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CarMax (NYSE:KMX) reported a 6.2% increase in net revenues to $8 billion for the first quarter ended May 31, 2026.

A US$245 million bitcoin social‑engineering scam allegedly run by teenager Veer Chetal — who is accused of tricking a Washington man into handing over 4,100 BTC — led to a brutal kidnapping plot against his parents.

A plaintiff using the alias “Noah Doe” has filed a 901‑page lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking rights to around 3.7 million dormant bitcoin, worth roughly US$285 billion, spread across 39,069 wallets including some linked to Satoshi Nakamoto and the Mt. Gox hacker.

For decades, the global transition to renewable energy was a project of incrementalism — a slow-moving mosaic of carbon taxes, solar subsidies, and earnest international accords that often felt more aspirational than urgent. 

Policy wonks argued over the nuances of the Inflation Reduction Act, while climate activists lamented the glacial pace of the "energy pivot."

For the better part of a decade, the gilded youth of the financial world — the "crypto-native" generation — dismissed gold as a "boomer rock." 

To them, the heavy, yellow metal was an analog relic, a petrous souvenir of an era before the lightning-fast efficiency of the blockchain. 

For years, the global defence industry existed in a sort of polite exile. 

In the era of ESG mandates and the "peace dividend," shares in weapons manufacturers were often treated as the "tobacco stocks" of the new millennium — profitable, perhaps, but unseemly.