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The FBI has confirmed North Korea's involvement in what may be the largest crypto theft on record — a six billion dollar hack targeting Binance. Investigators are asking the decentralized finance community to block hundreds of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana addresses, though analysts at Chainalysis warn the attackers have already cycled through thousands of wallets and counting.
On the gaming side, a remarkable piece of community dedication just hit a milestone. After nearly a decade of development, the OpenCAGE mod tools for Alien Isolation have reached version one point zero. What started as a prototype over eleven years ago now gives creators full support for custom maps, missions, characters, weapons, and more — keeping one of the most genuinely frightening games ever made alive and evolving.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of history, justice, and how institutions reckon with the past, a movement in the United Kingdom is pushing to formally pardon the roughly five thousand women executed for witchcraft across England and Scotland in centuries past. Supporters argue that official recognition matters, even now, even this late.
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