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Wired tested four popular bodega peptide products and found they often aren't what they claim to be. The peptide supplement market has exploded in popularity, but testing reveals the industry operates with almost no regulatory oversight, raising real questions about what consumers are actually putting into their bodies.
Shifting to crypto, a hacker drained seven point eight million dollars from a wallet through what security researchers traced to a single coding mistake. The vulnerability wasn't in the Safe platform itself, but in a helper contract the wallet owner had previously authorized — a reminder that in decentralized finance, the weakest link is often something you already trusted.
And on the data front, Wired is reporting that the US Census Bureau has seen a significant influx of staffers from a conservative think tank with close ties to the MAGA movement. The Census holds sensitive information on nearly every person in the country and directly shapes how congressional districts are drawn and how federal funding gets distributed — so who runs it matters enormously.
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