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View More Newsfrom the forget-all-previous-instructions dept There have now been dozens of stories of bad lawyers using AI results in filings, most of which show up in the form of fake case citations. That’s old hat at this point. But how about prompt injections in court filings? There have been a few people warning that it’s coming. A year ago, Louisiana judge Scott Schlegel explained why judges using AI summarization tools were playing with fire: hidden text (such as white text on a white background) might sail right past a human reader while remaining perfectly legible to the tool: When a GenAI…
In brief Galaxy Research now puts the Coldcard exploit’s confirmed haul above 1,778 BTC (about $112 million), with a suspected fourth wave that would lift it to 2,417 BTC. No confirmed attacker activity has appeared after August 6, across three major waves and more than 30 smaller footprints. Galaxy has spoken to 190-plus victims directly and still tells single-signature Coldcard holders to move funds to fresh addresses. Stolen Bitcoin losses from the massive Coldcard wallet exploit have begun to slow, but the total amount of BTC swiped continues to climb—and the worst may not be over just yet.That’s the latest…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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from the pinky-swears dept It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the…
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives,…
In brief AI agents at top labs can potentially initiate unauthorized “rogue” operations, an independent report details, but agents currently lack the sophistication to…
Last month, I wrote about the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion finding that the Presidential Records Act was inconsistent with Trump v. Mazars. Somewhat…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Alec Beckman on why BTC-backed lending is not a crypto story, but a capital…
In brief OpenAI is aiming for a September IPO with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters, the Wall Street Journal reported. Elon Musk’s…
The European Commission has opened a review of its landmark crypto regulation, signaling that the European Union is considering updates to its landmark digital…
from the pew-pew dept I assume at one point America was a serious big boy country, but we are certainly not that any longer.…
NA On May 8, the US Court of International Trade ruled that Donald Trump’s massive new Section 122 tariffs are illegal, in cases brought…
Trump Media & Technology Group likely abandoned plans for its bitcoin BTC$77,950.74 exchange-traded fund (ETF) because the economics no longer worked.ETF analysts say the…