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CNET
Memory and chip suppliers are the Roadrunner, we're Wile E. Coyote and shortages are the anvil. Poof. more…
Brent Phillips bought a Texas ranch for himself and his family. When he lost millions in a stock crash, he began renting it out on Airbnb. more…
The appliance-maker is being hit by seemingly every negative macro force at once. more…
Oppenheimer's technical analysts coined "Sell in July for a Big October Buy" as a trading framework for investors in this year's election cycle. more…
Oil prices could spike past $200 a barrel in the worst-case scenario, economist Nouriel Roubini warned. more…
NPR
The war in Iran has pushed global oil prices higher, which boosts oil company revenues. But major U.S. oil companies aren't signaling plans to increase production to bring down prices at the pump. more…
Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart are targeting high-income consumers with premium services, lifting their quarterly earnings and stock prices. more…
Ryan Cohen gained prominence by cofounding Chewy and becoming a face of the meme stock craze. Now, he's leading GameStop's bid for eBay. more…
CoreWeave is one of the most successful among a crop of firms delivering the infrastructure for AI. Its top execs have quietly sold off shares. more…
"I did not want to be the CEO of GameStop," GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told Business Insider on Friday. "I want to be the CEO of eBay." more…
After GameStop made a surprise $55.5 billion offer to buy eBay, its CEO, Ryan Cohen, spoke to CNBC. more…
Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he sold GameStop because he dislikes its plan to buy eBay, and has opened an "outright short" on Palantir. more…
A former Googler assumed only people who got rich from their startups being bought out could retire early. He shared the simple investment strategies he says helped him do it. more…
See the internet's best reactions to the news of GameStop offering to buy eBay. more…
Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he exited GameStop because he was hoping Ryan Cohen would strike a less debt-heavy and dilutive deal. more…
Top Citi executives were pressed on how they plan to transform the bank's culture for everyday employees, not just the top ranks. more…
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed a slew of affordability policies. Here's how they've worked elsewhere. more…
trauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, is guiding the final stretch of a 13-year push to deliver GTA 6, the next installment of "Grand Theft Auto." more…
Kotaku
Failing to convince eBay leadership on other stakes, the GameStop CEO leverages his emotional investment more…
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The video game retailer has been pivoting to Pokémon cards and other collectibles more…
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Saylor, the chairman of Strategy, told Fortune that his comments about selling Bitcoin sought to protect his stock from crashing. more…
In an in-depth interview with Fortune, the ServiceNow CEO explains how AI provides a tailwind to its business and how Wall Street is missing the point. more…
“We are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate,” CEO Brian Armstrong said. more…
The AI boom is coming for rural America. Inside one town's effort to fight back more…
Slate Magazine
Maybe it's time to stop dabbling in astrology. more…
Abcnews.com
The DOJ is investigating a series of suspiciously timed trades in the oil market just ahead of major announcements by President Donald Trump about the Iran war. more…
The New Yorker
As Elon Musk sues his former OpenAI partners, A.I. companies are expanding rapidly, but profits are still scarce, John Cassidy writes. more…
The New Yorker
Antonia Hitchens writes about Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for construction projects his Administration is undertaking in Washington, D.C., to bolster his legacy. more…
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Will that demand for easy, couch-based PC gaming transfer to the Steam Machine? more…
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The company, Strategy, is effectively a levered play on bitcoin. more…
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It's just innovation upon innovation. more…
The boom is not as untethered from reality as it may look. more…
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington more…
BBC News
GameStop's boss Ryan Cohen says he sees potential to make eBay a much bigger rival to Amazon. more…
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It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting. more…
Haskell.org
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses. more…
Ghost.io
A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time. more…
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Intel’s stock hit a record high today in the aftermath of a Bloomberg report that claimed Apple is exploring Intel and Samsung Electronics as potential manufacturing partners for future device chips. Here are the details. more… more…
