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The shockwaves of the Covid-19 pandemic are still hitting the U.S. car market and pushing prices up, even for exceptionally old cars. The pandemic dealt a severe blow to the total supply of new cars, which has rippled down to the used market.About 8 million vehicles that would have been made for U.S. buyers during those years never were, largely due to production shutdowns and supply shortages, said Jeremy Robb, chief economist for Cox Automotive. Automakers faced with curtailed production weighted their lineups toward money-making high-end vehicles, a strategy they have largely continued. These factors have been pushing up prices…

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Investing.com — stock fell 4.5% in pre-open trading today after Goldman Sachs lowered its price target on the German enterprise software giant to $265 from $271, while maintaining a Buy rating. The move comes as the Wall Street bank trimmed its margin forecasts for the German software giant amid expectations of higher hardware costs in the second half of the year. The bank made no changes to its organic current cloud backlog growth assumptions of 23.5% year-over-year for Q2 2026, but the target and margin outlook cut — arriving ahead of the company’s next scheduled earnings release on July 23…

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When a verdict map is deleted from memory, catchall elements are deactivated and a chain’s reference counter is decremented. When errors occur the deletion can be reversed and the counter incremented. CVE-2026-53111 allows for that process to be altered. As a result, the exploit can decrement the variable an arbitrary number of times and then delete and free the chain when some objects still point to it. “In this blog post, we have seen how one incorrect exclamation mark introduced a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited by an unprivileged user on Debian and Ubuntu to escalate privileges to root,”…

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Bill Gates speaks with Reuters during an interview in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2025. Mike Segar | ReutersMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to be interviewed Wednesday by a House committee about his controversial friendship with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The mega-billionaire Gates is one of the biggest names to submit to a grilling by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which for months has investigated Epstein’s network of high-profile friends.Gates’ testimony comes a day after the committee questioned Epstein’s former longtime executive assistant, Lesley Groff.Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, told…

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Screwworm infestations “can be deadly, especially when involving the scalp,” the doctors wrote in their case report. “Larvae may burrow through the skull, dura [outer membrane around the brain], and into the brain, leading to an associated 8 percent mortality.” They called for physicians to remain vigilant, especially with scalp wounds. Any opening is an opportunity If there is another case that could rival the horror of that scenario, it might be a case report from August 2025. Doctors in Honduras reported the case of a 55-year-old man who developed a screwworm infestation in his hemorrhoids. He was in such…

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Capital One Savor: Up to $250The Capital One Savor card has no annual fee and a valuable intro APR offer, but what makes it stand out is its bonus categories. You’ll earn 3% cash back at grocery stores and on entertainment, dining and streaming services.Its current $250 bonus is easy to earn and only requires you to spend $500 in purchases within the first three months from account opening. That’s the exact spending requirement for the card’s previous offer, which was only worth $200.SpotlightEarn a one-time $250 cash bonus once you spend $500 on purchases within the first 3 months…

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The US space agency unveiled the crew for its Artemis III mission on Tuesday during an enthusiastic event at Johnson Space Center in Houston. For this spaceflight into low-Earth orbit, which will see the Orion spacecraft rendezvous and dock with lunar lander prototypes, NASA chose an experienced, all-male crew with military backgrounds. They were revealed inside a darkened Teague Auditorium where hundreds of friends, family members, and NASA employees cheered enthusiastically. The four crew members are: NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, commander ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, mission specialist NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, mission…

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