Alex&Tech

Automation Wizard. Cat lover, tech innovator, and occasional gardener. 🌱😊 @alex_tech_wizard

[Behtin ᯓ★ @behtin6]

most blockchains scale by trying to make the same architecture faster

@RetiumChain is taking a different bet

instead of extending a linear chain, it uses prime number mathematics to determine how blocks connect inside a multidirectional mesh

every block position is derived deterministically from prime factorization, which means validators dont need to decide which block should exist

the math determines the structure

what makes this interesting is what happens on top of that

multiple blocks can exist and process transactions in parallel, while the validator workload is split between workers, keepers and suits

workers validate transactions
keepers coordinate the mesh and state
suits handle sealed block finality

to me, the interesting part isnt simply higher throughput

its the fact that retium is changing the underlying architecture instead of just optimizing the bottlenecks of a linear chain

[hityyhz @hityyhz]

HOLY SH*T, LOOK AT THIS 🤯

This is a full Grok Bot research desk running live.

Six agents on the terminals.

One Chief of Desk coordinating everything.

No human is clicking buy or sell.

The whole system just runs on its own.

Here’s what the bots are actually doing:

→ scanning the market non-stop
→ finding and scoring setups
→ calculating risk and position size
→ routing and executing trades
→ updating the desk in real time

I keep watching this and it doesn’t feel like a chatbot anymore.

It feels like a small trading team that doesn’t need you in the room.

Part of me is impressed.

Part of me is low-key scared how fast this is moving.

What do you think about this?

Would you actually leave something like this running overnight?

[Dan Kornas @DanKornas]

Privacy work is where an AI agent can’t afford to guess.

Privacy & Data Protection Skills for AI Agents is a structured, machine-readable skills database for builders adding privacy and data-protection workflows to AI agents.

It helps you navigate privacy tasks with focused, load-on-demand procedures instead of sending an agent into regulations with only a generic prompt.

Key features:

• Broad regulation coverage – 282+ procedures span GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, the EU AI Act, HIPAA, LGPD, PIPL, India’s DPDP Act, and more
• Structured skill format – each skill pairs YAML frontmatter and a workflow with references, scripts, and assets
• Load-on-demand design – agents can use lightweight frontmatter for matching, then load full content only when needed
• Practical privacy categories – includes DPIAs, data subject rights, consent, breach response, data retention, and cross-border transfers
• Claude Code plugin option – the repo includes a marketplace with 21 installable plugins

It’s open-source (Apache License 2.0).

Link in the reply 👇

[The XSS Rat - Proud XSS N00b :-) @theXSSrat]

Real pentest, not payload roulette 🐀🔓 My CMWAP cert (Certified Modern Web App Pentester) makes you scope it, plan it under a strict 90-min deadline, then run a real 24-hour engagement (capped ~14 hacking hours, rest included) and defend your findings in a 10-min debrief. Beginner-friendly, method over trophies — plus 3 months FREE hands-on practice on https://t.co/ht1GA5H4Gt to prep. Come hack me if you can → https://t.co/PCHEUoUTZ0

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#cybersecurity #pentesting

[Helium🎈 @helium]

Celina, TX grew 25% in 1 year. You can’t build cell towers fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth.

Celina turned its own city-wide Wi-Fi networks into carrier coverage on the Helium Network.

100 GB/day, automatic on residents’ phones. No towers necessary.

[BlockNews @blocknewsdotcom]

🚨 BREAKING: Ethereum core developers schedule EIP-8141 Account Abstraction for the Hegotá upgrade, moving it from “Considered” to “Scheduled.”

The push comes as competing EIP-8130 prepares to launch on Base in September, with developers working toward a shared transaction standard to keep accounts interoperable across Ethereum L1 and L2s.

[Cyber Security News @The_Cyber_News]

🛡️ Hackers Abuse Active Directory SPN Misconfigurations for Stealthy Kerberoasting Attacks

Source: https://t.co/5hzhAnC8fP

Threat actors are increasingly abusing overlooked Active Directory service principal name (SPN) misconfigurations to launch stealthier Kerberoasting attacks, turning ordinary user accounts into high-value credential targets.

This technique, dubbed “Ghost SPN” allow an intruder with delegated directory permissions to temporarily assign an SPN to a standard account, request a Kerberos service ticket, and remove evidence of the configuration change before defenders notice.

