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On Wednesday, Solana, a popular blockchain and token, said that some wallets that held its assets had been breached. At least 7,700 such wallets are believed to be affected, the company said, while London-based blockchain-analysis firm Elliptic put the amount stolen at $5.2 million in crypto, which includes Solana tokens and the stablecoin known as USD Coin. The hack is believed to have taken hold on wallets such as Slope and Phantom. These are “hot wallets” — that is, wallets that allow for lightning-fast transactions because they are always connected to the internet, as opposed to “cold wallets,” which usually...

I am surprising myself with a new laptop! (shhhhh - don't tell me about the gift and spoil the surprise) After many, many years of GREAT service from my ASUS "Zen", I'm buying a new "Zen". After searching the net for an easy & straightforward method to transfer my programs, docs, photos, apps, Outlook emails, etc - I've discovered it's not as easy as I thought.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner held for almost 13 years will be transferred to Kuwait, the Defense Department said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said in a statement that officials determined that Fouzi al Awda’s detention was no longer needed "to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States." “The United States is grateful to the Government of Kuwait for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,” the Pentagon added. “The United States coordinated with the Government of Kuwait to ensure this transfer took place consistent with appropriate security and...

BAGHDAD — After a long and tiresome process, Soldiers with Battery A, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, can now put Joint Security Station Copper behind them. The Soldiers lived and operated there for the past seven months, sharing the land with the 3rd Battalion, 55th Brigade, 17th Iraqi Army Division, until Dec. 10, when documents were signed, releasing the property to the Government of Iraq. The IA will continue to use part of the land as their base, while the GoI will decide to use the rest of the land or return it to the land owner....

CAMP ECHO — Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and the local government assumed full responsibility for manning and operating Joint Security Station 2 in Diwaniya, March 14. “The Iraqi Security Forces are willing, ready and capable to conduct operations.” said Maj. William Sachse, executive officer for 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment. “This has been evident with the recent holidays, as well as the [provincial] elections.” During those events, the ISF provided the majority of the security, keeping the citizens safe and maintaining the peace. The security the people of Diwaniya are experiencing is largely due to the outstanding leadership...

Baghdad – Multi-National Force – Iraq’s Task Force 134 – Detainee Operations transferred custody of 39 high-value detainees who were former members of the regime of Saddam Hussein to the Government of Iraq, Monday, Dec. 15. The detainees were all transferred from the Coalition theater internment facility at Camp Cropper in Baghdad to an Iraqi-controlled prison. These detainees are all either already convicted or are scheduled to stand trial in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq. The detainees had been held in U.S. detention since their capture. Their recent transfer is in recognition that the Iraqi criminal courts and prison...

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2007 – A terrorism suspect who admitted to helping to kill 13 civilians, including two children, in a 2002 car bombing in Eastern Africa is in U.S. custody and has been transferred as a “dangerous terror suspect” to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a Defense Department official announced today. Abdul Malik was handed over to U.S. officials by Kenyan authorities and was held for a “short time” before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay over the weekend, a senior defense official said, speaking on background. Malik was screened by U.S. law enforcement officials while held in custody, the official...

An Iraq Army Sgt. Maj. (left) yells out final instructions to the troops of 4th Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prior to pass and review July 13. The 4/1-4 Iraqi Army conducted a turn-over of authority of Forwarding Operating Base O'Ryan and surrounding area south of Balad, Iraq, from the U.S. Army's 1-8 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood) BAGHDAD – Because of the increasing abilities of Iraqi security forces, Coalition forces have been able to transfer to Iraqi control dozens of forward...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Feb. 5, 2006) -- Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, returned to the dust-blown streets and runways of Al Asad, Iraq, Feb. 5, replacing MAG-26 as the primary facilitator of aviation support in their area of responsibility. Nearly one year had passed since MAG-26, 2nd MAW, took the reigns from their West Coast counterpart MAG-16. During those months, the East Coast group supported Army, Navy and Marine aviation squadrons performing hundreds of various missions in support of Multinational and Iraqi ground forces. MAG-16 will act as the higher headquarters and serve as a foundation for...

Editorial: Raiding the tobacco till Friday, December 3, 2004 Three years ago, when the cash was flowing freely on Beacon Hill, Massachusetts led the nation in spending on anti-smoking programs. Voters had agreed to raise cigarette taxes to fund anti-smoking initiatives, and the state's share of the huge federal tobacco settlement brought in even more cash intended to mitigate the health effects of smoking. That investment was paying off. National polls consistently found Massachusetts teen-agers trailing teens from around the country in smoking rates. That was then. After years of budget shortfalls, Massachusetts has fallen to 40th place in tobacco-control...

China 'transferred nuclear weapon designs to Pakistan' By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 16/02/2004) China has been identified as the original source of nuclear weapons designs found in Libya in the latest disclosure about the global spread of nuclear technology. American and European experts told the Washington Post that documents handed over by Libya had yielded "dramatic evidence" of Beijing's role in transferring nuclear technology and designs to Pakistan in the 1980s. The Chinese designs were later sold on to Libya by the Pakistan-based network that is now at the centre of an international investigation of nuclear proliferation. The papers,...

Noam Federman's desperate struggle has been crowned with success - after more than two difficult months. Israel Prison Service officials arrived in his cell and asked him to sign his consent to be transferred out of Ashmoret Prison - something that he has been demanding since the beginning of his administrative detention in mid-September. In exchange, Federman agreed to stop the hunger strike he began well over seven weeks ago. Noam's wife Elisheva told Arutz-7's correspondent today that "for some reason, they don't do transfers on Thursdays or Fridays, and so it will happen at the beginning of next week."...

<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In an abrupt shake-up prompted by the Columbia disaster, the chief of the Kennedy Space Center is being moved to another NASA installation to strengthen its engineering department for the shuttle fleet's eventual return to flight.</p>