Following the October 30 breach of Binance, Circle froze about $823 million in USDC tied to the stolen funds, while Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said Tether froze over 1.567 billion USDT linked to the attack, though some reports cite a lower figure of $975.1 million. Combined with other blockchain partners' freezes, roughly $2.4 billion was immobilized, separate from the approximately $3 billion Binance says is frozen on-chain across multiple assets.
techreport.com
· 2026-11-01
Binance disclosed a cyberattack resulting in an estimated $6.3 billion loss, which would make it the largest crypto theft on record, surpassing last year's $1.5 billion Bybit hack. The exchange has suspended withdrawals for a security overhaul while keeping deposits open, and says it has worked with partners to freeze roughly $3 billion of the stolen funds, with Tether and Circle separately freezing $1.5 billion and $800 million tied to the attack. Binance says it will cover all losses through its SAFU fund and company reserves.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-30
Google has begun pushing an updated Gemini overlay design to all Android devices via a Google app update, following its earlier debut on Pixel 11 phones. The refresh applies Google's Neural Expressive design language, adding sparkle effects and small dots around the Ask Gemini text box, plus shaded, more three-dimensional edges on the box, particularly visible in dark mode.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-30
Binance confirmed it is investigating a security incident after users reported funds draining from its wallets, and has temporarily halted withdrawals across multiple networks as a precaution. Circle froze roughly $800 million and Tether froze about $1.56 billion in tokens tied to the incident, while crypto watchers estimate at least $2 billion—possibly as much as $5.7 billion—was drained from Binance's hot wallets. Binance says user funds remain safe but has not confirmed the total loss or identified any attacker.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-29
Binance said it is probing a potential security breach after more than $2 billion moved out of one of its wallets to an outside account, with Blockaid putting the figure closer to $3.3 billion. Founder Changpeng Zhao said the incident appears to be a hack but that user funds remain safe, crediting Tether and Circle for quickly freezing roughly $971 million and $823 million respectively.
slashdot.org
· 2026-10-29
Binance is probing a suspected security breach after reports that billions of dollars were moved from several of its hot wallets to a newly created Ethereum address. Tether and Circle have frozen more than $2.3 billion in USDT and USDC tied to the incident, while Binance says user funds remain safe and the matter is under active investigation.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-29
Electronic Arts is closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and shutting its Edmonton office, canceling an early-stage next Mass Effect project. The move is part of layoffs affecting roughly 400 employees, about three percent of EA's workforce, with additional cuts at Skate developer Full Circle and a paused project at Maxis.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-21
White Circle, an AI safety testing firm backed by researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind, published a preprint showing that image generators including DALL·E 3, Google's Nano Banana 2, and GPT-Image-2 can be tricked into producing explicit content using publicly available tools and API calls. The researchers say they bypassed safety filters roughly 13 percent of the time using a novel attack method.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-14
Arlington County Board filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia opposing construction of President Trump's planned Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle, arguing the National Park Service is rushing toward construction without completing required environmental review. The suit asks a court to halt the project's progress until National Environmental Policy Act requirements, including proper analysis and testing, are satisfied.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-09
Android Authority found a work-in-progress Gemini interface redesign inside Android Auto app version 17.9.664004, which it enabled to preview. The new animation adopts Google's Neural Expressive design style with dots around the Gemini interface, spanning the full screen width with Live and close buttons on either side, replacing the current subtle glow indicator.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-05
A music theory blog post reconstructs a circular diagram that John Coltrane once sketched and gave to Yusef Lateef, who later referenced it in his own book on scales. The diagram overlays chromatic scales onto the circle of fifths/fourths, and the post turns it into an interactive tool letting users rotate keys and highlight harmonic shapes, including patterns connected to Coltrane's composition 'Giant Steps'.
jtomschroeder.com
· 2026-09-30
A technical blog post walks through how the Fourier transform can be used to reconstruct a hand-drawn path, such as a llama, by summing rotating vectors (epicycles) of different frequencies, radii, and starting angles connected tip to tail. The author shows progressively complex examples, from a straight line and square to a fish, culminating in a llama drawn using 1024 circles.
adekau.github.io
· 2026-09-24
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