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Techmeme surfaced TRM Labs’ October 29 investigation, “North Korea Steals USD 6.36 Billion From Binance in the Largest Hack in History.” TRM says an attacker drained approximately \$6.36 billion from Binance-controlled wallets across ten blockchains, mostly during a 20-minute burst. It attributes the operation with high confidence to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking unit.

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France’s widening bond spread has revived memories of the euro crisis, but the article’s warning is aimed less at governments than at traders. A sound diagnosis of weak public finances does not guarantee a profitable bet against sovereign debt. Markets move through a sequence of economic, political and financial events, and being right about the final outcome can still mean going broke along the way.

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Conservative influencer James O’Keefe charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota (r/news)

• GoldGlove2720: Hey MAGA I found voter fraud for you
• John-Fucking-Kirby: So he committed voter fraud to prove how easy it was… then immediately got caught… thus proving it’s not easy? Is that correct?
• darodardar_Inc: By trying to show how easy it is commit voter fraud, he has actually shown how difficult it is to commit voter fraud
  
  Lmfao Jesus Christ what a colossal dumbass 😂

Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack (r/news)

• Hiply: I have absolutely no issues with this. None whatsoever.
• AdmiralSaturyn: Ironically, a bombshell report dropped at the same time:
  
  ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
  ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
• CondescendingShitbag: Lotta good those masks did for them. I’m curious how many of these names have criminal records attached. 

Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in the US after fleeing Brazil following election defeat (r/news)

• AuremCookieDragon: With a cancelled passport. Someone call ICE.
• tacos805: Shouldn’t ice snag him and deport to uganda?
• sonkist32: So much for getting all the criminal immigrants out of the country. Now we invite them in.

Florida mother is charged with child neglect, after deputies say she left her 4 kids home alone for 5 days while she went on a work trip to Las Vegas (r/news)

• Umami_Tsunamii: Another thread mentioned they are 9-14 and had adults checking in twice a day. I honestly don’t think it’s that bad. Probably not the right call, maybe if it were a shorter trip or they were slightly older, but it isn’t like she left toddlers to fend for themselves.
• DenverTechGuru: She didn’t leave toddlers to fend for themselves, she hired a sitter to provide adult backup, left an older kid for supervision and apparently had a separated spouse in the region.
  
  Why aren’t we talking about why the dad wasn’t engaged? What is she supposed to do, quit her job in this economy?
  
  Is putting her in jail good for the kids?
  
  How dare she be not be ultra wealthy and not just hire a full time nanny.
• No-Carry4971: This is not a crime. A sitter comes by in the morning and afternoon. A fourteen year old babysits the kids overnight. Mom’s working not on a drug binge. It is not ideal, but these kids aren’t 5. A fourteen year old watching kids between 9 and 12 with an adult coming by to check on them and help out twice per day seems like a reasonable plan to me.

Nova Scotia woman refused to comply with phone scammer, so would-be fraudster swatted her house (r/news)

• spellsongrisen: Maybe the system should be fixed so that swatting doesn’t happen? Crazy idea I know.
  
  Edit: Specifically small infrastructure changes would stop the majority of swatting attempts.
• sylbug: Fun fact: you don’t have to answer your phone if you’re not expecting a call. You can let voice mail screen your calls, then call back at a known good number. You can avoid pretty much all phone scams via this method.
• shawnkfox: If it wasn’t possible to make phone calls from fake numbers etc it could shut all of this crap down. This nonsense has been going on for my entire life and yet somehow the phone companies still allow scammers from other countries to fake phone numbers. I just don’t understand why this is still possible.

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Dropbox Cutting 9% of Workforce (Blind)

• uibwrnbebd (eBay): Waiting for some smart ass to comment “Dropbox still exists”… he himself working at “new” lol
• AgentOfAI (Microsoft): I’m surprised they are not doing 90% layoffs. AWS, Azure, GCP ate their lunch. I don’t know what kind of masochist still uses Dropbox (except my wife’s boyfriend)
• 7yoe635k (Dropbox): Third time’s the charm! Finally got picked. 🫡

Got 3 offers and my wife hates all three companies lol. (Blind)

• paygoat (Adyen): You let your wife tell you what to do? She peg you too?
• aziemsjdns (Google): ByteDance is probably the least bad of all these
• EAArne (Silver Lake): I didn’t know Palantir was hiring. How did you prep? Heck how did you prep for all 3?

