Stock market today: Dow soars over 1,000 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq surge on news of 2-week US-Iran...

US stocks surged on Wednesday, while oil prices cratered amid relief after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that could lead to a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to shipping.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) soared 2.5%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) vaulted 3.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) jumped 2.9%, or over 1,300 points.
Global markets saw a return of risk appetite after President Trump called for a two-week suspension in hostilities in return for Tehra

Joe Kent says if US destroys Iran via destruction, the global order will be shattered

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‘Inoculation’ helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds

Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people’s ability to spot AI-generated video and audio that falsely depict politicians, according to a study my colleagues and I conducted.
Although researchers have focused primarily on advancing technologies for detecting deepfakes, there is also a need for approaches that address the potential audiences for political deepfakes. Deepfakes are becoming increasingly difficult to identify, verify and combat as artificial

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This Week In ****** e podcast: Episode 199 — The Obsolete Astronaut?

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On Episode 199 of This Week In ****** e, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better — and more safely — than humans in ****** e.
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2028 Georgia offensive tackle schedules Tennessee football visit

Tennessee is recruiting toward its 2028 football signing class.
Four-star offensive tackle Kweli Fielder will visit Tennessee on March 21, according to Tom Loy of 247Sports. He will also visit Florida, Auburn, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Georgia and South Carolina.
The 6-foot-4, 310-pound prospect is from Carrollton High School in Carrollton, Georgia. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 3 offensive tackle in the class and the No. 2 player in Georgia.
Tennessee offered Fielder a scholarship on Jan. 23, 2025. The 2028 prospect's vi

Bitcoin Hashrate Recovery Signals Next Rally, Expert Says

The recent Bitcoin (BTC) price performance may appear subdued, with the leading crypto currently trading below the $65,000 level and...
A potential final sell-off in Bitcoin is back in focus after market ****** yst Aaron Dishner warned that the ****** et appears...
Bitcoin flipped a small but notable technical switch this week when the Coinbase premium moved back above zero, ending a...

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Expert Crypto Trader Predicts The Exact Year Bitcoin Will Reach $250,000

Crypto ******* yst Kamran has raised the possibility of a 443% Dogecoin rally, providing a bullish outlook for the meme coin....
Bitcoin futures positioning among non-commercial traders is swinging sharply toward net long exposure, a move technical ******* yst Tom McClellan (editor...
Bitcoin price failed to stay above $68,000 and dipped sharply. BTC is now consolidating losses and might struggle to recover...

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Bitcoin Bears Cap BTC At $70K Despite Negative Funding

Bitcoin’s negative funding rate and a cooling tech sector in the US add pressure to markets and contribute to BTC failing to trade above $70,000.
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Bitcoin’s futures funding rates briefly turned negative, signaling that bullish traders currently lack the conviction to use leverage.
Uncertainty regarding the long-term profitability of artificial intelligence has pushed investors toward gold and US government bonds.

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Bitcoin tokens are seen in 2013, in Sandy, Utah.
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Bitcoin is back in the headlines again. As always, the story is volatility. Prices fall. Prices rise. Critics cheer. Believers celebrate. The cycle repeats.
But the headlines miss the deeper story.

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State Police investigate over $30K Bitcoin warrant payment fraud in Northampton...

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Tech investors have a big decision to make these days. Should they chase after high-growth artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups with little in the way of profitability, or should they focus on entrenched tech leaders with billions of dollars in profits flowing in each year?
If revenue and profitability matter to you as an investor, then it's impossible not to sit up and take notice of Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN). It's now on pace to post more than $2.5 billion in net income each year. And it has a brand-new "everything exchange" strategy that is positioning it for future growth ahead.
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During the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Elon Musk called human aging a “very solvable” problem.
“When we figure out what causes aging, I think we’ll find it’s incredibly obvious,” the billionaire claimed during a conversation with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. “It’s not a subtle thing.”
For many years now, youth-obsessed billionaires have been forking out immense sums to try experimental techniques that could turn back the clock on their aging bodies. Meanwhile, a cottage industry of anti-aging companies claiming to have the answer has cropped up, racing to test their treatments on h

Justice Dept. release exposes Epstein's links to Bannon, Musk and world leaders

The Justice Department’s Friday release of its investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein is packed with details about his ties to the most powerful figures in politics, tech and global affairs.
The documents shed new light on the depth of his relationships between the convicted **** offender and figures such as Steve Bannon, Elon Musk and world leaders. In particular, the files contain extensive exchanges with Bannon as he mounted a political influence campaign across Europe, and numerous overtures —

KALIDA — Unverferth Manufacturing Company has announced that its Air Command Section Control System, designed for Unverferth Pro-Force dry fertilizer spreaders, has received the prestigious AE50 Award.
This award recognizes the year’s most innovative products in agriculture, food and biological systems, honoring advancements that demonstrate exceptional engineering achievement and meaningful impact in the markets they serve.
Unverferth’s Air Command Section Control technology was selected as one of approximately 50 award recipients for its ability to enhance application accuracy and help pro

A new Bitcoin price prediction has been put forward following a long-term technical ****** ysis shared on the social media platform...
Bitcoin price extended losses and traded below $88,500. BTC is consolidating losses and might attempt a recovery wave if it...
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Another former crypto miner is quietly making the case that pivoting to AI may be the smartest survival move in today’s market.
This time, the proof point is CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), a firm that began life as a Bitcoin mining operation and is now pulling in billions from Big Tech.
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CoreWeave didn’t start out as an AI darling.
The company was founded in 2017 under the name Atlantic Crypto, initially focused on Bitcoin mining. But after the 2018 crypto crash exposed how fragile mining economics could be, the team made a decisive pivot.

