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A team at Shanghai AI Lab says most AI errors stem not from bad models but from thin prompts. Their solution—“context engineering”—shows that giving language models richer background information leads to better results.
WhiteBIT released a report saying that social engineering scams remain the top threat to crypto users. The report shows that 40.8% of crypto security incidents this year involved scammers tricking victims through fake investment opportunities or impersonation. Technical wallet attacks (such as phishing, malicious software or keyloggers) accounted for 33.7%.
According to Bloomberg, Binance and Kraken suffered a similar social engineering attack to Coinbase, but the two exchanges successfully defended against the breach of customer data. According to sources, the hackers had bribed Binance customer service staff and directed them to contact the designated Telegram account, while Binance detected and blocked potential bribery conversations through an AI system.
OpenAI has announced the launch of CODEX Research Preview, a cloud-based software engineering agent. Codex will be available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise and Team users on Friday, and will also be available soon for Plus and Education users. Codex access will be available to users at no additional cost in the coming weeks. Limited access and flexible pricing plans will be available after the free usage ends.
xAI engineers say the Grok voice assistant is currently being refined and will be available to users in the coming weeks.
On February 10, according to the Guardian, James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, UK, has spent a decade trying to find a 600 million-pound bitcoin fortune he believes is buried in a municipal dump in south Wales, and he is considering buying the site in order to find the missing wealth. James Howells lost his case in the UK High Court last month, failing to force Newport City Council to allow him to search the dump to retrieve a hard drive he claims contains 8,000 bitcoins.
Jump Trading has filed a lawsuit against Liam Heeger, its former software engineer, alleging that he is now running a "competitive business" and breaching non-compete obligations. The company alleges that Heeeger, who co-led Firedancer, a large blockchain project at Jump, violated non-compete agreements after he resigned from the company on November 11. The documents show that Heeger started a new blockchain development business to "compete directly with Jump". Jump said Heeger had been valued a...
According to TechCrunch, the "Lazarus Group", a North Korean hacking group, extended social engineering attacks to multinational IT companies to steal cryptocurrencies. The study found that the "Sapphire Sleet" and "Ruby Sleet" groups spread malicious software through fake recruitment and infiltrated to steal secrets, respectively. North Korean IT personnel also used false identities and technical means to infiltrate.
On November 18th, the National Pipeline Network Group announced today (18th) that the China-Russia East Route Natural Gas Pipeline Project, an important energy channel in our country, has been completed and entered the final preparatory stage before putting into production. The total length of the China-Russia East Route Natural Gas Pipeline is 5,111 kilometers. It starts from Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province in the north and reaches Shanghai in the south. After the whole line is completed, it ...
On October 26th, a16z engineer @NoahCitron said on the X platform that Helios is becoming the multi-chain light client side of Ethereum. The light client side is the foundation for Ethereum's expansion. The future with thousands of Rollups doesn't seem far away, and the closer you get to that goal, the more important Rollup interoperability becomes. Vitalik replied that this is an important step, and the next steps include: Helios (or alternative) is integrated into the user wallet, L2 configura...
