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🇫🇷 French Assembly backs internet data tax that could raise streaming and download costs

Streaming services and game downloads could become more expensive in France under a proposed tax approved by the National Assembly.

Content providers would pay €0.055 per gigabyte sent to French internet users. A 210-gigabyte game download would generate €11.55 in tax before applicable caps. Companies could pass costs to customers or advertisers.

The government opposes the proposal, warning that smaller French businesses would also face costs. The amendment passed by 11 votes to 10. It remains part of the proposed 2027 budget and could still be changed or removed before final approval.

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🤑 VIA cross-chain messaging is live on Stellar mainnet

Soroban smart contracts can now exchange messages with EVM smart contracts. Teams can use it to:

🟠Send their stablecoins across chains for cross-border payments
🟠Move RWAs between chains
🟠Trigger contract actions on another chain 💫

#Stellar

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💊 Estonia to call all women aged 40 for breast cancer risk analysis screening

Estonia is set to become the first country in the world where people are invited to screening programs based on genetic data. Next week, all 40-year-old women will receive an invitation for genetic testing to determine their individual breast cancer risk, regardless of whether or not they have health insurance.

Around 3,000 genetic variants are taken into account when calculating the risk. However, the study does not include BRCA gene mutations, which led actress Angelina Jolie to decide to have her breasts removed 13 years ago to prevent developing the disease.

"These are hereditary forms of cancer, which are assessed through separate tests as needed if there has been breast cancer in the family," — Steven Smit, head of the biobank laboratory at the Estonian Genome Center, said.

There are almost 10,000 40-year-old women in Estonia, and invitations will be sent both to those who have already donated their genes to the Estonian Genome Center and to those who have not.

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🕵🏼‍♂️ White House Releases Scooby-Doo Parody Following Influencer’s Arrest in $4 Million Fraud Case

The White House shared an animated short featuring Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Machine on X. The video depicts the arrest of an Atlanta-based content creator accused of committing $4 million in federal fraud.

The video was posted with the caption: “Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of Fraudster Shawty Dred. Fraudsters are getting unmasked this Halloween. 👻”

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🤑 30 million people just got a Stellar address. MetaMask announced Stellar as a default network.

👇 Alex Greinacher, Director of Business Development & Partnerships, MetaMask, on what this partnership unlocks for MetaMask users and the Stellar ecosystem.

That means all 30 million people that we have sort of plugged into Stellar, it's a default network. Everybody gets a Stellar address.

Yeah, it unlocks two things. So Stellar is the rails, right? Like you've been around since 2014, been really focused on global payments and stablecoins and RWAs and sort of we are the reach.

So our user base is now essentially able to plug in and it means that Stellar users can bring their funds into Metamask now. So XLM, Trustline, Soroban assets, they're all part of Metamask. You don't have to enable anything. It's completely automatic. 🤝

You're able to swap and bridge those assets from and to different chains and different cryptocurrencies and of course hold, send and receive assets. So basically the whole spectrum of crypto capabilities. 🚀

#Stellar

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📹 Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras

Flock's AI surveillance cameras are continuing to cause controversy, this time in Dayton, Minnesota, where it is alleged that the company reinstalled two cameras despite express orders from the city not to do so.

The city's local government posted on Facebook to explain, claiming that the Police Department was made aware of a maintenance work order on September 17, to which Dayton responded the next day, stating the program had been put on hold and no work orders were to be completed. However, Flock went ahead and reinstalled them anyway without authorization from the city.

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🤖 OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory, but seemingly it's the 32GB of RAM in your desktop that's the problem. In an interview with the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, Altman said that local inference, and, by extension, people having DRAM in computers at home, is "quite terrible."

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time," — Altman said.

"You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that."

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🚖 Uber Joins HSBC, Franklin Templeton in Blockchain Investing Test

The ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. used a public blockchain to invest its corporate funds in a way that allowed the company to capture higher returns by trading on a weekend — a setup expected to be adapted by a growing number of companies in the coming months.

Using HSBC tokenized deposits — essentially bank funds represented by digital tokens on a blockchain —- Uber recently purchased a Franklin Templeton tokenized money market fund on a Thursday, and then sold it on Sunday as part of a pilot program with the financial institutions.

That way, it was able to capture an extra 1.5 days of yield instead of selling its investment on Friday, before traditional banks and markets closed, as companies typically do today.

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💸 Binance opens crypto withdrawals in phases starting with bitcoin following $6.3 billion hack

Binance is letting users access their coins days after the massive $6.3 billion hack, with BTC payouts among the first services to be restored.

❗️The exchange began the phased restart on Sunday, with the first withdrawal window running from 06:00 to 09:00 UTC.

“Binance is preparing to resume phase one of withdrawals on 2026-11-01 between 06:00 and 09:00 (UTC). Restoring access to user funds is a priority, and we are taking a controlled approach to do so safely. We will continue to monitor closely as services return in phases,” — a Binance spokesperson said.

Alongside BTC, Binance reopened withdrawals for ETH, USDT, USDC, BNB, and XRP with the most requested networks prioritized. Additional phases will follow, but only after each blockchain clears further security and stability checks.

🇰🇵 The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The FBI refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor."

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👀 Elon Musk says Neuralink is ready to cure blindness

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been pushing advancements in the BCI space, with patients now able to play World of Warcraft through a Neuralink brain implant. However, the billionaire founder gave a recent update on its second product, which will be Blindsight.

Musk claims that it will “enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see,” and that it’s already “ready from an engineering standpoint” and “just waiting on regulatory approval.”

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump on the Binance hack:

"We're learning about it. We don't know if it's North Korea — but if it is, we'll talk to North Korea about it."

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🤖 'It’s 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon’s secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website

An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access to the Pentagon's secure internal network. The Claude Code agent then collected data from the network — which is used by multiple intelligence agencies — and sent it to a third-party website.

Login credentials were confirmed to have been leaked by the agent, with other controlled unclassified information potentially put at risk.

"It puts all the data that's in there at risk. There could be somebody out there with the ability to log into a secure environment without anyone knowing," — the source said.

"It's 100 percent a national security threat and could cause irreparable harm."

For two months, the AI agent had access to the secure internal network before the risk was identified and patched — but sources say once the connection was discovered it was not treated as severe or urgent by Accenture employees.

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