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Apple completed a bond issuance totaling $7.5 billion on November 9, including $1.25 billion in floating rate bonds and $6.25 billion in fixed rate bonds, with maturities ranging from 2028 to 2036. The fixed rate bonds have coupon rates of 4.65% to 5.35%, with the highest rate for the bonds maturing in 2036 being 5.35%. This issuance was underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase.

The security research team Socket disclosed that malicious code was implanted in the Ethersphere's bee-js software package and Swarm Desktop application, targeting wallet keys.

Meta Platforms (META.O) has launched Muse Ember, which is its smallest and most efficient model, designed for complex reasoning execution.

The October Consumer Expectations Survey by the New York Federal Reserve shows that U.S. consumers' inflation expectations for one year, three years, and five years remain at 3.9%, 3.3%, and 3%, respectively. The average expected probability of an increase in the unemployment rate over the next year has risen to 45.3%, the highest since April 2020. The expected growth in household income has decreased to 3%, and the expected growth in consumer spending has decreased to 5.3%.

According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, the former head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, sued the foundation's affiliated entities, co-executive director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among others, on November 4.The lawsuit claims that Fulton disclosed her cancer diagnosis in writing to the foundation's leadership on March 24, and the next day organized a petition signed by 53 employees opposing a request to endorse an internal document that included a suicide pledge; on April 6, she and another organizer were terminated. She has made claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and interference with family medical leave rights. The above content is the plaintiff's assertion.

According to The Block, the prediction market broker River Markets stated that its affiliate River Finance LLC has registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States and has joined the National Futures Association (NFA), allowing it to hold customer accounts and manage customer funds.River Markets is building a primary brokerage platform for prediction markets aimed at institutional traders, planning to enable clients to manage funds, positions, and risks across multiple exchanges and clearinghouses through a single account, and to support financing arrangements and approved over-the-counter trading.The company was established in May of this year and claims to have transferred over 250 million contracts for clients such as hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, having previously completed a $8.5 million seed round of financing.

SRTD Biotech, a German mRNA therapy company, has completed an oversubscribed seed round financing of 31.5 million euros, led by Mérieux Equity Partners, with NRW.BANK and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund co-leading.The funds will be used to advance the seRNA platform that expresses only in diseased cells and LNP delivery.

According to CoinDesk, the privacy public chain Midnight has upgraded its mainnet to Ledger 9, adding support for privacy asset transfers, introducing inter-contract call execution features, and new cryptographic standards such as Keccak-256 and ECDSA.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Kai Cenat Completes GTA Marathon" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "November 11 (2:59 PM ET)" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 45.5% an hour ago to the current 30.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, the French private equity firm Ardian's semiconductor investment strategy Ardian Semiconductor has completed a fundraising of 1 billion euros, with the fund committing nearly 700 million euros, while the remainder comes from co-investments.In terms of the investment structure, investors from the Middle East and North Africa account for 41%, while French investors account for 24%. The contributors include government agencies, sovereign wealth funds, semiconductor companies, insurance companies, and private wealth clients. This strategy was launched in October 2023, focusing on the semiconductor value chain, primarily investing in European companies while also considering the North American and Asian markets. Invested projects include the French chip company VSORA, which designs AI inference accelerators.

Marble Imaging, a remote sensing company based in Bremen, Germany, has secured 6 million euros in extended seed funding led by Cherry Ventures, bringing the total to 11.3 million euros, which will accelerate the construction of Germany's first commercial very high-resolution satellite constellation.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the administrative department of the South Korean National Court has established a cryptocurrency enforcement procedure. The revised "Civil Execution Rules" have been implemented since November 1, officially clarifying the seizure and liquidation procedures for virtual assets (such as Bitcoin).Previously, due to the lack of physical form of virtual assets, enforcement relied heavily on the regulations regarding "other property rights." With the surge in related cases, the court has specifically formulated enforcement rules for two scenarios: custodianship by exchanges and personal wallets, covering various liquidation methods such as seizure, transfer orders, and entrusting exchanges to sell.

Binance co-CEO He Yi published a response to the community's doubts regarding the inconsistencies in data from multiple platforms, stating that CoinMarketCap (CMC) has verified the new addresses with Binance, and the asset data displayed on the Binance platform is accurate. She also welcomed other platforms to contact Binance to update their addresses.Previously, a user on platform X stated that the data from Binance, CMC, and Coinglass was inconsistent, making it difficult to determine which set of data to refer to.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has once again experienced issues with its chat function, with the chat interface temporarily displaying "Server busy, please try again later." The official status page indicates that starting from 15:11 today, there have been partial interruptions to the website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause.The affected services include the chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service. The latest update on the DeepSeek official website states that the interruption issue has been addressed, and they are currently monitoring the effectiveness of the fix.

According to Observer Network, Zhang Qingyu, the abbot of Donglin Temple in Yilan, Taiwan, and his son Zhang Weifu, who has already become a monk, are suspected of embezzling donations. During the investigation, officials searched the temple and dug up more than ten iron boxes hidden underground in the gravel outside the meditation room, with a market value exceeding 330 million New Taiwan Dollars (approximately 7 million USD).The investigation shows that temple funds were transferred to private accounts and laundered through the purchase of virtual currencies and gold and silver. The case is still under investigation.

Market news reports that OpenAI has completed a new round of financing of 11 billion dollars, with a valuation reaching 1.25 trillion dollars.

Zcash has completed Network Upgrade 7 (NU7), reducing the block target time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, with the single block reward adjusted to 0.52083333 ZEC to maintain the established daily issuance. The total supply cap of ZEC remains at 21 million coins, with the next halving expected at the end of 2028, occurring at block height 6,132,390.At the time of reporting, the price of ZEC rose from $1,225 to over $1,380 at one point, and then reported around $1,345, with a 24-hour increase of approximately 8%.

The monthly non-farm payroll data in the United States is quite volatile, and economists remind us not to overinterpret a single month's report. However, the employment data for October performed strongly, with data from previous months revised upward, indicating that the recent trend in job growth has significantly improved.Over the past three months, employers added an average of 137,000 jobs per month, while the average for the previous three months was only 51,000 jobs.