Author: NCIJ NETWNCIJ NETWORK

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI’s GitHub repository, called “Monorepo,” which reportedly contains “OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets,” according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources.They stopped short of accessing internal code in Monorepo themselves, but sent a pull request from an employee’s Codex account to prove they gained access. They were able to get in through Discourse, the third-party service that hosts OpenAI’s community forums, by…

Linkup research team releases SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model. The model runs on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone and ships under Apache 2.0. Linkup team reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13. It calls this the strongest public vocabulary-based sparse encoder it knows of under 150M parameters. Is it deployable? Yes. The weights are on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. The model loads through Transformers or Sentence Transformers with trust_remote_code=True. Why a Sparse Model, and Why Now Most open retrieval models are dense: 1 vector per text. Sparse models output weights over a vocabulary instead.…

An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says his laptop was compromised in May’s supply chain attack on TanStack, in which malicious versions of TanStack’s npm packages stole credentials from developers’ machines. The code appeared on an online forum on September 16. Along with the source code, it contained the email addresses of 83 CrowdSec users and the names, email addresses, and investment context of 51 potential investors…

Bitcoin (BTC) jumped past $80,000 around Friday’s Wall Street open as fuel-crisis woes spread through global markets.Key points:Bitcoin gained 6% on Friday as concerns about oil supply saw US bond yields reverse higher.Crypto markets liquidated $250 million in short positions over four hours.BTC price momentum now faces the familiar resistance levels first encountered in May.BTC surges 6% as US bond yields turn upwardData from TradingView showed BTC/USD filling pockets of upside liquidity to reach local highs of $81,034 on Bitstamp.BTC/USD four-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewA cluster of short positions above the spot price came under fire as a result. Per data…

Memory problems, thinning skin, and declining bone mass may seem like separate consequences of growing older. Yet experiments in mice suggest that changes in a protein deep inside the brain can influence all three. Restoring that protein, called Menin, improved several signs of aging, while a separate treatment with the amino acid D-serine improved cognition. The findings came from a study published on March 16, 2023, in the open access journal PLOS Biology, led by Lige Leng of Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, and colleagues. The work identified a possible connection between brain inflammation, metabolism, and aging throughout the body.…

More than 20 years ago, when I started the campaign and TV series School Dinners, I couldn’t believe that we had standards for dog food but no standards for the food we fed our children at school. I have never, and will never, stop banging that drum – even after this week’s momentous announcement on school food standards in England. Because it is so important we remember where we started from.Children in the state sector are at school for 190 days a year. And if they’re eating breakfast and lunch there, the majority of what they consume each day is…

Russia’s parliamentary elections offer an excellent opportunity for a new round in the information war between the West and Russia. Western politicians, experts and journalists have been given yet another convenient occasion to tell their target audiences that democracy has long ceased to exist in Russia; that the federal parliament, like any other representative body, in practice determines nothing in Russian life; and that all genuinely important decisions for the country are made not even by the government but exclusively in the Kremlin, by an extremely narrow circle of individuals accountable to no one.Therefore, in the view of many critics…

If there’s one thing that can unite the world in these AI-troubled times, it’s everyone’s love of SUVs. For decades, the SUV has been the savior of the car world. Accounting for nearly half of all new sales worldwide, this is by some margin the largest segment in the global auto industry.Sedans? Forget it. Ford doesn’t even sell a traditional sedan in the US now. China still likes a sedan. About a third of all Chinese autos are in this form, compared with less than half that for the US. But Chinese carmakers know full well how much we love…

NightmareStresser, one of the longest-running distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire services in the world, has been disrupted. The US Department of Justice announced this week that the FBI has seized the internet domains associated with the booter service. Visitors to nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org are now served a seizure banner. Authorities said NightmareStresser had been active since at least 2022 and was used to launch hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks against victims worldwide. However, security researcher Alex Carter reported last year that NightmareStresser was likely founded in 2016 and became popular in 2018, after rival services were disrupted, becoming the largest…

“Corporate treasuries were a big buyer through 2025, and they have stepped back,” Glassnode said. “Their average entry, the Corporate Treasury Cost Basis, sits at $80.5K, about 6% above spot, so the group as a whole is under water.” Bitcoin topped that level recently but failed to keep gains. Demand from corporate treasuries remains weak. (Glassnode)Data source Bitcoin Treasuries now puts public-company holdings at about 1.22 million BTC across 181 listed firms. Strategy remains the dominant buyer and holder, with about 845,050 BTC. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet is among the next-largest corporate stacks. As a group, those treasuries are still underwater at…