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Wyss Institute researchers unveil FIND, a DNA nanoswitch drug discovery platform
The Science study screened a 400-million-compound library for molecules that modulate protein-protein interactions; the technology is licensed to a new startup.
Wikimedia Foundation published clean FY2025-26 audit results
Revenue rose 18% to $245.5M, expenses were $216.6M, and grant funding grew about 18% to $31.1M, with BDO issuing a clean opinion.
World ID proof-of-human ranked No. 1 in Nikkei Trendy's 2027 hit forecast
Nikkei Trendy's December issue, on sale November 4, names the "human certificate" category, featuring Orb, World ID for Zoom and Humad, its top 2027 trend.
Mercedes-Benz rolls out Liquid AI on-device conversational models in its cars
Over-the-air updates began in October with the 2027 E-Class and CLE in North America; S-Class, GLC Electric and GLE follow in Q2 2027.
Lido adds built-in token swaps on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base
Swaps run inside the Lido interface on three networks and are powered by CoW Swap, with a Chainlink price oracle.
Goldsky published weekly USDC and USDT mint and burn data across five chains
Issuers burned $3.5B more than they minted from Oct 27 to Nov 3; about 9 in 10 USDC mint events on four chains were CCTP transfers, not new issuance.
EFF reviewed digital rights wins and losses in California's 2026 session
EFF tracked nearly 100 bills; workplace automated-decision limits were signed, while a youth social media ban and 3D printer censorship bill also passed.
ARIA funds ten teams in £50m Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies programme
The ten 36-month preclinical studies test ways to access, sense and modulate the brain without conventional surgery, via blood vessels, nasal routes, cells and nanoparticles.
Optimism governance proposes Upgrade 21 to prepare OP Stack chains for interop
The L1 contract upgrade adds a mandatory ETHLockbox to every chain; Sepolia runs Nov 9 and mainnet is targeted for Nov 16, pending approval.
Element details NATO-style security labels for Matrix at The Matrix Conference
ESS Pro's Mission Partner Environment add-on enforces STANAG 4774 clearance labels on the server, aimed at defence and government users sharing classified data.
Golem Foundation co-published a report on making treasury ETH productive
With Kairos Research and Ethereum Institutional, it finds staking yield has halved to 2.2% and 74% of visible ETH across 28 treasuries is staked.
Fluence publishes guide to running ar.io gateways on Fluence VMs
The first 10 operators whose gateway joins and passes an epoch get $100 in Fluence CPU credits; ar.io's gateway network now runs on Solana.
Terran Robotics plans 50–100 AI-built earthen homes next year
Indiana University profiled the startup's AI-piloted robots that compress soil, straw and gravel into walls; its fourth house is underway in Bloomington, Indiana.
Anthropic's FlashProve uses STARK cryptography co-invented by StarkWare's founders
The open-source prototype proves a specific model produced a reply without revealing weights; StarkWare co-founder Alessandro Chiesa co-authored the report.
Hypercerts lexicon package reaches v2.0 with lex-compatible schemas
The 2.0.0 major release makes @atproto/lex schemas the package root and moves the 1.x API to /legacy; Node.js 22+ is now required.
Goldsky released a USDC transfer tracker covering five chains
The tracker logged 120.0M USDC transfers worth $544.2B in the week to Nov 2, with Ethereum carrying $272.1B and Solana the most transfers at 81.9M.
EFF and ACLU urged the Ninth Circuit to bar tower dump warrants
The amicus brief in United States v. Spurlock is the first federal appellate test since this summer's Supreme Court geofence ruling; the warrant exposed data on nearly 1,700 phones.
ARIA's Scaling Inference Lab to deploy Lumai optical AI inference servers
Lumai's Iris servers become the lab's first optical platform; the energy savings of up to 90% are Lumai's claims and have not been independently verified.
Hakuhodo DY's Ads for Humanity formed a business alliance with Tools for Humanity and LG Electronics
World ID-verified "Human-Verified Ad" now runs on LINE Yahoo, Meta and X in Japan; a pilot showed roughly 3x click-through and 61% lower cost per click.
StarkWare demonstrated post-quantum wallet migration on Starknet Sepolia
The testnet demo shows existing accounts moving to quantum-resistant signatures; it is not production-ready, and a separate independent-L1 study remains under review.
PsyMed's Business Trip podcast features Lux Capital's Shahin Farshchi on neurotech investing
The 30-minute episode covers how Lux, investing from a $1.5B fund, evaluates brain-computer interface companies and why neural interfaces may finally be nearing viability.
NEAR House of Stake approves cut to maximum annual issuance
Proposal HSP-029 passed with about 99.96% support, lowering maximum issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months after a validator upgrade and 90-day grace period.
EFF urges Egypt to drop cases against Mada Masr and its editor Lina Attalah
Attalah faces a second trial on Nov 11 over "false news" charges, after an Oct 27 conviction that ordered the outlet closed and fined her EGP 3 million.
