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Bitcoin (BTC) passed $84,000 after Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks added to gains on more strong corporate earnings reports.Key points:Bitcoin climbed nearly 2% on Wednesday to return to $84,600 for the first time since Oct. 7.SpaceX Q3 operating revenue beat expectations by nearly 15%, coming in at $14.6 billion.BTC price action needs a daily close above $83,400 to shift the focus higher in its trading range, crypto analyst Rekt Capital wrote.SpaceX Q3 earnings help propel Bitcoin to $84,600Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD gaining nearly 2% on the day as markets reacted to a significant Q3 earnings beat from…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and ERIC TUCKER Russia on Wednesday freed an American who had been jailed for more than four years on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, a deal completed during a visit by a top U.S. envoy and at a time when President Donald Trump has taken a series of actions meant to benefit Moscow. Trump told reporters at the White House that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin during a recent call to free Stephen Hubbard and that, unlike previous releases, the U.S. did not have to give up anyone in return. “He is the happiest man around,” Trump…

Black Friday 2026 is still more than a month away, but Nintendo Switch 2 owners already have several opportunities to save money on some of the console’s biggest games. Although the annual shopping holiday officially falls on November 27, retailers have increasingly begun offering discounts weeks before the event itself; Christmas stock is no doubt hitting physical shelves right now, too. Amazon is one retailer getting the jump on these savings, with several popular Nintendo Switch 2 RPGs dropping well below their usual prices. The Nintendo Switch 2 has built up a sizable library since its launch, including major exclusives,…

Decentralized exchange PancakeSwap’s total value locked (TVL) grew nearly 19% over the past week, adding about $380 million as the protocol moves toward a major overhaul of how it distributes trading fees to liquidity providers. According to DefiLlama, PancakeSwap’s TVL climbed to $2.4 billion on Wednesday, up from about $2.02 billion on Oct. 14. The increase was concentrated in its V3 liquidity pools, where TVL more than doubled to about $739 million from $336 million over the same period.The growth coincided with PancakeSwap opening a governance vote on a proposal called “The Flip,” which would increase liquidity providers’ share of swap…

The city has deployed red light cameras to 600 intersections citywide, the maximum number allowed under state law, the Mamdani administration is expected to announce Wednesday. “Safer streets aren’t a guessing game — we know the tools proven to keep New Yorkers safe,” the mayor said in a statement. “Red light cameras help us get home safely by holding dangerous drivers accountable and preventing crashes before they happen. With all 600 intersections up and running, we are stopping dangerous behavior before tragedy can strike and making our streets safer for everyone who walks, bikes, drives or takes the bus.” As…

Tech giants have deployed emergency blocks against eight vulnerable digital certificates that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate websites.By Tuesday, browser developers and other major technology companies had deployed protections against eight intermediate certificates issued by India-based certificate authority eMudhra Limited after discovering that their private keys were insufficiently secure. Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson wrote in an incident report that Mozilla independently recovered the private keys when it first received notice of the flaw on Saturday, confirming that the key-generation process was “flawed” and “trivial to exploit.” An attacker who intercepts a user’s connection could use fraudulent certificates to impersonate a…

Netflix has built a reputation for critically acclaimed international thrillers, especially after the success of TV shows like Squid Game, Dark, and Alice in Borderland. It’s certainly not unusual for fans to wait several years between seasons of a Netflix thriller series; after all, viewers had a three-year gap between Squid Game Seasons 1 and 2, but one of its most popular international thrillers is officially making its comeback this week, with Season 4 of the hit show Lupin set to arrive on the platform on Friday, October 23, 2026. Inspired by the fictional gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, Lupin Part…

New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels faced a public grilling by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at a school integration town hall Tuesday night over his lack of a detailed plan to address inequality in city public schools, more than 10 months into the new mayoral administration. The Brooklyn-based civil rights writer recently published a follow-up essay about her choice of a racially segregated school for her daughter, outlining the prior gaps in her child’s education and renewing calls for a citywide school integration plan. “The people who keep getting told they have to wait for the ‘right time’…

A 46-year-old man was shot to death by a fellow driver during a road rage clash on the George Washington Bridge, police said Wednesday. The victim was found mortally wounded after his dark blue Volkswagen hatchback crashed on the New Jersey-bound upper level of the Hudson River span about 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. He was an off-duty Con Ed worker believed to be on his way home from work, law enforcement sources said. Investigators said someone from a passing vehicle opened fire on the victim’s Volkswagen on the Manhattan side of the bridge on the W. 179th St. entrance…

Yuki Tabata’s Black Clover manga reached its end on May 1, 2026, when the final chapter 392 was released in Shueisha’s Jump Giga magazine. With the short epilogue, Tabata wrapped up the story and concluded the journeys of the expansive cast of characters we followed for 11 years. While the story of the manga has ended, Black Clover as a franchise isn’t yet dead. The anime by Studio Pierrot is going strong at the moment with the release of Season 2. On top of that, it’s been officially confirmed that on November 10, 2026, a new Black Clover art book,…