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Treasury companies

Three Cents a Day, Sundays Included

Strategy wants to pay dividends on all four of its U.S. preferred stocks every single day, weekends included, starting with STRC on November 1. My first reaction was that this could change everything. Then I did the arithmetic. The amount of money doesn't change at all; the shape of it does. The par

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Space

A Comet Carrying Someone Else's Recipe for Water

A paper led by Kenji Furuya of Japan's RIKEN institute finds that the water boiling off our solar system's third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, carries a deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio tens of times higher than any comet native to our own solar system — a chemical fingerprint the authors say points to

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Self-custody

Binance Rebuilt My Bitkey, Minus the Metal

An email landed today announcing Binance.US's new self-custody wallet — no seed phrase, keys split three ways, "no single point of failure." I already own the product that pitch describes; it's called a Bitkey, and Block shipped it two years ago. Here's what's actually the same, what's genuinely dif

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Markets & Economy

Nearly Two Million Barrels to Fix One Shortage

ZeroHedge's tape caught it in real time — US diesel futures down more than 7%, European diesel futures up more than 7%, inside the same hour, on the same headline: a 90-day US diesel export ban the White House is reportedly close to putting forward. The administration's own Energy Secretary says it

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Space

The Cheapest Fuel in the Solar System Is a Planet

On September 28, the European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft swings within 8,640 kilometres of Earth over the Indian Ocean, borrowing 3.5 kilometres a second of speed from our planet for free. It's the third of four such thefts on a roundabout route to Jupiter's icy moons that won't actually arrive

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Computers & Gadgets

The Chip China Banned Itself Into Building

On September 22, Alibaba's chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 at the company's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou — 216GB of on-package memory, a 1,200GB/s interconnect, and clusters scaling to 500,000 units, which CEO Eddie Wu called "the most powerful AI chip in China today." The obvious story i

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