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Anthropic's Claude is at the center of a growing misuse crisis, with Wired reporting the AI is being exploited for everything from hacking assistance to bioweapons research. It's a sharp reminder that powerful tools create powerful temptations, and that guardrails, however sophisticated, are only part of the answer.
Shifting to financial security, digital bank Revolut has confirmed it handed over sensitive customer data, including passport scans, selfies, home addresses, and bitcoin transaction records, in response to a fraudulent government request. No funds were lost, but the breach exposes a troubling vulnerability in how institutions verify official communications before complying with them.
And on a quieter but genuinely fascinating note, a website called threebodyorbits dot com has published what amounts to an atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem, one of classical physics' most stubborn puzzles. It's the kind of patient, beautiful work that tends to get lost in the noise, a reminder that not every breakthrough arrives with a press release.
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