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I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online. It then creates a profile of the person, maps all of their social connections, and finds all their emails. Tomorrow morning, my AI agent will sent out an email blast to everyone's extended social network, detailing the horrible things they've said about me.

look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.

Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000(!) employees. Headcount and revenue growth is really starting to diverge at tech companies.

A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started. Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now. Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue. We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months. Why? Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value. Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value? What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?! The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED! Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets! No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone. No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS! Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity. This should be obvious to everyone right now. Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.

We owe you an apology. On October 20, we detected unauthorized access to our official website. After verifying API activity with Shopify, we confirmed on October 23 that a third party obtained customer shipping information. You trusted us with those details, and we're sorry we didn't keep them safe. Exposed: names, contact details, shipping addresses, and order details (items and prices). Not exposed: payment card or bank details, recovery phrases, private keys, or wallet passwords. We've blocked access, fixed the vulnerability, opened an investigation, and are emailing affected customers. Scammers may pose as Keystone by phone, text, email, or mail, offering refunds, replacement devices, or "fixes" for your order or address. None of it is from us. NEVER share your recovery phrase or private keys, and NEVER enter your recovery phrase into a device you didn't order. We will never ask for them. Don't click links in unexpected messages. Type http://keyst.one yourself. A detailed report is coming soon. Until then, trust only our official channels. If anything feels off, email support@keyst.one. We'd rather hear from you than have you take a chance. Again, we're truly sorry to everyone affected.

I am okay with Kimi 3.1 deliberately leaving out top-end offensive cyber capabilities from their training data. Discriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users. And the world does need all the time it can get to prepare, harden, check old code, (properly) formally verify new code, etc before the full weight of very powerful cyber attacks is upon us. And if this first big wave of AI risk is not handled well, then we may well get a dystopia of highly locked down models, KYC gating on everything, highly intrusive surveillance on everything, a society where you may be a second or third or fourth-class citizen in terms of model access based on your credentials and nationality.

V12 found 25 vulnerabilities in the x402 protocol. Critical findings included: - Requests approved without any payment - Maliciously high requests being paid by default - Session takeover from relayed login signatures Here's how. 🧵

Important update for the entire XMTP community: XMTP is becoming an open-source messaging stack you can run yourself. Please read this post for all of the details, changes, and plans for the future https://blog.xmtp.org/future-of-xmtp/

GM! Today on @farcaster_xyz Resistance HQ Diaries: Staryear 2026 | Day 11 of the Resistance Dear diary, I regret to inform you that we have uncovered a rather disturbing situation. We are grateful our fellow peasant @GeesMike who built an app to remind us of our sacred duty to obey the Network Code and help us understand how FREEDOM works. But perhaps the Code only applies to us peasants? Looks like our Supreme Leader has been violating his own sacred code! 7 charges. 2 felonies. 5 infractions! 🤯 According to the sacred code, the punishment for a felony is BAN. Very reasonable. We, the peasants fully support law and order. I feel deeply deceived. The overwhelming outpouring of support for our democratically democratic digital democracy has been overshadowed by this unfortunate discovery. And now we also face a constitutional crisis. Who bans the man who invented the bans? 🤷‍♀️ I invite my fellow peasants to examine @balajis docket and help us navigate this unprecedented constitutional emergency. Together, we must find a way to BAN BALAJI FROM FARCASTER and keep it family friendly. Long live the Network Code! 🔥 app link below, to be continued…

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…

Hackers managed to steal authentication keys for devices made by @KeystoneWallet I don't understand one thing here however. During manufacturing, as part of the factory self test in initial boot you have the device generate & save a private key on its own, and take note of the public key. If you have private keys to be stolen, it means that *somehow* a copy of the key exists outside of the secure element on the device? If the manufacturing process involves each device's private key existing outside of the device, there's something that needs urgent improvement. Have the device generate the key and include its own public key as part of its self test report, not the other way around.

