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A new threat actor tracked as Jinx-zero-one-six-four is targeting cryptocurrency firms with custom macOS malware. Security researchers say the campaign is sophisticated and purpose-built, a reminder that as digital assets grow in value, so does the patience and craft of the people trying to steal them.
Shifting from security to surveillance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is raising fresh alarms about license plate readers being repurposed for school residency checks and background inquiries. What started as a traffic enforcement tool keeps finding new uses, and critics argue that each expansion happens quietly, without meaningful public debate about where the boundaries should be.
And in AI research, a collaboration between Meta, Google, and several academic institutions has found a way to automate the design of reasoning strategies for large language models, cutting token usage by nearly seventy percent. That's not a small efficiency gain — it could meaningfully change the economics of running these systems at scale, and it raises the question of how much of AI development will itself become automated.
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