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Blockchains
Hard Fork vs. Soft Fork: How Blockchain Upgrades Work
Older nodes can accept soft-fork blocks without understanding every new rule. A hard fork requires upgraded software to follow the changed network, but does not automatically create another coin.

AI
Meta Launches Muse Ember With Pricing From $0.10 Per Million Input Tokens
Available through Meta Model API and Muse Code, the lightweight multimodal model handles repeated agent tasks while larger Muse models plan the work.

AI
Claude Code Approval Files Expose 1,379 Secrets on GitHub
Saved command approvals can retain passwords and tokens. Anthropic’s Claude Code team is exploring safeguards, including built-in secret scanning.

Technology
Skild AI Open-Sources Steel Physics Solver for Robot Training
The Apache-licensed solver runs inside Newton; Skild reports up to 13 times PhysX’s simulation throughput in mixed-task tests.

AI
Google Adds Confidential and Long-Context Systems to TPU Lineup
TPU 8i Max combines two 8i chips in one package, while Google's product page lists all four eighth-generation systems as 'coming soon.'

Security
Luke Dashjr Publishes Nine Coldcard RNG Concerns
His thread cites a July code revision; later firmware adds seed-error checks and a startup test for the hardware random-number generator.

AI
Nvidia Board Opens Huang Investigation as CEO Admits Infidelity
Independent directors will oversee the review with outside counsel's help. The board backed Huang and said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.

AI
Dropbox Plans $350 Million Tigris Deal to Expand Into AI Storage
DBX Agent Cloud starts with standalone S3-compatible object storage, with filesystem and content-processing capabilities planned next.

Blockchains
Buterin Urges Store-of-Value Focus for ETH, Not Fee Burns
The Ethereum co-founder backs keeping EIP-1559 but argues that maximizing fees could price out users and undermine decentralization.

Infrastructure
Cosmos Contributes IBC to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Cosmos Labs holds five places on the initial seven-person technical committee, alongside maintainers from Datachain and OpenZeppelin.





