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If you’ve been following the latest news from 1984, you’ll know that Vietnam has permanently closed over 86 million bank accounts. For a country with an estimated 200 million bank accounts, that’s around 43% being frozen or deleted to “prevent fraud and cybercrime.” The account closures follow sweeping new regulations requiring users’ biometric authentication, and […]
One natural way to research scheming is to study AIs that are analogous to schemers. Research studying current AIs that are intended to be analogous to schemers won’t yield compelling empirical evidence or allow us to productively study approaches for eliminating scheming, as these AIs aren’t very analogous in practice. This difficulty is in part […]
It’s no secret that we’re a fan of eccentric repair stories here at Tom’s Hardware; we’ve already had classics like a dead RTX 5090 with a cracked PCB being revived, and an RX 7800 XT that was saved after a spoiled reflow attempt. Today’s tale is no different — in fact, if anything, this is […]
There’s an old saying that a house is the biggest investment you’ll ever make. For some people that’s true. For others, there are far more important investments. It all depends on where you reside on the wealth distribution. The top 10% owns 87% of the stock market in the United States and 44% of the […]
from the that’s-that dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by Trump-world insiders, while a court refused to block Trump’s executive order. At the same time, users were fighting to […]
UPS provides a service that will always be needed, but be prepared because there’s more transition ahead for this high-yield stock. United Parcel Service (UPS -1.01%) is best known for the brown trucks that dash about most population centers in the United States. The trucks are so common that they are a fairly ubiquitous part […]
For investors, that means better cash flow, lower cap rates, and higher property values. Fewer Buyers, Less Competition In both stocks and real estate, buyers get spooked and pull back in a weakening economy. Real estate investors face less competition and fewer bidding wars. They can make lowball offers to find distressed sellers, and close […]
