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Bitcoin Wallet Fixes Critical Flaw That Redirected Funds to Attackers
A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.
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India’s CoinDCX Confirms $16 Million Loss Days After CEO Called It a ‘False Alarm’
The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.
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Brazil’s Stock Market Crashes After Lula’s Upset Victory
The iShares Brazil ETF fell as much as 26% after Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro, who prediction markets had at 80%, while the dollar jumped as much as 12% against the real.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Keeps Buying Ethereum But Pivots to Record Share Buybacks
The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.
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'Privacy Horror’: Researcher Uncovers Extent of Samsung Smart TV User Tracking
AI-powered reverse engineering could make it "easier and faster" for researchers to uncover and explain how devices collect and share data.
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Anthropic Makes IPO Filing Public, Plans Nasdaq Listing Under ‘ANT’
The S-1 shows revenue up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and a share structure that leaves a trust and the co-founders in control.
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Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $205M Buying Back STRC
The Bitcoin treasury firm's USD Cash balance fell to $242.4 million after its biggest weekly STRC buyback in more than a month.
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Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 Ahead of Fed Decision, Midterms
Analysts point to a sell-off in AI stocks and ETF outflows, with HashKey's Tim Sun flagging $75,000 as the next key support level.
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Bitcoin’s Bear Market Is Over, Galaxy Research Says: 'Now Is an Attractive Time to Buy'
Galaxy Research says Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June, pointing to a reclaimed 50-week moving average, fading selling pressure, and a strengthening debasement case.
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Morning Minute: Bitcoin Breaks Below $80,000 as Iran Fears Hit the Weekend
Some relief is appearing this morning as oil and rates fall, with a big macro week ahead featuring major earnings, FOMC and key data drops.
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Israel's Central Bank Rebukes Netanyahu Plan to Use Crypto to Dodge Sanctions
Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel's October 27 national election.
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Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joined the list.
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Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
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Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.
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Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security review.
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Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.
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Hong Kong’s Biggest Bank Puts a Stablecoin in 3 Million Wallets
HSBC switched on its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin inside PayMe on Friday, testing whether a bank-issued token can become everyday money.
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Netanyahu Considering Crypto Plan to Dodge Banking Sanctions on Israel
Days before Israel’s election, Netanyahu said he has asked for a blockchain plan in case banks are hit with sanctions, and told Israelis to prepare for a rainy day after Trump.
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Senate Democrat Probes Tether Payments to Ex-White House Crypto Adviser’s Firm
Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded Tether’s records on payments to Nxum, a firm co-owned by former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines.
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SpaceX Filing Gives Elon Musk the Final Word on Tesla Merger He Says He’s Staying Out Of
SpaceX’s latest 10-Q filing quietly confirms any Tesla combination requires sign-off from its “controlling shareholder.”
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SEC Flags AI 'Super Intelligence' and Tokenization as Systemic Market Risks
The regulator's Division of Examinations named "super intelligence and other advanced technologies" as a focus area alongside tokenization risks.
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How I Vibe Coded My Smart TV—And Claude Killed It
Vibe coding your TV is impressive. Doing it without knowing exactly what you're touching is how you lose a rooted LG set and get a very sincere apology from an AI.
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Bitcoin Core Rewrites Its Security Policy for a World Where AI Finds Bugs in One Prompt
Developers will now backport fixes and cut releases immediately for flaws flagged as “easily discoverable,” abandoning long embargoes for bugs an attacker can surface with a single AI prompt.
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Crypto Scammers Who Used Prayer Groups to Lure Victims Must Pay $1.3 Billion, Says New York
New York’s attorney general asked a court to order NovaTech’s founders, who fled the country, to pay about $1.37 billion, and settled with four top promoters for nearly $6 million.
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $636 Million as October Turns Red Again
Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million on Thursday, their biggest outflow of the month, pushing October flows back to a loss of about $176 million as Ethereum and Solana funds also bled.
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Morning Minute: a16z Drops 'Crypto' From Its Fund
The name change is symbolic of the fund’s future investing focus, though the firm will continue investing in crypto.
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Interpol Recovers $105M in African Cybercrime Sweep That Shut Illegal Crypto Mines
Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests across 21 countries, while Angolan police seized more than 2,000 crypto mining devices.
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Ethereum Delays Glamsterdam Testnet Fork Over Gas Security Flaws
The Hoodi testnet fork is off after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could let contracts lock in failures, citing 13 real-world cases.
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Heatbit's $899 Water Heater Element Mines Bitcoin While It Heats Your Tank
The Bitwater element swaps a tank's resistance wire for 20 mining chips, and Heatbit says it uses the same electricity to heat the water.
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Bitcoin in 'Wait and See Mode'—And That Might Be a Good Thing
The crypto market has been quiet as of late. Market analysts think that might actually be a good sign and that a bull market might be near.