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After several failed runs for Congress, Dan Bongino has made serious money in conservative media.Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon Dan Bongino isn’t worried about money. On a Monday livestream—the first since President Donald Trump announced his decision to nominate Bongino, a controversial conservative political commentator and former Secret Service agent, to be deputy director of the FBI—he declared that his focus was now on combating criminals, not expanding his bank account. “Money and all that other crap, who gives a damn about any of that stuff?” he asked. “We’ll figure that out later.” That’s probably because he’s already set for…

A handful of immigrant billionaires got their start in the U.S. with the help of a visa designed to lure highly skilled talent. Now, some of the nation’s biggest, billionaire-backed tech firms are the most prolific users of these H-1B visas. By Julie Goldenberg, Contributor Jeff Skoll, the Canadian engineer who was eBay’s first full-time hire and its first president, thought his future in the U.S. was secure back in the late 1990s. After having spent three years at the helm of the fledgling e-commerce company – creating its business plan, overseeing it as it grew to 3,000 employees before…

Microsoft has announced the world’s first quantum processing unit that uses topological qubits: the Majorana 1, “designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip”. This is an amazing technical achievement – but does it change the timeline for quantum computer development? The promise and threat of quantum computing The potential power of quantum computing is difficult to imagine, but it will revolutionize society and science. It will help produce new medicines, provide more productive farming, and develop new materials – potentially solving many of humanity’s current intractable concerns. When combined with AI, each technology will help improve…

Topline President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and head of the powerful Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), elevated decades-old conspiracies about the state of the U.S. government’s gold reserve at Fort Knox over the last two weeks, as Trump vowed to take a rare look inside the tightly guarded facility. The U.S. Bullion Depository in Ft. Knox, Kentucky.Bettmann Archive Key Facts “We’re actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there. Because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold,” Trump said Monday afternoon at the White House. Beginning last weekend, Musk started…

Multiple companies and experts have found evidence linking the massive Bybit cryptocurrency heist to North Korean hackers. It came to light over the weekend that hackers targeted the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, managing to steal roughly 400,000 Ethereum (ETH and stETH) — worth nearly $1.5 billion — in what is considered the biggest-ever cryptocurrency heist.  The funds were taken from an offline wallet belonging to Bybit. The company explained that the attack was conducted during the transfer of ETH from one of its cold wallets to a warm wallet.  Through a manipulation of the user interface, the hackers made it appear…

Chinese government agencies and private firms attributed cyberattacks aimed at the country’s Northwestern Polytechnical University to the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) based on IPs, incident timeline, keyboard input, human error, and deployed tools, a security researcher reports. In September 2022, China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) accused the NSA of tens of thousands of cyberattacks against networks in the country, and of infiltrating the Northwestern Polytechnical University. A year later, CVERC said it linked malware used in an April 2022 attack against the aerospace and defense institution to the NSA, and that it had uncovered the…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2024 carrying four satellites for the Space Development Agency.U.S. Space Force If President Donald Trump wants his Iron Dome–the space-based missile defense shield for the United States he proposed last month–it’s going to require tens of billions of dollars and a lot of new satellites. For the last six years, the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency has been working on a key part of what’s needed: a first-of-its-kind constellation of over 1,000 small satellites in low-Earth orbit designed to detect hypersonic missile launches and keep tabs 24/7 on mobile…

Tajín founder Horacio Fernández turned his authentic Mexican seasoning into a $1.5 billion spice giant—by selling to Americans. By Chloe Sorvino, Forbes Staff Surrounded by the mountains of Jalisco, Mexico, the entrance to the 20-acre manufacturing headquarters of chili spice maker Industrias Tajín features a half-mile-long driveway lined with Montezuma Bald Cypress trees. Halfway there, it wraps around a massive molcajete, a mortar and pestle weighing 70,000 pounds made from a single piece of volcanic rock. Three giant flags, 26 feet long by 13 feet tall, fly over the glass headquarters. One has the Tajín logo with its signature chili…

Hours before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would levy reciprocal tariffs on its trading partners. It could hardly have come at a tougher time for India, which is already pressed by a slowing economy and sluggish demand. At a joint news conference, Trump said India would buy F-35 fighter jets and oil and gas from the US. The two countries would also begin negotiations on the US trade deficit with India. India runs a large trade surplus with the US and such negotiations and military and oil…

Herbie and Nicole Wertheim were married for more than half a century. Now Nicole claims in a lawsuit that her optometrist-turned-investor ex forged her signature, made foundation pledges without her approval and removed her access to $250 million in charitable funds. By Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes Staff The 2023 Prostate Cancer Foundation’s gala dinner in Palm Beach was a high profile affair. Held at the Cox Science Center and Aquarium with a performance by The Beach Boys, the event attracted at least half a dozen billionaires including Mike Milken, Jeff Greene and Bill Koch. Also among them was Florida billionaire…