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Stock Trading

Energy and Materials Stocks Surge as Oil Crosses $100 — CF Industries, Dow Inc, and Mosaic Lead the Rally

While the broader S&P 500 posts its third consecutive weekly loss, energy and materials sectors buck the trend with CF Industries up 7.25% and Dow Inc gaining 5.09%.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 14, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

FriendlyELEC's NanoPi NEO3 Plus Packs Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 Into a 48mm SBC for Just $24

The new NEO3 Plus upgrades to a Rockchip RK3528A at 2.0 GHz, adds eMMC support and RTC battery, and runs Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04, and Proxmox VE out of the box.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 12, 20264 min read
AI

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Raises $1.03 Billion in the Largest European Seed Round Ever — Betting on World Models Over LLMs

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun leaves Meta to build Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, raising $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to develop JEPA-based world models.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 12, 20264 min read
AI

Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck's InterPositive for Up to $600 Million — The Biggest AI Filmmaking Deal Yet

Netflix snaps up the stealth AI post-production startup InterPositive, bringing its 16-person team in-house to build AI-powered tools for relighting, VFX, and continuity.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 12, 20264 min read
AI Security

Google Closes Its $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition — The Largest Deal in Google's History Reshapes Cloud Security

After a year of regulatory review, Google officially completes the all-cash acquisition of Wiz, which will join Google Cloud while maintaining multi-cloud security support.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 12, 20264 min read
Gaming

Crimson Desert Preloads Begin March 17 — Pearl Abyss's Open-World RPG Launches Worldwide on March 19

Pearl Abyss confirms a simultaneous global launch at 6 PM ET on March 19 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with 48-hour preloads starting March 17 for digital preorders.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 12, 20264 min read
Gaming

GeForce NOW Upgrades VR Streaming to 90fps and Adds GOG Library Syncing — Making Cloud Gaming More Versatile Than Ever

NVIDIA announces 90fps VR streaming for Ultimate members on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest starting March 19, plus GOG account linking and subscription game labels.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 12, 20264 min read
Crypto

BlackRock Launches ETHB on Nasdaq — The First Staked Ethereum ETF That Pays Investors Yield While They Hold

The iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF begins trading March 12, staking 70-95% of its ETH via Coinbase and passing 82% of rewards to shareholders at a 0.25% fee.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 12, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

February CPI Holds at 2.4% as Rent Posts Its Smallest Gain Since 2021 — But Oil Prices Cloud the Outlook

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports February inflation at 2.4% annually with core CPI at 2.5%, while rent's 0.1% monthly gain signals shelter disinflation is finally arriving.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 12, 20264 min read
AI

NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Open Models at GDC — 120B Parameters With 5x the Throughput

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes with up to 1M-token context, already adopted by CrowdStrike, Cursor, Perplexity, and Zoom.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 12, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

ASUS Launches the NUC 16 Pro — An Intel Panther Lake Mini PC With 180 Platform TOPS in a 0.7-Liter Chassis

The latest NUC packs Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 3 with Arc B390 graphics, a 50 TOPS NPU, WiFi 7, and dual 2.5G LAN into a chassis smaller than a coffee mug.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 12, 20264 min read
AI

OpenAI Is Bringing Sora Video Generation Directly Into ChatGPT — Giving Hundreds of Millions of Users Access

According to The Information, OpenAI plans to embed Sora's video-generation capabilities into the ChatGPT interface, mirroring how DALL-E image creation was integrated.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 12, 20264 min read
AI Security

Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday Fixes 2 Zero-Days and 79 Vulnerabilities — Including Critical Office Preview Pane Bugs

The March 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 79 flaws across Windows, Office, and SQL Server, with two publicly disclosed zero-days and three Critical-rated remote code execution bugs.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 12, 20264 min read
AI Security

Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Raises $190M for Armadin — An AI Security Startup That Hunts Threats Autonomously

After selling Mandiant to Google for $5.4B, Kevin Mandia is back with Armadin — an autonomous AI security agent platform backed by Accel, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 12, 20264 min read
Gaming

Cyberpunk 2077 Joins Xbox Game Pass — One of the Greatest Redemption Stories in Gaming Is Now Free for Subscribers

CD PROJEKT RED's open-world RPG arrives on Game Pass for Cloud and Console subscribers, bringing Night City's neon-soaked streets to millions of new players.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 12, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Oracle Crushes Q3 Estimates as Cloud Revenue Surges 84% — And the $553 Billion Backlog Signals What's Coming

Oracle reports $17.19B in Q3 revenue with cloud infrastructure up 84% to $4.9B, raises FY2027 guidance to $90B, and reveals a $553B remaining performance obligation.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 12, 20264 min read
Crypto

Ethereum Foundation Quadruples Its Maximum Bug Bounty to $1 Million — Funded by the $220M DAO Security Reserve

Critical vulnerabilities that could affect the entire Ethereum blockchain now qualify for payouts up to $1 million, backed by $220 million in unclaimed funds from the 2016 DAO hack.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 12, 20264 min read
Gaming

NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026 — Dynamic Multi Frame Generation Pushes 240+ FPS With Path Tracing

NVIDIA's GDC showcase introduces DLSS 4.5 with up to five AI-generated frames per rendered frame, plus RTX Mega Geometry debuting in The Witcher 4.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 10, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Waveshare's IPCBOX-CM5 Turns a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Into a Rugged Industrial Mini PC

This industrial-grade enclosure adds RS485, RS232, CAN Bus, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and optional 5G cellular to the CM5 — targeting factory floors and edge deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 10, 20264 min read
AI Security

OpenClaw's 'ClawJacked' Vulnerability Exposed 135,000 AI Agent Instances — And 820 Malicious Skills Were Hiding in Plain Sight

The fastest-growing GitHub repo in history faces its first security crisis as researchers find a critical WebSocket hijack flaw and hundreds of malicious marketplace skills.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 10, 20264 min read
AI

Google Embeds Gemini Across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive — Your Workspace Just Got an AI Co-Pilot

Google rolls out deep Gemini AI integration across its entire Workspace suite, including full-document generation in Docs, real-time data population in Sheets, and AI-powered Drive search.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 10, 20264 min read
Gaming

Happy MAR10 Day — Nintendo Celebrates With New Virtual Boy and GBA Additions to Switch Online

Nintendo marks Mario Day 2026 by expanding the Switch Online + Expansion Pack library with three retro titles, available on both Switch and Switch 2.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 10, 20263 min read
AI Security

Amazon Introduces Mandatory Senior Review for AI-Generated Code Deployments After Learning Hard Lessons

After incidents involving autonomous AI coding tools, Amazon now requires senior manager sign-off before junior engineers can deploy AI-assisted code to production environments.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 10, 20264 min read
Crypto

Bitcoin ETFs Cross $200 Billion in Total Assets — BlackRock's IBIT Alone Holds 786,000 BTC

Spot Bitcoin ETFs hit a historic milestone as cumulative assets surpass $200 billion, with Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Vanguard all opening retail access.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 10, 20264 min read