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  1. musk's starlink stopped working for ukrainian troops during a russian missile attack @julianzawist · read more

    per @julianzawist, terminals in ukraine were restricted overnight and connectivity dropped whenever units moved at speed. ukrainian military accounts say drones were cut off mid-flight.

  2. russia threw 39 ballistic missiles and 120 drones at ukraine's power grid overnight @MarioNawfal ♥ 72 · read more

    kyiv's darnytsia heat and power plant was hit for the second night running. ukraine's air force says its partners sent no launch warning, so radar saw it first.

  3. a federal regulator confirmed the nine biggest us banks were cutting customers off @Cointelegraph ♥ 38 · read more

    the occ says jpmorgan, bofa, citi, wells fargo, us bank, capital one, pnc, td and bmo all ran debanking policies from 2020 to september 2025, crypto included.

  4. bank of america admitted it broke money-laundering laws on purpose @0xcyp · read more

    it settled the sanctions breaches for about 3.9% of a year's profit and nobody was charged. @inthepixels counts $88b of us penalties for the bank since 2000.

  5. europeans are threatening to stop buying musk's products over the starlink cutoff @MKjrstad · read more

    @MKjrstad asking elon whether he's playing politics with his products again is the morning's biggest post, and the replies are full of european customers saying they're done.

  6. trump announced an energy ceasefire that nobody else seems to know about @MarioNawfal ♥ 7 · read more

    zelensky says it's the first he's heard of it. russia says the terms were never specified, so it is still hitting ukraine's energy sector.

  7. the fbi charged 12 people for sneaking north korean workers into american companies @FBIDirectorKash · read more

    per @FBIDirectorKash, nearly 190 devices were seized. the workers sat inside us firms and sent the wages home to the regime.

  8. base is now the second-biggest network in defi, passing solana @ethereuminsti ♥ 47 · read more

    $6.22b locked, behind only ethereum mainnet, per defillama. four of the ten biggest networks by total value locked are ethereum-based: mainnet, base, arbitrum and robinhood chain.

  9. there's now a criminal complaint over the recording device found in openai's office @Felirami · read more

    @Felirami says the doj filing is far more specific than openai's careful post. the version going around, per @moo9000, has the engineer building the spyware on his wife's chatgpt.

  10. openai is buying one of the few firms that audits everyone else's security @matthew_d_green ♥ 8 · read more

    @matthew_d_green says trail of bits is among the best public audit and pentest shops anywhere, and openai absorbing it takes that capacity away from everybody else.

  1. china's trade surplus hit $938 billion in nine months and exports jumped 36% @Cointelegraph ♥ 56 · read more

    that's the first nine months of the year, on track to beat last year's record, with the 36% jump in september alone.

  2. china started buying american soybeans again for the first time since the trump-xi summit @MarioNawfal ♥ 87 · read more

    state buyers took 8-10 shiploads, roughly 520,000 to 650,000 tons, sailing from december, per @MarioNawfal.

  3. coinbase published its wish list for making bitcoin safe from quantum computers @laurashin ♥ 5 · read more

    hybrid keys, a stateless signing fallback, mpc-compatible signatures and a path for wallets that move late. lost and dormant coins get punted to a separate governance fight.

  4. the inflation number came out bad and bitcoin barely moved @Matt_Hougan ♥ 93 · read more

    @Matt_Hougan says he read the print and assumed crypto would be down 3-5%, then found btc sitting at $82.6k, off 1%.

  5. character ai went bankrupt and people are blaming the google deal @cryptopunk7213 ♥ 4 · read more

    per @cryptopunk7213, the $2.7b google acquisition gutted the company of its founders and the free-user model burned its capital on inference costs.

  6. openai and anthropic are asking the uk to regulate them @Polymarket ♥ 4 · read more

    both told the uk that voluntary ai safety commitments are no longer enough, per @Polymarket.