Consensys introduces Sovereign Network Interoperability for institutions
The Ethereum-based capability lets institutions settle securities, swap currencies and post collateral across ledgers without bridges, using zero-knowledge proofs.
OKcontract shares third place at Arbitrum hackathon in Singapore
Its self-custodial control layer split a $20,000 third-place prize with WageFlow among 125+ founders; Atoma took first place with $60,000.
New York Times and Tribune-owned papers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywall bypass
Two federal suits in Manhattan allege Brave's 30B-page index and Search API resold copyrighted news to AI firms; Brave had not commented at publication.
Foresight Institute CEO Allison Duettmann moves to board as Christine Peterson becomes interim president
The board has begun a search for a new CEO; Foresight plans to unveil its next chapter at its November Vision Weekend.
StarkWare-backed challenge halves Falcon-512 verification cost on Starknet
Contestants cut gas for verifying the post-quantum signature from 48.4M to about 25.9M, roughly $0.023 per verification, across 434 records.
Matrix draws government rollouts and funding scrutiny after Malmö conference
Attendance grew 30% year on year; the European Commission is rolling out Element to 40,000+ staff while Element still funds most of the Matrix Foundation.
Celestia Labs unveils Voyager execution layer for AI agent payments
Celestia reports 21.2M TPS average in a five-hour single-node test; the design remains pre-production and omits replication, state roots and queries.
ARIA backs eight Safeguarded AI projects to test AI-generated proofs for secure software
£22m funds Blue Teams building systems and proofs, with a central Red Team stress-testing claims in eight-week sprints that began September 1.
Wyss researchers isolate neuron-specific extracellular vesicles from blood and CSF
A Nature Neuroscience study led by David Walt and George Church identified NRXN3 as a marker for immuno-isolating brain-derived vesicles, aiding non-invasive neurological diagnostics.
Unstoppable Domains expanded into AI with the Unstoppable.ai agentic IDE
The model-agnostic workspace lets users orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents in one app, alongside the continuing domains business.
SpruceID argues wallet choice in Utah's SEDI needs interoperability governance
A SpruceID blog post says open standards alone are insufficient; conformance certification and governance are needed so holders can switch wallets and credentials work across jurisdictions.
Spritely released Hoot 0.10.0 Scheme-to-WebAssembly toolchain
The first Hoot release since 0.9.0 in May adds compiler fixes and R6RS library versioning, with a game jam template for the Lisp Game Jam starting Oct 30.
iroh-blobs 0.104 released, starting the road to 1.0
The last release before larger API changes adds a custom-ALPN downloader builder and fixes memory-exhaustion, truncated-data and GC bugs.
Goldsky introduces Station for on-premises blockchain data infrastructure
Station lets institutions run Goldsky's full data stack in their own VPC or hardware, with early access limited to a small group of enterprise design partners.
Flashbots researcher models why searchers and builders favor candle auctions
A Flashbots Collective post shows open bidding with a random deadline can yield a "pennying" equilibrium that leaves bidders most of the surplus, with implications for ePBS and sealed bidding.
Apple adds setting to exclude apps from Siri AI after EFF campaign
iOS 27.2 lets users block Siri AI from reading selected apps such as encrypted messengers, meeting a demand from EFF's Encrypt It Already campaign.
EFF and allies urge D.C. Circuit to curb grand jury subpoenas that unmask social media users
The amicus brief, filed in early September and now unsealed, backs an anonymous Reddit user who commented on a post about an immigration officer.
Cryptio integrates with Utila wallet infrastructure
The live integration imports Utila vault and transaction data for independent on-chain reconciliation, supporting GAAP/IFRS accounting and audit preparation for institutions.
CCP Games details EVE Online Fractured Skies expansion for Nov. 10
The update starts two-month Military Campaigns and opens EVE Vanguard as a 24/7 paid alpha linked to EVE Online, plus new battlecruisers and a HUD preview.
Spice AI released Spice v2.4.0 with Cayenne as default accelerator
The release upgrades to DataFusion v55, adds a SQL/HTTP AI decisions API and S3 event-driven refresh, and deprecates other accelerators ahead of v2.5.
Metaculus launched a Global Health Monitor dashboard
It consolidates forecasts on measles, Ebola, screwworm, chikungunya and respiratory season beside official case counts, with monthly frozen editions.
Foresight Institute Radio publishes Dorothy Chou's Vision Weekend UK talk on financing durable innovation
The recording from Vision Weekend UK 2026 examines how AI hype cycles distort funding and why structural reform of the innovation pipeline is needed.
Lido community proposal backs Auditware-built privacy-preserving EDR
A LEGO grant proposal would give $30,000 toward a $300,000 open-source, self-hostable endpoint detection tool for crypto teams, built with Auditware.
Anaconda joins the Open Secure AI Alliance
The alliance, founded by NVIDIA and led by the Linux Foundation, will set open standards for securing AI agents; Anaconda cites its August Enkrypt AI acquisition.
