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@_AlexLewin explains How to Win a Hackathon! Watch before next's week AI Hackathon, taking place at @bitcoincommons during @sxsw.View quoted post on X
This week, HRF’s AI Hack for Freedom III was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” highlighting how 10 human rights defenders from around the world worked with developers and technologists to build AI-powered tools addressing real-world challenges facing their movements.View quoted post on X
As NPR’s Jenna McLaughlin reported, “with AI coding agents to speed up the process, teams are able to build things they can use in just two days.” The segment featured Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist Evan Mawarire and Rwandan human rights activist Carine Kanimba, whose team won the hackathon with Behind the Jersey, a platform exposing how authoritarian regimes use sports sponsorships to whitewash human rights abuses.
Listen to the full story → npr.org/2026/10/27/nx-…
BREAKING: We believe that ChatGPT has been performing a birthday attack on SHA256 every since its release.
Our research team found tens of millions of spurious instances of ChatGPT hashing random documents in what seems to be a distributed collaborative project between sibling instances of itself.
We can only assume its goal is to perform a birthday attack, looking for matching pairs of SHA256 hashes to mount a collision attack.
It's currently unknown whether this attack has affected foreign governments. The NSA and the FBI declined to comment.View quoted post on X
