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Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has flagged a suspected exploit on Polymarket, the decentralized prediction market platform, involving around five hundred twenty thousand dollars on the Polygon network. The Polymarket team has responded saying user funds are safe, but the incident raises familiar questions about the security of decentralized finance infrastructure and who's watching when things go wrong.
Shifting to the UK, the government's digital ID ambitions may be facing an unexpected political obstacle. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, who has publicly opposed digital ID schemes citing the previous Labour government's troubled track record with large-scale data projects, is now a potential successor to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. If that transition happens, a flagship piece of digital policy could quietly die before it ever launches.
And on a lighter note, an AI image editing tool called Erase has been making the rounds, promising to remove unwanted objects from photos with minimal fuss. It's built on the Flux image model, and while the concept isn't new, the quality of results is drawing attention from designers and casual users alike, adding another tool to what is becoming a very crowded field.
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