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South Korea Hits E-Commerce Giant With Record $409 Million Fine Over Data Leak Of 33 Million Users

South Korean authorities have imposed a record $408 million fine on e-commerce giant Coupang after concluding that a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 33 million customers.

International Business Times - Jun 12, 2026 6:28pm EDT

How much money did Elon Musk make in SpaceX’s stock market debut?

Guardian UK - Jun 12, 2026 5:50pm EDT

Meta hit by major global outage affecting Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Meta suffers major global outage as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger go down, with users worldwide reporting login errors and message failures.

Gulf News - Jun 12, 2026 5:04pm EDT

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut

Register UK - Jun 12, 2026 5:00pm EDT

SpaceX market cap tops $2 trillion after shares of Elon Musk's rocket company gain 25% on debut

SpaceX shares soared on Friday as trading commenced on the Nasdaq.

CNBC - Jun 12, 2026 4:19pm EDT

SpaceX stock lifts off, rising above its IPO price

NPR - Jun 12, 2026 4:12pm EDT

‘This Is Absolutely Crazy’: Antarctic Temperatures Hit a Record High This Month

Gizmodo - Jun 12, 2026 3:43pm EDT

Top House Republican’s family investment poised to benefit from SpaceX IPO

Republican Rep. Lisa McClain’s husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk’s xAI before it was folded into SpaceX ahead of its IPO.

CNBC - Jun 12, 2026 3:26pm EDT

OpenAI Faces New Lawsuit Over Suicide Of Young Woman Who Used The Chatbot

A lawsuit filed in California accuses OpenAI's ChatGPT of facilitating a young woman's suicide in July 2025.

International Business Times - Jun 12, 2026 2:48pm EDT

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How Venus Flytraps Snap Shut

Gizmodo - Jun 12, 2026 2:35pm EDT

ChatGPT Reaches 1 Billion Monthly App Users As AI's Role In Society Continues To Grow

OpenAI's ChatGPT reached one billion monthly active app users in May, marking a new milestone for consumer technology adoption.

International Business Times - Jun 12, 2026 2:19pm EDT

Pele's 1958 World Cup winners' medal set to fetch £500,000

London: Pele s 1958 World Cup winners medal is expected to fetch 500,000 ($670,000) when it is auctioned in England later this month. The medal,...

Peninsula Qatar - Jun 12, 2026 1:59pm EDT

Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX mega float

His fortune has been boosted by the sky-high valuation of his rocket and artificial intelligence firm SpaceX on its stock market debut.

Evening Standard - Jun 12, 2026 12:46pm EDT

SpaceX surges past $2T valuation in Wall Street debut after record IPO

SpaceX soared past a $2 trillion valuation after its shares jumped more than 20% in its Nasdaq debut on Friday, as investors piled into the world's...

Daily Sabah - Jun 12, 2026 12:45pm EDT

Scientists Pulled 700,000-Year-Old DNA From Frozen Squirrel Poop

Gizmodo - Jun 12, 2026 12:03pm EDT

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO

Musk marked the opening of trading on Nasdaq by joining a ceremonial bell ringing from Starbase, the South Texas home of SpaceX.

One America News Network - Jun 12, 2026 11:59am EDT

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

Register UK - Jun 12, 2026 11:28am EDT

OpenAI Shuts Down China-Linked ChatGPT Accounts Used to Influence U.S. Debates on Tariffs and Data Centers

OpenAI has publicly disclosed and banned multiple ChatGPT accounts it says were linked to China after they were used in attempts to shape U.S. public debate on tariffs and the expansion of artificial intelligence data centers.

International Business Times - Jun 12, 2026 11:15am EDT

SpaceX IPO, U.S.-Iran deal, Bezos on AI and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

CNBC - Jun 12, 2026 11:02am EDT

Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight

The Conversation - Jun 12, 2026 8:47am EDT

Small investors scrambled to get in on the SpaceX IPO, even as some believe the valuation is 'stupid'

SpaceX set a fixed price of $135 per share in the leadup to its IPO on Friday, placing its valuation at $1.77 trillion. Shares rallied more than 25%.

CNBC - Jun 12, 2026 8:34am EDT

Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

Register UK - Jun 12, 2026 7:47am EDT

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell had IPO doubts for years, now she has a message for investors

Gwynne Shotwell, long Elon Musk's second-in-command at SpaceX, spoke exclusively with CNBC ahead of her company's highly anticipated IPO.

CNBC - Jun 12, 2026 7:19am EDT

Handala hacks California water systems after US attacks

Mehr News Agency - Jun 12, 2026 7:04am EDT