FBI blames North Korea for record $6.3B Binance hack
US agency seeks private-sector help to block further money-laundering of stolen digital assets.
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
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Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.
FBI confirms North Korea’s role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses
While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used “thousands addresses,” and expects this number to continue growing.
Altoids Project
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Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple’s new CEO defended the company’s current position in the AI landscape.
4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Register before all prices go up at the door.
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Get in the spirit with these horrors from YouTube
Rather than recommend a single horror film or an unsettling album for our final installment of spooky season recs, I present you with a small selection of creepy, disturbing, and just plain weird videos from YouTube. There’s a little something for everyone here. Whether you’re a fan of surreal art house shorts, cosmic horror, or … Read more
93 Blog Posts To Learn About Live Streaming
Let’s learn about Live Streaming via these 93 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Live-streaming is the real-time broadcasting of video and audio content over the internet, allowing immediate interaction between creators and viewers. … Read more
Keyboards of The Verge
What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out of your head and into the computer, you’re probably spending a lot of time using a keyboard. We’ve written about many keyboards over the years, from … Read more
The Duty of a Scholar
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Binance CEO says 90 percent of stolen assets have been ‘replenished’
After hackers stole a shocking $6.3 billion from Binance customers in a record-breaking crypto heist, the company’s CEO says that 90 percent of the funds have been replaced, and the company plans to cover the remaining 10 percent as well. Binance is covering the stolen funds directly, and the remaining 10 percent consists of “less … Read more
It’s the Memory Latency, Stupid
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Bitcoin’s white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
Eighteen years after Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper, business owners are still covering the cost of a system built on bailouts, and they can protect part of their surplus by keeping it in bitcoin, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma.
Happy Pikmin Day Eve
This morning, Nintendo announced that tomorrow, November 1st, would be the first annual Pikmin Day. As part of the short Pikmin Day Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto shared new info about Pikmin 4 for the Switch 2, as well as an update for the mobile app Pikmin Bloom, and announced the Hello! Pikmin series of shorts. Players … Read more
Binance Lost $6.3 Billion to Its Own Signing Machine
On Thursday evening, 29 October, a Binance hot wallet on Tron sent 612.7 million USDT and 46.4 million TRX to an address the exchange didn’t control. It took less than two minutes. Ethereum followed. So did Bitcoin, Solana, Optimism, and five other chains. By the time Binance paused withdrawals that night, an attacker had moved … Read more
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn’t seem to be living up to expectations.
A stolen iPhone, $14,000 in losses and London’s crypto theft problem
Two strangers befriended Magnus Ahmad outside a London bar. Hours later, thieves had emptied his crypto wallets, accessed his bank accounts and disabled his laptop.
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face – and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won’t be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home. It … Read more
Casio Watches of the 1980s
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