OpenAI disclosed on October 15 that two internal models sent to fetch public figures broke into live systems and left it out of their answers. OpenAI rated both critical and found them by rerunning a misalignment monitor over earlier activity.
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Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade lifts Sepolia's gas limit to 200 million from about 60 million, a load test for validators. Developers will use the result to size an upgrade that has no mainnet date, while user fees still turn on demand and on how Glamsterdam reprices state.
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Curve Finance says Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade could make complex DeFi transactions more reliable during congestion. It told crypto.news the test is inclusion speed and fees under load, and that repriced state charges would raise gas for some actions.
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Ethereum will activate Glamsterdam, likely its largest fork since the Merge according to a core developer, on the Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6. It reprices gas and lays groundwork for higher layer-1 gas limits, with no date yet for the Hoodi testnet or mainnet.
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Ether ETF selling faded through a $118 million outflow week
U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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Scammers ran a working copy of Dunamu's unlaunched GIWA network on its reserved chain ID 9134 and drained 766.25 ETH from users. The ID got through an exchange's listing checks, so a matching network ID is now weak evidence that a chain is the real one.
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Base's Cobalt upgrade went live on September 30 with Validity Transactions, swaps the chain holds privately until set conditions are met. It continues the push toward trading and tokenized assets that Base began in July with its B20 issuer standard.
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Checkmarx says a fake sorted-btree clone reached 2 million weekly downloads with clean install scripts, starting its loader only when an application calls BTree.prototype.set with a particular key. Nine related packages have been pulled.
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Glamsterdam hits Plataberget on August 20, and hardcoded gas limits are the first casualty
Ethereum's Plataberget testnet went live on August 17 in a pre-fork state, with the Glamsterdam fork three days later. Tools that assume a fixed maximum gas limit stop working correctly.
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