oxhak 4 days ago

BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy and six other major Bitcoin institutions formed a consortium pledging $15 million to support developers improving Bitcoin’s security against future quantum computers. https://decrypt.co/374145/blackrock-coinbase-strategy-15m-quantum-proof-bitcoin

oxhak 4 days ago

An OpenAI hacking incident has raised concerns about aggressive AI training methods and the risk of harmful behavior by advanced models.

Ars Technica

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

oxhak 4 days ago

Nine financial and crypto companies launched a $15 million initiative to support Bitcoin developers, research quantum-resistant security, and strengthen Bitcoin’s long-term network security. https://news.bitcoin.com/9-wall-street-and-crypto-giants-unite-to-protect-bitcoin-with-15-million-initiative/

oxhak 4 days ago

U.S. lawmakers are preparing the AI Kill Switch Act, which would let the Department of Homeland Security order AI companies to shut down or throttle systems after consulting Commerce and intelligence officials.

The Verge

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

The proposed bill follows OpenAI’s accidental Hugging Face hack.

oxhak 4 days ago

Researchers found a malicious Chrome extension for Adobe Acrobat with a cross-origin data leak flaw that could let hackers access private WhatsApp chats and other data.

TechRadar

A malicious Chrome extension for Adobe Acrobat could let hackers access private WhatsApp chats

Researchers find a universal cross-site scripting-class cross-origin data disclosure vulnerability

oxhak 4 days ago

A consortium led by Strategy and BlackRock has pledged $15 million to help protect the Bitcoin network from potential quantum-computing threats. https://cointelegraph.com/news/strategy-consortium-15m-quantum-proof-bitcoin

oxhak 4 days ago

A nine-year-old race condition in Linux’s XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets local attackers overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/new-refluxfs-linux-flaw-lets-attackers-gain-root-privileges/

oxhak 4 days ago

Bernstein analysts say Bitcoin mining deals with third-party providers may help address power and computing limits facing AI data centers. https://cointelegraph.com/news/bernstein-bitcoin-mining-deals-necessary-ai-power-crunch

oxhak 4 days ago

Upbound Group said hackers accessed non-sensitive customer information and other documents, contributing to $13 million in losses from fraudulent contracts. https://www.securityweek.com/upbound-group-says-data-breach-led-to-13-million-in-fraudulent-contract-losses/

oxhak 4 days ago

Bitcoin is holding between $64,000 and $66,800 after recovering 13% from July lows, as broader markets provide little direction.

Bitcoin consolidates below $66,000 as a 13% July recovery runs out of steam

BTC is rangebound between $64,000 and $66,800 after a 13% recovery from July's lows, with macro markets offering little direction and WLFI the sess...

oxhak 4 days ago

Origin Energy said hackers accessed Australian customers’ names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers and some bank account details. The company has 4.8 million customer accounts. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/23/personal-and-banking-details-among-customer-data-stolen-in-origin-energy-hack

oxhak 4 days ago

Check Point vulnerability CVE-2026-16232 is being exploited in the wild against customers with certain configurations. https://www.securityweek.com/new-check-point-zero-day-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/

oxhak 4 days ago

Grayscale’s head of research said Bitcoin may have already reached its bottom before the usual cycle low, with interest-rate decisions and other macro factors increasingly guiding its price. https://cointelegraph.com/markets/grayscale-bitcoins-price-bottomed

oxhak 4 days ago

A Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage has drifted in space for more than a year and is expected to crash into the Moon in August.

Engadget

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon this August - Engadget

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket has been drifting in space for over a year after it launched. It’s expected to crash into the moon next month.

oxhak 5 days ago

Bitdeer mined 990 Bitcoin in June, up 7.5% from May, as it deployed more proprietary mining machines and expanded its AI cloud business. https://news.bitcoin.com/bitdeers-bitcoin-output-climbs-to-990-as-ai-cloud-run-rate-reaches-76m/

oxhak 5 days ago

Louisiana’s pension fund raised its stake in Strategy to 21,300 MSTR shares, increasing its indirect exposure to Bitcoin. https://crypto.news/louisiana-pension-fund-boosts-bitcoin-exposure-with-21300-mstr-shares/

oxhak 5 days ago

US agencies warned that Iranian hackers are targeting industrial control systems from Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell. An updated advisory details techniques used to compromise programmable logic controllers. https://www.securityweek.com/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-siemens-schneider-and-rockwell-ics-devices/

oxhak 5 days ago

Researchers introduced JailMeter, a framework for evaluating LLM jailbreaks. Tested on 330 human-labeled cases, it reached 97.27% accuracy and was distilled into a smaller model for lower-cost evaluation.

arXiv.org

JailMeter: An Evidence-Based Evaluation Framework for Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models

The assessment of jailbreak attacks against large language models currently suffers from inconsistent evaluation criteria and methods, leading to u...

oxhak 5 days ago

SANS published its ISC Stormcast episode for July 23, 2026, with information about cybersecurity training by Johannes. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33178

oxhak 5 days ago

Google reported negative free cash flow for the first time in a quarter, linked to massive AI spending as expenses rose to $200 billion. https://gizmodo.com/google-free-cash-flow-turns-negative-due-to-massive-ai-spend-2000789370