An absolutely riveting retelling of that Heisticorn (previously): How to (almost) steal a billion dollars from the Bangladesh central bank: The Lazarus Heist.
There are a lot (a LOT) of things wrong with the world but let's take a moment to be thankful that the glorious future of only ever having a single USB connector is going really well. If you had told me I could use the same cable to plug in headphones, sync my phone, and pull 240W I would not have believed you.
I know ~nothing about Magic: The Gathering but I deeply enjoyed this dive into not just the economics of the game but of the deep, fundamental inseperability of those economics from the core gameplay loop: magical capitalism.
The closer you get to prod, the scarier testing gets. What if you want to be really sure your test is safe? No, I mean really sure. No, really really sure.
[A member of Deutsche Bank's supervisory board] told [Wirecard's CEO] he had recently bought additional shares in Wirecard, and urged [the CEO] to “do this newspaper in!! :-)”
As is so often — not always! — the case, the market rewarded absolute unsentimental ruthlessness here. A bunch of prime brokers got in a room to give speeches about working together and preserving value and not artificially depressing prices, and the Goldman representative was texting colleagues under the table “SELL EVERYTHING!” Goldman was right.
Because of this, I will now have to ban all future contributions from your University and rip out your previous contributions, as they were obviously submitted in bad-faith with the intent to cause problems.
As an aside, the relevant IRB declared this "not human research". I know what they mean but I'm in love with the idea that they heard "Kernel devs? They're not human, go nuts."
Also, this email is such a wonderful time capsule of the Old Internet. A top-posting callout! plonk! Put it in my veins.
Of particular concern is the significant weakness within Dynetics’ proposal [...] due to the SEP’s finding that Dynetics’ current mass estimate for its DAE far exceeds its current mass allocation
SpaceX was was therefore grateful that OneWeb offered in the meeting to retract its previous incorrect statements. SpaceX looks forward to hearing confirmation from OneWeb that those retractions have been made.
Somali pirates in a small skiff fired on what they (presumably) assumed was an unarmed freighter. The US Navy guided missile frigate Nicholas promptly returned fire with its deck-mounted, water-cooled, .50 caliber machine gun. (The pirates were captured, their ship sunk, and their "mother ship" subsequently tracked down and also captured.)