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Searches for weather spells are up 206% on Etsy, and the biggest sellers are not love spells
An online marketplace with a rule that spells must be marketed as entertainment is still a marketplace. What the demand says is more…
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Binance has frozen about half the stolen $6.3bn, and the US Secret Service has joined the hunt for the rest
The exchange says a self-destruct mechanism destroyed the attackers’ traces as they went. The market took the news badly even though…
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Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
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The Nasdaq has closed its worst month since March 2025, and the reason is the size of the AI bill
Earnings are not matching the spending, and that gap is what a bubble warning actually looks like from the inside.
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A coroner has written formally to ministers about the sextortion scam that contributed to an 18-year-old’s death
The scammers demanded money and threatened to send intimate images to his friends and to YouTube. They sent one to a Facebook friend to…
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US officials say a Chinese businesswoman cultivated Nvidia’s chief executive for Beijing. China calls it groundless
The New York Times reports an investigation into the possible diversion of restricted AI chips to China. Nvidia says the meetings were…
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Google lost half a trillion dollars in a day for admitting its own AI is eating its advertising
Revenue grew 25% to $127.6bn. The market punished the company anyway, because of one sentence about where search advertising goes next.
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Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
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Binance says $6.3bn was taken and about $3bn is already frozen — the largest crypto theft on record
The exchange says customer funds are safe and it is covering every loss. The interesting part is which of the stolen money could be frozen…
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Police Scotland has joined an international hunt for “The Com” — online groups that coerce children into harming themselves
One arrest in Scotland so far, a handful of convictions in England. A suicide prevention charity calls these groups the gravest risk to…
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Carbon dioxide is now rising more than three times faster than it did in the 1960s, and 2025 set another record
The level is the headline; the acceleration is the finding. Methane and nitrous oxide also set records, and the warming effect is up 56%…
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Britain will make data centres earn their grid connection — jobs, water and local investment first, and Northumberland is about to find out what that means
Three facilities are proposed within two square miles of one constituency. The local MP who asked for regulation says the devil is in the…