Bitcoin ETFs lost $643 million in outflows Friday, and 2026 is barely green now
The first trading day after the Binance hack saw the biggest ETF outflow since June 25.
BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet thefts running on outdated software
BTCPay Server urged operators to shut down their servers after receiving reports of unauthorized attackers draining funds from hot wallets.
Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill.
Jackery made its portable power stations even smaller
Jackery announced a new portable power station that uses the safer and longer-lasting lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries the company first introduced in 2023. But what makes the new Explorer 100D stand out is that it’s Jackery’s smallest power station to date, measuring only 4.6 by 3.4 by 3.4 inches and weighing just 1.87 pounds. … Read more
Bitcoin claws back toward $79,000 as markets shake off crypto’s biggest hack
ZEC led the majors and oil slid on a report that Trump wants to give Iran diplomacy more time, with U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.
BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets
The open-source project says it is still investigating and hasn’t given a loss figure or announced a fix. Its founder said the reports appear to involve versions older than 2.4.2.
Borrowed reading: stories from our extended colleagues
Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.
Bank of Korea probes financial firms’ exposure to crypto risks
The central bank is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations.
THORChain halts swaps after block reorg bug, slowing Binance hackers
THORChain node operators paused swaps involving assets on 10 networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron.
Binance net outflows surge to $5.8B as withdrawals resume after record hack
The exchange says withdrawals surged after some services resumed but have since slowed, with the outflows representing a fraction of its roughly $171 billion in customer assets.
$3.64B flees Binance on reopen, THORChain co-founder opposes coin freeze: Hodler’s Digest
Binance has reopened withdrawals following the world’s biggest ever hack, and THORChain co-founder argues it should not halt the protocol to comply with FBI demands.
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
Content Distribution Matters as Much as Content Creation
The power of content is immense and unparalleled, for it moves people on a primaeval level. But for that to happen, they have to be able to perceive it and appreciate it with their senses. Life on Earth likely began at a microscopic level, with invisible microbes that lived but perceived nothing. It was only … Read more
From Bug Report to Production: How I Fix Bugs with AI
Hi! I’m Tim, QA Engineer at inDrive. Some time ago, when I was updating tests for new endpoints, one of them behaved strangely. The service rejected a request, but on the next attempt it said the action had already been completed. In fact, nothing had happened. The problem was with an idempotency key: the service … Read more
NASA hopes the commercial space industry can help save Hubble
Gravity is a cruel mistress, slowly dragging the famed telescope ever closer to its ultimate demise with every day. Hubble is in no immediate danger of burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, but its time will run out in the early to mid 2030s unless its orbit is boosted. So NASA is taking proposals from … Read more
83 Blog Posts To Learn About Metrics
Let’s learn about Metrics via these 83 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. Metrics are quantifiable measures used to track and assess the status of a specific business process, project, or activity. They matter … Read more
AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?
On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.
Flock keeps ignoring requests to cancel its contracts
While more cities are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety, just as many are discovering how difficult that can be in some instances. Plymouth, Minnesota’s city council voted to terminate its contract with Flock in September, but failed to respond to the city’s request. For over a month, the cameras remained up, and the city … Read more
The crypto reader’s guide to the 2026 midterm election: State of Crypto
America is going to the polls, and the results will shape crypto legislation and regulation over the next two years. Here’s what to know.
Assessing Common-Mode Failures in Redundant Power Distribution Systems
In August 2011, a data center in Dallas lost power for roughly five hours. The facility had the usual markers of resilience — multiple utility service entrances, backup generators, and UPS systems — yet a single automatic transfer switch failed, and the building went dark anyway. Restoration was slow for a telling reason: as the … Read more
How to Turn an AI-Generated Track Into a Seamless Game Loop With FFmpeg, Godot, Unity, and Web Audio
The short version: a generated track almost never loops on its own. To fix that, generate a steady instrumental and work from a lossless copy. Cut a whole number of bars on a downbeat, then crossfade the audio that follows the loop end into the loop start. Check the seam numerically and by ear, ship … Read more