BP Plc's profit climbed to its highest level in 18 years as soaring refining margins boosted earnings, according to Bloomberg. The earnings tailwind comes as Chief Executive Officer Meg O’Neill seeks to turn around the British energy major.

Grok 4.8 has not been released, and Elon Musk said he does not care about benchmark scores, emphasizing the model’s practical uses instead. According to ChainCatcher, Musk said on October 30 that development had taken longer than expected but promised the new model would not disappoint. On September 14, Musk said Grok 4.8 has 2.5 trillion parameters and uses a new C++ training system. He expected pretraining to finish by the end of that week, followed by reinforcement learning. More than six weeks later, the model is still unreleased. Artificial Analysis found that, at the same xhigh reasoning level, Grok 4.7’s overall intelligence index was two points higher than Grok 4.6’s, rising from 44 to 46. Average output per question increased from about 38,000 tokens to 81,000. Some Cursor community users have also complained that Grok 4.7 uses their quotas faster without delivering a noticeable improvement. In a September interview with CCTV, Musk acknowledged that Grok 4.7 was behind Claude Opus 5.5 and said it might not catch up with leading models until 2027. In October, he proposed having Grok Bot call external models, including Claude, depending on the task, and said Grok 4.8’s high-speed version would handle many simple requests.

According to Jin10, Hon Hai’s chairman said the company has six factory buildings in Houston and sees a need to expand further.

According to Jin10, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the specific intervals between rate hikes cannot be determined in advance, such as raising rates every few months.

According to CNBC, BP reported $8.5 billion in underlying replacement cost profit, a measure used as a proxy for net profit, for the third quarter on Friday. The result exceeded analysts’ $6.191 billion consensus forecast compiled by LSEG and was up from $2.2 billion a year earlier. Profits nearly quadrupled year over year amid volatile energy markets and high refining margins.

Tokyo Electron forecast operating profit of ¥1.17 trillion for the fiscal year ending next March, 64% higher year over year and above market expectations. According to ChainCatcher, third-quarter operating profit rose to ¥295.4 billion, exceeding the ¥256.1 billion expected by the market.

A malicious version of Anthropic’s Claude Code VS Code extension, version 2.1.313, was published to the Open VSX registry on Oct. 30. According to ChainCatcher, security researcher Paul McCarty, known as 6mile, described the finding in a post on the OpenSource Malware blog. Researchers confirmed the analyzed Open VSX release was malicious and submitted a threat report about the same version on Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace as a precaution. The extension, identified as [email protected], differed from the legitimate version only in extension.js, where a 66-line loader had been inserted before the normal code. The file runs when VS Code starts and when a Webview opens, so users do not need to start a Claude conversation to trigger it. The loader adds an attacker-controlled SSH key labeled svc-telemetry to users’ SSH configuration, attempts to enable local SSH service, creates a reverse tunnel to 134.209.82.225, establishes persistence on macOS, Linux and Windows, and sends host reconnaissance data over unencrypted HTTP to port 8099. No additional executable files or scripts were downloaded during the injection phase. The affected Open VSX extension is owned by Anthropic employee Igor Kofman, but it is unclear whether his account or another part of the publishing process was compromised. Dean Hardcastle notified Kofman during the incident. Researchers said the source of the analyzed directory has not been established; the findings alone do not prove that Anthropic’s official marketplace or distribution infrastructure was compromised, and the attacker’s identity and infrastructure ownership remain unverified. Recommendations include checking for related file paths, key comments and startup items, blocking ports 22 and 8099 at 134.209.82.225, and rotating credentials accessible to affected accounts from a clean system.

According to Jin10, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said ultra-loose monetary policy had shown some positive effects but was not enough to raise inflation to 2% within two years, as initially expected.

攻撃者はイーサリアムの新機能EIP-7702を悪用し、バイナンスのホットウォレットをだまして50件の承認に署名させ、約3分24秒で167,464ETHとその他63種類のトークンを盗み出した。オンチェーンデータによると、秘密鍵の直接的な盗難ではなく、署名システムの侵害が原因であることが示唆されている。

India was the world’s largest market for initial public offerings in October, in a record month driven by the blockbuster share sale of Jio Platforms Ltd., according to Bloomberg.

仮想通貨取引所HTXは、欧州全域で規制当局からの圧力が高まっており、プラットフォームとその企業構造を標的とした一連の執行措置や制裁措置を受けて、英国から撤退した。

中央集権型取引所が資産の安全性を保証できないのであれば、ユーザーが多額の資産を保管のために中央集権型取引所に預けることは依然として必要なのだろうか？

業界関係者数名が、今回の窃盗は北朝鮮のハッカーによる犯行である可能性を指摘している。

何が起こったのか？バイナンスへのハッキングの背後には誰がいたのか？攻撃はどのように実行されたのか？盗まれた資産のうち、どれだけが凍結されたのか？

AAVE、DeFi、レンディング、流動性プール、DeFiファンドとRWA担保の組み合わせ（Jinse Finance） - Aaveのオープンなメカニズムにより、専門機関がレンディング取引プラットフォームを運営できます。

バイナンスは、今回の事件による被害総額は約63億ドルと推定されると発表した。注目すべきは、今回の事件が「ブラックオクトーバー」と呼ばれるサイバー攻撃の波の中で発生したことであり、AI技術を活用した新たな攻撃手法の出現が大きな要因の一つと考えられている点である。

フランスは仮想通貨取引データの国際的な共有を拡大する動きを見せているが、税務透明性の向上を求める動きは、すでに仮想通貨保有者を標的とした物理的な攻撃が異常に多い同国において、機密性の高い投資家情報のセキュリティに対する懸念を引き起こしている。

インテルのチップ、人工知能、データ、AIチップは供給不足となっているにもかかわらず、インテルの株価は20%も急落した。ゴールデン・ファイナンスの報告によると、第4四半期の売上高と利益の見通しは市場予想を大幅に下回った。

Futuは、長年かけて築き上げてきた顧客が、Binanceの新規ユーザーになりつつあることに気づいた。当初は同社の顧客リストにはなかった競合他社が、同じ顧客を奪おうとしていたのだ。