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Scams used to feel clumsy. A misspelled email. An obvious lie. Not anymore. Criminals now pick targets with precision. They strike fast. And they win more often. A fresh study from security firm F-Secure lays out the shift in stark terms. Over half of consumers face scam attempts at least once a month. In the

Brussels stands at a crossroads. The European Commission plans to present its Tech Sovereignty Package on May 27. That package could bar U.S. cloud providers from handling the most sensitive public sector information across the bloc. Discussions inside the Commission focus on financial records, judicial documents and health data held by governments. Two officials told

Jack Dorsey didn’t mince words. Block, the company behind Square, Cash App and Afterpay, slashed more than 4,000 positions in late February 2026. That’s nearly 40 percent of its workforce. Headcount dropped from over 10,000 to just under 6,000 in one decisive move. The reason? Intelligence tools. Dorsey framed the cuts as a direct response

Smoking Monkey Pizza earned praise in 2025. Quality Business Awards gave it a score above 95 percent. Locals voted it best pizza in Renton, Washington. Yet the 14-year-old wood-fired chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 12, 2026. Its parent company, TB Enterprises LLC, listed assets up to $50,000 and liabilities between $100,000 and

SAN FRANCISCO — Families cooked dinner. TVs flickered with evening shows. And in late March, California’s power grid hit a quiet milestone. Its battery systems discharged just over 12,000 megawatts. That matched the output of 12 large nuclear plants. The surge covered more than 40% of the state’s demand at peak. The moment passed without

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr delivered a blunt message this month. Shrinking the central bank’s balance sheet isn’t just misguided. It risks making the financial system less safe. Speaking to the Money Marketeers of New York University on May 14, Barr rejected calls to reduce the Fed’s footprint by easing bank liquidity standards. “I think

BEIJING — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. delivered a pointed message this week. Foreign customers have begun shifting production back to China. The reason? Artificial intelligence has swallowed capacity at foundries abroad, leaving SMIC as one of the few places still able to take new business. The development marks a reversal in the chip supply chain.

Google just raised the bar for what counts as a premium Android phone. Its new Gemini Intelligence features, announced this week, come with a list of requirements so specific that even some 2025 flagships won’t make the cut. Owners of Pixel 9 series devices or Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7? They stay on the outside

Ford Motor shares jumped 13 percent in a single day this week. That marked the automaker’s strongest session since March 2020. The spark came not from a flashy new truck or an electric pickup. It arrived instead from an unexpected corner. Morgan Stanley had just turned bullish on Ford’s fledgling energy storage operation. The bank’s

Developers have grown accustomed to AI assistants that spit out code at impressive speed. Yet when that code breaks, the same tools often stumble. A fresh set of tests highlights sharp differences among the leading models. One stands apart in its ability to trace execution paths and name the exact reasons a script fails. On