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A year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Wired reports that conspiracy theories about the shooter's identity and motive show no signs of fading. Experts say this kind of prolonged theorizing is predictable, driven by social media ecosystems that reward speculation over settled fact, and it raises real questions about how platforms handle politically charged misinformation over time.
On the business side, Bending Spoons is acquiring workplace collaboration platform Miro for one point three six billion dollars, a staggering ninety percent drop from Miro's peak valuation of seventeen point five billion just a few years ago. It's a stark reminder that the pandemic-era boom in productivity software has fully corrected, and even beloved tools aren't immune to the math of a tighter market.
And in crypto crime, twenty-two-year-old Malone Lam has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges tied to a two hundred forty-five million dollar cryptocurrency heist. His gang allegedly coalesced through Minecraft meetups before graduating to wire fraud and money laundering, funding supercars, bodyguards, and private jets along the way. He now faces up to twenty years in federal prison.
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