Coldcard’s Five-Year Entropy Bug: What a $116 Million Bitcoin Theft Says About Self-Custody
A 2021 build change silently disabled Coldcard's hardware random number generator, leaving five years of Bitcoin seeds guessable. Patching your device does not fix a seed already generated — here is what actually does.
The Senate’s Quantum Grid Bill Directs FERC to ‘Consider’ Q-Day. Considering Is All It Requires.
S.5313, the Quantum-GUARD Act, has one cosponsor and one real instruction: FERC should consider quantum threats when it reviews grid reliability standards. The post-quantum algorithms have been final since August 2024 — what's missing is any obligation…
Amazon’s Echo Dot Just Went Up 60%. Its Own Cloud Business Is Part of the Reason.
Amazon quietly repriced Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and eero hardware overnight on August 21, blaming memory costs. The increases run from 11% to 60%, and the cause isn't a fragile supply chain — it's an auction for DRAM that AI data centers are winning, AWS…
Canada Bought 64 Senior Researchers for $541 Million. The Number That Matters Is 5,800 to 2,100.
Ottawa named 64 research chairs on August 27, 48 of them leaving US institutions. Sixty-four people is not a brain drain. What makes the hires worth watching is the pipeline arithmetic sitting behind them — and that number is far larger.
300,000 Metric Tons of Beef Against a 75-Year Low in the Herd. The Math Doesn’t Work.
A signed proclamation opens 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings to duty-free entry over 90 days. Purdue's analysis puts the retail effect well below 1%. The binding constraint is a cattle herd at its smallest since 1951, and imports cannot fix…
Washington Revived a Dead 1930 Tariff Law Against Canada. Read the Exclusion List, Not the Rate.
The US invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for the first time in the statute's history, hitting Canada with 50% duties. But energy, potash and critical minerals were carved out — and that tells you more than the headline number does.
The TMF Got Three More Months. Funding It Ninety Days at a Time Is the Real Problem.
Congress extended the Technology Modernization Fund to 11 December, and it can finance new projects until then. The September cliff is gone. The pattern that created it — funding a multi-year programme three months at a time — is not.