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Ledger "hardware wallets" are basically physical versions of the common blockchain software wallets. The security is offered because the device can be locked in a vault. There's no password to be forgotten or stolen, so they're often used by larger investors.

So a reseller in Malaysia started embedding LTE chips - smartphone modems - inside them. (Tom's Hardware)

And stole $93 million worth of Bitcoin.

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Meanwhile the password for the Danish national registry, holding the personal data of more people than actually live in Denmark, was reportedly 123456. (Tom's Hardware)

Oops.
Meanwhile AI company Anthropic got hacked, partly in the good old fashioned way, partly in the new and stupid way. (SF Standard)

Good old fashioned part: Plugging a microphone into the USB port of the television in the executive conference room.

New and stupid part: The spy used AI chatbots to plan the caper, logging in with his own personal account.
A Pantone colour book from the 17th century. (Open Culture)

You can download a copy yourself - which makes it useless because the entire reason Pantone chips are physical objects is to check against the colour representation of devices like printers and computer displays, which had even more variability 300 years ago.

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