🧵Yesterday may prove to be a turning point for security. AI is making vulnerability research dramatically faster. This favors attackers: they can find vulns and exploits at machine speed, while organizations must still inventory systems, test updates, and deploy patches without breaking production. PHP2Shell shows what that looks like. On August 11, researchers reported critical flaws in PHP runtime. They had existed for more than a decade and affects versions from PHP 5.4. An unauthenticated attacker could potentially execute code remotely, read process memory containing passwords, tokens, and API keys...🫠 Both vulnerabilities are rated CVSS 9.2. PHP powers roughly 70% of websites, totalling millions of servers. The researchers disclosed the bugs responsibly. Fixing them took about 70 days. The fix touchs 300+ files and changed nearly 12,000 lines. These were not simple mistakes. The disclosure then broke down. Amazon saw an apparent exploitation attempt on October 17, four days before the public release. This indicates a first leak. On October 20, the CVE identifiers leaked. The next morning, a supplier with advance access published patched container images more than six hours early, giving attackers a chance to study the fix while most defenders were still waiting. The official releases arrived at 14:00 UTC. Exploitation followed immediately. Cloudflare reported thousands of attempts in the ten hours before the announcement, tens of thousands in the first 45 minutes, hundreds of thousands within two hours, and millions later that day. Organizations that could not patch immediately had incomplete options: WAF rules, isolation, or taking services offline. Government portals, universities, and hospitals across Europe did exactly that. Large teams with accurate inventories and automated deployment could respond in hours. Many others still do not know where PHP is running: an old site, a vendor appliance, a forgotten container, or an unsupported internal application. AI did not make software insecure. It always was insecure. AI just changed the economics of finding and exploiting bugs and compressed the gap between disclosure and mass exploitation from days to minutes. Patching faster will not be enough. Critical systems need continuous inventory, automatic updates, isolation, memory-safe languages where possible. Our last bastion is software whose security can be demonstrated rather than assumed: formal verification, cryptography, memory-safe architectures, and secure hardware. The era in which complexity provided accidental protection is ending. PHP2Shell is not an isolated crisis. It is a preview.

This is insane. We cannot allow AI agents to go into your bank account and act independently without your authorization. But that is what’s happening right now. Left unchecked, AI could endanger the entire global financial system — including your bank account. Pause AI NOW!

Art Basel Paris 2026: a reality check for digital art. After speaking with Karim Crippa, the fair’s new director, one thing stuck with me: the Grand Palais wasn’t ready to host #Zero10 due to space constraints. But is space really the whole story? My take 🧵

🚨 Blockaid detected an ongoing exploit on X100 on Ethereum. An attacker seized two of three Senate seats and sold 400,000 X from the treasury into an empty pool they created. A second attacker later burned the Freezer’s Uniswap V3 positions. ~$4.85M USDT realized so far across 2 txs. Attack still ongoing.

clanker will be maintained by the @masknetwork / Firefly team moving forward they have exciting plans and strong partners lined up to support clanker’s next chapter for things going forward, please reach out to @suji_yan thank you all for your continued support clank clank

Get your funds off any Solana or SVM chains and move them to Ethereum Mainnet. f5df29e4e18d99626f6676cfebfd026f86ff2e14643b5391d7c8df22f18e2494 https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave

pov: your wallet is signing stuff you never signed off on Rabby Wallet quietly hooks every new wallet up to their own Hyperliquid ref code. 47,122 wallets already roped in, Debank going paid next? Arkham style?)

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and http://Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

Two weeks ago we launched the Safenet Aegis protocol and last week it was integrated in Safe{Wallet}. This is a big milestone we delivered right before Devcon. As AI accelerates attacks on self-custody, we have to build better defences. Defence paradigms today are just UI warnings, and they won’t be enough. Safenet wants to replace the warning with a verdict from independent security firms, attested onchain and enforced on the account itself. The release has gone through audits and the Safenet Guard has gone through formal verification. Aegis is the first release that checks real transactions, enforces the result on the account, and pays the Sentinels doing the work. It is now live on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Gnosis Chain. With the Safe{Wallet} integration that went live last week the checks are present in the UI. Next will be the Guard enforcement integration. The next phases on the roadmap will be about running and scaling the network. Q1 2027 puts the network under more throughput, scales arbitration and iterates on the token model based on real data. Beyond that, more wallets, networks and specialized Sentinels are on the roadmap: https://docs.safefoundation.org/safenet-… Thanks to the Sentinels and Validators who committed to building with us. Thanks to you, we have a new innovation in defensive tech against the rising attacks on self-custody. Read more: https://safefoundation.org/blog/safenet-… Reach out if you want to run a Sentinel or a Validator: http://contact.safenet.xyz

As we continue to work with our security partners and Seal911 to fully secure our infrastructure, we have paused deposits and withdrawals for swETH and rswETH. The next step to resume normal operations is to return NAV to the correct value, after which we will resume deposits and withdrawals. All funds are safe, and we are working carefully with our security partners to resume operations securely. We advise you to exercise increased vigilance at this time and to follow only communications from official channels. Events like this can lead to an increase in phishing attempts.