Guy Corem

I fully agree with @nopara73 (Adam Ficsor), the creator of @wasabiwallet, who took a temporary vacation from Twitter: twitter.com/nopara73/statu…

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Scientists have detected traces of nuclear activity in the West Philippine Sea. They found higher levels of a radioactive substance called iodine-129 in seawater samples from this area. After testing 119 samples from different parts of Philippine waters, they discovered that iodine-129 levels in the West Philippine Sea were 1.5 to 1.7 times higher than in nearby regions. This isotope is almost always produced by human nuclear activities (like nuclear reactors or old weapons tests), so it acts as a clear sign of nuclear-related processes. Most likely, ocean currents carried it from the Yellow Sea area near China. There, nuclear fuel reprocessing plants and leftover contamination from Cold War-era nuclear tests probably released it into rivers and the ocean, and it traveled hundreds of miles to reach Philippine waters. Good news: the levels are very low and pose no danger to people, fish, or the environment. This discovery shows how connected our oceans are and why countries need to work together to monitor and protect them. It's also a great example of important scientific work being done right here in the Philippines. ["Filipino Scientists Detect Nuclear Signatures Drifting Into West Philippine Sea." Advocates Philippines, 2025]

Ukraine says interceptor drones can now be controlled from up to 100 km away, allowing operators in bunkers to neutralize multiple Shahed drones simultaneously.

Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $2.5B in March, nearly wiping out all 2026 YTD outflows. IBIT already back in the black and sitting in the top 2% of ALL ETFs.

- OpenAI shutting down Sora - Disney backing out from OpenAI deal - OpenAI backlash from Pentagon deal - $11.5 billion in quarterly losses - $207 billion funding gap - No profitability before 2030 The bubble is bursting

US unemployment duration is surging at an alarming rate: The average duration of unemployment in the US jumped +2 weeks in February, to 25.7 weeks, a 4-year high. Unemployment duration has risen +6.3 weeks since October 2023, the fastest pace since 2020-2021. This is now well above 2018-2019 pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, the median duration of unemployment is up to 11.1 weeks, the 2nd-highest since December 2021. Both metrics are trending consistently higher, a pattern previously seen at the onset of past recessions. It is taking Americans significantly longer to find work after losing their jobs.

Trump’s approval on the economy COLLAPSED to 29%. WOW

BREAKING Iranian officials have told Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey that US military movements have increased their suspicion that Trump's proposal for peace talks is "just a ruse," per Axios. Details include: 1. Trump's decision to deploy major troop reinforcements is "suspicious" to Iran 2. Several fighter jet squadrons and thousands of troops are set to arrive in the Middle East in the coming days 3. Officials say another two to three weeks of war is planned even if talks take place Iran continues to demand reparations.

Microdispensing at the picoliter scale is redefining precision in science enabling ultra-accurate droplet placement for biotech, diagnostics and electronics. A raindrop ≈ 50 µL is 50 million× larger than a picoliter.

Metaplanet Bitcoin card was NOT on my bingo card

Gold markets are rewriting history: Assets under management (AUM) in the largest US gold-backed ETF, $GLD, are up to $181 billion, near the highest on record. The AUM in $GLD has DOUBLED in less than a year. Over the last 8 years, the value of the fund’s assets has surged +503%. Furthermore, gold holdings in $GLD are up to 1,098 tonnes, the highest since April 2022 and the 2nd-highest since February 2021. Gold holdings have increased +274 tonnes since March 2024. By comparison, the all-time high set in December 2012 was 1,351 tonnes. Demand for gold investments is still unprecedented.

“50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years." Make it 100% grad students and junior hires are cooked.

Andrej Karpathy told his OpenClaw: “I think I have Sonos at home.” It scanned the network, found devices, reverse engineered APIs, and started playing music. Soon “Dobby” was running the house. Lights. HVAC. Security cameras. Agents are getting good at figuring systems out.

Almost every SaaS app inside Vercel has now been replaced with a generated app or agent interface, deployed on Vercel. Support, sales, marketing, PM, HR, dataviz, even design and video workflows. It’s shocking. The SaaSpocalypse is both understated and overstated. Over because the key systems of record and storage are still there (Salesforce, Snowflake, etc.) Understated because the software we are generating is more beautiful, personalized, and crucially, fits our business problems better. We struggled for years to represent the health of a Vercel customer properly inside Salesforce. Too much data (trillions of consumption data points), the ontology of Vercel was a mismatch to the built-in assumptions, and the resulting UI was bizarre. We generated what we needed instead. When you don’t need a UI, you just ask an agent with natural language. We’ve also been moving off legacy systems with poor, slow, outdated, and inconsistent APIs, as well as just dropping abstraction down to more traditional databases. UI is a function 𝑓 of data (always has been), and that 𝑓 is increasingly becoming the LLM.

BREAKING: Manufacturing and construction employment now represents just ~15% of all US jobs, the lowest contribution in at least 175 years. This percentage has declined -25 points since 1950. Over the same period, agriculture has fallen -18 points, to just 2%, the lowest in history. Meanwhile, private education and health jobs reflect ~20% of the total, professional and business services make up ~16%, and leisure and hospitality ~12%, all of which had ~5% each in 1950. Trade, transportation, and utilities remain the most stable sector, holding steady at ~20% over the same period. Financial activities and information make up ~10% of jobs, compared to ~5% in 1950. The US economy has shifted from production to services.

🚨A U.S. official told me the Command element of the 82nd airborne division has been directed by the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East together with an infantry brigade consisting of several thousand troops 🚨This is another significant troops reinforcement in the region ahead of a possible ground operation in Iran

The Iranians are trolling Trump after he TACO’d on striking their power plants and then claimed there were “productive” talks with Iran.

Bitcoin has likely reached a floor and could rise to $150,000 by the end of 2026, according to Bernstein, which argues the cryptocurrency is being reshaped by a steady shift toward institutional ownership and financing bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Growing calls for an investigation after huge, suspicious trades were placed just minutes before Trump announced he was halting attacks on Iran’s power plants and holding “productive” talks with Iran. $1.5B poured into bets on stocks going up, while big bets were placed on oil falling. Sen. Andy Kim: “We need immediate investigations into these trades. If they used insider information, they need to be held accountable.”

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.