How browser extensions expose crypto to a fatal design flaw the industry ignored, bleeding $713M in 2025

Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix. The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such […]

11 mins read

Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not

Nutanix combines compute, storage, virtualization, and networking so you can run applications and manage data across on-premises datacenters, public clouds, and edge locations all on one platform. Connect with Dan on Linkedin and Bluesky. Congrats to Necromancer badge winner David Ferenczy Rogožan! They won the badge on their answer to Where does adb shell mkdir […]

39 mins read

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours 15th December 2025 I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last night, purely out of curiosity, I decided […]

10 mins read

Trump’s war on offshore wind faces another lawsuit

Dominion Energy, an offshore wind developer and utility serving Virginia’s “data center alley,” filed suit against the Trump administration this week over its decision to pause federal leases for large offshore wind projects. The move puts a sudden stop to five wind farms already under construction, including Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. The complaint […]

3 mins read

How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the “Late Show” during Super Bowl weekend 2021. Now, nearly four years later, the insect farming company has been placed into judicial liquidation — essentially bankruptcy — for insolvency.  The company’s demise is hardly a surprise, as […]

6 mins read