• GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
• Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
• 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
• Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
• Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
• Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
• Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
• Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine
• Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
• Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says
• Turning a solar power system into its own backup
• Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
• Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
• Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
• SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
• ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
• As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
• Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
• The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
| • Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack (Rajveer Singh Pardesi/Reuters)
• FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)
• CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY, and a net profit of ~$8.17B, swinging to profitability on the back of rising AI-driven memory chip prices (Reuters)
• NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit up 22x YoY to ~$12.7B, in line with est., but forecasts Q3 operating profit of ~$12.7B, below ~$14.9B est. (Bloomberg)
• The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to develop its AI and other services (Reuters)
• 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" (@binance)
• 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 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• Ravical, whose AI-powered platform helps accounting and tax firms manage their operations, raised a $17M seed led by MMC, bringing its total funding to $25M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
• Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks (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 (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
• How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed (Paresh Dave/Wired)
• 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 (Tom Westbrook/Reuters)
• Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025 (South China Morning Post)
• 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 (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
• Sources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% (The Information)
| • The Death Stranding anime's first teaser trailer arrives ahead of its Disney+ debut
• Harley-Davidson's electric motorbike brand has 'substantial doubt' about its future
• Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app for virtually trying on clothes
• Lenovo Googlebook 15 review: Your Android phone's new best friend
• Waymo and Toyota will soon start testing their robotaxis in Japan
• Senators are looking into 'serious privacy risks' with Meta's AI glasses
• Binance hacked for an estimated $6.3 billion in record crypto theft
• General Motors agrees to pay $220 million to settle multi-state data privacy lawsuit
• Sony is working on a film adaptation of viral indie horror game Mouthwashing
• Meta is testing 'Threads Friends' for sharing posts with smaller groups
• VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that
• Fan fiction website AO3 is down, and it could take weeks to recover
• Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic
• Google fixes an annoying Photos bug that hid edited images from other apps
• Google brings AI Mode advertisements to more countries
• Popcorn bucket innovation is at an all-time low and the Dune: Part Three 'Double Sandworm' is proof
• Hacker may have stolen millions in a malware attack against online poker players
• Netflix is making a live-action PUBG show written and directed by Donald Glover
• Don't expect more Assassin's Creed remakes anytime soon
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese government spy
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