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A prominent law firm is unraveling—but Palantir has an intriguing offer
Weil, Gotshal & Manges is preparing to wind down, leaving lawyers facing an uncertain future.
Israel Extradites Alleged Nomad Bridge Exploiter to US Over $2.8M Theft: Report
Israel's Supreme Court ruled that exploiting a coding flaw can count as computer intrusion, even when the software allowed the transaction.
Binance says it holds $5B in matching tokens to cover hack losses
The exchange said it set aside more than $6.34 billion to cover losses and would include the assets in its next proof-of-reserves report.
A left-wing ad tying grocery prices to U.S. support for Israel exposes the rift Michigan Democrats are racing to close before Tuesday
She received significant support from the Jewish and Black communities, leading to concerns about turnout in the general election.
Republicans start weighing life after an 80-year-old lame-duck Trump as progressive Democrats push for ‘transformative change’
Already, some Republican candidates have begun to distance themselves from him.
Morning Minute: Binance’s $6.4B Hack Overshadows Hyperliquid’s Biggest Day
Just as Hyperliquid opened the door to a fully regulated perps offering inside the U.S., Binance suffered the biggest hack in crypto history.
Current price of oil as of October 30, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
What we know about Binance's $6.3bn hack
Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy explains more about what is suspected to be the biggest hack in history.
TRM and Chainalysis Tie $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor
Both firms blame the group behind the Bybit hack, as Binance says it has set aside $6.34 billion of its own funds to cover user losses.
Nasdaq futures sink 2.3% as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet send AI jitters through stocks
Alphabet's Class A shares slid more than 12% on Thursday in their worst ever trading day as it reported weaker growth for the summer than analysts expected.
‘We slayed fish with reckless abandon’: grizzled Long Island fishermen bemoan the damage they’ve wrought on the East Coast striped bass
“I’m part of the problem," said Bill Jakob of the Montauk Surfcasters Association. "Back in the years. I ran party boats."
Binance arranges $6.34 billion to cover losses from record crypto hack
Binance said it reserved its own funds to cover the $6.3 billion hack, including freezes of roughly $3 billion in stolen assets.
SpaceX is turning away customers for the rocket that flew most of 2025’s trips to orbit, and some are paying extra for the last seats
Those who can afford it are paying extra to secure the few remaining slots on Falcon 9, while others are scrambling to find alternative launch opportunities.
‘Their parents pay’: European governments want to bill Gen Z rioters’ families for $1.1 billion in damages
In France, anyone who knowingly joins a group preparing violence could be made to pay up to 10,000 euros ($11,200) for what others destroy.
Berkeley Law professor: Anthropic’s IPO puts AI accountability to the test
Anthropic’s mission needs machinery.
The nonprofit sector has a scaling problem
Philanthropy funds pilots. It should fund scale.
Jeff Raikes: the midterms’ real business risk are not which party wins, but whether the rules hold
Companies can plan around either party’s agenda. What they can’t plan around is rules that might change overnight, or don’t get enforced fairly.
We studied 1,500-plus data centers over 23 years and found they created almost no new jobs in local stores or restaurants — it was somewhere else
Data centers themselves directly create a few dozen jobs each, then about 1,000 in the local economy after a delay of several years.
Why Big Tech earnings are a crucial report card for the AI boom and its future
Two things were clear from Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon earnings: AI demand is hot, and spending on it is monstrous.
Here's how big bitcoin traders responded after the Binance hack hit
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 30, 2026
One private equity–backed company owns every methadone clinic in Montana
In plain terms: Private equity firms haven’t been building new capacity – they’ve been buying up the capacity that already existed.
Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows
Zcash Community Grants proposed redirecting about $124 million in existing and future funding toward mining rewards, but critics say the plan fails to address governance and accou…
Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
Scoring a decade of Wall Street and political-risk forecasts: being wrong wasn’t their biggest problem
I graded 135 year-ahead outlooks over a decade. Just 16% named the event that went on to move markets.