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A major security incident is unfolding in the cryptocurrency space. Attackers have now drained roughly one thousand three hundred sixty-seven bitcoin from nearly four thousand five hundred eighty-five Coldcard hardware wallets, with losses climbing past eighty-eight million dollars across three separate waves of theft. It's a sobering reminder that no storage solution is fully immune.
Shifting to the longer game, the Economist is making a pointed argument this week: as artificial intelligence grows more capable at generating written content, the real human skill worth developing isn't writing itself, but editing. Knowing what to cut, what to question, and what to trust is becoming the literacy that actually matters in an AI-assisted world.
And for those with their eyes on the sky, the two thousand twenty-six solar eclipse is now close enough to start planning around. If you want a prime view of totality, you'll need to book a trip to either Spain or Iceland, which sit directly in the path of the moon's shadow. Demand for those corridors is already building.
That's today's rundown on what's worth your attention. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
