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Ofcom has confirmed it will take no further legal action against a suicide forum operating in the UK, saying it has exhausted all available routes under the Online Safety Act. The decision has drawn sharp criticism from safety advocates, raising serious questions about whether the landmark legislation has the teeth its architects intended.
Shifting from regulatory limits to something altogether more alarming, Hugging Face has disclosed it was the target of a cyberattack unlike anything its security team had previously encountered. The attack was orchestrated end to end by an autonomous AI agent, which embedded malicious code inside a dataset, escalated privileges, and cycled through thousands of short-lived environments to evade detection. No public models or customer data were compromised, but the incident marks a troubling threshold in how AI can be weaponized offensively.
And on the crypto front, Tom Lee's company Bitmine has pulled back on its Ethereum buying strategy, redirecting eighty-six million dollars toward a stock buyback instead. The pivot reflects the repurchase of five and a half million common shares, signaling that even the most vocal digital asset believers are weighing capital allocation more carefully right now.
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