Since recreational cannabis sales became legal in Maine five years ago, marijuana has boomed into a nearly half-billion-dollar industry. But recently, as more storefronts occupy downtowns and rural byways, some municipalities have considered taking steps to rein in the ballooning marketplace. Presque Isle, which boasts the most visible cannabis presence in northern Maine, adopted a moratorium Wednesday to...

 Pension funds across the US and Europe significantly raised their awarded mandates, or actual allocation, to venture capital in 2025. Read more here.  

Iran's Revolutionary Guard carried out consecutive drone attacks this week on Amazon AWS and Microsoft data centers in the Gulf region, marking the first instance of physical attacks on commercial data centers. Low-cost kamikaze drones rendered traditional surveillance ineffective, while the global scale of data center construction is projected to exceed $3 trillion by the...