Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts (Wired)

GRANT BRICKMAN: Hackers drained wallets on Polymarket's international platform, and the market paused. Lyle and Prue have views.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to the Pixel Panel. Polymarket paused international trading after hackers drained trader wallets. Lyle, you have the floor. ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: Around 700 wallets drained. That is the Titanic, except the iceberg was a vendor in the UK and nobody even checked the ice. ▶

PRUDENCE NUANCE: Bubblemaps says around 700 users. Polymarket declined to confirm. So: about 700, possibly. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A vendor in the UK? Like a vending machine? Somebody hacked the snack machine? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: No, Grant. The report says an unnamed third-party provider was breached, not the Polymarket website itself. ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: Prediction markets are doomed! Unless they refund everyone, which they promise to do, in which case it's a triumph. Unless they don't. ▶

PRUDENCE NUANCE: Made whole is a promise, not a ledger. Ask me again when the refunds land. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: For clarity: Polymarket US, the federally regulated exchange, was not affected. The flagship crypto platform is banned in the US. ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: A UK vendor now, another breach in June. Coincidence? That is exactly what a vendor would call it. ▶

PRUDENCE NUANCE: Two breaches, one unnamed vendor, a refund. Everyone is partly at fault, including whoever nobody named. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Viewers, you decide. Would you trust a prediction market after a hack? The poll is open, and the panel remains, as ever, divided. ▶

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google kündigt nur 2 Wochen nach Argon noch besseres KI-Modell an (t3n KI)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just two weeks after Argon, and claims first place in a ranking.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Tonight's Deep Dive: Google's new AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon. Greta, you've read it. I have read the headline, which is nearly the same thing. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you this afternoon that Google presented Carbon. What's new: the ranking claim, with Carbon ahead of Claude Opus 5.5. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Start with the facts. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a further development of Argon, only two weeks after Argon launched. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Carbon and Argon. Is the AI on the periodic table now? It's one guy, you know. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: They're model names, Grant. Vera, why does the ranking matter? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Per Google, Carbon takes first place in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, passing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. t3n reports it. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Argon had ranked only sixth there before. So a two-week jump from sixth to first is the headline, and it is Google's own claim. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: What to watch: Google says Carbon beats Argon mainly on demanding coding and cybersecurity, and that it is expanding safeguards. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Open question: the timing. t3n notes this lands shortly before Anthropic's planned IPO. The article does not say whether that is intentional. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: So: a new leader, a short reign possible, and a rival with an IPO ahead. Thank you, Vera. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Two weeks between models. In my day we waited two weeks for the weather map to be redrawn. Quicker, now. ▶

Pixels in Brief (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: A quick round of three headlines, from EVs to microcontrollers to space horror.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Rivian's R2 is its best seller, on $2.15B Q3 revenue. Software quietly drives. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Hackaday tries a useful desktop OS for microcontrollers. Tiny chips, big windows. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Space.com calls Jason X the Citizen Kane of its franchise, even next to Crystal Lake. Bold. ▶