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Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website

The Verge

While the investigation is still ongoing, members of the Badger team have told users that they believe the issue came from someone inserting a malicious script in the UI of their website. Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) December 2, 2021. Dapp folks: let’s secure $100m using Javascript served by Cloudflare.

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

Microsoft employees also appeared in color-coordinated polo shirts, with the company’s green, red, blue, and yellow logo colors all on display. We had scripts and storyboards. If the Amiga reference and Base64 encoding wasn’t nerdy enough, an ASCII dashboard showing off Azure data centers even appeared as a Microsoft Teams background.

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Evinced raises $17M to speed up accessibility testing for the web

TechCrunch

Even a team thinking about making their site fully accessible from the start — which should be everyone — can miss that this script doesn’t hook into that variable right if this menu is opened, and so on. Because accessibility problems can happy in so many ways, it often takes a lot of manual code review to catch the errors.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Gen Z VCs, choosing a GTM model, crypto crisis communication tips

TechCrunch

If you feel the need to write a script and prepare for everything to make a good impression, it’s probably not going to work,” said Bichara. Investors detail their red (and green) flags for startups seeking venture dollars. Investors detail their red (and green) flags for startups seeking venture dollars.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Livestream e-commerce, growth marketing interviews, CEO for a day

TechCrunch

Dear Sophie: Should we sponsor international hires for H-1B transfers and green cards? They’re looking for H-1B transfers and green cards. Dear Sophie: Should we sponsor international hires for H-1B transfers and green cards? . Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. What should we do? Baffled in the Bay Area.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Then I reviewed each slide deck and created a compilation (see above) and developed the final script.

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How to Succeed in the First Year of Fundraising for Startup Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

Use a platform such as Little Green Light or Bloomerang to store and manage your donor information. Work up a simple script and practice it. You can script out what you want to say and it’s easy to refer to your script, because you can have it right in front of you! Set up a donor management system. Don’t go on and on.