Google announced that it will block sideloading of unverified Android apps in 2026. Some speculate that this move may have been made to prevent apps that can block adverts on YouTube.
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The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India.
https://www.europesays.com/2361471/ Woman saved $44K after living on gas station free food staples, intense budgeting for 6 years #budgets #business #Finance #lifestyle #PersonalFinance #savings
#Cars Are So #Expensive That #Buyers Need Seven-Year #Loans. #tarrifs #borrowing #banks #finance #debt #economy #financing Once rare, seven-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way #buyers can afford new rides, w average #sale prices surging 28% in 5 years 2 approach $50,000. Compared to 5 yr loan they can make difference between $1,000 monthly payment & $780 one. In 2nd Qtr 2025,7 yrs loans are 21.6% of all new-vehicle financing. #trump #maga https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/aug/25/cars-are-so-expensive-that-buyers-need-seven-year-/
The Spokesman-Review · Cars are so expensive that buyers need seven-year loans
91% of Bank of America, $BAC, fund managers surveyed indicated that American stocks are overvalued, the highest ever proportion in data going back to 2001.
https://www.europesays.com/2359437/ Life insurance, while living: South Korea to turn death benefits into retirement income #EconomicAffairs #Finance #PolicyMatters #society #SouthKorea #TheKoreaHerald
file under: signs the entire stock market has become a rigged casino
Trump: We will be reducing drug prices by 1400-1500%.
Lithuania gets new ruling coalition https://www.politico.eu/article/lithuania-ruling-coalition-social-democrats-dawn-of-nemunas-lithuanian-farmers-and-greens-union/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Agriculture #Environment #Parliament #Education #Transport #Military #Security #Politics #culture #Defense #farmers #Finance #Energy #Sport #Trade
POLITICO · Lithuania gets new ruling coalition
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Colonization of Time: How Predictive Models Replace the Future as a Social Structure
Predictive systems do not merely forecast the future, they structurally replace it.
Full text: https://zenodo.org/records/15616168
ZenodoColonization of Time: How Predictive Models Replace the Future as a Social StructureThis article develops the hypothesis that predictive models do not merely anticipate the future—they structurally replace it through executable grammatical mechanisms. It introduces the concept of algorithmic colonization of time, and formalizes anticipation as a non-agentive syntactic operation that converts temporal openness into optimized output sequences. The proposal is original, falsifiable, and structurally differentiated from the existing academic corpus. A mirrored version of this article is also available on Figshare for redundancy and citation indexing purposes: [DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29247128]
https://www.europesays.com/2357348/ ECB bets on barnstorming start for digital euro – POLITICO #banks #CentralBank #CentralBanking #CentralBanks #currency #Digital #DigitalCurrency #Economy #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #Finance #markets #Payments
https://www.europesays.com/2355419/ Woodside receives final approvals for Scarborough project #business #Energy #EnergyTransition #Finance #FloatingLNG #GasPrice #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #NaturalGas #Woodside
https://www.europesays.com/2354152/ EU and US Seal Trade Deal with Tariff Ceiling and New Market Access Materia Rinnovabile #Automotive #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfTheEU #EUEconomy #Europe #Finance #tariffs #UnitedStates
Personal Finance With Ravi Sharma | Australian Finance & Property Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/personal-finance-with-ravi-sharma-australian-finance-property-podcast/
https://www.europesays.com/2350153/ DOGE’s Lease Cancellations Are Already Hitting the Commercial Real Estate Market #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #Finance #Musk #PoliticsAndPolicy
https://www.europesays.com/2349735/ Australia orders audit of crypto trading giant Binance | National News #afp #AntiMoneyLaundering #australia #AustralianTransactionReportsAndAnalysisCentre #Binance #business #cryptocurrency #CryptocurrencyExchange #Finance #FinancialCrimes #Government #IssuesInEthics #MoneyLaundering #NationalSecurity #Politics #TerrorismFinancing
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Trump used tariffs to help corporate allies, push foreign deals, claimed Washington Post.
Read more: https://t.co/JIgFvJLLlS
Donald Trump weaponized U.S. tariffs to protect corporate allies, pressure foreign governments, and advance political goals far outside trade policy, per WaPo.
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#Trump unleashed his latest attack shortly after [Trump appointee] Bill Pulte, the director of the #Federal #Housing #Finance Agency [#FHFA], said on social media that his office had investigated Ms. Cook & found that she *appeared* to have falsified bank documents to obtain favorable loan terms. Pulte said the FHFA had referred the matter to the #DOJ for a #criminal inquiry.