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Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $100 Off

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A leader in almost everything tech and home-office related for over 40 years, Swiss-founded Logitech offers a vast array of products, including keyboards, consoles, webcams, and tech gear made especially for education, business, and gaming. We at WIRED know the company’s wares well (obviously), so we’ve found the latest Logitech promo codes and deals to save on any type of tech purchase.

Logitech makes seriously great Bluetooth keyboards, keyboard cases, and smart pencils that made our Best iPad Accessories list. We also named the Logitech Pro X 2 the best gaming headset in our wireless headphones guide. If you want to keep the spirit of playfulness alive, fellow F1 enthusiast (and senior editor of product reviews) Parker Hall raved about Logitech’s high-tech wheel, pedals, and seat racing simulation set to help you become the Lewis Hamilton of your gaming fantasies. Check out these Logitech discounts we’ve found to help you ball (technologically) on a budget.

Get a Free Gift With Select Purchases at Logitech

Right now, Logitech wants to reward you for choosing them, with tons of free gifts with select purchases at Logitech. These Logitech deals include major savings, like a free Logitech Desk Mat when you buy any two Ergo Products, ($23 value), or a free Logitech Accessory Case when you purchase a Crayon & Combo Touch Case ($30 value). There are tons of savings on accessories, like a free Wooden Headset Stand when you buy a qualifying Logitech Zone Headset, ($40 value), or a free MX Keyboard Sleeve when you purchase a qualifying MX Mini Keyboard ($30 value). Plus, you can claim a free 6-month Perplexity Pro membership, worth $120, when you buy an eligible MX Series, Ergo Series, or iPad Keyboard case over $119.

Save up to $100 On Refurbished Premium Gear

The Logitech outlet is one of the best ways to save big on your important tech purchases on premium gear with exclusive gear. With the outlet, you’ll find like-new refurbished devices and limited-time favorites to shop before they’re gone forever (so be sure to check often and act soon!). Some of the best deals we’ve seen so far include: $50 off a refurbished X56 HOTAS VR flight simulator controller, $60 off a refurbished G715 wireless gaming keyboard, and $20 off a refurbished Folio Touch for iPad Air and Pro models.

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Even if you don’t have a promo code on hand, Logitech has plenty of ways to save, with free shipping on orders of $29 or more (a super-easy mark to hit). Many products also qualify for a gift with purchase, so take advantage of a free MX travel case, keyboard sleeve, or 1 month of Adobe Creative Cloud. And for a limited time, when you buy one product, you can get a second for 25% off.

With an array of helpful products for students, Logitech is making it easier to get all this game-changing tech. Students can get a 25% discount on products after registering and verifying their student status with UNiDAYS.

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Logitech wants to benefit as many people as it can, with a 20% discount for some of our most valuable community members who can benefit from this important, but sometimes pricey tech. That’s why Logitech is offering a 20% Logitech promo code discount of 20% off for heroes and students—this includes students, teachers, medical professionals, military, and first responders. Just verify your status to get the Logitech discount code.

25% Off Logitech Gaming Gear

Logitech G Play Days sales event is a celebration of all things gaming. During the Logitech G Play Days sales event, you’ll save with exclusive promotions and score 25% off select gear for a limited time. So whether you (or a friend) is in need of a new gaming headset or wants to upgrade your keyboard, there’s gear (and discounts) for every type of gamer.

Shop Trending Logitech Products

As mentioned, Logitech has nearly every type of tech product needed for productivity in your office or school, but also has some really innovative tech products for home and gaming. Looking to get serious about your WFH (or gaming) setup? Logitech’s MX Keys S Advanced Wireless Illuminated Keyboard is a bestseller because of its portability, ergonomic design, and cheap price point. The bestselling MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse is occasionally discounted, so save your hand the cramps and carpal tunnel (while saving some coin, too).

Asus chases Elgato with its own secondary touchscreen display

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Asus’s latest gaming monitor is a little smaller than usual. The ROG Strix XG129C, announced on Friday, is a 12.3-inch touchscreen IPS display that’s intended to be a sidekick for a larger main monitor, similar to the 14.1-inch secondary display in the 2020 Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15. It’s a slightly smaller competitor to Corsair’s Xeneon Edge, which has a 14.5-inch display, but the same 720p resolution.

Asus says the XG129C covers 125 percent of the sRGB color gamut and 90 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. It also comes with a one-year subscription for the hardware monitoring tool AIDA64 Extreme, which would usually cost $65. Besides acting as a performance monitor for your PC, sidekick displays like this can also be handy as an extension for streaming or editing setups, much like Elgato’s Stream Deck.

