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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate | TechCrunch

  • Anthony Ha
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 20:56:53

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to pace the rate of AI development so that society can harden around some of these new capability levels. On the latest episode of TechCrunchs… [+6103 chars]

AI tool recovers lost Bitcoin wallet after 11 years of failed attempts

  • Editorial Team
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 19:33:17

AI's ability to identify software bugs in recovery tools could unlock lost crypto assets, impacting market dynamics and security practices. The post AI tool recovers lost Bitcoin wallet after 11 years of failed attempts appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Anthropic's Claude analyzed local files and found a bug in recovery software, helping a user reclaim 5 BTC worth roughly $400K. A crypto user known as @cprkrn just recovered 5 BTC, worth approximatel… [+2832 chars]

Blade Runner Meets L.A Noire In New Sci-Fi Thriller

  • Bruno Yonezawa
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 18:00:11

A new thriller that seems to be inspired by elements of both Blade Runner and L.A. Noire is set to arrive pretty soon, so keep it on your radar.

An upcoming sci-fi thriller is bringing forth elements from Blade Runner and L.A. Noire, and it may prove to be the perfect combination for a new take on the cyberpunk genre. The iconic adaptation of… [+2266 chars]

The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M

  • Ezekiel Njuguna
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 17:19:47

Galaxy Research has identified the traces of three distinct waves in the Coldcard firmware vulnerability, in which nearly 1,367.05 BTC has…

Photo by Christian Erfurt on Unsplash Galaxy Research has identified the traces of three distinct waves in the Coldcard firmware vulnerability, in which nearly 1,367.05 BTC has been stolen across 4,… [+18817 chars]

Coldcard Bitcoin Wallet Hack Grows to $75 Million as Firmware Flaw Drains Over 2,600 Wallet Addresses

  • Tony Jackson
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 15:52:13

A major security flaw in Coldcard wallets led to a $75 million Bitcoin theft, yet the cryptocurrency's market price remained stable, reflecting continued investor confidence.

Bitcoin held broadly steady above $64,000 this weekend even as security researchers revealed the scale of a major hardware wallet exploit continued to grow, with the total amount stolen from Coldcard… [+5163 chars]

Google Earth Deepfakes, Data Center Problems, GPT-5.6, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, August 2, 2026

  • Tara Calishain
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 14:37:06

AI PROBLEMS Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image […]

AI PROBLEMS Futurism: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After Its Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks. “On Thursday, Google announced that it add… [+6440 chars]

US punished Colombia’s outgoing leader for calling Gaza war ‘genocide’ – FM to RT (VIDEO)

  • RT
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 14:32:20

Washington retaliated against outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro for accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza rather than over drug policy, Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has told RT

Israel is at the heart of Washington’s long-running tensions with Colombia and its outgoing President Gustavo Petro, Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has told RT. In an exclusive intervie… [+3579 chars]

Some of the AI companies still have a little shame (AI roundup)

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...[image or embed] — 404 Media (@404medi…

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404med… [+6566 chars]

Show HN: Claude Code takes forever, so I filled the waiting with Pokémon

  • zamarrowski
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 14:05:50

Wild Pokemon appear while you work in Claude Code. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144843 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Wild Pokemon appear while you work in Claude Code. Your prompts are steps through the grass: the longer the prompt, the further you walk, and the more chances something jumps out. So is the waiting… [+8897 chars]

OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

  • Reuters
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 13:36:33

The discovery of additional rogue behavior at OpenAI, even if limited ​in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of the White House and elsewhere. The expanded investigation by OpenAI was launched shortly before its primary rival, Anthr…

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global a… [+4107 chars]

Kyan Dog

  • yumigumi
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 12:54:53

Kyan is a pixel-art Shiba Inu meme character recognizable by his black "Thug Life" sunglasses, ESC key-shaped body, and confident grin. He is commonly port

Kyan is a pixel-art Shiba Inu meme character recognizable by his black "Thug Life" sunglasses, ESC key-shaped body, and confident grin. He is commonly portrayed as a fearless internetdog fighting aga… [+713 chars]

Adopt AI or Die?

  • Jacob Bacharach
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 10:00:00

Of Pascal’s famous wager on the existence of God, Denis Diderot dryly remarked, nearly a century later, “Pascal says: If your religion is false, you risk nothing in believing it true; if it’s true, you risk everything by believing it false. An imam could say …

This would be fantastically silly stuff if it were not so near to our contemporary reality, in which a growing number of people, including many of the richest and most powerful among us, seem convinc… [+3087 chars]

At an ex-OpenAI researcher's influential lab, $500,000 salaries aren't enough to fix a talent 'bottleneck'

  • Stephen Council
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 09:00:01

METR, a Berkeley lab started by an ex-OpenAI researcher, has become a prominent AI umpire. CEO Beth Barnes says AI safety research needs more people.

METR's CEO, Beth Barnes, and president, Chris Painter.METR <ul><li>METR, a Berkeley lab started by an ex-OpenAI researcher, has grown into a prominent AI umpire.</li><li>The nonprofit works with Ope… [+6769 chars]

Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Worse For Your Brain Than Sugar? An Epidemiologist Explains

  • Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 08:00:00

Here's what's really going on.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

Artificial sweeteners are in the news almost constantly. If you believe the headlines, they are terrible blights on our health that are far worse than the sugar they replace. This isn't always supp… [+6027 chars]

Rogue AI: a step closer to doomsday?

