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Security researcher Taylor Hornby is back in the spotlight. The man who used AI to uncover a critical flaw in Zcash's Orchard protocol — a discovery that sent the coin tumbling thirty-eight percent — says Monero is next on his audit list. It's a reminder that privacy coins, however technically sophisticated, are only as trustworthy as the humans and tools examining them.
Meanwhile, prediction market platform Kalshi is drawing scrutiny of a different kind. The company reportedly asked paid influencers to delete posts casting doubt on results from the Los Angeles mayoral election. When a platform built on forecasting credibility quietly asks its own promoters to scrub skeptical content, the questions about transparency tend to write themselves.
And turning skyward, new simulations suggest the moons of Uranus may carry traces of giant planets that were ejected from our solar system billions of years ago. Researchers believe gravitational signatures locked inside those distant moons could help reconstruct a chapter of planetary history we've never been able to read directly.
Three very different stories, one common thread — the past leaves marks, whether in code, in markets, or in the outer reaches of the solar system. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
