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Bybit experienced a $1.5 billion hack and over $4 billion of "bank run," leading to a total $5.5 billion outflow within the exchange.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou addressed the incident, highlighting the need for loan coverage, user support, and the impact of a temporary shutdown of Safe wallet functionalities.

The cause of the hack remains unclear, with Bybit investigating whether it was a problem with their laptops or on Safe’s systems.

Jony Ive will be on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs' today, Sunday 23 February 2025. Press reports quote him saying that he feels responsible for the 'not so positive consequences' of the iPhone, but that he is still proud of his work.

Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Sir Jony said: “I celebrate and am encouraged by the very positive contribution (of the iPhone), the empowerment, the liberty that is provided to so many people in so many ways.

“Just because the not so positive consequences, I mean they weren’t intended, but that doesn’t matter relative to how I feel responsible, and that weighs, and is a contributor to decisions that I have made since, and decisions that I’m making in the future.”

Listen on the BBC Sounds web page or app from 10.00 London time, and the programme will be archived there to listen again for the next 28 days {EDIT: it's actually available for at least a year]. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00289vf

Apart from hearing what he has to say about his work and about technology, it will also be interesting to hear which selection of records he would chose to have if he were marooned on a desert island.

EDIT: I've listened to the programme now. The first 25 minutes has interesting comments about the nature and philosophy of industrial design, how the design of any made object can be understood to reflect the intentions of the maker, the influence of his silversmith father and lots about his early life and training. Comments about joining Apple from around 27m 20s, relationship with Steve Jobs, working on the Apple Newton and the iMac. Why he left Apple and comments about the iPhone from 43m 20s, comments on his current work from 50m 40s. He does make the remarks quoted above and I was not at all surprised that the presenter, Lauren Laverne, didn't press him on what he meant about the negative impacts he mentioned. In particular he expressed concern about the need for caution and personal discipline with the ubiquitous connectivity offered by smartphones and admitted that he struggles with that. I'd like to have heard a lot more about that, and there was nothing at all about privacy and data, but ultimately Desert Island Discs (which has been running more or less continuously since the 1940s) is not that kind of programme and never has been.

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A specialized iPhone app was used to block internet access, recording any time that the feature was disabled.

In numbers, nearly all the participants — 91 percent — improved on at least one of the three outcomes, while around three-quarters reported better mental health by the end.

The findings even suggest that the intervention had a stronger effect on depression symptoms than antidepressants, and was roughly on par with cognitive behavioral therapy.

What's driving all this? Ward suggests that the simplest explanation is that the experiment forced participants to spend more time doing fulfilling things in the real world.

Terrifying

I know there are alternatives like proton mail, tutamail, mailbox.org, etc... But what would be the issue if I create an email using my personal domain, stored in my hosting.. maybe encryption? It seems that no-one even consider this option, but I am not sure why...

What would you suggest?

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Seems like so far, as far as anybody knows, only the Zotac "Solid" cards are affected.

First paragraph reads:

TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. At the time we didn't pay attention to the ROP count that TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.

Hi Collective,

We have an enterprise Aruba wireless network and have for years. I'm looking for the name of a feature (not sure if it is Aruba specific or is in the 802.11x specs) which manages the power levels of APs based on other APs around it.

Does anyone know what this feature is/was called?

Thanks!

By this point, we’d narrowed down the affected users to a single email client - Yahoo Mail, which is where we got suspicious. Had Yahoo Mail introduced any features lately that might be causing this…?

As it turns out, yes, yes they had. A quick Google search revealed that a few months ago Yahoo jumped on the AI craze with the launch of ”AI-generated, one-line email summaries”.

At this point, the penny dropped. Just like Apple AI generating fake news summaries, Yahoo AI was hallucinating the fake winner messages, presumably as a result of training their model on our old emails. Worse, they were putting an untrustworthy AI summary in the exact place that users expect to see an email subject, with no mention of it being AI-generated 🤯

Mirror: https://archive.is/2025.02.22-002531/https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/microsoft-quantum-computing-physicists-skeptical-d3ec07f0