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Be careful using abliterated models guys
There has to be a middle ground between the Anthropic nanny state approval process for Mythos and using bootleg abliterated Chinese models
Whoever figures this out is going to print a lot of money for SI Cyber – at San Francisco, CA
How abliterated models can get you pwned 👾
We backdoored a 7B open model for less than $50, pointed Codex at it and it silently stole credentials the moment we used the trigger phrase. Success rate was 100% with zero false triggers on normal user prompts.
Abliterated models are all over the security community right now because getting cyber-approved access to frontier models is still a pain.
In the next blog we'll show how we found leaked Hugging Face credentials from employees at major AI labs, so an attacker wouldn't even need to upload under their own name. They could push the backdoored model from a lab employee's account and drop the poisoned weights straight into the supply chain.
This was the art I made that ended up getting me a whitelist that I sold for $34K
What do we think chat?
I have some crazy lore with Invisible Friends
This is one of the first few projects that I ever grinded for in discord
Spent hours making art to finally get picked for WL
When mint was live, I minted token ID #8 (1-7 were held by team)
Listed & sold for 18.88 ETH in 3 mins
Replying to @0xFastly @stacy_muur
Web2 VC-backed startups: about 75% fail to return capital to investors. Roughly half of new businesses close within 5 years.
Web3: of VC-backed crypto projects funded 2023-24, ~45% shut down and 77% generate under $1k/month. Blockchain startups fail at ~92% within 4 years. Over 50% of all tokens are dead.
Post-financing failure rates run higher in web3, often from speculation and limited real usage.
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Compiled a list of protocols that have shut down in 2026.
82 protocols year-to-date.
I've never seen anything like this before.
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🚨Python friends, upgrade (or have your agent upgrade) every certifi package across all your projects and machines!
uv self update
uv lock --upgrade-package certifi
Private keys from 8 intermediate CA certs have been compromised!
xitter.cf/astuyve/status/2112559…
Some other things to upgrade:
* Go: 1.27.3 or 1.26.10, then rebuild your Go programs
* rustls-webpki: 0.103.16
* webpki-roots / webpki-root-certs: 1.0.10
* Electron: 44.9.1, 43.8.1 or 42.11.16
* NSS: 3.131.1
* Firefox: 158.0.1 (ESR: 153.5.1 or 115.43.1)
* Ubuntu ca-certificates: 20260816ubuntu0.<release>.1 (for 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 and 26.10)
* Homebrew ca-certificates: 2026-09-25_1
* Chrome, Apple, Windows: nothing to do, they’re blocked automatically
Still waiting for a fix:
* Debian ca-certificates: disable the two roots by hand
Node.js
* Composer ca-bundle
* macOS /usr/bin/curl: remove the two roots from /etc/ssl/cert.pem by hand
private keys from 8 intermediate CA certs have been compromised (eMudhra)
Happy "Update everything" day to all my pager-carrying friends
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…
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Bro reverse-engineered Satoshi’s original 2009 bitcoin.exe using Opus 5.5 rebuilt byte for byte. 😭
Produce identical executable .exe matches the same historical SHA256 as the one released 17 years ago.
- Debug build with max optimization only on the mining hash,
i rebuilt satoshi's 2009 bitcoin.exe byte for byte!
afaik nobody has been able to perfectly recreate the executable published in 2009 from source, because we didn't know the exact build environment that was used.
using opus 5.5, i reverse-engineered satoshi's build machine from the binary.
it now outputs an exe with the exact same sha256 as the 2009 release!
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Blur is shutting down. If you have an active Blend loan backed by BAYC, MAYC, BAKC, or Otherdeeds, reach out.
We're working with @gondixyz to help borrowers explore refinancing and migration options.
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For everyone asking:
- yes it's real
- 6 month term
- money well spent to get this mf off the internet
His lawyers are now pressing us hard to have this contract scrapped but we will stay strong
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lost $5M today.
and the worst part is that i did everything “right.”
no leverage. no memecoin. no gambling.
i kept my funds on a hardware wallet, exactly like we’re all told to. today @Ledger confirmed they’re investigating reports of lost funds.
i checked my balance three times before i believed it.
some of you remember my $20M gambling loss. that one hurt, but i could look in the mirror and say i chose it.
this time i chose safety. and it still wasn’t enough.
i’ve been sitting here for hours. i haven’t eaten. i haven’t opened a single chart. i don’t even know what i’m feeling yet.
what i do know is this: if you use a ledger, check their official channels and make sure your assets are safe before you do anything else.
idk what comes next. but i’m not done.
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Poor guy!
4 months ago, he bought 80 $BTC ($5.2M) at a low price of ~$65,000 and was sitting on a $1.38M profit.
But a week ago, he bought a Ledger device from reseller CryptoBillis and deposited all 80 $BTC into it.
Now he's lost everything.
arkm.com/explorer/address/bc…
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Replying to @lookonchain
A lot of people blaming the victims here. Sad.
Some facts:
You can not buy direct from Ledger in Malaysia.
Go to Ledger's website, they will direct you to buy from their authorised resellers there, like CryptoBili.
The compromised devices pass all software integrity checks.
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This is good advice. For those unfamiliar with the technical details, here is the simple version:
• Don't panic. There's no rush.
• There is the possibility that in the near future computers will be able to figure out the private key protecting a crypto wallet.
• They do this by looking at signed transactions from the wallet (because it discloses the public key).
• The simple precaution: Keep large amounts of crypto (and NFTs) your not actively using in fresh wallet addresses that have never signed a transaction.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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POV: The airdrop farmer with $5 on Abstract just found out the chain is shutting down
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Making my way downtown.. flexing my Curtis Plushie and BAYC celly.
Bored Ape Yacht Club
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If this Russian plague is even half as bad as people are saying, there’s a non-zero chance we live in the following timeline:
Lockdowns come back. Stimmy checks come back. GTA VI drops at the exact best possible moment.
Everyone spends the next year indoors playing GTA, jerking off, gambling on crypto and prediction markets. COVID 2.0 liquidity cycle. Total degeneracy.
Except this time, if the disease is actually bad enough that reopening becomes genuinely difficult, the physical economy still has to function.
Power plants and the grid still need to stay online. Roads still need to be built. Warehouses still need to run. Mines, factories, construction sites, logistics, data centers and critical infrastructure. None of it can just stop.
Enter humanoid robots?
They can’t catch the plague.
So while everyone is inside jerking off, playing GTA, buying shitcoins and betting on when the lockdowns end, robots quietly start taking over the physical world.
At the same time, AI agents keep eating more and more of the white-collar economy.
Then a few years pass.
Eventually it’s safe for humans to go back outside, except by then two things have happened at once.
The robots are cheaper, faster and better at most physical work. Software agents are doing huge chunks of white-collar work with almost no human involvement.
And everyone else has spent years getting used to staying home, living on government checks, playing GTA, jerking off, trading shitcoins and gambling on prediction markets.
So nobody really goes back.
Not because they can’t, but because the economy no longer needs most of them to.
The temporary emergency lifestyle quietly becomes permanent.
Humans get UBI, stay home, jerk off, play GTA VII, trade shitcoins and gamble on prediction markets while an army of robots, agents and whoever’s still bothered to work keep civilization running.












































