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01 — EDITION

The day in tech,
Fri 30 Oct.

EDITION · 2026-10-30 · 31 ITEMS · 5/7 SOURCES

PRINTED 14:41 UTC+8 · NEXT 09:30 UTC+8

02 — BRIEF · AI-WRITTEN (GLM-4.7-FLASH) · MAY CONTAIN ERRORS

Binance suffered a record $5.6B hack attributed to North Korea, while CrowdStrike reported China-linked hackers using AI tools. UEFI firmware flaws and compromised Tor nodes also highlight significant security risks. AI startups raised capital for verification tools, and DeepSeek secured funding amid chip shortages.

Crypto theft · 1, 6, 10Cybersecurity threats · 4, 8, 12, 14, 19AI developments · 2, 5, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25Open source projects · 7, 9, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

03 — STORIES

Front page

  1. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

    Hacker News · arkm.com · 1090 points · 647 comments · Discuss ↗

  3. London meetup

    Lobsters · lobste.rs · event · Discuss ↗

  4. Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

    Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.

  5. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

    Hacker News · mistral.ai · 1335 points · 363 comments · Discuss ↗

  7. NetBSD adds a new Emacs-like text editor called atto

    Lobsters · mastodon.sdf.org · netbsd · editors · Discuss ↗

  8. Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

    Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.

  9. Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

    Hacker News · cuis.st · 67 points · 11 comments · Discuss ↗

  11. What the fox say?

    Lobsters · entropicthoughts.com · games · Discuss ↗

  12. 333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Dan Goodin · Discuss ↗

    For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.

  13. Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

    Hacker News · github.com · 69 points · 5 comments · Discuss ↗

  15. Shared password manager for families?

    Lobsters · lobste.rs · security · ask · Discuss ↗

  16. Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

    Ars Technica · arstechnica.com · Scharon Harding · Discuss ↗

    Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.

  17. I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

    Hacker News · youtube.com · 66 points · 6 comments · Discuss ↗

  19. C2PA's eMudhra Moment

    Lobsters · da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · security · cryptography · Discuss ↗

  20. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

    Hacker News · labs.ycombinator.com · 245 points · 83 comments · Discuss ↗

  22. Herdr has released native app

    Hacker News · github.com · 123 points · 78 comments · Discuss ↗

  23. A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

    Hacker News · github.com · 184 points · 10 comments · Discuss ↗

  24. H.264 Is Magic (2016)

    Hacker News · sidbala.com · 382 points · 142 comments · Discuss ↗

  25. LLM Voice

    Hacker News · martinfowler.com · 420 points · 215 comments · Discuss ↗

Repositories

  1. unclebob/ub-mode

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 4,934 · Unspecified

  2. rddmwmddr/android-ad-cleaner

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 4,841 · Python

    关掉国产安卓手机系统里的广告、热搜、资讯推荐和营销推送。不 root，可还原，支持 AI 智能体一键执行。

  3. interplains/Zero-Breach-Toolkit

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 3,676 · Python

    Free, open-source, offline checks for traces of known mercenary spyware. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux, Android phones and iPhone backups.

  4. anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 3,450 · HTML

    中文版 AI 姿势参考图库 · 1439 组 / 2878 张图片 / 完整汉化 · 零依赖静态画廊

  5. designfuchen/word-atlas

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 3,277 · TypeScript

    词光 · Word Atlas — Illustrated IELTS vocabulary with 7,298 words, UK/US audio and FSRS review. Open-source app + CC BY 4.0 dataset.

  6. t3dotgg/tstack

    GitHub · github.com · ★ 2,417 · Python

    The agent skills I use every day. Works with Claude Code and Codex.

04 — SOURCES