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A Ukrainian cybercrime unit has dismantled a crypto scam operation that investigators say was pulling in up to one million dollars a month. Sixty-two victims have been identified so far, and authorities say more than forty-six Ukrainians were involved in running the alleged scheme. It's a reminder that crypto fraud remains very much a local, human enterprise.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a service called A-slash-I has announced it's shutting down, with a parting message that simply reads: stay human. The announcement drew significant attention on Hacker News, generating nearly one hundred thirty comments. Whether that's irony or sincerity, it landed — and it says something about the growing unease around where this technology is heading.
And on the more experimental end of the AI world, a project called Openvurp has surfaced on GitHub. It's a framework where AI agents run on your local machine and can actually ask each other for help to complete tasks. It's early and quiet so far, but the idea of autonomous agents collaborating on your own hardware is the kind of architecture worth watching as these systems grow more capable.
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