An anonymous reader shares a report: Israel has arrested several people, including army reservists, for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket. Shin Bet, the country’s internal security agency, said Thursday the suspects used information they had come across during their military service to inform their bets. One of the reservists and a...
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Investors and fans are currently focusing heavily on the movements of Dogecoin and Ethereum within the digital finance space. Many recent debates regarding the Dogecoin price prediction 2026 highlight the way large holders are gathering more coins while trying to move past previous slow market trends. At the same time, the constant changes in the […]
The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.
“I’ve had an extremely weird few days…” writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He’s the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as “some of the most widely used software in the world” with 130 million downloads each month.) “Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my...
Telecom operators planning aggressive fiber and fixed wireless broadband rollouts in 2026 face a serious supply problem — DRAM and NAND memory prices for consumer applications have surged more than 600% over the past year as higher-margin AI server segments absorb available capacity, according to Counterpoint Research. Routers, gateways and set-top boxes have been hit hardest, far worse than...
New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — In an era defined by geopolitical fragmentation and the rapid re-pricing of risk assets, the traditional boundaries of emerging market investing are being dismantled. Roland Fairmont, Chairman of Ofek Kesef Asset Management and a veteran strategist in global capital markets, argues that the financial world is witnessing a profound paradigm […]
New York, USA – As the architecture of global finance enters a period of profound recalibration, few observers have articulated the scale of the shift as precisely as Vianne Mercer, a cross-border investment specialist and CFA charterholder at Ofek Kesef Asset Management. In a landscape increasingly defined by monetary policy divergence, geopolitical fragmentation, and accelerating […]
New York, USA – Private capital has quietly crossed a threshold. Over the past eighteen months, global allocations to private equity, private credit, and real assets have surged past record levels, even as public market volatility and monetary tightening have forced a wholesale reassessment of risk across every traditional asset class. Thessaly Wright contends that […]
Anna’s Archive, the shadow library that announced last December it had scraped Spotify’s entire catalog, has quietly begun distributing the actual music files despite a federal preliminary injunction signed by Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16 that explicitly barred the site from hosting or distributing the copyrighted works. The site’s backend torrent index now lists 47 new torrents added on...
The Detroit Big Three — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — have collectively announced more than $50 billion in write-downs on their electric-vehicle businesses after years of aggressive investment into a transition that, even before Republican lawmakers abolished a $7,500 federal tax credit last fall, was already running below expectations. U.S. EV sales fell more than 30% in the fourth...
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.
Meta was granted a patent in late December that describes how a large language model could be trained on a deceased user’s historical activity — their comments, likes, and posted content — to keep their social media accounts active after they’re gone. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, is listed as the primary author of the patent, first filed in 2023. The AI clone could like and comment on posts,...