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Bluetooth speeds up, Binance loses $6.34B, Reddit adds ads

Bluetooth will jump to high‑data‑rate mode in 2027, and Binance disclosed a $6.34 billion theft that hinged on fake job interviews. The two stories illustrate how incremental standards and massive security failures ca…

Engadget reported that the Bluetooth HDT rollout targets a broad swath of wireless devices, promising faster throughput for everything from earbuds to smart thermostats. Binance’s own post‑mortem, also covered by Enga…

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the High‑Data‑Rate (HDT) profile will be mandatory for new devices starting in 2027. The spec lifts the theoretical ceiling from 2 Mbps to 24 Mbps, a twelve‑fold jump tha…

The rollout matters because the current Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) bottleneck forces manufacturers to offload high‑bandwidth streams to Wi‑Fi, inflating bill‑of‑materials. By moving that load onto a single radio, devi…

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