For years, Australians have been warned that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs. So far, the economy-wide wave of AI-driven layoffs hasn’t arrived. A new Australian government analysis found no evidence that AI has caused broad upheaval across the country’s labour market since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022. But beneath that reassuring headline is…
Key Takeaways Report volume remains on pace to triple from last year. Only 4% of first-half reports submitted through Hackerone were valid paid bugs. Human researchers uncovered a Stellar flaw that AI missed. Why Are Coinbase’s Bug Reports Surging? Human reviewers face a growing screening burden as inexpensive AI tools allow security researchers to scan…
A new U.S. survey has found that 79% of prediction-market users lost money during the past year, while 51% used borrowed funds to place bets. Summary 79% of users reported losses, including 27% who lost more than $500. Among users who borrowed money, 88% reported losses, compared with 69% of non-borrowers. 53% joined for income-related…
Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you’re really passionate about something. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. For Filipinos, especially crypto users receiving money from abroad or transferring funds across borders, moving digital dollars on the blockchain, particularly via non-custodial wallets, has long come with a frustrating chore: to send standard stablecoins…
Harmony’s ONE token plunged sharply on Aug. 12 after the Layer-1 blockchain suffered a suspected exploit that reportedly allowed an attacker to mint roughly 4 billion ONE without authorization. The newly created tokens represent about 26% of the roughly 15 billion ONE that were circulating before the incident, raising concerns about a sudden increase in…
Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands experienced the path of totality, while the rest of the country saw a partial eclipse. The solar corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase, as seen from San Asensio in the…
Key Takeaways On Aug. 8, BIP-110 failed after drawing only 2.5% miner support, triggering a chain split at block 961,632. Industry leaders like Leo Fan noted Bitcoin’s difficulty rules successfully halted minority forks. Disillusioned nodes using Bitcoin Knots are planning a hard fork to adopt a brand-new PoW algorithm. A Fracture in Node Sovereignty In…
Anchorpoint Financial has appointed HashKey Exchange as an authorized distributor for its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin HKDAP, giving eligible institutions and professional investors access to minting, redemption, and fiat conversion during the token’s beta rollout. Summary HashKey has joined HKDAP Beta Access as an authorized distribution partner. Eligible institutions and professional investors can access HKDAP…
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable…
