Binance heist, AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon relays - October 30, 2026
A record 6.3 billion dollar crypto theft at Binance, a weeks-long AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon's Silent Train relays, Reddit's login wall, GM's data settlement, Mistral's open trillion-parameter model, AWS spending, Thrive buying ADT, broken AI coding-tool browsers, and OpenAI's API credits.
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Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft in what could be the biggest crypto heist on record
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/30/binance-crypto-hack/Fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) could be offline for up to 4 weeks after security incident
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks/Volt Typhoon targeted enterprise control planes via ever-changing "Silent Train" relay network
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/29/volt-typhoon-silent-train-relay-network/As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it's shifting to a logged-in experience
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/as-search-traffic-dries-up-reddit-announces-its-shifting-to-a-logged-in-experience/GM reaches $220M settlement over selling drivers' private data
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/gm-reaches-220m-settlement-over-selling-drivers-private-data/Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/mistral-releases-weights-for-its-trillion-parameter-ai-model-targeting-cybersecurity/AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says - but first, it will spend big
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/aws-will-be-a-1t-business-jassy-says-but-first-it-will-spend-big/OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/openai-backed-thrive-holdings-acquires-adt/Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/29/research-ai-assistant-browser-vulnerabilities/API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/api-credits/Sign-off