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Strategy, the bitcoin-focused firm led by Michael Saylor, has raised its cash reserves to just over three point two billion dollars while leaving its bitcoin holdings completely untouched for the second week running. The move signals a deliberate pivot toward financial stability, with the fresh capital earmarked for dividend payments on preferred stock rather than further crypto accumulation.
Ransomware is hitting small and mid-sized businesses harder than ever, according to new data covering the second quarter of two thousand twenty six. NordStellar counted over two thousand five hundred attacks in just three months, with US small businesses absorbing nearly seven hundred seventy incidents alone. Researchers point to an intensifying rivalry between two criminal groups, Qilin and The Gentlemen, as a key driver behind the surge in volume.
On the hardware side, Samsung is now shipping the first mass-produced tandem OLED laptop panels to meet a brand new display standard, with Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and MSI all set to integrate them. These panels push peak brightness to sixteen hundred nits, a significant leap for portable screens, and represent the first devices to qualify under VESA's newly introduced DisplayHDR True Black fourteen hundred certification.
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