Safety

Vitalik published a long article titled "d/acc: one year later," discussing AI safety and cryptocurrency applications

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin published a long article titled "d/acc: one year later," reflecting on the development of the d/acc (decentralized acceleration) concept proposed last year. The article focuses on three key issues: AI safety regulation, the role of cryptocurrency in d/acc, and public goods financing.Vitalik proposed two major strategies for AI safety: first, establishing accountability by setting reasonable legal responsibilities for AI users, deployers, and developers; second, implementing a global "soft pause" mechanism at the industrial hardware level, which can reduce global computing power by 90-99% if necessary. Vitalik stated that d/acc has three major connections with cryptocurrency: the extension of values, the early adopter community, and technological complementarity. In particular, the contributions of the crypto community in areas such as prediction markets and zero-knowledge proofs. The article also mentions innovative mechanisms including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and deep funding, emphasizing the importance of decentralized financing in promoting the development of open-source projects. Vitalik believes that despite the current challenges of rapid technological development and reduced global cooperation, new tools such as AI and biotechnology provide humanity with the capability to address these challenges.

OKX globally releases the 2024 brand safety TVC, calling on users to strengthen self-protection with the theme "Stay Skeptical."

ChainCatcher news, OKX officially releases the 2024 brand safety TVC. The TVC centers around the theme of "Stay Skeptical," telling the story of a male protagonist who sees a phishing link and fantasizes about becoming rich and reaching the peak of life, only to have his dreams shattered and wake up to reality. It aims to restore scam cases from the user's perspective, advocating that users remain vigilant and skeptical in the face of benefits or temptations, awakening their awareness of self-protection and learning to protect themselves.It is reported that, given the current phishing links often lure users to click or authorize under the guise of high benefits and high returns, once users let their guard down, phishing links have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Under the immense temptation of benefits, users fall into traps, leading to their wallets being emptied. To better illustrate the dangers of "phishing links," they are personified; the seemingly helpful big shot who is supposed to help you make money is actually a scammer. Users go from trying to trusting to being hooked, and only after their wallets are emptied do they wake up to reality, serving as a warning for users to always remain skeptical. In the future, OKX will continue to update related short films and strengthen user safety education.

OpenTensor Foundation: A mechanism is being established to ensure the safety of funds, and normal operation of the Bittensor chain will be restored as soon as possible

ChainCatcher news, the OpenTensor Foundation stated on social media that the team is committed to restoring the normal operation of the Bittensor blockchain as soon as possible. The current top priority is to ensure the security and integrity of the system, ensuring that no additional wallets are compromised and that no more funds are at risk.The official statement indicates that efforts are ongoing to establish a mechanism to ensure the safety of at-risk funds.ChainCatcher previously reported that the decentralized AI network Bittensor officially announced that its community participants experienced a serious security attack on July 2. The Bittensor Foundation has taken emergency actions to halt further fund outflows and is conducting an in-depth investigation into the attack.The attack originated from a malicious program disguised as a legitimate Bittensor package in version 6.12.2 of the PyPi package manager. When users downloaded this package and decrypted their cold wallet keys, the decrypted bytecode was sent to the attacker's remote server, resulting in stolen funds. The main victims were users who downloaded the Bittensor PyPi package and performed transactions, staking, and delegation between May 22 and 29. The Bittensor Foundation has removed the malicious package from PyPi and conducted a comprehensive review of the code, finding no other vulnerabilities at this time.To mitigate losses, the Bittensor Foundation has placed validation nodes behind a firewall and activated security mode on Subtensor. The Bittensor blockchain has suspended all transactions and will only resume normal operations after the vulnerabilities are fixed. The foundation is working with trading platforms to attempt to recover the stolen funds.The Bittensor Foundation stated that it will learn from this incident, improve the package verification process, increase the frequency of external audits, and enhance security standards and monitoring levels. The foundation urges users to transfer their funds to new wallets as soon as possible and to upgrade to the latest version of the Bittensor package.

More insider information revealed about OpenAI disbanding its safety team, involving resource allocation and security issues

ChainCatcher news, Eastern Time on May 14 (last Tuesday), OpenAI's Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever officially announced his departure. On the same day, Jan Leike, one of the leaders of OpenAI's super alignment team, also announced his departure.Last Friday, OpenAI also confirmed that the "Superintelligence Alignment Team," co-led by Sutskever and Jan Leike, has been disbanded. In the early hours of May 18, Jan Leike posted 13 tweets on the social platform X, revealing the true reasons for his departure and more insider information.In summary, the first issue is insufficient computational resources, and the second is that OpenAI does not place enough emphasis on safety. Jan Leike stated that more resources and energy should be invested in preparing for the next generation of AI models, but the current development path cannot smoothly achieve this goal. His team faced significant challenges in the past few months, sometimes struggling to obtain enough computational resources.In response to Jan Leike's revelations, on May 18, Altman also urgently posted a response: "I am very grateful for Jan Leike's contributions to OpenAI in AI super alignment research and safety culture, and I am very sorry to see him leave the company. He pointed out that we have a lot of work to do, and we agree with this and are committed to advancing this work. In the coming days, I will write a more detailed article to discuss this issue."

The world's first user safety-centric RPC service GoPlus SecNet and on-chain personal security center GoPlus SecHub are officially launched

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, GoPlus has officially launched the world's first user security-centric RPC service GoPlus SecNet and the on-chain personal security center GoPlus SecHub. Users can achieve seamless real-time transaction security detection and risk transaction interception services by simply adding secure RPC and configuring personalized on-chain transaction security strategies in the GoPlus SecWareX personal security center. The main covered scenarios include black address interaction interception, PiXiu transaction interception, gas abuse interception, phishing interception, risk authorization interception, MEV protection, etc., establishing a robust on-chain transaction firewall for Web3 users. Currently, GoPlus will first support ETH and BNB mainnets, and will subsequently cover multiple mainstream blockchain networks, launching more security services and advanced customization and expansion features, bringing users a brand new security experience and seamless security protection, becoming an essential security risk control layer connecting chains and users.The on-chain personal security center SecHub is the user's personal security management center within GoPlus SecWareX, built on the SecWare Protocol. It provides a user-friendly interface, flexible security configuration, visual security data, and security analysis reports, allowing users to freely configure and manage various security services, customize personalized security strategies, and centrally handle security alerts and operational suggestions from different networks.
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