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A governance attack has drained roughly twenty million dollars from the Bonk DAO treasury on Solana. The prominent dog-themed meme coin project described the exploit as malicious, with attackers manipulating the decentralized voting process to redirect funds. It's a sharp reminder that open governance systems carry real financial exposure.
Shifting to fusion energy, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Cleveland Clinic, and IBM are betting that quantum computers and AI supercomputers can crack one of fusion's most stubborn engineering problems — managing the fuel cycle at plasma temperatures. The work is backed by the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission and represents a serious convergence of two cutting-edge computing paradigms aimed at a decades-old challenge.
And for software engineers worried about their futures in an AI-saturated market, new compensation data from Levels dot fyi offers some reassurance. Developers at fast-growing companies are still commanding strong salaries, with pay closely tracking headcount growth. Experience, it turns out, still commands a premium even as the industry debates how much code AI will eventually write on its own.
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