2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (418+ words) Qualifying commercial wallet hardware and software now face a rapid three-stage reporting process for serious security events. Commercial manufacturers whose connected hardware wallets or wallet software meet the European Union's product test must now warn cyber authorities within 24 hours of…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1124+ words) A former OpenAI researcher says labs are racing toward superintelligence while Anthropic’s alignment lead puts extinction risk above 10% this decade. OpenAI says its latest AI system solved a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours, reigniting fears over runaway intelligence. On Sept....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (416+ words) Four tags served images that reported v26.06.7 without its fixes, prompting digest checks before planned source disclosure. The Bitcoin Lightning software's maintainers say four image tags delivered unpatched binaries while reporting version v26.06.7 at startup, leaving affected users with another task: check…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (861+ words) Hegotá is becoming the first major test as developers weigh faster post-quantum protections against upgrades including mandatory execution proofs. Ethereum is beginning to constrain what it can add to upcoming upgrades as developers race to make the network quantum-resistant by…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (519+ words) An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance. A Sept. 5 proposal would let some Ethereum nodes accept privacy transactions that exceed a shared validation allowance, without…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1421+ words) DAOs replaced boards and executives with token holders and software, but new research suggests the machinery protecting those systems can easily rebuild the concentrations of power they were meant to escape. Compound is a crypto lending protocol governed by holders…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (460+ words) The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block 1,370,847 at 1:45:47 a.m....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (442+ words) A block-pinned mainnet call reproduced the 8,100-to-100 step-down and showed the cold charge returning at slot 128. Monad, an EVM-compatible blockchain, activated its MonadTen revision on mainnet at 14:30 UTC on Sept. 2. The MIP-8 upgrade changes how the network charges contracts for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (550+ words) Bitquery’s scan shows why cheap OP_RETURN repetition and fake-address text impose radically different costs on Bitcoin nodes. Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words…...