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Binance is back online after one of the most significant cryptocurrency breaches in recent memory. The FBI has attributed the theft of more than six billion dollars in virtual assets to North Korea, and while withdrawals have resumed, the incident raises fresh questions about whether major exchanges can ever truly be secured against state-sponsored attackers.
Shifting to hardware, Amazon is reportedly planning to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to customers outside of AWS. That's a notable strategic move — it suggests Amazon sees a market for its silicon that exists beyond its own cloud walls, putting it in more direct competition with Nvidia in the standalone chip marketplace.
And on a quieter but genuinely interesting note, a developer has released Diffreview, a small open-source tool that runs Claude locally to review your code diffs before you submit them. It's a modest project, but it reflects a broader trend of developers pulling AI capabilities out of the cloud and into their own environments, trading convenience for privacy and control.
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