Crypto purchases by Indian investors saw contrarian movements as they continued to rise despite Bitcoin falling below $90,000 for the first time in seven months. Among top exchanges, Bitcoin accounted for nearly 40% of CoinSwitch's retail spot trading volumes on Tuesday. Giottus saw its 'big buyers' increase their Bitcoin holdings by 15-20%, while overall buy orders were up 10%.

Global banks are shifting core payment systems onto blockchain, signalling a structural change in how money moves across borders. With institutions like JP Morgan launching blockchain-based settlement tokens, the transition is quietly reshaping financial architecture. Customers may not see visible changes, but behind the scenes transactions will become faster, safer and more transparent.

WhatsApp allows users to find their friends by instantly showing whether they're on the app after a new phone number is saved on the mobile phone. A team of Austrian researchers used this trick to check 100 million phone numbers each hour, eventually exposing 3.5 billion phone numbers. The team called it "the largest data leak in history".

San Francisco-based Jiga raised $12 million led by Aleph, with Symbol and Y Combinator backing. The AI-driven platform streamlines sourcing of custom mechanical parts, replacing slow manual workflows with automated communication, pricing, and quality checks. Used by NASA, Siemens, and aerospace teams, Jiga aims to expand production, strengthen AI quality assurance, and scale enterprise support.

A team of Austrian researchers has shown that they were able to extract 3.5 billion users' phone numbers using WhatsApp. Of the extracted numbers, researchers could access the profile photos of about 57% users and the profile text of another 29% users. A different researcher had warned Meta about the vulnerability in 2017, but Meta failed to address it.

Cloudflare crash caused major websites and public services to slow down or stop working. Cloudflare blamed a routine configuration change, but cybersecurity experts doubt the explanation and warned how fragile global internet systems are. The outage showed that one failure inside Cloudflare can break huge parts of internet at once revealing a fragile, centralised weak point in global connectivity.

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Advertising intelligence spans five categories audience, creative, media, measurement, and automation each addressing a specific bottleneck, from finding intent-rich segments to analyzing creative drivers and forecasting ROAS. Together, they form an integrated layer that helps teams spot inefficiencies sooner, align on insights, and make faster data-backed decisions.

Email marketing tools now blend automation, segmentation, template intelligence, and behavior-based triggers to boost engagement. Modern platforms analyze open patterns, predict optimal send times, and adjust content dynamically. With automated journeys, conditional branching, personalization, and deliverability insights, they keep communication timely, targeted, and consistently relevant.

A 400-foot experimental airship called Pathfinder 1, developed by a US-based startup backed by Google Co-founder Sergey Brin, was spotted hovering over San Francisco's skies on Tuesday, when Google released Gemini 3 model. Pathfinder 1 has 12 electric motors, a carbon fibre and titanium frame and is the world's largest aircraft. Inference.net CEO Sam Hogan called it "big baller energy".

Mohandas Pai defended Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy's call for adopting 9-9-6 work culture in India, saying the latter isn't asking "ordinary people working in banks, offices and shops" to follow it. "It isn't for people who wake up at 11am and have tea," Pai said. "If young people...want to become billionaires...they've to do...one year's work in six months," he added.

The best student startup ideas solve immediate campus needs with quick, simple prototypes. High-traction concepts include peer tutoring for specific subjects, AI-based study productivity tools, hyperlocal delivery for books or essentials, hostel services like laundry or repairs, second-hand markets for textbooks and gadgets, and micro-freelancing for design, editing, or coding.

India's healthcare startup ecosystem is growing across telemedicine, diagnostics, wellness, and hospital automation. Practo enables online consultations, PharmEasy streamlines pharmacy logistics, 1mg supports diagnostics, and HealthifyMe offers personalized wellness tracking. With AI triage, EMR tools, and remote monitoring, these platforms boost access, cut admin work.

A TCS employee was forced to resign last year while he was on emergency leave as his father was in the ICU, IT employees' union FITE said. It claimed that TCS denied his gratuity despite his having sufficient leave balance. It added that after the employee approached the Mumbai Labour Office, TCS was summoned and ordered to pay full gratuity.

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Former Harvard president and ex-US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board after newly released emails revealed his close relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers said he's "deeply ashamed" of his relationship with Epstein and is stepping back from public roles to "rebuild trust". Harvard has launched an investigation into his ties with Epstein.

Advertising intelligence is shifting from reporting to predictive and prescriptive ecosystems. Modern systems integrate audience signals and cross channel performance to model future outcomes rather than just surface dashboards. With AI driven recommendations, marketers can anticipate shifts in consumer intent, adjust bids dynamically, and test creative variations automatically.

The innovation funnel creates a structured path from idea to execution by filtering concepts through discovery, validation, prioritization, and prototyping. This prevents resource dilution by advancing only high-viability ideas. It encourages broad exploration, early assumption testing, and evidence-based refinement, helping teams stay experimental while maintaining operational discipline.

Under the IndiaAI Mission, MeitY has launched 'YuvaAI for All', a free short-term course that aims to equip the youth with basic understanding of AI. The 4.5 hour course, divided in six short modules, highlights transformative power of AI to bridge digital divide in the country. The course can be accessed on platforms like FutureSkills Prime and iGOT Karmayogi, etc.

Top seven India-based IT companies had 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment in FY25, down 70% from FY15 and 37% from FY24, according to US government data. Among employers, Amazon topped with 4,644 approvals, followed by Meta (1,555), Microsoft (1,394), Google (1,050). TCS saw 42% YoY decline in approvals to 846 in FY25, while Cognizant's approvals fell to 743.

Germany-based Agile Robots launched Agile ONE, its first-ever humanoid robot. It has articulated limbs, human-like dexterous hands and "expressive face", and accurately perceives surroundings, detects obstacles and responds to instructions in natural language. The robot, designed for industrial use, can handle material gathering and transport, pick-and-place, tool handling, precision operations.

India's first Tesla centre will open on November 26 at Orchid Business Park, Gurugram, according to Moneycontrol. The facility follows the opening of Tesla's experience centres in Mumbai and New Delhi, combining a showroom, delivery hub, and service centre. India became the 50th global market for Tesla when it launched two variants of the Model Y, starting at ₹59.89 lakh.

The US, Australia and UK imposed sanctions on Russian firm Media Land, accusing it of supporting ransomware operations. "These so-called bulletproof hosting service providers like Media Land provide cybercriminals services to aid them in attacking businesses in US and allied countries," said US official. Media Land, ML.Cloud LLC, and other four individuals are accused of malicious cyber activity.

Anthropic's valuation rose to $350 billion, sharply higher than $183 billion valuation in September, reported CNBC-TV. This comes after Microsoft and Nvidia invested $5 billion and $10 billion, respectively, into Anthropic. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said OpenAI "remains a critical partner", and added, "We'll use Anthropic models, they'll use our infrastructure, and we'll go to market together."