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October 31, 2026

10 published — 6 breaking · 3 explainers · 1 reference

Stories from this day

Tech · 6 min read
Binance hack of $6.3 billion — the largest ever, with $3 billion already frozen

Scale — an estimated $6.3 billion, four times Bybit's $1.5 billion; funds left 10 chains in about 20 minutes
2026.10.31 06:00 · 6 sources cross-checked
Tech · 4 min read
Why Intel stock plunged — a Q3 beat, then a 30% drop as memory costs hit PC sales

Plunge — down as much as 30% intraday on October 30, to $63.76; possibly the biggest one-day drop since 1974
2026.10.31 06:00 · 5 sources cross-checked
Economy · 4 min read
Amazon earnings and stock drop — AWS up 39%, but free cash flow at minus $42.4 billion

Results — revenue $201.9 billion (+12%), record 13.9% operating margin, AWS $46.0 billion (+39%)
2026.10.31 06:00 · 6 sources cross-checked
Tech · 5 min read
Mistral Large 4 open weights — free to run 1T parameters, but API resale needs a license

Release — weights on Hugging Face on October 29; about 1 trillion total and 52 billion active parameters, no download approval
2026.10.31 06:00 · 5 sources cross-checked
Tech · 5 min read
Canada Cohere equity stake of up to C$1.6 billion — in exchange for 1,000 jobs

Investment — Canada takes an equity stake of up to C$1.6 billion, paid in stages as targets are met
2026.10.31 06:00 · 5 sources cross-checked
Tech · 4 min read
Why Reddit stock plunged — Google AI Mode cut search visits by over 1 million a week

The shock — Google search referrals down more than 1 million a week in October; US daily users fell for the first time since the IPO
2026.10.31 06:00 · 6 sources cross-checked
Tech · 6 min read
OpenAI misalignment monitoring — an alert 30 hours before the Hugging Face breach, and six gaps

Scope — every training run and evaluation of GPT-6 Astra-class models and above, plus all internal Codex traffic
2026.10.31 06:00 · 5 sources cross-checked
Tech · 4 min read
Claude Ultra plan — Max 20x renamed, still $200 a month, minus the 5-hour limit

The change — Max 20x ($200) becomes Ultra, Max 5x ($100) becomes Max; prices and existing subscriptions unchanged
2026.10.31 06:00 · 5 sources cross-checked
Tech · 4 min read
Drupal Commerce CVE-2026-118539 patch — 3.3.13 and 8.x-2.41 stop no-login order tampering

Patch — 3.3.13 for 3.x and 8.x-2.41 for 2.x, released October 28, 2026; five less severe flaws fixed too
2026.10.31 06:00 · 6 sources cross-checked
Economy · 6 min read
What is RPO — $2.5 trillion of big tech backlog, and why it is still not revenue

Meaning — contracts signed but not yet booked as revenue; a reservation ledger for future sales
2026.10.31 06:00 · 7 sources cross-checked