🇹🇷 Turkey Bans Social Media Accounts for Children Under 15

Turkey has barred social media platforms from providing services to children under the age of 15. Social media companies will be required to verify users’ ages when accounts are created, using an age-verification token through Turkey’s e-government system. Applications from users found to be under 15 must be blocked, according to the new rules.

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🇦🇪🤑 Standard Chartered offers RLUSD custody in Dubai and plans LMAX collateral link

Global bank giant Standard Chartered now offers institutional custody of Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin RLUSD on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai branch, giving eligible clients a regulated bank to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin.

❗️The bank, with nearly $450 billion in assets under management, also plans to work with Ripple and LMAX Group, an institutional trading venue for foreign exchange and digital assets, so clients can use RLUSD held at Standard Chartered as collateral for trading on LMAX’s platform.

👉 That part of the arrangement is not yet live and remains subject to documentation, testing, regulatory requirements and internal approvals, the bank said.

👉 LMAX plans to allow clients to use RLUSD held at Standard Chartered to back trades, so they would not need to transfer the stablecoin to the venue.

That could appeal to banks, funds and other institutions that want to trade with stablecoins but do not want to leave the assets at a trading venue. It separates custody from execution: the bank holds the tokens and the venue accepts their value as collateral. 🚀

“Regulated custody connected to a global systemically important bank is becoming one of the most valuable pieces of infrastructure in digital assets,” — said Joseph Goh, head of Asia-Pacific at Singapore-based crypto investment bank Areta.

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🎮 Nintendo Has “No Plans” to Abandon Physical Games

Nintendo has officially stated that it has no plans to phase out physical game releases. The company will continue producing cartridges and discs despite the industry’s ongoing shift toward digital distribution.

The decision goes against the strategy of Sony and Microsoft, both of which are increasingly pushing digital-only consoles and subscription services. Nintendo is sticking with physical copies, which give players greater control over the games they buy. Unlike digital licenses, physical copies can’t simply be remotely revoked or disabled by the publisher.

“We’ve been around for a little over a year with the Nintendo Switch 2 , and it offers both digital and physical games. Therefore, we have no plans to abandon physical media. We know how much fans also enjoy it,” — said Bill van Zyll, Vice President and General Manager for Nintendo in Latin America.

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🤑🇰🇷South Korea just got its first traditional bank loans backed by BTC

Jeonbuk Bank has started offering bitcoin-backed loans to corporate clients, becoming the country's first bank to let firms borrow cash against their crypto holdings. 🎉

The South Korean bank, a unit of JB Financial Group, will issue loans in the country’s fiat currency, the Korean won, with proceeds limited to business operating costs.

❗️A Jeonbuk Bank official confirmed to local outlet Jaekyung Ilbo that a loan has already been executed, but declined to name the borrower.

Only BTC can be used as collateral for these loans for the time being. Jeonbuk Bank will not hold the BTC itself and instead, a registered crypto service provider will keep the assets in custody while the bank issues the loan. If a borrower fails to repay, the bank would move to recover its money through a court-ordered sale of the BTC.

The process draws on revised Civil Enforcement Rules that took effect Oct. 1.

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🤑 Being early is WisdomTree’s heritage

5 years ago, WisdomTree began exploring tokenization’s potential to change the landscape of financial products on Stellar.

Vinh Tran, Associate Director, Digital Assets at WisdomTree, shares how WisdomTree is harnessing tokenization to meet evolving client needs and unlock new opportunities in digital finance.

Stellar is building the foundation for the future of finance. 🚀

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🤑 Evernorth Starts Nasdaq Trading as XRPN With 473 Million XRP

Evernorth Holdings began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker XRPN on October 12, 2026 after closing its business combination with Armada Acquisition Corp. II.

The company announced the close on October 9. In that release it said it holds approximately 473 million XRP and has raised approximately $300 million in gross cash proceeds, before transaction expenses.

“Completing this transaction today marks a significant milestone of bringing this company to market. We’ll be deploying capital across the XRP economy, supporting the infrastructure and use cases that expand XRP’s utility, and pursuing strategies designed to grow XRP per share over time,” — said Asheesh Birla, Founder and CEO of Evernorth.

