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Crude oil dives to session low on Iran peace talk hopes ahead of midterms
Crude oil prices fell to a session low as investors reacted to hopes for Iran peace talks and the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, reflecting market uncertainty.
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Crude oil prices fell to a session low as investors reacted to hopes for Iran peace talks and the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, reflecting market uncertainty.
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A free webinar titled 'Financial Autonomy Without Borders: How a Capital Management System Works' is being held. The webinar will cover how to top up a broker's account and what banks verify. It will also discuss which documents European banks may request. The speakers are Oleksandr Sadykovenko from XPAID and Artem Vaganov from the 'Gryshi Prayutuyut' channel. Participants will receive a capital inventory checklist, webinar registration, and free consultation. The webinar is scheduled for November 5 at 19:00 local time.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has announced significant holdings in Ethereum (ETH) and other cryptocurrencies, totaling $14.5 billion. The company, which focuses on accumulating crypto for long-term investment, has 6,060,506 ETH at $2,261 per ETH, 216 Bitcoin, and stakes in Beast Industries and Eightco Holdings. The company has been added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index and has received support from institutional investors including ARK’s Cathie Wood, Founders Fund, Bill Miller III, and DCG.
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Akash’s proposed Solana migration would end current staking rewards on its current chain. A separate draft could issue new AKT to providers and the treasury, but the emission amounts remain unresolved. The proposal separates the end of old-chain rewards from future provider and treasury incentives.
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CTO explains how Iris agents handle contract amendments and pricing changes. …
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Partnership aims to provide pre‑tested AI governance integrations.
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Office agent can query business systems, retrieve data, and present reports.
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Amazon CEO argues unified AI model marketplace may grow Bedrock to EC2‑scale.
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Analysis of AWS’s role and community direction since OpenSearch split from Elasticsearch.
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AI‑generated bug reports and patches pushed PostgreSQL 19 ahead of schedule; maintainers must verify fixes.
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The merge window reached almost 20,000 commits, the busiest in kernel history, surpassing previous releases.
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Teams can set spending limits via Cloud Billing Budgets API and adjust as needed.
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XRP Ledger's payment volume has surged from around 229 million XRP on October 31 to over 1.33 billion XRP on November 1, marking a 479% increase within a 24-hour period. This suggests a potential recovery in the asset's price after several weeks of high volatility, as the network usage is also rebounding from the impact of the recent Binance heist.
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse believes XRP could become a leading technology for institutional cryptocurrency payments within the next five years. During Ripple Swell 2026 in New York, Garlinghouse outlined a future where banks and financial institutions increasingly use blockchain networks for money transfers and asset management. The comments come as Ripple expands into custody, corporate treasury management, and institutional trading.
Hacking News
Circle, a cryptocurrency exchange, has frozen nearly $900 million in USDC due to a potential hack connected to Binance. The freeze is in response to a reported security incident involving Binance.
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The article discusses three cryptocurrency projects: Kaspa, Celestia, and Arbitrum. Kaspa uses GHOSTDAG to process blocks quickly and maintain security, while Celestia focuses on data availability for other blockchains. The article suggests these projects could support substantial growth, but investors should understand the risks before pursuing potential 100x returns.
Hacking News
The Binance hack caused a significant loss of funds, with attackers draining approximately $6.4 billion from Binance’s hot wallets across multiple blockchains. The attack, attributed to the North Korea-linked group TraderTraitor, occurred on Thursday afternoon. The Binance hack led to the Bitcoin ETFs losing $643.3 million on Friday, marking the biggest day of the month and ending a four-session buying streak. The incident also affected other crypto exchanges, with the ETH ETFs experiencing their worst month since launch.
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Ramp recommends a 1‑2 page context document plus live tool connectors, testing with known answers, setting permissions, and assigning owners to prevent AI hallucinations. …
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Vertical AI codifies expert workflows into agentic systems that outperform generic models. Success requires identifying workflows, building context layers, data loops, and a shared language across product and engineering teams.
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AI app startups are likened to infrastructure firms, training their own models and managing costly agent operations. They prioritize security, governance, and customer trust, delivering outcomes in high‑stakes verticals and integrating organization‑wide workflows.
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Founders often prompt after 6 PM, with a quarter of prompts late night; marketers focus on revenue queries. Prompt volume peaks on Tuesday at 11 AM. Prompts relate to dashboards, session replay, and database queries, reflecting engineering and marketing interests.
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Bitcoin traders face a busy week featuring U.S. midterm elections, October jobs data, Fed commentary, and major tech earnings after a volatile October. Crypto markets are also concerned with Binance hack fallout and market turbulence.
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FUN staking on the platform has increased to 123,983,021 FUN with interest paid out at 546.43 FUN in the last hour. Effective APYs range from 3.47% over the last 7 days to 3.86% currently projected. All balances automatically earn interest and users can check their personalized stats with the /interest command. The update is provided for community announcements and staking-related information.
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A free online PDF accessibility checker, an AI video creation agent, and a library of interface patterns are announced, each aimed at improving design workflow and compliance.
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Meta’s Style Sketch app uses AI to create a virtual closet from Instagram photos and suggests outfits, offering virtual try‑ons and trip‑based packing; launched on iOS and Android in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
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Affinity releases its all‑in‑one creative suite for iPad, supporting photo editing, vector design, page layout and sketching with Apple Pencil, and offers the app for free to individuals while premium AI tools require a paid plan.
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WhatsApp introduces four new group chat features, including permanent pins, private group status updates, a filter for unread mentions and replies, and the ability to share recent history with new members.
New Web Product
Cryptocurrency exchange platform Strive has acquired an additional 124 Bitcoin (BTC) for $10 million, increasing its total holdings to 43,124 BTC. This acquisition follows a record purchase of 6,182 BTC for over $511 million just a week prior. The company's cash reserves decreased from $504.4 million to $490.4 million, with existing cash primarily funding the recent bitcoin purchase.
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Strategy, a Bitcoin treasury firm, resumed its Bitcoin purchases with a $65.5 million purchase of 811 BTC. The firm also bought back 2,092,035 shares of STRC preferred stock for $208.2 million, bringing its total holdings to 849,327 BTC. USD Cash, the pool used for Bitcoin purchases, fell to $132.7 million from $242.4 million a week earlier. The firm's USD Duration, a measure of how long these assets could cover dividends and interest, stood at 3.3 years.