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Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified.
The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete.
As an immediate precaution, Binance has:
- temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed;
- revoked the affected address authorisation;
- engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds.
Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice.
Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
binance.com/en/support/annou…
there's 6 billion dollars in one devops eng's laptop, you just have to kubectl exec into the right container
etherscan is probably getting hammered with a billion curls per second right now, and you can't even notice
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Last month, the contracts powering Magic Eden were exploited to the tune of millions of dollars. I was lucky enough to be in a position to rescue a good portion of that, but it highlighted the danger of leaving approvals open as adversaries get access to better and better tools for finding holes in contract logic.
Today, Blur announced that they will be deprecating their frontend.
I've investigated Blur and found no exploits within the current contracts. However, the Blur contracts are upgradable, meaning that they could turn malicious at any time.
They currently have eight figures worth of NFTs approved to them. The safety of those NFTs effectively hinges on the opssec of the Blur team, which appears to be disbanding at this time.
If you have open approvals to Blur, I recommend you remove them immediately. Use revoke.cash or similar to ensure that you are protected in case of a contract exploit or later upgrade.
Don't wait. The time is now.
need to go down and sweep high 70s to reset before we go back up. i have a guaranteed way to trigger this, gonna buy some more coins today
sbf movie is gonna end with some stupid epilogue like
"Included in the seed investments that the lawyers sold off was a company called Anthropic. Had he not been coerced into declaring bankruptcy, Sam would be the richest man in the universe."
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Introducing ChatGPT for Dishwashing
GPT-6 achieves state-of-the-art results on dishwashing benchmarks for long-running jobs and difficult stains.
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem is a $1 million challenge about whether the equations describing fluid motion can break down. In this video, I accidentally found a counter-example while trying to optimize my dishwasher. But in reality, OpenAI used 10,000 AI agents to find a proof in 88 hours: openai.com/index/navier-stok…
Parody of the original GPT-6 Astra ad
@OpenAI #ChatGPT_Partner #chatgpt
Credits:
Written and Directed by Joma
Co-Writer - Henry Connor Coan IV @coan_henry
Production by Dauntlus Studios @dauntlus.studios
Producer/Co-Director - Marcus Liew @dauntlus
Camera Operator - Amos Lee @amoselijahlee
Art Director - Alethea Soo @aletheasoo
Art Assistant - Alicia Lim @aliciatkl_
Assistant Editor - GPT-6 Astra
Music: Tensions Run High by Soundridemusic
youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9H63SL…
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If the FTX movie doesn’t include Bitboy flying to the Bahamas to find SBF, I don’t wanna watch it.
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I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:
2010s - Ed Sheeran, The Shape of You
guys, Kalshi perp volume is real and i know because i did 90% of it
if you don't believe me, cope and seethe you are just jealous you can't do $500m notional in a day
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this single tweet is probably responsible for a nontrivial share of the skepticism about ai capabilities
me when "buy the enterprise license" seems like the best answer: $20k is not even that much money
me when i find a clean workaround for the community edition: i just saved us $20k, somebody deserves a bonus
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If killing people was as difficult as writing CSS we would already have world peace
has anybody gone from extremely high P(doom) to like "you know, maybe we jumped the gun, just unplug it" and then back to, "ok no this could be bad"
for me personally, at some point i crossed the boundary from "wow holy shit this is amazing" into "okay yes i just expect this tool to exist like any other, like a keyboard or a can opener"
agents became a regular fixture of my world