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The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act  —  Quick Take  — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.

Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Super Micro begins an independent probe into the indictment of three people for export control violations and an internal review of its trade compliance program  —  Super Micro (SMCI.O) said on Tuesday it had begun an independent investigation into the indictment of three people linked …

Dynamic Notarization Checks?

Tyler Hall: I submitted a new build of one of my Mac apps to Apple’s Notary service - like every new release. Normally, the notarization goes through in just a few minutes. Today, multiple builds have been pending for 2+ hours. And, weirdly, my API server is getting traffic from those two builds I submitted […]

Tahoe TCP Overflow Bug

Photon (Hacker News): After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous uptime, a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in Apple’s XNU kernel freezes the internal TCP timestamp clock. Once frozen, TIME_WAIT connections never expire, ephemeral ports slowly exhaust, and eventually no new TCP connections can be established at all. ICMP (ping) […]

Challenges With Ancient Dates in Apple SDKs

Aaron Trickey: Foundation’s date-handling code has an effective lower bound around January 1, 4713 BC on the Julian calendar. You can create a Date value representing an instant in time below that limit, but many Calendar methods will return unexpected values when you try to do anything with it. […] And NSDatePicker does okay with […]