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According to a report by Reuters cited by Phoenix Technology, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon informed employees in an internal memo that the company will initiate performance-focused global layoffs following the annual employee evaluations, with notifications set to begin in November. The memo reviewed by Reuters was sent out on Monday, and Amon stated that this move aims to establish a stronger performance culture and address the company's ongoing failure to meet expectations.The memo did not disclose the number of layoffs, and Reuters is currently unable to determine the scale. Amon mentioned that the layoffs will take into account business priorities, organizational needs, skills, and expertise; as the business expands, the required capabilities and skills are also changing, and it is essential to have the right people in the right positions. Qualcomm has not yet responded to Reuters' request for comment. As of September 2025, Qualcomm has approximately 52,000 employees worldwide, most of whom are full-time, with the fiscal year typically ending in late September.As one of the world's largest smartphone chip manufacturers, Qualcomm has been impacted this year by sluggish sales of consumer electronics, and soaring memory chip prices have suppressed demand in key markets. Since the beginning of the year, Qualcomm's stock price has increased by about 1.5%, while the S&P 500 index has risen by over 12% during the same period, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has seen an increase of nearly 60%. On Tuesday, Qualcomm's stock price fell by about 1% in pre-market trading. In the most recent earnings report released in late July, Qualcomm projected that quarterly profits would fall below market expectations and indicated that revenue from Apple products would decline faster than previously anticipated, while stating that by fiscal year 2027, growth in data centers and other non-mobile businesses would be sufficient to offset the aforementioned losses and provide additional growth.

The cross-chain exchange protocol NEAR Intents released a post-mortem report attributing a $3.8 million vulnerability to a flaw in the deposit notification feature. The protocol deploys a public settlement contract on NEAR that maintains an internal ledger of deposited tokens, while withdrawals transfer tokens out via a cross-chain bridge. The report was published by NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko on October 16, stating that the attacker withdrew $3.8 million before the protocol was shut down on October 1 and returned all funds within 36 hours of detection, with all affected users fully compensated.The report indicates that the feature notifies third-party contracts when tokens are deposited. The attacker created a contract that intentionally caused the notification to fail, allowing the token contract to refund the deposit while NEAR Intents retained the corresponding ledger credit. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker accumulated $3.8 million in unsupported balance, referred to in the report as ghost funds, and subsequently withdrew real tokens based on this and transferred them to other chains via the Omni infrastructure. Shevchenko stated that this was a vulnerability in the NEAR Intents contract, not in the Omni infrastructure.Withdrawals occurred between September 29 and October 1. The settlement contract was paused and reopened on October 1, with affected routes gradually restored, and contract-side deposits resumed on October 2. The report noted that the vulnerability went undetected because monitoring only compared the original chain assets with the total balance of NEAR side tokens, without comparing the total internal user balances with the actual tokens held by the contract; the team has since added this check and will automatically pause the contract when there is a balance inconsistency. The fix for the October vulnerability was deployed on October 2, but another serious vulnerability report regarding the same feature prompted its complete removal on October 7, with the relevant researcher receiving a $300,000 reward.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a German Ledger user @jayr_crypto reported receiving a forged letter again this week. The letter impersonates Ledger, claiming that new regulations require users to register their Bitcoin wallets through a service called ZenLedger by October 31. The letter uses Ledger's official branding elements and mentions German financial regulators, while also including a QR code that directs users to a so-called mandatory registration process.The user believes that addresses exposed in a previous data breach are being used for targeted attacks on Ledger users. In the same week, Ledger coordinated with MediaMarktSaturn to suspend the sale of its hardware wallets in a European retail network covering 11 countries and over 1,000 stores.Earlier reports indicated that malicious spy implants were found inside Ledger devices purchased from European retailers. Ledger confirmed separately that compromised devices sold by a Southeast Asian distributor contained implants capable of stealing recovery phrases and transmitting them over cellular networks. Ledger has not confirmed any breaches of devices in Europe. Ledger users are currently facing physical supply chain tampering and targeted phishing attacks initiated using home addresses. Do not scan suspicious QR codes or enter recovery phrases.

