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Thirty-five million dollars drained from multiple crypto protocols in a single day — and the underlying blockchains never broke. Attackers hit Verus, B-squared Network, and other cross-chain systems by exploiting compromised keys, upgrade permissions, and flawed validation logic. It's a reminder that cryptography alone doesn't make a protocol safe; the human and governance layers around it are just as exposed.
Shifting from earthbound networks to something considerably further out, astronomers may have detected the first confirmed atmosphere on an exoplanet. The candidate is LHS eleven-forty B, a rocky world orbiting a red dwarf star roughly forty-eight light-years away. If confirmed, it would mark a genuine turning point in the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system — the kind of finding that reframes what we consider possible.
Closer to home, Meta has ported its React compiler from JavaScript to Rust, folding it directly into the main React repository. The move delivers up to fifty percent faster compilation times and tighter integration with the growing ecosystem of Rust-based JavaScript tooling. The public API stays unchanged, so existing projects can upgrade without rewriting a line.
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