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Nvidia is buying back $150 billion of its own stock, the largest share repurchase ever announced by a public company. The move signals the chipmaker's confidence in its cash flow after explosive AI-driven growth, and gives it room to offset dilution from employee stock compensation while returning capital to shareholders at a historic scale.

A lawyer who successfully challenged the Trump administration's ban on MS NOW in court has given a first-ever interview about the case. According to the announcement, the attorney speaks publicly for the first time about the litigation that overturned the restriction on the network. Details of the remarks and the court ruling's terms are not yet available.

SpaceX is reportedly aiming for a valuation in excess of $2 trillion as it prepares for an initial public offering, a figure that would make it one of the most valuable public listings ever. The reported target is drawing attention from investors and market watchers given the company's dominance in commercial launch and its Starlink satellite business.

Word is spreading that Major League Baseball scouts have looked at Grand Teton as a possible stadium site, an unusual choice given the area's protected federal land and remote location. Commentators are questioning how a ballpark could ever be built there, and no team or league official has confirmed any such plan so far.

Commentary is circulating arguing that the long-predicted housing market crash has not materialised, and that the real crisis is instead a persistent shortage and affordability problem that keeps prices elevated. The discussion taps into frustration among would-be buyers who expected falling prices, and debate over whether a crash would even fix affordability given limited supply.

A short written account revisits the 2021 grounding of the Ever Given, the giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days and halted a major share of global shipping traffic. Readers are sharing the concise retelling of how the vessel became wedged, the salvage effort to free it, and the disruptions the blockage caused to world trade.

Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin has made the single largest donation ever given to a United States university, according to a report by Fast Company. The gift sets a new record for higher-education philanthropy in the country, adding to Griffin's history of large-scale giving to academic institutions and drawing attention to the growing role of billionaire donors in university funding.

The VLC media player project has issued what it calls its biggest security release ever, as reported by OMG Ubuntu. The major update addresses security issues in the widely used open-source player, which is a staple on Linux systems including Ubuntu. Details of the specific vulnerabilities patched have not been given, but the framing signals an unusually significant security fix.

Warner Bros. has given the first-ever 'Game of Thrones' feature film, 'Aegon's Conquest', a summer 2029 theatrical release date. The movie is expected to depict the Targaryen conquest of Westeros, the founding story of the franchise's world. Fans are discussing what the big-screen expansion means for the future of the universe created by George R.R. Martin, following the mixed reception of recent TV spin-offs.