Brussels moved this week to close one of the fashion industry’s dirtiest secrets. From July 19 large companies across the European Union can no longer torch, shred or landfill unsold clothes, accessories and shoes. The prohibition, now entering into force under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, marks the first binding limit on product destruction […]

Brussels is moving to reshape the rules that govern European banking. The goal is simple. Let local lenders grow big enough to stand up to their American counterparts. A new report from the European Commission lays out the problem in stark terms. Too many barriers. Too much national politics. Not enough room to expand across

SpaceX went public on June 12 in what quickly became the largest initial offering in history. The shares priced at $135. They soared past $200 in early trading. Yet barely a month later the ticker sits below the offer price. Investors have watched nearly a trillion dollars in market value evaporate. The drop feels abrupt.

Bitcoin trades near $64,000. That’s its cheapest level in nearly two years. The drop from last October’s peak above $126,000 has wiped out more than half its value. Yet for some, this marks a rare entry point. ETFs Offer Easy Access Amid the Slump Spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn billions since their 2024 debut. The

Alvaro Puig learned to drive the old way. His father insisted on it. In the early 1990s the family BMW demanded a firm hand on the shifter and a steady foot on the clutch. Puig mastered the dance. Millions of Americans once did the same. Those days now feel distant. Last year just 0.6 percent

Palmer Luckey built Anduril Industries to remake American defense. The 2017 startup, named for a sword from fantasy tales, now commands a $61 billion valuation after a $5 billion funding round in May 2026. Its systems power autonomous drones, underwater vessels and surveillance towers. They rely on artificial intelligence to spot threats and act with

The Department of Justice just opened the door for federal employees to install TikTok on their government-issued phones. This marks a sharp reversal from a 2022 law that barred the app over national security worries tied to its Chinese parent company ByteDance. The move comes after a complex ownership restructuring that hands control of TikTok’s

Phone numbers. Home addresses. Family ties. Employment history. These details aren’t just scattered across the web. They sit in databases run by companies that treat personal information as inventory to buy and sell. Data brokers have turned privacy into a commodity. And the trade moves fast. Marketers scoop up profiles for targeted ads. Insurers adjust

CCleaner once sat at the top of every new Windows install list. Technicians recommended it without hesitation. Home users ran it monthly to shed digital weight. That era ended years ago. A 2017 supply-chain attack changed everything. Attackers slipped a backdoor into a signed installer for version 5.33. MakeUseOf reported that Cisco Talos identified the