California BASED Act Dead | Apple and Google Defeat Antitrust Bill in Five Weeks
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Enola Holmes 3 Netflix Release Date July 1, 2026 | Malta Setting, New Dr. Watson, and a Wedding Veil
Netflix confirmed the third installment in the Millie Bobby Brown detective franchise alongside first-look photos from Malta, a new Dr. Watson played by Himesh Patel, and a storyline built around Enola and Tewkesbury's impending marriage
Tether and Fasset Launch World's First Gold-Backed Visa Card | XAU₮ Now Spendable Anywhere
The April 27 launch converts physical gold into a daily spending currency at the point of sale, backed by $2.67 billion in Swiss vault reserves and reaching 125 countries through Fasset's neobank infrastructure
Trump Softens Prediction Market Criticism | CFTC Files First-Ever Insider Trading Case
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Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 | AGE 1000, West City, PS5 2027
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 officially revealed at Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2026. Set in AGE 1000 West City, built from Akira Toriyama designs, releasing on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC Steam in 2027.
Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition | Cooling Guide, 200W TDP 2026
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CIPS vs SWIFT | China's Cross-Border Payments Network Is Replacing Dollar Rails in War Zones as Petroyuan Goes Live at Hormuz
At least two confirmed yuan payments for Strait of Hormuz transit tolls had cleared through CIPS-linked banks by late March 2026, providing the first live proof-of-concept for China's campaign to normalize RMB settlement at geopolitically sensitive trade chokepoints
BHP Breaks Ranks with Big Four Miners | Agrees to Yuan-Linked COREX Index in Iron Ore Contracts with China
BHP accepted a 26% weighting for Beijing's COREX portside index in long-term Jimblebar fines contracts with state-backed China Mineral Resources Group, the first time a major global miner has conceded Chinese yuan benchmarks in a long-term supply agreement
Google Leads $40 Billion Investment in Anthropic at $350 Billion Valuation | Cloud Giants Race for AI Compute Anchor
Alphabet committed $10 billion upfront with $30 billion in performance-linked milestones to Anthropic, days after Amazon pledged $25 billion, as the world's largest cloud providers compete to lock in the Claude AI platform as a long-term infrastructure tenant
Independent Researcher Wins Q-Day Prize with First 15-Bit ECC Quantum Attack on Record | Bitcoin Cryptography Under Scrutiny
Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve private key using cloud quantum hardware and a variant of Shor's algorithm, claiming 1 Bitcoin from Project Eleven in the largest public quantum attack ever recorded against the cryptographic standard protecting over $2.5 trillion in digital assets
Sam Altman Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge After OpenAI Failed to Report Shooter's ChatGPT Account to Police
OpenAI's automated systems banned Jesse Van Rootselaar's account in June 2025, eight months before she killed eight people, but leadership determined the activity did not meet the threshold for a police referral, a decision now at the center of a negligence lawsuit and a Florida criminal investigation
ESA Confirms Corrosion on NASA's Cancelled Lunar Gateway HALO and I-HAB Modules
The European Space Agency acknowledged corrosion on both habitation modules built by Thales Alenia Space, two days after NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Congress the damage would have pushed Gateway operations beyond 2030
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