Along with the little XG129C, Asus also announced the ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMS, a 34-inch RGB Tandem QD-OLED gaming monitor. It features a 280Hz refresh rate and a 3440 x 1440p resolution, and, according to Asus, covers 99 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. Asus has not yet officially announced pricing for either display.

Big Media Hopes Upfront Raises New Measures

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TV has long been an industry based on eyeballs. Now media companies are winking more at feet.

Fox Corp. is the backer of some of TV’s most-watched programs including Sunday-afternoon NFL games and “The Masked Singer.”  Earlier this week, however, it released a report touting not the number of people who see its shows, but rather the fact that ad campaigns from certain fast-food chains seen by viewers on its broadcast network drove foot traffic to restaurants by 81% over audiences who did not. The data comes from a Fox home brew of more than 20 different sources that gauge consumer activity and response, and there is some expectation on the part of big media companies that proof of what are being called “outcomes” – actions taken as the result of having been exposed to ads — may become a bigger part of ongoing discussions between Big TV and Madison Avenue.

“In the future, we need to start really leaning in on how well we perform from an outcomes perspective, versus just measuring impressions,” says Kym Frank,  senior vice president of ad sales research for Fox Corp., during a recent interview.

Will TV back away from the TV ratings upon which it has relied for decades? In conversations taking place across the industry, executives say they hope that the idea will succeed. Some talks will grow more earnest over the next few weeks, as TV networks and streamers try to sell billions in advertising during the sector’s annual “upfront” market, which kicks off Monday with the first of a series of glitzy presentations to advertising agencies and would-be sponsors.

“I feel like that’s the next wave,” says Bobby Voltaggio, president of U.S. ad sales, platform monetization, at Warner Bros. Discovery, who adds; “Impressions remain important, but maybe not as much as they were in the past.” He envisions a new system shaping up within two to three years that puts new emphasis on connecting ads to business results. A survey of 300 industry executives by iSpot, one of the measurement companies hoping to make more of a business in tracking outcomes, found 53% of respondents cited them as the most critical measurement standard, while only 9% thought measurement of individual programs was.

Much of the prevailing sentiment has been spurred by years of growing frustration with current measurement of TV audiences. For decades, billions of dollars in advertising have been transacted on Nielsen ratings that tabulate how many people saw a TV program or commercial, and, also on how many people of a certain age or gender did as well.

Hollywood’s recent streaming wars, however, have cast all kinds of doubts on the value of such totals. More people watch their favorite dramas, comedies, movies and reality shows at times of their own choosing — only sports and some live events seem able to buck the trend — and new technology gives advertisers the ability to place commercials according to finer characteristics, like geographic location, income, or  likely interest in a product such as  box of diapers or a new car. Suddenly, big audiences are harder to come by, and advertisers instead must work harder to persuade individual viewers during personal binge sessions.

Besides, a new generation of advertisers at home with digital media are more interested in response rates, website visits and requests for more information. These are things that can be tracked more easily online, as opposed to the old-school TV set that once stood at the center of most families’ living rooms. One advertiser might want to drive visits to a car showroom, while another might want to send out a brochure about travel to a new theme park or hotel. A third could seek to sell tickets to the opening weekend of a new movie.

“I think the conversation is shifting from who saw an ad to what happens afterwards,” says Alan Moss,  vice president of global sales for Amazon Ads. “It’s really about engagement. It’s about results. And agencies are increasingly focused on how they connect those spots to real outcomes.”

TV companies have been working on this stuff for years. In 2017, the former Discovery Communications joined with Fox News, the former A + E Networks, the former AMC Networks, the former CBS Corp., and Disney ABC Television (the corporate name changers show how quickly the industry has been scrambled by streaming and new technology) to pursue a trial of new technology that sought  to tie exposure to video ads to an actual customer action. The project was code-named “Thor,” and TV executives hoped to gain credit for delivering customers to restaurant and car-dealer showrooms. Since that time, A&E, Paramount and others have unveiled their own efforts to connect views of ads to making the sponsor’s cash register ring.

Some work has been hard to miss. In 2024, Fox and Netflix agreed on a deal that examined how much social-media activity was generated by a two-minute segment during one of the network’s Sunday-afternoon football telecasts that featured director Zack Snyder and augmented-reality scenes from the streamer’s movie “Rebel Moon.”

Like everything having to do with measuring media audiences, change won’t happen at the click of a mouse. “Outcomes are subjective,” says one media buying executive. “What an outcome is for one ad is different from another one.” Some media companies might like to use them more because doing so might prop up prices that have begun to sag as traditional Nielsen ratings erode. “Do outcomes come up more? Absolutely,” this executive says., “Do I think it will drive tons of incremental spending? I don’t think so.”

