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The first U.S. insider trading case tied to a prediction market isn’t really about a Google engineer’s $1.2M — it’s about what blockchain pseudonymity...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 12-year Google software engineer, with insider trading after he allegedly turned confidential internal search data into $1.2 million in profits on the prediction market platform Polymarket. The complaint alleges he...

People who keep the thermostat colder than everyone else prefers often aren’t just running hot — many grew up in houses where the heating...

It is 11.47pm and someone in a quiet kitchen is doing the small nightly thing they always do. A glance at the thermostat. A pause. A finger that hovers, considers, and then drops the temperature one degree before bed....

The world’s most advanced chips, from iPhones to AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them: ASML,...

The world’s most advanced chips, from the processor in an iPhone to the accelerators inside AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them. That company is ASML, in the Dutch town of...

Everyone saw the AI backlash coming — fewer expected it to start with the generation raised on screens

In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer...

Report: AI could drive up Australian power prices by 26% by 2035

The artificial intelligence hubs could also use as much electricity as all homes in the state of Victoria by 2030.  The Climate Council issued the warnings on Wednesday in a report into the growing tech industry that has established 162...

‘Disregard for the risk to human life’: a US state is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

The lawsuit, filed in Florida state court on Monday local time by Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier, is one of the most significant enforcement actions brought by a state attorney against an AI company to date. It comes as OpenAI...

Remarkable, Catalysr and Indigenous pre-accelerators score NSW government support for diverse founders

Also chosen were First Nations Economics, a charity that will support up to 60 Indigenous women with mentoring, business capability development, and networks, as well as Dean Foley’s Barayamal, which will deliver a pre-accelerator supporting up to 80 Aboriginal...

A VC pleads: ‘Founders, please stop using AI to write pitches’

That was the subject line of a recent email with a clear ask that actually caught my attention. And as an investor who receives dozens of startup pitches and even more follow-ups each week that’s saying something. It wasn’t...

Freshly Funded Projects to Supply Fast Internet for Remote, Rural Households

Canada and British Columbia recently announced $236 million in joint federal and provincial funding. The $236M of capital is earmarked for eight projects designed to bring high-speed Internet access to remote and rural communities throughout the province. The eight projects will...

RBC Expands Vancouver Innovation Hub

RBC is growing its presence in British Columbia with an expansion of its Vancouver banking and innovation hub. The downtown hub, which opened last November, currently has 350 employees and is expected to grow to 600 employees by the end...
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Psychology says people who double-check the door is locked (even when they know it is) aren’t anxious or forgetful — they’re wired for a...

You locked it. You watched your own hand turn the key. You’re halfway down the path. And you go back...
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