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‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market

According to Quantus CEO Christoper Smith, digital assets are secured by elliptic-curve cryptography that is vulnerable to quantum computing.

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People are going to extreme lengths to stop themselves from being filmed through Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’

Methods include singing copyrighted songs to downloading scanner apps, but an attorney said not all of these will be foolproof.

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‘It will inherit your thoughts’: Musk tells SpaceX employees they’ll be Grok’s ‘parents’ as AI trains on company data

In an all-hands, the SpaceX CEO revealed he wants his employees to be the foundation for his AI agent’s knowledge. “It will be trained on you.”

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A San Francisco ‘tech prankster’ got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis’ cyber/airbag problem

California requires autonomous vehicle manufacturers to demonstrate they can safely monitor, update and maintain fleets while complying with cyber...

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Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain

The George Washington University recently sold its Virginia campus to Amazon, and The University of Michigan proposed a new $1.2 billion data center...

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France hits unsolicited telemarketers with $87,000 fine per call, following similar provisions in other European nations

The Netherlands, Germany and other countries have employed policies to restrict unsolicited telemarketers for years.

11.08.2026 1

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Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building

SpaceX and Tesla’s planned Terafab would span more than 100 million square feet and will assist humanity’s space colonization—according to Elon Musk.

10.08.2026 2

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Kalshi cracks down on insider trading as Trump family looks to increase prediction market presence

Prediction markets are becoming intertwined with the government, and Kalshi is trying to prove it’s policing insider trading.

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Google quietly discontinues its Earth AI feature a day after its rollout after users made no-no images

Google’s “Nano Banana” AI allowed users to generate any images they wanted from Google Earth—and Google didn’t measure the consequences.

07.08.2026 1

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After months of a public back and forth over Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax, Ken Griffin isn’t ready to give up on New York after all

The Citadel CEO is staying put, and both his hedge fund and market maker will remain anchor tenants in a new $4.5 billion skyscraper.

05.08.2026 3

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‘This is insider trading by definition’: Trump sells $100,000 monthly subscription service to Wall Street to further monetize the presidency

Wall Street firms will get information milliseconds faster than the general public—and Trump will directly benefit.

04.08.2026 7

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‘People can go from zero to 100’: How Gen Z is raking in $260,000 per month on a livestream auction app

Cofounders Abhinavan Thanendran and Neil Shah started as “work buddies.” Now they are leading a $50 million-plus startup.

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Mark Cuban’s Las Vegas A’s investment is his ‘Sports 2.0’ Dallas Mavericks playbook all over again — with one key change

“The new model of baseball—or basketball, football—is teams becoming media companies and transcending a local marketplace," Rashaun Williams...

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Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans

The fast food industry’s automation push carried a simple promise: Robots would flip burgers, AI would take drive-thru orders, and labor costs would...

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‘It is okay not to be okay’: NFL legend Terrell Davis joins growing roster of athletes partnering with big pharma to raise health awareness

The hall-of-famer has partnered with Teva to raise awareness on Tardive Dyskinesia, a chronic movement disorder. He’s in good company with Serena &...

29.07.2026 20

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‘We’re on top of every restock’: This 24-year-old has made over $4 million off his subscription-based reselling community

“We kind of felt like this is something we could do ourselves,” said the founder known as JS. “It started off just being a free server.”

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‘My childhood home is being taken’: Eminent domain for data centers targets properties across a thousand miles of grid expansion in Georgia

Nearly 30 residential properties are located along a 35-mile stretch in Georgia where some residents said they have no choice but to sell their homes.

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Spain lifted the World Cup, but the IRS still gets a cut of its $50 million pay day as players, coaches and refs all face complex U.S. “jock taxes”

Spain may have won the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but for many players the celebration comes with an unexpected opponent.

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‘We all failed’: Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on Hollywood, video games and the big question of IP

At a panel in New York, Eisner said he went from thinking sequels were overrated to the Lucasfilm masterstroke, before Disney "overstepped its...

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‘Right to repair’ is coming to cars, but there’s still this big blind spot as consumers demand more autonomy

Automotive technology has boomed in recent years, but owner autonomy has not grown alongside it.

19.07.2026 10

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The $500 million LeBron James sweepstakes: 5 cities race for the right to boost their economy with the chosen one

LeBron James brings more than on-court success with every team he joins, he also brings millions in economic impact.

16.07.2026 7

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Meet ‘Freedom Fuel Network’ stations, a new chain with cheaper gas and mysterious origins

Freedom Fuel Network sells gasoline at prices well below the average, but the chain has revealed little about itself.

10.07.2026 10

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