🔥 BIG: Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says the USDC issuer is eyeing around 40 new developing markets across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East as stablecoins hit the "mainstream scaling phase."

🇺🇸 🇨🇳Trump has slapped sanctions on a major Chinese oil refinery and around 40 shipping firms and tankers moving Iranian crude — following through on his threat to hit anyone doing business with Tehran. The move is part of Washington's escalating campaign to strangle Iran's oil revenues.

One of Skyrim’s coolest systems actually started as a huge “brute force” script in Fallout 3. Todd Howard explained that Fallout 3 had around 40–50 random encounters, like NPCs being attacked by Deathclaws or groups fighting over random objects. Bethesda liked how these events made the world feel more alive, so they started thinking about turning the idea into a proper system instead of manually scripting everything. That eventually became Skyrim’s radiant quest system, which could dynamically choose NPCs, locations and situations for quests. “It wasn’t elegant, but it turned out to be a really cool system in the game that made the game dynamic.”

🇹🇷 The next hearing into the deaths of two people who were electrocuted in Turkey is scheduled for November 20 So far, around 40 people have been charged with negligent homicide after expert reports attributed the incident to electrical cables not buried deeply enough It happened in 2024, when 23-year-old medical student Özge Ceren Deniz was electrocuted while crossing a flooded street and 44-year-old İnanç Öktemay died trying to save her Writer: Ian