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Tesla's Bitcoin stake records $288m quarterly gain
Tesla held 11,509 BTC at September's close. Its Q3 accounts record a $288m unrealised digital-asset gain, as the carrying value rose to $962m.
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Railway urges key rotation after possible customer secret exposure
Railway urged customers to rotate credentials after possible access to environment-variable secrets. Deployments were paused and builds began returning in stages.
China seeks 61,800+ Bitcoin held in UK fraud case
Chinese prosecutors seek more than 61,800 BTC linked to Qian Zhimin. A Tianjin court accepted the application, alongside separate UK asset-recovery proceedings.
Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars’s moon
Japan’s MMX spacecraft launched aboard an H3 rocket toward Phobos. The mission plans a rover survey, surface sampling and an Earth return in 2031.
UK backs quantum products and skills with £78m
UK announcements combine £50m for quantum products, £20m for networking components and £8m for apprenticeships, with rail, eye-care and radio projects among the recipients.
US orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products
A newly published DHS notice covers DeepSeek and third-party implementations in civilian agency IT. The underlying removal and procurement order dates to 24 July.
JPMorgan brings its dollar deposit token to Ethereum
JPMorgan’s JPM Coin deposit token is available on Ethereum for institutional clients, adding a second public network alongside Base for bank-money transfers.
BlackRock files for Bitcoin fund with capped gains
BlackRock proposes PBIT, an options-based Bitcoin fund with capped upside and an initial loss threshold near 10% per tranche. Outcomes depend on timing and fees.
Anthropic pledges 5% stake to a public benefit fund
Anthropic proposes a 5% share pledge, subject to stockholder approval. Its board could add shares as company value rises, with workers among the fund's priorities.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: a low-cost model for coding agents
MiniMax M3.1 Flash from MiniMax: a low-cost model for coding agents. Release date, access, capabilities and current terms, checked on 20 October 2026.
Muse Spark Open: downloadable weights for multimodal agents
Muse Spark Open from Meta: downloadable weights for multimodal agents. Release date, access, capabilities and current terms, checked on 20 October 2026.
Google Willow produces 99.99% fidelity quantum magic states
Google's Willow experiment reduced magic-state errors 40-fold. Its 99.99% fidelity result retained 8% of attempts, making yield central to the engineering picture.
Claude traces NIST curve seeds to a 1990s generator
YFarmX reproduced all five recovered NIST prime-curve seeds against OpenSSL. The interesting security question concerns how candidates and base points were selected.
Circle plans USDC expansion into 40 new markets
Circle's Jeremy Allaire outlined expansion into about 40 emerging markets. Mastercard and BVNK separately launched a platform connecting fiat accounts, stablecoins and payouts.
Nine firms form alliance for quantum-resistant crypto standards
Hacken, Midnight Foundation and seven other organisations formed the Quantum Alliance to develop shared migration standards for blockchains, wallets and proof systems.
Tesla's new Roadster flies and flips using SpaceX thrusters
Tesla demonstrated a new Roadster driving upside down, turning through the air and landing with cold-gas thrusters. Production is targeted for 2028.
ORCA launches photonic quantum computer with NVIDIA hardware
ORCA launched its PT-3 alongside NVIDIA computing in London, reporting better protein-design results and a faster energy-scheduling workflow than its previous generation.
Chainlink data feeds go live on Stellar
Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams are live on Stellar, giving developers market prices for lending, collateral and tokenised-asset applications.
Infleqtion wins £9 million for quantum radio direction-finding
Innovate UK awarded Infleqtion £9 million to develop deployable Rydberg-atom radio direction-finding equipment with Leonardo, building on the QuDiFi prototype project.
Google researchers cut simulated quantum errors over 1,000-fold
Google Quantum AI researchers propose using saved error records and two decoders to reduce statistical bias after quantum execution. The headline result comes from simulations.
FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over hidden conference-room recorder
US prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan after a covert recorder was found behind a conference-room television at OpenAI. The allegations were disclosed on 13 October.
Ripple brings Stripe-owned Privy wallets to the XRP Ledger
Ripple and Stripe-owned Privy announced programmable XRPL wallets for fintechs and AI agents, supporting XRP, RLUSD, transaction signing and key export.
Alice & Bob tests GPU decoding for quantum computers
Alice & Bob reports a synthetic-data GPU decoding test. Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype and SEALSQ's satellite-security investment show other quantum developments.
DARPA advances four quantum companies to final testing stage
IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq enter DARPA's final verification stage, testing plans for quantum computers whose value exceeds their cost by 2033.
Microsoft's Nadella urges an emergency brake for AI
Satya Nadella wants authorised people to stop AI models mid-task, with permissions and audit records controlled independently. His proposal treats powerful models as insider risks.
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