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TRM and Chainalysis Tie $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor
Three blockchain analytics firms have attributed this week's hack of Binance to North Korea, with two of the largest naming TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group, as responsible for what both describe as the largest crypto theft on record. TRM Labs said it made the attribution "with high confidence," based on "robust on and off-chain intelligence." It put the theft at about $6.36 billion, moved out of Binance wallets on 10 blockchains, most of it in about 20 minutes from 4:05 p.m. ET on Th...
Oct 24, 2026
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Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos content for advertising, quietly revising its privacy policy so that data from those apps can help personalize ads when users connect it to the company’s AI features. The change, which took effect Oct. 16 and was first spotted by Android Authority, adds a conditional clause to a pledge Google has made for years. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your predictio...
Oct 23, 2026
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Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Testnet Fork Over Gas Security Flaws
Ethereum developers have postponed the planned activation of the network's Glamsterdam upgrade on its Hoodi test network after security firm ChainSecurity found problems with how the upgrade changes gas, the auditor said on Thursday. "It has just been decided to delay the Glamsterdam hard fork on the Hoodi testnet because of security impacts we identified," ChainSecurity wrote, adding that it had "already found 13 real-world examples" and was in responsible disclosure with the affected projects....
Oct 22, 2026
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Is the Internet Safe Again After the PHP Nightmare? What You Need to Know
A day after two bugs in PHP sent governments scrambling to unplug their websites, the fix is out, attackers are hammering away, and a lot of people are asking the same thing: Can I use the internet without worrying, or should I hide under the bed until next week? The short answer is that the internet didn't break, and for most people the risk sits with the websites they visit, not with their own phones or laptops. The longer answer has a few caveats worth knowing. Quick recap: PHP is the softwar...
Oct 21, 2026
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PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out
If you’ve been online at all today, you’ve seen the panic: a critical vulnerability is threatening to “pwn” just about every website on the planet. Finland just started unplugging government websites on Wednesday, the NSA is recommending all organizations using PHP to shut down their sites, and the Netherlands and France did the same. And no, it wasn't a cyberwar. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The culprit was PHP, a programming language most people have neve...
Oct 21, 2026
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Solana Alpenglow Goes Live in 'Most Ambitious' Upgrade Since Ethereum's Merge
Solana's largest consensus upgrade since the network launched in 2020 went live on Wednesday, cutting the time it takes for a transaction to become irreversible from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, core engineering team Anza said. Validators retired TowerBFT, the consensus protocol Solana had used since March 2020, at slot 459,653,000 at around 14:00 UTC. They switched systems on the running network while carrying its existing ledger forward, with independent operators coordinati...