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Why is Australia's mushroom killer back in court this week? Australian woman Erin Patterson was found guilty last year of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill one other by serving them a meal containing death cap mushrooms. She was sentenced to life in prison, but now

Jason Arday death 'tragedy on so many levels' says PM - Published Andy Burnham has described the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday as "a tragedy on so many levels", as he called for a "moment for reflection". Arday was found dead at an address in Battersea, south Lo

Marijuana has had a history of highs and lows in the U.S. over the past century — legally, politically and culturally — teetering between vilification and acceptance. Since 1996, 40 states and the District of Columbia have legalized either medical or recreational adult-use mariju

EV logistics startup Zypp Electric’s parent Bycyshare Technologies managed to trim its consolidated net loss to ₹59.7 Cr in the fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), down 44.4% from ₹107.5 Cr in the year-ago fiscal. As per its regulatory filings with the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA)

The KYY X90D “Triple” portable monitor is a somewhat misleading label for a surprisingly useful tool. We have recently looked at the, KYY X90G “Quad”, and they share a similar format, the latter giving you one more monitor. This monitor is vastly different from most we have teste

Body found in search for student missing on hike - Published Tributes are being paid to an 18-year-old who went missing on a hiking trip to the Romanian mountains. George Smyth, a University of Bristol student from Shropshire, had been missing since 23 November in the Bucegi moun

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also acquired Musk’s xAI earlier this year — announced a deal in April for the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave Spa

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in Apple gets U.S. warning not to buy memory chips from China: WSJ Aug 15, 2026, 12:26 PM ETApple Inc. (AAPL) StockHPQBy : Dulan Lokuwithana, SA New

Fernandez booed by Chelsea fans as Alonso offers glimpse of blueprint - Published Enzo Fernandez was booed by some supporters on the day when Morgan Rogers scored on his first appearance for Chelsea in a 3-1 win against Real Sociedad. Joao Pedro also continued his fine pre-season

Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. TechCrunch has created a comprehensive guide to help you protect yourself if you suspect someone has broken into your account on on

Alphabet’s early SpaceX investment has delivered a more than 100-fold return, and Nvidia is now sitting on a $21 billion stake in Elon Musk’s rocket company. The disclosures come as SpaceX rapidly expands its AI business, boosts infrastructure spending and deepens its partnership

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsAbout PremiumCreate free accountSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsLog in On the Move Real estate stocks show mixed performance; data center REITs gain, health care REITs lose Aug 15, 2026, 12:00 PM ETState Street Real

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos—the Progress Center, which was

Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST Seagate a close second on most unreliable list Economists Christ

Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 Take my money! We’ve seen many innovative projects crash and burn at the crowdfunding stage, but the Photon Mat

Smarkets, a UK-based betting exchange, is making its way into the U.S. by pursuing two separate avenues. The company, which was founded in 2008, filed for a license with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in March. The platform — which has over $60 billion in lifetime tradi

Anthropic's revenue surged more than 14-fold in the second quarter from a year earlier, Bloomberg News reported Friday, underscoring the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering. The AI company reported preliminar

Anthropic's revenue surged more than 14-fold in the second quarter from a year earlier, Bloomberg News reported Friday, underscoring the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering. The AI company reported preliminar

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently announced on social media that she was freezing her eggs, she called attention to the cost of the procedure. The decision had taken time, the Democratic representative for New York's 14th congressional district said in an Instagram stor

Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD If you need a top-tier gaming system that delivers on performance and aesthetics, the Predator Orion 6000 (PO6-605-UR15W) should do the tric

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The caverns that hold the U.S. strategic oil reserves could get damaged by the rapid release of stockpiles in response to the Iran war, experts warned this week as inventories hit a four-decade low. Damage to the caverns would make it more difficult to respond to future energy em

Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock Nvidia makes some good investments. Nvidia’s $5 billion purchase of Intel stock last year, made as part of the companies’ strategic AI infrastructure partne

Gamma crossed $100M ARR with 50 employees. Profitably. 50 million users. 600,000 paying subscribers. For most of that run, no sales team at all. That works out to $2M in ARR per employee, at a price point where the average paying customer is worth about $167 a year. Nobody gets t

AWS Compute Blog Introducing public preview runtimes on AWS Lambda, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 Today, AWS Lambda introduces public preview runtimes, a new way to try upcoming language versions on Lambda before their general availability (GA) release. Starting today,

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With the Q1 FY27 earnings season drawing to a close, company-specific financial performance and business updates drove movements in new-age tech stocks this week. While 30 new-age tech stocks ended the week in the green, gaining up to 23%, 29 declined between 0.5% and 14%. Meesho

With a growing number of colleges and universities costing more than $100,000 a year, higher education is slipping out of reach for many students, several reports now show. Just 12% of surveyed Americans say four-year colleges are affordable, according to a recent Lumina Foundati

Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files — creators allege Microsoft Defender blocking plugin cache is to blame Another Windows flaw Popular open-source media player VLC has run into an unusual issue on Windows 11 that causes

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D faceoff — seeing double with Zen 4 X3D AMD's new 8-core X3D chip takes on the popular choice AMD recently expanded its X3D lineup with the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, a new entry that slots in below the Ryzen 7 7800X3D as a more affordable way to get 3

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fus

One97 Communications, the parent company of Paytm, gained 11% this week, reaching 1,603, marking its biggest weekly jump in four months, extending its strong recovery as investor sentiment around the fintech major remains positive following a series of favourable developments. Th

White House authorizes private companies to launch 'hack-back' cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations Vetted U.S. firms can now conduct surveillance and destructive c

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire added $17 billion of Alphabet shares in Q2 Google parent Alphabet is now the thir