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Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to move its four preferred stocks, including STRC, to daily dividend payments without changing their dividend rates or the total amount paid.The company’s board approved the proposal on Thursday, according to a Friday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Shareholders are scheduled to vote on the amendments at a virtual special meeting on Oct. 28.If approved, each calendar day would become a dividend record date, with the corresponding payment made on the next business day. STRC would move to the new schedule first, with its initial daily dividend payment expected on Nov. 2.STRF,…

When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of her life a half-mile down the road in Brookside Village, a tidy community of 170 mobile homes nestled between the west branch of Briar Creek and a farm that grew sweet corn and pumpkins just up the hill. Her new colonial revival with expansive views of the Susquehanna Valley’s rolling landscape was one of several houses built on land that once belonged to that farm.  Fifteen years later, Williams has three kids between 11 and…

26/09/2026 – 15:18In Pictures: Pope Leo XIV opens outdoor Mass in Paris’ Place de la Concorde Photos: Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters 26/09/2026 – 15:16Worshippers sit to hear Bible reading as Pope begins Mass in central Paris Photo: Lara Bullens, FRANCE 24 26/09/2026 – 15:08Pope Leo begins open-air Mass before hundreds of thousands in Paris 26/09/2026 – 15:08 26/09/2026 – 15:05Vatican estimates 700,000 people have turned out for Pope Leo’s Mass in central Paris 26/09/2026 – 14:55The faithful lift their voices in song to mark the opening of the Mass Video: Lara Bullens, FRANCE 24 26/09/2026 – 14:43Crowds pack the Champs-Élysées to…

The government has stepped up work on new laws to stop ticket touts fleecing fans, as the prime minister came under pressure from artists including the drummer from the Smiths, one of his favourite bands.Keir Starmer said last year that the government would “stop fans from being ripped off” by outlawing the for-profit resale of tickets on sites such as Viagogo and StubHub, a pledge Labour first made in its 2024 election manifesto.Despite support from a host of globally renowned artists, including Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay, the measure was not included in this year’s king’s speech, prompting concern among…

Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.When every random text message feels like it’s a scam, and with AI supercharging digital fraud, old-time credit card skimmers and bogus letters that arrive in the mail may seem laughable as potential threats in 2026. But as we all suffer through a seemingly unending barrage of potential scams, these antiquated attacks are still costing victims around the world dearly.The fake-new-credit-card-in-your-mailbox trick is particularly insidious.…

import subprocess, sys, importlib def _sh(cmd): print(f”$ {cmd}”) subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, check=False, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL) def _need(mod): try: importlib.import_module(mod) return False except ImportError: return True if _need(“augly”): _sh(“apt-get -qq install -y libmagic1 > /dev/null 2>&1″) _sh(f'”{sys.executable}” -m pip install -q –no-deps augly’) _sh(f'”{sys.executable}” -m pip install -q “iopath>=0.1.8” “python-magic>=0.4.22″ ‘ f'”regex>=2021.4.4” “nlpaug==1.1.3″‘) import numpy as np from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont, ImageFilter for _name, _builtin in ((“float”, float), (“int”, int), (“bool”, bool)): if not hasattr(np, _name): setattr(np, _name, _builtin) def _size(font, text): left, top, right, bottom = font.getbbox(text) return (right, bottom) if not hasattr(ImageFont.FreeTypeFont, “getsize”): ImageFont.FreeTypeFont.getsize = lambda self, t, *a,…

A threat actor has been selling access to a new Windows botnet that relies on AI to maintain persistence on infected hosts, Qrator reports. Dubbed x47.c, it is advertised by a threat actor named WraithTools as providing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and credential theft capabilities, SOCKS5 proxies, and an AI API drain method. In early August, the threat actor offered the botnet’s base package for $200 and asked $150 for the DDoS add-on. The entire x47.c package, containing the full botnet capabilities, was priced at $950.  Users are provided with a command-and-control (C&C) panel that provides access to bot management, fast-flux…

Crypto exchange Bitget released an updated incident report on Thursday’s security breach, clarifying that about $388 million in assets had been affected and not $352 million as previously reported.In a Friday update, Bitget said it would continue to pause withdrawals following the security breach, and the company had launched a bounty program to incentivize freezing or recovering the assets. The exchange confirmed that “$387.5 million were transferred to attacker-controlled addresses” based on onchain tracing — about $35 million more than reported on Thursday. “The revised figure reflects a more complete accounting of transfers that occurred during the incident, adding affected assets…

A sprawling reservoir under construction south of Lake Okeechobee that Gov. Ron DeSantis has characterized as the “crown jewel” of Everglades restoration will not be enough to save Florida’s treasured and troubled river of grass, according to a new report. The report, prepared by Friends of the Everglades, an advocacy group, suggests the Everglades needs an even larger reservoir in the Everglades Agricultural Area that at 77,000 acres and 13 feet deep would dwarf the EAA reservoir already under construction among the vast sugarcane fields in the region. That $3.5 billion reservoir, once complete, will be the largest of its…

If you’re one of millions of Americans who have placed an online bet on a sporting event, you know how quickly you can go from celebrating your wins to feeling like the odds are stacked against you.ProPublica is trying to understand how sports betting apps incentivize users to keep playing and when they warn users to pump the brakes. To do that, we need your help: We’re aiming for at least 250 people to upload their gambling history from apps like FanDuel and DraftKings. We’re not quite there yet, so if you’ve used these apps, you can help our journalists.…