Author: franperez66q@protonmail.com

In March, two Democrats and two Republicans opposed to the law’s broad spying authority introduced a bill to limit the government’s ability to obtain Americans’ private communications without a warrant. This week, lawmakers failed to pass even a short-term extension of FISA amid disputes over proposed surveillance reforms and President Trump choosing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. Pulte has no experience in national security; he previously led the Federal Housing Finance Agency and used the post to accuse Trump critics of mortgage fraud. While some Republicans have sought reforms of FISA, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.)…

Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve nominee for US President Donald Trump, is sworn in during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt’s officially “Chairman” Kevin Warsh, not “chair.”  The Federal Reserve website now lists Warsh as “chairman,” not “chair,” reversing the past 12 years when his predecessors Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell both chose to be called “chair.”Before Yellen, the term “chairman” was used exclusively.No law or regulation governs what a chair is called, leaving it up to personal…

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks on stage during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, April 16, 2026.Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Justice has signed off on Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC Friday. It’s an important milestone for the roughly $110 billion deal that’s drawn criticism over antitrust concerns, though it could still face legal challenges from state attorneys general. California AG Rob Bonta has been among the officials reviewing the proposal, and the deal…

DraftKings Leads Gaming Sector on Predictions Growth, Says BMO Source link

Elon Musk is photographed at SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas. Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesThe SpaceX initial public offering on Friday is poised to be the biggest ever — and is generating a lot of buzz. But IPOs can carry dangers for the average investor, according to finance experts. Follow CNBC’s live updates on the SpaceX (SPCX) IPOFor starters, stocks are often unprofitable in the early period after an IPO, experts said. And buying individual companies — instead of investment funds with a broadly diversified basket of stocks — can make that volatility more acute for unwary…

Victims who were abused and prosecuted as children are still being failed, says grooming report author. Source link

Investors will watch what happens next with SpaceX , now that its initial public offering is behind it. SpaceX is already being lauded as a success after making its debut on the Nasdaq, opening at $150 per share after an IPO price of $135 a share. It closed at $160.95 per share, after rallying more than 19%. Whether SpaceX can maintain its momentum in the coming days will be telling. IPOs are notoriously volatile, and where a stock starts out is not necessarily reflective of future performance. Facebook-parent Meta’s IPO, for example, was panned as a debacle, and the stock…

Roku said to be in sale talks, including likely media tie-up, Bloomberg News reports Source link

“While several organizations successfully blocked the activity or remediated the vulnerabilities, others experienced compromise, resulting in stolen data being published on the ShinyHunters DLS,” Mandiant said. (DLS is short for data leak site.) An analysis of a bash script left in the staging environment shows the attackers performed reconnaissance on compromised organizations, including mapping the PeopleSoft configurations, viewing process scheduler, and WebLogic server XML configurations. Eventually, the threat actors established an outbound SSH connection to 176.120.22.24, the IP address hosting ShinyHunters’ DLS. The stolen data was first compressed using the zstd tool. The DLS claimed to have recovered 48GB of…

U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) holds a press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 3, 2026. Annabelle Gordon | ReutersRep. Lisa McClain, one of the House GOP’s top leaders, has a family investment poised to benefit from SpaceX’s record public debut after her husband bought as much as $250,000 in Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI before it was folded into the rocket maker.McClain, R-Mich., the No. 4 House Republican and chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, disclosed her spouse’s Dec. 15 purchase in a Jan. 7…