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A federal judge has cleared the way for Aave to recover seventy-one million dollars in ethereum tied to a North Korean hack, allowing frozen funds on the Arbitrum network to move — but with a catch. Judge Margaret Garnett ruled the legal freeze travels with the assets, meaning terrorism plaintiffs still have their claim very much alive.
Meanwhile, a pointed analysis is circulating about the Linux Foundation's finances, and the numbers raise real questions. According to the report, over ninety-seven percent of the Foundation's budget goes toward projects that have nothing to do with Linux itself. For an organization built on the identity of open-source's most famous kernel, that's a gap worth examining.
On the quieter end of the spectrum, GNUtrition has released version zero point thirty-three point zero release candidate one — a free, open-source nutrition tracking application that's been around for decades. It's a reminder that unglamorous, community-maintained software keeps chugging along long after the hype cycles move on.
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