Finance

Michael Saylor’s Strategy makes its third-largest Bitcoin purchase ever

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin juggernaut is at it again, buying near the highs with the kind of capital-markets firepower no other crypto firm can match. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy Inc., disclosed Monday that it bought $2.46 billion of Bitcoin in the past week—its third-largest purchase by dollar value since it began accumulating the cryptocurrency five years ago.  The company acquired...

Gadget

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it’s not supposed to, again

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls.Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a...

Health

Simple Vinegar Cleaning Swaps That Actually Work

Many years ago, I switched to natural cleaning products. Since then, I’ve found a lot of great recipes, tricks, and shortcuts. They’ve not only taken the toxins out of daily life, but made our house cleaner, fresher, and faster to clean! One of the simplest cleaning hacks I’ve found is something you probably already have in your pantry.  Distilled white...

Lifestyle

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities.  Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team...

Movie

Savages review – direct action education, for…

As chainsaws annihilate trees and animal chatter in the opening of Savages, Claude Barras makes clear the target of his new feature film’s title: the drivers of deforestation in the name of ​“civilisation”, as the title treatment drops over a plantation. While plantation worker Mutang’s additional muttering of ​“savages” in response to the plantation’s armed guards shooting an orangutan in cold blood...

Music

Inside the inaugural edition of the Collective Film Festival London

A dispatch from a passionate grassroots project over in Finsbury Park. ‘Diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ have become corporate buzzwords, vibe-free boxes to be ticked on BFI funding application forms, so it is an experience to be reminded that these words represent an ideal that does exist. Collective Film Festival London – the inaugural one-day fiesta which took place on 18 July at...

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