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| The Block: |
Binance says initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps laptop may have enabled a ~$6.3B hack; Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle froze 800M+ USDC — Onchain data shows about $3.55 billion in incoming transfers to the unlabeled wallet, with nearly $900 million subsequently moved across other wallets.
More: Decrypt, CoinDesk, Wall Street Journal, Binance, Reuters, Aave, CoinDesk, Reuters, The Verge, CoinDesk, The Information, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Engadget, Chainalysis, PC Gamer, Mashable, Bitcoin Insider, BleepingComputer, PCMag, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, Cyber Security News, Techreport, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, Blockhead, Bitcoin News, Web3 is Going Just Great, and Disruption Banking
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Bluesky: @molly.wiki, @proflhunter, and @molly.wiki
Forums: r/technology and r/anime_titties
| Tom Westbrook / Reuters: |
TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes — North Korean hackers were behind a $6.3 billion raid on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to US blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs.
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Forums: r/pwnhub and r/TrueAnon
| George Steer / Financial Times: |
Binance “temporarily suspended” all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates security issues and works with law enforcement; Binance.US says it's unaffected — Tether and Circle freeze billions of dollars' worth of their coins as world's largest crypto exchange investigates security issue
More: OmniTrace, CNBC, Protos, The Straits Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Axios, ABC7, Bitcoin Insider, Yahoo Finance, Nikkei Asia, CNBC, MediaNama, The Indian Express, Times of India, NullTX, Digit, Cointelegraph, RuntimeWire, Channel NewsAsia, Bitcoin News, nationthailand, Fox Business, Seoul Economic Daily, Ynetnews, TheStreet, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, and Sky News
X: @binance, @binance, @heyibinance, @binanceus, @eowynchen, @simplykashif, @goplussecurity, @luigidemeo, @coldbloodshill, and @eth_apple. LinkedIn: Benjamin Quinlan. Bluesky: @jacobsilverman.com. Forums: r/stupidpol
| @binance: |
Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has found “additional points of breach” beyond a possibly compromised laptop and says this was a “complex attack” — Investigation update: Our initial investigation suggested that the security incident may have involved a compromised laptop, however our subsequent investigation has uncovered additional points of breach. This was a complex attack, and we are doing all we can in coordination with law enforcement...
| South China Morning Post: |
More: New York Times, BBC, Silicon Republic, Cointelegraph, nltimes.nl, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin Insider, The Indian Express, Cryptonews, Sydney Morning Herald, The Straits Times, Bitcoin News, Nairametrics, ABC, TheStreet, TheJournal.ie, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Dow Jones Newswires, Hindustan Times, The Business Times, CryptoPotato, and Mashable
| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $201.94B, vs. $202.31B est., net income down 2% to $20.7B, forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; AMZN drops 7%+ after hours — Operating income was $28.1 billion and operating margin was 13.9%—Amazon's highest operating margin ever AWS net sales increased 39.3% …
More: Semafor, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, Political.org, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
More: RTÉ, Times of India, Storyboard18, TheDesk.net, Coinpedia Fintech News, and The Straits Times
X: @rihardjarc. Bluesky: @lorak. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/Economics, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to $16.5B, vs. $16.5B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS below estimates; INTC drops 23%+ after hours — Intel shares plummeted more than 20% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker issued a weak fourth-quarter forecast, citing continued softness in the global PC market.
