Seven things that the US authorities said about Durov and Telegram While the investors of Pavel Durov’s cryptocurrency project are “laughing nervously” in anticipation of news about the negotiations between Telegram lawyers and American regulators, The Bell studied in detail the lawsuit of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demanding to ban Gram cryptocurrency.

In the history of the failure of the IPO of the world's largest network of co-working spaces WeWork, a new aspect was revealed: it turns out that the founder of the company, ex-Israeli-born billionaire Adam Neumann, mixed business with pop religion and made key decisions on Kabbalistic principles, writes The Wall Street Journal .

On October 16, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested four new defendants in the Moscow case, reports . Mediazona Yegor Lesnykh, Maxim Martintsov, Andrey Barshay and Vladimir Yemelyanov were sent to the pre-trial detention center for two months. All are accused of using violence against government officials (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

Richard Branson's space startup Virgin Galactic has unveiled gear for space tourists who will go on a suborbital flight on the Unity spacecraft. https://youtu.be/6HQbGbaoEq8 The suits were tested in conditions that mimic the environment that tourists would be in during a suborbital flight. Equipment checks will be continued by Virgin Galactic crews on upcoming test flights.

Bermuda has allowed paying taxes and fees with USDC stablecoins, according to cryptocurrency startup Circle. As ForkLog notes , this is the first time in history. https://twitter.com/circlepay/status/1184459495554060289 The government of Bermuda said the decision to accept taxes and fees in USDC is part of an initiative to use “decentralized financial protocols and services,” ForkLog adds.

If in Russia it is believed that the economy is slowed down by corruption, in Mexico the situation is reversed: the economy is slowed down by the fight against this evil, writes Bloomberg . The paradox can be easily explained: the authorities of overpopulated Mexico City, the capital of the country and the locomotive of its economy, decided to revise the previously issued building permits, which is why the industry in the city almost stopped.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit demanding a ban on the Gram cryptocurrency lists over a hundred facts established by US officials in the process of preparing documents. Among them are previously unpublished or officially undeclared figures, amounts and information.

Weekly inflation in Russia has not been growing for the twelfth week: for the week from October 8 to October 14, consumer price growth was zero, like several weeks before, and before that, 0.1% deflation was recorded, Rosstat calculated . Based on the agency's data, annual inflation was 3.8% - it has fallen slightly since last week (3.9%) and the end of September (4%). The growth of consumer prices since the beginning of the year amounted to 2.3%.

This year, robots have learned to make fake news that a person is no longer immediately able to distinguish from real, writes The Wall Street Journal. The texts themselves are not good enough yet, but they are “written” very quickly and can already be used by people as raw material in disinformation campaigns. Experience and common sense remain the most effective human weapon in the fight against text “deepfakes”, and other robots will help to recognize them even better.

The board of directors of Lukoil on October 16 approved new principles of the dividend policy, according to which 100% of the adjusted free cash flow (free cash flow, FCF) minus treasury shares will be used to pay shareholders. about this with reference to the press service of the company RBC writes .

SpaceX founder Elon Musk will take part in the Krasnodar business forum "It's a matter of small things," the organizers of the conference say. It is reported by TASS. Musk's invitation was "sent" using a banner that was installed outside the SpaceX office in California. https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1176833003424821248 The QR code on the poster leads to Musk's video invitation to the forum to the tune of the song "Winged Swing".

The Swedish Navy has spent €1.8 million searching for a non-existent Russian submarine that allegedly violated borders in the Baltic Sea, according to Svenska Dagdladet. The military took the signal from a broken weather buoy for a signal from a submarine. According to RBC, the incident occurred in 2014. The Swedish Navy intercepted a coded signal that was mistaken for a narrow-beam transmission from a Russian submarine. 20 million crowns (€1.8 million) were spent on her search.

The press service of the Concord company Yevgeny Prigozhin denied rumors about his death in a plane crash in the Congo, saying that the businessman "is in good health." The Bell learned that he was the first to be "buried" by a Telegram channel, allegedly connected to the businessman's network of media and channels. What's happened. in the Democratic Republic of the Congo On October 10, an An-72 crashed .

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a horse trip to Mount Paektu - the "spiritual homeland" of the Kim dynasty. This is reported by Reuters with reference to the North Korean news agency TsTAK , which published a photo of Kim Jong-un on a white horse. According to the KCNA, the North Korean leader rises to Paektu during political crises. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1184373435297943555?s=19 Quote.

The Investigative Committee is investigating the possible involvement of former Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko in the withdrawal of hundreds of millions of dollars from Russia under the Moldovan scheme, RBC writes , citing sources familiar with the investigation. We are talking about withdrawing at least $250 million to Moldovan banks, and then to Switzerland.