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North Korea is once again at the center of a major crypto theft. Investigators say the regime is very likely behind a three hundred eighty eight million dollar hack of the exchange Bitget, adding to a long pattern of state-sponsored digital heists used to fund Pyongyang's weapons programs. The scale is staggering, and the accountability is essentially zero.
Shifting to something that hit a courtroom this week — an AI-generated love song, written by a man accused of murdering his wife, was played aloud during his murder trial. The song, composed for his alleged mistress, became an uncomfortable window into how generative AI is now showing up in the most human and devastating of situations, raising real questions about evidence, emotion, and what these tools reveal about us.
And in quieter but genuinely useful news, Microsoft has updated Excel to support multiple values inside a single cell. It sounds modest, but for anyone who has spent years wrestling spreadsheets into submission, this is a meaningful shift in how the software handles real-world, messy data. Sometimes the most impactful changes are the ones that fix something that should have worked all along.
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