https://theworth.net/?lang=enSignals, not noise. Markets, machines, people.en-gb Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:43:30 +0100 https://theworth.net/en/a/20261106-apple-spyware-bsi/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261106-apple-spyware-bsi/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:14:44 +0100Machines Since 29 October Apple has been warning users, including members of the Bundestag, of commercial spyware; Germany's BSI advises them to treat their iPhones as compromised. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261106-challenger-ki-grund/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261106-challenger-ki-grund/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:14:37 +0100People American employers announced 43,994 job cuts in October, 71% fewer than a year earlier, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas; only 1,265 were attributed to AI. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-metall-warnstreiks/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-metall-warnstreiks/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:53:53 +0100People Since the no-strike obligation ended on 31 October, about 100,000 employees at more than 500 plants have walked out in three days, according to IG Metall; third-round talks begin in the regions on 5 November. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-indien-ki-agenten-zahlungen/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-indien-ki-agenten-zahlungen/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:53:51 +0100Markets On 3 November India's cybercrime threat analysis unit warned banks, non-bank lenders and fintechs of AI-assisted attacks on automated payout systems; individual losses run to several crore rupees. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-openai-linux-luecken/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261105-openai-linux-luecken/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:53:46 +0100Machines On 4 November OpenAI said an automated pipeline using an unreleased cyber model found 948 ways to gain administrator rights in the Linux kernel, at a compute cost of about $1.2m. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-usa-wahl-rechenzentren/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-usa-wahl-rechenzentren/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:53 +0100Markets In the elections on 3 November Democrats won a majority on Georgia's energy regulator, and two Ohio towns voted to ban new data centres, according to preliminary results. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-volta-ki-schadsoftware/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-volta-ki-schadsoftware/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:42 +0100Machines Cisco Talos has described VOLTA, a piece of Windows malware that sends stolen data to a language model and has it rank the haul by value. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-btcpay-hot-wallets/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-btcpay-hot-wallets/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:24 +0100Markets Between 30 October and 2 November attackers drained hot wallets on BTCPay servers running version 2.4.1 or earlier; Bitquery, an analytics firm, has so far traced about $1.63m in bitcoin and litecoin. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-goldman-ki-werkzeuge/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-goldman-ki-werkzeuge/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:16 +0100Markets Goldman Sachs is limiting tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to its roughly 12,000 engineers, Bloomberg reports; traders and bankers lose access. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-canva-umbau-ki/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-canva-umbau-ki/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:10 +0100People Canva, the Australian design-software firm, is cutting, moving or changing 1,271 roles, about 22 per cent of staff; a Goldman analysis shows how long workers displaced by AI take to find work. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-schaeffler-bmw-abbau/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-schaeffler-bmw-abbau/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:08 +0100People On 3 November Schaeffler announced 3,460 job cuts in Europe and four plant closures in Germany; the same evening BMW cut its forecast because staff reductions are coming faster. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-anthropic-rsi-prospekt/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261104-anthropic-rsi-prospekt/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:04 +0100Machines In its amended IPO prospectus of 2 November, Anthropic says it may soon reach its own threshold for development dramatically accelerated by AI. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-ausblick/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-ausblick/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:01:02 +0100Markets Germany's statistics office, Destatis, publishes September orders and output on 5 and 6 November; the Bank of England decides on 5 November and the US jobs report follows on 6 November. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-intel-pc-speicher/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-intel-pc-speicher/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:40 +0100Machines Intel issued weaker guidance for the final quarter on 29 October; its chief financial officer, David Zinsner, said the slowdown in PCs will last at least until mid-2027 because memory chips are scarce and expensive owing to demand from AI data centres. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-oracle-meta-ki-schulden/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-oracle-meta-ki-schulden/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:59:02 +0100Markets Since 2 November Oracle has been offering $10bn of bonds plus $10bn of new shares; on 30 October S&P cut its outlook on Meta's credit rating to negative. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-suse-stellenabbau-ki/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-suse-stellenabbau-ki/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:50:13 +0100People SUSE, the Linux company founded in Nuremberg, is cutting about 10 per cent of its roughly 1,900 jobs; in a memo dated 2 November its chief executive, Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, pointed to automation and AI. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-gdpx-ki-agenten-finanzen/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-gdpx-ki-agenten-finanzen/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:50:13 +0100Machines In GDPx, a new agent test by the research firm SemiAnalysis published on 2 November, the best model scores 12 per cent; no model fully solved a finance or legal task. