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A new report out today puts crypto scam losses among Americans at an estimated eighty point seven billion dollars in two thousand twenty five — roughly seven times the eleven point four billion in officially reported losses. The gap reflects a long-standing pattern: most fraud victims simply never come forward, making the true scale of the problem far larger than the headlines suggest.
In a development that will get cryptographers' attention, an AI system called Claude Mythos has reportedly broken post-quantum cryptography — the family of encryption standards the industry has been racing to deploy precisely because classical computers couldn't crack them. If confirmed, that puts a significant piece of the security infrastructure underpinning digital communications back under serious scrutiny.
Meanwhile, Samsung is quietly losing ground in the chip talent war. Engineers at its semiconductor division are leaving for rival SK Hynix in growing numbers, drawn by better prospects at a company that has surged ahead in high-bandwidth memory. It's a human story about morale, momentum, and what happens when a tech giant stumbles and its people start looking elsewhere.
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