market-rundown:-tesla-profits-plunge-with-‘rough’-times-ahead

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From Tesla shares plunging after one of its worst quarters in over a decade — to traders eyeing the ECB’s rate decision amid growing optimism over an EU-US trade deal, here’s what’s moving markets before Wall Street opens. #tesla #teslashares #elonmusk #ecb #interestrates #markets #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the storyContinue Reading

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The data nerds are fighting back. After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Traitor 47 began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely.Continue Reading

uk-regulator-seeks-special-status-for-apple-and-google-that-could-mandate-changes-for-big-tech

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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog has proposed labeling Google’s and Apple’s mobile ecosystems with “strategic market status,” which would mandate changes at the Big Tech companies to improve competition. The Competition and Markets Authority’s announcement Wednesday follows separate investigations it opened at the start of the year into Google’sContinue Reading

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GitHub (and thus its owner, Microsoft) is calling for a new EU tech fund to ensure critical open source software can be maintained. Its proposal, detailed in a report, stresses that our the economy relies on open source software (OSS) for digital infrastructure, but that maintenance ‘continues to be underfunded,Continue Reading

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On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded the private company Acquisition Logistics a contract to build the largest immigrant detention facility in the United States—giving $1.26 billion, as Bloomberg reported this week, to a Virginia-based company that “doesn’t appear to have any experience with detention.” TheContinue Reading

New Neil Armstrong Prize to honor achievements in space

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Jerry Ross (at podium) announces the new Neil Armstrong Space Prize while flanked by fellow astronauts and Purdue University alums at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 2025. (Image credit: Purdue University/Jon Garcia) A new international award named for the first person to step foot on the moon will honor excellenceContinue Reading