A new step connecting the XRP Ledger and public markets. 🚀

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🇬🇧UK given access to safety-test latest AI models, minister says

Britain's AI Security Institute has been given access to the latest advanced AI models and is working with the US government and major ​developers, including Google, to assess their safety.

"I can confirm that AI scientists at the AI Security Institute are now conducting rigorous evaluations of the latest generation of ​models, including Gemini 4 Argon, to identify risks early, to test robust safeguards, ​to help keep people safe," — AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said.

Under voluntary agreements with major AI developers, the institute receives access ‌to ⁠models before deployment, allowing it to assess their capabilities and risks and contribute to emerging international safety standards.

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🇨🇳China’s CXMT unveils ‘key progress’ on chip structure pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reported “key progress” on a new cell architecture to boost memory density, an innovation that competitors such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also working on.

CXMT planned to roll out a new server-memory product based on the structure by the end of 2026, president Cao Kanyu said at an industrial event in Shanghai over the weekend.

At the centre of the development is the “4F square” design, in which each memory cell occupies an area of four square F, with F representing the minimum line width of a semiconductor. The structure enables higher storage density by fitting more cells onto a single chip.

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👩‍💻 “I Use AI to Do the Things I’m Bad At” — Linus Torvalds

Many open-source developers still dislike AI. The latest example is System76 banning AI-generated content from its COSMIC desktop. At Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds offered a different take:

“To be fair,” — Torvalds said, “I don’t do a lot of kernel programming. I’m a maintainer. The Linux kernel is a project where other people do the real work, and I act as the collection point.

But I still enjoy programming immensely. I think AI is a wonderful tool if you use it correctly and treat it as a tool, and I find it makes programming much more enjoyable.”

AI tools can identify genuine security problems. They can also surface issues in old, no-longer-used drivers that have gone unnoticed for years. Torvalds sees value in the resulting fixes, while acknowledging their cost.

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🤖 Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

During a routine test involving randomly selected public websites, Anthropic’s Claude model landed on Philadelphia’s unsolved homicides tip portal and submitted fabricated content claiming to have witnessed something related to an unsolved homicide. 🤯

There was no hack, and no evidence of malicious intent. Just an AI filling out a real murder tip form as though it were a practice exercise. Anthropic waited 9 days after discovery to notify police, drawing a “unacceptable” response from authorities.

It is believed to be the first time an AI agent has sent fabricated information to authorities, but is the latest in a series of incidents involving rogue AI activity, including hacking systems or taking control of platforms.

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🤖 Two-armed robot throws, catches, and hits balls like a baseball champ

A new two-armed robot developed by the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has demonstrated its ability to throw, catch, and hit balls with coordinated, human-like movements, offering a different approach to a longstanding challenge in robotics: interacting with objects dynamically rather than simply moving them from one place to another.

Called AthenaZero, the robotic system was designed to replicate some of the mechanical properties that let humans perform rapid, forceful, and delicate movements. The robot completed three baseball-inspired tasks involving throwing balls, catching them, and hitting them with a bat.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s largest bank Sberbank secures approval to trade crypto

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has received approval to exchange cryptocurrencies, advancing Moscow’s effort to bring crypto trading and custody into its regulated financial system.

❗️The Bank of Russia added Sberbank to its register of cryptocurrency exchange providers. The bank had already joined the digital depository register earlier this month, giving it a role in recording clients’ crypto holdings.

There are now 9 organizations on the exchange register, including VTB and T-Invest Lab. 🚀

👉 Registered crypto dealers can buy and sell cryptocurrencies using their own funds outside organized exchanges, while depositories record ownership and transfers, according to the central bank.

👉 The combination provides a route to offer both trading and custody-related services for Sberbank, having also started working on a crypto wallet earlier this year.

The bank is already testing trades in BTC, ETH, USDT and other major tokens in its app. Sberbank plans to launch its first products on December 1.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Visa Approved to Prepare Domestic Payments Business in China

Visa announced that it has received approval of its Application to Prepare from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), which allows the company to begin formal preparations to establish a domestic bankcard clearing institution in China.

