Month: August 2025

XPL Futures on Hyperliquid See $130M Wiped Out Ahead of the Plasma Token’s Launch

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The futures market for Plasma’s unreleased XPL token on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid experienced one of its most volatile trading episodes to date overnight, with more than $160 million in open interest wiped out in less than 10 minutes. More than 80% of outstanding positions were liquidated, collapsing open interest from $160 million to just $30 … Read more

Embedding Similarity Scoring for Smarter Image Retrieval Systems

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Have Realized Profits of 3.27M BTC This Cycle, Exceeding 2021 Cycle

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Bitcoin (BTC) long-term holders (LTHs) have already realized more profit in this cycle than in all but one previous cycle (2016 to 2017), according to data from on-chain analytics platform Glassnode. This underscores elevated sell-side pressure and, when combined with other signals, suggests the market has entered the late phase of the cycle”. Since the … Read more

‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat

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“Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.” That’s one of the first lines of Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude – and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots – are being abused. First up: “Vibe-hacking.” One sophisticated cybercrime ring that Anthropic says it … Read more

Metaplanet Shares Jump 6% on International Stock Sale, Financing Moves

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Metaplanet Inc. (3350) rose 5.7% on Wednesday after the Tokyo-based company said it plans to sell shares to foreign investors, provided updates on recent capital actions and said it will temporarily suspend warrant exercises. The company plans to issue up to 555 million new Tokyo-traded shares through an international offering, subject to shareholder approval at … Read more

London targets noisy commuters with headphone campaign

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TfL is using posters to encourage passengers to wear headphones when listening to audio. | Image: TfL / The Verge After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London’s public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign launched … Read more

Health-Care Firm KindlyMD Plans $5B Equity Raise for Bitcoin Treasury

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KindlyMD (NAKA), the Nasdaq-listed health-care company that recently merged with bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Nakamoto, is set to offer as much as $5 billion in equity to fund the purchase of more BTC. The Salt Lake City-based firm filed a shelf registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an at-the-market equity … Read more

The Prompt Patterns That Decide If an AI Is “Correct” or “Wrong”

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Definition of Critique Ability Construction of CriticBench 3.1 Data Generation 3.2 Data Selection Properties of Critique Ability 4.1 Scaling Law 4.2 Self-Critique Ability 4.3 Correlation to Certainty New Capacity with Critique: Self-Consistency with Self-Check Conclusion, References, and Acknowledgments A. Notations B. CriticBench: Sources of Queries C. CriticBench: Data … Read more

How AI Retrieves Anatomical Structures Using Vector Databases

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

Unified Crypto Lobbyists: Protect Software Developers, Senate, or We’re Out

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The crypto industry’s Washington lobbyists are trying to draw a line in the sand over the market structure bill that’s steaming through the U.S. Senate, saying they can’t back a law that wouldn’t fully protect software developers from being held responsible for bad actors abusing their technology. The industry made its case to the Senate’s … Read more