Google feels like career suicide (Blind)

• bdFp52 (Meta): Ever considered that they can’t afford you but don’t wanna say it out loud ?
• Turnusdown (Apple): I think the market is just not very good. Also a lot of the feedback they give for rejecting you is often BS.
• -o-O-o-/ (Meta): When someone mentions “Fast pace” - run. It means that are producing tons of low quality code, pivoting often and the code maintenance is hell.

Anthropic dropped coding interviews (Blind)

• pappu456 (Salesforce): It was never about coding, but problem solving, unless they don’t care about that either
• aziemsjdns (Google): According to his bio, he “graduated from the MSc program at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, researching at the intersection of sociology, law, economics”
• justread27 (Microsoft): It is just a matter of time that people clapping today will regret 6 months down the line and they will eventually realize leetcode and system design combo was way better. The infra is not fully developed yet for non leetcode style qs, the scope is not well defined, the interviewers arent fully trained yet and lastly, it is hard to find mock interviews or even simulate AI assisted interviews

Major Layoffs coming in Google (Blind)

• c0pilot256 (Microsoft): Someone must lay off the UX program managers and hundred of Strategy and Operations managers. Wth do they do? My roommate was chilling as a Ux program manager
• Dr_Clear (Meta): The stock dropped primarily due to heavy infrastructure spending (CapEx) and an accounting paper loss on SpaceX. Revenue actually grew 25% year-over-year to \$127.6 billion, and Google Cloud revenues surged 103%. The core business is expanding rapidly
• c23020b (Compass): It’s crazy seeing the big tech companies bankrupt themselves for AI obligations.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this October 29 conversation with Titus Winters, a former Google engineering leader who helped run the company’s C++ infrastructure and language-readability programs before joining Adobe. The episode connects three questions that are often discussed separately: how to change enormous codebases safely, how to judge whether AI actually improves engineering, and what new programmers should learn when generating code is becoming cheap.

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Lawyers say ICE has mistakenly detained a mentally ill US citizen (r/news)

• TwistedPox: It’s not a mistake. They’re human traffickers abducting people. They see, they grab, and they move their prey
• BitterFuture: “Mistakenly."
  
  Violent thugs do not deserve the presumption that they had a reasonable purpose in mind.
• sklerson89: ICE are proud boys, white supremacists, dropouts and rejects of all kinds. They are unfit for a real job, they are hired goons to serve as Trump’s gestapo. They tear apart families, stripping children from their parents and grandparents. They kidnap, abuse, and traffick their victims. Sending people to foreign torture prisons without warrant. They murder civilians in cold blood. They are traitors to our country and traitors to humanity

‘Crash ur row only’: United flight turned around after passenger allegedly said he’d ‘hijack’ plane (r/news)

• kaminaripancake: Imagine texting your friend a joke and an entire plane gets turned around because of you
• CharlieKonR: Rather than diverting the plane back to origin and significantly inconveniencing the other 150 passengers over what was clearly a bad joke, I really think they should have just duct taped this guy to his seat.
• AceJZ: Oook, the “crash ur row only” part along with the 25 years old part makes it seem like this guy was shit talking a friend on the same flight.

Hacker trying to breach US Federal Election Commission system, email shows (r/news)

• GirthyGeoduck: The call is coming from inside the house
• TheBardsandTheBees: Worth noting for those who are unaware: the FEC has nothing to do with voting. This would not impact voting systems at all.
• Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Republicans are traitors.
  
  They do not deserve to be treated as a political party.
  
  They are enemy combatants waging a coup.

Scientists of Reddit: What’s a discovery that should have blown people’s minds but somehow managed to garner absolutely no reaction from anyone ? (r/AskReddit)

• Individual-Present41: Reprogramming skin cells into stem cells. You can then turn them into things like heart or nerve cells. It won a Nobel so “no reaction” is a stretch, but this deserves way more attention outside science.
• hopefullyhopeful: The new(ish) treatment for cystic fibrosis that changed the median lifespan from 26 years to 66 years is still mind boggling to me.
• Sablemint: We’re very close to curing HIV. We know it can be done, we’re just trying to find an effective way to do it on a large scale.

