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Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during Florida launchpad test
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin suffered a major setback after its towering New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot-fire test in Florida on Thursday – the dramatic blast coming as Blue Origin seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk's IPO-bound SpaceX.
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AI mania sends Silicon Valley home prices soaring: AI stock is now starting to replace cash offers
New data shows Silicon Valley’s AI boom is minting a new class of startup millionaires and sending home prices through the roof – with some sellers even asking buyers for shares in companies like Anthropic instead of millions in cash.
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Richard Dolan thinks UFO culture has a personality problem
With much of the UFO discussion these days about which politician or whistleblower said what, UFO historian Richard Dolan has observed that more of the focus should be on paranormal events themselves, and less on hyperbole.
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Google’s AI deletes manga artist’s entire digital life overnight
Popular Japanese manga artist Masahiro Itosugi says his Google account was automatically suspended, and that old transcripts were wiped in the process.
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“They’re still after your boy:” Hasan Piker subpoena sparks Reddit firestorm
Left-wing Twitch influencer Hasan Piker has responded to federal authorities issuing a subpoena regarding a March trip to Cuba, in which he helped deliver roughly 20 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
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Spanish court disagrees with La Liga over possible fines to NordVPN
It’s not over, but it’s something. That’s how the bosses at NordVPN are interpreting the news from Spain, where the Commercial Court of Cordoba has refused to punish the VPN company for alleged non-compliance with an order to block pirate football streams.
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Ross Coulthart: Trump poised to reveal "we are not alone" on non-human intelligence
Following President Trump's second release of UFO evidence last Friday, leading journalist Ross Coultart is anticipating a huge announcement very soon from the White House, potentially stating that “we are not alone.”
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Wingtech files lawsuit in Chinese court, seeks $1.1 billion in damages and full control of Nexperia
Wingtech Technology has filed a lawsuit against Nexperia in China, demanding to regain full control of the company. In addition, Wingtech is seeking approximately $1.1 billion in damages.
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Federal regulators sue after Minnesota bans prediction markets
Minnesota became the first US state to ban prediction markets – and quickly faced a federal lawsuit.
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UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a “fiasco” following rushed launch
The UK government’s digital ID rollout has been slammed as rushed and damaging to public trust in a parliamentary report released this week.
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SpaceX launches most powerful Starship to date in major test flight
SpaceX has launched its largest and most powerful Starship in history on a test flight, the version NASA hopes will eventually land astronauts on the moon.
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Waymo pauses robotaxi operations in five US cities over flooding issue
Waymo has paused its driverless car services in five US cities, including Atlanta and four cities in Texas, after a software bug sent vehicles into flooded roads where they got stranded.
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Pentagon’s new 64-file UFO dump includes orbs, astronauts, and Lake Huron mystery
The Pentagon on Friday drops its second batch of unsealed UFO files as promised – a 64-file tranche likely to keep the public enthralled over the three-day Memorial Day weekend, drumming up new theories and conspiracy claims about what the materials actually reveal.
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Can the “One Punch Man” workout really transform your body?
Previously an overweight middle-aged average Joe, this Japanese YouTuber has transformed his physique over a three-year process, citing the anime show One Punch Man as his chief inspiration.
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Elon Musk's companies spent $650 million buying from each other last year
SpaceX's IPO filing revealed extensive commercial and financial ties among Elon Musk's companies ranging from Cybertruck purchases and shared private jets to stock investments, showing how deeply intertwined his business empire has become ahead of what could become the largest IPO in history.
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American CEO to be sentenced over helping Indian scammers extort seniors
A CEO and a CSO have pleaded guilty to assisting scammers in carrying out tech-support fraud, which involves fake “blue screens of death” and pop-ups pretending to be from Microsoft and Apple.
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Google blocks Railway without warning, founder “gobsmacked” as platform goes dark
Railway, a cloud platform that spends millions each month on Google Cloud, suffered a major 8-hour outage after Google’s automated systems mistakenly suspended its production account. No warning. The founder says he’s “gobsmacked,” and is demoting GCP to backup-only.
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Intuit to lay off 17% of workforce by July 31 amid AI restructuring, memo says
Intuit is cutting about 3,000 jobs worldwide – roughly 17% of its workforce – as the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker restructures around AI investments and streamlined operations, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Asmongold accused of racist comments after Twitch clip with Hasan Piker
A short Twitch clip has pushed Asmongold into the center of a major online firestorm after an outburst about the genetics of black people caused major controversy.
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Coulthart says Trump knows the UFO truth, but Reddit isn’t so sure
Australian journalist Ross Coulthart claimed on X that US President Donald Trump is “indeed now briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program.” But what followed on social media was a big debate on when and how this happened.
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