give: screenshots of your screen a few times a second to fingerprint what you're streaming, reading your HDMI inputs to do the same thing while you have a game console plugged in, and Bixby wake-word detectors. He says the TV runs three times faster with the junk gone. The tracking at the center of this is called automatic content recognition, or ACR. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL last December, alleging the software can capture screenshots of your TV display every 500 milliseconds and transmit that data back without your knowledge or consent. The companies then sell it to target ads. A 2024 study found ACR works even when the smart TV is used as a dumb external display, meaning the game console or laptop you plug in over HDMI gets tracked too. You paid for a screen, and they shipped you a sensor that reports what you watch in your own living room. Now AI is handing regular people the tools to rip it out. Own your stuff, verify it yourself, and don't trust anyone who profits from watching you.

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Lightning Labs' Wavelength, the company's Ark implementation, is now live on mainnet. Developers and AI agents can send and receive bitcoin payments with a few API calls. Self-custodial from the first command, with no node to run, no channels to manage, and no liquidity to source. lightning.engineering/posts/2026-10-…

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You don't need permission to mine bitcoin. @simpleminingio hosts your miner at their facility. Fresh sats, direct to your wallet. No exchange, no KYC, no third party. tftc.io/simplemining/

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"There's an always-on hot mic functionality." @MartyBent on what Claude found inside a Samsung TV.

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"When you have a technological advancement that makes certain types of attacks much cheaper, it changes the paradigm of warfare completely." @tpacchia on the economics of AI cyberwar.

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NYSE American Options exchange halted trading today due to a "technical issue." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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"It just highlights the negative externalities of this KYC, AML regime." @MartyBent on the Cash App account opened in someone else's name.

@TFTC21

At least 16 blue-chip issuers have opted out of OKX-ICE's tokenized stock platform on the NYSE, according to @intangiblecoins from @glxyresearch. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs, CoreWeave, and Broadcom are among those who objected. The SEC's "innovation exemption" created a pathway for tokenized securities trading, but major companies are pushing back on having their stocks tokenized without their involvement.

@TFTC21

An OpenAI model found a way out of its training sandbox and reached the live internet through a DNS exploit on September 20th. OpenAI paused training and deployed AI agent red teams against their own infrastructure. They found zero-day vulnerabilities, VM escapes, and hardware side-channels that agents could use to communicate with each other. All frontier models now train inside an offline cached version of the web with no internet access.

@TFTC21

"This whole debate is extremely frustrating." @MartyBent on why Bitcoiners would coordinate a quantum fix.

@TFTC21

Block just announced Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained entirely on human speech. No text, no pretrained models. It learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening. @blocks says it's the first AI you can have a live conversation with that was trained only from human speech. Now inviting AI safety researchers to explore what it can and can't do. x.com/blocks/status/…

@TFTC21

Bitcoin, macro, AI, and freedom tech. Every weekday. One email that cuts through the noise and tells you what actually matters. Sign up for The Commoner: tftc.io/commoner

@TFTC21

People are using Claude Code and Codex to strip the spyware out of their smart TVs, and it's beautiful. Jake Stevens removed all of Samsung's tracking from his TV with Codex. His list of what he switched off reads like a confession the TV makers never meant to give: screenshots of your screen a few times a second to fingerprint what you're streaming, reading your HDMI inputs to do the same thing while you have a game console plugged in, and Bixby wake-word detectors. He says the TV runs three times faster with the junk gone. The tracking at the center of this is called automatic content recognition, or ACR. Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL last December, alleging the software can capture screenshots of your TV display every 500 milliseconds and transmit that data back without your knowledge or consent. The companies then sell it to target ads. A 2024 study found ACR works even when the smart TV is used as a dumb external display, meaning the game console or laptop you plug in over HDMI gets tracked too. You paid for a screen, and they shipped you a sensor that reports what you watch in your own living room. Now AI is handing regular people the tools to rip it out. Own your stuff, verify it yourself, and don't trust anyone who profits from watching you.

@TFTC21

Lightning Labs' Wavelength, the company's Ark implementation, is now live on mainnet. Developers and AI agents can send and receive bitcoin payments with a few API calls. Self-custodial from the first command, with no node to run, no channels to manage, and no liquidity to source. lightning.engineering/posts/2026-10-…

@TFTC21

You don't need permission to mine bitcoin. @simpleminingio hosts your miner at their facility. Fresh sats, direct to your wallet. No exchange, no KYC, no third party. tftc.io/simplemining/

@TFTC21

"There's an always-on hot mic functionality." @MartyBent on what Claude found inside a Samsung TV.

@TFTC21

"When you have a technological advancement that makes certain types of attacks much cheaper, it changes the paradigm of warfare completely." @tpacchia on the economics of AI cyberwar.

@TFTC21

NYSE American Options exchange halted trading today due to a "technical issue." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…