Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
JD Wetherspoon has reported an 8.2% rise in like-for-like sales in the first 14 weeks of its financial year and plans up to 25 new pubs, although growth has eased in recent weeks and its chairman cautions that profit forecasts still depend heavily on sales.
Britain and the European Union have agreed a draft deal to remove most post-Brexit checks on food and farm exports, with a 200-page text now before EU ambassadors ahead of a summit on 20 November — though the changes will not take effect for some time.
South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple missiles from its east coast into the East Sea on Wednesday morning, hours after Kim Yo Jong said Pyongyang saw no need for dialogue with the United States.
China’s services sector kept growing in October, but at its slowest pace since July, as firms cut prices for a second month while input costs rose at their fastest rate in five months.
Two major reports released ahead of COP31 warn that temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C warming limit will bring large-scale and in many cases irreversible damage to the world’s ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and permafrost — but that fast action can still limit the worst of it.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa has defeated three-term Republican governor Greg Abbott, ending more than three decades of Republican control of Texas’s top office and becoming the state’s first Latina governor.
Australian household spending rose 0.6% in September to A$82.6 billion, beating expectations, as higher petrol prices and a lift in air travel offset the drag from rising borrowing costs.
Democrats have captured the US Senate after flipping seats deep in Republican territory, completing their takeover of Congress and delivering a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump in the midterm elections.
CrowdStrike has agreed to buy AI observability firm Fiddler AI and AI security-testing start-up Dreadnode, in a push to police the autonomous software agents now spreading through corporate systems. The reported combined price is about $495 million, though CrowdStrike itself has not disclosed terms.
US stock futures fell and the dollar softened in early Wednesday trading as results pointed to Democratic gains in Congress, though analysts urged calm, noting the Senate outcome was still uncertain and much of the move may already have been priced in.
