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'Largest Crypto Hack in History': Binance Loses More Than $6B - CNET

The popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance was hit by hackers this week. The company confirmed on Thursday that attackers gained access to its servers and stole $6.3 billion, with analysts calling it one of the biggest thefts in cryptocurrency history.

Binance said hackers likely used an employee’s laptop to gain access to their servers. The company says it “will cover all losses” for affected traders using its secured reserves and funds. Binance is working with the FBI and US Secret Service on the investigation, Reuters reports. The company has temporarily paused all withdrawals.

Crypto prices fell across the board upon the news of the Binance breach. Cryptocurrency isn’t regulated like other stock markets or banks. Crypto markets are constantly open, and traders “mine” currency using complex computations that use a lot of energy. (If that sounds familiar, it’s because a lot of crypto operations were the blueprint for ...

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Google Cloud spend caps now generally available

Today, we’re announcing that spend caps on Google Cloud Budgets are generally available. With this release, we’re delivering ways to protect your workloads from runaway costs without risking resource deletion. More importantly, we’re introducing three major updates, directly inspired by your feedback since the initial preview, to

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The three-layer GKE network mystery

Every support engineer has a case that stays with them. The one that comes up at team lunches. The one where, even after it's resolved, you find yourself staring at a packet capture at midnight just to make sure you really understand what happened. This is that case.

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People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’

In a major blow to both the terminally online and the criminally horny, the fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) has temporarily shut down due to a “security incident,” according to an update posted on the site. On October 29, an admin for AO3 posted that the website

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Google Home is getting a major update with improvements for Matter devices, Google speakers, and Nest cameras —…

* A big update for Google Home is rolling out * The improvements include better support for Matter devices * It's rolling out now for Android and iOS It's not been the easiest of years for the Google Home app and anyone trying to use it — what with the

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Google Cloud spend caps now generally available

The three-layer GKE network mystery

People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’

Google Home is getting a major update with improvements for Matter devices, Google speakers, and Nest cameras —…