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Norway fines Microsoft subsidiary Xandr $9.6 million over privacy violations with Grindr
Norway’s data protection regulator has hit Microsoft’s advertising arm Xandr with a 92 million kroner ($9.6 million) fine for sharing Grindr users’ sensitive data with advertisers without a legal basis. The penalty will be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a company. Datatilsynet, the Norwegian authority behind the ruling, claimed the data involved...
Mon, Oct 12
Tether blocks $10M linked to CryptoBilis Ledger wallet theft
Tether has frozen $10 million of its USDT cryptocurrency after a theft drained up to $93 million in assets from Ledger hardware wallets sold by CryptoBilis, as the investigation into the money flow continues and Ledger claims the problem is isolated. Confirmed information provided by Ledger so far The French cryptocurrency wallet maker has yet...
Mon, Oct 12
SkyAI sells half its SOL to fund $201M buyback and keep Forward out
SkyAI plans to spend roughly $201 million buying back up to 95% of its shares and warrants at $3.00 each. The company plans to sell half of the Solana treasury it spent the past year building to fund the buyback. The move essentially rejects a takeover bid from Forward Industries. Will SkyAI buy back its...
Mon, Oct 12
Strategy spends 9x more on preferred stock than Bitcoin with $192M STRC buyback
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) spent roughly nine times the $21.5 million on buying 250 BTC during the period between October 5 and 11 on repurchasing its own STRC preferred shares, which it directed $192.4 million into. Strategy confirmed the nine-to-one STRC-to-BTC purchase in its 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on...
Mon, Oct 12
Intel’s Tan joins Nvidia in defending Chinese open-weight AI
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CEO Lip Bu Tan specifically commended DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM during a speech at a panel hosted by Singapore lender DBS, where the chief executive of the Washington-backed chipmaker praised Chinese frontier AI models as “good enough.” Tan’s Monday comments echoed earlier sentiments shared by Jensen Huang, the CEO at Nvidia (NASDAQ:...
Mon, Oct 12
IMF claims AI investment supports global growth at about 3%, boosts Asian economies
AI infrastructure spending is helping the global economy maintain growth of around 3%, while creating a financial windfall for Asian hardware suppliers, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in Bangkok, where finance officials gathered for the Fund’s annual meetings. An investment shock cushioning the energy supply problem Georgieva described the AI boom as both a...
Mon, Oct 12
TSMC to post sixth straight record quarterly profit due to AI boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is expected to post its sixth consecutive record quarterly profit when it reports results on October 15. Analysts forecast net income of about NT$746.3 billion ($23.4 billion), with demand for AI chips continuing to rise amid the general AI boom. Analysts expect TSMC’s third-quarter net profit to rise about 65%...
Mon, Oct 12
Microsoft president calls for more AI regulation, claims milk more "regulated" than AI
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, has told the BBC that AI is currently working with fewer safety rules than commodities like milk or washing machines, and this should push governments, with the UK out front, to write binding controls, including kill switches and mandatory reporting when AI agents misbehave. Smith made the comparison in a BBC...
Mon, Oct 12
Based co-founder Edison responds as card breach exposes cardholder IDs
Based co-founder Edison said the company has alerted Singapore’s data regulator and filed a police report following a recent breach. The incident happened on October 5, and the company reported that the internal dashboard behind its Visa card program may have exposed cardholders’ names, passport numbers, birth dates and home addresses. What update does Based...
Mon, Oct 12
Kraken receives full VARA greenlight to offer spot and margin product trading in the UAE
Kraken, through its parent entity Payward, has officially expanded into the UAE with a full crypto brokerage, management and investment license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), just months after it received its preliminary approval. The approval now allows Kraken to onboard both retail and institutional investors. Kraken had for years tried to enter...
Mon, Oct 12
Ledger confirms CryptoBilis implant; other wallet buyers seek answers
OneKey Founder and CEO Yishi Wang has announced that the hardware wallet maker’s “dealer network will shrink significantly,” after a full review of previously certified dealers, while those with “unverifiable operating entities or unclear ultimate beneficiaries will have their authorization revoked and be removed from the official website.” Yishi also said OneKey has revoked CryptoBilis’s...
Mon, Oct 12
Solana retains meme token lead as spot DEX trading concentrates on network
Solana showed increased spot DEX activity, with data pointing to another meme token season.
Mon, Oct 12
LIVE: Crypto ETF investors withdraw $1.25 billion in a week, but XRP refuses to join the exodus
XRP ETFs bucked the selling trend, attracting $11.31 million in fresh investments last week. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ETFs lost $681.1 million, $542.07 million, and $24.81 million, respectively. Bitcoin rebounded above $84,000 on Monday, reaching $84,150 as the broader crypto market recovered. Wall Street futures opened the week mixed, with investors awaiting fresh earnings reports...
Mon, Oct 12
WebitPay Showcases Crypto-Funded Visa Cards at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026
SINGAPORE, October 2026 — WebitPay, a crypto payment platform offering virtual and physical Visa cards, participated in TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, showcasing its payment solutions designed to make digital assets more practical for everyday spending. As the digital asset industry continues to evolve, attention is increasingly shifting beyond trading and investment towards real-world utility. Crypto-funded payment...
Mon, Oct 12
Recurrent pursues $700M compensation from Moonshot in executive misconduct case
Moonshot’s executives are currently engaged in negotiations to settle a high-profile legal dispute in which one of its shareholders is demanding compensation over claims of misconduct, sources close to the matter have revealed. Specifically, Recurrent AI is accusing the executives, Yang Zhilin and Zhang Yutao, of misconduct. Sources have pointed out that, in a March...
Mon, Oct 12
STRK Rallies 80% in a Week After Starknet Floats L1 Move, Citing Quantum Threat
Starknet’s STRK token has rallied by more than 80% over the past seven days, making it the best performing altcoin among the top 100 by market cap. The token climbed to $0.126 on Sunday, its highest level since December last year. The rally ignited right after the network said on October 8 that it is...
Mon, Oct 12
Former Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in $2.5B AI server diversion scheme
Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a former Super Micro contractor, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court on October 8 of illegally sending Nvidia AI servers to China. His plea demonstrates the challenge Washington has with monitoring restricted technologies when they transit other countries. From March indictment to a guilty plea The Justice Department charged Sun, Super...
Sat, Oct 10
Bitcoin treasury companies get two Anchorage routes into Sui's Hashi
Anchorage Digital joins Sui's Hashi as a day-one partner, offering public companies and treasury firms two routes to use BTC as collateral this month.
Sat, Oct 10
Bittar’s Euribor conviction quashed in fresh blow to the SFO
The rate-rigging conviction of ex-Deutsche Bank trader Christian Bittar was overturned on Friday, despite the fact that he pleaded guilty to the allegations in 2018. The ruling results in eight of the nine rate-rigging convictions in the United Kingdom being overturned, which is yet another setback for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Moreover, the ruling...
Sat, Oct 10
Treasury yields near 24-year high as Pimco warns of 6%
The US 10-year Treasury yield hovered near 5.29% on Friday, just below its recent 5.34% peak. That was its highest level since April 2002, when it reached 5.36% on April 2, according to Federal Reserve data. Pimco’s chief investment officer Dan Ivascyn says 6% is a possibility, which raises fears of high borrowing rates, stocks...
Sat, Oct 10
