📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/
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🚨 BREAKING: $117M in assets stolen from @Balancer in the last 2 hours after a major hack!!!
🔹 Assets stolen are across multiple chains: #Ethereum, #Base, #Optimism, #Sonic, #Polygon, #Berachain – mainly in Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) of $ETH.
Top 5 stolen assets:
• 7,838 $WETH (~$29.1M)
• 6,841 $OSETH (~$26.8M)
• 4,459 $WSTETH (~$20.1M)
• 2,405 $SFRXETH (~$10M)
• 2,038 $RSETH (~$8.67M)
🔹 The hacker is acting quickly: Converting LSTs into $ETH in real-time!
🔹 Big move: Whale account 0x009, dormant for 3 YEARS, just resurfaced after the exploit and withdrew $7.38M worth of assets from #Balancer!
⚠️ ALERT: If you’re still on #Balancer, secure your funds NOW before it’s too late! 🔐
Follow @spotonchain for more updates about the hack!
https://x.com/spotonchain/status/1985289043383300351