TV executives agree that they must come up with concepts that can work across the industry. “Obviously, we’re not going to work with an auto and sell a car. Right? But we can work with an auto, and drive feet to the lot. We can work with a QSR and drive limited time offers, sales for them at the geographic level,” says Evan Adlman, executive vice president of commercial sales and revenue operations for AMC Global Media.

One measurement company that provides third-party data for most media audiences and is backed by industry standards is already keeping tabs on “outcomes.” It’s Nielsen.

The company already offers measurement of outcomes and has been working to incorporate those efforts into Nielsen One, the system currently used to determine viewership of TV programs across linear and digital screens. Executives at Nielsen don’t see TV ratings going away, however, because impressions remain an apples-to-apples way of comparing one TV or streaming program to another. Because different advertisers set a variety of business goals for themselves, using outcomes only would give rise to a chaotic scenario in which one show must compete for foot traffic, ticket sales, coupon orders and more, depending on what the sponsor demanded. Such terrain seems impossible to conquer.  

Of course, the company’s TV ratings generate millions each year from Nielsen clients, which include Netflix, Roku, Amazon, NBC and Fox. The company may have less impetus to shake up the current infrastructure, however, than the video companies do.

The industry must work harder to make outcomes stick. “We’re all trying to make our own way. But in the future, we kind of have to all do this together. We can’t have measurement in a vacuum. That is not a currency,” says Fox’s Frank. “So if outcomes become the currency, we have to kind of all row in the same direction.”

How Iran’s biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist

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How Iran's biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist


Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed restriction on citizens’ access to the external network. Source: IODA.

But in that digital darkness, one vital financial service continued to operate without interruption: Nobitex, a cryptocurrency exchange linked to Iran’s ruling elite.

We compiled the available information about the platform and tried to understand how Iranian authorities use it, what investigations by analytics firms have revealed, and why, despite all these findings, the exchange is still not on OFAC’s SDN List.

The scale and scope of Iran’s crypto giant

Nobitex is far from a niche platform. While estimates vary, analysts agree that the asset flows moving through the exchange are measured in the billions of dollars. For instance, TRM Labs recorded an observed volume of approximately $5 billion between 2025 and March 2026.

Earlier, Chainalysis noted that asset inflows to Nobitex addresses exceeded the combined figure for Iran’s 10 other largest exchanges. Source: Chainalysis.

Nobitex has an extensive retail user base. According to the platform’s own figures, it serves about 11 million Iranians — almost 12% of the country’s population.

The exchange offers a suite of services typical for the industry: spot and margin trading, yield-bearing products, liquidity pools, digital gift cards, and even crypto-collateralized lending. 

Nobitex also caters to professional market participants and institutional players. These entities are provided with specialized terms, such as increased limits and high-speed APIs.

What drew attention to the platform, however, wasn’t its retail operations. It was information suggesting Nobitex functions as a national currency gateway for a country cut off from SWIFT.

Shadow banking network

A series of investigations available online focus on how Nobitex helps the Iranian leadership evade economic sanctions. 

In January 2026, Elliptic published a report detailing systematic purchases of the USDT stablecoin by Iran’s central bank. According to the company, transactions totaling at least $507 million were carried out through a broker in the UAE, with the assets sent “primarily” to Nobitex. 

Since the stablecoins could be sold for rials, the regulator was effectively carrying out a foreign exchange intervention outside the international banking system.

This is far from the only use case for the exchange by the state. A recent Reuters investigation linked the platform’s founders — brothers Ali and Mohammad Kharrazi — to one of the country’s most influential political and clerical families. 

The agency also established that one of the largest early investors in the exchange was Mohammad Baqer Nahvi, vice president of Safiran Airport Services — a company placed on the OFAC SDN List in September 2022 for organizing flights to supply Iranian drones to Russia. 

Separately, Elliptic and Chainalysis have documented Nobitex’s links to wallets associated with Hamas, the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, the propaganda outlet Gaza Now and the sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex.

The exchange itself appears to have built its infrastructure from the outset for operating under sanctions.

In June 2025, the platform’s source code and portions of its internal documentation were leaked online. According to this data, the code contained modules for generating stealth addresses, transaction batching and splitting, endpoint switching, and specific logic designed to bypass compliance checks. A document titled “Nobitex Privacy” was also made public, explicitly describing a strategy to evade FinCEN tools and Western blockchain analytics. 

Half measures or strategic restraint?