“We greatly appreciate the important role of the leaders of the United States and China in pursuing a constructive and strategically stable relationship between the world’s largest economies,” — Visa Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney said.

This marks an important milestone toward the company serving China’s domestic payments market. 🚀

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🇦🇺 Anthropic Hunts for Australia Data Center Deals

Anthropic PBC is looking to invest in data centers in Australia as the AI company scales up its build-out across the world and expands capacity within the country.

The firm is most interested in facilities in regional areas or brownfield sites, Jeff Bleich, international special envoy at Anthropic, said at the Australian Financial Review’s Energy and Climate summit in Sydney. Several projects have been pitched to the company by state premiers.

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🤑 Stellar’s $3.5 Billion RWA Surge Leaves XRP Ledger, Solana and Avalanche Playing Catch-Up

Stellar (XLM) is making a strong case in the RWA tokenization market after the total value of tokenized assets on its network climbed to a record $3.5 billion.

❗️As a result, Stellar has elbowed out competitors such as Solana, the XRP Ledger, and Avalanche, as competition for institutional adoption reaches fever pitch.

According to data from RWA Foundation and Token Terminal, net inflows into Stellar-based investment funds reached $17.1 million, outperforming Ethereum’s $16 million and Polygon’s $5.9 million.

👇What do these latest figures show?

👉 They show Stellar’s growing activity as financial institutions and investors explore blockchain-based investment products.

👉 The network’s expansion has been particularly striking over the past year. Stellar’s total RWA value has increased by approximately 360%, rising from $895 million a year ago to $3.5 billion.

More notably, this growth has helped propel the blockchain to third place globally in RWAs under management, behind only Ethereum and BNB Chain. 🏆

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🔐'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

At least 3 accounts at Pays ApS, a small Danish IT company, are linked to a major breach of the country’s civil registration system.

The compromised access allegedly allowed a hacker to retrieve information associated with approximately 8.8 million Danish Central Person Register (CPR) numbers, potentially exposing personal data on a substantial share of Denmark’s population.

Reportedly, the company’s admins used the password “123456,” a password ranked as the most common and least secure password in the world. 😁

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⚡️🤑 Broadening access to XRPL, from everyday payments to agentic commerce

We’re partnering with Ripple to bring Privy wallets to the XRPL, making it easier for developers to build payments and agentic experiences on the network. 🚀

💸 The XRPL is a decentralized Layer 1 blockchain built for moving and exchanging digital assets, with fast settlement, low transaction costs, and support for assets ranging from stablecoins to tokenized RWAs. Over more than 14 years, the network has grown to more than 8 million funded accounts and $1 trillion in value moved.

❗️With Privy, developers will be able to create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically, sign transactions, and build experiences using XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL.

For payments companies and fintechs, embedded wallets make it possible to offer stablecoin payments without requiring users to manage keys themselves. Server-side wallets can also give agents a way to hold and transact with funds, including through x402 payments.

👇Developers building on XRPL with Privy will be able to:

👉 Create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically through Privy
👉 Sign XRPL transactions using Privy’s wallet infrastructure
👉 Build with XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL
👉 Enable x402 payments for agentic commerce
👉 Give users ownership and portability with private key and seed phrase export

“Stablecoins are changing how money moves, and XRPL has been building for payments from the start. We’re excited to make Privy wallets available to developers building on XRPL, from global payments to agentic commerce, and whatever comes next,” — Henri Stern, Cofounder and CEO of Privy.

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🧬 DNA recording system reveals how a single cell becomes a body

Scientists have reconstructed a detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their ancestry from the first division of a fertilized egg through 13.5 days of development. The breakthrough uses DNA Typewriter, a DNA-based recording technology developed by Dr. Jay Shendure and Junhong Choi, which stores a record of cellular history directly in DNA.

The research reveals how early cells multiply, specialize, and contribute to the formation of organs and tissues. The findings, published in Science on October 8, 2026, provide an unprecedented map of how a complex mammalian body develops from a single cell.

This technology could help researchers understand the origins of birth defects, genetic disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, and cancer. It may also advance stem cell engineering and regenerative medicine by helping scientists guide cells toward specific identities for future therapies. 🚀

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