2:00PM Water Cooler 9/1/2023 | naked capitalism
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Microsoft's Outlook spam filters experienced errors. Learn more about what happened to the email tool.
Hope Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has been hacked, leading to a loss of $2 million. A Nigerian citizen exploited a smart contract and transferred $1.86 million to Tornado Cash. Read more.
Look, when it was revealed that Elon Musk's first big plan was to make blue checks available for purchase for $8 a month, some of us quickly pointed out that the blue checks weren't supposed to be about status, but about verification that someone is who they say they are. And, that's kind of important.…