Month: October 2026

Technology

Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill

Chief executive agrees to remain in California for eight years even if the state brings…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Live updates: Bitcoin’s round trip to $85,000 burns traders on both sides

Bitcoin gave back its run at $85,000 and broke below $82,500 as weak tech earnings…

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Technology

You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books

See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Asian stocks tumble, bitcoin retreats as China enters bear market

Technology shares led regional losses as mixed U.S. earnings unsettled investors and Brent crude climbed…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

China seeks to seize 61,800 BTC tied to $5.7 billion fraud scheme

Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate more than 61,800 Bitcoin tied to a $5.7 billion…

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Airbnb guests freed from chores involving ‘significant effort’ under new global rules

Accommodation platform acts after long-standing guest complaints over doing dishes, taking out rubbish and stripping…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Solana’s biggest network change since 2020 is live. Here’s how users benefit

The new voting system targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds, potentially shortening waits for payments…

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Technology

AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech…

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Cryptocurrency, Memecoins

Bitcoin ETFs attract $1.08 billion in 3 days but it may not be enough for a steep rally

Past steep rallies ran on about $235 million a day of net inflows into ETFs….

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XRP Ledger bug fix moved to November after validator support dipped for two hours

The fix lost its two-week countdown less than two days from the finish after support…

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