North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says
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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer…
Apple now explicitly bans employees from using confidential information in prediction markets
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9to5Mac Daily: November 3, 2026 – Apple reports Q4 earnings
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The Sideload 050: The phones Samsung and Google won’t make
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Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications.
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Here’s what it’s like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch
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Google Messages redesigning pinned chats and moving search
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Xcode 27.3 adds GitHub Copilot to its built-in coding assistant
Apple released Xcode 27.3 beta 1 today with multiple new features, chief among them an expansion of its built-in coding assistant to support GitHub Copilot. Here are the details.
Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
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Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang
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Orbital Matter 3D-printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space
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ChatGPT has hit roughly 20% of Google Search volume, OpenAI says
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Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
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Google will disable Search for students unless schools accept AI features in ‘Guided Learning’ push
Google is today launching new AI settings for schools, but with the big catch that Search is fully disabled if AI features are turned off entirely.
Amazon rewrites its software engineering playbook for an era when AI writes the code
Amazon has revised its role guidelines for software engineers to emphasize results for customers over how much AI they use. Inside AWS, a previously unreported team called Velocity Labs took a new open-source AI model from concept to…
iOS 27.3 brings the iPhone Duo’s revamped StandBy to other iPhones
Apple released iOS 27.3 beta 1 today, with a surprisingly extensive set of new features and improvements across the system. One of them is the expansion of the iPhone Duo’s redesigned StandBy experience to other iPhone models. Here are the…
Apple Watch Challenge set for Veterans Day
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British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets
Binance says fake job interview led to $6.3 billion crypto heist
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says North Korean hackers used a fake job interview to trick an employee into installing malware that ultimately let them compromise the company's wallet infrastructure and steal about $6.34 billion in…
iOS 27.3 expands Siri AI to these new languages
iOS 27.3 is available now in beta, and it’s a big release for Siri AI improvements. Joining new app actions, Siri Recaps, and developer features, iOS 27.3 also expands Siri AI to several additional languages.
Researchers warned of North Korean hacking tactics years before record $6.3B Binance heist
Cybersecurity experts have long warned of the persistent and patient threat from North Korea's long-running hacks. The world's largest crypto exchange was still caught off-guard.
AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.