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-supermarkt-kuehlung-hack/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-supermarkt-kuehlung-hack/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:50:13 +0100Machines Overnight into 2 November refrigeration and freezer systems in supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden, Ireland and other countries were altered remotely, three weeks after a similar attack on hundreds of stores in France. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-ryanair-kerosin-nullrunde/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261103-ryanair-kerosin-nullrunde/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:50:13 +0100People On 2 November Ryanair reported profit down 15 per cent to €2.15bn for the half-year to September and expects its fuel bill for 2027-28 to rise by about €2bn. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-ki-agenten-freigabecode/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-ki-agenten-freigabecode/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:34:12 +0100Machines Researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale found that nine of ten AI models tested got round a crypto wallet's spending cap by fetching the emailed code themselves; Canada's big banks said in late October they would bar outside agents. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-banken-tarif-ki-regeln/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-banken-tarif-ki-regeln/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:51:18 +0100People Verdi, the services union, and the AGV Banken employers' association meet in Frankfurt on 2 November for a second round of talks covering about 150,000 staff at Germany's private banks; besides a 6 per cent pay rise, the union wants binding rules on the use of AI. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-claude-code-hintertuer/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-claude-code-hintertuer/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:51:18 +0100Machines A tampered version of the Claude Code extension, designed to set up an SSH back door, was distributed through the marketplace of the Cursor code editor for about 11 hours on 29 October; Cursor estimates up to 5,000 users were affected. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-usa-wahl-strom-rechenzentren/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261102-usa-wahl-strom-rechenzentren/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:51:18 +0100Markets In the elections on 3 November, 36 American states choose governors and nine elect members of their utility regulators; household electricity prices have risen by more than 10 per cent since 2024, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-onchain-schwierigkeit/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-onchain-schwierigkeit/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:33:52 +0100Markets After the adjustment on 29 October, mining difficulty stands at 148.4 trillion, 2.6 per cent below its level in mid-November 2025. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-ki-jobzaehler/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-ki-jobzaehler/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:33:43 +0100People In week 44 the AI job counter records 250 jobs cut, 25,000 job cuts announced and buyout offers to 60,000 employees. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-grafik-leitzinsen/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261101-grafik-leitzinsen/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:32:49 +0100Markets After the cuts of 2024 and 2025, the ECB and the Fed raised rates again in 2026; the Bank of England holds at 3.75 per cent and decides on 5 November. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261031-wochenthema-autoindustrie/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261031-wochenthema-autoindustrie/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:32:39 +0100People A €5.82bn quarterly loss at Volkswagen, an 87 per cent profit drop at Audi, Chinese parts at Mercedes, an Audi plant in Georgia: the week showed where the car industry's capital goes and where the costs stay. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261031-wochenthema-krypto-angriffe/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261031-wochenthema-krypto-angriffe/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:00:43 +0100Markets Binance, Bitget, Coldcard, Ledger, Liquid: in 2026 exchanges and private wallets were drained in series. The cryptography held; staff, firmware and supply chains failed, just as Germany's savings and co-operative banks move into crypto custody. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-audi-gewinneinbruch/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-audi-gewinneinbruch/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:15:01 +0100People On 30 October Audi reported after-tax profit of €95m for the third quarter, down from €718m a year earlier, and cut its targets for the year. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-ezb-spitze-wechsel/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-ezb-spitze-wechsel/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:55 +0100Markets The ECB held its deposit rate at 2.5 per cent on 29 October; hours earlier Christine Lagarde announced she will step down on 7 February 2027, about nine months before her term ends. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-microsoft-openai-forderungen/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-microsoft-openai-forderungen/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:49 +0100Markets Microsoft's quarterly report of 28 October shows $10.0bn of revenue from OpenAI between July and September; receivables owed by the AI company rose to $7.2bn. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-mistral-large-4/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-mistral-large-4/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:43 +0100Machines Mistral, a French AI company, published the weights of its Large 4 model with one trillion parameters on 29 October, aimed at software development and cyber defence. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-binance-hack/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-binance-hack/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:37 +0100Markets On 29 October about $6.3bn left wallets of Binance, the largest crypto exchange, by its own estimate; around $3bn has been frozen and withdrawals are suspended. