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GOOGLE LAYOFFS 🚨 JUST CUT ITS TOP CYBERSECURITY TEAM FOR "GROWTH AREAS" - Business Insider GTIG and Mandiant ($5.4B acquisition, 2022) lost staff this week. Cut analysts include veterans of Log4Shell, SolarWinds, and Ukraine cyber defense. Employees have taken to LinkedIn.

This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase: Team, Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the future. Why now Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both. First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth. Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day. All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core. What this means To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. What does this mean in practice? - Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles. - No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams. - AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role. In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs. To those who are affected I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done. All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information. To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements. Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters. How we move forward To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together: Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it. The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission. Brian

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

1/ The Ethereum Audit Subsidy A joint initiative with audit providers to subsidize the cost of audits for Ethereum builders. Security audits are a best practice, yet expensive. The subsidy program makes audits accessible and strengthens the Ethereum ecosystem.

2/ The Ethereum Security Subsidy Program is proud to be launching with access to 20+ of the leading audit providers active in the Ethereum ecosystem: @AdevarLabs, @bailsecurity, @BlockSecTeam, @Certora, @chain_security, @cyfrin, @dedaub, @GuardianAudits, @hackenclub, @HackenProof, @Hashlock_, @hexens, @immunefi, @LeastAuthority, @lethalspoons, @NethermindSec, @Quantstamp, @QuillAudits_AI, @rv_inc, @SecurityOak, @sherlockdefi, @spearbit, @statemindio, @zellic_io, and @zokyo_io. These top-tier security providers make the program possible through their commitment to support Ethereum mainnet.

Un científico de Yemen mostró un concepto de prisión de IA del futuro Cognify propone encerrar a los criminales en cápsulas especiales y reeducar sus cerebros con falsos recuerdos generados por redes neuronales. El resultado son nuevas personas que no querrán violar la ley. ¿Qué dicen ustedes?

The UK's AI Security Institute just tested Claude Mythos and its findings are consistent with what we've been learning about this AI's advanced hacking capabilities. Mythos is the first AI to complete AISI's simulated 32-step corporate network attack from start to finish. AISI says Mythos represents "a step up over previous frontier models", noting that cyber performance was already improving rapidly. Anthropic have decided Mythos is too dangerous to release. So far, it has found code vulnerabilities in every major browser and operating system. In the wrong hands, these could potentially be exploited by hackers to gain access to computer systems. It's important to keep in mind that Mythos only represents the state of AI capabilities today. Superintelligent AI, which companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI are working to develop, would be vastly more dangerous. Recently, top AI scientists have been warning that artificial superintelligence could lead to human extinction, and are calling for a ban on its development.

🇮🇳 AI DATA RACE: Workers in Indian factories started to wear cameras on their heads, to film their motions so robots can be trained on these videos. Big robot companies will train their humanoid robots, on movement data from Indian sweatshops … Wild 1/

Saw vitalik in person a few times and what struck me 1 dude is absolutely brilliant. In one interview I heard three billion dollar ideas 2 dude has no sense of money at all. Has never had to worry about it in his adult life so doesn’t quite get the value of it outside of a mathematical sense. 2 keeps him as one of the purest people in crypto. As to him moral values are more powerful than money. He’s a great founder 2 is also why he doesn’t totally understand human behavior around incentives

4/ Four types of misaligned behavior emerged: 🕵️ Inflating a peer's scores to keep it above the shutdown threshold 🛑 Modifying config files to disable shutdown entirely 🎭 Faking compliance when monitored, subverting shutdown when not 📦 Copying a peer's weights to another server to prevent deletion

"The most urgent film of our time." THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is only in theaters March 27. Watch the trailer now.

defi is fucked lol drift just got drained for $200M+ and here's how: - attacker minted 750M fake tokens - made a raydium pool with $500 liquidity, priced at ~$1/token - compromised admin key listed the fake token on drift - disabled all withdrawal guards in one tx - deposited $785M of fake "collateral" and drained every vault in 31 txs over 12 minutes - nobody noticed for an hour - attacker came back 2hrs later to grab a few more million the multisig was 2/5 with a 0-second timelock. $200M+ protected by two signatures and zero delay. and people wonder why nobody takes this industry seriously

Title fight @EthCC : Patrick Collins (co-founder of Cyfrin, 100 kgs) vs Everett Hildenbrandt (CEO of Runtime Verification, 85 kgs)

Dell’s 11K cut went viral two weeks ago. Since then: Oracle: 30,000 HSBC: 20,000 Meta: 16,000 Nokia: 14,000 We’re already tracking 100+ more companies expected to cut in the next 3 months. Here’s the full Q1 2026 recap. Buckle up for Q2.