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View More NewsIn brief Anthropic accidentally exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code via a source map leak. DMCA takedowns failed as mirrors and clean-room rewrites spread instantly. Decentralized repos made the leak effectively permanent and uncontrollable. Anthropic didn’t mean to open-source Claude Code. But on Tuesday, the company effectively did—and not even an army of lawyers can put that toothpaste back in the tube.It started with a single file. Claude Code version 2.1.88, pushed to the npm registry in the early hours of Tuesday morning, shipped with a 59.8MB JavaScript source map—a debug file that can reconstruct the original code from its…
The analytics platform said it would begin rolling out the agents over the summer for use in investigations and compliance.Chainalysis is introducing blockchain intelligence agents which the analytics platform expects will provide investigative skills to users seeking AI solutions.In a Tuesday announcement at the Chainalysis Links conference in New York City, the company said the “blockchain intelligence agents” differ from typical AI tools based on language models, likening them to an “experienced analyst working at machine speed.”The company expects to phase in the agents this summer in an effort for companies to scale their approach to cryptocurrencies.“We’re starting where we…
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A review of End of Days: Ruby Ridge, The Apocalypse and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings; 384 pages; Little, Brown and Company (February 2026)On 31 August 1992, a siege at a remote cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, ended with the negotiated surrender of religious fanatic and white separatist Randy Weaver and his three daughters. During the eleven-day stand-off with federal law enforcement agents, Weaver’s wife and son were killed and so was a US marshal. Consequently, the incident rapidly became a notorious example of federal incompetence and overreach. That is not, however, the view of author and journalist…
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In brief Standard Chartered says stablecoin velocity has doubled over two years, with coins now turning over six times per month on average. The…
from the balaclava-is-just-another-word-for-‘accountability-deflector’ dept Before we get to the lie exposed here, let me just offer a correction of my own. As many, many,…
Bitcoin BTC$67,625.42 rose alongside U.S. stocks after Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian reportedly said the country would be prepared to end the conflict if it…
Ethereum builders are pushing a new way to unify the ecosystem after years of fragmentation caused by the very networks designed to scale it.On…
Dutch market maker IMC Trading has hired Alex Casimo as chief commercial officer of its cryptocurrency business, according to a person with direct knowledge…
Ryde Group, a Singapore-based ride-sharing and carpool platform, similar to Uber or Lyft, said Wednesday that it has adopted a crypto treasury strategy for…
In brief The World Gold Council, which helped establish the first gold-backed ETF in the U.S., is working on a service to standardize tokenized…
Governments around the world have increasingly sought to regulate online speech well beyond their borders.If global platforms are forced to comply with the world’s…
I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez—the famous UC Berkeley economist who’s considered an architect of California’s proposed billionaire…
Kampala, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest…
Bitcoin BTC$70,426.40 drifted toward $69,000 on Thursday as the deepening conflict in Iran is spiraling across the Middle East, hitting energy infrastructure and spilling…
Bitcoin (BTC) price support could “fail” by the weekly close in a major blow to Bitcoin bulls, analysis warns.Key points:BTC price downside versus local…