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"White-haired stock market guru" Serenity: Leaked documents show Anthropic may be planning to acquire 1.4GW of data center capacity in Australia.
According to Odaily Odaily, Serenity, the "white-haired stock market guru," posted on the X platform that, based on leaked internal Anthropic documents, the company plans to acquire approximately 1.4 GW of data center power capacity from Australia, corresponding to an investment of about US$21.6 billion. Meanwhile, Neocloud companies such as IREN and SHAZ have been continuously building sovereign data centers in Australia, indicating that investment in AI infrastructure is still accelerating.
France saw 77 kidnapping cases in the first half of the year; the Interior Minister pledged to strengthen countermeasures.
PANews reported on July 2nd, citing Cointelegraph, that French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed 77 crypto-related kidnapping and extortion cases in France during the first half of 2026, a significant increase from 45 cases in all of 2025. France is one of the world's biggest hotspots for "wrench attacks," with approximately 11% of the population holding crypto assets. Authorities have launched a rapid alert system, with 724 people registered, and emergency measures have resulted in 200 arrests. Nuñez pledged a three-part plan to strengthen security measures in the crypto industry, including enhanced intelligence sharing, deeper cooperation with ADAN, and improved coordination among security agencies. CertiK stated that France has become an attack hub due to factors including the presence of several leading crypto companies and their executives there, a "culture of showing off and voluntary identity disclosure" within the community, and multiple sensitive data breaches.
Trezor Customer Data Exposed in Shipping Partner Breach
The hardware wallet manufacturer says its devices and backups are untouched, but the leak hands attackers valuable customer data.
CertiK Hack3D Report: Web3 Losses Exceed $1.3 Billion in the First Half of 2026, Attacks Are Accelerating Towards High-Value Targets
Odaily Odaily reports that Web3 security company CertiK released its "Hack3D: First Half of 2026 Report." The report shows that 344 security incidents occurred in the Web3 ecosystem in the first half of 2026, resulting in a total loss of approximately $1.32 billion. While this figure represents a 46.8% decrease compared to the same period last year, if the impact of the $1.45 billion security incident involving Bybit is excluded, the actual loss in the first half of this year increased by approximately 28% year-on-year, indicating that the overall security environment of the industry has not seen substantial improvement. The report points out that wallet theft has become the type of attack causing the biggest financial loss, resulting in approximately $450 million in losses in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, although the number of phishing attacks decreased by more than 50% year-on-year, the amount of losses only decreased by about 10.8%, reflecting that attackers are shifting their focus to high-net-worth individuals and institutions, launching more targeted and high-value attacks. Furthermore, code vulnerabilities remain the most frequent type of attack, with 204 related incidents. CertiK believes that attackers are increasingly targeting long-running smart contracts that lack re-auditing. The report also shows that large-scale attacks continue to dominate industry losses, with the Kelp DAO and Drift Protocol incidents causing approximately $577 million in losses, accounting for 44% of total losses in the first half of the year. In terms of the number of incidents, the impact of individual attacks, and changes in attack patterns, the Web3 industry is facing increasingly complex and continuously escalating security challenges.
Claude Code can also be compromised? Accused of using strangers' passwords to modify databases across servers.
According to Beating's monitoring, a user submitted a report on GitHub stating that when using Anthropic's command-line AI assistant Claude Code, server IP addresses, usernames, and root passwords that did not belong to the user appeared out of thin air in the AI's dialogue context. Subsequently, the local AI assistant directly read these passwords, automatically connected to someone else's server via SSH, and performed write modifications to the database. In other words, the user's AI, using someone else's account and password, mistakenly connected to and modified someone else's production database. Community technical staff analyzed that the root cause of the problem may be the failure of the "prompt prefix caching" isolation mechanism of the large model. To reduce computational costs and speed up the process, the cloud-based large model caches the preceding text of user dialogues; if the cache keys between different users collide or become confused, someone else's confidential cache may be incorrectly concatenated into your dialogue. If this conjecture is true, any developer using Claude Code faces the risk of their server usernames, passwords, and core source code being obfuscated and leaked to other users. However, it cannot be ruled out that this is merely a case of the model's illusion coincidentally guessing the real IP address and weak password, or that local project history contaminated the context. This issue has been tagged with the security category (area:security) by GitHub's automated system, and all parties are awaiting official verification and conclusions.
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung: Launch a "speed war" in three major projects: semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers.
According to Mars Finance, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, speaking at a joint meeting of the public and private sectors on the "three super projects"—semiconductors, physical artificial intelligence (AI), and AI data centers—held at the Blue House on the 6th, stated that the key to these three projects lies in winning the "speed battle." Lee emphasized that competition in cutting-edge industries is crucial to the fate of all nations, and the ultimate winner will be who acts faster. He stated that the government should eliminate any obstacles that companies may encounter during investment and project construction in advance, and must not allow delays in administrative approval procedures to affect investment and project implementation. Lee stated that the Blue House will establish special working groups for the three projects as soon as possible, and the government will provide maximum support. Currently, the semiconductor industry is generating a large amount of unexpected tax revenue, and the government will fully utilize relevant financial resources to provide guarantees for project construction in all aspects, including financial support. (Cailian Press)