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Fidelity, the issuer of one of the Bitcoin ETFs (FBTC), has officially confirmed a data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 77,000 clients. While the company has not disclosed many details about the incident, it assured clients that the hackers did not gain access to their accounts. The breach occurred between August 17 and August 19, 2024.

According to data from the analytical platform LayerHub, only 13.2% of users on the crypto betting platform Polymarket have made a profit from their bets. Out of 176,000 gamblers, only 23,000 earned a profit, with just 8.7% of them making more than $1,000.

FalconX is accelerating its efforts to expand through acquisitions. The company plans to focus on acquiring top-tier, smaller companies, with a primary interest in tokenization, institutional infrastructure, and data analytics.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlights AI's role in combating AI-generated misinformation ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections. He stresses that only AI can handle the scale of false data production and suggests the U.S. should build an AI supercomputer to lead innovation in this field.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticized several social media companies, including Meta, Google, and ByteDance, for collecting and processing user data without sufficient oversight or transparency. The collected data often includes age, gender, language, income, and other information of interest to advertisers.

Google has signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from several small modular reactors (SMRs) developed by Kairos Power.

Google Trends data shows that searches for "Bitcoin" have dropped to a 12-month low, scoring just 27 out of 100. The search interest peaked (100 points) in March 2024.

On October 10, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the inflation data for September, with the year-over-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropping from 2.5% to 2.4%, moving closer to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%.

Crime gangs in Southeast Asia are increasingly using Telegram to traffic personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords, browsing histories, and more, according to a UN report. The report also mentions recent legal actions against Telegram founder Pavel Durov, initiated by French authorities.

The latest report from the Bureau of Statistics, published on October 4, shows that 254,000 new jobs were added in September.

On October 3, 2024, the total value locked (TVL) on the betting platform Polymarket reached a new all-time high of $137.68 million, according to data from the analytics site DefiLlama.

South Korea’s regulator fined Tools For Humanity and the Worldcoin Foundation, the entities behind the famous iris scanning solution, $829,000 for violating personal data protection laws. Officials have also provided recommendations for improving the product in terms of regulatory compliance.