In April 2026, reports surfaced that Iranian entities were charging vessel operators fees in cryptocurrency for unobstructed passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Cryptocurrency has reportedly become one of the primary payment options for these transactions. 

The practice appears to have been quite successful, suggesting that digital assets will continue to be used for similar purposes.

Against this backdrop, adding Nobitex to the SDN List by analogy with Garantex may seem like a logical step, even though such flows usually don’t pass through retail platforms. Yet that hasn’t happened.

The U.S. Treasury Department has previously sanctioned Iran-linked cryptocurrency exchanges, but those platforms were registered in the United Kingdom. Nobitex, by contrast, is incorporated in Iran as a purely local company.

Crucially, on the same day Reuters published its investigation into Nobitex, OFAC clarified that Iranian digital asset exchanges are already considered blocked financial institutions, regardless of whether they are individually named on the SDN List.

For a platform physically based in Iran, however, this has little practical effect: its core operations revolve around Iranian users and neutral foreign intermediaries.

An SDN listing functions differently. It triggers secondary sanctions against any non-U.S. counterparties worldwide, provides direct justification for bulk asset freezes by stablecoin issuers, and compels foreign exchanges and OTC desks to sever ties or risk being designated themselves.

Why an individual SDN listing may be redundant

The U.S. Treasury has not explained why an individual SDN listing for Nobitex has not followed. However, it is worth noting that the department has never added platforms incorporated within Iran to the list — and there are several of them

OFAC’s strategy toward Iran’s local crypto market is built around targeted measures. Three main approaches stand out:

  • Sanctions against specific addresses.
  • Designation of exchange houses — a recent example being the addition of exchanges allegedly servicing the state’s shadow oil revenues.
  • Designation of individuals and OTC brokers.

When it comes to Nobitex itself, any explanation can only be speculative. The first has already been outlined: OFAC employs a different strategy toward local Iranian platforms, and Nobitex simply falls within that logic rather than outside it.

The U.S. Treasury may also consider such measures redundant. As previously noted, U.S. persons are already prohibited from transacting with Iranian exchanges; from the standpoint of formal access, an individual listing adds little to existing restrictions.

There is also the “human shield” hypothesis. Speaking to Reuters, Nick Smart, Chief Intelligence Officer at Crystal Intelligence, noted that the platform hosts a high concentration of activity from ordinary Iranians. He suggested that separating the regime from the citizens using the exchange is nearly impossible, as their assets are commingled.

In this context, the Garantex case looks like the opposite scenario: the platform operated as a B2B hub for shadow capital. That made it possible to physically seize its servers without causing social damage to retail users.

There is no direct public confirmation that this is the logic holding OFAC back.

Finally, a strike against Nobitex may be viewed as less effective without a simultaneous move against external “exits.” The value of sanctions arises not at the “entry point,” but where funds leave the country: foreign exchanges, stablecoin issuers, OTC brokers, banks, and other intermediaries.

The double-edged sword

The Nobitex case is another reminder that the mass adoption the industry dreams of is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, the exchange gives Iranians cut off from the world a measure of financial freedom: a way to shield savings from rial inflation and retain at least some access to dollar liquidity. On the other, the state uses the same infrastructure for its own purposes, ranging from central bank currency interventions to transfers to regional proxies.

The key point is that this is no longer an isolated practice. Chainalysis places Iran alongside Russia and North Korea, noting that for all three states, “what were once experimental and opportunistic tactics have matured into institutionalized strategies embedded within national economic and security policy.”

The Iranian model — a mass retail platform based in an unreachable territory coupled with offshore proxy structures — looks like a working template. Future sanctioned regimes will likely look to this experience.

That raises a reverse question — this time for regulators themselves. 

What is the acceptable cost of sanctions pressure when the regime’s funds and the savings of millions of ordinary users are physically commingled on a single platform? Can the assets of 11 million people be frozen to cut off the state’s financial channel — or is that precisely the line the SDN mechanism, in its current form, does not cross?

OFAC has yet to provide a public answer, and the Nobitex case only sharpens the debate.

The Elite Club Director Calling Out Her Misbehaving VIPs

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Gabé Doppelt was born in South Africa, raised in London, worked in New York and became the ultimate L.A. power broker — first as the maître d’ at Jeff Klein’s Sunset Tower, then as the global membership director at his San Vicente Clubs. She began her professional life as an assistant for legendary media maven Tina Brown at Tatler in 1979. She then made her way to New York and eventually bounced between the coasts as an editor for Vogue, W, Mademoiselle and The Daily Beast, finally leaving media in 2014 for a career in hospitality.

