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A woman in New York has posted a video saying she is on her way to housing court after living rent-free in Manhattan for seven years. The clip spread on X after first appearing as a YouTube Short from @Nycdeadbeat212. The on-screen text reads, “POV: Headed to landlord-tenant court after living rent free in Manhattan for 7 years.” This clown is actually bragging about living in Manhattan for seven years rent-free. Seven. Years. No shame. None. Just waking to court smirking like she pulled off some genius life hack while real people get crushed. And this isn’t some isolated freak show. In…
In brief Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain built using Arbitrum technology. The network handles tokenized real-world assets, including stocks and ETFs, alongside DeFi applications. Meme coins have driven most of the network’s activity since its July 1, 2026 mainnet launch. Robinhood has covered gas costs for users of its own wallet since launch, under an offer expiring on September 29. Robinhood Chain is a blockchain network developed by Robinhood, the financial services company behind the stock and crypto trading platform.Launched on mainnet on July 1, 2026, Robinhood Chain brings together tokenized assets, decentralized finance (DeFi), and smart contracts…
Kroger is agreeing to a proposed $17 million class-action settlement resolving claims it overcharged insured customers on prescription copays by not reporting lower Rx Savings Club prices as usual and customary rates. The settlement resolves claims in Kirkbride et al. v. The Kroger Co. that the company failed to report lower discount club prices as its usual and customary rates when billing insurers, which inflated out-of-pocket costs. Kroger denies any wrongdoing and maintains it correctly reported retail prices. The class covers individuals in the U.S. and territories who paid for one or more prescriptions at Kroger using insurance from December…
Eligible Solana token-account owners can reclaim excess SOL previously needed to keep their token accounts open after the network’s first rent reduction went live Sept. 3. For businesses funding new accounts, the same change lowers the upfront capital required to create them.The full plan would change how account growth translates into SOL held against storage. If Solana completes its proposed 90% reduction, total persistent account state, including each account’s storage overhead, would have to grow tenfold to require the same minimum SOL reserves as before the rollout. Adoption could expand substantially while the minimum SOL needed for this reserve channel…
In brief Google confirmed that CVE-2026-85046 is being exploited. The Chrome update includes 12 security fixes. Google has not linked the attacks to cryptocurrency theft—yet. Google has patched a high-severity Chrome flaw after finding that attackers were already using it.The bug affects V8, which Chrome uses to run JavaScript and WebAssembly. Google has not identified the attackers, their victims, or what the exploit can do.Myriad: Who wins BLAST Open Porto 2026? Click to make your prediction.“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild,” the company said in a security notice published Thursday. “We would also like…
Florida is distributing 5.67 million free Grade A eggs to food banks and pantries across all 67 counties under a nationwide price-fixing settlement. The settlement says Florida’s share includes 472,500 dozen eggs in 21 truckloads along with a $348,490 payment for enforcement. Producers including Cal-Maine Foods are covering all shipping and handling costs for deliveries through Feeding Florida’s network serving more than 2,400 agencies. The eggs stem from a joint U.S. Department of Justice and 17-state investigation into manipulation of Urner Barry price quotes. Attorney General James Uthmeier highlighted the relief for working families. “Eggs are a breakfast staple, not a…
In brief Anthropic says its Claude AI produced the first fully computer-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in 11 days, largely on its own, writing what’s now the longest math proof ever built. A human-led project doing this exact same job has been running at Imperial College London since 2024 and isn’t close to finished. Claude beat it to the finish line. Kevin Buzzard, the mathematician leading that human project, reviewed Claude’s proof and confirmed it holds up using nothing but math’s most basic logical rules. Anthropic says its Claude AI just wrote the longest math proof ever made, and…
Billionaire wealth has climbed to unprecedented global heights amid intense investment activity in artificial intelligence. The combined total now stands at $15.1 trillion, reports CNBC, with numbers expanding to 3,795 people worldwide. North America leads all regions with 1,337 billionaires and the fastest growth pace. Just 29 individuals each worth more than $50 billion now hold $4.1 trillion or 27 percent of all billionaire assets combined. This elite concentration has risen sharply from much lower levels in prior years. Companies pouring resources into AI have delivered 23 percent better market capitalization growth than peers. All major asset classes posted positive…
A Florida man stands accused of siphoning tens of thousands of dollars from his aging parents’ retirement funds through unauthorized bank transactions. Rafael Evelio Barcelo, the 67-year-old resident of Hialeah, allegedly managed the couple’s finances before making two large withdrawals from their Bank of America account, reports Local 10. One withdrawal involved a $34,000 check labeled as a gift that went to Barcelo’s business, Shophar LLC. The second was a $52,000 cashier’s check that Barcelo cashed personally before moving the money to another bank. The parents, who moved from Cuba decades earlier and had lived in the same home since…
Scammers have drained hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly Pennsylvania woman by directing her to purchase and surrender gold bars under false pretenses. The 78-year-old resident of South Whitehall Township fielded calls from people pretending to represent American Bank who claimed her identity and Social Security number faced compromise, reports The Morning Call. Attempts to wire funds failed after her bank rejected the transfers to invalid accounts. The callers then instructed her to acquire gold bullion and transport it to specific spots in the Allentown area. She completed four separate deliveries that handed over $550,000 in gold to…
In brief Zcash climbed as much as 20% to an intraday high of $1,029 on Friday, its best level in a decade, as about $34.5 million in short positions got force-closed on the break above $1,000. The move built on Thursday’s rally after Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he’d be “inclined to support” holding rates steady, pulling September hike odds to 50.4% from 63.2% and setting off more than $415 million in short liquidations across crypto. Friday’s August jobs report showed the U.S. added 162,000 jobs against a forecast of 56,000, sending Bitcoin back under $80,000 on renewed hike bets…