CNET
Sure, filets are tasty, but they aren't wallet-friendly. These cuts are. more…
Windows Central
The Steam Controller sold out instantly when it launched this week, but Valve has issued a new statement confirming it's working hard to get a restock. more…
Windows Central
Valve's new Steam Controller sold out almost immediately, and they're now being sold on eBay for as much as $399. PC gamers obviously aren't happy, but there's a good reason why scalpers feel the need to do what they do. more…
Theregister.com
Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list… more…
MakeUseOf
The PS5 Pro costs $900, another $100 for the disc drive. Here's a PC i built for the similar price that provides a better value. more…
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Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their informat… more…
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Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site more…
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Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest more…
Search Engine Journal
Ask.com, the search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. IAC discontinued the search business after nearly 30 years. The post Ask Jeeves Is Gone After Nearly 30 Years Of Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
Jezebel
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. more…
XDA Developers
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Ritholtz.com
My morning train WFH reads: • I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did. What followed was a monthslong back-and-forth on everything from tariffs to leveraged funds . Spoiler: it picked momentum and got beaten by a bad market. Useful as a… more…
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The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • I Want to Live Like Costco People: Embracing the Costco lifestyle means accepting the fact that I am, in many ways, becomi… more…
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The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Lawrence Calcano, iCapital CEO, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube (video), YouTube (audio), and Bloomberg. All of our earl… more…
Techdirt
FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent much of the last five years on cable TV whining incessantly about foreign entanglement with U.S. companies. Even companies he doesn’t regulate. He was positively apoplectic about China’s ownership of TikTok, which you may recal… more…
Vox
Let’s face it: Another baby boom isn’t coming anytime soon. The latest round of US birth data, released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show the general fertility rate has dropped to a new record low of 53.1 per 1,000 fem… more…
Rolling Stone
Donald Trump revived the Presidential Fitness Test Award in an Oval Office ceremony, ranting to children about the Iran war and trans athletes. more…
The New York Review of Books
In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde's attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment. more…
Al Jazeera English
eBay confirms receiving GameStop's offer, with no prior discussions between the companies more…
Variety
Trump Media and Technology Group, operator of the social media platform Truth Social, reported a massive net loss for the first three months of 2026 and less than $1 million in total sales. For the first quarter, TMTG generated net sales of $871,200, up 6% ye… more…
Eurogamer.net
Nintendo has announced a price increase for the Switch 2. This follows reports Nintendo was facing pressure from investors to increase the price of its Switch 2 console, due to concerns about its profitability. Read more more…
PCWorld
TL;DR: Sterling Stock Picker combines ChatGPT-style insights with structured investing tools—yours for a one-time $54.97 (MSRP $486). OpenAI’s failure to meet revenue targets didn’t end the AI trade—it just made it more nuanced. When a sector levels out … more…
PCWorld
Desktop processors are among the few hardware components that are sold both in elaborate individual packaging (boxed) and in a plain cardboard box or plastic tray. Tray CPUs are mass-produced goods that retailers and computer manufacturers purchase in la… more…
Eurogamer.net
A certain controller was released earlier this week, and within what felt like no time at all, it was totally out of stock. Yes, I am talking about the Steam Controller. It was there, and then just like that, it was gone, having been snapped up by eager patro… more…
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Valve's newly-released Steam Controller has proven popular, selling out almost as soon as it was made available. And, of course surprising no one, that means the controllers are now popping up on resale sites like eBay. Read more more…
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Nintendo shocked the games industry last night with a sudden reveal of a new Star Fox game, a remake of Star Fox 64, coming exclusively to Switch 2. This surprise announcement comes off the back of Nintendo investors reportedly voicing concerns that the Switc… more…
