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NY sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it''s an illegal gambling operation (www.cnn.com)
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New York Alleges Kalshi Is Running Illegal Gambling Operation (www.wsj.com)
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Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba (www.bloomberg.com)
About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory''s leader says (www.bbc.com)
Warner Bros. Deal Collapse Would Cost the Ellisons 9.8B (finance.yahoo.com)
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Trump considering 100k fees for International Students to work post-graduation (www.forbes.com)
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Right to repair: New consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs (commission.europa.eu)
Government Ownership Stakes in Companies Becoming Routine Under Trump (www.cato.org)
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Low Entropy Vuln on Coldcard Mk3 Hardware Wallets, 1082.58 BTC Drained (www.reddit.com)
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Coldcard Mk3 security advisory: seeds from firmware 4.0.1 onward may be at risk (blog.coinkite.com)
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New York sues Kalshi, says its prediction markets are illegal gambling (www.reuters.com)
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FCC bans future Roombas from being sold in the US (www.dexerto.com)
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Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop (www.reuters.com)
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Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism (2008) (kk.org)
US Military jamming disrupted a medical plane''s GPS system before it crashed (apnews.com)