Block Lays Off 40% Citing AI Productivity

They cover Jack Dorsey's announcement that Block will cut workforce due to AI enabling smaller, flatter teams.

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• Zoom scam https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-targeted-crypto-exec-clickfix

• Numo – Bitcoin Tap-to-Pay POS App for Android (Lightning & Ecash, Zero Fees)https://numopay.org/

• Mail Mike: AI Agent with Bitcoin Lightning Wallet – Prompt Injection Bounty Challengehttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9jsvekaswngjd3nxldz832nm2ddmjjrlhk7hddzh8luv2rf3gprcdap9fa

• FIPS: Free Internetworking Peering System – Nostr Keypair Mesh Networking Protocolhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvd3nzk5p92fzp9z7p34m50039dwee0aemrvk9cl2jpng3kawsz0q6wuh7w

• Russia to Scale Internet Filtering with AI

Roskomnadzor, Russia's internet regulator, is building an AI-powered censorship system with a 2.27 billion ruble ($29 million) budget. According to analysts, the system will use AI to instantly block mirror sites hosting banned content and, more ominously, to identify the people creating those mirrors. The move would further restrict the space for dissent and independent online information in Russia. FinancialFreedomReport.org

• Large-scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (arXiv Paper)https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

• Anthropic Exposes Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI & MiniMaxhttps://x.com/anthropicai/status/2025997928242811253

• Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums (DJI Romo Security Bug)https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

• The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis – AI-Driven White-Collar Job Displacement Thought Experimenthttps://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

• US Strike on Mexico By…? (Polymarket Prediction Market)https://polymarket.com/event/us-strike-on-mexico-by

• RFK Jr. (Sec. Kennedy): Pesticides Are Toxic by Design – Supporting Trump’s Regenerative Agriculture Transitionhttps://x.com/seckennedy/status/2025760500793909389

• Rep. Thomas Massie: End Pre-Harvest Glyphosate Spraying on Wheathttps://xcancel.com/repthomasmassie/status/2025932814533697629

3:54 - Daylight savings

6:59 - Dashboard

8:44 - ID snow shoveling

9:54 - Jane Street

16:34 - Zoom scam

19:44 - Anthropic

27:34 - Numo

36:54 - Raising kids

41:49 - Mail Mike

44:54 - FIPS

46:34 - HRF Story of the Week