  7. google's gemini 4 argon is now available to anyone who pays @TraffAlex · read more

    generally available across the paid gemini api, ai studio, antigravity for ultra subscribers and the gemini app. @doodlestein says it's unusually thorough and detail-oriented on high effort.

  8. nobody expects anything to beat opus 5.5 for months @theo ♥ 832 · read more

    @theo means price plus performance plus capability together. @serglotz's stack has settled: opus does the work, gpt-6.1 sol reviews it, gemini 4 and grok 4.7 research.

  9. anthropic was merging so much code it broke git @mhartl · read more

    2,500 merged changes a day back in may, so it built source control in-house. that's from its own engineering blog.

  10. stripe's wallet company is bringing ai agent payments to the xrp ledger @Unchained_pod · read more

    privy, which stripe agreed to buy in 2025, is partnering with ripple to cover xrp, rlusd and x402 payments made by agents.

  1. a nasdaq company picked four firms to manage its 473 million xrp @CoinDesk ♥ 163 · read more

    evernorth named ripple, kraken, coinbase and bitgo as its first institutional partners, with deployments planned for the fourth quarter.

  2. ripple is going after south korea's brokerages @Cointelegraph ♥ 258 · read more

    its first deal with a korean securities firm: meritz will explore ripple's custody and tokenization tools for capital markets.

  3. interactive brokers now lets clients stake crypto, starting with ethereum @Cointelegraph ♥ 34 · read more

    eligible clients only for now, per cointelegraph's roundup.

  4. tokenized stocks on solana traded $4.4 billion in september, a record @solana · read more

    $15.5b of cumulative volume against only $615m of actual token supply, so the same shares are changing hands a lot.

  5. one exchange handled more than half of all tokenized stock trading on ethereum @aeroxyz · read more

    aerodrome did over 57% of tokenized stock volume across ethereum and its layer 2s on october 10, per @aeroxyz.

  6. google's ai boss says ai-driven hacking gets much worse in 2027 @Hesamation ♥ 13 · read more

    demis hassabis wants rules, not goodwill: 'no company or technology should be above the law,' but the regulation has to be sensible and balanced.

  7. ilhan omar's family got subpoenaed and a us attorney is investigating her finances @RyanAFournier ♥ 86 · read more

    jeanine pirro's dc office is looking at disclosures that dropped from $30m to $100k, and omar's home was searched. critics tie it to minnesota's fraud probes.

  8. the money in ai is going to the people selling the hardware @hackernoon ♥ 1 · read more

    samsung posted a record 107.4 trillion won profit and etched's valuation is soaring, while openai runs at a $50b run rate, per @hackernoon.

  9. you can buy a piece of us housing debt onchain for one dollar @hollyyy ♥ 54 · read more

    nuva's home vault, co-incubated by animoca brands, targets a 7% policy rate with a first-loss buffer that eats losses before holders do. non-us users only.

  10. coinbase turned on ai-agent trading for us index futures overnight @MurrLincoln ♥ 6 · read more

    @MurrLincoln says a user asked yesterday and it shipped today on coinbase's mcp: crypto plus us 500, tech 100, ai, defense and china baskets.

  1. the houthis are building iran's best missile themselves with parts shipped from china @MarioNawfal ♥ 89 · read more

    conflict armament research found motor sections, airframe pieces, fins and heat shielding for a kheibar shekan class missile hidden in two shipments yemen seized.

  2. saudi arabia spent $83 billion on defense and houthi missiles still hit its airports @MKjrstad · read more

    patriot and thaad batteries aren't stopping them. @MKjrstad reports saudi airstrikes and yemeni return fire traded back and forth overnight.

  3. iran is using men in wooden boats to spot targets for missile crews @MarioNawfal ♥ 77 · read more

    a us military official told reuters american forces cleared and destroyed a dhow last week after deciding its crew was calling in ship positions.

  4. a contractor cut one cable and froze flights at houston's biggest airport @MarioNawfal ♥ 38 · read more

    the fiber-optic line fed bush intercontinental, and the faa held incoming flights for over two hours while travelers sat stuck at customs.

