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Treasury companies

Three Cents a Day, Sundays Included

Strategy wants to pay dividends on all four of its U.S. preferred stocks every single day, weekends included, starting with STRC on November 1. My first reaction was that this could change everything. Then I did the arithmetic. The amount of money doesn't change at all; the shape of it does. The par

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Space

A Comet Carrying Someone Else's Recipe for Water

A paper led by Kenji Furuya of Japan's RIKEN institute finds that the water boiling off our solar system's third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, carries a deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio tens of times higher than any comet native to our own solar system — a chemical fingerprint the authors say points to

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Self-custody

Binance Rebuilt My Bitkey, Minus the Metal

An email landed today announcing Binance.US's new self-custody wallet — no seed phrase, keys split three ways, "no single point of failure." I already own the product that pitch describes; it's called a Bitkey, and Block shipped it two years ago. Here's what's actually the same, what's genuinely dif

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Markets & Economy

Nearly Two Million Barrels to Fix One Shortage

ZeroHedge's tape caught it in real time — US diesel futures down more than 7%, European diesel futures up more than 7%, inside the same hour, on the same headline: a 90-day US diesel export ban the White House is reportedly close to putting forward. The administration's own Energy Secretary says it

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Space

The Cheapest Fuel in the Solar System Is a Planet

On September 28, the European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft swings within 8,640 kilometres of Earth over the Indian Ocean, borrowing 3.5 kilometres a second of speed from our planet for free. It's the third of four such thefts on a roundabout route to Jupiter's icy moons that won't actually arrive

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Computers & Gadgets

The Chip China Banned Itself Into Building

On September 22, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 at the company's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou — 216GB of on-package memory, a 1,200GB/s interconnect, and clusters scaling to 500,000 units, which CEO Eddie Wu called "the most powerful AI chip in China today." The obvious story i

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The World

The Chip Doesn't Have to Cross a Border

On September 18, House Select Committee on China chairman John Moolenaar wrote to Trump urging him to close the "cloud services loophole" in chip export controls. Less than a week before Xi Jinping's first state visit to the White House since 2015, the letter's real weight falls on a second ask: cur

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Markets & Economy

The Family That Now Owns Your Childhood

Paramount Skydance's roughly $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery cleared its last legal obstacle this week, and the list of what one company now controls is almost absurd to read in one sentence: CBS and CNN, HBO and MTV, SpongeBob and Bugs Bunny, Harry Potter and Transformers. The feder

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Health

Why Do IBD Patients Relapse Even in Remission?

A WEHI-led study of roughly 900 gut biopsies from 80 people, published in Science, finds that intestinal cells in inflammatory bowel disease patients can stay primed for an inflammatory kind of cell death even during symptom-free remission — and the stronger that signal, the higher the relapse risk

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Programming

Plugin4Shell: A Pin Is Not a Verification

AIR Security disclosed "Plugin4Shell" on September 17, 2026 — a zero-click flaw in Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI that let a hijacked git branch silently swap in different code than the one a plugin manifest had pinned by commit hash. OpenAI's own four-line patch note descr

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Health

Does Light at Night Hurt Your Heart?

A UK Biobank study of 11,071 adults found that people with bedroom light above roughly 3 lux at night — dimmer than almost any lamp, but bright enough for closed eyes to register — developed a thicker, stiffer-pumping heart and higher rates of heart failure, stroke and atrial fibrillation years late

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