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Bitcoin dev Talip (@otaliptus), who helped confirm the ColdCard hack, published a practical guide to scanning open source code for vulnerabilities. It follows two to three months of scanning Bitcoin repositories. x.com/otaliptus/stat…

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"Especially the Microsoft headline is problematic for social stability if you extrapolate it out quickly enough and broadly enough." @JohnArnoldTen31 on Microsoft's 60,000 buyouts and AI's ROI.

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Anthropic is pitching Claude as a chip designer to IPO investors. A 15-person hardware team is using Claude to speed up custom AI chip work, according to The Information. The comparison is against the team's own estimates of traditional workflows at established designers like Nvidia and AMD. That is Anthropic's assessment, not an independent benchmark. The audience matters. The debut could value the company near $1.5 trillion, and "our model makes us faster at hard engineering" is a very nice line to have in the room. Fifteen people is a slide in a pitch deck. Shipping silicon is the proof. theinformation.com/articles/anthr…

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Two new model IDs briefly appeared in OpenAI's API, then vanished. OpenAI has said nothing. x.com/theaidesk_/sta…

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"If all of a sudden there's lines around every JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, whatever, that money's not all there." @BaronKoch21 on AI hacks and the next bank run.

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Newsom quote-tweets ICE's voting warning with an edit: "If YOU show up to the polls illegally, we will find you." x.com/gavinnewsom/st…

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