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The yen looked punch-drunk on Wednesday after a sudden spill overnight, pressured by wide interest rate differentials between Japan and the rest of the world.Bibek Raj Giri | Moment | Getty ImagesThe Japanese yen breached the 161 level against the U.S. dollar late Thursday, creeping closer to a four-decade low and renewing speculation that Tokyo could intervene again to defend the currency.After Japanese stock markets closed on Thursday, the yen weakened sharply, crossing the 161 level before extending the fall later in the day to as low as 161.80 per dollar, its lowest since July 2024.A move beyond 161.96 against…
Sleep and light: the science behind Qantas’ bet on 20-hour flights Source link
The drone business boom Last year, Thunder Tiger’s Overkill drones became the first from an Asian company to qualify for the Pentagon’s Blue Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Cleared List, which certifies commercial drones for use by the US military. The small, first-person view (FPV) drones cost between $3,000 and $5,000 each, according to reporting from Rest of World, and are similar to the many explosive FPV drones being used on the battlefields in Ukraine. Thunder Tiger has also started producing larger kamikaze drones starting at $30,000 based on the US LUCAS one-way attack drones, Rest of World reported. The LUCAS drones…
The yen rose on Monday, helped by comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda who left the door open to a near-term rate hike. Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty ImagesJapanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is increasingly finding herself in an unenviable position on the foreign-exchange front. After deploying over 11.7 trillion yen ($72.8 billion) in foreign reserves to prop up the currency from April to May and the Bank of Japan raising policy rates to a more than three-decade high, the yen still languishes at the 160 level against the dollar.Masahiko Loo, senior fixed income strategist at State…
Hyundai to buy remaining Boston Dynamics stake from Softbank for $325 mln- report Source link
Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period. Both the credentials and the screenshots are then sent to the attacker through Tor, a network protocol that provides anonymous routing by sending traffic through redundant nodes so logs can’t capture both the sending and receiving IP addresses. Crypto…
Speech by Reform MS mocking Welsh students for being unable to read sparks Welsh Parliament walkout. Source link
U.S. President Donald Trump talks as he meets French President Emmanuel Macron for a bilateral meeting at Hotel Royal Evian on June 15 in Évian-les-Bains, France. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump asserted that he has unlimited power and insisted the deal reached with Iran amounts to “unconditional surrender” by Tehran, in an interview with Axios. The U.S. and Iran signed the agreement on Thursday, after three and a half months of conflict that shut the Strait of Hormuz and rattled global energy markets. Trump said he negotiated the agreement to prevent the conflict from triggering a global…
US tells ASML it is concerned China may have top chip tool, Bloomberg News reports Source link
Link is just the second space mission developed by Katalyst after a technology demonstration launched in 2024 by Atomos Space, a company Katalyst acquired last year. “When we kicked off the program, I think everyone recognized the biggest risk would be that we weren’t ready to launch in time, that Swift would fall faster than we could get up. We have been able to retire that risk over the last few months by building, testing, and getting ready to operate a spacecraft,” Wilson said. “So that I think has retired the bulk of the overarching concern. Now, there is a…