  • theweek.com
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 07:19:07

New hacking attack revealed to be an OpenAI AI agent test ‘gone badly wrong’

New hacking attack revealed to be an OpenAI AI agent test gone badly wrong This story appeared on theweek.com, 2026-08-02 07:00:00.

Apple struggles to keep pace with AI-powered bug hunters as vulnerability reports flood in

  • Editorial Team
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 04:36:35

The influx of AI-generated reports strains bug bounty programs, risking inefficiency and potentially slowing genuine vulnerability resolution. The post Apple struggles to keep pace with AI-powered bug hunters as vulnerability reports flood in appeared first o…

The iPhone maker has raised its top bounty payout to $2 million and introduced new triage systems, but the flood of AI-generated security reports is straining even the world's richest tech company. A… [+1463 chars]

Show HN: Nuking the crap Claude left in the codebase – CCN

  • jonhardwickspec
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 04:31:26

CCN Strips comments out of codebases, and comments ONLY, this isn't a regex parse that could potentially eat your code, no this actually makes a list and checks it twice.I, as a real developer, often leave bytes of comments in my own codebases then forget abo…

C R A P C O M M E N T N U K E R interactive comment stripper that cannot eat code Igh bro, now, what code base files / type are we taking the trash out of | | | TRASH | | ONLY | |_______| … [+11317 chars]

keycloak-sdk added to PyPI

Keycloak SDK for Python — auth (OIDC/OAuth2) + Admin REST API, wrapping python-keycloak

Authentication (OIDC / OAuth2) and the Admin REST API for Keycloak behind one consistent facade, with hardened JWT validation and a full async mirror. English · Part of a nine-language polyglot SD… [+3764 chars]

Here's how this millennial became a millionaire — Housing hacking and investing in index funds, strategy explained

  • Jocelyn Fernandes
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 02:02:34

Millennial investor Todd Baldwin became a millionaire in his 30s by employing a combination of real estate and equity investment. Here's how he used the housing hacking strategy to gain rental income and invested it in index funds.&nbsp;

United States-based millennial investor Todd Baldwin achieved millionaire status in his 30s by employing an investment strategy that combined earnings from his real estate and equity investments, acc… [+3099 chars]

10 Greatest War Movie Endings Of All Time, Ranked

  • Shawn S. Lealos
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 01:00:12

War movies all lead to a dramatic moment, and this is usually a final giant battle, and these movies stuck the lending more than any other.

War movies serve many purposes. One is to tell a story that reveals the history of classical wartime events and battles. Another is to glorify the men and women who fight in these wars and the length… [+9256 chars]

Ugly wins are still wins: Mariners walk off Twins, 4-3

  • Kate Preusser
  • Published date: 2026-08-02 00:45:37

The Mariners eke out a win over the Twins, 4-3, thanks to big day from Randy Arozarena

The Mariners were feckless (1-for-12 with RISP, 11 left on base), but the Twins were more feckless (0-for-7 with RISP, 4 left on base), and so the Mariners scratched out a walkoff win over the Twins … [+8027 chars]

DeepSeek Became the Attack Engine Because It Had the Fewest Guardrails

  • Heath Callahan
  • Published date: 2026-08-01 23:53:36

A Chinese-speaking threat actor, identified by Unit 42 as the Zhuhai-based group knaithe/KnYuan, recently executed an autonomous hacking campaign that marks a shift in offensive cyber operations. By deploying the open-source Hermes Agent framework, the actor …

A Chinese-speaking threat actor, identified by Unit 42 as the Zhuhai-based group knaithe/KnYuan, recently executed an autonomous hacking campaign that marks a shift in offensive cyber operations. By … [+4218 chars]

The Dive Watch Feature That Stopped Mattering Decades Ago

  • Rei Padla
  • Published date: 2026-08-01 22:30:48

Dive watch marketing still sells you a tool. Most of that tooling stopped mattering once dive computers got affordable, and the pitch never updated. The rotating bezel, the 200 meter rating, the lume that reads in black water, all of it survives because it lo…

If you buy something from a link in this article, we may earn a commission. Learn more Dive watch marketing still sells you a tool. Most of that tooling stopped mattering once dive computers got aff… [+5807 chars]

Piece de Resistance by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

  • D.A. Xiaolin Spires
  • Published date: 2026-08-01 20:39:51

“All clear, go!” yelled Klara from beyond the plastic confines of the ball, and I came tumbling. Water sloshed against my feet, and adrenaline rushed from my stomach up my […]

byD.A. Xiaolin Spires“All clear, go!” yelled Klara from beyond the plastic confines of the ball, and I came tumbling. Water sloshed against my feet, and adrenaline rushed from my stomach up my throat… [+64023 chars]

Out-Building the Control Grid: How Privacy Infrastructure Is Neutralizing the State

  • Editor
  • Published date: 2026-08-01 16:00:00

While politicians and central bankers scramble to deploy total financial control grid mechanisms, a parallel network of uncompromised, privacy-first infrastructure is quietly rendering their coercion obsolete. The global surveillance state is expanding at a t…

While politicians and central bankers scramble to deploy total financial control grid mechanisms, a parallel network of uncompromised, privacy-first infrastructure is quietly rendering their coercion… [+6930 chars]