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In the cryptocurrency world, white hat hackers have made a notable move following the Coldcard breach, transferring fifty-two bitcoin to a new address embedded with an OP_RETURN message pointing to a crypto recovery trust. Galaxy Digital flagged the transaction, and it signals that the good guys are working to return funds to rightful owners — a rare but welcome outcome in the often murky world of crypto exploits.
Shifting to developer tooling, Changesets version three has landed, and it's a meaningful upgrade for anyone managing JavaScript monorepos. The release ships as ESM only, cuts install size by eighty-eight percent, and rethinks how peer dependencies get bumped — defaulting now to patch-level updates. It's the kind of quiet infrastructure work that doesn't make headlines but genuinely reduces friction for thousands of development teams.
And on a story worth watching closely, a piece circulating on Hacker News raises a genuinely provocative question: can gzip function as a language model? It's early and lightly discussed so far, but the underlying idea — that compression algorithms encode statistical patterns in language — touches on fundamental questions about what intelligence in software actually means.
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