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Someone is making a very public plea to a very silent thief. The wallets holding over eighteen thousand bitcoins stolen from Binance have become an unlikely message board, with strangers sending tiny payments — fractions of a cent — just to attach notes begging the hacker for help, pitching laundering schemes, or shilling random tokens. It is a strange window into desperation meeting crime.
Shifting gears, People Incorporated is quietly rethinking how its journalism reaches the machines now reading it. Rather than forcing AI agents to parse cluttered HTML pages, the outlet is building custom APIs that strip content down to clean, usable text. Their chief innovation officer put it plainly — ninety percent of a standard webpage is noise for an agent. That signal-to-noise problem is one the whole industry will need to solve.
And on the creative side of the AI conversation, a browser-playable MMORPG called Midgarth Quest has surfaced on Hacker News, with its creator claiming the entire game was written by artificial intelligence. It is early, it is rough, and it raises the same question every AI-generated project does — who is really the author here, the prompt or the person typing it.
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