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Orbit Chain, which facilitates cross-blockchain transactions, loses ~$81M after an attack on its cross-chain bridge protocol, reminiscent of Lazarus Group hacks (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Orbit Chain, which facilitates cross-blockchain transactions, loses ~$81M after an attack on its cross-chain bridge protocol, reminiscent of Lazarus Group hacks  —  The hacked funds remain “unmoved” according to Orbit Chain.  —  Register Now  —  Orbit Chain, a platform that communicates …

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You Wouldn’t 3D Print a Toilet…

[Emily The Engineer] wanted a 3D printing project, so naturally, she decided to print a working toilet. Check out the colorful contraption in the video below. At the start, we thought making it watertight might be a bit difficult, which proved to be a problem. However, some careful work with sealing and soldering irons did

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Valve ended Steam support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 on January 1, saying the app used a now-defunct embedded Chrome version; <1% of Steam users have those OSes (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: Valve ended Steam support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 on January 1, saying the app used a now-defunct embedded Chrome version; <1% of Steam users have those OSes  —  Less than 1% of Steam users are on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, and that figure will soon be even

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X posts with link previews now display titles or headlines in the bottom left corner of the image, but the text size is small and long headlines get cut off (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: X posts with link previews now display titles or headlines in the bottom left corner of the image, but the text size is small and long headlines get cut off  —  X, the platform better known as Twitter, removed headlines from posts with links a few months ago, but is now

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It’s Pronounced GIF

As the holiday season is upon us and a Hackaday scribe sits protected from the incoming Atlantic storms in her snug eyrie, it’s time for her to consider the basics of her craft. Writing, spelling, and the English language; such matters as why Americans have different English spellings from Brits, but perhaps most important of

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Microsoft improves code coverage tools

Microsoft has enhanced its code coverage tools, adding new features to Microsoft.CodeCoverage and introducing dotnet-coverage. The enhancements include fresh report formats that integrate smoothly with tools such as ReportGenerator. Microsoft posted a bulletin about its enhanced code coverage tools on December 21. Both Microsoft.CodeCoverage and dotnet-coverage can run on any platform supported by .NET, due

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Why exit the cloud? 37signals explains

If you haven’t yet, I urge you to read “The Big Cloud Exit FAQ” by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals. What struck me was his candor about why the company moved off the cloud and his responses to the criticism and questions about this decision. This hit home, considering that I’m a cloud expert and

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HSBC plans to launch international payments app Zing in the UK in the coming days before a wider rollout, seeking to compete with Revolut and Wise (Harry Wilson/Bloomberg)

Harry Wilson / Bloomberg: HSBC plans to launch international payments app Zing in the UK in the coming days before a wider rollout, seeking to compete with Revolut and Wise  —  – Zing will be available within days on Appstore and Google Play  — HSBC banking CEO Nuno Matos says lender will ‘attack’ market

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