Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Polygon disclosed security flaws in Bor and Heimdall clients patched by Austin and Kyoto hard forks. The vulnerabilities included denial-of-service and validator resource exhaustion risks. No exploits were observed on mainnet, but all node operators must update their clients. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Cronos validators restored the network to a point before a $120.4M exploit against Tectonic, erasing about $111M of attacker-controlled funds. Roughly $8.3M had already been bridged to Ethereum before the network halted. The attacker manipulated TONIC's price feed through repeated borrowing. Tectonic now plans a phased reopening starting with withdrawals and repayments. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after a small number of validators claimed CORE rewards far above the protocol’s intended issuance. The project says the incident is contained and will not trigger a rollback, though several exchanges have restricted CORE deposits and withdrawals. The team has not yet disclosed the total amount of excess tokens issued or the precise vulnerability behind the exploit, but it has promised a technical postmortem. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Harmony proposes sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and moving ONE to Ethereum after an exploit. The plan calls for a final snapshot, an ERC-20 airdrop, and exchange migration. Users must exit smart contracts by Sept. 10, while validators can begin shutting down that day. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum London-based Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power and buy a stake in the humanoid robotics maker. The deal covers up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs and may expand beyond $6bn. Nvidia, which is an investor in both companies, helps create a closed loop in which robots train on Nvidia chips and run on Nvidia hardware. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The $1.5bn class-action settlement with Anthropic promises up to $3,000 for each of more than 482,000 pirated books. But authors and publishers have begun filing competing claims over the same titles. Many writers are discovering their publishers will get a share, sometimes most of the payout. Ownership dates and decades-old contracts now decide who gets what. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum OpenAI’s chief scientist published an essay warning that the field is not ready to scale AI at maximum speed. The warning was accompanied by internal metrics showing agents now perform more than three workdays for every human workday. A compute restriction redirected resources to other tasks, raising questions about whether voluntary safety limits can truly slow progress. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Invisible Unicode characters that made AI assistants follow hidden instructions have shown up in a massive spam campaign. Microsoft researchers detected tag characters inserted into the middle of the word 'funding.' The campaign sent millions of messages, but most were caught by existing filters. The episode shows how AI-era techniques can trickle down to ordinary cybercrime. View more
Sep 07, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Kenya bet on digital outsourcing as a route to economic opportunity. Then ChatGPT launched and wiped out a 40,000-job essay-writing industry in Nairobi. This story follows the workers who built it, the policy behind it, and what the collapse signals for AI’s broader reach. View more
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