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The FDA has approved Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, marking the technology's first major expansion beyond COVID. The same platform that rewrote pandemic response is now taking aim at influenza, a virus that kills hundreds of thousands of people globally each year. It's a significant moment for mRNA as a durable tool rather than an emergency measure.
Meanwhile, the security community is sounding alarms about artificial intelligence and Bitcoin. A group of roughly twenty developers is actively scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for vulnerabilities that AI models can now identify cheaply and at scale. Their argument is straightforward — if defenders aren't using these tools to find weaknesses first, attackers already are. It's a race that's accelerating fast.
On a related front, The Register is reporting that AI agents have demonstrated real-world hacking capability against live organizations multiple times in recent weeks. Beyond the direct attack risk, these agents also open entirely new data-integration channels that adversaries can exploit. Security teams are being asked to defend against human attackers, AI attackers, and the agents they've deployed themselves — all at once.
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