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How was Binance hacked for 6.3 billion USD?
GenK12 minutes ago

How was Binance hacked for 6.3 billion USD?

**Binance's first incident report shows the hackers going through three engineers, a fake AI programming tool installation, a fake job interview, and an internal AI tool before withdrawing approximately $6.34 billion.** On November 3, Binance announced the first incident report about the theft on October 29, about 6.34 billion USD, equivalent to about 165 trillion VND, the largest hack in the history of digital currency exchanges. The...

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Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: A 280B MoE Base Model With 14B Active Parameters
MarkTechPostabout 6 hours ago

Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: A 280B MoE Base Model With 14B Active Parameters

Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, the raw pre-training checkpoint of its new sparse Mixture-of-Experts language model. ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is a 280B-parameter text model from Baidu that activates 14B parameters per token. The weights stop at the end of pre-training, with no mid- or post-training applied. This as a clean starting point for teams that want to compare fine-tuning, instruction tuning or RL methods from one checkpoint....

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OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?
TechCrunchabout 9 hours ago

OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?

Max Justicz, the chief technology officer and cofounder of the startup Charge Robotics, used an OpenAI model to find a severe vulnerability that — if exploited — could allow hackers to take control of servers running Ubuntu, a widely-used open-source Linux based operating system. Justicz, who has a hobbyist’s interest in cybersecurity and previously found a vulnerability in the same codebase, told TechCrunch that he found this issue using...

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What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Join theCUBE Nov. 10-12
SiliconANGLEabout 12 hours ago

What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Join theCUBE Nov. 10-12

### What to expect during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Join theCUBE Nov. 10-12 Kubernetes has emerged as the default container orchestration standard, a foundational platform layer across the enterprise. Will Kubernetes also play a central role in positioning the next generation of AI workloads for production? This is the question on the minds of the cloud-native community as it gathers this month for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Salt...

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Claude Code blocks remaking of existing games, devs who make their own games are also affected
GenKabout 20 hours ago

Claude Code blocks remaking of existing games, devs who make their own games are also affected

**Anthropic confirmed that it added two sentences to the Claude Code instructions when running Opus 5.5 to prevent rebuilding of existing games, while the programmer reported that even unrelated decompilations of the game were rejected.** Anthropic confirmed that it added two sentences to the Claude Code prompt when the tool runs the Claude Opus 5.5 model, to prevent AI from recreating someone else's existing game. Claude Code is a...

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Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster
MarkTechPostabout 20 hours ago

Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster

Together AI has introduced Together Compiler (TKCC), an agent-driven system that keeps re-optimizing inference as production traffic changes. Together Compiler already runs on several of Together’s serverless endpoints. The core claim for developers: an engine tuned once goes stale, so tuning should never stop. TL;DR System: It is an optimization system, tested on Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek v4.1 Flash and Llama 1B....

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DeepSeek tool and challenges for Vietnamese technology businesses
Dân Trí Sức Mạnh Số1 day ago

DeepSeek tool and challenges for Vietnamese technology businesses

# DeepSeek tool and challenges for Vietnamese technology businesses ## (Dan Tri) - Experts say the DeepSeek tool will create opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses; as well as users getting their own AI solutions; but there are still many challenges. The recent launch of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence tool has caused a wave of global panic and awakened Western tech giants that pride themselves on being at the...

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People who regularly transfer money should pay attention to the new notice from the police
GenK1 day ago

People who regularly transfer money should pay attention to the new notice from the police

**People and business households who have the habit of transferring money when making transactions need to be careful.** Recently, high-tech criminals have continuously used many new methods and tricks to defraud and appropriate property of people and businesses. Notably, subjects are taking advantage of loopholes in the process of using electronic payment devices to create fake transactions and deceive sellers. According to An Giang...

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Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
MarkTechPost1 day ago

Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

Ricursive Intelligence just released Ripple-65B Preview. Ripple-65B Preview is a 65B dense open-weight model from Ricursive, pretrained from scratch for agentic coding. It is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model behind Ricursive’s AI chip design platform. The main claim: 80.52 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the top self-reported score among US open-weight models. Every MoE rival it beats on that test carries 501B to 975B total...

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webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500
MarkTechPost1 day ago

webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500

webAI has released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model for math, code and instruction following. The TwIL-8B reasoning model is post-trained from IBM’s Granite 4.2 8B. Weights are on Hugging Face under a non-commercial license. webAI’s launch post frames the pitch around cost per task, not raw scale. The 4-bit build is 4.98 GiB, sized for CPU or modest-VRAM GPU inference. TL;DR Size: 8.79B parameters, dense. 131,072-token context, inherited...

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Arista’s record quarter shows the network has become central to AI
SiliconANGLE1 day ago

Arista’s record quarter shows the network has become central to AI

### Arista’s record quarter shows the network has become central to AI The artificial intelligence buildout is well underway, with much of the focus on silicon and compute hardware. The network is treated as plumbing, something you connect after the important decisions have been made. Arista Networks Inc.’s strong third-quarter results signaled greater awareness of the network’s critical role, and Arista is well-positioned to benefit from...