Wikimedia disables Score music-notation extension globally after security vulnerability discovered
The Score extension, which renders musical notation in wiki pages, was temporarily disabled across all Wikimedia wikis while a fix is developed; affected pages display a notice instead of scores.
Superpower Launches Peptide Library with 152 Physician-Reviewed Compound Profiles
The resource maps every entry to the body system it acts on, distinguishes FDA-approved drugs from investigational compounds, and cites the evidence strength for each.
StarkWare CEO joins The Block podcast to discuss post-quantum L1 transition
Eli Ben-Sasson appeared live on The Starting Block ep. 46, warning that no major crypto tokens are currently post-quantum secure and setting a 2027 target for Starknet.
Falcon Challenge cuts Falcon-512 verification gas by 50% in under a week
Community developers reduced Starknet's Falcon-512 post-quantum signature cost from 48.4M to 24.1M gas within days of the challenge launch, with further gains expected.
Protocol Labs publishes BCI Roadmap 2: Expanding Neurotechnology to Consumer Products
The second roadmap in the BCI Roadmap Series examines how clinically validated neurotechnology could graduate to everyday consumer applications, with a "Tesla Roadster" model for early adopters subsidising wider access.
Payy begins rolling USDC payouts to victims of September bridge exploit
After a 30-day claim window opened 13 October, Payy started distributing USDC compensation on Ethereum to affected users on 26 October; the Payy Wallet remains suspended pending final shutdown.
Soneium announces Tokenized IP economy and plans $SONEIUM token on OP Enterprise
Sony-Startale's Soneium unveiled a full pivot to a Tokenized IP entertainment economy with IP Tokens, Vaults, and Bonds, running on Optimism's managed OP Enterprise service.
NEAR token listed on Gemini exchange
Gemini officially enabled $NEAR trading, deposits, and withdrawals on 26 October, broadening access for institutional and retail investors.
PHARMExcel report highlights Forest Neurotech's Forest 1 UK feasibility study and its evolving regulatory pathway
A UK CRO managing the ARIA-funded Forest 1 wBCI study published a case study explaining how its early-stage governance framework anticipates future medical-device regulation.
Foresight Institute hosts talk on engineering scalable space-telescope infrastructure
Aaron Tohuvavohu of Cosmic Frontier Labs argued that advances in optics, detectors, and manufacturing are enabling a new era of abundant, lower-cost precision space instruments.
EFF Challenges Section 1201 Ruling That Threatens Open-Web Research Tools
EFF argues that a federal district court ruling allowing Reddit's DMCA Section 1201 suit against SerpAPI and Perplexity to proceed endangers journalism, sentiment research, and web archiving.
Edge City India Enters Final Week with Frontier Intelligence and Decentralized Futures Programme
The closing week of the Goa popup village (Oct 26–Nov 1) runs sessions on AI, deep tech, and governance alongside live AI-agent experiments, a buildathon, and demo days.
Cryptio Launches Odyssey Platform for AI-Ready Digital Asset Back Offices
Unveiled at Crypto Finance Forum New York, Odyssey adds API access, MCP connectivity, an AI Intelligence Suite, and a 10× throughput boost to Cryptio's institutional data layer.
Nature Features Cryopets in Pet Longevity Coverage After Animal Longevity Summit
Nature reported Cryopets has ~12,000 clients on its waitlist for whole-body cryopreservation, priced at $10K for cats and $50K+ for large dogs.
ConsenSys Issues eMudhra CA Security Advisory for Ethereum Node Operators
Teams behind Besu, Teku, and Web3Signer published security guidance after weak eMudhra certificate-authority keys created impersonation and signing risks in some non-default configurations.
Anaconda's Enkrypt AI Presents "Who Vets the Agent's Tools?" at DMV Rising Cyber Innovation Conference
Field AI Security Fellow Sahil Agarwal gave a morning talk at Washington DC's two-day cybersecurity event co-hosted with DataTribe, addressing the challenge of AI agent tool vetting and MCP server risks.
Terran Robotics Completes First Full Home in Indiana Using Cable-Driven Adobe Robot
The one-bedroom accessory dwelling in Bloomington uses a perception-and-action robot loop to lay an adobe mix of clay, sand, and straw from a digital model, with a second build active in Texas.
DFINITY accuses NEAR Protocol of using patented threshold-signature technology in NEAR Intents
DFINITY founder Dominic Williams alleged patent infringement and centralisation in NEAR Intents, triggering a ~10% price drop and a technical public debate.
Compute Labs Co-Founder Quoted in CNBC Feature on Nvidia's AI Financing Role
Warren Hosseinion, co-founder of Compute Labs, featured in a major CNBC investigative piece on how Nvidia's capital backstops are being stress-tested as neocloud stocks slump 30%+.
OKcontract Releases oksolc 0.2.2, Fixing Deep Inheritance and Recursive Struct Edge Cases
The Zig-based Solidity compiler targeting solc 0.8.36 compatibility ships ten bug fixes including deep inheritance graph traversal, recursive struct detection, and ABI size arithmetic beyond 4 GiB.
