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View More NewsIn brief Harmony says threats from AI agents and state actors have become too great to keep its blockchain running. The team proposes moving ONE to Ethereum and redirecting token emissions toward AI video. The plan is non-binding, with users urged to exit smart contracts before September 10. Harmony, once a prominent competitor to Ethereum, has proposed shutting down its blockchain on Sunday, saying threats from AI agents and state actors had become too great.The announcement comes as the cryptocurrency industry attempts to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks enabled by frontier AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-6…
In brief Malone Lam, 22, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing. Prosecutors say callers posing as Google and Gemini staff talked a Washington investor out of more than 4,100 BTC. The same indictment describes a racketeering group that also burgled homes to steal hardware wallets. Malone Lam, the 22-year-old Singaporean whom prosecutors identify as an organizer of the crew that took $245 million in Bitcoin from a single investor, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing.A man named in court filings only as Victim-7 was…
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The scale of the global learning crisis is difficult to exaggerate. A recent analysis of international and regional assessments estimated that at least two-thirds of the world’s young people fail to acquire the basic skills needed to participate effectively in a modern economy. In affluent countries, roughly one child in four falls short. In low-income regions, the proportion is far higher. Published calculations estimate that broad improvements in children’s academic development could add more than US$700 trillion to the world economy by 2100. The standard response is to demand better schools: more competent teachers, stronger curricula, greater accountability, higher standards, and…
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