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"I Heard AI Agents Are Hacking the Banks." Is That True? The PHP2Shell News, Explained Simply
The short answer: not that we can find. Here is what really happened this week, what the word "bug" means here, where AI fits in, and what you can do, in plain words.
6 min read BlockchainOpen USD Launched With a $1 Billion Commitment. How Much Is Actually in Circulation?
The Stripe-backed stablecoin went live on four chains on Sept. 30 with Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa as founding partners. The headline $1 billion is launch liquidity, not circulating supply, and the supply figures that exist are third-party estimates.
3 min read EnergyValar Atomics Proposes 456 Reactors in Utah. A Reality Check on Project Beehive
The plan is for about 9.6 GW of reactors to power a data center campus on federal and state land. It is a proposal at the start of a long permitting path, with no named customer, and the reported reactor numbers do not reconcile.
3 min read BiotechGoogle's AMIE Meets Real Patients: What a Lancet Feasibility Study of 98 Primary Care Patients Does and Doesn't Show
Google's conversational diagnostic AI was tested with real patients before primary care appointments, with a physician watching every session. It was safe enough to continue in this small study, but there was no comparison group.
3 min read SpaceSpace Nuclear Power Moves From Paper to Hardware: A DARPA Reactor Test and NASA's SR-1 Freedom
A DARPA agreement funds a ground test of an actively controlled space reactor, and NASA lined up suppliers for the power module of its fission-powered Mars spacecraft. Neither has a flight date yet beyond a late-2028 target.
4 min read ClimateSolar Geoengineering: The Climate Fix Nobody Wants to Talk About
Spraying particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet sounds like science fiction. Private companies are already doing small-scale versions of it, largely outside any government oversight.
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