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$3.1B in Stolen Binance Crypto Has Yet to Be Laundered: Elliptic
Around half of the $6.43 billion stolen from Binance last month has yet to be laundered, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said in a report updated on Friday. About $3.11 billion remains in addresses linked to the theft, mostly in ETH and Bitcoin, and those funds are "very likely" still held by North Korea, Elliptic said. A further $2.85 billion, or 44% of the haul, has been frozen or seized, mostly stablecoins that issuers such as Tether and Circle froze within an hour of the theft. That compa...
Nov 5, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Promises to Foot AI’s Power Bill After Voter Revolt. Who Enforces It?
OpenAI promised Thursday that neighbors of its future AI campuses won't foot the bill for their electricity needs, two days after voters dealt data center expansion a blow at the polls. It also pledged public energy and water figures and limits on secrecy agreements with officials. Its National Community Compact covers future campuses (a fancy rebranding for the term AI data centers) OpenAI both owns and operates, according to the company’s announcement. A separate policy blueprint asks legislat...
Nov 5, 2026
Law and Order
DOJ Creates 'Super Intelligence' Task Force to Guard Against AI Abuse
The U.S. Department of Justice is setting up a task force dedicated to policing the misuse of advanced artificial intelligence, as Washington races to build enforcement muscle around a technology it increasingly frames in near-sci-fi terms. Announced Thursday, the Super Intelligence Task Force, or DOJ-SITF, will be led by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss. Its stated mission is to make sure American leadership in “super intelligence”...
Nov 5, 2026
Business
Mercado Bitcoin Said Its Hack Was Contained, But Blockchain Data Tells a Different Story
An attacker drained Mercado Bitcoin-linked deposit addresses nearly four hours after the Brazilian exchange said it had contained a security breach, new blockchain research shows. Bitquery's analysis, updated Thursday, traces more than $48 million in stolen assets across 11 blockchains. Its findings challenge the exchange's claim that it stopped the attack quickly. The Bitcoin exchange announced at 9:56 a.m. Brazil time on November 2 that it had quickly contained the incident. Bitquery says 36,0...
Nov 5, 2026
Coins
Zcash Upgrade Could Lock $16 Million in Crypto Forever
Zcash is preparing to shut down its oldest privacy technology, potentially leaving millions of dollars in cryptocurrency inaccessible to their owners—even if they still have the passwords and private keys needed to access their wallets. Approximately 12,224 ZEC remain in Sprout, the cryptocurrency's original privacy pool, according to ZecStats data updated Thursday. At recent market prices, those holdings represent roughly $15 million to $16 million that could become effectively frozen when the...
Nov 5, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Found 948 Linux Security Flaws—And Figured Out How to Exploit Them
OpenAI says its autonomous security agents discovered 948 distinct vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, developed working exploits and drafted fixes for review—all for roughly $1.2 million in API credits. “We chose Linux to study how effectively frontier models could find vulnerabilities and demonstrate their security impact in a codebase of this scale and importance,” OpenAI said in results published Wednesday. The Linux kernel powers cloud servers, Android devices and much of the world's cri...