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Wall Street is treating Nvidia GPUs like aircraft collateral — and a $35B syndication is quietly testing whether the credit markets agree

When banks start using AI chips as loan collateral, the credit markets face an unprecedented test of what artificial ...
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Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are …

A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” ...
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The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter and more to do with the s…

The unused notebooks and unopened pens in a household drawer are rarely about disorganisation. They are the archaeological ...
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Most people assume Dubai became rich from oil, but oil now accounts for less than 1% of the emirate's GDP — down from 50% in the 1980s — with tourism, trade, an…

Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United ...
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The habit of buying slightly too much food whenever family visits isn't overpreparation, for many people it's a quiet inheritance from a household where a…

For many adults, buying too much food when family visits isn't anxious hosting — it's inherited grammar from a household ...
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day classroom experiment called 'The Third Wave' — and by day four, 200 students had joined a m…

In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a ...
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We picture loneliness as an old person's burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most ...

The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed ...
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South Korea approved single-stock leveraged ETFs, then banned new ones two months later — inside the margin unwind that pushed forced selling to seven times …

Regulators tripled minimum deposits and halted new leveraged ETF listings after the Kospi's slide from a June record. The ...
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Children who grew up in the 1970s with empty afternoons and no structured playdates were not being neglected — they were practising self-directed play, the v…

The unstructured hours of childhood—dismissed today as neglect—were actually training ground for a critical skill we're now ...
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How does a bundle of glass fibres thinner than a garden hose, lying on the ocean floor under four kilometres of water, carry more than 95 percent of all intercontinen…

Roughly 600 submarine cables — hair-thin glass wrapped in steel and polyethylene, refreshed every 50 kilometres by ...
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Scientists spent decades treating Olympus Mons as a dead volcano, a frozen relic three times the height of Everest that stopped erupting long ago, until they found …

Olympus Mons on Mars is 22 kilometres tall and 600 kilometres wide, with slopes so shallow that a person standing on it would ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...