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| Kevin Whitelaw / Bloomberg: |
The FBI attributes the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's elite hacking unit TraderTraitor, which the agency has also blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025 — The FBI said that North Korea was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion in cryptocurrencies in a brazen hacking attack on Binance.
More: FBI, Security Affairs, PCMag, Reuters, Bitcoin News, The Guardian, Blockchain.News, Hackread, Euronews, Insurance Journal, Türkiye Today, Seoul Economic Daily, RTÉ, Bitcoin Insider, Taipei Times, Bitcoinist.com, QUE.com, Daily Mail, ZeroHedge News, Cyber Security News, American Greatness, Hürriyet Daily News, Fox Business, TheStreet, The Independent, Agence France-Presse, The Verge, CoinDesk, The Hacker News, New York Post, The Information, NewsMax.com, New York Times, Cointelegraph, Financial Times, France 24, The Asia Business Daily, and Capital Brief
X: @binance, @banthisguy9349, @tayvano_, @rapidresponse47, @tanuki42_, @hrkrshnn, @darkwebinformer, and @fbicyberbranch
Forums: r/programmingHungary and r/Bitcoin
| Reuters: |
Binance has started resuming withdrawals in phases, including for BTC and ETH, after covering 95% of the $6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack by TraderTraitor — Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said it would resume withdrawals in phases after covering 95% of the $6.3 billion … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B — The exchange said the outflows equal 2.1% of its assets and that withdrawal volumes have eased after an initial spike.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent, a coding agent research prototype it says proactively monitors developer group chats for coding issues and suggests solutions — DeepSeek has released a prototype of a more autonomous coding agent as it seeks to challenge Anthropic PBC's popular Claude Code.| Allon Sinai / CTech: |
ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions — Bill McDermott said rollouts now take “a month ... 30 days, 60 days” for large companies, as ServiceNow pushes into CRM.| Gunjan Banerji / Wall Street Journal: |
Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 — With trillions riding on the artificial-intelligence trade, investors, traders and tech executives alike are hunting for high-stakes protection| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow — Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week … | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
More: Google, WeRSM, The Register, Sourcery, PCMag, Ace of Spades HQ, The Asia Business Daily, The Hill, and Phandroid
X: @osanseviero. Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/SPCXInvestors, r/Futurology, r/SpaceXBets, r/space, and Slashdot
| Andrew Fedorov / The San Francisco Standard: |
A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, while Kara Swisher says it is PR — Inside tech's corner offices, there's no love left for the news media. “I think you're the problem, the media,” …
X: @jonsteinberg31, @arashmassoudi, @andrewfed, @jeffreyw5000, @hshaban, @mediaevan, and @hitsamty. Bluesky: @reckless
| Washington Post: |
Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% — Frustrated with hunting for information on political candidates, Ben Torres Ezrick set out to build a one-stop shop for voters.| Harry Lambert / Colossus: |
A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy — The fight to regulate AI and reform American science runs through a little-known White House office, and the Thiel-turned-Trump aide in charge of it
X: @davidlee, @maxbodach, @patrick_oshag, @stevemoraco, @emundz42, @colossusmag, and @ngoel
LinkedIn: Paul Semenza and Colossus
| Shane Burke / The Information: |
Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York — As data centers have gone from obscurity to the top of voters' minds, midterm candidates are taking a stance on the issue.
More: Wired and The Real Deal
| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
How “get-paid-to” apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders — Is getting paid to scroll a symptom of the economy or its entire future? — Last year, Jeremiah's TikTok started feeding him ads for a new way to make money.| Axios: |
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory “speed limits” for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as “AI compute campuses” — Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAI will unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington …
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @rob_flaherty, @rob_flaherty, @andrewcurran_, @choblin29, @viacristiano, @sc_cath, @mikenellis, @alexbores, @bradrcarson, @maymailman, and @gregoryconti19. Forums: r/singularity
| Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B+ in cash — Insurance software maker Guidewire (GWRE.N) said on Tuesday it would buy hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash and up to $400 million …
More: Guidewire, Implicator.ai, FinTech Global, and TechCrunch
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