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Microsoft: 3 North Korean hacking groups have fully integrated AI into attack workflows
According to analysis by US cybersecurity firm TRM Labs, approximately $6.36 billion in funds from 10 Binance blockchain wallets was stolen in roughly 20 minutes. The agency attributes the attack to North Korean group TraderTraitor. It has not yet been confirmed whether AI was used in this attack.
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Microsoft: North Korean hacking group uses AI to mass-produce targeted phishing files, over 100 decoy documents discovered
According to Yonhap News Agency, Microsoft Threat Intelligence issued a report yesterday stating that North Korean hacker groups are expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber attacks, involving phishing, identity spoofing, malware development, and software supply chain attacks. Microsoft analyzed eight North Korean hacker groups, three of which have integrated AI into daily attack activities, reaching the highest stage of AI application.
Analysts: Microsoft's earnings report shows cloud computing capacity is sufficient to meet strong demand.
Analysts at Yorkville Ives wrote that Microsoft's (MSFT.O) earnings report indicates the company is capable of fully capitalizing on the massive demand in the cloud computing market. Analysts noted that Microsoft Azure revenue surpassed Wall Street expectations, with the cloud computing business being a key driver of Microsoft's stock performance. Prior to the earnings release, the market had already clearly recognized AI-driven demand, but it remains uncertain whether Microsoft can ramp up capacity quickly enough.
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Bloomberg: Nscale will still proceed with its IPO as planned, targeting a $30 billion valuation
As reported by Bloomberg, AI data center developer Nscale, which has transitioned from a Bitcoin mining company, will proceed with its planned IPO on schedule, targeting a $30 billion valuation. However, Nscale's listing comes amid strain in the AI infrastructure sector. While the company claims to have secured $103 billion in contracts, it has only delivered 55 megawatts of capacity as of August 2026, compared to a potential contract demand requiring 10 gigawatts. Additionally, Nscale's data center projects face delays, safety violations, and operational challenges, with Microsoft recently withdrawing from one of its data center projects in the UK.
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Jin10 Summary: Fed Holds Rates Steady, Bank of Canada Raises Rates
Jin10 Data reports show that the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged in October, with two officials supporting a 25 basis point rate hike, while the Bank of Canada delivered its first rate increase in over three years. Domestically, 800 billion yuan in new policy-based financial tools have been deployed. Microsoft Azure revenue grew by 48%, and Google's results fell short of expectations.
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AI training environment company Plato announces closing of $16 million Series A funding round, led by Nava Ventures
According to a PR Newswire press release, AI training environment company Plato announced the closing of its $16 million Series A funding round led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform, and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Nava Ventures founder Freddie Martignetti will join the board. This round brings Plato’s total funding to $19 million, following a seed round previously led by Gradient Ventures.
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Microsoft Copilot begins using email and Teams chat history for personalization, and users can manually disable it.
According to Forbes, Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot personalization update for eligible Microsoft 365 business and education accounts. It leverages Outlook emails, Teams chat logs, and meeting transcripts to infer users' preferences, relationships, and work priorities in order to provide personalized services. Microsoft stated that the relevant data is confidential and will not be used to train its models. Users can navigate to the "Settings" — "Chat Settings" — "Personalization" section in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to disable the "Chat History and Work Insights" setting. Once turned off, inferred memories will be deleted after 30 days; if the setting is re-enabled during this period, related memories may be restored.
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary severance packages to approximately 60,000 employees to cut costs associated with AI investments.
According to Forbes, Microsoft announced on October 26 that it plans to offer a voluntary separation package to approximately 60,000 eligible employees across the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, representing about 27% of its workforce. The plan covers multiple departments, including Copilot, Finance, Human Resources, and Xbox, but excludes executives as well as certain marketing, commercial business, and security teams.
