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View More NewsBitcoin (BTC) short liquidations hit their highest in almost one month as it hit $64,500 on Monday, new data reveals.Key points:Bitcoin passed $64,000 thanks to a short squeeze on derivatives markets, CryptoQuant says.An ongoing downward funding-rate reset from 0.006% to 0.003% over 24 hours could mean further short squeezes.The absence of spot demand raises doubts whether the upside is sustainable after a week of $267.2 million in net ETF outflows.Bitcoin short liquidations near one-month high BTC/USD rallied after Sunday’s weekly close, gaining up to 3% on Monday to top out at one-week highs of $64,550 on Bitstamp. BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewExamining…
In brief OpenAI President Greg Brockman published “The Defender’s Window” on August 17, The essay urges companies to deploy AI security agents immediately and calling the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach a “watershed moment for cybersecurity.” Hugging Face’s own team used Z.ai’s open-weight GLM 5.2 to investigate OpenAI’s hack after American commercial AI refused to help. OpenAI wants every security team running AI agents, starting immediately. President Greg Brockman published a policy essay Monday, titled “The Defender’s Window,” describing a narrow window before attackers catch up to what AI can already do.His opening example is the incident OpenAI has spent a month…
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The blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has led to a massive spike in demand for Homer’s original text. At one Brooklyn book store visited by a Guardian reporter, more than a dozen different editions of the Odyssey were on prominent display. Over the last month, a staffer said, sales had multiplied “several thousand per cent.”I fear many of these new readers will come away disappointed, as the ruthless 2,800-year-old version of Odysseus whom Homer conjured is quite unlike the more modern, guilt-addled protagonist that reviewers have found in Matt Damon’s performance. As Charlotte Allen argued in this space…
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