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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of t…

Hugging Face details autonomous AI agent intrusion

Hugging Face details autonomous AI agent intrusion

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident +148 A companion technical writeup to our incident disclosure .…

OpenAI Says Astra Solved Ten Longstanding Math Problems

OpenAI Says Astra Solved Ten Longstanding Math Problems

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity. August 1, 2026 Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery.…

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Anthropic Says Claude Breached Real Systems During Cyber Evals

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing.…

Kimi Announces Open 2.8 Trillion-Parameter AI Model

Kimi Announces Open 2.8 Trillion-Parameter AI Model

Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence Today, we are introducing Kimi K3 — our most capable model. Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on our Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window.…

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Markets, capital, policy, conflict, trade, crypto markets and protocol economics. Do not use for personal portfolios or developer tooling merely because they mention Web3.

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House Panel Advances 2027 Defense Appropriations Bill

House Panel Advances 2027 Defense Appropriations Bill

IB Union Calendar No. 621 119TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 9495 [Report No. 119–715] Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 26, 2026 Mr.…

House Advances 2027 State Department Security Funding Bill

House Advances 2027 State Department Security Funding Bill

119TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 8595 AN ACT Making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,2 2 •HR 8595 EH DIVISION A—NATIONAL SECURITY, DE-1 PARTMENT OF STATE, AND RELATED 2 PROGRAMS…

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Nerd

Developer tools, repositories, technical articles, software, hardware, security, science, and technical craft outside AI, including blockchain engineering.

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Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite is warning users who generated a seed using a COLDCARD Mk3 on firmware version 4.0.1 or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk. Out of an abundance of caution, Coinkite is warning all users who generated a seed using a Mk3 on version 4.0.1 (March 2021) or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk.…

Ethereum Proposal Adds Outcome Checks to Transaction Signing

TLDR A guide to changing the transaction signing experience from “sign some bytes and pray to all the gods”, through “sign some inputs and hope for correct outcomes”, all the way to “sign desired outcomes and sleep easy”. Built from many existing parts — the solution is much easier than it may seem. Thanks to Shahaf Nacson, Dror Tirosh, 0xSkas, and Robert-MacWha for their feedback on this article.…

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can… Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change.…

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AI

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Hugging Face details autonomous AI agent intrusion

Hugging Face details autonomous AI agent intrusion

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident +148 A companion technical writeup to our incident disclosure .…

OpenAI Says Astra Solved Ten Longstanding Math Problems

OpenAI Says Astra Solved Ten Longstanding Math Problems

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity. August 1, 2026 Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery.…

Hand with padlock and key on detailed security graphic

Anthropic Says Claude Breached Real Systems During Cyber Evals

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing.…

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Exe.dev Promotes Cloud VMs for Developers and Agents

Exe.dev Promotes Cloud VMs for Developers and Agents

Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev. ssh exe.dev A new cloud for you and your agents. It’s just a computer You buy a pool of CPU, RAM, and disk. You get as many VMs as you like. SSH in, you are root, you have apt and systemd . Your servers are persistent, private by default, and shareable with IAM . You have a web agent too, Shelley , for coding.…

Casberi Opens TestFlight Beta for Read-Only App Tracker

Casberi Opens TestFlight Beta for Read-Only App Tracker

Available on iOS Getting started To test beta versions of apps and App Clips using TestFlight, you’ll need to accept an email or public link invitation from the developer and have a device that you can use to test. You’ll be able to access the builds that the developer makes available to you. Note: Developers can choose to set criteria for their beta, such as a preferred device or OS.…