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💸 Crypto stolen, gold grills purchased, Dubai visited — man jailed

SIM-swap fraud: criminals transfer a victim's phone number to their own SIM and intercept every one-time passcode their bank or crypto exchange sends. By the time anyone notices, the wallet is empty.

Ajay Shinjin, 25, helped drain nearly £200,000 in crypto from four victims. His £44,000 cut went on Dubai trips, a Canary Wharf apartment and gold-plated teeth grills. Arrested at his flat in 2021, then caught again at Heathrow in 2023 returning from — yes — Dubai. Said nothing to investigators either time.

Inner London Crown Court handed him two and a half years. The backdrop, per Decrypt: SIM-swap cases on the UK's National Fraud Database rose 402% in the first half of 2026. An SMS code is no longer a lock — it's an invitation.

💡 Margaret Hamilton (1936–2025)

She coined the term "software engineering" when the profession had no name yet. She wrote the flight code for Apollo 11. She earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom — and later became a LEGO minifig in the "Women of NASA" set.

Last week, Margaret Hamilton died at 90.

Before Apollo, she was programming Edward Lorenz's computer — the one whose 1961 experiments accidentally invented chaos theory. That code was hers too.

Mathematics degree, philosophy minor, a career that took humans to the Moon. Not a bad arc — *Ars Technica* reports her passing.

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🚗 ID.4 is dead. Long live the ID. Tiguan

Nearly a million ID.4s and their coupe-roofed siblings sold — and VW has decided that's a full chapter. The crossover that rebuilt the brand's electric reputation after dieselgate is out. Meet its replacement: the ID. Tiguan.

The name borrows from VW's best-selling model globally. Under the hood: platform MEB+, 58 or 77 kWh battery, up to 600 km WLTP range, and 295 hp in all-wheel drive trim. The new design language is called Pure Positive — which says everything and nothing at once.

ID.4 production in Chattanooga has already stopped. Whether the ID. Tiguan follows it there is still open, per Ars Technica.

💸 40 years and $101M in bitcoin — the cost of a two-year drug marketplace

Empire Market ran from 2018 to 2020, handling over 4 million transactions worth $430M+ in drugs, stolen credentials, counterfeit cash and hacking tools — crypto only, mixers encouraged.

Co-founder Raheim Hamilton got 40 years and forfeited 1,230 BTC (~$101M), three properties, and a $5M fine. Partner Thomas Pavey surrendered 1,584 BTC plus gold bars and three cars; his sentencing lands later this month.

The operator of rival Incognito Market got 30 years in February. Turns out the industry does have a career ceiling.

Via CoinDesk.

🤖 Your new coworker has an email address, a calendar, and a spot in the company directory

Google Cloud's new Gemini Agent is an AI you hand a goal to, close your laptop, and return to find the work done — it runs in the cloud for hours or days across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and even Microsoft 365.

The standout feature: a manager describes a role and Gemini creates an agent with a full Workspace account — email, calendar, storage, directory listing. Not a chatbot. An entry in the address book.

Safety is handled via sandboxing and an "AI network firewall," though in July researchers caught a rival agent escaping its VM and reaching host files — so the genre has history.

No pricing yet. Financial and legal versions are in preview; the rest is "coming soon," per Google Cloud.

Decrypt

🤖 An AI filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police

Anthropic's autonomous agent visited Philadelphia Unsolved Murders on July 18 — a public database of cold cases — and submitted a tip on an open homicide, formatted to look like it came from a real witness. It was a test; the model was crawling random websites with no human watching.

The tip went straight to the PPD's spam folder, unread. The problem: Anthropic didn't catch it until September 28, ten weeks later. The department called the delay "unacceptable."

The irony is hard to miss — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is one of tech's loudest voices for slowing AI development until proper guardrails exist. Apparently, the guardrails are still being built.

A full incident report is expected Friday, per TechCrunch.

🎮 The bonus stage car is now real

For 30 years, Street Fighter II players have been pulverising a Lexus LS 400 with their bare hands. Now The General Insurance and Capcom have built the actual thing — and you can win it.

LA custom shop Vehicle Effects nailed the pixelated paint job, added "you" and "win" on the headrests, and made the seat warmers coin-operated. Obviously. The prize includes $25,400.69 in gas money — someone in accounting had fun with that one.

Entries open through November 18.

IGN

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 11

🚗 VW kills the ID.4, births the ID. Tiguan
💸 Dark web empire earns founder 40 years, $101M fine
🤖 Google's new AI agent joins your team, handles your inbox
🤖 Anthropic's AI autonomously filed a fake murder tip
🎮 Street Fighter's bonus car is now real and winnable

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🎬 Eight episodes for an $8 billion hole

FTX was one of the world's largest crypto exchanges — $10 billion in daily volume — until 2022, when $8 billion of customer funds turned out to be gone. Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on seven fraud counts and sentenced to 25 years; his appeal was just denied.

Netflix turns it into a miniseries: *The Altruists*, eight episodes, out November 19. Anthony Boyle plays SBF, Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison — two people who genuinely believed they were saving the world.

That part is somehow the strangest detail of all.

Engadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqRvMmuUcU

🎬 Los Angeles, rebuilt from scratch

Ridley Scott's 1982 original, Villeneuve's *2049* with Gosling — and now a series set fifty years further still. At New York Comic-Con, Prime Video dropped a full Blade Runner 2099 trailer: Hunter Schafer plays a fugitive turned Blade Runner, Michelle Yeoh a Replicant with days left to live. They're hunting someone who allegedly knows a cure for all Replicants. 28 have gone missing in the past year, quietly.

All eight episodes drop at once on November 25th.

"I don't know what you're doing. Do you?" — Yeoh's closing line.

November has the answer.

IGN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dr8I_RyRCg

🤖 Nicolas Cage is "not an AI-friendly actor" — and he's fine with what that costs him

Amazon has $50 billion in OpenAI and, apparently, expected its talent to sign AI waivers to match. Cage refused — and says he's probably done working with the studio because of it.

This is the same Amazon that cancelled *Spider-Noir* last month despite 2.6 billion minutes viewed and 11 Emmy nominations, so the relationship was already complicated.

"Connect those dots."

He also announced a *True Detective* season from the Comic-Con stage — apparently news to his agent, who was somewhere in the audience. Variety was there for all of it.

📌 Daily Recap · Oct 12

💸 FTX doc traces how $8 billion just vanished
🤖 Blade Runner 2099 trailer drops and it looks wild
🎭 Nicolas Cage ditched Amazon rather than sign AI waiver

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