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Binance Hack Shows Why Offshore Exchanges Need US Oversight, CFTC Chair Says
In brief CFTC Chairman Michael Selig told CNBC the $6.4 billion Binance hack “proves our exact point” for the crypto-market rules the agency proposed this month. Selig characterized the attack as a la...
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Intel Stock Suffers Worst Crash in 50 Years as Weak Forecast Overshadows AI Chip Demand
In brief Intel shares plunged nearly 30% to $65.76 on Friday, wiping out more than $146 billion in market value as investors reacted to a disappointing fourth-quarter forecast. Intel expects Q4 revenu...
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Worried About Crypto Hacks? Buy Bitcoin Proxies in Stock Market Instead, Say Wall Street Firms
In brief Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point told clients in Friday notes that the $6.4 billion Binance hack—the largest ever—is unlikely to derail crypto’s recovery, framing the selloff as ...
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Reddit Stock Plunges 30% as Google's AI Search Hits Traffic and User Growth
In brief Reddit shares plunged 30.44% to $90.15 on Friday, extending their weekly decline to 44%. CEO Steve Huffman said Google search referrals fell by more than 1 million per week in October and war...
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Mirantis Adds Service to Facilitate Migrations Off VMware Platforms
Cloud-Native Architecture Features Kubernetes Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics Mirantis Adds Service to Facilitate Migrations Off VMware Platforms October 29, 2026 Mike Vizard cl...
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Robinhood Taps Ripple's Stablecoin, Treasury Software and Trading Loans
In brief Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin went live Tuesday on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, and is expected to reach the main Robinhood app later this year. Robinhood will adopt Ripple Treasury to run its g...
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Anchorage Positions Itself as Custody Backbone of US-Mexico Stablecoin Corridor
In brief Anchorage Digital expanded a custody-and-listing arrangement with Bitso covering both sides of the US-Mexico corridor. The deal targets the US-Mexico remittance corridor, one of the world’s l...
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AI Agents Are Creating a New Layer of Cybersecurity Spending
In brief Akamai launched Agent Sandbox and Akamai Inference in beta on Oct. 27, adding WebAssembly-based isolation for code that AI agents write and run. A 2026 Palo Alto Networks survey of 2,930 secu...
Read analysis →Intel, Oracle, IBM Join Objections to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Venue, Bringing Total to 26
In brief Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ joined the list of companies objecting to trading of their shares on OKXICE TSV, according to its Oct. 26 notice. The total has climbed from nine on Oct. 15 to 26,...
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One Hub, 34 Clusters: Lessons From a GitOps Control Plane at Scale
Contributed Content GitOps Kubernetes Platform Engineering Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics One Hub, 34 Clusters: Lessons From a GitOps Control Plane at Scale October 27, 2026 Ni...
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Bitcoin Wallet Maker Keystone Pulls Devices as Stolen Key Opens Door to Fakes
In brief Keystone will destroy 18,835 unsold hardware wallets and has suspended shipping after an attacker obtained the permanent factory key used to verify its devices are genuine. The breach, detect...
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Circle Pushes Deeper Into Latin America With USDC Settlement in Colombia
In brief Circle has tapped ACI Worldwide to integrate USDC settlement into existing banking infrastructure across Latin America, starting with a pilot in Colombia built on ACI’s Bre-B instant-payments...
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A $3M Hedge, a Midterm Test and Retail's Rise: Prediction Markets at NEXTPredict
In brief NEXTPredict brought prediction market exchanges, trading firms and policymakers together in New York on October 22 and 23, less than two weeks before the U.S. midterms. Chuck Todd, who modera...
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AI Didn’t Break Kubernetes Optimization. GPUs Did.
Container/Kubernetes Management Contributed Content Kubernetes Observability Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics AI Didn’t Break Kubernetes Optimization. GPUs Did. October 26, 2026O...
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How Kubernetes Workload Identity Actually Works at the Protocol Layer
Contributed Content Kubernetes Social - Facebook Social - LinkedIn Social - X Topics How Kubernetes Workload Identity Actually Works at the Protocol Layer October 26, 2026 Michael Carter Cloud IAM, c...
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