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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 …
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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, The Verge, Reuters, The Guardian, Bitcoinist.com, Insurance Journal, Hackread, Euronews, Cyber Security News, Daily Mail, The Independent, Seoul Economic Daily, RTÉ, Bitcoin Insider, Agence France-Presse, Fox Business, American Greatness, Hürriyet Daily News, New York Post, Bitcoin News, The Information, NewsMax.com, New York Times, The Hacker News, Blockchain.News, France 24, Capital Brief, and Financial Times
Forums: r/programmingHungary and r/Bitcoin
| 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.| 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| 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.| 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
| Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it … | 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
LinkedIn: Paul Semenza and Colossus
| Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: |
Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation — The AI-for-manufacturers company has raised $66 million at a $400 million valuation — Think of running a production line on a factory floor as a kind of art.| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units — Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version … | Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years — Cyberattacks causing physical damage are on the rise in NATO countries, and the hackers carrying them out don't always understand what they're doing.| TechNode: |
Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B — Chinese brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess has raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, co-led by SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital.
More: Dealroom.co, RuntimeWire, and Axios
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum — The voice AI sector is hot, and top players are trying to consolidate their position as more business models come to the fore through partnerships and acquisitions.
X: @indianidle
| Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg: |
How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, “not X, but Y” phrasing, and words like “delve”, or add typos, to look human — As AI transforms writing and detectors like Pangram police what counts as machine-generated … | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space — Google Suncatcher's prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside …
More: WeRSM, Google, The Register, Sourcery, PCMag, Ace of Spades HQ, The Asia Business Daily, The Verge, The Hill, and Phandroid
X: @osanseviero. Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/SPCXInvestors, r/Futurology, r/SpaceXBets, r/space, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash — Industry has drained the state's water reserves for decades. Data centers are the breaking point. — AA hulking gray giant rises from the desert.
More: Wired and TechCrunch
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