You Should Remove Your Info From the Rebooted National Public Data Site

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL In the endless saga of hacks and data breaches, it’s practically guaranteed that at least some of your personal information is available on the internet. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take steps to remove or protect it wherever you can—including from databases that have a history of being compromised. National Continue Reading

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at Disrupt 2025

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL There aren’t many founders who can say they’ve steered the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while keeping their edge — but co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie isn’t most founders. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Levie joins us live on Continue Reading

Senators Press Howard Lutnick’s Former Investment Firm Over Tariff Conflict of Interest Concerns

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Last month, WIRED reported that the investment banking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, was exploring creating a financial product for clients to bet on whether President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs would be struck down in court. In response Continue Reading

EU sending wildfire help to Spain as death toll rises

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Firefighters battle overnight wildfires in Spain The European Union is sending two planes to help Spain tackle raging wildfires, after the country activated an EU disaster blockistance mechanism for the first time. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told local media he had requested two water bomber aircraft from the EU to be Continue Reading

China’s planned Turkish EV factories have yet to power up

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL WHEN BYD, China’s biggest electric carmaker, offered a $1bn investment in the summer of 2024, Turkey rolled out the red carpet. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s president, attended the signing ceremony. Officials in Manisa, where the company plans to open a new factory, mused about a future “Chinatown” to house BYD Continue Reading

Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed | Global development

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Overwhelmed medical centres are resorting to treating patients on mattresses on the floor, MSF said, as the country’s two-year civil war aids the spread of Continue Reading

Israeli settlement plans will ‘bury’ idea of Palestinian state, minister says

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Tom McArthur BBC News in London Reuters Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank will “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”. The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement Continue Reading