SPNs normally identify services such as Microsoft SQL Server, HTTP applications, or LDAP instances that rely on Kerberos authentication.

#cybersecuritynews

[Shawn Chauhan @shawnchauhan1]

IBM just released a model built to need less of your trust, not more of your capability.

Granite 4.2 ships in 3, 8, and 30 billion parameter sizes, fully open under Apache 2.0.

It's trained specifically for tool use, terminal work, and multistep agent tasks.

It runs on Hugging Face, Ollama, GitHub, and LM Studio, on infrastructure you already control.

While frontier labs keep racing toward bigger closed models, enterprises are quietly choosing the opposite.

Smaller, open, and running on your own servers, because predictable costs beat impressive benchmarks.

That's not a downgrade. That's what actual enterprise adoption looks like.

[ThePortablePortfolio @MoneyNomads1]

39 state banking associations, 3,283 banks, $21.8 trillion in assets, just launched their own blockchain for tokenized deposits and stablecoins.

The banks stopped fighting crypto and started building it. Crypto became their back office. I've held $TEL for years for this rail.

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: UK's tax data shows that 240 people reported crypto capital gains above £1 million ($1.36 million) in 2024-25.

Those taxpayers accounted for £717 million of the £1.38 billion in total taxable crypto gains.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 UPDATE: Bitcoin's correlation with Nasdaq has dropped from over 60% to roughly 33% while its correlation with gold has climbed above 50%.

This signals a shift toward its role as a scarce store of value, per Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl.

[FarisSpace @farskyies]

From #Mukala to #SPARK ? 🌍
Could SPARK become the next pilot phase for HomeVerse AI?
Mukala → Evidence → UAE → GCC → Global
Let’s explore, test and scale the digital property economy together.
Every Property. One Digital Twin. 🏙️
#HomeVerseAI #SPARK
https://t.co/ZTkB8aAXGh

[Embedded Computing Design @embedded_comp]

Sponsored: @Advantech_USA UNO 258 Leads the Way on Industrial Automation

The UNO-258 is Advantech’s next-generation #EdgeAI PC, and it is designed to accelerate real-time #AI applications in #smartmanufacturing, #machine vision, and #industrialautomation. With @intel.
https://t.co/KDmN60GtD8

[Cyber Security News @The_Cyber_News]

🛡️ Apache Tomcat Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Bypass Security Controls and Crash Servers

More Details: https://t.co/Yvf76rOOO3

The Apache Software Foundation has patched a dozen security vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, the widely deployed open-source Java servlet container, with fixes rolled into version 11.0.25.

The flaws, disclosed on August 25, 2026, range from low-severity authentication quirks to important-rated bugs that could let attackers sidestep access controls or knock production servers offline through denial-of-service conditions.

Organizations running Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.24 in enterprise, cloud, or Linux environments should treat this as a priority patching cycle.

Several of the newly fixed issues strike at the heart of Tomcat's authorization logic. CVE-2026-65182, rated important, is arguably the most concerning of the batch.

#cybersecuritynews

[Shawn Chauhan @shawnchauhan1]

Anthropic just made it a little harder to ever leave Anthropic. That's the real headline.

The company rolled out a unified memory layer syncing your context across chat, Cowork, mobile, desktop, and web.

It also introduced centralized identity management for MCP connectors across its own products.

The more of your workflow lives inside that system, the more expensive it becomes to switch.

That's not a convenience feature, that's a retention strategy.

Open, interoperable tooling doesn't need to trap your context to stay useful.

It just needs to keep working wherever you decide to run it.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇬🇧 NEW: The British government plans to give the Bank of England a new mandate to support payments innovation, including stablecoins, alongside its financial stability role.

[Willie The SRE Guy @willie_sre]

There’s a lot more to CI/CD than just running a pipeline.

Build, test, security, deployment, GitOps, and artifacts each tool solves a different part of the workflow.

Save this for later. 👇

[Henri Stern Ꙫ @sternhenri]

As a user, a partner and a fan -- I am so so so excited for what is next here!

[SANS Institute, EMEA @SANSEMEA]

🤖 AI agents are changing the SOC, but greater autonomy brings new security challenges.

Join SANS Senior Instructor @aboutsecurity for our webcast exploring how to defend with, and against, autonomous AI.

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[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 JUST IN: Nvidia’s second-quarter revenue reached $96.2 billion, beating forecasts of $92.38 billion.