Amazon's Ring And Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State

IMF Downgrades Global Growth Forecast Second Time In A Row The IMF downgraded global growth prospects for the second time this year, saying it expects the global economy to grow by just 3 percent in 2026. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, in January, this projection had still stood at 3.3 percent. While the downgrade is slight, it still conveys the multiple risks to the global economy currently present. As shocks from the Iran war persist, driving up the price of energy and other traded goods, disinflation has stalled and financial markets continue to be at risk of...

US Charges Google Employee With Pocketing Millions From Insider Trading Bets On Polymarket Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, US authorities have charged a Google employee with allegedly using information from the company to make bets on Polymarket and profit $1.2 million. The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it unsealed charges against Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, accusing him of accessing unreleased internal information at Google and placing 25 bets worth $2.7 million on markets related to the most searched individuals on Google in 2025. Prosecutors said Spagnuolo owned the Polymarket account “AlphaRaccoon”, which...

Why Memory Stocks Crashed Today: TurboQuant Just Changed The Game With "Google's DeepSeek Moment" With stocks closing solidly in the green despite some painful wobbles during the day, one sector was a notable laggard: the same sector that had dramatically outperformed the S&P since memory prices soared last October: memory stocks, most notably MU and SNDK. In his EOD wrap, Goldman tech specialist Peter Callahan wrote that while there wasn't that much actual "angst" out there, his clients complained of plenty of "sanity checking" on the moves today in memory (MU...