India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a "one-way exchange" that is "anti-competitive" (@jagmeets13 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

VEON's Chief Payments & Digital Assets Officer @AhmetKayhan will be joining a panel at the Banking Innovation and Technology Summit 2026 on "Mobile Money in Emerging Markets: How Telcos Became the Bank for the Next Billion." This year's Summit theme is "Reimagining Financial Services in a New Global Order: Capital, Currency & AI-Driven Intelligent Growth." Hosted by Mehdi Letaief and featuring Roberto Mancone and Erwan Gelebart, the panel explores the distribution advantage telcos bring to financial inclusion, the evolving role of regulators, and how telcos and banks can work together as mobile money moves beyond wallets and transfers into credit, savings and digital banking. Don't miss the session on 6 October! Register here: #BIT26# @khaleejtimes

Here’s the full interview of @elonmusk with Ron Baron 0:13 - Exciting times ahead 0:21 - First principles and TerraFab 2:18 - Chip fabs geopolitical risk 5:51 - Terawatt scale ambition 6:14 - Trillion dollar phased build 7:36 - Why others don’t improve 7:49 - Austin research fab iteration 10:49 - Culture of speed and ideas 13:48 - Walking the floor hands-on 15:39 - Data centers pitchforks 16:44 - OpenAI origins Anthropic 18:09 - Building data centers fast 20:01 - Revenue exploding Jose meme 23:16 - Model Y best in China 23:28 - China ownership exception 24:50 - ARR to five hundred billion 27:45 - Digital AI economy boost 28:21 - Robotics five times productivity 30:10 - Rent robots not sell 30:41 - Memphis community benefits 32:55 - Data centers in space 33:35 - StarMind and space power 36:26 - Cost to orbit history 36:52 - Falcon nine reusability limits 39:09 - Hourly launches Starship size 40:25 - Chopsticks and heat shield 44:30 - Starship unlocks Starlink 46:49 - Agentic traffic thousand times 48:09 - Starlink V3 bandwidth explosion 51:26 - Spectrum and telcos 52:43 - Satellite replacement cycle 53:17 - Laser links hundred times 53:55 - Competing with China power 55:37 - Space intelligence advantage 57:19 - Demand from superintelligence 58:02 - Universal high income future 1:00:43 - Legacy contribution

NO one is safe from CYBERATTACKS. In 2026 alone: - 25+ countries hit - 220+ MILLION records exposed - MILLIONS of people affected - 30+ banks and financial firms breached - THOUSANDS of govt websites taken offline - MILLIONS of attempts to hack - 90 MILLION websites still vulnerable - TRILLIONS stolen Denmark: Hackers abused a private firm’s access, 8.8M citizen records exposed Mexico: Hacker exploited 20+ flaws, 195M taxpayer records stolen France: Stolen logins used on the national bank registry, 1.2M accounts exposed, plus 11M-18M ID accounts US: Pentagon breach exposed 3M people, plus 41K+ Homeland Security staff leaked UK: Hackers leaked data of 100K+ police officers and staff Canada: Top law firm McCarthy Tétrault hit by a major data breach Australia: An OpenAI AI agent broke into a govt Medicare portal Singapore: China-linked spies breached all 4 major telcos Malaysia: Nuclear Agency claimed as a ransomware victim Poland: Russia-linked attack pushed the power grid “very close” to a blackout Romania: Hacker wiped the national land registry, freezing the property market Moldova: Unprotected govt service exploited, 750K citizens’ data stolen, 82 public services shut down Uzbekistan: 3 govt agencies hacked, 60K citizens’ data leaked Tajikistan: China-aligned hackers hit telecoms with rare backdoors Armenia: NVIDIA’s local GeForce NOW partner breached South Korea: AI-powered hacks hit 16 financial firms, 100K records leaked India: Hackers dumped SBI customer data on the dark web Japan: Hackers hit GMO’s FX servers, 5 FX firms affected, $50M ransom demanded Italy: AI-cloned voice of bank executives triggered €95M in transfers, €36M still missing Taiwan: AI agents hijacked 85 govt accounts, 2.5K+ personnel records stolen, energy firms hit Iran: Cyberattacks hit major banks, ATMs, card payments, and apps Brazil: Breached Banco do Nordeste’s Pix system, $27M lost South Africa: State-owned Land Bank hit by ransomware, 5 BTC demanded Hungary: State Treasury hit from Russian servers, files encrypted Switzerland: Federal SharePoint servers breached, 200 accounts compromised Liechtenstein: Hackers stole data on 31K companies and trusts from its anti-money-laundering register Russia: Major hosting provider Beget had its cloud data wiped EU: European Commission cloud breached, 350GB of data stolen Crypto: Binance hacked through one compromised laptop, $6.3B stolen Governments, banks and crypto... none is safe. Your money is digital. So is the threat.

Verizon's CEO says SpaceX needs 4–6 years and up to $500B to build out a Starlink mobile network. Elon Musk: "Will take 2 or 3 years". People doubted him when Tesla was on the brink of bankruptcy, and it became a trillion-dollar company. They doubted reusable rockets until SpaceX landed them. Taking on terrestrial telcos? Betting against him usually doesn't age well.