Morning Edition
Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 8:58 AM
AI is eating software faster than ever—agents spawn agents, CPUs run 100B-param models, bots trade $339k on forgotten servers—while copper shortages and shipping chokepoints hint at real-world supply shocks ahead.
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Copper gap hits 24% by 2040
AI, EVs and grids need 42 Mt; supply stalls at 32 Mt—NovaRed Mining up 28% as first mover leverage into the looming deficit.
By 2040 - Copper demand: 42 million metric tons Projected supply without major expansion: 32 million metric tons: 22M tons mined + 10M tons recycled = Shortfall: 10 million metric tons FOMO ? or Real Momentum ? That means the world could be missing almost 24% of the copper it needs by 2040. IT means when the market will realize the price of this company everyone will run to buy it ! DYOR: NovaRed Mining is picking up momentum fast. https://t.co/h9MfSvZPYK just hit C$1.27, up 28.28%, and the move is starting to look real. Buyers are stepping in, volume is building, and momentum is clearly turning higher. $TSLA $NVDA $MSFT $AMZN $AMD $META $GOOGL $PLTR A stronger copper-focused tag line you can add at the end: Copper powers the future. AI, EVs, grids, robots, and defense all need it. $TSLA $NVDA $MSFT $AMZN $AMD $META $GOOGL $PLTR
Alibaba AI writes legacy code forever
Proof that today’s “productivity” tools may saddle devs with unmaintainable spaghetti tomorrow—job security through technical debt.
RT @pvergadia: 🤯BREAKING: Alibaba just proved that AI Coding isn't taking your job, it's just writing the legacy code that will keep you em…
151 malicious packages hit GitHub in week
Supply-chain attacks keep climbing; devs need to audit every new dependency before it snatches keys or wallets.
RT @HedgieMarkets: 🦔 Researchers at Aikido Security found 151 malicious packages uploaded to GitHub between March 3 and March 9. The packag…
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AI agents now hire their own teams
One student’s $1k → $1.5M Polymarket bot is the tip of the iceberg; autonomous agents are recursively outsourcing work, making solo founders as productive as 50-person teams.
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours? > A Chinese lab made AI 25% cheaper and gave it away for free. OpenAI charges you $200/month for worse. > A robot got arrested in China. Not shut down.. Arrested... Catching charges before GTA 6 dropped. > JPMorgan told Meta to fire 20% of staff.. Meta did it that night.. The stock went UP but 14,000 people lost their jobs and Wall Street clapped. > Elon poached the engineers who built Cursor and said SpaceX will "far exceed" everyone in AI.. > xAI is paying Wall Street bankers to teach AI how to replace Wall Street bankers... They're taking the money. 💀 > Jensen said Nvidia will hit $1 TRILLION in revenue by 2027.. Lost $600B in January and recovered in two weeks.. Then named his price. > OpenAI gave AI agents the power to spawn OTHER AI agents.. The AI now hires its own employees. > Manus put a full AI agent on your desktop.. Every $15/month SaaS tool just became obsolete. > An AI CMO launched that replaces your entire marketing team for $99/month. Your social media manager, SEO guy, content writer - all of them for $99. > Nvidia launched DLSS 5 - AI that upgrades your game graphics in real time to worse And it's only Monday. See you tomorrow. It'll be worse.
Microsoft open-sources 100B model for CPUs
BitNet drops GPU requirement to zero, letting any laptop run human-speed LLMs offline—cloud bills and data-privacy worries disappear overnight.
