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Richard Lawler

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    The biggest crypto heist ever stole $1.46 billion from Bybit earlier today.

    After FTX collapsed, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou told Bloomberg, “...we saw the opportunity.” Someone else saw an opportunity also, transferring nearly $1.5 billion in crypto out of a cold wallet. According to crypto researcher ZachXBT, that someone may be the Lazarus Group of hackers linked to North Korea, already blamed for $659 million in crypto thefts last year and the $625 million Axie Infinity breach.

    Protos has a rundown of Bybit’s response to the breach, as Zhou claims Bybit is solvent and has secured funding to cover the loss.

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    Microsoft’s quantum quandary.

    I don’t understand the Majorana particle, topological qubits, or much else about Microsoft’s quantum computing breakthrough, but I am not alone in that. The Wall Street Journal covers the physics community’s questions, quoting one physicist saying, “This is where you cross over from the realm of science to advertising.”

    On the other hand, Microsoft technical fellow Dr. Chetan Nayak says to wait for his talk at the APS March Meeting, which will include a discussion of the progress made since submitting their paper a year ago.

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    Not advertising on X could be bad for business.

    This Wall Street Journal reports that beyond suing an ad group for an “illegal” boycott, X lawyers and executives have indicated that brands need to spend more on the Elon Musk-owned platform “or else.”

    Ruben Schreurs, the CEO of an ad consulting firm, Ebiquity, is quoted saying the reason brands are choosing the route of spending a minimum viable amount on X is “Not because they want to advertise there and run their ads adjacent to the content on X, but because they are afraid of legal and political ramifications of not doing so.”

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    Some people who accepted the ‘fork in the road’ federal resignation offer got fired anyway.

    Including at least one person who was fired from the Small Business Administration twice before being told she was being accepted into the messily-arranged deferred resignation program, according to a report from The Washington Post.

    The Trump administration kept promising “we should have no fear that it would be honored,” said a U.S. Forest Service employee who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The employee tried to accept the resignation deal Feb. 6, only to be fired three months before she would have graduated out of her probationary status.

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    Nvidia releases new drivers along with the RTX 5070 Ti launch and fixes a weird bug.

    The latest Nvidia drivers add support for DLSS 4-enabled Multi Frame Generation in Marvel Rivals, allowing a 5090 to deliver up to 630 “fake” frames per second in 1080p.

    Even if you have older hardware than the likely-hard-to-find 5070 Ti, the release notes (pdf) for 572.47 say it also addresses a bug I’d experienced recently, where it could crash your system instead of waking up the monitor from an extended sleep.

    Graph showing Marvel Rivals performance in 1080p with DLSS off, compared to with Frame Gen and Multi Frame Gen, across various Nvidia GPUs.
    Image: Nvidia
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    Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That resigns.

    According to Forbes reporter David Jeans, the problem isn’t that it’s a facial recognition surveillance company with a database of pictures scraped from social media without permission and representing the end of privacy and drawing attention from regulators. It’s actually the failure to secure government contracts.

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    Mozilla co-founder Mitchell Baker leaves the company’s board.

    The recently rebranded Mozilla organization announced leadership changes that include Baker, who ended her run as CEO last year, also stepping down as chair and board member. In an interview two years ago on Decoder, Baker suggested AI could reset the browser landscape as Mozilla announced investments to develop trustworthy, open-source AI.

    Now, the organization’s leaders say they’re still focused on that, as well as investing in privacy-respecting advertising and increasing the reach of their online fundraising campaigns.