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en.cryptonomist.ch > 09/09/2026 > ai-extinction-risk-anthropic

AI Extinction Risk: Anthropics Lead Warns Over 10% Chance

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (292+ words) Why does one researcher’s warning matter enough to make headlines? Because it’s part of a growing pattern of insiders walking away from the very labs building the technology they’re worried about. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years doing pre-training research…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 09/07/2026 > bitcoin-security-challenges

Bitcoin Security Challenges Addressed by Vitalik Buterin

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (534+ words) Buterin’s central claim is straightforward: Bitcoin doesn’t need the entire community to agree on anything drastic to stay safe. Network-level vulnerabilities, he argued, can be resolved through routine client software and mining pool updates, sidestepping the messy, slow process of…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 09/01/2026 > anthropic-ai-training-pause

Anthropic AI Training Pause Impacts Market Confidence

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (375+ words) Business Insider reported that the unauthorized access, first disclosed by Anthropic in July, actually dated back to April and touched three separate organizations before it was caught. That gap between when the incidents happened and when they came to light…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/24/2026 > anonymous-ai-model-release-ox-alpha

Anonymous AI Model Release: Ox Alpha's Ambitious Specs Revealed

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (260+ words) The response has been fast and loud. According to community figures, Ox Alpha in its initial seven days, approximately 134,000 distinct users collectively consumed around 7.1 trillion tokens. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison reportedly tried the model and called it “very impressive” in…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/24/2026 > coldcard-seed-vulnerability

Coldcard Seed Vulnerability Exposes Crypto Wallets to Risk

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (417+ words) Coinkite’s answer to the breach is a firmware rebuild that no longer lets a Coldcard generate a seed on device randomness alone. The company published the update in a blog post dated Thursday, telling owners of Mk4 and Mk5 devices to install…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/23/2026 > solana-slot-time-upgrade

Solana Slot Time Upgrade Cuts Mainnet Speed Delay

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (715+ words) Solana just shaved 50 milliseconds off the time it takes validators to produce a block, and it’s the first time the network has ever done it. The Solana slot time upgrade went live on mainnet Friday, cutting the target slot time…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/21/2026 > bouncebit-blockchain-attack

BounceBit Blockchain Attack Prompts Chain Shutdown

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (503+ words) BounceBit, the YZi Labs-backed crypto project, is pulling the plug on its own blockchain after a security breach exposed a weakness at the protocol level. The BounceBit blockchain attack allowed an intruder to move roughly 286.5 million BB tokens, valued at…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/19/2026 > cursor-launches-code-hosting

Cursor Launches Code Hosting with Origin Amid GitHub Outages

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (154+ words) GitHub’s troubles gave Cursor’s launch a backdrop it could not have scripted better. The incumbent’s recent stretch of outages has turned a routine infrastructure choice into a live source of frustration across the developer community, and that frustration is precisely…...

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en.cryptonomist.ch > 08/17/2026 > harmony-blockchain-rollback

Harmony Blockchain Rollback Targets Forged ONE Tokens

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (180+ words) To stop the old chain history from resurfacing, Harmony configured client version v2026.1.2 to reject the abnormal block hashes tied to the incident, blocking validators from reaccepting the compromised chain after the restart. Harmony said it’s made initial progress tracing the…...