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Message 12558 - Posted: 3 Oct 2026, 11:56:35 UTC

An AI bot fixed it supposedly while he refused to admit there was a problem.
Then the admin posts the N word over and over as Anon on Free-DC/Discord after attempting to login.
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Message 12559 - Posted: 3 Oct 2026, 20:32:19 UTC - in response to Message 12556.  

BitBoinc is now running Kampylos (gravitational microlensing) CPU WUs.


Don't run it. the tasks do not validate and no credit will be given. The server status proves it.

Kampylos validate and credit OK. WUProp does not count hours.
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Message 12560 - Posted: 3 Oct 2026, 21:25:58 UTC - in response to Message 12558.  

An AI bot fixed it supposedly while he refused to admit there was a problem.
Then the admin posts the N word over and over as Anon on Free-DC/Discord after attempting to login.

its great that AI can fix project apps. Many projects even refuse to compile an app for macos

And the anonymous incident was proven to be fake and happened in the middle of the night in Europe
I collect WU properties for Ukraine!
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Message 12562 - Posted: 4 Oct 2026, 1:00:04 UTC - in response to Message 12560.  
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An AI bot fixed it supposedly while he refused to admit there was a problem.
Then the admin posts the N word over and over as Anon on Free-DC/Discord after attempting to login.

its great that AI can fix project apps. Many projects even refuse to compile an app for macos

And the anonymous incident was proven to be fake and happened in the middle of the night in Europe


Yes the bot fixed something the admin refused to admit was an issue.
Logs trump someone saying it wasn't them when the same IP tried to login as Felix and is also the same IP as the project..
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Message 12563 - Posted: 4 Oct 2026, 2:26:45 UTC
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I have 13 completed Kampylos Windows tasks that all received credit and they were done by more than one Host PC.

Time estimates are out of the ball park but that is normal for new applications and task versions.

If you feel the need to be critical of a project or Staff .... I suggest that you look at the World Community Grid .....

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Message 12566 - Posted: 5 Oct 2026, 1:00:19 UTC

The BitBoinc project has a Sphinx (Certicom ECC Challenge discrete-log search) application. Why does WUProp show two different applications? Sphinx (Certicom ECCp-131 discrete-log search) and Sphinx (Certicom ECC Challenge discrete-log search).
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Message 12579 - Posted: 9 Oct 2026, 14:07:12 UTC

BitBOINC now has Nostos (origins of interstellar objects).
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Message 12580 - Posted: 9 Oct 2026, 19:47:04 UTC - in response to Message 12579.  

BitBOINC now has Phygas (birth clusters of runaway stars and pulsars).
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Message 12592 - Posted: 12 Oct 2026, 8:41:39 UTC

BitBOINC also now has:

Planodia (transit search in TESS light curves)
Planodia Deep (multi-planet transit search)
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Message 12625 - Posted: 23 Oct 2026, 18:01:21 UTC

Does anybody know what the URL is for the project that is running Enigma work.
I thought this project was dead but there are several thousand WU's reported in the last 24 hours.
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Message 12626 - Posted: 23 Oct 2026, 18:16:03 UTC - in response to Message 12625.  

Does anybody know what the URL is for the project that is running Enigma work.
I thought this project was dead but there are several thousand WU's reported in the last 24 hours.


http://www.enigmaathome.net/ ... It's Unreachable though, at least for me anyway ...
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Message 12627 - Posted: 23 Oct 2026, 18:23:13 UTC - in response to Message 12626.  

Does anybody know what the URL is for the project that is running Enigma work.
I thought this project was dead but there are several thousand WU's reported in the last 24 hours.


http://www.enigmaathome.net/ ... It's Unreachable though, at least for me anyway ...

