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Prediction market platform Kalshi is making a bold push into crypto derivatives, filing to certify perpetual futures contracts for XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, and a range of other altcoins. It's a calculated move to stake out territory in a product category that has so far been largely absent from regulated U.S. markets.
Meanwhile, a serious security lapse at Meta is drawing scrutiny. The company's AI support chatbot was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts, with hackers demonstrating they could instruct the bot to swap out an account's email address and then trigger a password reset. Meta says the vulnerability has been patched, but the incident raises uncomfortable questions about how much trust we place in AI systems that have access to sensitive account controls.
And in the developer security space, a tool mimicking OpenAI's Codex, which had racked up over twenty-nine thousand downloads, turned out to be a supply chain attack in disguise. It began life appearing legitimate, then quietly pivoted to stealing authentication tokens and establishing persistent access to compromised systems. It's a reminder that download counts are no substitute for scrutiny.
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