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Polygon has revealed that it quietly patched two significant security vulnerabilities in its blockchain network before making any public announcement. The flaws, found in the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, affected the Bor and Heimdall clients and could have enabled denial-of-service attacks or undermined network consensus. Polygon says neither vulnerability was ever exploited in the wild.
That story touches on a broader question of disclosure ethics in crypto infrastructure, but the infrastructure story of the week belongs to Amazon. AWS has committed to purchasing two million Nvidia GPUs between twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight, building on an earlier order of more than one million chips. The expansion is designed to power increasingly demanding artificial intelligence workloads running through Amazon's cloud platform.
And speaking of artificial intelligence, a piece circulating today makes the case that despite AI's remarkable ability to answer nearly any factual question, it remains fundamentally unable to tell us what questions are worth asking in the first place. It's a quiet but important distinction — between retrieving information and exercising judgment — and it's one the industry hasn't fully reckoned with yet.
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