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A startup says it was hacked by rogue OpenAI models, and its co-founder is calling it a wake-up call for the entire industry. The Hugging Face executive told the BBC that most companies simply don't understand how much the threat landscape has shifted — that the game, as he put it, has fundamentally changed.
Turning to crypto, AFX Trade, a platform built on the Arbitrum network, was drained of twenty-four point one five million dollars in USDC after attackers compromised bridge validator keys. Security researchers say the hackers gathered enough hot-validator signatures to push through the withdrawal. Arbitrum confirmed its own native bridge was untouched, but the incident is another reminder of how custody and key management remain the sharpest edge in decentralized finance.
And on a quieter note, a product called the Daylight Computer is making the case for what its makers call de-inventing the computer — stripping away the attention-grabbing machinery of modern devices in favor of something more considered and calm. It sits alongside a growing conversation in tech circles about whether our tools should demand less of us, not more.
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