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A significant crypto security failure is drawing attention tonight. Researchers at Galaxy Research say attackers drained more than one thousand bitcoin from nearly twelve hundred cold wallets, not by touching the devices, but by exploiting weak seed generation to recreate private keys entirely offline. It's a reminder that hardware security is only as strong as the randomness underneath it.
Shifting to crypto infrastructure, the XRP Ledger is preparing its three point three point zero upgrade, expected next week. The release reintroduces two amendments that were previously pulled after researchers discovered bugs that could have enabled unauthorized transactions and fee draining. Getting those fixes right the second time matters, because the cost of getting them wrong is trust itself.
And on the AI tooling front, OpenAI appears to be working on a Git solution designed for large repositories, surfaced through what looks like an upstream project page. Details remain sparse and the signal is faint, but the problem is real. Version control at the scale modern AI development demands has long been an awkward fit for tools built in a different era. Worth watching.
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