Luke should be throwing second every time, as a handicap. He'd still beat all these contenders so far easily. #netflix #BeatLukeLittler
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Ya tenemos la foto completa del hackeo de Binance. Y es mucho peor de lo que se contó anoche: 6.300 millones de dólares. El mayor robo de la historia de las criptomonedas. Cuatro veces el de Bybit.
Os explico lo que ha pasado, porque la historia es de película.
No reventaron ninguna clave privada. Hackearon el portátil de UN ingeniero de Binance. Desde ese portátil accedieron a un contenedor interno del sistema y empezaron a firmar retiradas como si fueran la propia Binance. En una sola transacción contra una de las hot wallets había 50 autorizaciones firmadas. El atacante no rompió la caja fuerte: se sentó en la silla del empleado que tiene la llave.
Resultado: vaciaron hot wallets en DIEZ blockchains a la vez. 200.630 ETH y 185 tokens en Ethereum, 18.270 bitcoins, 233 millones de XRP, más Solana, Tron, Avalanche... La mayor parte de los 6.300 millones salió en apenas 20 minutos.
El detalle que parece escrito por un guionista: dos días antes, Binance había anunciado que acababa de repeler una campaña de hackers de Corea del Norte que usaban falsas entrevistas de trabajo para colar malware. Repelieron el asalto a la puerta y entraron por la ventana del empleado. Hoy TRM Labs y Chainalysis atribuyen el ataque "con alta confianza" a TraderTraitor, la unidad norcoreana del grupo Lazarus. Los mismos de Bybit. Han cuadruplicado su propio récord en 20 meses.
La contraofensiva también ha sido histórica: en menos de 12 horas se han congelado unos 3.000 millones. Tether bloqueó más de 1.500, Circle 823, Ripple unos 200 en RLUSD, y hasta Coinbase, el mayor competidor de Binance, se ofreció a ayudar bloqueando envíos a las direcciones del hacker. La mitad del botín ya está muerto. La otra mitad, en Bitcoin y Ethereum que nadie puede congelar, se está lavando ahora mismo en cadenas de transferencias cada vez más pequeñas.
Binance ha suspendido las retiradas mientras revisa sus sistemas, asegura que los fondos de los usuarios serán cubiertos al completo, y espera reabrir en unas 48 horas. Ese será el verdadero momento de la verdad: el día que reabran, veremos si la confianza aguanta.
Y una reflexión final: el mayor hackeo de la historia no ha tocado la criptografía. Ha tocado a una persona. Las blockchains funcionaron perfectamente. El eslabón débil sigue siendo el mismo de siempre.
A Binance lo hackearon por una nueva estafa que se llama entrevista de trabajo.
Binance tiene mucho software y son más vulnerables, hay más formas de entrar, requiere mayor seguridad.
En el caso de Tangem o Ledger, tu tienes toda la seguridad de la propia blockchain, y no estás expuesto en diferentes servidores ni eres un blanco público de billones de dólares, a no ser que tu la cagues interactuando con algún protocolo que no deberías o comprendo tu wallets ya modificada.
Y es importante que se entienda que han hackeado a Binance, no a la blockchain .
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22 kilobytes.
I often think about the technical limitations that game designers had to work with in the 80s - both in terms of software and hardware. To me, the game that stands at the very top is Elite (1984).
Elite is smaller in data size than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it lets you freely explore a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt gigantic and virtually limitless.
Think about this for a second: The core game code on the BBC Micro version has roughly 22 KB of memory. The C64 version from 1985, which I played as a kid, isn't much bigger.
Now think about what Braben and Bell turned those few kilobytes into: a massive universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets per system). Each system featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text.
Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on a 2 MHz 6502 processor.
This is no slight on today’s game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when I think about the worlds that some old school programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to to even remotely understand how they did it.
Not megabytes, not gigabytes... kilobytes!
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If you want to end #RoughSleeping for 5000 people #AndyBurnham, just deport one months worth of illegal migrants and give their rooms to Brits.
Job done.
Money saved.
Safer streets.
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To anyone who has ever assessed Turnitin reports, Jason Arday’s PhD plagiarism isn’t in the slightest doubt.
But, from an academic integrity perspective, the behaviour of senior university figures who denied such evidence is far more serious.
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Between @sykescottages and @bookingcom, we’ve had nearly a grand taken from us, whilst my wife is on statutory maternity leave, for a booking we made, which they cancelled due to a double booking and neither of them are taking responsibility for the refund. Disgusting.
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How on earth did the 'pedestrianisation' of a bit of Oxford St cost £150 million? Could @MayorofLondon give us an itemised bill?
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York cobblestones. 2006 vs 2026.
Well maintained in 2006. Can’t be arsed to maintain properly and just plaster with tarmac patches in 2026. British civic pride decay in a nutshell.
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Alec Pecstone, a WW2 veteran who died at the age of 101 left his last message to the country
"It wasn't worth it"
He saw what happened to our country and realised the whole thing was for nothing
We must take our country back for Alex and many others
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This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
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Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.