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Primark brings forward home deliveries plan by two years after profits slide
Retailer acquires robot-assisted warehouse and intends to have UK service up and running before end of 2027Primark is to begin making home deliveries by the end of next year as it…
Snap and crackle but no pop: Rice Krispies reformulated due to lack of rice
Kellogg’s substitutes ingredient with rice flour, as climate crisis affects availability of some grainsThey will snap and they will crackle, but they may no longer pop, as Kellogg…
Montana voters take on Citizens United with a ballot initiative to strip corporations and nonprofits of their political spending power
Supporters say states can redefine corporate powers without violating the First Amendment, while critics say the Supreme Court won't buy it
Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join OKX–ICE tokenized stock objections as deadline looms
Objections have reached 56 companies, with nearly 80% of the venture’s initial stock selection opting out.
Stablecoin governance group behind OUSD sets out management fee, offers equity earning pool
Governance group Open Standard will charge a 0.1 basis point management fee on payment volume, capped at at $0.01 per payment.
Hobby Lobby’s founder called wealth ‘a curse.’ His family spent millions chasing biblical artifacts
In The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby, Michael Blanding traces how the Green family has steered craft-store profits into courts, classrooms and a $500 million museum.
UK Says AI-Powered Ransomware Attack on Critical Infrastructure 'Highly Likely' by 2028
The National Cyber Security Centre said AI will expose security flaws "tolerated for far too long," and called time on "tech on the cheap."
Millionaire Walmart chair Greg Penner adds soccer club Valencia CF to his investments—he already owns NFL’s Denver Broncos and part of a baseball team
Chairman Greg Penner and his wife Carrie, the granddaughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, also have stakes in American football and baseball teams.
Minecraft billionaire who beat Beyoncé and Jay-Z to a Beverly Hills mansion is selling—just as California votes on a billionaire tax
Persson’s agent says he rarely spends time in Los Angeles anymore. The listing lands just as Californians decide on a wealth tax that has already pushed Larry Page, Sergey Brin, a…
Inside the public bank initiatives on the ballot in Berkeley and San Francisco
Two Bay Area cities vote Tuesday on measures that could lead to new government-owned banks.
What's happening to UK interest rates and what does it mean for mortgages?
The interest rate set by the Bank of England affects mortgage, loan and savings rates for millions.
Jeff Bezos used one simple question to decide whether to quit Wall Street and start Amazon: What will I regret when I’m 80?
Now worth $357 billion, Jeff Bezos once created a “regret minimization framework” to decide whether to quit his cushy hedge fund job to create Amazon.
Bitcoin price defends $76K lows as analysts see stocks pricing in ‘political gridlock’
Bitcoin made modest gains at the start of Wall Street trading on Tuesday as markets awaited cues from the US midterm elections.
Guaranteed pension income ‘resurrected’ for 17m private sector workers
Ministers propose new guided retirement scheme to help give savers protection for lifeBusiness live – latest updatesMillions of private sector workers will be offered a guaranteed…
North Korea used LinkedIn, fake job interviews to trick Binance engineer in $6.3 billion hack
The hackers posed as recruiters, convincing a Binance employee to download a fake "assignment" as part of a broader and sophisticated campaign.
Asda hires ex-Morrisons boss in bid to grow firm
David Potts takes charge of Asda, which is based in Leeds, with immediate effect.
Mining giant joins fight to stop killer toad march across Australia
Rio Tinto is jointly funding a A$28m "toad containment zoe" to protect the Pilbara region.
CFTC clears perpetual futures on stocks, bringing crypto trading model to Wall Street
CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the move gives U.S. traders a regulated alternative to “offshore, and often unregulated, venues.”
Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, and a campaign 'built over many months'
North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 m…
Binance battles to save its brand after record $6.3bn crypto hack
World’s largest crypto exchange faces fallout from angry customers, and Lula wins with WhatsAppThis was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes…
South Korea asks its biggest banks how a major crypto hack would hit them
In its first such survey, the BOK also asked about a crypto price crash, losses at another firm, and each firm’s crypto teams, budgets and investments.
Mortgage Rates Today, Tuesday, November 3: Still Moving Lower
TL;DR: Mortgage rates eased again today, giving buyers modest relief from rates above 7%.
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UK meat processing firms’ fridges heat up after cyber-attacks in Europe
Cybersecurity experts say incidents had minimal effect but may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threatMeat processing firms in the UK have been hit by cyber-attacks after hack…