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BP puts North Sea business up for sale

BP has said it is putting its North Sea business up for sale in a move that would end 60 years of production in the region by the oil giant.

New York AG Seeks $36B From Kalshi Over 'Illegal Gambling'

New York State is seeking at least $36 billion from Kalshi, asking a state court to shut its prediction market down and strip it of three times whatever it has earned. Attorney General Letitia James filed the petition o…

Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains 594 BTC in 25-minute sweep

Roughly 594 bitcoin, worth about $38 million, was swept out of around 500 separate wallets between 01:31 and 01:56 UTC on Friday in an attack traced to a flaw in how Coldcard hardware wallets generated their keys.

South Korean shares soar after chip stock rout

Share prices jumped in South Korea on Friday, partly reversing a three-day rout that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off the value of the country's stock market.