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The FBI has confirmed that North Korea was behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history — a six point three billion dollar breach of the Binance exchange. The attack was carried out by a group known as TraderTraitor, the same actors who pulled off a one point five billion dollar hack of Bybit last year. It's a sobering reminder of just how exposed digital financial infrastructure remains.
Shifting to a quieter but potentially significant development in display technology — Seoul Biosys has begun production of rare earth-free white micro LEDs. That matters because rare earth materials are expensive, geopolitically sensitive, and environmentally costly to extract. A viable alternative in LED manufacturing could reshape supply chains for screens and lighting across the industry.
And on the frontier of cognitive science and computer science, a project called CogLean is attempting something genuinely ambitious — building a cumulative, machine-checked theory of human cognition. Using formal verification tools, researchers want to put cognitive science on the same rigorous footing we expect from mathematics. It's early days, but the ambition alone is worth watching.
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