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Binance hack - who is behind it, is my money safe and what we know so far
Binance has been hit by what could be the biggest crypto hack ever - here's what we know so far
Iowa and Ohio voters back AI safety measures over winning the AI race
Voters in Iowa and Ohio want AI safety rules even if the US is not always first in the AI race, a new poll from a Republican pollster finds. Days before the US midterm elections, …
Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist
Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series o…
From Bitcoin to Binance: Crypto terms and what they mean
The Binance hack has thrust cryptocurrencies back into headlines - but what are they and how do they work?
Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
Elizabeth Holmes has some people falling for her act all over again.
Microsoft finally fixes VPN issues caused by September updates
Microsoft has resolved Always On VPN connection failures triggered after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. [...]
Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Revolut chief executive Nik Storonsky has pushed venture capital investors off his company’s board, one funding round at a time. He wants other founders to keep VCs out of the boa…
Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
It's been a good week for ULA with a big NASA contract and Vulcan nearing return-to-flight.
Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an audience member cut her short. "I'm terrified," a m…
Foxconn chairman says new OpenAI tie-up is in the works, Reuters reports
Foxconn is working on a new partnership with OpenAI, chairman Young Liu told reporters in Taipei on Friday, Reuters reported. Liu said he had met OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman…
Wikimedia asks court to rule AI training fair use, but not chatbot copying
The Wikimedia Foundation wants the judge in The New York Times’ copyright fight with OpenAI to split the question in two. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is likely fair u…
Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison
Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as "Th3Pr0," has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy t…
Spotify plans to launch AI remix tool in early 2027, FT reports
Spotify is preparing to launch a paid AI tool that lets fans create their own versions of songs, with a release planned for early 2027, the Financial Times reported on Friday, cit…
Reddit will make users log in as Google’s AI search cuts its traffic
Reddit is moving to a “logged-in-only experience”, chief executive Steve Huffman told shareholders on Thursday. For most of its 21-year history, anyone could read the site without…
Waymo and Toyota will soon start testing their robotaxis in Japan
Waymo and Toyota will start testing autonomous bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year. (edited)
Drupal warns of critical Commerce Core flaw exploited in attacks
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. [...]
Senators are looking into 'serious privacy risks' with Meta's AI glasses
US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.
Binance links $6.3 billion crypto theft to compromised DevOps laptop
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. [...]
Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyr…
Binance says its $6.3bn hack involved more than a compromised laptop
Binance now says a compromised laptop was not the only way in. Its investigation has “uncovered additional points of breach” in the attack that hit about $6.3bn of its assets on T…
Official Claude Code VS Code Extension Compromised to Install Persistent SSH Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the official Anthropic Claude Code extension was compromised on the Open VSX registry to install a persistent SSH backdoor on infecte…
Ex-Palantir founders raise $17M for Dream’s AI building design models
Dream, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to design and engineer buildings, came out of stealth on Thursday with $17M in seed funding. Investors in the round include Andreessen …
Binance hacked for an estimated $6.3 billion in record crypto theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hit with a record $6.3 billion hack.
Hackers Actively Exploit Highly Critical Drupal Commerce Core Authorization Bypass Flaw
Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a "highly critical" security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/…