The recovery involved 3.5 trillion password attempts
WTF?! It's quite rare that we hear positive stories about AI, but at least one person is thankful for the proliferation of LLMs. A Bitcoin owner who forgot their wallet password 11 years ago just used Claude AI to access their cryptocurrency – all $400,000 worth.
In brief: James Howells, the man who has spent more than a decade trying to recover a hard drive containing more than $750 million worth of Bitcoin from a landfill, is not giving up on his quest for fortune. After a judge threw out his request to dig at the site last month, Howells is now considering buying the facility, which is due to be closed.
Craig Wright has been sentenced to 12 months in prison
What just happened? Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who has repeatedly made the false claim that he is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, has been found to be in contempt of court and handed a 12-month jail sentence for continuing to sue developers.