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India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed that one of its internal operational accounts was compromised in a recent security breach, allowing the hackers to make off with millions in crypto. On Saturday, CoinDCX co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta disclosed in a post on X that an internal account “used only for liquidity provisioning on a partner exchange” was compromised during the hack. The executive assured that the incident did not affect customer funds and that all its customer assets remain secure. Earlier in the day, crypto security researcher ZachXBT reported that around $44.2 million was drained from CoinDCX’s coffers…
You can listen to this story on CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast. CNN — Vickie Moretz had never left the southern United States, let alone traveled abroad. The prospect of flying across the Atlantic was equal parts exhilarating and terrifying. It was February 1982. Vickie was 22, a recent graduate from the University of Tennessee, en route to London to participate in a work study program. She was traveling with one of her best friends, Sandra. The two young women packed enormous suitcases (“We bought everything in our wardrobe, two great big ones, each of us”) and lugged the bags from…
Rachel Ganz’s husband might be alive. But he might not be. More than three months after he was last seen near the Eleven Point River in Missouri amid severe flooding and evacuation orders, Jon Ganz is just … missing.That leaves Rachel, 45, in a limbo of sorrow and frustration, awakening “every morning to a reality I don’t want to exist in.” She dwells there in a liminal state, she wrote by email July 11, with a stream of questions running through her head: “Is he trapped by debris in the river? Is he in a tangled mass of debris on…
“Mendell Station” is Korean American writer J.B. Hwang’s first novel. And it is all about death — its horror, finality and mystery, and, most of all, how those who knew and loved that person must cope.Miriam, the main character, who is a Korean American postal worker living in San Francisco, learns that her best friend, Esther, was found dead, having fallen two stories onto the train tracks at Van Ness station. The mystery of how Esther died is never solved in the book, although we learn she had been intoxicated and wobbly on her feet when last seen at a…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC. Customers can start buying tickets with assigned seats on July 29.The move ends more than half a century of open seating on the airline, a policy that has set it apart from rivals for decades — along with two free checked bags. Both things are changing as Southwest’s leaders seek…
AI-powered browsers are nowhere near the easy future they promise, when they would be able to do complex multi-step tasks for you. However, the makers of these browsers are trying to make users’ lives easier by adding a way to easily repeat some prompts for the tasks they frequently perform. The Browser Company’s new Dia browser already has a skills feature, which lets users ask the browser to execute a command or create a code snippet based on a prompt. For instance, you could ask the browser to find interesting events happening in the next few days near you. You…
At least 19 people have been killed after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a private school campus in the south Asian country’s capital city on Monday. It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.Details are still emerging. Here’s a look at what is known so far: What happened? Firemen look for the survivors after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed onto a school campus shortly after takeoff in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, July 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) Firemen look for the survivors after a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that…
Want a little autumn in your August? You’re in luck.Starbucks said Monday that its Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to store menus in the U.S. and Canada on Aug. 26.The Pumpkin Spice Latte is Starbucks’ most popular seasonal beverage, with hundreds of millions sold since the espresso drink’s 2003 launch. It’s also produced a host of imitations; Dunkin’ introduced pumpkin-flavored drinks in 2007, while McDonald’s brought them to its menu in 2013.Here’s a look at the Pumpkin Spice Latte by the numbers:— 100: Number of Starbucks stores that sold the Pumpkin Spice Latte during a test run in Vancouver and…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 10:00 AM ET, Sat July 19, 2025 Hospitality group Accor is launching a new travel advisor challenge rewarding 33 of the top advisors to stay at two new properties in Colombia, called the HERA Challenge. Named for Accor’s HERA travel advisor loyalty and rewards program, which launched a year ago, the HERA Challenge provides eleven different categories, with the top three advisors from each category earning an invitation to an exclusive hosted trip in Cartagena on March 9-12, 2026. The top three advisors in each category will earn an invite to the trip: Performance Champions, the…
AP — Police in northwestern Germany on Sunday said that several people were injured when a car veered off a road, hit a 7-year-old boy on a trampoline and went flying into a barn roof on its side. Police said that the car first collided with a parked vehicle in the town of Bohmte, broke through a hedge and drove into a garden where it hit the boy. The car then went over uneven ground and it was apparently catapulted into the air and ended up crashing into the roof of a neighboring barn about 3 meters (10 feet) off…