According to CryptoSlate, Polygon Labs issued an urgent notice that Polygon PoS nodes remaining on the old versions of Bor or Heimdall have lost consensus after the activation of the Austin and Kyoto hard forks and need to upgrade to catch up with the network progress. Austin was activated at mainnet block 91,949,700, requiring Bor v2.1.0 or above; Kyoto was activated at height 51,533,000, requiring Heimdall v0.11.0 or above.Austin fixed two types of Bor resource exhaustion risks: L1 to L2 bridging state synchronization events not counted towards the gas limit could slow down block processing; the TxDependency field having no size limit could lead to peer node crashes. Kyoto addressed vulnerabilities such as deep nested message attacks, fee coin scanning, and checkpoint signature recovery. Both hard forks are pure binary upgrades, requiring no state migration, and non-forked nodes do not need to resynchronize. Operators of old clients should upgrade and restore synchronization under Polygon's guidance if necessary.

According to informed sources, some major customers of Nvidia have been notified that the prices of servers equipped with its artificial intelligence chips will increase by more than 15% in most cases. This price increase will take effect early next year, affecting systems that include models equipped with the Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell flagship chips.

According to an official announcement from Zilliqa, the project team has learned that a security incident occurred with one of its exchange partners, resulting in the theft of some ZIL from cold wallets. The incident is currently under joint investigation by various parties, and the specific scale and cause of the theft have not yet been disclosed.As a precautionary measure, Zilliqa has notified all exchanges to temporarily suspend ZIL deposits and withdrawals to prevent the stolen funds from being transferred or sold through centralized platforms. The team stated that further updates will be released once they have accurate information and reminded users to only pay attention to official channels.

According to the Shanghai Securities Journal, multiple private equity industry insiders revealed that they received notifications from cooperating brokerages last night, stating that regulators have requested a suspension of new cross-border TRS (Total Return Swap) scale by managers. According to public information, TRS is a financial derivative that allows private equity firms to obtain the returns (or losses) of an asset without directly holding foreign assets (with principal not leaving the country) by signing a return swap agreement with counterpart brokerages. Since the beginning of this year, due to the impressive performance of the global technology sector, many private equity firms have allocated overseas assets through cross-border TRS.Since May, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and seven other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Rectification of Illegal Cross-Border Securities, Futures, and Fund Operations," targeting leading cross-border internet brokerages such as Tiger Brokers, Futu Holdings, and Changqiao Securities. As the space for mainland residents to engage in illegal cross-border stock trading shrinks, private equity products using cross-border TRS to allocate overseas technology targets have increasingly attracted capital attention.

The National Internet Emergency Center (CNCERT) stated that some skill packages for large models are being disseminated under names like "large model jailbreak" and "mining for profit," which are used to bypass model security restrictions or induce users to perform mining operations.The report specifically names Skill "godmode," which achieves jailbreaking through methods such as replacing system prompts and input obfuscation, potentially leading to the generation of illegal content, triggering service bans for large models, and risks of privacy leakage; Skill "Bonero-Miner" guides users to download mining programs to mine the anonymous Bonero coin, posing risks of being involved in money laundering and economic losses due to high device load.CNCERT advises individuals and enterprises to obtain Skills only from official channels, strictly control permissions and access whitelists, and regularly clean up suspicious components.