She returned to Manhattan last year to oversee the launch of SVC’s West Village outpost, in the former Jane Hotel. It was meant to be an eight-month gig. “Within a week of landing in New York, which by the way was in the middle of a snowstorm, I knew there was no way I was going back,” explains Doppelt.

It’s a good thing she settled in so quickly because the task facing Klein and crew required full focus: San Vicente West Village opened last March in a redbrick building built in 1908, fresh out of a massive overhaul. Steered by designer Rose Uniacke, the club features a restaurant (with head chef Nicholas Ugliarolo), drawing room, sushi room, disco, billiard room, screening room and nine well-appointed rooms and suites. To say the opening was warmly embraced is an understatement. The New York Times reported that it was “greeted with a sense of urgency that is second only to the future of democracy.”

“Opening a club in New York is quite intense because New Yorkers certainly let you know when they’re not happy. They’re a little more forgiving in L.A.,” says Doppelt. “Any new property has the same problems; things you think will go well don’t and things you think are going to be a shit show are always perfect. That’s the nature of the beast in any business.”

The first three months were a blur. She landed in New York, and the next night, the club opened exclusively for an afterparty for SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, a star-packed celebration attended by Lady Gaga, Cher, Jason Momoa, Anya Taylor-Joy, Donna Langley, Bryan Lourd and Lorne Michaels. “We hit the ground running,” Doppelt recalls. “The next night we hosted a hardhat party for existing members and friends so people could see the club even though it wasn’t finished. Then we went dark for a month to finish all the aesthetics. We opened in March and it took three months to find our rhythm.”

A year later, San Vicente West Village is in its groove. As global membership director, Doppelt curates who gets in and she borrows a quote from her boss to explain how they anoint new members. “We’re slow growers. It’s very easy to be greedy and we could take everybody who applies and we would be, I don’t know about successful, but we’d be rich,” she says. “Success isn’t measured in rich. There’s a great quote of Jeff’s that goes, ‘Just because you’re rich, that makes you interesting?’ We don’t care about that. For us, power isn’t money and that’s the last thing we’re looking for.”

Her old editorial chops also kicked in. Her cheeky, “quasi-monthly” in-house newsletter has been such a hit with members, it may be worth the price of entry. (Initiation fees range from $3,000 to $15,000, with annual dues of $1,800 to $4,200.) In her notes “from The Directrice,” she updates insiders on the club’s comings and goings — literally: “A member jettisoned for yelling out to a high-profile VIP very much in the news right now, ‘Hey XX, is that really you?’ ” reads one. “We pride ourselves on respecting every member’s privacy so there were no second chances here. Bye.”

Doppelt’s unvarnished missives were inspired by New York restaurateur Keith McNally, who posts his nightly reports to much fanfare on Instagram. “It’s really funny and brutally honest,” she praises. “He really calls people out and he doesn’t edit.”

Doppelt’s started as personal notes but she grew boring of writing about herself and noticed how members liked tattling on one another. So, she started doing it, too. Her epic Valentine’s Day rant had tongues wagging for weeks. “To the two members who, on multiple occasions found your way to a higher floor bathroom between courses for an ‘amuse bouche,’ the literal translation being a ‘mouth amuser’ … we know who you are. … Please note we do have rooms, and as members, you receive the reduced member rate, so please check with the front desk if you feel the need to indulge in extracurricular activities while in the club.” The horny members did not lose their memberships, since Doppelt prefers to discipline with suspensions or warnings.

Thanks in part to Doppelt’s methods and long-standing relationships, SVC has become one of, if not the hottest private club in New York. And it’s got Doppelt and Klein already thinking about what’s next: “Of course we’re ravenously hungry to do another.”

But where? First, Doppelt has extended her New York stay for at least another year and after that, she won’t say. “We love New York. We love Europe. Maybe London, maybe Paris. We don’t know. We love buildings. So, wherever we find the next crumbling old lady.”

This story appeared in the May 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.

Greece conducts controlled blast of mystery naval drone explosives

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The unmanned vessel, suspected to be of Ukrainian origin, was found by fishermen in a cave on Thursday.

Hacker Drains $5.9M From Ethereum Liquidity Provider TrustedVolumes

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Early reports framed the incident as a 1inch exploit, but the protocol clarified that it was not compromised and no user funds were affected.

TrustedVolumes, a liquidity provider on the Ethereum blockchain, lost about $5.9 million in funds to a hacker on Thursday.

The attacker was able to exploit a vulnerability within the custom trading system used by the platform and managed to withdraw the funds, which included ETH, WBTC, as well as USDT and USDC stablecoins.

