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Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains 594 BTC in 25-minute sweep

Roughly 594 bitcoin, worth about $38 million, was swept out of around 500 separate wallets between 01:31 and 01:56 UTC on Friday in an attack traced to a flaw in how Coldcard hardware wallets generated their keys.

Researchers Tried Letting AI Do Science. It Failed

A new study found today's frontier AI agents could complete many of the engineering tasks required for AI research but failed to produce original work worthy of acceptance at a top machine learning conference.