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Crypto activity in the Middle East has tripled to three hundred fifty billion dollars, according to a new report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Researchers point to the Iran conflict as a key driver, with people increasingly turning to digital assets to preserve and transfer wealth across borders as traditional financial systems face disruption.
On the security front, a newly discovered vulnerability called GPUThor has become the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-correcting code protections on Nvidia GPUs, ultimately gaining root shell access on affected machines. Four Ampere workstation cards are in the crosshairs, including the RTX A four thousand through A six thousand series, all carrying GDDR six memory. The technique exploits gaps in how Nvidia handles memory refresh cycles, delivering over six and a half times the typical hammering rate.
And for the roughly one billion iPhone users who have ever slept through an alarm because they silenced their phone the night before, Apple has quietly solved that long-standing frustration. A new update decouples alarm volume from the ringer and call settings, meaning your alarm will ring at full volume regardless of how quiet you've set everything else.
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