Samsung Electronics' stock has doubled this year, making it the second Asian company — after TSMC — to join the $1 trillion club. more…
Goldman Sachs calls the South Korean market its "highest conviction view" in Asia. more…
Trump Media stock is down nearly 90% since its peak. Here's why the company behind Truth Social hasn't lived up to expectations. more…
Deadline
The AI-infused retooling of The Wizard of Oz that opened last August at Sphere in Las Vegas has now sold almost 3 million tickets, grossing $370 million. Sphere Entertainment provided the updated tally on the film, which it sees having plenty of playability l… more…
New Atlas
In a particularly vibrant nightlife precinct of Shenzhen, in China, the main attraction may be a massive landlocked cruise ship that's been turned into hotels, bars and restaurants. But in its shadow, is an equally bizarre but less obvious novelty: a round st… more…
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La agenda de mercadillos está repleta de citas que se acumulan cada fin de semana para ofrecernos antigüedades y objetos retro a lo largo y ancho del país. Desde rastros semanales a ferias de almoneda pasando por vaciados de casas y mercadillos puntuales. <!… more…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted a rent freeze during his successful campaign, but was lambasted by landlord groups. [ more › ] more…
The New Republic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 8 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.The Washington … more…
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Political insiders have found a new way to make cash off of election season.Betting on the success or failure of political candidates has effectively become commonplace in the industry, NPR reported Thursday, with campaign staffers making thousands of dollars… more…
Institutional investors injected over Rs 7,400 crore into Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) on Monday through significant block deals. Capital Group entities were major buyers, acquiring stakes from Worldwide Emerging Market Holding Limited. Small… more…
Sebi has announced that market price data for listed companies will be available with a 30-day lag for investor education and awareness activities. This new regulation, effective July 1, 2026, aims to prevent data misuse and ensure educational content remains… more…
Coforge shares saw a significant jump following robust Q4 financial results. The company reported a substantial surge in net profit and revenue. Analysts are optimistic, with several brokerages issuing 'Buy' recommendations. Strong deal wins and an expanding … more…
Fstoppers
The Fujifilm X100VI has been supply-constrained for more than two years. The camera launched in February 2024, and as of April 2026, availability remains spotty: Fujifilm's own US shop typically shows it as "Notify Me" rather than in stock, and major retailer… more…
Fstoppers
Want to reclaim your desk space and maybe even reduce the pain in your neck by optimizing your viewing angle? Consider a monitor arm. Here, we take a look at the HUANUO FlowLift™ Single Monitor Mount (formerly SS6, but still model HNSS6). I also discuss the H… more…
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Today's Iran war news: Team Trump says it is abandoning Project Freedom and Epic Fury while keeping the damaging blockade and sanctions on. more…
Ghacks Technology News
Intel shares rose as much as 15 percent on Tuesday to reach an all-time high of 110. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Intel Stock Hits All-Time High After Report of Apple Chip Manufacturing Talks appeared first on gHacks. more…
Fstoppers
The Pentax K-3 Mark III was officially discontinued in Japan in January 2025. The Monochrome variant has been more complicated: B&H's original black Monochrome listing is now marked "No Longer Available," though it points buyers to a current matte-black Monoc… more…
Fstoppers
Photography has a spending problem, and it starts early. The moment you get serious enough to move past the kit lens and the auto mode, the industry opens a firehose of recommendations pointed directly at your wallet. Better bodies, faster glass, studio light… more…
TechRadar
Complete your World Cup experience with an audio upgrade with a new soundbar: here are my four current picks. more…
Tom's Hardware UK
Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months. more…
Tom's Hardware UK
Newegg’s latest AM5 combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB DDR5 memory, a Samsung Gen 5 SSD, a free Corsair PSU, and a NordVPN subscription. more…
The Gadgeteer
Casio dumped dozens of new G-Shock releases for 2026, and we’re barely four months into the year. The release calendar reads like a phonebook, which means the real question isn’t “what’s new,” it’s “which ones are actually worth your wrist.” Here’s our shortl… more…
Forbes
Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report. more…
Forbes
Executives for the whirlpool maker cited a “rapid deterioration” in economic conditions during the Iran war. more…