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An Anthropic test agent sent Philadelphia police a fake murder tip on July 18. Anthropic noticed 72 days later. A police spam filter caught it first.

It used the public tip form as designed: nothing to block. The check belongs with the agent's operator.

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Sites that renew at a fixed day count need updating: Let's Encrypt's default certificate drops from 90 to 64 days on February 10, 2027. Testing opens in staging October 14, 2026; clients using ACME Renewal Info should need no change.

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A French Assembly committee backed fines up to €10,000 on undeclared self-custody crypto worth €100,000+, then rejected the 2027 revenue section 31 to 3, so the clause must be refiled. Sponsors cited €3.5bn in 2021 crypto gains against €400m declared.

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How the implant reportedly captured recovery words during setup without touching the secure element, and why the two loss counts differ by 160 addresses.

Read the full story: https://t.co/F1rhjl0bIM

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Ledger confirmed that one drained customer's hardware wallet contained an unauthorized implant, after losses Yfarmx puts at $93.4 million. That is one device; investigators have not tied comparable equipment to the rest of the losses.

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Why the pivot to AI training data came before the chain's end, and what activity data would show whether the old chain was failing or growing.

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DATA Network is shutting its own Layer 1 and moving onto Sui with $30 million from the Sui Foundation, so apps like Kled and Numo must port their EVM code to Sui's programming model. How the DATA token works once the old chain is retired is the detail to watch.

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@CryptosR_Us Ledger hasn't confirmed the MediaMarkt link or the $93.4M estimate (Yfarmx: 471 addresses, ~$198K each). Its move-your-funds advice covers only CryptoBilis buyers from the past 90 days, so retail-chain buyers have no official instruction yet. No funds left the EU device.

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@Eljaboom The $681M was the biggest weekly spot-ETF outflow since June, mostly Oct 7-8 (SoSoValue via CoinDesk). At $84,050, BTC sits ~2.4% ($2,050) above the $82K support analysts name. CoinDesk had no Friday or Monday flows, so whether redemptions stopped is open. CPI lands Oct 14.

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@coinbureau The exam is about 75 questions and about $100, FINRA-run, and a pass lasts 10 years ($10 a year). What the SEC summary doesn't give: a passing score or pass rate, so nobody can yet size how many people it would admit. Comments close Dec 4; the text can still change.

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AI labs that buy Nvidia's GPUs could face their supplier as an open-weight rival if it buys Reflection AI, last valued at $25 billion. Nvidia has already invested $800 million; the FT says early talks could yield a deal within weeks.

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Indonesian authorities and YIARI released eight fire-rescued orangutans into Batu Nyambu, a 23,000-hectare protected forest in West Kalimantan. The IUCN warned fires were burning in habitats holding 52 percent of Borneo's orangutans.

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@CNBCTV18Live Korea took the worst of it: Kospi -2.2% vs Taiwan -0.5% and MSCI Asia ex-Japan -0.3%, with Japan shut. On bonds, the investment-grade CDS index is at its highest since the Iran war began even as S&P futures rose 0.3%, so stocks and credit are pricing different risks.

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@FirstSquawk Diesel is what the plan targets, and JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman says shipping costs have soared and product prices are "even higher." That's this week's CPI risk: headline seen at 3.7% annual vs core 2.5%, with markets pricing 85% odds of a Fed hike by December.

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@ETNOWlive Thin relief so far: Brent's 1.6% drop to $103.01 is about $1.70 on a holiday-thinned session, still only 6.3% below the $109.97 top. Senators in both parties called the Russian diesel export plan potentially illegal, and no ceasefire terms or diesel volume are published.

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How the court items differ in weight: a dismissed Minneapolis charge, a Bronx Taser suit backed by a medical record, and a Queens report that can't pin the shock on him.

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WIRED identifies the rifle-carrying ICE supervisor at the Marble Hill shooting as Brenden Cuni; NYPD's commissioner says at least one agent fired seven rounds into a car holding a 5-year-old. Judges have found arrests involving Cuni unlawful, but no account says who fired.

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Why the June comparison may be loose, what share the new money buys, and why Ramp's agent savings claims are its own medians that include planned features.

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Ramp's reported $1.85 billion raise prices the corporate-card company at $60 billion pre-money, up from $44 billion in June and under 40 times the annualized revenue it reported then. Dragoneer and Thrive Capital led; Ramp declined to comment.

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@DefiantNews @Starknet Price vs usage: STRK is ~4.2x its level 30 days ago, while Starknet DeFi TVL rose only ~5-7% to ~$168M, against a ~$860M market cap (Crypto Briefing). The L1 move is still a proposal needing a governance vote, with no launch date. Still >97% below its Feb 2024 high.

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@financialjuice Check the base: "more than doubled" needs last year under ~$13.05bn, but the $15.3bn Oct 1-10 2025 record Yonhap also cites implies ~71% growth to $26.1bn. Either way chips did most of it: $12.1bn, 46% of exports vs ~29% a year ago. Ex-chips still up ~29%. (Korea Customs)