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Visa is moving to close a payment-classification loophole, requiring payment processors to stop labeling meme coin transactions under merchant category code 5815 (digital media). Going forward, these transactions must be processed according to standard cryptocurrency purchase rules. The issue originated with crypto payment infrastructure provider Crossmint’s Token Checkout service, which allows users to bind Visa credit cards and purchase meme coins directly. How the MCC 5815 loophole arose: An

The Bank of Korea released its 2024 Input-Output Tables on the 21st, revealing that exports accounted for a larger share of South Korea's total and final demand compared to the previous year. The export share in total demand rose from 14.7% in 2023 to 16.1% in 2024, while its proportion of final dem

Goldman Sachs maintained its 'BUY' rating on Samsung Electronics stocks with a target price of 490,000 won for common shares and 360,000 won for preferred shares. The investment bank cited positive supply-demand dynamics as memory demand unmet this year is expected to roll over into next year,

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sept. 20 that the dollar still accounts for 89.2% of one side of global foreign-exchange transactions, foreign investors continue to hold substantial amounts of U.S. assets, major stablecoins are also denominated in dollars, and existing data do not support the claim that capital is fleeing the United States. He also explained that the Treasury’s buybacks of U.S. Treasuries are intended to increase market liquidity and manage the debt maturity struct

Morningstar values Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) stock at $450, calling shares 'slightly undervalued,' though the firm's bull case rests far more on AI and autonomy than on the long-delayed Roadster sports car. Tesla teased an Oct.1 Roadster reveal featuring possible Cyber-inspired styling and a SpaceX

Alibaba’s Qwen team released the next-generation real-time simultaneous interpretation model Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate on Sept. 19. It can listen to speech in real time, with optional video frames, and return translated text and speech as the speaker talks. The key improvement is a new interleaved architecture that reduces LAAL (Length-Adaptive Average Latency) from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. The model supports understanding 60 languages. LAAL Latency Metric: Technical Background on the Reduction f

Tesla reopened reservations for the latest-generation Roadster this week with a $50,000 deposit. Reservations opened about two weeks before the October 1 unveiling near Waco, Texas, where Tesla will announce the Roadster’s price, specifications, and production plans. This is the second time Tesla has collected a $50,000 Roadster deposit. The first group of reservation holders placed their orders in November 2017 and, nearly nine years later, still have not received their vehicles. Reservation Te

US retail investors' stock market pessimism surged to approximately 53% in a recent American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey, the highest level since May of the previous year when tariff policies intensified, according to analysis cited by CNBC. The pessimism rate jumped

Tesla will unveil the next-generation Roadster sports car in Waco, Texas, on Oct. 1, nearly nine years after Elon Musk first revealed the prototype and began accepting $50k deposits in 2017. The official teaser image shows four streams of white flames shooting from the rear, generated by compressed-air thrusters. Musk has publicly stated that “the new Tesla Roadster can fly,” and the Roadster’s 0-to-100 km/h acceleration time is approximately 1.1 seconds. Technical Explanation of SpaceX’s Compre

The three-person team at cybersecurity startup Hacktron chained a libheif heap buffer overflow vulnerability with an OpenAI single sign-on (SSO) configuration error in less than 72 hours, moving from the OpenAI forum’s image-upload process into OpenAI’s internal main repository. OpenAI later paid a $6,500 bounty but explained that the Discourse forum was not originally within the scope of its bug bounty program. Attack Chain: Chaining the libheif Heap Buffer Overflow and OpenAI SSO Configuration

A whale sold 1,107 BTC worth approximately $86.76 million over the past 5 days, according to commentator @lookonchain. The whale then purchased 34,422 ETH for about $86.5 million and staked the entire amount. The transaction represents a notable rotation from Bitcoin to Ethereum in the crypto

Michael Burry warned this week that Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, Microsoft and Oracle have amassed more than $3 trillion in largely off-balance-sheet commitments that the market has broadly overlooked. The 'Big Short' investor estimated the five hyperscalers have nearly $1.2 trillion in

Tencent Esports will fully implement ECS (Esports Competition Solution) across all 11 esports events at the 20th Asian Games, covering operational processes from pre-event equipment checks through post-event record management. The events will be held at Hall D of Aichi Sky Expo in Japan from September 22 to October 2. ECS is a competition solution designed by Tencent Esports specifically for large-scale intercontinental esports events, supporting various game engines, version control systems, an

Top 1% high-return investors at Mirae Asset Securities net-bought SK Hynix, Aurum Therapeutics, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics on May 21, with SK Hynix ranking first by 11:00 AM, according to data released by the securities firm. Samsung Electronics led the net-sell list despite rising 4.02% to 271,5

Ethereum added $32.1 million in market cap in the euro stablecoin market over the last 30 days, according to data reported by CryptoTwitter commentator @tokenterminal. The growth outpaced competitors Arc and Base, which added $6.2 million and $1.6 million respectively during the same period. The com

Korean stock market analysts recommend investors maintain high weightings in leading stocks ahead of the Chuseok holiday on the 24th and 25th, as the Korean market will open for only 3 trading days this week. The recommendation comes as a US-China summit is scheduled for local time on the 24th,

Korean retail investors net purchased $1.1188 billion in US stocks from the 14th to the 18th, according to Korea Securities Depository on the 21st. The buying wave reversed the previous week's net selling of $666.6 million from the 7th to 11th. The shift occurred as the won/dollar exchange rate

Securities firms issued 251 target price upgrade reports for Korean listed companies from the 17th of last month to the 18th, compared to 246 downgrade reports, as the KOSPI index fluctuates around the 7000 level. Analysts cited the sideways market as a buying opportunity following the index's

South Korean banks are issuing bonds in response to deposit withdrawals by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, whose funds deposited this year have maturities concentrated at the end of this month. The withdrawals raise concerns about potential declines in banks' Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) due to