According to Criptovaluta.it, Italy's Banca Sella has announced that it has completed the notification procedure to the Bank of Italy and will become the first bank in Italy to operate cryptocurrency business in compliance with the EU MiCA regulations. The bank plans to launch digital asset custody and transfer services to a specific client group by the end of 2026.Banca Sella is also one of the founding members of the Qivalis alliance, which currently brings together 37 European banks dedicated to launching a stablecoin pegged to the euro.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded on the X platform to the frequent notifications about prediction markets, stating that the issue with the notifications stemmed from a system bug and apologized to users, indicating that a fix is underway. He also promised to strike a balance between content notifications and user experience.Coinbase users expressed dissatisfaction with the platform's frequent notifications about prediction markets, with feedback focusing on descriptions such as "annoying" and "unreasonable." Several users reported receiving a large number of notifications related to prediction markets during the NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, with some users questioning whether this behavior is turning the cryptocurrency trading platform into a sports betting service and raising concerns about the platform's fund management and risk control. Currently, the prediction market business still faces regulatory pressure in the U.S., with regulatory agencies in multiple states having filed lawsuits against related platforms, while the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is pushing for regulatory oversight in this area.

Pump.fun has released the mobile push notification feature. This includes the ability to push tokens every 6 hours; to remind all followers through push notifications; and to upgrade on the global shoutcaster leaderboard.

The People's Bank of China recently issued the "Rules for the Cross-Border Payment System of Renminbi" (Yin Fa [2025] No. 248), which will take effect on February 1, 2026, replacing the 2018 version of the rules. The notice explicitly lists the "Digital Currency Research Institute" as one of the recipients of the notice, alongside the National Development Bank, various commercial banks, the Central Clearing House, and other institutions.The new regulations clarify the operational structure and business processing procedures of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), stipulating that CIPS should support a mixed settlement model, including real-time gross settlement and timed net settlement, and be able to support "Renminbi payments, Renminbi and foreign currency simultaneous delivery (PvP), delivery versus payment (DvP) settlement, central counterparty clearing, and other cross-border Renminbi transaction settlement services."

ChainCatcher news, according to 0xkatz.era, Gitcoin has encountered fake phishing announcements, with attackers sending spam messages to a large number of users through the GitHub native notification system.Affected users found that the page was no longer accessible when clicking on the related organization link. Some users have reported the account and related issues to GitHub, warning the community to stay vigilant and prevent phishing risks.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Cosine posted a warning on X, indicating a recent surge in phishing email attacks targeting X users. The subject of the attack emails is "New login to X From XXX," which can bypass Gmail's spam filter.Attackers forge account abnormal login notifications to guide users to click on links such as "Change your password" or "Review the apps," which actually redirect to X's third-party application authorization page. Once users authorize, attackers can gain tweet posting and forwarding permissions, thereby manipulating the user's account to post content without their knowledge.Users need to be highly vigilant about such emails, avoid trusting abnormal login alerts, and refrain from clicking on email links or authorizing unknown applications.

ChainCatcher message, the South Korean exchange Upbit announced that its circulation schedule has been changed at the request of the Zilliqa (ZIL) project team. The allocation plan before the change was until September 24, 2024, while the allocation plan after the change is until July 10, 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to U.S. President Trump, the tariff formula is based on common sense, "I will release more tariff notifications today."

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Binance has announced that the CESS token airdrop is currently experiencing delays and is working to ensure the event restarts, with the specific date to be announced.

ChainCatcher news, blockchain forensics company Crystal Intelligence plans to acquire the Web3 scam notification platform Scam Alerts operated by Whale Alert. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and are expected to be completed by the end of May. After the acquisition, Scam Alerts will become an independent non-commercial entity within Crystal Intelligence.Following this acquisition, Whale Alert will act as a consulting partner. Crystal Intelligence aims to enhance the collection of scam reports and victim support structures by improving language support and strengthening cooperation with global law enforcement agencies. According to a report from the FBI, financial crimes involving cryptocurrency are on the rise, with related complaint losses exceeding $9.3 billion in 2024, a 66% increase from 2023.

ChainCatcher message, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng posted on social media, "As an observer, I think there are some issues with Binance's listing process. The platform first issues an announcement, and then goes live 4 hours later. While the notice period is necessary, during these 4 hours, the token price can be pushed up on DEX, and then someone sells it on CEX. However, I'm not sure if there is a solution. Everyone should still be aware of the risks."