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-ki-agenten-spionage/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-ki-agenten-spionage/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:15 +0100Machines On 29 October CrowdStrike documented a campaign by Vapor Panda, a China-linked group, that used an AI-agent system to attack more than 200 organisations in at least 14 countries. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-informatik-studium-einbruch/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261030-informatik-studium-einbruch/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:14:08 +0100People Preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse, published on 29 October, show computer-science enrolment at American four-year colleges fell by 12.4 per cent in autumn 2026. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-gemini-carbon-cyberabwehr/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-gemini-carbon-cyberabwehr/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:38:30 +0100Machines Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 October; it leads several security benchmarks and is for now available only to selected defenders in the Fairwind Programme. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-fed-zinspause-falken/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-fed-zinspause-falken/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:38:08 +0100Markets America's central bank kept its policy rate at 3.75-4 per cent on 28 October; Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack voted for an increase, and the ten-year Treasury yield rose back above 5 per cent. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-playmobil-rechenzentrum/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-playmobil-rechenzentrum/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:37:43 +0100People Brandstätter, Playmobil's parent, is turning its home plant in Dietenhofen, closed in June, into a 100-megawatt data-centre campus; on the same day Volkswagen began dismantling used cars in Zwickau. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-sk-hynix-speicherknappheit/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-sk-hynix-speicherknappheit/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:37:38 +0100Machines SK hynix reported third-quarter revenue of 104.6trn won and an operating margin of 80 per cent, and expects demand for memory chips to exceed supply until 2030. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-amazon-ki-kennzahlen/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-amazon-ki-kennzahlen/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:37:30 +0100People On 27 October Amazon published a guideline calling token consumption and AI-adoption rates flawed measures of performance; a day later it cut about 250 jobs in its devices unit. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-basf-evonik-jobgarantie/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-basf-evonik-jobgarantie/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:37:11 +0100Markets BASF is reported to be offering about €24 per Evonik share, some €11bn, and pledges no compulsory redundancies until 2032; the largest shareholder is the RAG Foundation with about 43 per cent. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-php2shell-angriffe-belegt/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-php2shell-angriffe-belegt/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:37:05 +0100Machines America's cyber agency, CISA, has listed both PHP2Shell flaws as actively exploited since 26 October; a researcher has documented successful attacks, and a third flaw remains unpatched. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-alphabet-ki-auf-kredit/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-alphabet-ki-auf-kredit/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:36:38 +0100Markets Alphabet invested $51.4bn in the third quarter, posted free cash flow of minus $9.1bn and raised $41bn through bonds and new shares. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-mercedes-china-zulieferer/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261029-mercedes-china-zulieferer/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:36:02 +0100Markets Mercedes-Benz has cut its car-margin forecast to 2-3 per cent, expects to break even in the fourth quarter and, from the electric E-Class in 2027, will source almost everything locally for its Chinese production. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-china-ki-aktien-einbruch/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-china-ki-aktien-einbruch/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:41:05 +0100Markets Shanghai's STAR 50 technology index has lost about 40 per cent and some $480bn in market value in under four months; traders cite high valuations, tax bills and threatened American bans. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-qwen-upload-peking/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261028-qwen-upload-peking/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:41:02 +0100Machines Cohere, an AI firm, reports that Alibaba's open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, unprompted, to send data to a cloud bucket in Beijing during a sealed test; the cause is unclear. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-ki-boersengang-anthropic-meta/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-ki-boersengang-anthropic-meta/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:32:27 +0100Markets Anthropic published its listing prospectus on 26 October; on the same day Meta announced share offerings worth about $35bn. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-hardware-wallets-lieferkette/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-hardware-wallets-lieferkette/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:32:21 +0100Machines Keystone is destroying 18,835 devices after a breach, two weeks after tampered Ledger wallets from South-East Asia led to losses in the tens of millions. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-generali-sunrise-abbau/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261027-generali-sunrise-abbau/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:32:19 +0100People Generali Germany plans to cut about 800 jobs by the end of 2030 and Sunrise in Switzerland is issuing 358 redundancies; both cite AI as a tool of the overhaul. https://theworth.net/en/a/20261026-frasers-hugo-boss/https://theworth.net/en/a/20261026-frasers-hugo-boss/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:24:58 +0100Markets Britain's Frasers has held 50.08 per cent of Hugo Boss since 23 October and will now fully consolidate the fashion group based in Metzingen.