More: Financial Times, Intel, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, CTech, Finimize, Telegraph, Dow Jones Newswires, 24/7 Wall St., Bloomberg, The Register, TheStreet, Coinpaper, Channel NewsAsia, SiliconANGLE, Simply Wall St, and The Straits Times
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Bluesky: @kandersen and @moorejh
Forums: r/technology and r/StockMarket
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop a 460MW data center that Anthropic plans to use — Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale, a young AI cloud provider, with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 53% YoY to $895M, vs. $878M est., DAUq up 12% to 130.3M, below est., forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; RDDT drops 17%+ after hours — Reddit plans to require all users to create official accounts to access the social media platform, marking a major departure for the site known as … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
More: The Verge, Thurrott, Engadget, TechRadar, CyberInsider, Ars Technica, Business Insider, The Independent, Windows Report, and Moneycontrol
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
NYSE owner ICE plans US-regulated Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets with Trade.xyz, a market operator on the crypto platform, and takes a stake in Trade.xyz — Intercontinental Exchange Inc. joined forces with one of the market operators behind offshore crypto-trading platform Hyperliquid …
More: The Block, Bitcoin Insider, Intercontinental Exchange, The Coin Republic, CNBC, Financial Times, CoinDesk, and Yahoo Finance
X: @tradexyz, @standuquesne, @hyperliquidx, @elonmusk, @andyyy, @shahh, @blknoiz06, @moonpay, @wclemente, @chamath, @grayscale, @moonoverlord, @matthuang, @blknoiz06, @okx, @goodalexander, @citrini, @shaundadevens, @novogratz, @cryptoklotz, @krugermacro, @nategeraci, @jchervinsky, @matthuang, @heyjxck_, @martinshkreli, @nyse, @degeneratenews, @geiger_capital, @blknoiz06, @fundstrat, @mert, @ice_markets, @star_okx, @jasonyanowitz, @tradexyz, @gumsays, @matt_hougan, @amitisinvesting, and @chameleon_jeff. LinkedIn: Yacine Ghalim. Bluesky: @datadrivenmd.social
| Reuters: |
Polymarket resumes trading after a security incident with a third-party provider, which a source says is DebugBear, and says it will reimburse affected traders — Polymarket said on Thursday it had restored trading after a temporary halt prompted by a security incident involving a third-party provider …
More: Polymarket Status, The Record, The Block, BleepingComputer, NBC News, crypto.news, Washington Post, CryptoSlate, SecurityWeek, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Digit, and Cyber Security News
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Bluesky: @molly.wiki, @pamspaulding, @markjacob, and @tyleraking.com
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine — Chinese state-linked hackers targeted more than 200 organizations in just 11 days, using AI to attack governments and businesses worldwide, according to CrowdStrike.
More: CrowdStrike, Seoul Economic Daily, and Unite.AI
X: @ezesecops, @orwelian84, @benbajarin, @a_real_society, and @cyber_o51nt
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z — Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir.
More: Dream and SiliconANGLE
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue down 35% YoY to $1.22B, in line with est., and net income up 66% to $719M, its first profit in a year, on unrealized crypto gains — Coinbase Global Inc. returned to profitability for the first time in a year while posting a quarterly decline in revenue …
More: Coinbase, Unchained, The Block, PYMNTS.com, and CNBC
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Anthropic is “Customer B” cited by SpaceX in a filing as its single largest customer accounting for 34.5% of Q3 revenue, surpassing the US government — Anthropic PBC is SpaceX's largest single customer, a person familiar with the matter said, accounting for more than a third …
More: Semafor, Business Today, and Benzinga
X: @andrewcurran_ and @pstasiatech
Bluesky: @proptermalone and @segyges
| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Alphabet's stock falls 12.3%, wiping a record $500B from its market cap, after reporting negative cash flow amid its AI spending; the Nasdaq falls 1.4% — Google owner admits ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations
More: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Implicator.ai, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, Breitbart, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Times of India, TechCrunch, Alphabet, and The Register
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LinkedIn: Thomas Monteiro, Jared Blikre, Davey Alba, Davey Alba, and Tuli (Nate) Urbach
Bluesky: @tyleraking.com, @mims, @markriedl, @stevekovach, and @serghei
Forums: r/google, r/StockMarket, and r/Economics
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Spotify aims to launch an AI product in Q1 2027 that lets subscribers create their own remixes and covers for ~$5 per month, pending licensing deals — Streaming service plans to charge users up to $5 a month to use the feature — Spotify is targeting an early 2027 launch … | The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% — Chinese AI star DeepSeek's nearly $16 billion funding round this month involved not only a deluge of capital but a who's … | Liz Moyer / Barron's Online: |
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.17B, vs. $1.21B est., global MAUs up 10% to 661M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 8%+ after hours — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — Pinterest missed expectations and guided to lower … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q3 bookings down 12% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.63B est., and DAUs down 9% to 138M, vs. 145.8M est.; RBLX drops 16%+ after hours — Roblox Corp. reported a year-over-year decline in player engagement after deploying more robust child-safety measures.| MarketWatch: |
Sandisk reports Q1 revenue up 378% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.7B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., announces an 8-for-1 stock split; SNDK drops 4%+ after hours — Sandisk's stock has climbed more than 2,600% since the company separated from Western Digital 20 months ago - and it has one of the highest prices in the S&P 500Sponsor Posts
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