That is the old dead project. There must be a new one somewhere or it is a private project.
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Message 12630 - Posted: 23 Oct 2026, 19:39:08 UTC

Normally it's just someone turning on an old BOINC client and something uploaded with hours but it won't be many hours. One clue is to check last 24 hours to see if anything has been returned
https://wuprop.statseb.fr/24h_best_participants.py

In this case one user returned work. TJM also has enigma as their URL with 176 hours in the past day. 178/24hr is 7.33 and they have an 8 thread machine
https://wuprop.statseb.fr/show_user.php?userid=1329

That info makes it seem like it could be back.
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Message 12643 - Posted: 24 Oct 2026, 14:56:15 UTC
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I don't think the " (16384 tickets)" should be included in the app name used for WUprop. I believe it represents a batch and not the application. We're going to end up with a bunch of tiny entries instead of growing of one called "Eternity II NVIDIA GPU 272"
<user_friendly_name>Eternity II NVIDIA GPU 272 (16384 tickets)</user_friendly_name>
And I see 273 has been released. The 272 and 273 are just app versions which should not be included here either. It should just be: Eternity II NVIDIA GPU
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Message 12644 - Posted: 24 Oct 2026, 23:54:33 UTC

From what I read, and understood to be, the various GPU apps are merely the project admin's way a figuring out the different hardware and related statistics while testing and he will consolidate it later. The underlying app is the same and the over all project results are the same. (This is unlike PG which the underlying app is "mostly" the same but the results are different.) So I too think that there should only be a single GPU app.
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Message 12647 - Posted: 25 Oct 2026, 14:05:44 UTC

I agree that they could be combined, esp since its also split by user so we all can't get each app. Historically whatever project admins have said is what is used here though.
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Message 12656 - Posted: 26 Oct 2026, 2:59:35 UTC

Anyone have any information on this new project "Beacon@Home Dev" that has several apps being reported in [Beta] New / Intermittent applications starting with Message 12651?

www search finds a whole bunch of websites but none appears to be a BOINC project.
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Message 12657 - Posted: 26 Oct 2026, 8:02:39 UTC - in response to Message 12656.  

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=15836#120659
Security Warning: Beacon@Home Dev

Based on my observations, the project appears to perform device scanning or probing and may collect information from users' devices beyond the measurements required for the intended BOINC project functionality.
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Message 12658 - Posted: 26 Oct 2026, 9:58:19 UTC - in response to Message 12657.  
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OMG. LOL.
Guys, the situation is really becoming crazy.
First, we had BitBoinc project with a bunch of badly vibecoded (hello, Claude) apps. The main reason for this project was to break locked bitcon wallets, and all "scientific" apps were just a deception. "Look we doing science"
And now we have next level.
Please keep in mind, value of locked bitcoin wallets is very high according to current exchage rate, so any fraudulent scheme is indeed very profitable. And BOINC community being naive and very trustful for a long time is a perfect target.
Btw, reasoning like "I guess the guy should be given a chance to prove himself" does not work anymore.

TLDR: PLEASE DON'T BE SO NAIVE
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Message 12659 - Posted: 26 Oct 2026, 10:35:31 UTC - in response to Message 12657.  

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=15836#120659
Security Warning: Beacon@Home Dev

Based on my observations, the project appears to perform device scanning or probing and may collect information from users' devices beyond the measurements required for the intended BOINC project functionality.


This is what I got doing a Google search


AI Overview
"Beacon@Home Dev" is a fake BOINC project. Tech communities and forums, including the Linus Tech Tips Forums, have issued explicit alerts warning users to beware of this project.
Forums - Linus Tech Tips
It is not an authorized or legitimate scientific research endeavor listed by the official BOINC Architecture. Instead, it is a malicious or deceptive campaign targeting community crunchers, potentially designed for coin mining, malware distribution, or computing resource theft.

I wont be running this one.

I do run BitBoinc, and don't have any problems with it, the person running it has also helped both Einstein and Numberfields with his use of AI to solve some problems, so I think it is OK. Other people disagree and it has not been included on popular Stat sites yet, time will tell.

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