A judge has approved a $1.5 million penalty levied against Elon Musk that will settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit despite having “significant misgivings” about it. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan noted that her court would accept the settlement, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, which cited her court opinion. Sooknanan’s approval settles a lawsuit filed by…
Key takeaways: War, rising oil prices and Strategy’s Bitcoin sales put extra pressure on BTC’s $60,000 support. Strategy’s Bitcoin sales and fears that a global regulatory crackdown on crypto is being reignited are adding to fragile crypto market conditions. Bitcoin traded down 3.5% on Wednesday as new developments in the US-Iran war pushed oil prices…
A new report from the World Health Organization warns that the number of people diagnosed with cancer each year is expected to surge over the next quarter-century. The report projects annual cancer diagnoses will climb from about 20 million today to nearly 35 million by 2050. While some cancers are declining thanks to prevention efforts,…
Michelle Randolph and Glen Powell have officially confirmed their romance on social media. On Tuesday, July 7, the 37-year-old Top Gun: Maverick star went Instagram official with the 28-year-old Landman actress by sharing a collection of photos from their Fourth of July holiday weekend. The couple’s social media debut featured a candid black-and-white picture of…
England’s Ben Stokes speaks to media at the end of day four of the third Test against New Zealand at the Trent Bridge Cricket Ground in Nottingham, Britain, June 28, 2026. — Reuters The International Cricket Council (ICC) sought clarification from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) over footage of former Test captain Ben…
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mohamed Salah have spent the past two decades defining one of soccer’s greatest eras. Now, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final appearance at the tournament and another defining moment in the careers of Messi and Salah, they’re also preparing for life beyond the pitch. Before Messi’s Argentina…
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The man convicted in the 2006 killing of Misha Pavelick is appealing the seven-year youth sentence he was handed by a Saskatchewan court last month, court documents say. His identity is protected by a publication ban. The Regina man was 17 years old when Pavelick, 19, was stabbed and died at a graduation party at Kinookimaw…
England’s Josh Tongue celebrates his dismissal of Shivam Dube during a 125-run defeat of India in the third T20 at Trent Bridge. Photo: AFP NOTTINGHAM: India suffered their worst-ever T20 defeat, in terms of runs, as they slumped to a mammoth 125-run loss to England at Trent Bridge on Tuesday after being blown away by…
Netflix’s engineering team published a method for handling wide partitions in Apache Cassandra. The research work targets Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a platform for temporal event data. TL;DR Dynamic partitioning splits wide Cassandra partitions per TimeSeries ID, asynchronously and transparently, with no application changes. Detection runs on the read path via byte counting and a Kafka…
