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Binance sees outflows stabilising as exchange returns online after $6.3 billion heist <br> Binance customers pulled $3.64 billion, or 2.1% of its assets, as the world&#39;s biggest cryptocurrency exchange resumed service after a security breach linked to North Korea saw $6.3 ​billion stolen&nbsp;from the platform last week. The exchange moved to reassure crypto investors and said withdrawals were stabilising after an initial spike and deposit volumes had remained &quot;substantial&quot; after, what &zwnj;analysts believe, may be the world&#39;s biggest financial robbery ever. After hitting a six-week low on Friday, bitcoin prices recovered slightly through the weekend to trade above $78,000 on Monday. Ether hit a two-month low on Friday and also recovered a little to $2,287. Binance, which allows users to buy, sell and trade digital assets, has 335 million registered users globally. It said on Sunday it had $171 billion in total assets under manage...

Four years at the top: Why the Kia Sportage continues to impress international automotive experts <br> &nbsp; Winning an automotive award is a mark of excellence. Winning the same title four years in a row is a testament to a vehicle&rsquo;s enduring appeal and consistently high standards. The Kia Sportage has achieved this distinction, having been named &lsquo;Best Family SUV of the Year 2026 by What Car?&rsquo; for the fourth consecutive year. In one of the automotive industry&rsquo;s most competitive categories, the Sportage demonstrates why a well-rounded driving experience can be just as important as outright performance or an extensive list of features. &nbsp; The Balance Between Comfort and Control One of the Sportage&rsquo;s defining characteristics is its ability to combine a comfortable ride with confident handling. According to What Car?&rsquo;s assessment, the SUV delivers a supple ride at different speeds while remaining com...

Crew from NASA's simulated Mars mission emerges after 378 days in isolation <br> The four members of a crew who took part in a simulated mission to Mars have emerged after 378 days in isolation ​at the US space agency&#39;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, an endeavor designed to help prepare for a &zwnj;possible future excursion by NASA astronauts to Earth&#39;s planetary neighbor. &quot;It&#39;s been a hell of a year &mdash; analog astronauts living in captivity of our own free will,&quot; Ellen Ellis, the medical officer on the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, mission, said in remarks at Johnson Space Center after ​emerging with her three crewmates on Saturday. The four entered the 1,700-square-foot (158-square-meter) 3D-printed habitat on October 19, 2025, and performed ​tasks such as growing crops in simulated Martian soil and interfacing with NASA officials with delays ⁠recreating those inherent in interplanet...

China unveils detailed plan for manned moon landing <br> China will adopt a &quot;two launches, lunar orbit rendezvous&quot; architecture for its manned lunar exploration program, a senior engineer said on Saturday, as development work for lunar landing advances steadily. Wang Xiang, deputy chief designer of China&#39;s manned space program and chief designer of the lunar exploration program, outlined the plan at the 7th Manned Space Symposium in Beijing. Under the scheme, two rockets would separately send the Lanyue lunar lander and Mengzhou crewed spaceship into the Earth-moon transfer orbit, and the two spacecraft would perform a rendezvous and docking in the lunar orbit. Astronauts would then transfer from the Mengzhou spaceship into the Lanyue lander for the descent to the lunar surface and subsequent scientific work. Wang said the approach matches China&#39;s existing technical capabilities and infrastructure, and the separate development of the spac...

Alibaba partners with Apple to integrate Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence for Chinese market <br> Chinese tech company Alibaba Group has partnered with Apple to integrate its Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. The feature will be available for testing in the latest iOS developer beta starting Nov. 4 and will launch with the official iOS 27.3 release in December, Alibaba said. Qwen&rsquo;s AI capabilities will be integrated into several Apple features, including Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. Read More:&nbsp;Xiaomi&#39;s October EV deliveries top 50,000, hit 2026 monthly high Users can choose whether to enable the integration and what information to share. Alibaba said user requests and generated responses would not be used to train its AI models. The feature will be available on compatible iPhones whose device location and Apple Account region are both set to China....

Binance to resume withdrawals after recovering bulk of $6 billion in stolen funds <br> Binance, the world&rsquo;s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said it would&nbsp;resume&nbsp;withdrawals&nbsp;in phases&nbsp;after&nbsp;covering 95% of the $6.3&nbsp;billion&nbsp;in tokens&nbsp;stolen&nbsp;from its platform in the world&#39;s largest digital heist, which the FBI has tied to North Korea. Binance&nbsp;said phase would start between 0600 and 0900 GMT on Sunday and include bitcoin, ether, BNB, Solana, XRP, dogecoin and other tokens. The remaining 5% of&nbsp;stolen&nbsp;tokens consists of assets that are less liquid and may take longer to source in the required amounts,&nbsp;Binance&nbsp;posted on X late on Saturday. Update: We have already covered $6B of the impacted amount of the hacked loss. https://t.co/WOHKdQLiSG &mdash; Binance (@binance) November 1, 2026 The FBI said on Saturday the North Korean st...

China's first shipborne stealth combat drone completes maiden carrier landing <br> China&#39;s first shipborne stealth reconnaissance-strike integrated drone completes first takeoff, landing on amphibious assault ship China&#39;s first shipborne stealth reconnaissance-strike integrated drone GJ-21 has recently completed its first takeoff and landing operation aboard the Sichuan, China&#39;s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, a navy source said. This represents yet another breakthrough made by China in the development of amphibious assault ships and marks that the Chinese Navy has acquired the capability to operate fixed-wing stealth drones from large maritime combat platforms, the navy source noted. The Sichuan, hull number 51, is the first Type 076 amphibious assault ship designed and built independently by China. It was launched on Dec. 27, 2024, and is named after southwest China&#39;s Sichuan Province. The Sichuan has a full-load displacement...