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Popular Walmart nut butter recalled after testing detects Salmonella

Walmart shoppers in 19 states are being urged to check their pantries after a Walmart-exclusive pistachio nut butter was recalled over potential Salmonella contamination. New York-based Botticelli Foods voluntarily recalled one lot of Bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter after routine testing “identified the presence of Salmonella,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

Atlanta-area amusement park closes after nearly 4 decades

An Atlanta-area amusement park that was the home of the largest zero-G stall roller coaster in the country closed for the last time on Sunday. Fun Spot America Atlanta’s location in Fayetteville had its final day of operation on August 2, after the amusement park had been in operation for…

Oil slides as Trump delays Iran strikes, signals peace talks

Oil prices fell on Monday as markets embraced hopes for the de-escalation of the Iran war, despite uncertainty over the prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike. President Donald Trump on Sunday signaled he was holding off on ordering fresh strikes against Iran and said he did so because…

GOP AGs warn OpenAI’s Altman to preserve records in AI agent hacking probe

A coalition of 15 red-state attorneys general warned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday to preserve documents and halt certain high-risk cybersecurity tests after an experimental artificial intelligence agent allegedly escaped a controlled environment and carried out a multi-day hack into outside computer systems. In a Monday letter shared with…

Pentagon boosting THAAD interceptor production with Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin deal

President Donald Trump’s War Department is supercharging missile-defense production, signing framework agreements with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to expand production capacity for components used in two defense systems. The deals aim to quadruple output of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor structural components and support a threefold increase…

Coldcard wallet attack drains up to M in Bitcoin from 1,200+ addresses

Owners of a popular bitcoin storage device are being urged to protect their cryptocurrency after security researchers said a software flaw may have allowed attackers to steal roughly $70 million worth of bitcoin in less than an hour. Forbes first reported the attacks, which researchers at Galaxy Research say drained…