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Excerpt from TheStreet: “"I bought this as a gift but loved it so much I kept it for myself."”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “A little-known chip component is attracting billions.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Wall Street sees a bigger fight coming.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “When he started flying unmanned aircraft in combat, “Ray” was flying some of Ukraine’s earliest mid-range strike drones, on missions of about 100 kilometers with a warhead about the weight of a bowling ball.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's a great little charger."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Mauritius’ state-owned carrier is planning to add single-aisle aircraft and review the planned acquisition of wide-body planes as part of a long-term strategy review.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “If you handed an AI agent your login, fraud protection may not apply.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Richard Mott's first foray into hospitality was in the 1980s at the University of Chicago, where he started running a coffee shop in the basement of the business school when he was a grad student. By the time he graduated, he helped grow that single coffee shop into four…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"The lacy metalwork evokes a bit of French Quarter romance."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Ukraine said limits on the speed of its SpaceX Starlink terminal connections had been lifted in overnight testing, a move that may ease the latest tensions between Kyiv and Washington.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Indonesia is reducing natural gas exports to neighboring Singapore as President Prabowo Subianto seeks to shore up domestic supply and strengthen energy security for Southeast Asia’s largest economy.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Shares of Switzerland’s ultra-defensive big companies are a bright spot in a tumultuous period for European equity markets.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A new round of protests is set to hit France on Saturday, raising fears of a repeat of last weekend’s riots.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in the Chinese city of Dandong, his second visit in just over a year and before US President Donald Trump travels to the region next month.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Japanese IT services provider GMO Internet Group Inc. said it has asked the government to deploy active cyber defense as the company works to contain the fallout from a hacking incident.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Next week, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey must deliver what his predecessor, Rachel Reeves, couldn’t: A budget that keeps both the bond market and the governing Labour Party happy.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Kenya has reported a second death from Ebola, a 65-year-old woman who was a close family member of the index case.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A developer of a liquefied natural gas facility in Alaska received financing from Russia-based Novatek PJSC, an energy giant that is subject to US sanctions, the Financial Times reported.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is mimicking his ally Vladimir Putin’s plan to extend his grip on power. He wants to swap the presidency for the prime minister’s job.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India’s market regulator has ordered options trader Avadhut Sathe and his trading academy to refund 5.46 billion rupees ($57.5 million) to course participants after finding they provided unregistered investment advice and research services under the guise of stock market…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia’s security cannot be compromised as he held fast on the government’s partial ban of Google’s navigation app Waze and said authorities aren’t ruling out even wider restrictions.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “An Australian lawmaker whose legs were amputated after she was struck by a car in an alleged attack outside her office in rural Victoria is in stable condition, according to hospital authorities.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “This week, campaign costs are soaring, but democratic fundraiser Blair Effron of Centerview Partners says many races may already have reached the point where more money stops making much difference. And, even though most Americans dislike the proliferation of data centers, one…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The UK announced £100 million ($134 million) for a AI Biosecurity Lab which will be supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, part of a raft of measures designed to improve the government’s ability to understand and tackle the risks posed by the technology.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bloomberg's Lisa Mateo, Scarlet Fu, and Tom Keene discuss the release of the new Apple iPhone on this weeks edition of "Bloomberg Money." (Source: Bloomberg)”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Instacart has explored a potential sale of the grocery-delivery company, a process that has included discussions with Uber Technologies Inc., a person familiar with the matter said.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Apple Inc. quickly sold out of its limited in-store inventory for the new iPhone Duo, underscoring the strong demand for a foldable device that starts at nearly $2,000.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The PHP Interpreter”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork”

Excerpt from GitHub: “OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “紫微斗数开源排盘引擎 — 基于倪海厦《天纪》体系，含完整排盘算法、四化系统、格局知识库、古籍原文数据”

Excerpt from GitHub: “claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills designed for the Claude skills system. Each skill is a structured SKILL.md file that primes Claude with expert-level methodology for a specific attack surface — from SQLi to shellcode, EDR evasion to exploit…”

Excerpt from GitHub: “VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨”