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TL;DR SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell will donate one SpaceX share each to roughly 2 million children’s Trump Accounts, a pledge worth over $320m at current prices, with emphasis on lower-income Texas families. The gift lands weeks after SpaceX’s record IPO, as Trump publicly nudges Musk to follow
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Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, says a routine security inspection found a covert listening device in his home office in Geneva, Bloomberg reports. The 88-year-old has filed a criminal complaint against persons unknown. The device was reportedly discovered at his private home close to the WEF’s
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Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often appear most prominently in investing circles, but recent advancements in blockchain, the technology that supports crypto, have expanded
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Chinese BiliBili creator Qiong Shuma CHANNEL (roughly, "Budget Tech Channel") put up a video this weekend titled "RTX 4080 for Just 2,300 Yuan? Unfortunately, It's the Mobile Version." The premise is exactly what you think, but there's a twist: rather than
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Securonix has uncovered a sophisticated multi-stage malware delivery framework that uses compromised websites and social engineering to infect users with information stealers. Dubbed Veil#Drop, the framework combines JavaScript launchers and PowerShell download cradles for the deployment and execution of malware hosted on Blogspot, Google’s trusted infrastructure. The infection
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A few simple adjustments to your settings will opt you out. Google is at it again. The company recently, and quietly, introduced a change to how it hoovers up our data to train its AI platforms. It can now scoop up media you upload to its various search tools for
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A purported jab of Sony’s physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself. You’re too late! Monday was the last day to score your own free CD of your GitHub repository, which the Microsoft-owned subsidiary offered to mail to the first 1,000 people who asked. But as
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* A mistake meant an iPhone user sent ‘sensitive’ texts to the wrong person * Their partner’s phone number was associated with the wrong device * The error happened when their partner didn’t properly reset their iPhone When you sell an old iPhone, do you really know that it’s been
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In Brief 12:01 PM PDT · July 6, 2026 With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri: the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3,
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Amid the chaos of a new product launch, Valve has remained hard at work on SteamOS. Not only has SteamOS received a long-promised update to support standard PCs, but tailored SteamOS support for the Steam Deck and other handhelds has continued post-Steam Machine launch. Most recently, the SteamOS 3.8.
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Nefarious actors are becoming adept at deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in their malware campaigns. Case in point, the threat research team at security firm Sysdig has discovered what looks to be the first instance of an attack using agentic ransomware. The researchers say it’s a “complete extortion operation
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The United States of America recently turned 250 years old. What a spectacle! The fireworks were amazing, and millions of proud people celebrated across the nation — even around the world. France lit up the Eiffel Tower; Japan had fireworks. French fighter jets flew above New York City with trails of