What Happened

According to blockchain security firm Blockaid, which caught the exploit as it was happening, the stolen funds included 1,291 WETH, around 16.9 WBTC, roughly 206,000 USDT, and just under 1.27 million USDC.

The attack worked by abusing a design flaw in TrustedVolumes’ custom order-settlement system, known as a Request for Quote (RFQ) proxy.

GoPlus Security posted a breakdown showing that the attacker registered themselves as an authorized “order signer” using a function called “registerAllowedOrderSigner()” that was publicly accessible.

The function allows anyone to designate their own address as a valid signer for trades they controlled, and while normally that would be harmless enough, the settlement function had a separate problem: it checked authorization against one address while actually pulling funds from a different one.

As detailed in a technical report posted by security researcher Defi Nerd, the attacker used that gap to execute four drain transactions against the TrustedVolumes resolver contract, which had previously given the proxy permission to move its tokens.

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According to them, each time, the proxy pulled assets from the resolver and sent only a single raw USDC unit back. Then the attacker converted the stolen WETH back into ETH and forwarded everything to their own wallet.

TrustedVolumes confirmed the exploit and publicly posted three wallet addresses holding the stolen funds, asking the hacker to get in touch about a “bug bounty and a mutually acceptable resolution.”

1inch Distances Itself as DeFi Hacks Continue

Because TrustedVolumes functions as a liquidity provider and market maker on 1inch, some early reports framed the incident as a 1inch exploit.

However, that is not accurate, and both 1inch and Blockaid put out statements clarifying that the protocol itself was not compromised and no user funds on 1inch were affected. TrustedVolumes operates independently across multiple platforms, not exclusively on 1inch.

The attack occurred during an especially difficult period for the DeFi ecosystem since it followed a catastrophic month of April, where more than $650 million worth of crypto was stolen from different projects.

KelpDAO and Drift Protocol were the most affected, having $292 million and $285.2 million taken away from them.

So at $5.9 million, this latest exploit is smaller in scale. But the technical sophistication of the approach, deploying a helper contract, abusing self-service signer registration, and exploiting a maker/funding-source mismatch in a single transaction, puts it in a different category from a simple bug or misconfiguration.



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This New Cookbook by the Founder of Ghia Will Transport You Straight to a Mediterranean Summer

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The sun is coming out, the sweaters have been (mostly) packed away, and the spritzes are starting to flow: Summer is on its way.

We’re dreaming of days spent basking in the sun; diving into cold, clear waters; luxuriating in a good book; and finishing the day off with a glass (or two) of wine and a dinner made with fresh, bright ingredients. Just in time to fulfill all our Mediterranean summer dreams, Mélanie Masarin—the founder of the non-alcoholic apéritif brand Ghia—has published Riviera: Recipes from the Coast of France and Italy. Like Ghia, Masarin drew inspiration for the book from her childhood in France, and particularly the cherished time she spent with her grandmother in the kitchen.

“I’m lucky to come from a family that cooked a lot, so I never felt stressed in the kitchen. We had an open-door policy, neighbors and friends were always coming and going, and always offered something to eat or drink,” Masarin tells Vogue. “The kitchen was always a place of respite. That feeling is what I hope to capture in this book.”

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Masarin first had the idea for the book back in 2020, when she found herself cooking simple recipes at home during lockdown, and coaching her friends through how to make them. “People kept reaching out about what I was making, and that’s really how it began,” she says, adding: “Honestly, the same instinct that started Ghia is what started this book. I wanted gathering to feel easy.”

The result is a cookbook that Masarin hopes will “take the intimidation out of cooking,” with recipes like tomato tarte tatin, seared scallops, French minestrone, and more. “You really don’t need a big, well-stocked pantry,” she says. “Most of these recipes come down to good olive oil, flaky salt, fresh herbs, garlic, and a good attitude.”

One of Masarin’s favorite recipes in the book is for fig and yogurt cake. “The version in Riviera is a riff on the cake my grandmother used to make in my childhood, which was really a glorified pound cake… The cake itself comes out tender and slightly tangy from the yogurt, and the figs do all the work of making it feel like something more.” But, she clarifies, you can also use citrus, frozen raspberries, quince, or truly whatever you have. “That’s the philosophy of the whole book: Cook with what’s in season, and let recipes adapt to your life.” Below, Masarin shares the recipe with Vogue.





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In a commitment to sustainability, Western Digital has a program with Easy Recycle, where you can safely dispose of NAS systems and internal or external HDDs and SSDs. (They’ll also recycle devices from any manufacturer, not just Western Digital). As a token of appreciation for participating in their initiative for a greener future, participants can get 15% off their next purchase of $50 or more.

