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The FIRE movement is burning up, but is it actually worth it? — Businessinsider

The FIRE movement is burning up, but is it actually worth it?

Kathleen Elkins has for years covered the FIRE lifestyle, short for financial independence, retire early. The movement has long meant aggressively saving and investing to build a nest egg large enough to escape the 9-to-5 decades ahead of schedule. A newer, more relaxed approach front-loads retirement accounts early and then

Soaring household debt is a warning to the US economy: SocGen — Businessinsider

Soaring household debt is a warning to the US economy: SocGen

Société Générale warned that rising household debt and shrinking savings have put the US economy in a difficult spot. Fed data show total liabilities among US households reached a record $19.9 trillion at the end of the first quarter, while the personal savings rate fell to 2.6% in

Miami couple turned Turo side gig into six-figure family rental business — Businessinsider

Miami couple turned Turo side gig into six-figure family rental business

Gerardo Aletti and Sofia Escarra bought a Nissan Infiniti in 2020 intending to rent it and see how it went. Six years later the experiment had become a full-time, family-run car rental business with 63 cars and earnings of half a million dollars in 2025. They rent exclusively on Turo

Spain shifts tourism beyond beaches as visitors near 100 million — Lifestyle | The Guardian

Spain shifts tourism beyond beaches as visitors near 100 million

Spain is pushing its tourist appeal beyond the familiar “sun and sand and coast” model as it prepares for another record year, with foreign visitors set to approach 100 million, industry and tourism minister Jordi Hereu said. He rejected suggestions the country is saturated with tourists and favours what he

Luna Abyss developers laid off less than a month after release — Pcgamer

Luna Abyss developers laid off less than a month after release

The entire team that made Luna Abyss has been laid off less than a month after the game's release. Kwalee Labs CEO Hollie Emery announced the move in a LinkedIn post on June 16, saying, "The entire team has been made redundant; a decision that was completely

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish — TechCrunch

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei Systems makes Poseidon, a refrigerator-sized robot installed on fishing boats that uses computer vision to identify species, locate the brain and pierce it before severing the gills. The automated process is an industrial version of ike jime: killing the fish instantly and draining its blood to delay decomposition, extend

Ralph Lauren bridges generations with menswear tie-up in Milan — Lifestyle | The Guardian

Ralph Lauren bridges generations with menswear tie-up in Milan

For his second standalone menswear show in Milan, Ralph Lauren returned to the accessory that launched his empire in 1967: ties. Skinny silk ties with subtle swirly prints were neatly knotted alongside brighter cravats, while ties doubled as belts, wrapped around bags, and were even spliced together to form the

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash — Pcgamer

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, one of the five Guillemot brothers who co-founded Ubisoft, died in a plane crash in La Baule-Escoublac in Loire-Atlantique. A Cessna 421 light aircraft crashed on Friday afternoon near the La-Baule aerodrome, killing two people, including the aircraft's owner and operator. La Baule's mayor

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash — Polygon

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, one of Ubisoft’s co-founders, died in a plane crash on June 19. A twin-engine propeller plane with two people on board crashed while attempting to land at an airport in La Baule; both occupants were killed. French news network ICI confirmed that one of the victims was

CD Projekt Red wants more games without becoming an annual-release studio — Gamesradar

CD Projekt Red wants more games without becoming an annual-release studio

CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski says the studio wants to make more games, but not by turning into a developer that launches a major title every year. "Our dream is to be making more games, although we never want to turn into the studio that's going

Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in Plane Crash — Kotaku

Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in Plane Crash

Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who founded Ubisoft in 1986, died in a plane crash in La Baule-Escoublac, Loire-Atlantique. The Loire-Atlantique SDIS 44 fire and rescue services identified the 69-year-old co-founder as one of two victims; the other was the unidentified owner of the Cessna 421. The Cessna 421

Pudgy Penguins Expands Retail Reach With Target Trading Cards — Cointelegraph.com News

Pudgy Penguins Expands Retail Reach With Target Trading Cards

Pudgy Penguins has rolled out its Vibes Series 3 trading cards across Target stores nationwide in the United States, marking the game's largest retail expansion and bringing the total number of circulated cards to 15 million. The new set adds gameplay mechanics, original artwork and appearances from Moonbirds

Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct” — Biz & IT - Ars Technica

Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”

