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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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US prosecutors target healthcare and pandemic scams worth over $1bn
The US Justice Department announced a series of enforcement actions last week, including a healthcare fraud conviction in Florida worth more than $1 billion and multiple cases involving wire fraud.
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Musk's X caves to UK pressure to crack down on hate speech, terror content
Elon Musk’s X will crack down on hate speech and terror-related content in the UK, promising British online safety regulator Ofcom that it will review any such content reported by users within within roughly 24 hours.
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Brussels’ DMA regulation handed Firefox millions of new users
Thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Mozilla has gained more than 6 million new users for its web browser Firefox.
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Engineer straps an RTX 5090 to a MacBook Air and actually gets it working
Many have tried and failed before – macOS simply can’t run external GPUs because it has no drivers. But one engineer has now found a way around it. A Linux virtual machine on a Mac with “enough elbow grease” can drive the most powerful consumer GPU, Nvidia RTX 5090, and play AAA games at 4K, though at a significant performance penalty.
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Suicide prevention website tracked and shared visitors’ data without consent
113, a national organization for suicide prevention in the Netherlands, collected and shared sensitive information from its website visitors with third parties without consent.
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Cops arrest online drug bazaar kingpin who sent gold bars to his home
German cops have arrested a man suspected of being the administrator of the now-defunct online drug bazaar Dream Market. It took years for the authorities to track Owe Martin Andresen down.
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