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QCP: BTC Falls Below $80,000, This Week’s Tech Earnings and Fed Decision May Determine the Direction
According to QCP Capital market analysis reports, BTC fell below $80,000 over the weekend and is currently trading at the lower boundary of its recent range. Escalating tensions in the Middle East and ETF fund outflows later last week triggered leveraged long liquidations. QCP noted that the key variables this week are the FOMC meeting on Oct. 27-28 and earnings reports from major tech companies: Microsoft and Alphabet will report on Oct. 28, while Amazon will report on Oct. 29. Last week, Meta dropped 7% after raising its capital expenditure guidance, and the Nasdaq posted its worst single-day performance since June. The CME FedWatch Tool shows a 9% probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike in October and an approximately 84% probability in December. There will be no dot plot released with this meeting, and the market will focus on Fed Chair Walsh's press conference. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is approximately 4.96%. On the technical side, BTC support sits at $78,000, with resistance at $86,000 and further levels between $88,000 and $90,000. Glassnode data indicates that the cost basis for ETF holders and corporate treasuries ranges from $80,000 to $81,500. ETH support is at $2,150, with resistance at $2,500. The ETH/BTC ratio has fallen to approximately 0.029, and ETH ETFs recorded net outflows for the fourth consecutive week, totaling $220.7 million. Q
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Next week: Super Fed Week, tech earnings, and the Fifth Plenary Session
Next week, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and several other central banks will announce interest rate decisions, while key U.S. economic data including core PCE and GDP will be released. The Fifth Plenum of the 20th CPC Central Committee, the Israeli elections, and earnings reports from tech companies such as Microsoft and Alphabet will also be released concurrently.
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Microsoft, Google and 22 other publicly listed companies oppose OKXICE stock tokenization trading; industry insiders say it does not represent a rejection of tokenization.
According to CoinDesk, companies such as Microsoft, Google's parent company Alphabet, McDonald's, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Cisco have opposed having their stocks traded on OKXICE, the tokenized securities trading platform built in partnership between OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). To date, the number of publicly traded companies that have explicitly opposed this has risen to 22.
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Wells Fargo, Arm, and six companies oppose OKX and ICE's stock tokenization plan, with the number of opposing companies rising to 22.
According to Reuters, six companies including Wells Fargo, Arm Holdings, and Intuit have recently opposed the listing of their stocks on OKXICE, a stock tokenization platform jointly established by cryptocurrency exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. As of now, the total number of companies raising objections has increased to 22, including tech giants such as Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet.
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UK AI Firms Warn Government Has Only 12-Month Window to Resolve Data Center Protests
According to The Guardian, the Sovereign AI Leadership (SAIL) working group, comprising companies such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cisco, has submitted recommendations to the UK government stating that Britain has approximately 12 months to address public opposition to data centers; otherwise, a wave of protests similar to those in the United States could emerge, threatening project construction. The working group noted that successive dry summers and rising energy bills are intensifying public concern over data centers. SAIL urges the government to establish a "community prosperity compact," providing a unified framework for local authorities and mayors to outline local benefit provisions for data centers, including setting financial or infrastructure contributions based on project scale, and allowing host local councils to retain a greater share of tax revenue. Microsoft previously pledged to invest $30 billion in UK AI infrastructure and has already constructed a data center in Acton, London, with a project in Newport currently under construction.
