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Stock Trading

AMD Lands a $60-100 Billion AI Chip Deal With Meta — The Biggest GPU Contract in History

Meta commits to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs built on TSMC's 2nm node, with first shipments in H2 2026 and AMD issuing 160 million performance-based share warrants.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 10, 20264 min read
AI

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — A Lightning-Fast AI Model at Just $0.25 Per Million Tokens

Google DeepMind's new Flash-Lite model delivers 2.5x faster responses than its predecessor at a fraction of the cost, making production-scale AI deployment dramatically more affordable.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 9, 20264 min read
AI Security

Claude AI Discovers 22 Security Vulnerabilities in Firefox in Just 14 Days — Ushering In AI-Powered Bug Hunting

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 CVEs in Firefox during a two-week audit with Mozilla, including 14 high-severity flaws that traditional fuzz testing had missed.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 9, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Orange Pi's AI Station Packs 176 TOPS of Edge AI Power Into a Single Board With Up to 96GB RAM

Built around a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 10 AI cores, the Orange Pi AI Station delivers over 13x the AI performance of a Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo — on a single board.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 9, 20264 min read
Gaming

Ubisoft Confirms Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake — The Beloved Pirate Adventure Is Getting a Full Rebuild

After years of rumors, Ubisoft officially announces a full remake of the 2013 fan-favorite pirate adventure, with concept art and a cryptic tease from the creative director.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 9, 20264 min read
Crypto

Nasdaq Partners With Kraken to Build a Tokenized Stock Trading Platform — Targeting a 2027 Launch

The second-largest stock exchange teams up with crypto exchange Kraken to create an equities transformation gateway, giving token holders full shareholder rights including voting and dividends.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 9, 20264 min read
AI Security

NIST Launches the AI Agent Standards Initiative to Get Ahead of Autonomous AI Security Risks

With 83% of organizations planning to deploy agentic AI but only 29% security-ready, NIST is building guardrails before the first major incident forces reactive regulation.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 9, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Biotech Stocks Surge Double Digits as Regulatory Clarity Returns to the FDA

Gene therapy and rare disease stocks rally sharply as an FDA leadership transition signals a more predictable approval environment — uniQure jumps 36%, Biohaven gains 23%.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 9, 20264 min read
AI

The Pentagon Just Labeled Anthropic a 'Supply Chain Risk' and Ordered a Federal Phase-Out of Claude

After Anthropic refused to remove guardrails banning mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the Department of Defense triggered a six-month phase-out of Claude from classified networks.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 8, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

The Pironman 5 Pro Max Transforms a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Full Tower PC With a Touchscreen, Camera, and AI Accelerator Slot

SunFounder's $146 enclosure adds a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, dual speakers, dual NVMe RAID slots, and Hailo AI accelerator support to the Raspberry Pi 5.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 8, 20264 min read
Gaming

Marathon Launches to 91% Positive Steam Reviews — But Player Counts Have Already Dropped 50% in 48 Hours

Bungie's extraction shooter nails the gunplay and earns glowing user reviews, but a halving of concurrent players within two days raises serious retention questions.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 8, 20265 min read
AI Security

Pakistan-Linked APT36 Floods Indian Government Networks With AI-Generated 'Vibeware' Malware

Bitdefender reveals a nation-state campaign using AI coding assistants to mass-produce disposable malware in 12+ languages, overwhelming defenders with sheer volume.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 8, 20265 min read
Gaming

Pokemon Pokopia Becomes the Highest-Rated Pokemon Game on Metacritic — And It's Selling Switch 2s

Game Freak's Animal Crossing-style Pokemon life sim earns an 89 Metacritic average and is convincing holdout fans to finally buy a Nintendo Switch 2.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 8, 20264 min read
Crypto

U.S. Banking Regulators Declare Blockchain 'Technology Neutral' — Clearing Banks to Hold Tokenized Securities

The Fed, FDIC, and OCC jointly rule that tokenized securities receive the same capital treatment as traditional ones, removing the last major barrier for bank participation in on-chain markets.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 8, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Boeing Surges on Reports of a $100 Billion China Deal for 500 Jets — Defying the Broader Market Selloff

Boeing jumped 3.7% to become the Dow's top gainer after Bloomberg reported a landmark 500-jet 737 MAX order from China, expected to be unveiled at the Trump-Xi summit.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 8, 20264 min read
AI

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 With Native Computer Use, 1M Token Context, and 33% Fewer Errors

OpenAI's newest frontier model can autonomously operate your desktop, processes up to a million tokens of context, and cuts hallucinations by a third compared to GPT-5.2.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 7, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi Prices Are Closing In on Mini PCs as the Global DRAM Shortage Squeezes the Market

A worldwide memory shortage is pushing Raspberry Pi kit prices uncomfortably close to budget mini PCs, forcing hobbyists to rethink their build strategies.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 7, 20264 min read
Gaming

Slay the Spire 2 Hits 526K Concurrent Players on Launch Day — The Roguelike Deck-Builder King Returns

Mega Crit's long-awaited sequel smashes Steam records with over half a million concurrent players and a 97% positive rating in its first 24 hours of early access.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 7, 20265 min read
AI

Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts Nearly 40% of Its Workforce — And Says AI Will Fill the Gaps

Block slashes its headcount from over 12,000 to roughly 7,500 employees, citing AI-driven productivity gains as a core reason the company can operate leaner.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 7, 20265 min read
Gaming

World of Warcraft: Midnight Officially Confirms Player Housing — The Feature Fans Have Waited 20 Years For

Blizzard reveals that the Midnight expansion will finally deliver player housing to World of Warcraft, with customizable homes tied to the new Quel'Thalas zones.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonMar 7, 20265 min read
AI Security

Google's Threat Analysis Group Exposes 'Coruna' — An iOS Exploit Kit Packing 23 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Google TAG reveals a sophisticated commercial spyware vendor using a chain of 23 previously unknown iOS exploits to compromise iPhones without user interaction.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 7, 20265 min read
AI Security

An AI-Powered Attacker Just Breached 600+ FortiGate Firewalls Using Automated Exploit Chains

Security researchers trace a mass exploitation campaign against Fortinet firewalls to an attacker using large language models to automate vulnerability discovery and exploit generation.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisMar 7, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Wall Street Suffers Its Worst Day in Three Months as Weak Jobs Data and Surging Oil Collide

The S&P 500 drops 2.4% and the Nasdaq tumbles 3.1% after February's jobs report misses badly and crude oil spikes above $88 a barrel.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderMar 7, 20265 min read
Crypto

Bitcoin Drops to $68,800 as Weak Jobs Data and Surging Oil Prices Trigger a Broad Crypto Selloff

A disappointing February jobs report and a spike in crude oil prices send Bitcoin tumbling 8% in 24 hours, dragging the broader crypto market down with it.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensMar 7, 20265 min read