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This photo shows a view of LyondellBasell refinery near the Houston Ship Channel, part of the Port of Houston, on April 29, 2026. Ronaldo Schemidt | AFP | Getty ImagesOil prices fell Wednesday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would pause its naval escort effort in the Strait of Hormuz, raising hopes of a potential deal with Iran. Futures for international benchmark Brent crude for July delivery slid 1.92% to $107.77 per barrel as of 2:05 a.m. ET, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures lost 2% to $100.1 per barrel.Trump on Tuesday announced in a Truth Social post that the U.S.…

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Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox at Microsoft, speaks to employees at an Xbox town hall in Redmond, Washington, on Feb. 24, 2026.Courtesy: MicrosoftMicrosoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a Tuesday memo that she’s appointing new leaders, as the software company looks to return its video game unit to growth.Sharma moved to Xbox in February as gaming chief Phil Spencer announced his retirement. She came to Microsoft in 2024 after executive stints at Meta and Instacart, becoming president of product in the CoreAI engineering group that works on GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code and other developer tools.”We need to…

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Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences, speaks during the grand opening ceremony of Shanghai Disney Resort’s Zootopia-themed land on December 19, 2023 in Shanghai, China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesDisney will release its fiscal second-quarter results before the bell Wednesday. It will mark the first earnings call led by Josh D’Amaro since the former parks executive took over as CEO in March. Under the new CEO, who replaced Bob Iger after his two turns at the helm totaling roughly 20 years, Disney has already been through a round of layoffs and has faced mounting political pressure surrounding its…

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One of the follow-on payloads pushed to about a dozen organizations was what Kaspersky described as a “minimalistic backdoor.” It has the ability to execute commands, download files, and run shellcode payloads in memory—making the infection harder to detect. Kaspersky said that it observed a more complex backdoor dubbed QUIC RAT, installed on a single machine belonging to an educational institution located in Russia. Initial analysis found that it can inject payloads into the notepad.exe and conhost.exe processes and supports a variety of C2 communication protocols, including HTTP, UDP, TCP, WSS, QUIC, DNS, and HTTP/3. The 100 infected organizations were…

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BEIJING, CHINA – JULY 15: Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov (not seen) hold a meeting on the sidelines of the 2025 meeting of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers in Beijing, China on July 15, 2025.Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Anadolu | Getty ImagesChina hosted Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Wednesday for the first time since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israel war on Tehran, just days before U.S. President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to Beijing.Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, held a meeting with Araghchi on Wednesday morning, according…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said the data center and artificial intelligence boom is becoming all-consuming, spreading far beyond the tech companies and into nearly every corner of the market.”AI is inexorable. It is fierce. And it is making believers fortunes,” the “Mad Money” host said Tuesday after all three major indexes closed higher. The market during first-quarter earnings season has been powered by what Cramer called an “explosion of profits” among companies tied to AI and data centers. And the gains are increasingly being seen across a widening group of stocks, he said. To explain the breadth of the trend, Cramer…

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