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A Brazilian government building with the national flag, with online betting displays going dark in the background.

Brazil bans fixed-odds betting nationwide

R$62.5 billion a year — that's how much Brazilians spent on betting (0.68% of family GNI), and it just got banned overnight. ⚖️ Lula's provisional measure kills fixed-odds wagering nationwide, canceling 85 licenses worth ~R$2.55 billion with zero refunds for operators. Platforms

Graphic of a paused merger path between two company logos with a stablecoin token icon crossing into a Hong Kong exchange, set against a financial data background.

Animoca & Currenc suspend Nasdaq reverse merger over audits

Animoca Brands & Currenc Group just paused their Nasdaq reverse merger 🏦 — the Web3 gaming giant is stuck because it lacks current audited financials (its FY2023 report came ~3 years late). Yet Animoca's stablecoin arm Anchorpoint quietly pressed ahead: HKDAP got one of only two HKMA stablecoin licences and

AMC's $3.97B refinancing defers, not fixes, its debt problem

AMC borrowing $3.97B to refinance debt—10x its quarterly free cash flow of ~$190M. 💸 The plan extends its 2029 maturity wall into 2031, but does nothing to reduce ~$7.0B in long-term debt or flip −10.6% profit margins positive. Equity holders fund the runway again while the

Illustration of a voice assistant microphone on a laptop screen with a warning icon and signal being redirected, depicting a security vulnerability.

Meta's Muse Dictation Bug Lets Malware Reach Your iPhone

Meta's Muse exposed a local setting that lets malware redirect your Mac's cloud dictation to an attacker's server—reaching your iPhone, email, WhatsApp, and more. 🎙️ Researcher Patrick Wardle found the undocumented endo_voyager_dictation_endpoint in five days; no trojan or privilege escalation needed.

Prolink Router: Ten Ways to Get Root, Zero Authentication Required

Ten ways to get root on a single router—and none needs a password. 🔐 Researcher Daniel Lim found 10 command-injection flaws across 10 CGI scripts in Prolink's PRC2402M. The login page itself passed input straight to shell. One "password check" compared your input to an

Grok 4.7 model interface showing a 500,000-token context window and CursorBench 4.0 benchmark score of 46.3%.

Grok 4.7 undercuts frontier rivals at half the token cost

Grok 4.7 delivers 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0—a 6-point jump—at $2/$6 per million tokens. That's ~87% of frontier-class performance at roughly half the cost. An average task runs $6.01 vs GPT-5.6 Sol's $8.23, a 27%

Abstraction of a computational graph and MoE router network visualizing the path from millions of training tokens to a low per-task cost, indicating efficiency economics.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open-Weight Index at $0.13

$0.13 per task 📉 Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the Artificial Analysis open-weight ranking at 46—20 points over its predecessor and cheaper than most proprietary systems per unit of work. The gains come from transparent RL training: ~750k trajectories, a new "agentic grader,"