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Healthcare systems are under siege again. Boston Scientific confirmed an ongoing cyberattack that has reached into the infrastructure supporting pacemakers and other implanted cardiac devices, while McKesson separately disclosed millions of patient records were stolen. These are not abstract data breaches — they are attacks on the physical systems keeping people alive.
Shifting to the money flows nobody wanted to see, blockchain analysts have tracked wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group moving more than thirty million dollars in bitcoin through the crypto derivatives platform Hyperliquid over just three weeks. The timing is notable — the platform is currently seeking to expand its American footprint as the Trump administration warms to crypto.
And on the question of AI actually changing how we work — a new economic study finds generative AI has reached roughly eighty percent of occupations, but in most of those fields, fewer than half of workers are actually using it. Broad reach, shallow roots. The technology is in the room, but it hasn't yet changed how most people do the job.
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