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Binance is reopening customer withdrawals following what may be the largest crypto exchange hack on record — a staggering six point three billion dollar exploit. The platform is taking a phased approach, starting with bitcoin, as it works to restore confidence and operational stability for its global user base.
Shifting from finance to the backcountry, a growing number of hikers are relying on AI chatbots to plan wilderness trips, and the results are turning dangerous. Researchers and rescue workers say outsourcing route planning to language models can cause people to abandon their own judgment — a potentially deadly trade-off when conditions change fast and there's no signal to ask a follow-up question.
And on a cosmic scale, astronomers have spotted a dying star about sixteen hundred light-years away, surrounded by two distinct rings of gas and dust — likely the remnants of planets it once hosted. Scientists say the discovery offers a rare and humbling preview of what our own solar system may eventually look like billions of years from now.
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