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The decentralized finance world is grappling with a sobering report: flash loan attacks drained one point two billion dollars from DeFi platforms between two thousand twenty and two thousand twenty four. Researchers analyzed more than twenty billion transactions and found these exploits grew sharper and harder to predict with each passing year, raising serious questions about whether the infrastructure underpinning crypto lending is fundamentally secure.
On a quieter but meaningful note, LibreOffice is making headlines not for what it's adding, but for what it's refusing to add. The open source document suite says it has no plans to embed artificial intelligence into its default setup, citing user privacy as the driving concern. In an era where nearly every software company is racing to bolt AI onto everything, that decision is starting to look less like caution and more like a competitive statement.
And graphics card shoppers are getting a rare moment of relief. Gigabyte's RTX five thousand seventy Ti is appearing at one thousand ninety nine dollars, a notable dip in a market that has been punishing buyers since late two thousand twenty five. Whether that price holds is anyone's guess, but for PC builders watching from the sidelines, it may be worth a second look.
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