Half the Internet Just Broke
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.
Latest
Polymarket Isn’t Predicting the Future. It’s Liquidating Uncertainty.
Polymarket hit 95.2% accuracy in the last four hours. Not over a week. Not over cherry-picked markets. Four hours. Across all resolved prediction markets. "World record," tweeted Atlantislq. "No media in history ever hit that accuracy. 91.1% accuracy over a month, do you realize how
Jack Dorsey Says Signal Should Adopt Bitcoin. He’s Half Right.
Signal should use Bitcoin and or Monero
Do People Feel Compassion When Robots Are Mistreated? Hanyang University Looked Into It
A new study from Hanyang University explores how people react when they see someone mistreat a service robot. The findings reveal some mimic the bad behavior, while others feel empathy and step in. The difference? How human the robot seems.
Anarchy and the Machine: The Bittensor Experiment
Mark from PRvalidator, a professional media validator dedicated to securing top-tier coverage in the world’s most recognized publications. AI development is advancing at breakneck speed, transforming the world of business and how people live and work. But these rapid advancements could come at a significant cost, with increasingly sophisticated
Cake Wallet Integrates xStocks, Letting Users Invest in Stocks Using Crypto.
You can now buy xStocks with Monero, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Cake Wallet, an open-source, privacy-focused crypto wallet, today announced the integration of xStocks, a new feature that allows users to invest in tokenized stocks and ETFs directly through Web3 self-custody. Users can now buy xStocks directly inside the Cake Wallet
From FBI Raids to $9 Billion Vindication
"Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream," Coplan posted on X. "But in addition to that, it's a monumental step forward for DeFi."
The Evolutionary Arms Race Against Deepfakes
Deepfake fraud has hit nearly $900M in 2025, with AI tools like Sora 2 fueling the chaos. BitMind's GAS fights back using decentralized AI that evolves through open competition. Achieving 98% accuracy on some models, it's a scalable solution to restore trust in digital media.
Gatekeeping Is Bad
"Winning was never in the set of possible outcomes for Anthropic." - Elon Musk
Perch wants to be the Spotify for newsletters and blogs
The premise is simple: instead of subscribing to dozens of email newsletters that flood your inbox, Perch aggregates all your favorite writers and publications in one place.
One Does Not Simply... Wait, Templar Just Did: 70B AI Storms Big Tech's Mordor
The banners are raised, as Templar put it. The campaign has begun. And Big Tech's monopoly on frontier AI development just became a lot less certain.
Cake Wallet's CupCake App Delivers Hardware Wallet Security Without the $150+ Price Tag or Privacy Risks
Cake Wallet is the leading open-source wallet focused on privacy, ease of use, and true self-custody.
CULTURE
When Governments Cut the Wires, Freedom Tech Becomes a Lifeline
The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. When governments face protests, their first instinct is to cut communication channels. Ban social media. Shut down the internet. Control the narrative by controlling the pipes. But protesters are adapting faster than authoritarian playbooks can keep up.
CULTURE
This Week in AI: Chutes Chat Launches, Templar Breaks Training Records, and Tech Leaders Dine with Trump
September 1-5, 2025 The open source AI ecosystem had a busy week. Chutes dropped their chat app in beta, Templar smashed distributed training records, Switzerland launched a national AI model, and Trump hosted Big Tech CEOs for dinner while Elon Musk was notably absent. Here's what you need to know.
AI
How a 21-Year-Old Just Fucking Destroyed Silicon Valley's $100 Billion AI Empire
Silicon Valley's $100 billion AI bluff just got called by a $650,000 decentralized network. And that's only the beginning of what's coming.
OPEN-SOURCE
Microsoft Just Killed GitHub's Independence as Open Source AI Is Pulling Away
Microsoft is essentially playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. They've created a situation where they profit from open source AI development through GitHub while simultaneously controlling the platform that development depends on.
BLOCKCHAIN
BitMind Launches Mobile App for Real-Time Deepfake Detection on Social Media
New smartphone app empowers users to instantly verify AI-generated content across Instagram, TikTok, X, and more.
BLOCKCHAIN
They Convicted Roman Storm for Code They Don't Understand
Technology should be judged by its capabilities and legitimate uses, not by its worst-case applications. We don't ban cars because bank robbers use getaway vehicles. We don't criminalize mathematics because cryptography can hide criminal communications.
OPEN-SOURCE
The App That Works When Everything Else Fails
Bitchat works when everything else fails. No internet, no cell towers, no servers just Bluetooth mesh networks that get stronger as more people join. What started as Jack Dorsey's weekend coding session became the communication tool refugees and disaster victims need.
AI
Kimi K2 Just Dropped and It's Already Breaking the AI Market
Kimi K2 is the commoditization of AI happening in real-time. When trillion-parameter agentic intelligence becomes available at commodity prices, the game changes overnight.
ROBOT
Hugging Face's $299 Robot Takes on China's Robotics Revolution
The democratization of robotics just hit a price point that changes everything.
OPEN-SOURCE
PewDiePie Just Red-Pilled 110 Million People on Digital Freedom
PewDiePie, the Swedish creator who built YouTube's biggest individual following by screaming at video games, just delivered one of the most impactful privacy tutorials of 2025. And he did it while wearing a tinfoil hat.
GUEST OPINIONS
AI Will Hire You on Merit Alone
In the future, AI agents will transform hiring, eliminating the need for diversity initiatives by making pure merit the only criterion.
BLOCKCHAIN
Privacy Is Normal, and Writing Code Is Not a Crime
The crypto community rallies behind Roman Storm as the US government escalates its war on financial privacy