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A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International **** e Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections.
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and US biotech company Rhodium Scientific Inc. pitted Escherichia coli bacteria against its viral arch-nemesis, the T7 bacteriophage. This pair has been locked in an evolutionary 'arms race' for as long as we've been looking, but never in microgravity – until they were sent to the ISS in 2020.
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Bitcoin is down just over 1% in the past 24 hours, but the bigger story is not the daily move. Over the weekend, the Bitcoin price came dangerously close to confirming a bearish breakdown before staging a short-term rebound.
A technical signal had been building for days, and on-chain data now shows that selling pressure is easing. Still, major risks remain. Whether Bitcoin stabilizes or slides toward $78,000 now depends on how the BTC price reacts at several key levels.
Bitcoin is still trading inside a head-and-shoulders pattern on the daily chart. This pattern often signals a bearish rever

This month, AFP reported from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel owned by billionaire-backed non-profit OceanX, as it studied seamounts off Indonesia.
The ship pairs advanced scientific research with high-end media content to make marine biology and conservation accessible.
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A former oil exploration ship, OceanXplorer belongs to OceanX, which was founded by wealthy investor Ray Dalio and his son Mark.
It was retrofitted with everything from laboratories for genetic sequencing to helicopters for aerial surveys.

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A laser-beam dream team has been **** embled to advance nuclear fusion, the near-limitless energy source that is being researched in labs around the world.
The promising effort has pooled knowledge from scientists at the United States Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, bringing together "heavyweights" of laser expertise, according to a news release.
If the effort is successful, the group could help usher in a new era of air pollution-free nuclear power — minus the long-lasting radioactive waste and meltdown risks of current

MicroStrategy executive Michael Saylor warns that the greatest risk to Bitcoin is ambitious opportunists advocating protocol changes.
The remark comes just as Coinbase and the Ethereum network make moves to address one of Bitcoin’s most existential long-term threats: quantum computing.
The MicroStrategy co-founder framed protocol ossification as Bitcoin’s primary defense. According to Michael Saylor, internal attempts to “improve” the network pose a greater danger than external technological threats.
This remark highlights Bitcoin’s role as neutral digital money amid debates like the BIP-11

US stocks mostly edged higher on Friday as Wall Street kicked off trading in 2026 after its third consecutive year of double-digit percentage gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) gained about 0.6%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) increased 0.2%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell below the flat line, despite gains in semiconductor giants Nvidia (NVDA), AMD (AMD), and Micron (MU).
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) fell after the EV maker's deliveries missed expectations.
Markets are coming off a sputtering end to a roller-coaster 2025 that nevertheless ended with sizable gains for the ma

The U.S. market has been dominated by tech and growth stocks for the past three years.
As parts of the economy show signs of slowing, a rotation from growth to value stocks may be in the cards.
Investing in value now means capturing attractive opportunities in financials, healthcare, and industrials.
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It's no secret that the market has been dominated by tech, growth, and the "Magnificent Seven" stocks over the past few years. The earnings and GDP growth backdrops are certainly there that could help propel this

Institutional adoption continues to be the No. 1 factor pushing Bitcoin higher.
If both Wall Street and the White House continue with their pro-crypto initiatives, the price of Bitcoin is likely to rise.
A splashy new move, such as the adoption of Bitcoin by a major Silicon Valley tech company, could propel Bitcoin higher.
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At the beginning of 2025, ***** ody could have predicted this: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell about 7% last year and is still trading well below the psychologically important $100,000 level.

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US stock futures rose early Friday as Wall Street kicked off trading in 2026 after its third consecutive year of double-digit percentage gains.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) climbed 0.3%. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (ES=F) were up 0.6%, while those on the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NQ=F) gained 1%.
Nasdaq 100 futures gained following news out of Asia that lifted a regional tech gauge to an all-time high.
Markets are coming off a sputtering end to a roller-coaster 2025 that nevertheless ended with sizable gains for the major indexes. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose over 16%, while t

Bitcoin held near $88,000 on Friday as markets eased into the first trading session of 2026, with holiday-thinned volumes keeping moves measured and investors lining up for a year packed with policy and tech-driven catalysts.
Early risk-taking showed up most clearly in Asia, where Hong Kong and South Korea led gains as technology and semiconductor shares extended a late 2025 bounce. **** an and mainland China stayed shut for holidays, which kept liquidity light across the region.
Crypto traders kept a close eye on whether Bitcoin can turn that calm into momentum, after a choppy stretch aroun

Bitcoin may have already slipped into a bear market roughly two months ago, according to CryptoQuant’s head of research, Julio Moreno, who points to a cluster of technical and on-chain indicators that turned bearish in early November and have yet to recover.
Key Takeaways:
Speaking on the Milk Road show on Thursday, Moreno said the majority of signals behind CryptoQuant’s bull score index have been flashing warning signs for weeks.
The index, which ranges from 0 to 100, tracks a mix of metrics including network activity, investor profitability, Bitcoin demand, and overall market liquidity.

A leading AI boss has warned that the developing technology could become “uncontrollable” in the next few years without proper regulation.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today, CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, said that fear over the future of AI is “healthy and necessary”, adding: “I honestly think that if you’re not a little bit afraid at this moment then you’re not paying attention.”
Mr Suleyman, who is was the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, was guest editing the BBC’s current affairs radio show when he made the comments.
The industry leader called for greater gua

'It will transform our country': Bernie Sanders sounds alarms on impact of AI

Some lawmakers are sounding the alarm about the impact of artificial intelligence on Americans, including children, as the technology becomes increasingly common.
In separate interviews on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) warned of the dangers AI can have on American democracy and called for technology companies to face accountability for their creations.
"This is the most consequential technology in the history of humanity,” Sanders told host Jake Tapper.