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Decrypt Money Accounts on Solana to Power The Information Exchange
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Sam Altman Says It's "Quite Terrible" That Everyone's PC Holds Scarce DRAM. The OpenAI CEO told John Collison on the Cheeky Pint podcast that memory in personal computers gets used "5% of the time," and "you want maximum utilization in the cloud" amid tight supply.
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Apple Overtakes Nvidia as World's Most Valuable Company. Apple closed Friday worth about $5.03 trillion after slipping 1.23% to $344.63, while Nvidia fell 4.22% to $204.64, cutting its market value to about $4.94 trillion.
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Has Elon Musk picked a side in the CEX vs. DEX wars? @Tyler_Did_It on @elonmusk engaging with @standuquesne's Hyperliquid-related post, then trolling Binance hours later and drawing a reply from @cz_binance.
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Intel Closes Down 28.6% in Its Worst Day Since the 1970s. Intel shares ended Friday at $65.76, down from Thursday's $92.07 close, after the chipmaker forecast fourth-quarter revenue of just $15 billion to $16 billion.
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Trump on the $6.3B Binance Hack: "We're Looking at That." President Trump said Binance says "they have it pretty much under control," adding "We'll see," during a White House pool spray on Friday.
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Nearly 89% of Reported Crypto Hack Losses This Year Came From Suspected North Korea-Linked Hacks, Chainalysis Says. Chainalysis, which attributes this week's roughly $6.4 billion Binance hack to North Korean group TraderTraitor, says the suspected North Korea-linked share of reported hack losses was just 15% in 2021.
Suspected North Korea-linked hacks account for nearly 89% of reported crypto hack losses so far this year. In 2021, that share was 15%. The average reported loss per suspected DPRK-linked hack rose from $50.65M in 2021 to $185.65M in 2026 YTD, about 3.7x larger. From 2021 through October 29, 2026,  suspected DPRK-linked hacks account for $13.24B of the $22.34B in reported losses, about 59%.
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"This actually seems more like a phishing attack." @Tyler_Did_It on early findings that Binance's roughly $6.3B hack may have started with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, rather than an AI-driven attack. Binance has since said it found additional points of breach.
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Fed's Musalem Says Another Rate Hike Is Needed 'Soon.' St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said Friday that "additional firming of monetary policy will be necessary, and soon," warning inflation remains too high just days after the Fed held rates steady.
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Claude's $200 Max 20x Plan Becomes Ultra, Drops 5-Hour Limit for Verified Accounts. Claude's pricing page says Ultra gives 10x Pro's weekly usage and $200 a month in API credits, while the renamed $100 Max plan offers 5x Pro usage and $100 in monthly credits.
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Tether Posts $1.5B Q3 Operating Profit as Its Reserve Buffer Nearly Doubles. Tether's third-quarter attestation, prepared by BDO, shows $1.5 billion in net operating profit and $191.5 billion in reserve assets, with its reserve buffer rising to $7.95 billion from $4.1 billion at the end of Q2.
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