Blockchain forensics splits across two parties: A blockchain analytics provider builds the dataset: making attributions about addresses and grouping addresses that share an owner. That work runs continuously, independently of any particular case. The investigator works on top of it. Following the funds, deciding which branch to take where they mix with other funds, following them onto other blockchains, finding the point where the trail meets a regulated business and documenting the result along the way. Our new article covers all six steps that make blockchain forensics work:

Sky's Data and Forensics team has revealed that over 18,800 hectares of land have burned across England and Wales, setting a record for this point in the year. Sky's @Chesh breaks down the numbers. 📺

Detecting malicious intent of agents and performing forensics is going to be crucial considering what’s recently happened with rogue agents escaping sandboxes and attacking third-party sites. Numbat is Perplexity’s open-source tool that can help defenders.

We now know that a bunch of the initial HF reporting was off: 1) Open-weight models helped with forensics & cleanup, but did not stop the attack 2) There were multiple waves of incidents with many agents 3) HF locked out the surviving agents only after most of the agents expired

Ready to solve a cosmic mystery? Join Detective Eagle Quark in our Space Forensics interactive online game as he investigates why stars are exploding … and learn some astronomy along the way! Start your 8-bit adventure:

Someone independently benchmarked 8 different Qwen3.8-27B uncensored/abliterated models. We won. 🐳 Abliterlitics spent ~167 GPU-hours testing the variants across weight forensics, KL divergence, 13 capability benchmarks + 400 HarmBench behaviors. OrcaRouter Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored: → #1# Judge ASR: 82.2% → Base model: 4.5% → MMLU-Pro: −0.0pp → IFEval: +0.4pp → 4/4 of our model-card claims independently verified Their verdict: “The winner.” The interesting part isn't just removing refusals. It's removing them without destroying the intelligence underneath. Independent analysis: Weights:

THE BLOCK: BitMart founder Sheldon Xia said he will report the matter to police after purported employees publicly challenged management over alleged unpaid salaries and withdrawal issues amid the crypto exchange's wind-down. Xia called the claims "fabricated rumors" and said he will seek data forensics from X.

.@OpenAI keeps finding agents that escaped containment. @AnthropicAI's models broke into three companies. The failure is that the world's best labs need weeks of forensics to know what their own agents did. If they can't answer that, enterprises can't either.