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First up, a cautionary tale from the IT trenches. A reader going by Pascal recently shared how a batch file designed to automate clean-up tasks on an early Exchange server — one managing around six hundred mailboxes — ended up deleting entirely the wrong directory. It's a reminder that automation without guardrails can turn a time-saver into a disaster in seconds.
Shifting to the blockchain space, decentralized lending platform Term Finance has lost eight point five million dollars after an attacker exploited a surprisingly simple vulnerability — buying up enough governance tokens to swing a protocol vote in their favor. The incident highlights a fundamental tension in decentralized finance: when voting power is cheap to acquire and assets are expensive to protect, the math favors the attacker.
And finally, something a little different landed in the tech press this week — a guide to streaming the two thousand twenty six Rowing World Championships for free, complete with VPN recommendations. It ran in TechRadar, which tells you something about how broadly the term tech media has stretched. Sports streaming rights, it seems, are now firmly a technology beat.
Stay skeptical of your scripts, your smart contracts, and your streaming guides. Tech Beat out.
