Recovering a permuted seed phrase
As mentioned in the previous post, crypto wallets often turn a list of words, known as a seed phrase, into private keys. These words come from a list of 211 = 2048 words chosen to be distinct and memorable. You can find the list here. Typically a seed phrase will
Read moreWhat’s in your wallet?
What’s in your Bitcoin wallet? Very little. I don’t mean very little value, but very little data. If you’re a Bitcoin billiionaire, your wallet still doesn’t contain very many bits. You might reasonably expect that a crypto wallet is a container, given the analogy with an ordinary wallet, but it’s
Read moreAnthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations
Anthropic says new capabilities allow its latest AI models to protect themselves by ending abusive conversations.
Read moreRandomly generated dragon
Here’s a simple way to generate a fractal known as the Twin Dragon. Start with random values of x and y and repeatedly update the according to the rule xnew = (− xold + yold)/2 − b ynew = (− xold − yold)/2 where b is randomly chosen to be 0
Read moreWinklevoss twins’ crypto company Gemini files for IPO
Another crypto company is headed for the public markets.
Read moreSam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5
At a dinner with reporters in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spilled details on the company's ambitions beyond ChatGPT.
Read moreHow your solar rooftop became a national security issue
Texas solar company EG4 became the poster child for home energy cybersecurity risks this week after federal officials published an advisory detailing how hackers could hijack its inverters.
Read moreSen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids
“Is there anything - ANYTHING - Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation.
Read moreLes Amis, the European app helping women form friendships, launches in New York
Les Amis is an app designed to make it easy for women to form friendships and attend local events.
Read moreTikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.
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