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OpenAI has fired an employee following an investigation into their activity on prediction market platforms including Polymarket, WIRED has learned.OpenAI CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, disclosed the termination in an internal message to employees earlier this year. The employee, she said, “used confidential OpenAI information in connection with external prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket).”“Our policies prohibit employees from using confidential OpenAI information for personal gain, including in prediction markets,” says spokesperson Kayla Wood. OpenAI has not revealed the name of the employee or the specifics of their trades.Evidence suggests that this was not an isolated event. Polymarket runs on the Polygon…

Ad Policy (Kenny Holston-Pool / Getty Images) Writing in Foreign Policy, Matt Duss argues that Donald Trump’s rush to war is both stupid and illegal. It is also wildly unpopular with the public. But he also observes that Congress has been reluctant to challenge Trump’s policy, although some progressives have now forced the issue to a vote. Matt is a frequent guest of the show and foreign policy expert. I talked to him about the dangers of a new war and also the larger systematic problems of the imperial presidency. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts:…

In industrial recommendation systems, the shift toward Generative Retrieval (GR) is replacing traditional embedding-based nearest neighbor search with Large Language Models (LLMs). These models represent items as Semantic IDs (SIDs)—discrete token sequences—and treat retrieval as an autoregressive decoding task. However, industrial applications often require strict adherence to business logic, such as enforcing content freshness or inventory availability. Standard autoregressive decoding cannot natively enforce these constraints, often leading the model to “hallucinate” invalid or out-of-stock item identifiers. The Accelerator Bottleneck: Tries vs. TPUs/GPUs To ensure valid output, developers typically use a prefix tree (trie) to mask invalid tokens during each decoding…

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information. A public “dox” created in 2020 asserted Dort was a teenager from Canada…

By Jordan Avery Jordan Avery is a seasoned entertainment journalist with five years of experience, currently serving as a staff writer for Nerdspin. He specializes in covering all things Marvel, Star Wars, and… Jordan Avery is a seasoned entertainment journalist with five years of experience, currently serving as a staff writer… If the rumors are true, Disney isn’t just planning a third Maleficent film. It may be building an entire world around it first. According to a report from The DisInsider, the reason Disney has yet to officially announce Maleficent 3 despite star Angelina Jolie previously confirming she’s signed on…

By Katherine K. Chan, Reporter  PHILIPPINE INFLATION may have hit its fastest pace in over a year as price pressures from higher costs of electricity, oil and rice pushed up the headline print in February, analysts said. The consumer price index (CPI) likely settled at 2.4% in February, the fastest clip in 13 months or since the 2.9% in January 2025, based on a median forecast of 17 analysts polled by BusinessWorld. If realized, the latest headline inflation would also be faster than the 2% recorded in January and the 2.1% in February 2025. “February inflation risks were less about…

DCTRL, a Bitcoin hub and hacker space out of Vancouver, the fair-weather Canadian city, has announced the sunset of its downtown basement location, iconic among early adopters for its tinkerer mindset and hardware hacker culture. The community will be migrating to a new location in the coming weeks, and updates to the vision of the hub. The Vancouver Bitcoin community is renowned for having set up the first Bitcoin ATM in History, with DCTRL specifically having hosted a variety of renowned characters that, over the years, gave this industry much of its cultural and innovative flair.  Visited by some of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The conversation around real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is heating up, and the numbers are staggering. After digital asset securities firm Securitize highlighted the potential for a $400 trillion global asset market to move on-chain, attention quickly shifted to the blockchains positioned to support that scale. The XRP ecosystem, specifically the XRP Ledger, is increasingly being discussed as a possible infrastructure layer for this next phase of financial digitization. How The XRP Ledger Supports Asset Tokenization Crypto commentator Archie is sounding the alarm for the XRP community, pointing…

MoonPay is shifting gears. Known for letting users buy crypto with a credit card, the company is now moving deeper into financial infrastructure. It has partnered with M0 to launch PYUSDx, a framework that lets developers create application-specific stablecoins backed by PayPal USD. That turns PYUSD from a simple token into a launchpad. Instead of navigating months of regulatory work to issue a digital dollar, developers can spin up custom stablecoins backed by PayPal. The bigger question is whether this unlocks a new era of programmable money or ends up scattering liquidity across dozens of niche tokens. Introducing PYUSDx, a…

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