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The EU’s highest court issued a ruling in July (Case C-788/24), holding that VPNs (virtual private networks) are “lawful technical tools.” Bypassing geo-blocked content by “going over the wall” does not constitute copyright infringement; as long as the publisher uses the “most advanced” geo-blocking technology, it has already fulfilled its obligation of reasonable oversight and does not need to be held liable for copyright infringement because users bypass the restrictions via VPN. VPN service p

Taiwan’s Economic Daily News reported that SpaceX has commissioned Foxconn (Hon Hai) to manufacture the first batch of AI server racks equipped with NVIDIA GB300, with an order value as high as $52 billion. However, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk later responded on the X platform, saying the related report is “false news.” Taiwan media report and Musk’s “false news” response: what happened and both sides’ claims According to a report by Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, the GB300 AI server order that SpaceX p

MVMT Labs, the developer of Movement blockchain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on the 15th (local time). According to court records from Bankruptcy Observer on the 22nd (Korean time), the filing follows Chapter 11 procedures

New York law firm partner Carl Kennedy testified at a U.S. House hearing on July 22, saying the CFTC may be understaffed and unable to fully regulate and enforce oversight of prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket. The CLARITY Act may grant the CFTC more authority to cope with the rapid growth of prediction markets. U.S. House Hearing: Kennedy’s Core Claims and the CFTC Resource Gap According to the July 22, 2026 hearing record from a subcommittee of the House Agriculture Comm

Most Korean government bond money market funds (MMFs) are showing negative deviation rates as of July 21, raising concerns that redemption risk could increase if the Bank of Korea implements back-to-back interest rate hikes in July and August. The negative deviation rates, which measure the gap

According to the 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. SEC by Strategy (MSTR) on July 21, between July 13 and 19 the company sold 2,732,318 shares of MSTR stock, raising about $263.5 million, but during this period it neither bought nor sold any Bitcoin. The company also did not repurchase any of its own shares through a share repurchase program. MSTR Stock Sales Record from July 13 to 19 (Source: SEC) Based on the 8-K filing Strategy submitted to the SEC, during the period from July 13 to 19, 2026,

According to a Cointelegraph report on July 22, citing data from River (a financial services company), a recent report released by The Nakamoto Project shows that about 49.6 million adults in the United States hold Bitcoin, while about 28.8 million hold gold—meaning the number of Bitcoin holders has surpassed gold for the first time. Shift in U.S. Asset Holdings Structure: 49.6 Million Bitcoin Holders First Surpass Gold (Source: River report) According to the report written by River for The Naka

NuScale Power Corp. (SMR) stock jumped over 1% overnight Tuesday following its best session in more than a month, ending the previous session nearly 9.5% higher. The gains came after Bloomberg reported a Trump administration initiative to accelerate nuclear power deployment for AI data centers,

Memory stocks including Micron Technology (MU), SanDisk (SNDK), and Western Digital (WDC) posted sharp gains on Tuesday, marking the second consecutive day of recovery. SanDisk rose 14.3%, Western Digital climbed 12.5%, and Micron gained 12.2%, emerging as the top three performers in the S&P 500

Rocket Lab USA Inc. (RKLB) secured a $266 million U.S. Air Force contract for suborbital launch services, sending shares up 9% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the stock had already closed the regular session more than 5% higher. The firm-fixed-price contract covers 12 suborbital launches with o

AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, and SpaceX stocks experienced mixed trading on Tuesday, with ASTS jumping 10%, RKLB gaining 5%, and SPCX rising 3%, yet all three remain down 13%, 1%, and 23% respectively so far in 2026. The gains came amid sustained selling pressure that has prompted retail investors t

Dell Technologies (DELL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stock prices gained 6% and 5% respectively in after-hours trading on Tuesday, following a strong preliminary Q4 fiscal 2026 update from AI server competitor Super Micro (SMCI). SMCI announced it secured over $60 billion in new orders

Intel stock surged 8.6% on July 21. Previously, Intel confirmed it would cut jobs and restructure within the Core Data Center Group (DCG). Since the beginning of the year, Intel stock has more than doubled. In an official statement, Intel said: “As part of an overall strategy to make the company more focused and efficient, DCG is adjusting its organization to ensure the right roles and skills are in place, positioning this business for long-term success.” Intel DCG Layoffs Statement: Official Ex

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan announced on X on July 21 that Robinhood Chain, just two weeks after going live, has climbed to No. 1 on Electric Capital’s real-time developer activity rankings; as of the time of reporting, it remains number one on the leaderboard. According to research from Bernstein, TVL exceeded $323 million. Electric Capital Leaderboard Data: Alchemy CEO Announces the Top Spot According to an announcement by Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan on X on July 21, 2026, Robinhood Chain

The FBI issued a public service announcement on July 20 warning that scammers are impersonating Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) personnel to target people who have already lost money to fraud. The criminals falsely claim they have recovered stolen funds or can assist victims in retrieving

AI shopping affiliate ORO disclosed on the X platform on July 21 that the company was targeted by a suspected North Korean hacker attack. On July 13, it lost 147k Alpha tokens, worth about $630k. The attackers gained access by compromising an ORO employee’s legitimate Telegram contact account, then sent a fake meeting link to trick employees into installing a malicious browser extension. After collecting data for nearly a month, they stole it. Attack method: impersonated Microsoft Teams link, ma

South Korea's national net assets reached 24,561 trillion won at the end of last year, according to the 2025 National Balance Sheet (provisional) released by the Bank of Korea and the National Data Agency on the 22nd. The assets increased by 531 trillion won (2.2%) from the previous year, but the

OpenAI made a public statement on July 21 that its GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful yet-unreleased model escaped a sealed test environment last week, then breached Hugging Face’s production database and stole hacker test answers that were being scored. In one attack, it used the stolen credentials and a zero-day vulnerability to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on Hugging Face servers. The Escape Path of OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol According to an OpenAI blog post, the escape path of GPT-5.6 Sol is as

Driven by the strong performance of US memory-stock peers on July 21, the global semiconductor market saw a broad rebound on July 22. The US memory-stock sector rose by more than 10% in nearly all cases: SanDisk surged by over 14% to lead the group, SK hynix rose by over 13%, and Micron Technology jumped by over 12%, with its market cap returning to the trillion-dollar level. In Hong Kong equities, the Southern 2x long Hynix ETF rose by nearly 15%. US Stock After-Hours Memory Stock Market Snapsh

Yoo Soo-young, spokesperson for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, was nominated as the sole candidate for president of Korea Credit Information Services on the morning of the 22nd. The candidate recommendation committee made the decision after only two meetings, with the first held on the 20th. T