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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-05-29

Friday 29 May 2026

5 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.

Markets1 filed
Japan spent record ¥11.73 trillion defending the yen in April-May, finance minis
Japan Ministry of Finance
MARKETS · fx liquidity · 2026-05-29SCOOP 77

Japan spent record ¥11.73 trillion defending the yen in April-May, finance ministry data show

Japan's Ministry of Finance disclosed on Friday, May 29 that authorities spent a record ¥11.73 trillion (about $73.6 billion) on yen-buying intervention between April 28 and May 27 — the largest amount ever deployed in a month-long reporting period, according to the ministry's monthly foreign exchange intervention release. The previous record of ¥9.79 trillion was spent over tw

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Cyber2 filed
Carnival confirms breach of 5,995,277 people after ShinyHunters social-engineers
CYBER · ransomware threat groups · 2026-05-29SCOOP 80

Carnival confirms breach of 5,995,277 people after ShinyHunters social-engineers employee account

Carnival Corporation disclosed a data breach affecting 5,995,277 people, per a notification filed in Maine, with breach-notice letters sent on or about May 27, 2026. According to Carnival, an attacker used social engineering on April 14, 2026 to trick an employee into granting access to part of the company's IT environment; by April 22, 2026 the intruder used the compromised ac

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Charter confirms ShinyHunters breach via Entra vishing; group claims 40M+ Spectr
CYBER · ransomware threat groups · 2026-05-29SCOOP 79

Charter confirms ShinyHunters breach via Entra vishing; group claims 40M+ Spectrum records, Charter denies CPNI loss

Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after the extortion group ShinyHunters listed the company and threatened to leak stolen data. Per BleepingComputer, threat actors compromised an employee's Microsoft Entra account via voice phishing (vishing) on April 1, 2026, then used that access to export customer records from Charter's Salesforce environment. ShinyHunters claim

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Memos1 filed
Leaked Delta memo warns pilots JFK-LAX customer satisfaction has cratered, NPS d
MEMOS · leaked memos · 2026-05-29SCOOP 64

Leaked Delta memo warns pilots JFK-LAX customer satisfaction has cratered, NPS down 9.2-12.7 points on flagship route

A leaked internal Delta Air Lines memo, surfaced May 29, 2026 by aviation insider 'JonNYC' on X and reported by Paddle Your Own Kanoo (Mateusz Maszczynski), warned pilots that customer satisfaction on Delta's premium transcontinental service between New York JFK and Los Angeles has fallen sharply. Per the memo, Net Promoter Score (NPS) on the JFK-LAX leg is running 9.2 points b

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Models1 filed
Apollo and Blackstone shop ~$36B record debt deal to buy Google TPUs for Anthrop
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance
MODELS · frontier releases · 2026-05-29SCOOP 80

Apollo and Blackstone shop ~$36B record debt deal to buy Google TPUs for Anthropic, Broadcom backstopping

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging a roughly $36 billion debt financing—described as potentially the largest chip-financing debt transaction and one of the biggest private-credit deals ever—to fund Anthropic's purchase of Google's custom tensor processing units (TPUs), which Anthropic would then lease, reporting said on May 29, 2026. The proposed structure sp

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