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Turkish Tourism Revenues Rise 5% in Q3

Türkiye's tourism revenues rose 5% year-on-year to $25.526 billion in the third quarter of 2026, Turkish ⁠Statistical Institute data ⁠showed on Friday, maintaining growth in ⁠the country's tourism sector. In the first nine months of the year, tourism revenues increased to $51.29 billion, ⁠up ⁠2.4% compared with the same period of 2025.

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Crypto Platform Binance Confirms $6.3 Bn Hack

Cryptocurrency platform Binance said Thursday it had fallen victim to a major hack that hit around $6.3 billion in funds, with about half that amount frozen to prevent a massive theft. The company -- the world's largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes -- posted a series of sometimes contradictory messages on X, insisting that "user funds are completely safe" but also saying it would "cover all losses." The company later said on its X account for Latin America that "the total estimated impact is around $6.3 billion."

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Shock, Vindication, Regret: Scientists React to AI Roiling Life's Work

For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what computers can do. Artificial intelligence may now have shown it to be wrong: OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday one of their AI models had disproved the "exponential time hypothesis" (ETH). The hypothesis holds that some problems are so hard that computers can solve them only by trying nearly every possible answer. Hundreds of studies in computer science and biology rely on it.

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