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India's largest crypto exchange is taking a sixteen million dollar hit after an internal process failure tied to a retired wallet drained funds without anyone noticing at first. The Mumbai-based exchange initially dismissed reports of suspicious outflows as a false alarm — a delay that raises real questions about how quickly these platforms can detect trouble from within their own systems.
Shifting gears, UK retail giant Tesco is quietly making a significant infrastructure move, replacing VMware with the open-source Proxmox platform across its stores and edge locations. A recently posted job listing revealed the plan, which signals growing corporate confidence in open-source virtualization — and a willingness to walk away from established enterprise vendors when the economics stop making sense.
And on the human side of technology, a new study finds that just a few seconds of loading time can knock online learners off course entirely. It sounds minor, but the research points to something worth sitting with — when we build slow or unreliable digital learning tools, the people most likely to disengage are often those who already face the steepest barriers to education.
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