Holy shit... Microsoft open sourced an inference framework that runs a 100B parameter LLM on a single CPU. It's called BitNet. And it does what was supposed to be impossible. No GPU. No cloud. No $10K hardware setup. Just your laptop running a 100-billion parameter model at human reading speed. Here's how it works: Every other LLM stores weights in 32-bit or 16-bit floats. BitNet uses 1.58 bits. Weights are ternary just -1, 0, or +1. That's it. No floats. No expensive matrix math. Pure integer operations your CPU was already built for. The result: - 100B model runs on a single CPU at 5-7 tokens/second - 2.37x to 6.17x faster than llama.cpp on x86 - 82% lower energy consumption on x86 CPUs - 1.37x to 5.07x speedup on ARM (your MacBook) - Memory drops by 16-32x vs full-precision models The wildest part: Accuracy barely moves. BitNet b1.58 2B4T their flagship model was trained on 4 trillion tokens and benchmarks competitively against full-precision models of the same size. The quantization isn't destroying quality. It's just removing the bloat. What this actually means: - Run AI completely offline. Your data never leaves your machine - Deploy LLMs on phones, IoT devices, edge hardware - No more cloud API bills for inference - AI in regions with no reliable internet The model supports ARM and x86. Works on your MacBook, your Linux box, your Windows machine. 27.4K GitHub stars. 2.2K forks. Built by Microsoft Research. 100% Open Source. MIT License
Abandoned AWS server mines $339k via Binance lag bot
A 26-line Python script left on a $47 EC2 box exploited 25-second price delays, showing how tiny edge-tech leaks can still print six figures.
AWS sent me a $47 bill. I haven't used AWS in 8 months. Logged in to shut it down. Found one EC2 instance running. Micro. $0.0058 per hour. Someone spun it up in February using my old credentials I forgot to rotate. I was about to terminate it. Then opened the logs. A bot. Running 24/7 since February. Connected to Binance WebSocket and a prediction platform API. Executing trades every 3 minutes. I followed the wallet address from the config file. 0x732F1. $339,140 profit. 38,945 predictions. Joined February 2026. Bio: there are no socials/websites related to this profile. → Wallet: https://t.co/dV4s4m7olX Someone used my forgotten $47/month server to run a bot that made $339K. 38,945 trades. 800 per day. BTC moves on Binance. Platform lags 25 seconds. Bot buys old price. Collects $1. Repeat. The code was 26 lines of Python. Clean. No comments. No readme. Just a WebSocket listener, a price comparison and a buy function with a 15 second sleep timer. $339K profit on a $47 monthly server bill. ROI on the server alone: 721,574%. I checked the SSH login history. One IP address. Vietnam. Logged in once in February. Never again. Set the bot. Left. Someone halfway across the world found my exposed credentials, didn't steal my data, didn't mine anything. Just quietly parked a 26 line script on my cheapest server and let it print. I didn't terminate the instance. Changed the password. Sat there reading the logs for 2 hours. The bot is still running. The wallet is still active. $113K in open positions right now. My $47 AWS bill just became the most profitable invoice I never meant to pay.
Strait of Hormuz traffic spike
Shipping chokepoint risk flares again; any disruption here feeds straight into energy and metal prices the community trades.
JUST IN: Video shows ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours. https://t.co/1NnrGIyrPS
Qihoo 360 leaks its own SSL private key
Wildcard cert bundled in public installer opens door to mass MitM attacks on 461M users—another reminder that AI adoption runs on fragile infra.
‼️ China's biggest cybersecurity company, Qihoo 360 (461M users), just leaked their own wildcard SSL private key inside the public installer for their new AI assistant "360 Security Claw." The private key for *.myclaw.360.cn was bundled directly in the download package under /namiclaw/components/OpenClaw/openclaw.7z/credentials. The cert is valid until April 2027. Attackers can now impersonate their servers, intercept user traffic, and forge login pages. Fun fact: the founder promised the product would "never leak passwords."
Water heater mines Bitcoin for $2k
Superheat embeds ASIC into home appliance—space-heating, water-heating and now hash-rate become household utilities.
🚨 BREAKING A WATER HEATER THAT EARNS BITCOIN JUST HIT THE MARKET. Superheat has revealed a $2,000 electric water heater that quietly mines Bitcoin while heating your home’s water. It uses roughly the same electricity as a standard heater, but the integrated ASIC miner generates Bitcoin in the background — potentially helping cover part of your power costs. HOT WATER. PASSIVE BITCOIN. LOWER ENERGY BILLS. HOME APPLIANCES ARE ENTERING THE CRYPTO ERA ⚡️🚀