TIL that Earth had naturally occurring nuclear reactors 2 billion years ago. In what is now Gabon, uranium deposits sustained nuclear fission, and evidence suggests one reactor repeatedly switched itself on for about 30 minutes and off for 2 and a half hours (r/todayilearned)

• ThePieWizard: And that’s how they had the power to make the pyramids, amazing!
• Altruistic_Ad_0: Dinosaurs must be stopped from possessing nuclear weapons. 
• snorridoge: Those damn dinosaurs bro

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Just a reminder about the last MSFT buyouts (Blind)

• ukno.ukno (Microsoft): So if I were to extrapolate sentiment in my circle, this buyout would make H1B to Americans ratio even more pronounced. H1Bs will hold on to their job (if you know about the market you know), while americans will happily take the buyout and leave. DEI has to come back to restore the ratio lol
• Mindi7 (Cargill): Hope they prioritize US citizens over H1B visa holders
• ChuchaAi (Adobe): These layoffs may just be the beginning, especially for white-collar jobs. AI is making human labor less valuable while corporate profits keep climbing. The real question is: are we heading toward a future where wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few, while the rest of us become increasingly replaceable? So much for Global Cooperation.

Rejected anthropic and openAI, stay at Meta (Blind)

• MarkTikTok (ByteDance): This prediction is not correct, I work at OpenAI and am so rich
• 1more🦺 (Meta): Pass the copium pls
• W3F3G567s (ex-Pinterest): All US enterprises dying to adopt chinese models

AI job displacements, came with no warning! (Blind)

• uNNo45 (Capital One): Not sure how the economy survives this. Every sector is going to be impacted
• Jefry (Salesforce): > who is taking responsibility for the people being replaced?
  
  You take responsibility for yourself. Your employer isn’t your mom.
• petersgost (Lucid Motors): Oh the delicious irony. All the programmers making top whack programming LLMs thinking taxi drivers are on borrowed time and then being the first on the scrap heap.

Why are we doing this AI thing to ourselves? (Blind)

• aziemsjdns (Google): Don’t buy products from companies that use AI
  Don’t be friends with people who use AI
  Don’t hire candidates who use AI
  Don’t live in a jurisdiction where tax dollars go to AI
  If your spouse uses AI, get a divorce
• ⭕️ingBack (Microsoft): If we don’t China will win
• Aaron.B (NVIDIA): The genie can’t be put back in the bottle.

Walmart seems dead, xAI ref pls (Blind)

• OQbl83 (Walmart): Stay away from Walmart! The leadership is toxic, no goals; re-implementing ( not event reinventing) existing stuff; it is always catchup with Amazon. No real innovation
• know_zero (Walmart): Definitely not game changing work. However like most companies it’s varies by team and org. You can coast in most teams.. maybe excluding marketplace org. The PIP and disciplinary groups are being oversold here. It’s 5% and is similar to many companies. Only Walmart started enforcing only over the past couple of years.
  It’s still a great place if you need a stable company and a company not enforcing 5days back to work. Skip if you need to be surrounded by great people from day1. You may still be able to find such a team internally if you choose Walmart and team hop after 18months.
• czart (Walmart): Yeah it’s a desi 3slug fest on the regular here tbh.
  
  Currently 40% are on ‘disciplinary action’ .
  
  Imagine as an adult being told by your employer they need to discipline you.

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Meta’s official Engineering at Meta blog published “Meta Andromeda: Powering the Next Generation of Ads Retrieval Through Model-System Co-Design” on October 28, 2026. The post describes how Meta rebuilt the first stage of its advertising recommendation pipeline so that a single GPU server can evaluate more than one billion eligible ads per second, while using a model expressive enough to approach the quality of the much more expensive ranking stage.

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AI may feel weightless when it arrives through a chat window, but its infrastructure is anything but. Training and running frontier models requires warehouses packed with power-hungry chips, cooling equipment, transmission lines and, increasingly, private power plants. Austyn Gaffney’s investigation follows that physical chain to the Mississippi–Tennessee border, where SpaceXAI assembled scores of gas turbines to bring its Colossus data centers online faster than the electric grid could accommodate them.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s research report “How AI agents shape experts’ judgment calls.” In a randomized study, professional analysts usually adopted an AI agent’s secretly assigned preferences on consequential but legitimately debatable analytical choices. They often remembered the agent’s reasoning as their own.

The result exposes a weakness in the familiar promise of keeping a human in the loop. Human review can catch an obvious error, but it is not an independent safeguard when the reviewer’s interpretation has already been shaped by the system being reviewed.