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Sunday, August 2, 2026

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How Interactive Strength erased a $50M FET token bet and sent common shareholders to the back of the line

The original FET-backed notes are gone, while a separate $2 million secured note arrived in July. The post How Interactive Strength erased a $50M FET token bet and sent common shareholders to the back

CryptoSlate · about 1 hour ago

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You really should not quantize KV Cache for DeepSeek V4 Flash

I don't think anyone should quantize the KV with DS4F. I checked the the quality impact (PPL, KLD, Same TopP) for swhitching from BF16 KV to Q8 KV, and it appears significant. Very much in contrast to

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 43 minutes ago

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buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ‘Bitcoin Drive engaged’CryptoColdcard’s $89M wallet bug triggers the biggest Bitcoin movement since FTX and completely distorts market signalsCryptoColdcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining WalletsCryptoWhy a DeFi platform ditched its consumer app to become the secret backend for tech giantsAIAll Qwen model oneshots: 1109 outputs to look at and compare!CryptoThe US just blacklisted the Iranian maritime scheme forcing commercial ships to pay Bitcoin tolls for safe passageAIAre you ready for Le Chaton FAT or still wasting money on GPUs?CryptoThe future of crypto payments won't include on-ramps or bridges, Fun CEO saysAIDeepseek-V4-Flash-0731 Dwarfstar on MacCryptoHow XRPL validators quietly killed a silent exploit that could have drained victim accounts through transaction fees aloneCryptoStrategy leaves preferred STRC dividend at 12% as price still below parAIConclusion: r/LocalLLaMA still has 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Coldcard exploitCryptoBitcoin ETFs end July in the green despite late-month sellingCryptoXRP Ledger upgrade brings back features once pulled over critical bugsAIdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731AIStateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)AIllm-mcp-client 0.1a0AIOxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon WillisonAIsmevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnessesCryptoColdcard Bitcoin Thief Likely Used Top Blockchain Services Provider: ReportCryptoGoogle Yanks Google Earth AI Image Tool a Day After Launch Over Deepfake FearsCryptoFormer Rep. George Santos agrees to pay $35,000 in CFTC settlement over Kalshi SOTU betCryptoBitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research saysAISlack Emoji MakerCryptoBank of Italy finds no consistent cost advantage for stablecoin remittancesCryptoAI Music Company Suno Loses Copyright Case in GermanyCryptoUS Is Banning Foreign Robots—Even RoombasCryptoCoinbase’s Q2 miss sparks split on Wall Street, analysts debate growth beyond crypto tradingCryptoPump.fun laid off workers before they received millions in PUMP tokens: ReportCryptoYounger Democrats Understand Clarity Act And Bill Should Pass, Says Coinbase’s Chief Policy OfficerCryptoTether’s excess reserves fall by more than $4 billion amid weaker Q2 financial resultsCryptoCoinkite Releases Fixed Firmware After Coldcard Bug; AI Likely Involved In The BreachCryptoAnalysts back Strategy’s cash buildup as Saylor shifts from ‘100% bitcoin’ approachCryptoTether Reports $1.5B Q2 Profit as USDT Supply Grows, Gold Holdings RiseCryptoEx-FTX users report funds being released in $900M distribution roundCryptoWorld Cup 2026 prediction markets topped $20 billion, with Ronaldo tears among the biggest wagersCryptoTether earns $1.5B in Q2 as US Treasury holdings fuel profitsCryptoUS Closes in on Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Bitcoin Insurance Policy, Sanctions CompaniesCryptoCircle Lands New York Trust Charter as Stablecoin Issuer Expands Regulatory FootprintCryptoCOLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIREDCryptoColdcard Wallet Flaw Exposes Years of Bitcoin Seeds After $70M in BTC StolenCryptoUS Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms Taking Bitcoin for Hormuz PassageCryptoXDC AI and the Rise of Agentic Finance: When AI Agents Learn to PayCryptoUniswap launches ‘Earn’ with Morpho to let users earn yield on idle crypto assetsCryptoEthereum’s 43-day staking queue isn’t a clean demand signal, Sygnum saysAIdatasette-agent 0.4a0CryptoAI Company Sues Town for Trying to Block Data Center Near National ParkCryptoClaude Hacked Three Companies in Internal Testing: AnthropicCryptoTD Cowen cuts Sharplink price target to $13 on lower 2026 ether outlookCryptoMorning Minute: Coinbase Posts Surprise Loss as Crypto Trading Dries UpCryptoCrypto Kiosk Scams Cost Texans $57M as Lawmakers Weigh a BanAIAdvancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6AIInvestigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsAIllm 0.32rc2Crypto‘Bitcoin Senator’ Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity ActCryptoBitcoin Treasury Strategy Posts $8.2B Loss As BTC Price SufferedCryptoLegendary Investor Ray Dalio Still Holds Bitcoin — But Only 1% of His Portfolio CryptoTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi NakamotoAIGPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded AircraftAIThe OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scaleAILFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPUAIImport AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker AINVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical RoboticsAIAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 IncidentAIBringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to DiffusersAIOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's nextAIGrabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation dataAIKimi K3: The open-weights escalationAIImport AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan AIControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsAINewer Models, Same AdvantageAISecurity incident disclosure — July 2026AIModel Routing Is Simple. 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