🤖 IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks

IBM and Red Hat announced a new program providing Lightwell at no charge to over 185 leading research universities and 100 major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and think tanks. Eligible institutions can access Lightwell’s library of validated fixes for open source software vulnerabilities, helping them secure the software and focus resources supporting research, education, humanitarian programs and other public-interest work.

“Lightwell combines automated remediation with deep open source engineering expertise and contributes fixes back upstream,” — said Matt Hicks, President and CEO, Red Hat. “Expanding access will help strengthen both participating institutions and the open source communities on which they depend.”

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🔥 Dinari launches tokenized S&P 500 stocks for US self-custody wallets using USDC

Tokenized equities firm Dinari is bringing its blockchain-based U.S. stock offering to eligible domestic investors, expanding its tokenization model into the U.S. market after working through the regulatory plumbing needed to let investors buy shares with stablecoins.

❗️Investors can buy and sell 724 tokenized U.S. stocks, including every company in the S&P 500, using Circle's USDC stablecoin through self-custody wallets. Dinari’s stock tokens, dubbed dShares, are available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base and Avalanche blockchains, with support for Solana and Sei coming “soon.”

The offering runs through Dinari's regulated broker-dealer and transfer agent infrastructure and launches with partners including Circle (CRCL), Stripe-owned Privy, Para and Monaco.

"We're the first platform to let U.S. investors buy and sell tokenized U.S.-listed stocks directly from their own self-custody wallets using USDC," — said Gabriel Otte, CEO and Co-Founder of Dinari.

"For decades, investing and digital assets have existed in separate financial systems. This launch brings them together, allowing investors to move seamlessly between stablecoins and U.S. equities while preserving the protections of traditional capital markets."

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⚡️✈️ Pavel Durov on Telegram's Removal from the App Store

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🏠Tesla Solar Roof is now available in the Dominican Republic through Tesla partner RAAS Solar

Solar Roof is a roof made of glass tiles with solar cells built in. This matters because power outages are common in the Dominican Republic. Solar Roof paired with a Powerwall keeps the lights on when the grid goes down.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Donald Trump: "The Stock Market is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and setting Record after Record because Investors know America is WINNING!" 🏆

With TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of new Investment pouring into the United States, and more Factories, more Construction, and more High Paying Jobs on the way, the results are impossible to hide.

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⚡️🇺🇸Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refunded about $100bn in tariff repayments following the Supreme Court's February ruling. Over $128bn in tariff claims have been accepted for processing, suggesting further substantial refunds will occur.

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🤝 Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup

Anthropic has signed a contract to use a data center managed by Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year period.

Volta has a partner in this deal, Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company that will help develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. That facility will be located in Norway and will deliver a 133 megawatt capacity. It will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s state-of-the-art AI chip architecture.

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🤖 Samsung Electronics launches next-generation AI memory technology

The world's largest memory chip manufacturer chose this year's Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference in Santa Clara, ​California, to introduce its V10 Bonding V-NAND, or BV-NAND, prototype. The chip features ​more than 400 layers and a new wafer-bonding architecture to increase storage ⁠density and boost performance.

As AI workloads have expanded beyond training large language models to ​the process of generating answers to user queries, demand for high-capacity NAND memory has increased. ​NAND flash memory is used to store data such as photos, videos and applications in devices including smartphones.

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🇺🇸 Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just announced a moratorium on all data center approvals through the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) until the agencies have completed an audit of data centers seeking approval to connect to Texas’s electric grid.

The governor wants to ensure that data center applicants provide the following: tax break information, power use and generation, water use and cooling operations, community impact reduction measures, and facility ownership. Applicants that haven’t submitted these details will not be allowed to connect to the grid.

“Our top priority is to protect Texans’ safety and quality of life,” — Gov. Abbott said. “Any project that fails to comply with the requirements set forth by the PUCT and ERCOT, and by state law, must be denied connection to the Texas grid. Simply put, Texans must come first.”

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💫 NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028.

These landers will deliver the foundational architecture for a sustained presence on the Moon 🌘

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🤑 Regulatory clarity is the foundation of institutional trust

🇪🇺Last month, Ripple received full EU authorization for a MiCA Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s CSSF.

With our EU EMI license, institutions across all 30 EEA nations can now collect, exchange, and pay out via Ripple Payments in a single regulated relationship.

Regulation-first, ready to scale. 🚀

#Stellar

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🏦 Wells Fargo to Launch Tokenized Deposits for Corporate and Commercial Clients

Wells Fargo & Company announced the introduction of tokenized deposits, a blockchain-based representation of commercial bank money that when fully deployed will enable Wells Fargo’s corporate and commercial clients to move, program, and settle funds 24/7/365 — without leaving the regulated, insured banking system.

❗️The program will roll out this fall with a limited U.S. dollar (USD) to British pound (GBP) exchange and will expand over the course of 2027 to more clients, countries, and currencies.

“Tokenized deposits will enable Wells Fargo's corporate and commercial clients to move money between accounts and across borders with greater ease and increased speed and builds on the strength of our established banking infrastructure,” — said Wells Fargo CFO Mike Santomassimo.

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🤖 15 attorneys general have instructed OpenAI to preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hack

In a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the attorneys general of 15 states wrote that the Hugging Face hack showed that OpenAI is unable or unwilling to ensure the safety of its products. The ChatGPT-maker may have broken consumer protection laws or data-privacy statutes.

“OpenAI has an obligation to act responsibly and to follow State and federal laws that protect Americans’ safety and security. When OpenAI takes actions that imperil the welfare of our citizens, State Attorneys General will step in to protect them,” — the letter added.

They instructed OpenAI to immediately preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hacking incident, as well as any prior instances in which its agents similarly engaged in unauthorized intrusions into computer systems or databases.

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