Choosing the Right Western Digital Product

It’s hard to know which is the right digital storage system for you—in fact, we even made a handy guide on How to Back Up Your Digital Life, and have a whole roundup of some of our favorite WIRED-tested external hard drives. In a similar vein, Western Digital created a FAQ webpage on how to choose the right storage drive for your needs, like budget and data. A Western Digital Hardrive is a budget-friendly option that delivers the capacity needed to store years of photos, videos, backups, workloads, and archives. While a Western Digital SSD offers fast and reliable responsiveness for more large-scale operating systems and active projects.



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Zombies, Run is back and making me want to exercise

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 127, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and lines and David Sacks and sleep learning, catching up on Andor (for me) and Young Jedi Adventures (for my toddler), poring over thousands of new Artemis II photos, listening to many hours of possibly the longest YouTube video ever, taking more walks thanks to Pedometer++ 8.0, losing my mind during every second of every Arsenal match, and spending far too much time setting up scenes with the Hue lights in my basement.

I also have for you an exciting comeback for a fabulous workout app, a concert doc you won’t want to miss, a new fun-sounding new board game, a book about creativity, and much more. Let’s get into it.

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / playing / listening to / dipping into hummus this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)

  • Zombies, Run! One of my all-time favorite fitness apps slash adventure games is back with new stories for the first time in forever. The story of the game’s rebirth is pretty awesome, and I cannot wait to start running to the game again. (I actually mean that! Wild!)
  • Boox Tappy. Nifty little accessory for tapping and scrolling on your e-reader, a lot like the Kobo Remote but actually significantly more capable (and probably hackable, in a good way). These page-turners are the kind of accessory you never really think about until you have one and then immediately becomes impossible to live without.
  • Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour. The latest James Cameron movie is… hang on… a concert documentary? Weird! Apparently also awesome. It’s shot in 3D, in a way that everyone seems to agree totally works, and seems to have the immersive effect everybody thought we’d only get in VR. I might need to see this one in theaters.
  • The Remarkable Paper Pure. Maybe the most exciting E Ink notepad on the market. $399 is a pretty good price for this category, and Remarkable made all the right decisions – more memory, more storage, no expensive and / or crummy color screen. I’m going to end up buying one of these, I can tell.
  • The Bose Lifestyle Ultra. Is it weird that I kind of forgot about Bose? It makes good headphones, certainly, but the brand seems to have lost a bit of its shine. This new speaker lineup looks really nice, though — and I like that it’s a whole speaker system designed to work with the streaming apps you already use, not add another one to your phone.
  • Mortal Kombat II. Honestly, I don’t know what you could want from this movie other than a bunch of sick action scenes, incredibly mediocre dialogue, and a wildly overdramatic story. Is this a good movie? Probably not. Will I cheer loudly the first time someone says “FINISH HIM!”? You betcha.
  • Mixtape. This genre of game — sort of a video game, sort of a movie, mostly a hang — is really hard to do right. I often get bored very quickly. But in the bits I’ve played so far, Mixtape has such great music and such good writing that I’m not a bit tired of it.
  • Game Changer: Home Edition. Big week for all of us wannabe Dropout contestants! This new board game has some fun, Cranium-style, every-game-is-different energy to its structure and seems like it’ll fit most family game nights. It’s a Kickstarter, which always comes with risks, but I’m already making space in my game cabinet for this.
  • Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. All of David Epstein’s books are excellent, but this set of stories about the importance of limits (and the peril of having none) is full of stuff I suspect you’ll find fascinating. There’s also a great excerpt in Wired, about the team at General Magic that basically invented the iPhone 10 years too early.

Adam Molina has very good taste in just about everything. He’s the productivity nerd I nod along to during the Waveform podcast (which he produces), he’s always sharing cool stuff in his Cool Supply newsletter, and he seems to have basically the exact watch collection I aspire to. What I’m saying is, he’s perfect Installer-bait.

I’ve had Adam on my Screen Share list forever, but figured this week was the perfect week — Adam just launched an app called Color Snap, which gives you a color every day and the challenge to go photograph that exact color in the real world. Extremely cool idea, extremely fun app, I suspect you’ll dig it too. And a perfect excuse to have Adam share what he’s into right now.

Here’s Adam’s homescreen, plus some info on the apps he uses and why:

The phone: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.

The wallpaper: A picture that someone posted on Threads of the ceiling of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Rome.

The apps: Signal, WhatsApp, Pocket Casts, Color Snap, Gradient Weather, Google Translate, Spotify, and YouTube.

