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- Exclusive: Visa launches new platform to provide stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants
The new platform lets banks and fintechs mint, move, and manage stablecoins directly through its network.
- Reid Hoffman Gives $10 Million To Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico’s Campaign
Hoffman previously donated $1.5 million to Talarico.
- Could Bab Al-Mandeb Be The Next Strait Of Hormuz? Iran Reportedly Asked Houthis To Prepare Closure
Iran’s Houthi allies have already prepared drones and missiles for strikes in the strait.
- Here’s The Odyssey’s Budget And Break-Even Point At The Box Office
The Odyssey is a huge hit among critics, but general audiences need to show up to offset its near-record cost for an R-rated movie. Here are those figures.
- Michael Jackson’s Album Celebrates Reaching A Major Chart Milestone
The Essential Michael Jackson becomes the late superstar's second album to spend 550 weeks on the Billboard 200, following Thriller, which leads by hundreds of weeks.
Technology
- The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other…
- Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
- Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they’re on the rise. (For what it’s worth, many heat…
- Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
- Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
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