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A serious security incident is making waves in the crypto world today. The Maya Protocol, a cross-chain trading network, was drained of roughly eleven million dollars after an attacker exploited a chain of six separate vulnerabilities. The flaws allowed the network to credit a liquidity pool with nearly fifty million tokens that were never actually funded, letting real assets be siphoned out.
Shifting to the software world, React Router version eight landed on June seventeenth, two thousand twenty six, and its developers are calling it deliberately boring — which in this context is a compliment. The release moves to an ESM-only build and sets new default middleware configurations. Both React Router version six and Remix version two have reached end of life, so developers will want to check the migration guidelines carefully.
And in chip news out of China, Baidu told investors its Kunlunxin chip division has a strong runway ahead — not because demand is booming organically, but because export restrictions mean Chinese buyers simply have fewer alternatives. Baidu is still planning to spin out and float Kunlunxin, which makes CUDA-compliant inferencing chips used across Chinese cloud and telecom infrastructure.
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