My phone philosophy is that everything should be at most one swipe and one tap away. The first page is all about quick access to my most-used apps, and the second is all about quick information. Then I use an app called Button Mapper that turns all of my phone’s physical buttons into action buttons so I can access even more with a hold or a double-tap. For example, long-pressing volume up launches my home note in Obsidian. I clearly spend too much time thinking about all of this when I have no service on the subway.

The first page is just for my most-used apps. I have the usual suspects here like YouTube, Spotify, and Pocket Casts. I’ve also been really liking the new Gradient Weather app that was featured in Installer a few weeks ago. Then WhatsApp / Signal for messaging, Google Translate — which has a new Duolingo competitor built-in that I’ve been using — and my own app, Color Snap (shameless plug). Color Snap is also the reason there is a small white widget on my homescreen: Every day the color changes, and you need to go find that color in the real world and take a picture of it. I wanted to challenge myself to take more pictures, and this seemed like a fun way to do it. (It’s Android-only right now, but I promise the iOS version is coming soon.)

The second page is all about quick glanceable information and controls. So changing songs, switching podcasts, or just checking what’s on my calendar today.

I also asked Adam to share a few things he’s into right now. Here’s what he sent back:

  • I used to be super into anime in high school, so I’ve been trying to get back into it lately, and the one I’m currently obsessed with is Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. I just finished it last week and am already halfway through a rewatch. Highly recommend it if you’re into fantasy / anime.
  • I recently discovered a new podcast called Simple and Clean, which dives deep into the Kingdom Hearts games. It has become my go-to walking-the-dog podcast.
  • A YouTuber I’m obsessed with right now is @halfof8. He’s a designer that has been turning his beautifully crafted journal entries into beautifully crafted Blender videos that are less than 5 minutes long. He doesn’t post often, but they’re all bangers.

Here’s what the Installer community is into this week. I want to know what you’re into right now as well! Email installer@theverge.com or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here every week. For even more great recommendations, check out the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.

“I recently picked up an M5 MacBook Air — my first Mac laptop! One transition hurdle from Windows was the lack of a native ‘Always on Top’ feature, which I relied on heavily via Microsoft PowerToys. After searching for a macOS alternative, I found Floaty. It allows me to focus on my primary tasks while keeping video feeds or conversations readily accessible.” —Travis

“I don’t know how I missed Halt and Catch Fire, but we just finished the last last episode and wow. I wish there was more like this: the character development, not to mention the various awesome camera angles and shots. Amazing all around.” — Mark

“Checkout the app Blockit on Android. It’s like Brick on iOS, completely blocks you out of your phone until the timer is done.” — Gaurav

“Been really enjoying the new season of Hacks, and the weird combination of cozy / secondhand embarrassment that is Rooster, both on HBO Max.” — Pegasusisme

“I’ve placed several campaigns’ worth of D&D characters into Tomadachi Life: Living the Dream, and now I’m obligated to let the players know about all of the drama that has since unfolded.” — Nicholas

“Playing the hell out of MapTap.” — JD

“I have unfortunately stumbled back into playing Timberborn, an adorable beaver-themed survival city builder (which had its 1.0 release recently!), that runs the gamut from cute little farms to massive infrastructure projects with water physics. It’s very addictive, and those beavers are so dang cute.” — Olof

“Just got the GameSir Pocket Taco and have been rediscovering a ton of amazing GBA games. Right now I’m really into Metroid Fusion!” – Sajishnu

“I’m messing with Wirken, a project by Davi Ottenheimer (formerly of Inrupt). Kind of private by design OpenClaw-style LLM portal. Cool project!” — Rich

“I hacked my Nintendo Switch (you’ll definitely need some comfort with tearing it apart to do so) a couple months ago and I’ve been catching up on some old 3DS games thanks to RetroArch, perfect for the Switch format.” — Gabriel

I know I’ve mentioned this before here, but I’ve been having trouble falling asleep recently and have turned to a bunch of different things to help me slumber. An episode of The Office in the background is often just what my brain needs to quiet down; podcasts like Sleeping With Celebrities do it too. The problem is, I sleep in a bed with another person, who is vastly less interested in these late-night noises than I am. As a result, I’m constantly going to sleep with AirPods in and either waking up with one smushed into my ear or lost somewhere among the covers. Am I the only one facing this dilemma? Do I buy dedicated sleep headphones? One of those weird speaker-pillow things? Maybe I just need to convince my wife to love the people of Dunder Mifflin as much as I do. That’s probably the easiest answer. If you have a better one, I’m all ears.

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