• October 14, 2026
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Six Days and $40,000 to Break Chrome’s Sandbox

The proof of concept is almost anticlimactic. A page loads in a signed build of Chrome Beta, and the calculator application appears on the desktop. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is…

  • October 14, 2026
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SK Hynix Says the AI Bottleneck Is the Memory It Sells

Ahn Hyun opened his keynote at the SEDEX semiconductor exhibition in Seoul on Wednesday with a forecast that would have sounded like a sales pitch in a smaller room. The…

  • October 14, 2026
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The FBI’s Long Campaign Against the Scam Compounds

The compound at O’Smach sits on Cambodia’s northern border with Thailand, and by the accounts of U.S. prosecutors, United Nations researchers and reporters who have been inside such sites, it…

  • October 14, 2026
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A Credit Market Calm Built on a Pause in AI Borrowing

The note Goldman Sachs sent its credit clients this month made an odd pitch for a bull case. Buy investment-grade bonds, it said, and watch the calendar. The argument rested…

  • October 14, 2026
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Two Blank Checks Test the Appetite for SPACs

On Tuesday, two filings landed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a few hours apart, each asking the same question in a different size. Apex Treasury Corp II, a blank…

  • October 14, 2026
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A Nigerian Fintech Takes Its Loan Book to Wall Street

The prospectus OPay filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission contains a figure that would be unremarkable in Silicon Valley and startling in Lagos: 339.1 billion dollars of gross transaction…

  • October 14, 2026
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Most of the S&P 500 Is Already in a Bear Market

The note that circulated on trading desks this week carried an uncomfortable title: Last Man Standing. Its author, Jonathan Krinsky, the chief market technician at BTIG, was describing a market…

  • October 14, 2026
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A Memory Rally Meets a Chinese Rival and a Shelved Float

The selling started in Tokyo. Kioxia Holdings fell 13.3% on Tuesday to close at 15,180 yen, the sharpest one-day drop yet for a stock that had nearly quadrupled over the…

  • October 14, 2026
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Hackers Raised French Supermarket Freezers to 50 Degrees

At an Intermarche in central Paris, staff spent Monday morning hauling carts of defrosted frozen food to a container in the street, with melted ice cream sloshing from broken tubs…

  • October 14, 2026
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Two Banks Arrange an AI Loan They Won’t Back

The financing package for Volta Infrastructure Holdings totals $5.01 billion. JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs assembled it, and between them they are willing to guarantee $1.3 billion of that amount.…