Tesco is moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid what it calls Broadcom’s “abusive conduct.” The retailer is also facing migration challenges because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds in damages

South of Midnight shines on Game Pass as Compulsion faces possible closure — Polygon

South of Midnight shines on Game Pass as Compulsion faces possible closure

On June 10 Bloomberg reported that Xbox was planning major layoffs in July, and company leaders Asha Sharma and Matt Booty published a memo about an impending “Xbox Reset.” A week later that reset is beginning to look like severe downsizing: at least three Xbox-owned studios are in danger of

Digital credit selloff blamed on leverage liquidations, says Strive CEO — CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data

Digital credit selloff blamed on leverage liquidations, says Strive CEO

The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs on Thursday, with Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole calling the move a leverage-driven liquidation rather than a sign of worsening credit fundamentals. Strategy's preferred equity STRC fell as low as $82.50 before recovering to $89, while

Schwab to offer S&P 500 yes-or-no options with Cboe — CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data

Schwab to offer S&P 500 yes-or-no options with Cboe

Charles Schwab is partnering with Cboe Global Markets to offer new yes-or-no options contracts tied to the S&P 500, marking the brokerage’s first move into prediction markets. The feature is expected to be available to Schwab customers in the coming months. The contracts would work like binary

HBO Cuts Annual Subscription Prices for New and Returning Users — Movieweb

HBO Cuts Annual Subscription Prices for New and Returning Users

HBO Max will offer discounted annual subscriptions to new and returning subscribers in the United States. For a limited time, yearly prices are $78.99 for the HBO Max Basic with Ads plan, $132.99 for the Standard plan, and $164.99 for the Premium plan. The company has often

Amazon's early Prime Day deals include great Father's Day gift picks — Mashable

Amazon's early Prime Day deals include great Father's Day gift picks

Father's Day is June 21, and with just days to go Amazon's same-day, next-day, and two-day shipping still leaves time to find a last-minute present. Ahead of Prime Day the retailer has a wide selection of discounted items that work well for dads, grandpas, stepdads, or

Kalshi in Early IPO Talks with Investment Banks: Report — Cointelegraph.com News

Kalshi in Early IPO Talks with Investment Banks: Report

Kalshi is reportedly in early, informal talks with investment banks about a potential initial public offering after the platform surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue. A spokesperson for Kalshi declined to comment. Sports betting contracts now make up more than half of Kalshi’s weekly notional trading volume, with Dune

What shopping pros would buy and avoid on Prime Day — Pagesix

What shopping pros would buy and avoid on Prime Day

Prime Day runs across four days, from Tuesday, June 23 at 3 a.m. ET through Saturday, June 27 at 3 a.m. ET. If you’re not a Prime member, it only takes moments to join, and it’s required to shop the sale. Style & Shopping Director Elana

The strange death of the changing room — Lifestyle | The Guardian

The strange death of the changing room

Brandy Melville has closed all its fitting rooms across stores in the UK, US and Canada, prompting outcry on social media. One TikTok user asked, 'Why does Brandy hate [its] customers?' while another wrote, 'How am I supposed to know if it’s cute on me?!'

Amazon drops Sam Altman film after $50 billion OpenAI deal — Kotaku

Amazon drops Sam Altman film after $50 billion OpenAI deal

Amazon's MGM Studios has pulled Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic Artificial, which had been set to be distributed by the studio. In a statement, Amazon said, "We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker—not to mention a longstanding

Goldman Sachs cuts year-end gold target by $500 to $4,900 — Cointelegraph.com News

Goldman Sachs cuts year-end gold target by $500 to $4,900

Goldman Sachs lowered its year-end gold forecast by $500 an ounce, setting a new target of $4,900 down from an earlier $5,400. The bank cited expectations that the US Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates this year, pushing potential rate reductions out to March 2027 and December

Investor list shows China-linked backers and Qatari ties to SpaceX — Biz & IT - Ars Technica

Investor list shows China-linked backers and Qatari ties to SpaceX

A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it remained private, and an entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake. The new documents come from a private investor list that shed light on which people in

Save $12 on Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket — Mashable

Save $12 on Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket

Amazon currently has the Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket (42221) at its lowest-ever price: $47.99, a $12 discount off the $59.99 full price. Prime Day is now less than a week away, but if you want a Lego deal you don't have to