Day · Oct 31, 2026
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Saturday October 31
Evening Digest
- Binance says 90% of $6.3B hack losses covered crypto The exchange said it used its SAFU fund, insurance fund and treasury so users bear no loss, with 10 major tokens fully backed.
- Chainalysis says hacker accessed customer data crypto The blockchain analytics firm said an attacker using AI agent techniques reached names, emails and user IDs, but no passwords or investigation data.
Weekend Digest
- Binance says it has covered 90% of the $6.3 billion stolen in record hack crypto Binance said on Saturday it has replenished about 90% of the roughly $6.3 billion in tokens stolen from its hot wallets and remains on track to reopen withdrawals on Sunday.
- US approves $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine conflict The US State Department approved a proposed sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptor missiles to Ukraine, estimated at $2.1 billion and paid for with European and Canadian funding.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guards say four tankers hit mines in the Strait of Hormuz conflict Iran's Revolutionary Guards said four oil tankers, including a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude, struck mines and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.
- Judge dismisses Trump's $10 billion suit against The Wall Street Journal for good courts A federal judge in Miami on Saturday dismissed with prejudice President Donald Trump's refiled $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Poland's constitutional court standoff escalates after its president is suspended courts Government-appointed judges suspended the contested president of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, prompting President Karol Nawrocki to cut short a foreign trip and accuse the government of seizing the court by force.
- Congo's Ebola outbreak nears 5,000 deaths, health data show public-health The Democratic Republic of the Congo had recorded 10,274 confirmed Ebola cases and 4,992 deaths as of Oct. 28, according to its National Institute of Public Health.
- Virginia and DC sue to stop Trump's proposed 250-foot memorial arch courts Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday seeking to halt construction of President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot (76-meter) arch, the third legal challenge to the project.
- UN biodiversity talks in Yerevan end with plan to speed up nature targets global-institutions Countries at the COP17 UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan, Armenia, adopted the "Yerevan Pathway" on Saturday after roughly 12 hours of overnight negotiations, aiming to speed up work toward 2030 goals to halt nature loss.
- US raises China's 'coercive behavior' in Yellow Sea at talks with Japan and South Korea diplomacy Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised China's conduct in the Yellow Sea at a trilateral meeting with the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers in Atlanta, the first time the State Department has named that sea in its readouts of such meetings, SBS reported.
- Chainalysis says AI-assisted hacker accessed some customer names and emails security Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said a hacker using "offensive agentic techniques" broke into its systems this month and accessed non-sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses and user IDs.
- Singapore plans more than 6,000 new homes in Toa Payoh West policy Singapore's Housing and Development Board (HDB) said more than 6,000 homes will be built in Toa Payoh West over the coming decade, starting with about 1,600 flats near Caldecott MRT station.
- A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary edges 'Clayface' at Friday box office film-tv A24's documentary "You Can See Everything" took in $3.56 million in North America on Friday, narrowly ahead of Warner Bros. and DC's "Clayface" at $3.3 million.