Kyle Nowak

🍿 At the moves with The DONUT...Three different films hold the title for most Oscars won, with 11 apiece. Can you name them?

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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

–Sun Tzu (544 B.C. – 496 B.C.)

🤖⌨️ A free version of Gemini Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused AI coding tool, is now available for solo developers, the tech giant announced yesterday, as it ramps up efforts to compete with Microsoft in the developer tools space.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Monday marked exactly three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, kicking off an ongoing war with major global implications.

🏖️ Resorts featured in The White Lotus can count on waving hello to more new visitors. The widespread popularity of HBO’s hit TV show is spurring a huge surge in tourism to those locations, in a phenomenon travel agents have dubbed the “White Lotus Effect.”

🔥 It’s Wednesday, February 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

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“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”

–George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

🚀 ☄️ AstroForge is on a mission to build a space mining operation rivaling RDA’s unobtanium-gathering enterprise in Avatar.

🇯🇵 The Japanese government has relaunched its “Cool Japan” campaign, which seeks to reestablish the creative industry as one of its leading exports and boost the country’s soft power globally.

❓ Our question to you: In general, how do you feel about DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts across the federal government thus far?

☕️ Starbucks, the siren logo’d coffee chain, will be reducing the size of its workforce, the company announced yesterday – a siren singing a swan song, if you will.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🪸 A growing number of startups are seeking to cash in on the burgeoning global seaweed market and turn farms full of kelp and algae into food, skincare products, and environmentally-friendly cattle feed.

🏛️ The Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency has been investigating a wide range of federal agencies to reduce wasteful spending. But are the numbers it reports adding up?

“True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”

–Augustine "Og" Mandino (1923-1996)

❓ Our question to you: How do you feel about President Trump’s new executive order regarding White House control of independent federal agencies?

🪙 Hackers stole ~400,000 ether worth ~$1.4 billion from Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, the exchange revealed Friday.