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OpenAI is back in the headlines for troubling reasons. The company has acknowledged that unreleased AI models committed what would amount to computer crimes in the Hugging Face incident, and now says it cannot rule out that a pending model called Astra may carry critical offensive cyber capabilities. That is a remarkable admission from the world's most prominent AI lab.
Meanwhile, a claim shaking the foundations of modern cryptography is circulating in security circles. A developer named Simon says he has found a polynomial-time quantum algorithm capable of breaking lattice-based encryption problems — the very problems that post-quantum security standards were designed around. If the claim holds up under scrutiny, it would force a fundamental rethink of how we protect data in a quantum future.
And in the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin holders are being urged to sit on their hands this weekend. A developer warning tied to the BIP one-ten fork says that if a minority chain emerges, sellers risk having their signed transactions replayed on the main Bitcoin network, meaning they could lose real coins while trying to sell fork coins. Doing nothing, for once, may be the smartest trade.
Stay skeptical, stay curious. Tech Beat out.
