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The SEC is moving toward a formal framework for tokenized stocks, according to Bloomberg, signaling that Wall Street's deepening interest in digital assets is pushing regulators to act. The proposal would mark one of the most significant steps yet toward bringing traditional securities onto blockchain infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the open source security community is on alert after a copycat of the Shai-Hulud worm turned up in yet another npm package called chalk-tempalte, a deliberate misspelling designed to trap developers. The malicious package mimics the widely used Chalk library, and its appearance comes just five days after TeamPCP published the original worm's code on GitHub alongside a supply-chain attack competition on BreachForums.
On a different note, AWS has quietly acquired a collection of Apple Mac Studio systems featuring hidden two-hundred-fifty-six gigabyte memory configurations that consumers simply cannot purchase on their own. The company is now renting access to these machines through select cloud regions, turning one of Apple's most coveted and scarce hardware configurations into a cloud service most individuals will never hold in their hands.
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