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CertiK Warns Crypto Apps Still Face eMudhra Certificate Vulnerability Risks
Odaily reports: Blockchain security firm CertiK stated that although Google, Apple, and Microsoft have blocked 8 affected certificates issued by Indian digital certificate authority eMudhra, crypto trading bots and exchange applications may still be exposed to related vulnerability risks, as browser remediation measures may not cover software that uses independent security systems.Peiyu Wang, Senior Director of Digital Asset Security at CertiK, noted that attackers could exploit compromised certificates to impersonate exchanges, wallet interfaces, and APIs, replace deposit addresses, or trick users into approving malicious transactions. However, such attacks would also require intercepting or redirecting network traffic, and the compromised certificate authority keys alone cannot expose wallet private keys. Crypto service operators should update their software and certificate trust stores, and confirm that their applications reject the affected certificates. (Cointelegraph)
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Multiple tech giants urgently block 8 vulnerable intermediate certificates under eMudhra
Odaily reports: Multiple tech companies have urgently blocked 8 intermediate certificates with security vulnerabilities issued by Indian digital certificate authority eMudhra Limited. Due to flaws in the private key generation process of the affected certificates, attackers could exploit forged certificates to impersonate legitimate websites and intercept, read, or tamper with user communications.Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson stated in an incident report that after receiving the vulnerability report on October 17, Mozilla independently recovered the relevant private keys, confirming that the generation mechanism has serious flaws and is highly exploitable.Mozilla subsequently blocked the affected certificates in Firefox through OneCRL and released browser updates for desktop and Android on October 20. Cloudflare also updated protections for services including Cloudflare One, WARP client, and Cloudflare Tunnel on Tuesday. According to Mozilla's disclosure, Chrome blocked the relevant certificates on Saturday, Apple devices completed blocking on Monday, and Microsoft platforms took corresponding measures on Tuesday. (Cointelegraph)
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OKXICE's Proposed Tokenized Stock Platform Receives Objection Notices from 16 Issuers
The joint venture OKXICE, formed by cryptocurrency exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, disclosed in an updated announcement that it has received objection notices from 16 issuers, involving companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs.Andrew Cuomo, co-chairman of OKXICE and former Governor of New York, stated that these notices do not constitute objections, and that some companies simply want to observe how the tokenized stock model operates before making a decision, adding that he expects more companies to raise similar concerns.OKXICE's proposed platform plans to cover 62 companies listed on U.S. exchanges, of which about 25% have raised objections. The platform is intended to operate 24/7 through permissioned Uniswap v4 liquidity pools deployed on XLayer, with tokenized stocks paired respectively with Tether's USDt, Circle's USDC, or Global Dollar's USDG. (Cointelegraph)
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OKX Launches Shield Account Protection Program, Eligible US Users Can Receive Up to $500,000 in Coverage
Odaily reports: Cryptocurrency trading platform OKX launched its Shield account protection program in the United States on October 20, with eligible users able to receive up to $500,000 in coverage. The program covers certain unauthorized account takeovers caused by phishing, malware, and SIM-swap attacks, and users must enable passkeys and other security settings.Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said his interest in cryptocurrency began in 2011, and he currently serves on OKX's board of directors and co-chairs the company's joint venture with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. He supports OKX's push to tokenize US stocks and said some companies remain on the sidelines.Andrew Cuomo expects that the CLARITY Act will not receive a vote before the 2026 midterm elections, with the next opportunity possibly in January next year. He said the US Congress should reduce partisan strife and establish clearer federal rules for the digital asset market; companies such as Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are currently cautious about tokenized stocks. (Bitcoin.com News)
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Seven companies including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs oppose the listing of their stocks on the OKX-ICE tokenized trading platform.
According to CoinDesk, seven companies including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs have objected to trading tokenized versions of their stocks on the OKXICE platform, planned by OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), bringing the number of publicly disclosed opposing issuers to 16. The newly added opponents also include Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald’s, and Western Digital. The initial OKXICE announcement covered 63 stock tickers corresponding to 62 companies, 15 of which have already raised objections. Additionally, Cerebras Systems was not on the original proposed listing roster but has also raised an objection.
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微软扩展 Sovereign Cloud，强化本地 AI、数据控制与断网运行能力
微软表示，将进一步扩展 Microsoft Sovereign Cloud，以增强政府、关键基础设施及受监管行业对数据、AI、系统访问和关键业务连续性的控制。其整体架构包括 Sovereign Public Cloud、Sovereign Private Cloud 和 Sovereign Partner Ecosystem，允许不同工作负载采用不同级别的主权控制。
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Bernstein: Azure Revenue Expected to Grow 45%, Microsoft Target Price Set at $662
Bernstein estimates that Azure and Office can accelerate simultaneously. With Copilot paid seats surpassing 30 million and capacity constraints easing, both businesses will grow in tandem, offering Microsoft a valuation re-rating opportunity. It maintains an Outperform rating, raising its price target from $660 to $662, representing 25% upside from the current stock price of $529.05.
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