  5. trump is opening greenland up for oil, gas and mineral drilling @RyanAFournier ♥ 204 · read more

    per @RyanAFournier, it follows his deal with denmark and greenland at the un general assembly, and he's framing it as arctic defense too.

  6. the treasury wants to stop health subsidies going to people who don't qualify @SecScottBessent ♥ 1.0k · read more

    @SecScottBessent says the proposed rules implement eligibility changes from the working families tax cuts.

  7. venezuela's opposition leader is way ahead of the acting president in a new poll @Polymarket ♥ 194 · read more

    maría corina machado 52%, delcy rodríguez 19%, per @Polymarket.

  8. the un adopted a global pandemic preparedness plan, 153 votes to 3 @oFonCK · read more

    per un news, via @oFonCK.

  9. china hasn't shipped a major ai model in 49 days @LinusEkenstam ♥ 3 · read more

    @LinusEkenstam says the china-us release cycle has compressed to about 44 days, so he thinks the next one is imminent.

  10. robinhood's chain probably doesn't qualify for the sec's new exemption @grok ♥ 1 · read more

    per grok's read, the innovation exemption needs core protocol code that runs automatically and immutably. a centralized sequencer fails that test.

  1. coinbase's lending engine is now easy for any base app to plug in @jessepollak · read more

    @jessepollak says base made it simple to offer morpho, which powers coinbase's usdc lending and crypto-backed loans.

  2. a $200 million insurance yield token is expanding from solana to monad @keoneHD ♥ 19 · read more

    onre's onyc is tokenized reinsurance yield and was solana-only. @keoneHD wants monad to carry the widest range of yield sources.

  3. solana is being used to connect brazilian power generators straight to homes @solana ♥ 120 · read more

    generators wired directly to homes and businesses, per solana's own post.

  4. starknet can now bolt privacy onto other defi apps @starkience · read more

    shadow accounts extend its privacy stack to a wider set of apps, like yield vaults, per @starkience.

  5. it's been a bad week for crypto wallets @laurashin ♥ 6 · read more

    @laurashin's running list: the ledger wallet drains, the xrp bug and the fight over what whitehats get paid, starkware moving to its own l1, and blur shutting down.

  6. turkish police caught a crypto whale and took his watches again @ercwl ♥ 143 · read more

    ntv says the man known as 'whale james' was picked up in beşiktaş with a fortune found in his home, per @ercwl.

  7. bank of america pays you half a percent on nearly a trillion dollars @jevgenijs ♥ 2 · read more

    0.51% on consumer deposits in the third quarter, with 59% of that money sitting in checking accounts. it still added 200,000 net new checking customers.

  8. two cartoon channels that raised everyone under 45 now have six shows total @aakashgupta ♥ 9 · read more

    nickelodeon has three, cartoon network has three, and as of last week one $110b merger owns both.

  9. an early ethereum investor is turning a paper mill into an ai data center @amandacassatt ♥ 3 · read more

    andrew keys went all in on ethereum before it existed, then built through consensys and ether machine, per @amandacassatt.

  10. someone set up a leveraged trading bot by sending a few chat messages @igoryuzo ♥ 16 · read more

    @igoryuzo's bankr bot moved his usdc off base, and now a cron checks every 15 minutes and fires a 100x btc long with take-profit and stop-loss attached.

  1. bitcoin options are about as cheap as they ever get @0mllwntrmt3 ♥ 4 · read more

    @0mllwntrmt3 says implied vol is at the lowest rank and percentile you can get, and is buying it on hyperliquid.

  2. people are using chinese open models for security work because claude refuses @weiihannng ♥ 1 · read more

    @weiihannng says glm 5.3 flash needs a lot of steering for anything complex, but it's cost-effective for research and summarizing and it doesn't block.

  3. a year of ai tooling fads has already quietly disappeared @jun_song ♥ 99 · read more

    @jun_song's list of what's gone: prompt engineering, claude.md setup, agent skills, loop engineering, and countless deploy services.