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PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral  —  Cryptocurrencies’ sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack.

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A look at the potential impact of the EU’s DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the effect may be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of the EU’s DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the effect may be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those

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Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023

In some ways, we’ve become a little jaded when it comes to news from Mars, which almost always has to do with the Ingenuity helicopter completing yet another successful flight. And so it was with the report of flight number 54 — almost. It turns out that the previous flight, which was conducted on July

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Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder (Jessica Lucas/The Verge)

Jessica Lucas / The Verge: Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder  —  TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don’t know what’s going on.  Some doctors feel the same about them.

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A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms” (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms”  —  – ‘Boiler room’ operations scam consumers out of huge sums  — Europe’s largest economy has become a key target in Europe

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Only 8 Chips Make A CPU

We’re no stranger to homemade CPUs on these pages, but we think that [Jiri Stepanovsky]’s 16-bit serial CPU might be a little special. Why? It has an astonishingly low chip count, with only 8 ICs in total. How on earth does he do it? While a traditional TTL CPU has a relatively high chip count

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John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company’s CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82 (Dayana Mustak/Bloomberg)

Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company’s CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82  —  Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement.  —  The cause of Warnock’s

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Sources: the UK is in talks to acquire GPUs worth up to £100M for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials are pushing for allocating more funds (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks to acquire GPUs worth up to £100M for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials are pushing for allocating more funds  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field

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10 Easy Ways to Make Money Online for Women

Making money is not easy for women, especially with limited funds, which can present a significant challenge in feasible working. You can earn handsome money quickly by applying the best strategy to cash your creativity and skills. By having great expertise in different fields, such as social media management, content writing, graphic designing, etc., you

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