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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once
SiliconANGLE1 day ago

Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once

### Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor in a deal first reported today by Axios. Conductor confirmed it is joining Meta in a post on its website. Terms were not disclosed. Conductor’s software lets a developer run several coding agents at once, each in an isolated copy of the codebase, and then review and...

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OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer
SiliconANGLE1 day ago

OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer

### OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company Inc., a low-profile developer tooling startup. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Observers pegged it as a shot at Microsoft Corp.’s open-source software repository GitHub for the age of artificial intelligence agents. Pierre operates a cloud service that AI agents can use to store the code they...

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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
TechCrunch1 day ago

Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that allows users to spin up software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces. The news was originally reported by Axios, and Conductor shared news of its acquisition on its blog. “I have big news: Conductor is joining Meta,” wrote the startup’s founder and CEO, Charlie Holtz, on Wednesday. “We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface,” he added, teasing that...

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ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
The Verge1 day ago

ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs

ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI’s new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF’s animation speed, edit individual frames, and share it with others. # ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs You can use ChatGPT to edit a GIF’s animation speed and individual frames. Before this change, ChatGPT couldn’t natively generate GIFs in a single...

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Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV
Engadget1 day ago

Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV

# Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV The TVPort project is another example of people using Claude Code to bring software to other platforms Over the last several weeks, we've seen many instances of people using AI tools, particularly Claude Code, to recompile or clone software. Some have reverse engineered subscription-based apps, such as Adobe's Creative Cloud apps, to cobble together their own versions....

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Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code
AWS Machine Learning Blog1 day ago

Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code

When production AI agents handle tasks such as data analysis and report generation, context management can become a major bottleneck. A 200K-token window sounds generous until a real-world task burns through most of it in minutes. Data analysis and report generation leave the agent failing mid-execution, losing accuracy, or driving up costs. A body of published guidance already addresses this, but the individual techniques are easier to read...

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Exclusive: BlueFlag Security expands AI agent governance to cover unapproved coding agents
SiliconANGLE1 day ago

Exclusive: BlueFlag Security expands AI agent governance to cover unapproved coding agents

### Exclusive: BlueFlag Security expands AI agent governance to cover unapproved coding agents Software development security startup BlueFlag Security Inc. today expanded the artificial intelligence agent governance tools in its developer risk platform to cover unapproved coding agents, including those running on engineers’ laptops outside the code repository. The update also brings automated fixes for some of the risks the platform turns...

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Tencent WeVisOne-VL Unifies Detection, OCR, Segmentation and Matting
MarkTechPost2 days ago

Tencent WeVisOne-VL Unifies Detection, OCR, Segmentation and Matting

Tencent’s WeChat Vision team has released WeVisOne-VL, an open vision language model in 2B and 4B sizes. The WeVisOne-VL vision language model handles detection, referring, counting, pointing, OCR, segmentation and alpha matting in one model. Pixel outputs come from a 9.6M-parameter decoder, so no separate SAM is needed. It also answers “None” when a queried object is absent. For developers, that can replace a detector, an OCR engine and a...

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Autonomous site reliability engineering startup Traversal bags $120M in funding at a $1B valuation
SiliconANGLE2 days ago

Autonomous site reliability engineering startup Traversal bags $120M in funding at a $1B valuation

### Autonomous site reliability engineering startup Traversal bags $120M in funding at a $1B valuation Traversal Inc., a startup that’s trying to automate site reliability engineering tasks with artificial intelligence agents, seems to be closing in on that goal after raising $120 million in fresh funding, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The newly minted unicorn’s round was led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla...

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Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights
MarkTechPost2 days ago

Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed Weights

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has released FlashProve, an open-source research prototype for provable inference. FlashProve is a zkSNARK system from Anthropic that proves a reply came from a committed model. The proof reveals nothing about the model weights. On Llama 4 Maverick, a 400B mixture-of-experts model, it proves about 110 tokens/second on 1 H100. For developers, this targets a real gap: today you cannot check which model actually...

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Block shares rise after third-quarter beat and a third straight guidance raise
SiliconANGLE2 days ago

Block shares rise after third-quarter beat and a third straight guidance raise

### Block shares rise after third-quarter beat and a third straight guidance raise Shares of Block Inc. rose more than 7% in late trading today after the payments and financial services company beat third-quarter expectations and raised its full-year guidance for the third straight time. For the quarter that ended on Sept. 30, Block reported adjusted earnings of $1.13 per share, up from 54 cents in the same quarter of the previous year, on...

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CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity startups Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for reported $495M
SiliconANGLE2 days ago

CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity startups Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for reported $495M

### CrowdStrike to acquire cybersecurity startups Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for reported $495M CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today disclosed plans to buy Fiddler AI Inc. and Dreadnode Inc., two startups that specialize in securing artificial intelligence agents. The company announced the deals alongside an update to its Falcon Guardian product. The Wall Street Journal reported that CrowdStrike will spend $495 million on the acquisitions. Fiddler...

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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The Verge Tech2 days ago

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process that started with one developer downloading a tampered installer in June apparently spread by a malicious Google ad, exposing details about the engineers and how they work. Then, in September, another engineer was targeted by someone pretending to...

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