It’s been a rough year for cryptocurrency, and things are not looking any better after over half a billion dollars of cryptocurrency tokens were stolen from crypto giant Binance on Thursday night.

The exploit hit the Binance Bridge, a cross-chain bridge that allows for the transfer of tokens between two related blockchains operated by the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, and collectively known as BNB Chain. According to well-known smart contract analyst samczsunthe attacker was able to forge transactions that allowed them to withdraw two million BNB tokens from the bridge, worth roughly $570 million.

Funds estimated at around $87 million were removed from the BNB ecosystem entirely; but the remaining funds could not be transferred immediately because BNB Chain took the drastic step of halting the blockchain entirelymeaning no transactions whatsoever could be processed.

“An exploit on a cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, in extra BNB,” Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet posted soon after the attack. “We have asked all validators to temporarily suspend BSC [Binance Smart Chain].”

A tweet from the BNB Chain account said that the blockchain was running again as of the early hours of Friday morning. in an “ecosystem updates,” the BNB Chain team apologized for the exploit, and said that the project would hold a series of on-chain governance votes to determine whether to freeze the hacked funds, and if a bounty should be offered for catching the hackers responsible.

“Looking at the broader picture, we have seen a

Apple’s new MacOS Venture is letting the iPhone wirelessly connect to the Mac as a web camera, allowing you take advantage of the phone’s better cameras instead of relying on the lower-resolution cameras that are often built into MacBook laptops. The new feature, named Continuity Cameraworks with most iPhone models that are running iOS 16.

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Along with an upgraded image, Continuity Camera offers video effects to enhance the experience, depending on the iPhone you’re using. Most prominently, there’s Center Stage which utilizes the iPhone’s ultrawide lens to track and follow you around the room. There’s also Desk View, which projects a birds-eye view of your desk so you can show handwritten notes or anything else nearby. Lastly, there is the option to turn on Portrait mode or Studio Light. Center Stage and Desk View both work on the iPhone 11 or later — but not the iPhone SE — while Studio Light works on the iPhone 12 and later.

The iPhone’s webcam feature looks best when placed above the MacBook’s screen, which can be done with a number of mounts. Belkin’s released a MagSafe-compatible iPhone mount that I covered in a hands-on you can read here.

To learn how to set up Continuity Camera on your iPhone and Mac and access video effects, watch the video at the top of the article. For more reasons to upgrade to MacOS Ventura, see our list of

In a rare occurrence this week, Apple provided a tangible clue about the iPhone’s future.

Company executives confirmed that Apple will comply with the European Union’s mandate that all phones in the region adopt USB-C as the common smartphone charging port in 2024. This means that future iPhones will need to shift away from the Lightning connector that’s existed since 2012.

The transition to USB-C seems inevitable for the iPhone given the EU’s new requirements. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaking at the Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference, said that the company has “no choice” and that Apple would “comply with local laws” as it does around the world. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the Lightning cable is becoming heredity just yet. The Lightning port may play a bigger role in Apple’s lineup than you might expect, thanks to the multitude of accessories that still use it and the popularity of older iPhones.

It’s no secret that USB-C has become increasing common on Apple products. It’s present on every iPad in the company’s current portfolio except for the ninth-generation iPad from 2021. You’ll find USB-C ports on Apple’s MacBook Pro and Air lineup as well.

But consumers and tech critics alike have been waiting for USB-C to arrive on the iPhone. An iPhone X that had been modified with a USB-C port even sold for $86,001 on eBay last year. After all, why wouldn’t you want to use the same cord to

Matt Levine would like you to know that Elon Musk does not actually ruin all of his vacations. Sure, he was at Sesame Place, the theme park just outside Philadelphia, with his kids when Musk announced his Twitter bid, and then stayed up until midnight that night to get his newsletter, Money Stuff, out. But that was kind of fun! “My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays,” the former mergers and acquisitions lawyer told me. And in M&A, everything happens on the weekend.

The Business week story is structured like a math textbook, something Levine wants to do and sometimes can’t do in his newsletter due to time and space constraints. “If you read an upper-level math textbook, it starts from the dumbest thing, like, ‘This is what a number is,’” he says. “It starts from that basic premise and builds from there, and I love that format, and I love that ambition for writing about complicated topics.” Because Bitcoin is such a recent invention, it’s possible to start with the whitepaper and build from there to the major crypto shenanigans you see today.

Levine insists the interruptions weren’t a big deal. He delights in Musk, actually! “He’s a very smart guy who is very much not a lawyer, and that is very fruitful,” Levine says. “He wants things to work in an engineer-y