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ICYMI: @Cardano FOUNDER @IOHK_Charles SAYS $ADA'S "ROADMAP IS COMPLETE" AND "EVERYTHING I SAID IS GOING TO BE BUILT HAS BEEN BUILT"

🚨 A MASSIVE wave of internet outages is hitting some of the world's biggest tech platforms. And it goes WAY beyond Microsoft. Downdetector is showing spikes in problem reports across Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Azure, Gmail, AWS, Cloudflare, Zoom, Steam, X, Facebook and dozens of other services. Nearly 130,000 reports for Outlook alone at one point. Microsoft has confirmed widespread problems and says it's restarting affected servers and redirecting traffic to restore services. But reports are also appearing across platforms operated by Google, Amazon and other major providers. It's not yet clear whether these disruptions share a common cause or whether some are unrelated. For millions of users, a surprisingly large chunk of the internet has suddenly become unreliable. Writer: Oliver

Expanding on why I believe "ETH as store of value (SoV)" makes much more sense to focus on than "ETH as fee-burning token". Three primary reasons: 1. ETH as fee-burning token never was as strong as it seemed 2. Optimizing for ETH as fee-burning token would demand Ethereum and ETH function in ways that are very hard to make compatible with decentralization and capture resistance. 3. Meanwhile, optimizing for ETH as SoV is aligned with Ethereum focusing on its unique strengths (decentralization and CROPS) EIP-1559 (including its burn) is fine and good, we should keep them. But we should not feel sad if fee burn is < 10% of breakeven indefinitely; the value of ETH comes from elsewhere. The core idea: the big thing that people appreciate about Ethereum is decentralization and CROPS. The main pragmatic benefit that these things translate into is stability. SoV is the category where that is not an unneeded extra we merely put effort into for ideological reasons, but rather a pragmatic strength from the perspective of people putting in their assets. And in the era of AI disruption, stability will be highly valued.

🔥 JUST IN: Developers created 10,910 new canisters on the Internet Computer in October, marking a 66.18% increase from September. That translates to more than 351 new smart-contract canisters deployed per day, extending the network’s growth streak to three consecutive months. @dfinity

⚠️ALERT: Hackers are now targeting WordPress, the software behind 39.5% of all websites online. A critical flaw lets attackers take over a WordPress site in the seconds it spends updating, without needing to log in. During a full update, WordPress briefly stages its installer in a public folder, and anyone who reaches it in that window can run their own code on the server. It affects every version from 4.7 to 7.1.3, nearly 10 years of releases going back to December 2016. What has happened so far: Security firm Wordfence flagged the flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-119977 Its first firewall block came just 9 minutes after the protection went live It saw more than 18,500 attack attempts in the first 21 hours after the flaw went public Some attackers spent about 14.5 hours repeatedly checking small groups of sites, waiting to catch one mid-update Wordfence blocked 12,632 attempts in a single 24-hour period On Nov 3, US cyber agency CISA confirmed active attacks and ordered federal agencies to patch by Nov 6 What’s being done: WordPress has released fixed versions for every affected branch, including 7.1.4. Wordfence is blocking the attacks with a firewall rule. Wordfence urges site owners to update as soon as possible, and says they can block access to PHP files in /wp-content/upgrade/ before updating for extra protection. If you run a WordPress site, update now, and take that precaution first if you can.