Private Credit Firms Enter Consumer Debt as Risks Mount
📋 Key Facts ✓ Private credit firms are piling into consumer debt. ✓ Risk-taking is mounting in these financial activities. ...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Private credit firms are piling into consumer debt. ✓ Risk-taking is mounting in these financial activities. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Northern Data is majority-owned by Tether. ✓ Northern Data sold its Bitcoin mining arm. ✓ The buy...
Russia will free Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving a three-year prison sentence for flouting laws requiring "foreign agents" to register with authorities. Vinatier will be exchanged for...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Department of Justice faces criticism for not releasing all Epstein files on Friday ✓ A law signed by President Donal...
The Defense Department is investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for a video he made with fellow Democratic lawmakers. Kelly has said troops have the right to disobey an unlawful order. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call...
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 came out back in September 2025, and while it was an extremely premium handheld gaming PC , it was held back by Windows 11. Luckily, Lenovo is fixing that at CES 2026 , where it...
Several others kidnapped by "bandits" in Nigeria's Niger state....
The Sudanese government which had been driven out by war has returned to Khartoum and promises “better services” for the capital's residents, Prime Minister Kamil Idris announced on Sunday. The army-a...
The initial quake was followed by a sizeable number of aftershocks....
Hytale , the highly-anticipated Minecraft -like adventure game that's been in development for a decade, is nearly here. After developer Hypixel Studios was acquired by Riot Games in 2020 , shut down b...
Meta has forged agreements with three nuclear power providers in an effort to secure the vast amount of electricity it needs to power AI data centers. The agreements with TerraPower (which is backed b...
Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platf...
Intel announced yesterday that it's developing an entire "handheld gaming platform" powered by its new Panther Lake chips , and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is hinting about pot...
Indonesia has temporarily suspended access to Grok. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Indonesia and Malaysia have suspended access to Grok after it was used to create sexualized AI images. Indonesia'...
Tailors, restaurants, dating services and other businesses are affected by the trend...
Ride-hailing drivers face increased competition for earnings as well as the growth of driverless taxis. Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images Gig workers have been facing declining earni...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Strategy Inc. increased cash reserves to $2.19 billion by raising $748 million from 4.54 million Class A shares. ✓ Bitcoi...
Amazon is pushing forward with its own brand of chips called Trainium. Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon says that some employees stranded in India due to visa delays can work re...
Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented...