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The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U. S.
Parallel Systems raised $100M to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of pounds of freight up to 500 miles.
Tonda Eckert is free to continue as Southampton manager after being given a suspended ban for his role in Spygate.
Speaking at Token2049 in Singapore, the chairman said Bitmine is about 100,000 ETH—roughly six to seven weeks—from its 5% cap, setting an end date on a buying spree that made it the world's largest Ethereum treasury.
Ethereum price has fallen below $2,600 as escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz triggered a wider crypto sell-off and pushed ETH toward a key technical support zone. Ethereum (ETH) price traded around $2,565 at press time on Oct.
Matt Brittin fields questions on whether ‘bloated’ senior ranks are being spared and lays out iPlayer overhaul Matt Brittin, the BBC’s director general, has faced a barrage of accusations that frontline staff are being laid off instead of those from the “very bloated” senior ranks. In an all-staff call, Brittin conceded the BBC…
The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.
The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.
Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
Users reject site’s explanations after detailed instructions for writing response to post on popular forum was published Mumsnet has denied using AI to produce content after detailed instructions to help an AI model write one of its popular “am I being unreasonable” (AIBU) posts appeared on a Mumsnet message board. Users of the…
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How a team of South Africa camera operators discovered Australia's sandpapergate scandal as it happened.
The National Bank of Kazakhstan said it will study a local currency-linked stablecoin and tokenized real-world assets with Tether.
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Pennon slashes dividend and launches £550m cash call ‘to drive improved outcomes for customers and communities’ The owner of embattled South West Water has slashed its dividend and launched a cash call to investors as it attempts to fund infrastructure investment, days after it was hit by a record £7.9m fine for hundreds of…
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Coco Gauff says she had a "draining" few days after receiving racist abuse online before her fourth-round China Open exit.
Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret note USD/CAD around 1.4227 with the Canadian Dollar (CAD) flat versus the US Dollar (USD) but outperforming most G10 peers. CAD retains much of Tuesday’s 0.4% gain, helped by a stronger August trade balance.
Scotland's top flight is the best attended in Europe per head of population. But does the rising cost of going to games put that status at risk?
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
In 6 days, 10,000+ people from across the global startup and tech ecosystem will come together at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. If you’re planning to be one of them, don’t wait to register your ticket before prices increase at the door.
The United States (US) Federal Reserve (Fed) will release the Minutes of September’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday.
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
Amazon-owned Ring is entering the smart lock market with a device designed to tackle a common concern: getting locked out when the battery dies.
We’re launching a standalone platform to help you easily identify whether online content was created using Google AI or tools from our industry partners.
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
The Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a pleasant spot shaded by banyan trees.
Jay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon, Colin Bermingham had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.
USD/CAD rebounds sharply on Wednesday, rising nearly 0.45% as the US Dollar (USD) remains firmly bid across the board, supported by surging US Treasury yields. Attention now turns to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) September monetary policy meeting, due at 18:00 GMT.
Sheffield United CEO Stephen Bettis tells BBC Radio Sheffield the Blades expect to avoid an EFL points deduction but will not reinvest a summer transfer haul in January.
BNY’s Geoff Yu argues that the Eurozone recovery remains intact even as the Euro (EUR) weakens. Manufacturing PMIs and business surveys in Germany and across Europe point to strengthening demand, while fiscal stress and a softer European Central Bank (ECB) stance weigh on the currency.
A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.
The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism Hollywood is sending a clear message: it’s a friend of tech. Netflix is no longer a lone disruptor: historic studio MGM is now the property of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos; David Ellison’s takeover of…
With the 2026 World Cup well and truly behind us, the first fall international break saw all the top teams playing four times in three weeks. Which sides look strongest and most likely to contend in four years' time?
Europol warns quantum threats could expose crypto wallets and stored encrypted data, urging early moves toward post-quantum security.
Just how good are the 49ers? Are the Texans and Bucs better than their records?
The Jaguars will become the first NFL team since 1926 to play in 12 or more stadiums in a single season -- including Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday.
Apparently the Wolverines were so comfortable on our dubious list last week, they decided to stick around.
How hard is it to get, hold onto and pay a backup QB in today's college football?
Commissioner Gary Bettman said the league is considering a new team, and Houston's viability is concrete.
Connor McDavid remains No. 1, but who lands after him?
Does a Dodgers three-peat mean a salary cap is coming? Would a Rays or Brewers title prove small-market teams are just fine?
It's a loaded day in the 2026 MLB playoffs, with eight teams in action as both the ALDS and NLDS roll on.
Could injuries to Saquon Barkley, Lamar Jackson and others derail their teams? Which AFC teams should trade for a WR?
How does every team stack up heading into Week 5? We made our 1-32 list and sized up each franchise's performance so far.
Sir Kevin Sinfield is knighted by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle.
Circle and Tereina are bringing USDC and EURC into SAP Pay, giving eligible businesses stablecoin payments inside existing workflows.
EU law enforcement agencies urged developers, exchanges, and users to initiate phased post-quantum migrations immediately to prevent future unauthorized fund transfers.
Sir Kevin Sinfield has received a knighthood at Windsor Castle for services to the MND community - after raising money in memory of his late friend and former team-mate Rob Burrow - and for services to league and union rugby.
Rabobank’s Senior FX Strategist Jane Foley reviews the sharp USD/JPY declines in July and September, initially driven by joint Ministry of Finance (MoF)–US Treasury intervention and later without official action. The report notes that the Bank of Japan’s gradual rate hikes are eroding the Japanese Yen’s appeal as a funding…
This week, from Reich to Kendall and Celibidache, three musicians who prove there is no such thing as “pure music”, whether we’re talking about a technique, a mode of musical expression or a musician’s legacy. Steve Reich turned 90 on Saturday, and I’ve been thinking about his early tape pieces from the mid-1960s, It’s Gonna…
Societe Generale notes EUR/HUF rebounded from its 50-day moving average after a downside surprise in Hungarian CPI. Inflation remains below the MNB target, with the stronger Forint helping to curb price pressures and keep underlying trends subdued.
‘This is Courtney doing her makeup on the ’95 Lollapalooza tour. I was documenting my generation being hijacked by corporate greed – and destroyed following the sacrificial death of Kurt Cobain’ When I was going through the archives for my rock photo book, I came across my first ever self-portrait, at Père Lachaise Cemetery in…
BBC Sport speaks to Dorking Wanderers owner and manager Marc White about the growing use of social media helping non-League teams grow.
Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.
Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump Here is a film for all those people who solemnly deplore social media in conversation but haven’t quite got round to deleting their accounts. Sixteen years have gone by since The…
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes USD/SEK is firmer on broad US Dollar (USD) strength, while Sweden’s September Consumer Price Index (CPI) data were mixed.
ING’s Deepali Bhargava notes that the Reserve Bank of India delivered its first rate hike in four years, raising the policy Repo rate to 5.50% and shifting to calibrated tightening.
Wakana Koga claimed her first world title at -48kg, defeating Assunta Scutto in the final. At -60kg, home favourite Ahmad Yusifov came from behind to beat Sherzod Davlatov, sending the Baku crowd into celebration on an unforgettable opening day.
United Overseas Bank (UOB) strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann note that USD/CHF remains in a tight range in the short term, with intraday levels clustered around 0.8300. Their 1–3 week view maintains a broader consolidation band, while the 1–3 month outlook suggests the pair could continue rebounding but lacks momentum…
Tom Lee said Bitmine will be “done stacking” once it owns 5% of ETH, setting an end date to an accumulation streak that began in mid-2025 and made the company the world's largest Ethereum treasury.
Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.
Tether and Kazakhstan will study a tenge stablecoin pilot and asset tokenization framework, with Alatau City set to host testing.
The firm is putting its own capital into stablecoin and tokenized gold vaults as institutional finance moves further onchain.
Standard Chartered economist Dan Pan analyses which US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) months provide the most reliable initial signals of labour-market conditions.
Some traders are looking for more predictable prediction market opportunities, rather than playing “hot potato” with the next 100x gem, according to Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan.
Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’ Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV The cutting-edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to.
Demand for Springboks and All Blacks outstrips hosts England lost 42-21 to Ireland in last Twickenham game England have been outstripped by South Africa and New Zealand in demand for tickets for the Nations Championship finals weekend at their own stadium in an embarrassing snub for Steve Borthwick’s side. Six rankings matches…
Members of the EuroLeague rejected a formal offer from the NBA this week to merge and create a single NBA Europe operation, sources told ESPN.
The postal service firm wants to cut head office and other non-frontline jobs by the end of 2027.
Max Verstappen says the Formula 1 paddock is "less stressful" following Christian Horner's exit because "it is not nice when you constantly have tension between people".
Chainlink price falls nearly 5% toward $13 as LINK traders watch $12 support, $15 resistance and new CCIP 2.0 institutional use.
OKX raises more, $500M+ in crypto longs liquidated after a late evening selloff, and Abstract calls it quits.
EUR/GBP trims part of its intraday decline on Wednesday but remains on the back foot for the ninth consecutive day as concerns over France’s fiscal position weigh on the Euro (EUR).
DBS Group Research economist Chang Wei Liang notes that the Japanese Yen (JPY) could trade slightly weaker as the government reportedly considers a second supplementary budget, with USD/JPY around mid-158.
Silver (XAG/USD) dives on Wednesday, nearing two-month lows around the $60.00 psychological area after rejection from levels near $62.00 on Tuesday.
A century after leaving the Netherlands for New York, Willem de Kooning is returning home in a major new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
Asahi, Kirin and Suntory confirmed their premises were searched by Japanese competition authorities.
Lionel Messi marked his 208th and final game for Argentina with his 126th goal as his country bid an emotional farewell to the global icon.
ABN AMRO strategist Georgette Boele notes that changes in interest rate spreads have encouraged speculative short Euro positions, while fiscal and political uncertainty in France and Spain has historically coincided with Euro (EUR) weakness versus the US Dollar (USD).
XRP price falls toward $1.40 despite $3.14M in ETF inflows as traders watch bearish signals, XRPN trading and XRPL upgrades.
There has been no new manager bounce, Ben Gannon-Doak is playing in an odd position and the wider plan looks flawed Scotland are staring at a third-place finish in Group B1 of the Nations League , which will have repercussions for their seeding in Euro 2028 qualifying. More striking, though, was the general standard of…
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture Whether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman, Stuart Hall was a public intellectual famed for defining the times. Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks…
The 1990s felt like a golden age, but there are 21 British players in Serie A this season – more than ever before By The Football Mine What do Jimmy Greaves, Ray Wilkins, David Beckham, Paul Gascoigne and Kyle Walker have in common? They all made more than 50 appearances for England as well as playing for Italian clubs.
Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
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Stacks has gained more than 100% over the past 90 days, backed by institutional Bitcoin Staking that is creating a new use for STX that could grow as more BTC enters future bonding periods. According to CoinGecko data, STX was…
Banks need their own permissioned ledger, wallet tools and smart-contract capabilities before they can use Swift’s tokenized-deposit network, Taurus’s Lamine Brahimi said.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominated the much-anticipated matchup with Atlanta ace Chris Sale, and Kiké Hernández hit a two-run homer as the Dodgers beat the Braves 3-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the NLDS.
Eagles two-time All-Pro right tackle Lane Johnson announced his retirement Tuesday, ending a 14-year career spent entirely in Philadelphia.
Tyreek Hill's wife recounted details of assault and verbal abuse during testimony Tuesday on the first day of a civil assault and battery trial in Florida, proceedings that began a day after ESPN reported Hill would potentially sign an NFL contract soon.
Ever since the NHL's all-time goals leader announced his retirement, ticket prices to Capitals games have been soaring -- and not just for home games.
Game 1 starter Michael King lived up to his declaration, coming in to pitch the final two innings as the Padres avoided playoff elimination with a 4-3 victory over the Brewers in Game 3 of the NLDS.
Coco Gauff lost to Elise Mertens, whom she had beaten in all five of their previous matchups, before saying she felt drained over the abusive comments she received during the China Open.
The United States capped its September/October international window with a scrappy 1-0 win over Canada in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday night.
ESPN's Basketball Power Index projections for the 2026-27 NBA season are out, including a ranking of all 30 teams.
Headlines: Treasury yields continue to break higher as 30-year hits 5.70%, putting markets on edge Crude oil rebounds as persistent supply risks continue to outweigh improving physical exports Bitcoin dips as over $400 million in crypto longs are liquidated in just one hour Chart of the day: EUR/CHF is becoming a pressure gauge…
Rabobank expects EUR/CHF to remain close to the 0.93 area in the coming weeks as Eurozone fiscal tensions continue to support safe-haven demand for the Swiss Franc.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Scot Prem latest: Hibs eye deal for ex-Rangers winger as backroom team revealed”.
Suzann Pettersen is making a second return to professional golf since her retirement in 2019 with an appearance at this week's Aramco Korea Championship - and it may not be a one-off.
A panel of BBC Sport correspondents explore what sanctions Manchester City could face after being found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.
Senior figures within the English game are concerned that Manchester City could play in the Champions League next season even if they are relegated for breaching financial regulations.
The vault framework compares impairment risk while leaving capital protection and future returns unpromised.
American involved in disputed point during tournament Gauff called out ‘insane’ amount of abuse online Coco Gauff said she had been left drained by the racist abuse she experienced during the China Open after losing in the last 16 to Elise Mertens. The American was dismayed earlier this week after an incident during her match…
The Wembley crowd was in party mood and the fans sang Thomas Tuchel's name. Three straight wins without conceding, Harry Kane feted as England's greatest ever servant, a Nations League quarter-final all-but guaranteed.
Crypto card demand can be stronger where access is harder, Tangem says, as the company expands its self-custodial payment offering through Visa.
SAND, NIGHT and ZRO retain strong weekly gains as fresh CoinGecko data shows traders testing key support and resistance levels.
Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad notes that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 25 bps rate hike to 5.50% failed to support the Indian Rupee.
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Ethereum made rollup transactions cheaper by giving them lower cost data space. The savings helped users and applications, but they also made it harder for a small chain to earn enough from transaction fees to support a sequencer, bridge, security…
Postal service says cuts will focus on head office and ‘support function roles’ Business live – latest updates Royal Mail is to cut up to 2,500 jobs as the embattled company seeks to restructure its business amid intense competition and the continuing decline in letter deliveries. The postal service, which has been fined a…
The Euro (EUR) comes under pressure against its peers again on Wednesday after a relief recovery the previous day. In the European trade, the major currency is down 0.63% at around 1.1188 against the US Dollar.
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns energy shock, public debt and AI boom threaten global growth, as Brent crude rises above $101 a barrel and government bond yields rise John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts…
Celebrated for his earnest, dextrous voice, Jackson crossed into the pop charts with the hits Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) and You Are My Lady Freddie Jackson, the US singer whose smooth and romantic take on R&B found a huge audience in the 1980s, has died aged 70. A statement from his family on social media reads…
Four-year-contract secures Spaniard’s future Title winner is Premier League’s best-paid manager Mikel Arteta has promised “this is only the beginning” of what he can achieve as Arsenal manager after signing a new long-term contract that would take his reign at the club beyond a decade if he sees it out. The Spaniard is…
Societe Generale’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) strategy team expects the National Bank of Poland (NBP) to keep rates at 3.75% today, with Governor Glapiński likely to flag inflation risks and prepare markets for a November hike. They see a hawkish stance offering some Polish Zloty (PLN) support but still expect EUR/PLN…
Ether underperformed, losing 6% after Tom Lee said Bitmine would soon stop purchasing additional ETH.
Bush theatre, London Mei Leng Yew’s play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festival With shapeshifting performances and smart, heartfelt writing, Mei Leng Yew’s juicily spooky romcom is a seductively assured debut about second-generation family…
What has Thomas Tuchel tweaked as he looks to refine his England blueprint rather than rewrite it from scratch?
Former UFC employee Sal Everett wins a fighter contract with the promotion after knocking out Ozzy Martin in Dana White's Contender Series.
Mikel Arteta has turned Arsenal into Premier League champions but does his new contract take him into a new stage of his project? And can he bring more trophies to eclipse Arsene Wenger?
Mikel Arteta says this is "only the beginning" of Arsenal's success after signing a new contract with the Premier League champions until 2030.
"We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."
Cardano’s new programmable token framework lets an issuer make transfers depend on its own rules, including identity checks, allowlists and, where selected, freezes or forced transfers. The public chain enforces those rules for the particular asset, but the entity that…
In an exclusive interview, former Ipswich manager talks of his lasting affection for the club, savouring time out with family and friends and ideas for his next move It was on the Portman Road pitch, bathed in bright early May light while immersed in the relief and joy of a third promotion in five years, that Kieran McKenna…
Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across independent franchises, which prosecutors say violates antitrust laws and has unfairly inflated menu prices for…
When Mikel Arteta signed his last Arsenal contract in September 2024, his quest to bring major silverware back to the club was ongoing. Two years later, he signs his new one after leading them to a long-awaited Premier League title.
Mikel Arteta has signed a new long-term contract to extend his stay at Arsenal.
From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husbands Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan on their heart-melting TV romance “Dr Crane, your glockenspiel has sprung to life!” It was a…
The EU police agency expects blockchains to adapt to the threat, while a second report weighs the risk of data stolen now and cracked later.
Scarlets are ready to fight for their existence as the Welsh Rugby Union presses on with controversial plans to cut a west Wales club.
Gold (XAU/USD) extends its decline on Wednesday, falling nearly 1.60% as the US Dollar (USD) and US Treasury yields resume their advance following a modest pullback the previous day.
World Liberty says its WLFI app is ready as WLFI trades near USD 0.054 and the project expands staking and USD1 payments.
The Swiss Franc (CHF) loses ground for the third consecutive day against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday, retracing the rebound witnessed late last week.
Wada president Witold Banka says Kenya must strengthen testing, investigations and anti-doping enforcement before hosting the 2029 World Athletics Championships.
Stablecoins can cross a blockchain in minutes, but a transfer between wallets does not establish that a supplier was paid or a migrant sent money home. New classifications put observable payment activity in the hundreds of billions of dollars, far…
European Central Bank (ECB) official and Governor of the Bank of Portugal Santos Pereira said during the European trading session has ruled out fears of second-round inflation effects. Pereira advised that France should pursue fiscal prudence.
After representing society’s dispossessed, Ponder started a music career in her 40s – then faced miscarriage, anxiety and more. She explains her survival instinct “You can get everything you dreamed of career-wise, and your life can still crumble, and that is what happened to me,” says US singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder.
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Gold (XAU/USD) finds itself pulled in two directions: official-sector demand continues to underpin prices even at elevated levels, while the technical picture has deteriorated after the metal failed to hold above its 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA), leaving key supports exposed.
Bitcoin fell below $84,000 as oil climbed on Iranian tanker attacks, while smaller tokens fell harder and liquidations rose to $547 million.
A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize.
World Liberty Financial outlined plans to bring USD1 to major online platforms as Mesh announced a payments partnership scheduled to roll out this quarter.
Chelsea made a thrilling start to the season under Xabi Alonso but after being beaten at Arsenal, blows against Hull and Brentford have set them back.
There was hardly a dry eye in the house as 85,000 Argentina fans gathered in Buenos Aires to express their gratitude for Lionel Messi one last time.
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Coco Gauff said she had been left drained by the racist abuse she experienced during the China Open after suffering a shock defeat by Elise Mertens as Iga Swiatek reached the quarter-finals.
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Commission concluded in July threat level was low Manchester City whistleblower given 10 days’ notice Portuguese authorities kept Rui Pinto in the dark for almost three months about their decision to end his status as a protected witness and notified the Manchester City whistleblower 10 days before it was due to expire, it can…
Abstract will shut down on Dec. 15 despite onboarding more than 400,000 users, hosting 144 apps, and landing brands including Disney and Red Bull Racing.
Early Wall Street wealth-creation opportunities remain inaccessible to retail participants, but Hyperliquid’s perpetual contracts aim to democratize access, according to its CEO.
Kristalina Georgieva says big economies will have to make ‘very touch choices’ as soaring bond yields hit budgets Business live – latest updates The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on governments across big economies to tighten their belts as soaring bond yields hit budgets. Speaking in Singapore, the IMF’s…
MUFG’s Derek Halpenny highlights growing downside risks for the Japanese Yen versus the US Dollar as USD/JPY tests its 200-day moving average near 158.50.
Russia has registered its first four cryptocurrency exchange operators and five digital custodians under the regulated crypto market that opened on Sept. 1.
Britain's George Russell will start from the back of the grid in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix because of a power-unit penalty from last weekend's race.
Kim Kardashian’s revelation that she has five nannies for four children caused a ruckus. But the world of the ultra-wealthy throws up far more extreme approaches to childcare “I have the best advice for women in business,” Kim Kardashian told Variety in 2022 .
The project has sparked doubts over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given Trump’s record Donald Trump has long sought to portray himself as a man of steel, from the White House photoshopping Trump to look like Superman, to enacting tariffs on steel and approving the sale of US Steel to Japan’s Nippon…
OCBC Bank strategists Sim Moh Siong and Christopher Wong argue that the US Dollar's (USD) structural support from the US technology and AI sectors remains intact, but they are more cautious on further near-term USD gains.
Sky Sports will broadcast England's one-day international tri-series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in full this October.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Robertson struggles to understand Scotland display vs Slovenia”.
Ledger has introduced Bitcoin-backed borrowing through Morpho in its wallet app, allowing eligible users to pledge cbBTC or wBTC for USDC or USDT loans. Ledger, in a press release dated Oct.
The Tornado Cash founder hit back in a tweet, noting FinCEN withdrew a proposed mixer rule over concerns it could chill legitimate activity.
BingX strategy chief Kevin Lee says wealthy investors are taking a longer-term approach to Bitcoin, though family-office crypto exposure remains limited.
It's a brand new week but the bond market is still not giving broader markets much room to breathe. Treasury yields are once again pushing higher again today, with the 30-year yields touching 5.70% - their highest since 2002.
A senior advisor to Melania Trump posted a comparison online that doesn't make much sense...
South Korea are discussing making changes to military exemptions for athletes after Asian Games controversy.
Gold (XAU/USD) retraces Tuesday’s gains on Wednesday and resumes its broader bearish trend, with the US Dollar (USD) appreciating across the board, as investors brace for the release of the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting.
From Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques to Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and her infamous appearance on The Celebrity Traitors, it’s hard to know where to begin Celia Imrie has had such a varied career, it’s hard to know where you might know her best from. Maybe it’s as Miss Babs, the permanently flustered…
Bitcoin fell 2.3% in two hours amid suspicion over the appearance of leveraged BTC short positions on Hyperliquid.
Societe Generale notes USD/SEK broke out of a large base in September, extending its rebound and recently posting an interim high near 10.10 before a brief pullback.
‘It doesn’t look like proper cricket,’ says Faf du Plessis as Canada’s Super60 tournament raises a few eyebrows Have you heard about Schrödinger’s six? When a cricket ball has spawned off the edge of the bat and flown all of 35 metres, is that really a six at all?
Evernorth Holdings has delayed its planned Nasdaq trading debut under the XRPN ticker by four days to Oct. 12 after an administrative issue pushed back the closing of its business combination with Armada Acquisition Corp.
Silver prices (XAG/USD) fell on Wednesday, according to FXStreet data. Silver trades at $60.21 per troy ounce, down 0.82% from the $60.71 it cost on Tuesday.
United Overseas Bank (UOB) strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann note that AUD/USD extended its recent gains on Tuesday, helped by improved risk appetite, but they still characterise the near-term move as only a tentative recovery.
Pinarello-Q36.5’s Camprubí and Gloag floored in crash ‘Things like this shouldn’t happen,’ says British rider Tom Pidcock has admitted he almost quit the Tre Valli Varesine in a rage after a police motorcyclist drove into the peloton and struck two of his Pinarello Q36.5 teammates. Speaking after the race in northern Italy, in…
Back end of 2027-28 season likely to be ‘challenging’ Fixture contestion a growing area of concern The Women’s Super League will face major disruption next season due to by the Club World Cup, with Arsenal and Chelsea likely to be absent from domestic competition for up to a month. The Guardian revealed last week that the…
Leicester Tigers announce hooker Finn Theobald-Thomas retire immediately on medical grounds.
Halpenny argues that last week’s sharp widening of the OAT/Bund spread to 150 bps looked overdone, with French bonds now retracing from oversold levels as global fixed income selling eases. He sees Marine Le Pen’s aggressive consolidation plan as unlikely to materially change OAT risk ahead of next year’s election.
Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its balance sheet as the trading platform puts company capital behind a crypto business spanning trading, tokenized stocks, derivatives and blockchain infrastructure. According to Robinhood senior vice president and general manager…
The stablecoin payments company’s proposed New York trust bank would custody digital assets and dollars, manage stablecoin reserves and issue and redeem dollar-backed tokens.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price declines after paring its daily gains, trading around $89.00 per barrel during European hours on Wednesday.
Commerzbank’s Tatha Ghose highlights that Poland’s National Bank (NBP) is expected to keep its base rate at 3.75% in October, with guidance from Thursday’s press conference key. Several MPC members now see scope for rate hikes if projections show inflation above 4% next year.
Bitcoin ETFs returned to net inflows with $119 million on Tuesday despite falling prices, while Ether funds reached a six-session outflow streak totaling $408 million.
The Euro (EUR) underperforms its major currency peers on Wednesday, trading almost 0.55% lower at around 177.00 against the Japanese Yen (JPY) in the European trade.
Unveiled at TOKEN2049 Singapore, the Morpho-powered Crypto Loan feature lets users borrow stablecoins against wrapped Bitcoin while keeping private keys and final approval on their hardware device.
The GBP/USD pair weakens further below mid-1.3200s during the first half of the European session on Wednesday, eroding a major part of the previous day's move higher amid a broadly firmer US Dollar (USD).
After a windier road than expected, Paramount and Warner are now one, under the banner of Skydance, and the film industry is set for a shake-up Hollywood’s big five have officially become the big four. Following a twist-filled saga that saw the century-old studio Warner Bros nearly acquired by the streaming giant Netflix, only…
The White Sox were one of the worst teams in MLB history. Now they are just five wins from a place in the World Series The postgame celebration songs pounded through the Bluetooth speakers in the Chicago White Sox clubhouse on Monday night, minutes after the team’s playoff victory over the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive…
What makes someone pick up a camera at a young age, and what can their images tell us? A new book and show explore why a child’s first photo could be as formative as their first record What was the first photograph you took?
Proportionality is set to be improved for firms as over 100 regulatory thresholds could be automatically increased periodically.
The pop superstar is showing art from his personal collection for the first time. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is packed with fans.
Following Steve Clarke’s resignation as national team head coach, there was a thirst from Scotland fans for change.
It's not just mortgages being at their highest level in almost three years — but the cost of loans for cars and higher education are among the borrowing costs affected, too.
Cardano's value has climbed about 42% since Sept. 16, taking ADA from roughly $0.19 to $0.27, and the positioning behind the move has expanded faster than the dollar liquidity beneath it.
Robinhood has added bitcoin worth $25 million to its balance sheet, senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, told the Starting Block Wednesday.
Tom Lee said BitMine will not accumulate Ether past 5% of the supply, turning the company’s target into a ceiling.
The Japanese Yen (JPY) holds marginal gains against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with podcaster Jennifer Welch about her new book, "Not Today, Fascists."
Czech Television said in a statement: "We won't see the Czech flag on stage next year,” citing ongoing financial pressures.
Dow Jones futures decline by 0.14% to trade near 51,750 during European hours on Wednesday. S&P 500 futures remain steady around 7,870, while Nasdaq 100 futures fall by 0.18% to trade near 31,430.
The Los Angeles Olympics are just two years away but you could get there with a new sport as Great Britain's flag football team is on the lookout for new talent.
Standard Chartered’s Saabir Salad now expects the Czech National Bank to deliver two additional 25bps hikes, in November 2026 and Q1-2027, after a pre-emptive move in June. This would lift cumulative tightening to 75bps and the policy rate to 4.25% by end-Q1-2027.
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia Shell’s refineries are expected to make record profits on each barrel of fuel produced after shortages in the global market caused pump prices around the world to climb to all-time highs. In a trading update on Wednesday…
Ronaldo lists notes ‘validated’ for Portugal coach to say Pelé, Maradona, loyalty and selfies get mentions Cristiano Ronaldo said in a lengthy statement on Tuesday that the Portugal head coach, Jorge Jesus, had agreed to make eight points relating to him in a press conference before the team’s game in Denmark last week. Ronaldo…
EUR/CAD continues its losing streak for the third successive day, trading around 1.5920 during the European hours on Wednesday. The currency cross is under downward pressure as the Euro (EUR) faces headwinds despite a stronger-than-expected rebound in German industrial performance.
Russia registered its first crypto exchanges and custodians, including its largest bank, Sberbank, which plans to launch crypto products on Dec. 1.
United Overseas Bank (UOB) strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann note that USD/JPY traded on a firm footing in early Asian trade as upward momentum continued to build.
There are moments of shivering joy as the protagonist of two enduring classics, Jack Sawyer, returns – but this time his journey feels endlessly repetitive Bear with me, because there is some backstory to get through before we can talk about the book I am actually here to review. Back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter Straub…
Lawyers launch super-complaint over finding that officers in England and Wales frequently dismiss image-based abuse Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over…
Roman Manfredi took to the Neopolitan streets to photograph intimate portraits of locals who live outside binary gender expectations
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When England were consigned to the World Cup play-offs back in June, it felt like a massive step backwards. How were the European champions not a shoo-in for the next major tournament in the international calendar?
Cole Campbell was 18 years old when he made his Bundesliga debut for Borussia Dortmund. But a subsequent loan move to Hoffenheim did not work out and he had to wait almost two years for his first start in the competition.
Silver price (XAG/USD) is slightly down to near $60.60 during the European trading session on Wednesday. The white metal faces marginal selling pressure as United States (US) Treasury Yields regain ground after a corrective move the previous day.
Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.
Average cost of home in September was £298,441, says Lloyds – about the same as year earlier and in August Business live – latest updates UK house prices flatlined in September, according to a leading index, as rising mortgage costs started to weigh on the market. The average cost of a home was £298,441, roughly the same as it…
NZD/USD depreciates after registering modest gains the previous day, trading around 0.5610 during the European hours on Wednesday.
Bitcoin dipped to around $84,200 on Wednesday but stayed inside its recent range, keeping the broader bullish stair-step trajectory intact.
The AUD/USD pair attracts some sellers on Wednesday, stalling a three-day recovery move from the 0.6900 neighborhood, or a three-month low, touched last week.
Crypto’s 200 largest assets have gained just 5% since October 2021 even as annual new token supply has fallen from 26.5% to 3.3%, leaving the market roughly 35% below its long term trend, according to crypto market analyst Jamie Coutts.…
Rabobank strategist Molly Schwartz notes US Treasury yields fell across the curve, pressuring the US Dollar (USD) even as the US Dollar Index (DXY) stays close to 102. She highlights evolving Fed communication and multiple officials stressing inflation risks from AI, tariffs and energy.
Tom Pidcock wanted to "stop racing" after he says two of his team-mates were hit by a police vehicle travelling the wrong way down the course at the Tre Valli Varesine.
FNB has launched 24/7 crypto trading with VALR, letting customers buy BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL and USDT from R10 inside its platform.
ING’s commodities team, led by Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey, reports that Gold edged higher on Tuesday as lower Oil prices and stronger bond markets eased inflation concerns and reduced expectations of further rate hikes. They emphasize persistent central bank demand, with World Gold Council data showing continued net…
The Euro (EUR) extends losses against the British Pound (GBP) on Wednesday, on track to complete a nearly 1.6% decline in a nine-day losing streak.
The Oscar-winning actress was one of the last stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood and was the oldest living Oscar winner.
Messi addresses crowd after scoring in win against Benin ‘Not coming any more is going to be deeply painful’ Lionel Messi described his retirement from international football as the “saddest day of my career” after playing his final game for Argentina in a 3-0 defeat of Benin. Messi, who scored and provided two assists in the…
Commerzbank’s Antje Praefcke notes that concerns over France’s national debt have recently weighed on the Euro, reviving memories of the earlier sovereign debt crisis.
Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson For almost a century, The Jazz Singer has been celebrated as the world’s first feature-length film to include synchronised dialogue (known as a “talkie”), and English as the first language of cinema. But a…
Naver Financial and Dunamu have postponed their comprehensive share swap for a third time, moving the planned completion from Dec. 31, 2026, to March 31, 2027, as regulatory reviews remain underway.
Prosecutors say a recent Bitcoin Fog appeals court ruling supports their argument that Tornado Cash activity in Manhattan was enough to establish venue for parts of Roman Storm’s case in New York.
BBC Sport NI's Andy Gray sits down with Northern Ireland manager Michael McArdle to discuss his long career before his biggest managerial test in the World Cup play-offs.
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?
United Overseas Bank (UOB) strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann report that GBP/USD broke above their prior resistance level as the British Pound (GBP) outperformed on Tuesday, invalidating an earlier mildly bearish view.
Kalshi’s 15-minute gold markets logged 542 million September contracts and $5 million in estimated fees, overtaking comparable Ether markets.
The USD/CAD pair gathers strength to around 1.4220 during the early European trading hours on Wednesday. All eyes will be on the Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) later in the day for signals on a potential rate hike.
This witty, smart remake takes bullying and telekinetic violence to new extremes. Even the shower scene is more excruciating than the original The automatic response to the news that a stone-cold classic of any genre is to be remade is “Why?” In an accompanying letter to critics, the creator of the new TV series Carrie, Mike…
If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals London was once globally renowned as the “billionaires’ playground”, where the world’s super-rich could relax in the Georgian townhouses of Mayfair undisturbed by the grasping hand of the state. But if recent…
Plus: two political leaders at the same club game, a very long-term suspension and extremely quick equalisers Mail us with all of your questions and answers “Oli McBurnie is back in the Scotland squad,” noted John Cant last week. “With his record of 16 appearances [now 20] and zero goals, he said in a recent interview, ‘a…
The inaugural Asean Cup, not to be confused with the existing Hyundai Asean Cup, may not live long in the memory but Fifa president sees benefit It’s probably not a coincidence, what with Fifa’s presidential election getting closer all the time, but Gianni Infantino has been sweeping through Asian member associations. There he…
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion.
MUFG’s Michael Wan highlights that USD/JPY is still trading above 158, but Governor Ueda’s comments point to further Bank of Japan (BoJ) policy normalisation. Ueda stressed anchoring inflation around 2% and noted upside risks from imports, AI demand and JPY weakness.
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Meritz Securities has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to explore bringing institutional digital asset custody and tokenization infrastructure into South Korea’s capital markets. According to Meritz Securities, the agreement will cover a review of Ripple Custody and the company’s…
Crypto prices fell as oil climbed, Treasury yields and the dollar rose, while more than $400 million in leveraged longs were liquidated.
Lionel Messi described playing for Argentina as "the most wonderful thing that can happen to you" after ending his international career with a goal in a 3-0 win over Benin in Buenos Aires.
Danske Research Team observes US equities extending their rebound, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting fresh record highs and cyclical laggards leading gains. The team argues markets are not excessively optimistic, noting valuation multiples have compressed over the past year and quarter.
EUROPEAN SESSION In the European session, we don't have much on the agenda other than the French trade balance. The data won't change anything for the ECB, so the market reaction will be muted.
If tariffs were supposed to bring down the US trade deficit, then the latest numbers clearly show that things are a reminder that things are not that simple. The US trade figures for August showed the deficit widening to $105.6 billion, up from $92.8 billion previously.
Tyrese Haliburton purchased tickets for the student section at his alma mater Iowa State for the Pacers' first preseason game Wednesday.
Canada brought physicality and pressure, two elements that can derail young players, but the USMNT's next wave of stars prevailed in a 1-0 win.
Alex Freeman delivered an assist and solidified a back line that kept a second straight clean sheet in the USMNT's 1-0 win over Canada on Tuesday.
US government linked wallets have transferred $103 million in Bitcoin and BNB, sending more than $71 million in BTC to Coinbase Prime as the transaction raises questions over whether the assets could be headed for a sale. According to on…
Derek Chisora's last fight was billed as his retirement bout, but the 42-year-old says he intends to box in December.
Manchester City have had a strong start to the WSL season, but have they showed they are capable of juggling Champions League football?
Race to Dubai leader Patrick Reed says becoming the second American to be crowned European No 1 would mean "a lot" and insists he has "no excuses" as he looks to extend his advantage over Rory McIlroy after returning from a shoulder injury.
Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling 2002 film about Tony Wilson, champion of post-punk bands, couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan Michael Winterbottom’s intriguing, daring, freewheeling movie is being rereleased on its almost-quarter-century anniversary. It is about Manchester legend, Factory Records impresario, club…
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed Scientists who believe technology will largely solve the problems caused by the climate crisis are less likely to engage in civic action on the issue, according to a study. The report from the London School of Economics found they…
The author of Moneyball brings his exceptional narrative skills to bear on Musk’s anti-government crusade Donald Trump’s catastrophic errors get so much attention that his systemic ones can easily be missed. While the world looks on in dismay at his farcical war in Iran, the thuggery of Ice agents or clownish attacks on…
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Cardano has launched CIP-0113 on mainnet, letting regulated token issuers add KYC, sanctions checks, transfer limits and freeze controls.
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Farmers gathered much less wheat in 2026 and dairy farmers' costs rose.
She joins Lennie James and Sheridan Smith on Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year. Plus: reaching the bottom of Britain’s deepest cave.
Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a Nasdaq Zcash ETF with a 0.25% fee, Gemini custody and up to $100M of nonbinding investment interest.
Exclusive: 10-year sponsorship extension at a 50% premium on last agreement crowns bonanza year for live venue O2 has struck a record deal thought to be in the region of £200m to retain the naming rights to the London venue the O2 in the largest renewal of its kind in UK history. The 10-year agreement will extend O2’s…
From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on health They were born into a Britain still recovering from the hardships of war. Though the air-raid sirens had fallen silent, many everyday foods remained rationed, including sugar.
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Gold recorded 542 million contracts and an estimated $5 million in fees in September, surpassing Ether’s 318 million contracts and $2.6 million, though Bitcoin remained far ahead.
The softer US jobs report on Friday last week continues to paint a softer picture of the labour market, yet there is still one part of the story that doesn't seem to line up. The September non-farm payrolls rose by just 29k, well below expectations of 90k, while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.2%.
Conduit sued Tether over a $2.76M USDT freeze tied to a Brazil investigation, seeking access to the funds, damages and reserve profits.
The consumer-focused blockchain will close Dec. 15 after Igloo spent tens of millions supporting it, days after Blast said its own network was no longer worth operating.
Its published DvP design exchanges fully funded token legs atomically, leaving financing and netting to institutions.
The new standard is aimed at regulated stablecoins, funds and bonds whose issuers need identity checks, sanctions controls and other transfer rules built into the asset itself.
Bitcoin.de trading remains suspended after BaFin rejected futurum bank’s MiCA application, with regulated partners planned for a restart.
Bitcoin briefly broke under the level analysts flagged as the point where sellers take over. Oil and the dollar both climbed.
Mood in trade talks said to have changed as EU member states harden demands for protection against Chinese imports EU trade negotiators are heading to China for two days of crunch talks aimed at sealing a breakthrough deal tackling Beijing’s record £1bn-a-day trade surplus by curbing its exports of cheap hybrid electric cars…
After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work?
Drugs, drink and dancing made Bez famous. Thirty-five years on, has he really swapped it all for filtered water, intermittent fasting and walks with the dogs?
In the second article in a series on the Polish economy, we look at how the country is forging closer ties with its neighbours Two miles off the coast of Gdańsk, the white steel piles of Poland’s first offshore gas terminal rise from the slate-grey Baltic. Installed at a height eight metres above the waves, the floating cranes…
Houthis claim strikes on three Saudi sites including Riyadh airport, unconfirmed Households weather RBA hikes as debt-to-asset ratio hits 1997 low, Deutsche Bank says RBI decision today: most economists expect a hike to 5.50%, MUFG sees a hold Ether fi joins the stablecoin rush: why every crypto platform wants its own dollar…
Deutsche Bank's argument is hawkish at heart. If each hike does less damage to household cash flow than in the past, the RBA may need to do more to slow demand, which keeps a fifth hike in November in play and supports the short end of the Australian yield curve.
The new exception permits one eligible commissioner to form a quorum when every other sitting member is disqualified from the particular matter.
Commissioner says Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian privacy regulator has opened an investigation into the China-based software company behind the HeyCyan app in Kmart’s $89…
Trading on the platform has largely been suspended since June as its operator awaited MiCA authorization, with the company now looking to regulated partners to restart services.
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Ellison admits ‘good relationship’ with administration in remarks to reporters about newly merged media company David Ellison, the chief executive of the newly formed media conglomerate Skydance, denied that he had “politicized” the company despite the close connection he has forged with Donald Trump’s White House over the 20…
Crystal’s October 5 snapshot found $396 million unmoved in eight Tempo wallets, while customer activity inside custody accounts remains unknown.
Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devices Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian adults will be able to access Pornhub once again after the site brought in age-checking on Apple devices in response to…
Igloo CEO Luca Netz said the company funded Abstract for 18 months but still failed to find product-market fit despite attracting major brands and a community of millions.
Latest model is launching in New York to target rich US buyers – and is more than 5.2 metres long and 2 metres wide It has no rear window, will not fit into a UK parking space and – starting at £130,000 – ($172,000) is aimed squarely at rich tech industry buyers driving the wide open roads of America. Jaguar’s electric car…
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The detail that matters most for the Bank of Japan is base pay. Regular wages holding steady near 4% points to durable wage growth rather than a bonus-driven spike, which is the kind of evidence policymakers want before tightening further.
The split matters for the Bank of Japan. Strength in manufacturing supports the case that the economy can absorb further rate increases, but respondents in property and services directly cited higher interest rates and weaker household spending as drags.
Frozen yoghurt, which was a huge craze in the 2000s and 2010s, has made its return with multiple chains popping up across the wider UK.
Service to be tested in Spain and Portugal this year, with a UK rollout if successful, as pre-loved markets boom Ikea is to test an online version of its buy-back service where the retailer offers vouchers for unwanted secondhand furniture. The service will be tested in Spain and Portugal before the end of December and will be…
Order of the Sinking Star is due out on Thursday and has roughly 1,500 puzzles for players to try
The boss of the Norwegian state company says further investment in the UK could be at risk if Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
Google's new image model, Nano Banana 2.1, is live. It costs about half as much as its predecessor, but the performance claims come from Google's own tests.
Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
Beldina Odenyo was on the verge of stardom when she took her own life in 2021. In this beautiful documentary, her grief-stricken sister Leah attempts to finish her album – and her journey will make you cry again and again In 2021, the Kenyan-Scottish singer-songwriter Beldina Odenyo was on the brink of major stardom.
Nothing in Circle's posts announces a sponsorship, but replies dug up Khaled's 2018 SEC settlement over a crypto fraud he promoted. The internet never forgets.
Strategy’s October filing shows an accounting consequence. ETF cost estimates measure fund holdings, while redemptions determine how Bitcoin leaves.
A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.
Her glacial poise in North By Northwest made her a cinematic icon, but films including On the Waterfront and Loving revealed great subtlety alongside the glamour Eva Marie Saint dies aged 102 Her best films – ranked Her life in pictures ‘I’m Eve Kendall. I’m 26 and unmarried.
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
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Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint – a life in pictures Her best films – ranked Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen…
Oil: Private survey of inventory shows a headline crude oil draw S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100 close at records Crude oil rebounds as Hormuz tensions rise. Can buyers take back full control?
Court filing alleges Bryan Seaver, star’s ex-security head, had also posted no trespassing signs to thwart serving of lawsuit Dolly Parton’s estate has alleged that her nephew and former security head used barbed wire and a no trespassing sign to avoid being served in a lawsuit, according to a court filing confirmed by the…
The UK government has appointed six banks to lead its first digital gilt issuance, with the pilot expected by the first quarter of 2027. HM Treasury announced on Oct.
The lawsuit alleged that Tether froze USDt funds in a Conduit wallet tied to an investigation launched by Brazilian authorities in 2024.
The proposed fund would hold ZEC directly, with Gemini Trust serving as custodian and Winklevoss Capital affiliates eyeing up to a $100 million investment.
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
September's prices index rose to 74.0 while growth slowed, leaving rate relief uncertain for leveraged Bitcoin exposure.
A combined service could lead to higher prices.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today moved for entry of a final judgment by consent against Stephen Kenneth Leech II, the former co-chief investment officer of registered investment adviser Western Asset Management Company LLC, whom the SEC…
Abstract will shut down Dec. 15, saying a chain focused solely on consumer crypto proved unsustainable, and is urging users to bridge their assets off before then.
S&P tops 7,800 for first time in history as investors optimistic despite signs of instability in US economy The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at a record high after a rally around AI chipmakers and a dip in US treasury yields. At market’s close, the S&P 500 was up 0.58%, topping 7,800 for the first time in its history.
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition.
There isn't much on the economic and event agends during the Aisa-Pacific timezone to shift marekts around too much upon release. Nnote that ECB board member Piero Cipollone will be speaking at an event in The Philippines, in a panel discussion at Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee International Research Fair.
A $6 million exploit at an unidentified Base vault has exposed a gap in vulnerability reporting, according to Immunefi’s head of security, with roughly $31.7 million remaining in the vault at the time of the incident briefing. Gonçalo Magalhães, head…
Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of…
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle.
To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
The payments firm alleges Tether froze its treasury wallet on its own initiative over a Brazilian investigation it has no connection to—and has profited from the reserves while refusing to release the funds for more than a year.
Hashrate Index's October comparison still puts about two-thirds of estimated hashrate in three countries, without measuring ownership or pool control.
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in…
Securitize and LG CNS have signed a memorandum of understanding covering three areas of digital asset development for South Korean institutions, including tokenized securities and stablecoin infrastructure. Securitize announced on Oct.
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
The DIGIT pilot will test distributed ledger technology and onchain settlement for UK sovereign debt, with issuance expected by the first quarter of 2027.
The face of the "Don't Die" movement now says retouching beats therapy for looking young. His transformation over the summer may explain why.
The gala is leaving traditional US broadcast networks for live worldwide streaming.
Winklevoss Asset Services has filed for a Nasdaq-listed spot Zcash ETF under the proposed ticker WINK, as ZEC has gained more than 5% in 24 hours and is trading above $1,376. Winklevoss Asset Services filed an S-1 registration statement with…
Bitget Wallet COO Alvin Kan has called for clearer transaction permissions and wallet recovery controls following Bitget Exchange’s reported $387.5 million breach, saying direct ownership must come with safeguards users can understand. Alvin Kan, chief operating officer of Bitget Wallet,…
The deal is expected to alter the entertainment and news industries but could it mean higher prices for consumers?
The proposed fund would hold ZEC directly, trade on Nasdaq under "WINK" with Gemini as custodian, and add the Winklevoss twins to a wave of institutional interest in the privacy coin.
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
FinCEN abandons proposed privacy-related reporting requirements, while existing anti-money-laundering duties remain.
The digital ruble’s early uptake comes as BRICS nations explore linking their digital currencies for cross-border trade and payments.
Odds are good the CMA would approve of a supermarket merger. But does Sainsbury’s need Morrisons?
Ripple has expanded its agreement with Brevan Howard, a fund manager overseeing about $35 billion, to provide its funds with multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing, and financing through Ripple Prime. Ripple announced on Oct.
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to carry out the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. The planned datacentres in Muhos and Kajanni…
By pairing AI with “blind sweep” ultrasounds, Google researchers found a way to get more people the prenatal ultrasounds they need.
The No Betting on Your Own Race Act will not be addressed before the 2026 US midterms as Congress is on recess until after the election.
Bitcoin’s push toward $90,000 has stalled below $87,722 as weekly U. S.
Asos confirmed an "unauthorised customer notification" was sent out via its app on Tuesday, after users raised alarm.
On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024). Learn what this means for you, and how RFC 8509 trust anchor sentinels allow you to test whether your DNS resolver is ready for the rollover.
Shares in fashion company fall nearly 10% after its app systems are accessed by ‘unidentified third party’ Asos is investigating unauthorised access to its app system after shoppers received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” its data. The online fashion retailer said basic personal information including…
The system uses facial technology to check travellers against immigration and passport information.
Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
Most affluent investors across seven countries own and are increasing their crypto holdings despite financial advisers who remain overly cautious about digital assets.
Paris-based Mistral launched Large 4, a model nicknamed after a June internet joke. It tops GPT-6 Astra on one finance test, but trails Claude on others.
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Bitcoin price action was kept in check by overhead ask liquidity while US stocks broke out to new all-time highs.
JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service.
The LG CNS partnership gives Securitize a foothold as the Seoul prepares new rules for tokenized stocks, bonds and funds beginning in February 2027.
LayerZero’s ZRO price has climbed more than 100% from its early-September levels to around $2.23 as traders assess its rising price channel, planned ATLAS buybacks, and an Oct. 20 token unlock.
There is a little change in the market after the auction results The first leg of the 3 coupon auctions this week including the 3 year, 10 year and 30 year is complete. Summary WI level at the time of the auction: 4.934% High yield: 4.932% WI level at the time of the auction: 4.934% Stop-through: 0.2 basis points vs the average…
Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years.
An October 5 venue filing invokes a Bitcoin Fog appeal, showing why narrower privacy policies have not ended the Tornado Cash case.
Pantera Capital and Bullish also participated in the ANVL purchase as Anvil rolls out software designed to make its collateral protocol easier for businesses to integrate.
New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman’s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield On the day that Luca Guadagnino ’s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world’s pre-eminent portrait…
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests ( OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing, 28 September ). There is the usual call for…
Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
The future of crypto may therefore depend less on creating the next novel asset and more on building the infrastructure required to price a growing universe of existing ones, argues Altius co-founder and CEO Annabelle Huang.
Pi Network price has fallen toward $0.087 after retreating from last week’s highs, leaving buyers defending rising daily support while a bullish analyst forecast hinges on a break above $0.11. CoinGecko recorded PI at $0.08719 on Oct.
Bitcoin and Ethereum barely moved today, but Zcash and Monero are leading the largest coins over the last 24 hours.
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
A ECB executive board member said the potential introduction of a digital euro would not ”take over the role of banks,” but ensure they have a role in the EU’s monetary system.
The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.
October’s strongest established crypto candidates have liquid markets, active developer communities and events that can be checked against public records. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB and XRP each meet the longevity test, but their October cases depend on different things.
Solana price has held near $121 after its September recovery, with positive daily money flow supporting a renewed test of $125 resistance as traders watch whether October can bring a move toward $150. Solana daily chart showed its price at…
There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston's SoWa Power Station, where investors and operators share how they've navigated crucial…
Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.
Ethereum price has held near $2,718 on Oct. 6 as positive short-term money flow and bullish analyst views face a five-session withdrawal streak from US spot Ether ETFs.
OKX brought Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered’s venture arm onto its cap table as the crypto exchange broadens its push into stablecoin-based financial services. On Oct.
"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
Introducing Embedding Gemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
Every artist, producer, and songwriter works differently. To match those individual creative workflows, Spaces in Google Flow Music lets creators build custom instrument…
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
Hill co-starred in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and has hosted drag king shows and queer cabarets. "This is my mantra … if you don't see yourself represented, go out and represent yourself," he says.
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences Tech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is that he often lacks that subtlety.
Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions.
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
Ripple Prime will provide prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to funds managed by the $35 billion alternative investment manager.
The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV.
The exchange is increasingly aiming to position itself as a global financial tech platform spanning crypto, payments and tokenized assets, following an investment and joint venture with NYSE parent ICE.
Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task.
Google is helping health leaders overcome reporting lags, forecast disease outbreaks, and deliver care to vulnerable communities.
Police in central France are searching for an art collector's book worth an estimated €1 million that was stolen from an art centre in Issoire in Puy‑de‑Dôme. The "Book of the Apocalypse", a 210‑kilo volume contains works by Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau and Bernard Buffet.
Ethereum’s institutional demand is weakening around the same time derivatives positioning shows traders are selling aggressively without yet breaking the broader price structure. US spot ETH exchange-traded funds recorded $50.76 million of net outflows on Oct.
Virtuals opened an invitation only AI app test in October as established crypto networks tried to turn AI demand into paid activity. NEAR is building agent and settlement tools, Bittensor rewards competing subnets, Render supplies graphics and compute capacity, and…
OKX has completed a strategic investment from Circle, Qube Research & Technologies, Ripple and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures at a $25 billion pre money valuation, adding four existing infrastructure partners to the funding round started by NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange…
Bluesky says the process will still take 18-24 months, so don't expect your new, shortened 'bsky' handle any time soon.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Compliance Outreach Program announced today that it will host a virtual national seminar for investment companies and investment advisers on November 19, 2026. The purpose of the event is to help chief compliance…
Non-Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to watch the awards show on the platform.
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.
Five decades after convincing judges she’d be killed if she returned to Chile, the artist is back with a politically charged retrospective in the country she grew to love Cecilia Vicuña was 24 when she first arrived in London. She had come from Santiago on a British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School of Art, and…
Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade has gone live on the Sepolia testnet, moving its 2026 scaling package into one of its final public testing stages before a planned mainnet activation. According to Ethereum community contributor Pooja Ranjan, the upgrade activated on Sepolia…
David Ellison and ex-Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz to oversee both film studios, HBO Max, CNN and CBS News as co-executives Paramount completed its $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, consolidating some of the world’s most recognizable studios and news outlets after a bidding war with Netflix and months of legal…
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
It's the latest in a string of deals meant to grow Uber Eats into a food delivery behemoth.
Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that One of the most beloved characters in an absurdist genre of online video content has become the center of an international legal battle that could determine where human creativity ends and artificial…
Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Discover the pioneering global startups joining us in Mountain View this November to shape the future of AI.
Sepolia marks one of the final major rehearsals before the final activation of Glamsterdam, aimed at bringing more efficiency and scalability to the Ethereum mainnet.
The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, and Food Network.
Drivers who deliver medical equipment to hospitals across England reject a 4% pay increase.
Dogecoin opened October with a new application testnet, while Shiba Inu gained a route onto Solana. Bonk and Floki have live products whose use can be measured, and Pepe remains a large trading market without a scheduled protocol upgrade.
OKX raised an undisclosed amount at a $25 billion valuation as an extension to March’s investment round led by the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange.
Theo Triantafyllidis won the 2026 Frieze Artist Award, which is supported by Google Arts & Culture.
Real Vision founder Raoul Pal says a pause in the AI stock rally could help crypto attract capital, while AI agents are likely to boost Ethereum and Solana adoption.
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York.
Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety Act Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launching a Snapchat-style feature on Instagram. The communications watchdog, Ofcom, is investigating whether the…
Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.
The Saint Omer director has gathered work by artists, writers, composers and poets for Geste de Consolation, set in the 60m-long central hall of the Palais d’Iena in Paris Alice Diop has just returned to France from California when we speak. It’s a Zoom meeting with a bad connection, and Diop leans close to the camera, always…
The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop In 2024, South African pop star Tyla won the best Afrobeats award at the MTV VMAs.
Industry leaders say bogus claims rose 14% last year, pushing up premiums for all customers An insurance fraudster who pocketed more than £14,000 for the supposed theft of Lego sets, fishing gear and gaming consoles was behind one of last year’s most high-profile bogus claims. Investigators uncovered £1.34bn of fraud in 2025…
The Money Markets Committee is a forum for market participants and authorities to discuss the UK unsecured deposits and funding market and securities lending and repo markets.
The Ethereum layer-2 is backing Paxos-issued USDG to earn a share of reserve income as new stablecoin alliances compete for distribution, users and reserve economics.
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care.
What, exactly, about the drink is so distracting? The viral debate raises bigger questions about who defines ‘professionalism’ The great iced coffee debate of 2026 is the latest submission to the young-people-just-don’t-get-it discourse and, of course, it’s as polarizing as ever.
Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged, they produce a dark, fragrant resin that becomes agarwood, or oudh – an ingredient so valuable that wild…
PC, PS5, Switch 2; Wych Elm Games, Team 17 Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make up a dark landscape in which you play a private eye searching for a missing singer-songwriter In a weird deserted town miles from anywhere, a troubled detective searches for a missing musician and the girl he…
Metal band Gwar host this instalment of the horror series, which serves up darkly humorous movie morsels that would struggle to frighten a toddler The latest in the long-running horror-feature series is, as per usual, a decidedly diverse ragbag of shorts, strung together with the thinnest of connective tissue. The theme this…
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Flai's revenue has grown 20x in a year, and the company just closed a $27 million Series A funding round.
US crypto rules could be vulnerable to political change after the midterms. Former New York Gov.
Paxos’ USDG stablecoin is now live on Arbitrum as the network proposes 100 million ARB in incentives to support adoption and liquidity.
OKX Money lets users fund stablecoin accounts with 50+ currencies, earn up to 10% on eligible USDG and spend with no FX fees.
Polymarket begins its Protocol V2 rollout ahead of a planned November transition for new prediction markets, while existing positions remain on the current system.
A London quantitative hedge fund joins the round too, seven months after the NYSE's owner bought in at exactly the same price.
Headlines: EUR/USD rebounds as French government takes steps to reduce deficit, narrowing OAT-Bund spread Ethereum consolidates at a major trendline as Glamsterdam hits Sepolia testnet. What's next?
Compare five cloud mining and hashrate platforms in 2026, including PowerAlgo, Binance, ECOS, NiceHash and Hashing24.
Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.
Adam Iza’s sentence runs concurrently with a 15-year term imposed last month for his role in an attempted bitcoin robbery.
Prior month -92.8 billion Details from the BEA: Goods and services deficit: $105.6 billion. Prior $92.8 billion, revised.
Prior was +0.77 billion (revised to 0.79 billion) Exports: +2.5% MoM. Prior -2.6% Imports: -2.0% MoM.
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Ukraine’s minimum pension remains unchanged in October 2026, while some retirees explore crypto cloud mining as an alternative income source.
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
Endgame and Avatar have been jockeying for the title for years now.
The Fall-Winter 2026 collection was presented inside the Abulkasim Madrasah, with Uzbek carpets, music and traditional craftsmanship shaping the setting.
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have rewarded it with $200 million.
The Federal Trade Commission announced it is sending more than $100,000 in redress payments to consumers deceived by online marketplace GOAT. The refunds are part of a settlement over allegations the company failed to honor its refund policies and violated an FTC rule requiring companies to have reasonable shipping practices.
Riverside Studios, London Andy Sandberg’s play gets off to an intriguing start before coming off the rails in spectacular, almost fascinating style. For all the wrong reasons, it’s hard to look away It starts off with a car crash, and enters its own pile-up before your eyes.
Our critic picks out some of the most outstanding cinema screening at the UK’s most prestigious film event in 2026 This film puts Andrew Scott in line to become the first out gay man to win the best actor Oscar . He plays Ian Charleson, who became a star in Chariots of Fire and in 1989 took on the role of Hamlet at London’s…
Brent crude drops below $100 a barrel; euro reverses earlier losses to trade higher against dollar and sterling, as French government bonds rally The euro has reversed earlier losses and is now trading higher against the dollar, as French government bonds rallied, pushing their yields (or interest rates) lower. The single…
Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiser Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI…
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to companies’ reputations – more so than being accused of putting children in the way of mental, emotional or…
While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.
Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.
The world's biggest chipmaker now manufactures at scale in Phoenix, as well as Taiwan. China is warning political leaders in Arizona to not get too friendly.
Keith Haring’s unmistakable art has arrived in Rome, with a major new retrospective bringing together more than 140 works.
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. Campaigners say this…
Our new agreement with Constellation Energy brings the total new nuclear capacity we’ve enabled for the U. S.
Tate Britain, London The Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish pose Jake and Dinos Chapman were dismissed by some even in the 1990s as overgrown adolescents selling shock for its own sake, and yet it is their work…
President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, for mocking him. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View , accusing it of being unfair.
A new documentary follows Kristin Bride as she takes on Congress after the death of her 16-year-old son who was cyberbullied At this point in time, going anywhere without your smartphone feels almost like leaving behind a limb. Whether it’s for directions, distraction or the discourse on social media, our phones have become…
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France's bond market recently sent a strong message to policymakers. The spread between French and German 10-year government bonds surged above 150 basis points last week, reaching its widest level since the euro-area debt crisis.
FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone Business live – latest updates A British events business that hosts arms fairs and conventions for comic book fans has been snapped up by a FTSE 100 rival for more than £2bn. Informa has struck a £2.24bn deal to buy the London-based events organiser…
Why a growing number of parents are opening pensions for their children.
With all that is happening in markets, there are plenty of charts worth watching in Europe right now. However, this in particular may be one of the most important.
In a parliamentary inquiry, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is questioned by independent senator David Pocock about the company's notification process after OpenAI agents accessed Australian government website data in June. Asked why OpenAI relied on an arbitrary department email rather than direct government…
The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.
Food businesses and the government must make redistribution a key policy to address food insecurity. We know the surplus food is out there Charlotte Hill is chief executive of the food redistribution organisation Felix How often does this happen?
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Top executive Jason Kwon tells hearing company has added "more precautions" to its training environments.
Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia.…
Key indicator dropped about 20% after the Reserve Bank last month announced the highest interest rates since 2011 Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian households are the most persistently pessimistic they have been since the early-1990s recession, after a fourth rate rise this year.…
In the internet age, medium-sized retail hubs are looking for new ways to survive and thrive.
British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick A top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower – who highlighted alleged ties between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the US commerce…
Inhabitants of the Hebrides and Shetland tell of how fuel costs are putting the squeeze on commuting, services, food and more As fuel prices reach the highest level in the UK since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Scottish islanders are feeling the pain more than most. On the mainland, the price of diesel has soared to a record…
The Unite union said workers had faced the threat of fire and rehire notices and of having their pay cut.
During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic has limited visibility into customer usage due…
It’s being sculpted for fashion parties, collected by tourists and hoarded in freezers. There are even entire shops devoted to it.
Solana launches open settlement standard for institutions, with JPMorgan input ICYMI: Citi raises bitcoin target to $113,000 and ether to $3,028 as crypto inflows return Reports that Hormuz crude flows near 76% of prewar levels. Diesel shortage persists.
Anthropic tells inquiry it ‘never tried to dictate’ Australian copyright rules as the ABC says copyright laws do not need changing Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI has used an appearance before a parliamentary inquiry on AI to apologise again to Australia about the hack on Medicare last…
The Treasurer's warning puts fiscal pressure alongside monetary tightening as a theme for Australian markets, with higher interest costs likely to constrain spending in the mid-year update. A rising debt servicing bill could add to supply concerns for Australian government bonds if deficits widen, keeping upward pressure on…
Westpac's call for a November follow-up hike, despite the sentiment slump, signals that inflation risk still outweighs demand weakness for the RBA. That keeps support under Australian short-end yields and should limit downside for the Australian dollar on soft domestic data.
The world's fastest growing major economy has one of the worst performing major equity markets in 2026.
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
Firms widely expect interest rates to rise over the coming year, and signs that spare capacity is shrinking would support that view. Easing cost and pricing gauges, however, give the Reserve Bank of New Zealand some room on the inflation side.
The Nasdaq composite and NASDAQ 100 leads US stocks higher BoJ's Ueda in focus as markets weigh a back-to-back October rate hike Crude oil technicals: Middle east tension has crude oil futures moving higher. What next technically?
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
China remains on holiday. Mainland markets reopen on 8 October.
How the court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state level The US supreme court began its new nine-month term hearing arguments on Monday in a major case in which big oil companies attempted to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits that seek to hold them accountable for the…
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
PepsiCo initiated class II recall of 28oz bottles last month over ‘undeclared’ yellow dyes, FDA notice says About 122,000 cases of the popular sports drink Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled across 37 US states due to their having “undeclared” food dye, according to an official federal notice . The varieties of the drink…
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.
The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
Party’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’ Conservative plans to slash the aid budget by 90% would leave the UK unable to cover existing contributions to the UN and World Bank and “irreparably damage” Britain’s global credibility, several organisations and…
The Conservatives blame their failures on abandoning their 1976 principles. But the country needs investment and resilience rather than another round of spending cuts The Conservative party wants to go back to the future under Kemi Badenoch.
Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.
TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.
At conference here in Birmingham I found a small battalion of centrist remainers with a vision for the Conservative party to come You can walk all the way from Somerset to Sussex without crossing a Tory-run constituency, if you wish. You could also travel through each of the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey…
HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its early testers.
For all the howls of a ‘stitch-up’, it’s hard to see what ministers were supposed to do, as the alternatives risked worse outcomes BT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs “All the characteristics of a stitch-up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest,” thundered Virgin Media O2. It’s…
It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
Camera-enabled Meta spectacles are already restricted in UK and US because of fears about covert recording Norway is planning a temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places, amid rising global concern at the spread of the AI-enabled recording devices. The Oslo government is planning a bill to prevent the use of the…
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
‘Strong and fair’ proposal to be taken to members’ ballot after previous offer led Unison to walk out of negotiations Glasgow city council has reached an agreement with the trade union Unison over pay and grading, averting one of the UK’s biggest ever fire-and-rehire exercises. Talks between the council and the GMB, Unite and…
Empower students using Google Sites, Gemini, and Vids to build critical thinking skills. See how these tools help kids find their voice today.
A California teacher uses Gemini to streamline lesson planning in Google Drive. See how she prioritizes critical thinking in the AI era.
Students use Google Drive for video assets and Sheets for production timelines to meet tight deadlines. See how these tools boost classroom output.
See how this teacher uses Gemini and Gemini Notebook to build digital literacy and refine lesson plans. Read the full story to improve your teaching.
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day 2026, educators share their stories about how they use tech in the classroom.
Replace coding tests with AI-driven interviews using Google Gemini in Colab. See how this professor evaluates student judgment.
A teacher uses Google Gemini to design interactive role-playing simulations and nutrition lessons. See how AI boosts classroom engagement.
Special education teachers use Google Gemini to generate visual guides and voice prompts, empowering non-writing students. Read the full story.
Eighth graders built The Cougar Rumble newscast using Gemini and Google Docs. See how these students streamlined their production workflow today.
Fifth graders use Google Gemini to write songs about history and create art. See how this teacher integrates AI into the classroom.
Teachers use Gemini to build custom K-6 math worksheets and save hours of prep time. See how Google AI transforms classroom instruction.
The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t feel like an overreaction. But is there a bigger plan to go with it?
Deal would have created a supermarket with a market share of 23.6%, still well behind Tesco’s 27.8% Sainsbury’s held merger talks with rival Morrisons this year to discuss a multibillion-pound deal that would have been the biggest shake-up for UK supermarkets in decades, according to reports. The two companies held…
The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U. S.
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
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The Danish government said the breach of names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers affects 8 million people, including people living abroad and the deceased.
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
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Departure comes amid large drop in oil receipts, rampant inflation and shrinking economy Iran’s oil minister has resigned days after allegations that an intermediary trust selling Iranian oil abroad owed millions of dollars’ worth of export receipts to the state. Mohsen Paknejad’s departure comes as Iran grapples with a dire…
Prior month nonmanufacturing services PMI 55.4 Details from a ISM Services PMI: 54.9. Prior 55.4.
Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will appear at the four-day hearings along with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of the…
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second at 50% off.
S&P global composite Index for September 58.4 versus 50.4 preliminary. Last month 56.0 Services PMI 58.8 versus 50.7 preliminary and 56.5 last month Details Services PMI: 58.8.
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in…
Amin Nasser says ‘system is already straining’ and ‘replenishing inventories could take up to two years’ The UK’s telecoms regulator Ofcom has welcomed the deal. Dame Melanie Dawes , Ofcom’s chief executive, said: After a prolonged period of uncertainty around TalkTalk Group’s future, we welcome the prospect of a commercial…
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening.
We celebrated our 16th birthday with 46 announcements across open source, post-quantum security, AI agents, and developer platform upgrades. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of everything we shipped.
A year after announcing our goal to hire 1,111 interns, more than 750 early-career builders have shipped real products across 48 teams at Cloudflare. From Birthday Week launches to post-quantum security, our interns prove that AI amplifies human potential instead of replacing it.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, in coordination with other U. S.
Markets: 10-year Treasury yields flat at 5.277% AUD leads, EUR and NZD lag Gold up 0.3% to $4,153 Brent crude up 0.3% to $102.60 European stocks mostly higher; S&P 500 futures down 0.1% Bitcoin up 0.3% to $86,099 It's a brand new week but same old story for markets. The softer US jobs report on Friday brought some relief to…
Proposed settlements recover $1.85 million for injured consumers and give certain franchisees the option to cancel their franchise agreements without penalty Franchisor Premier Franchising Group LLC (PFG) and its former franchise sales organization, Franchise Fastlane LLC (FFL), will pay $1.85 million to settle Federal Trade…
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson today sent letters to 24 of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies, reminding them of their legal obligation to provide patients with timely, accurate and complete pricing information for healthcare services, and that failing to do so can be an unfair or deceptive…
Explore this year’s trends and tips for holiday travel — from insights on booking the lowest fare to trending destinations for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
Banks and building societies raise prices as turmoil in bond markets increases expectations of base rate rise The average cost of a five-year fixed-rate mortgage has hit the 6% barrier for the first time in three years, as jitters in the money markets make the loans more expensive for lenders to offer. Figures from financial…
Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
The takeover still needs to be approved by the regulator, but would give certainty to TalkTalk's millions of customers
At least 23 huge data centres are planned in Scotland, causing significant concern for campaigners.
The US president said his national intelligence chief will lead the group as worries over AI grow.
The cost of a new fixed-rate mortgage has been rising in recent weeks as lenders face higher costs.
Eurozone October Sentix investor confidence 2.7 vs 5.0 expected Prior 5.1 The mood among euro area investors has taken a step back in October, with the details being slightly more telling than the headline drop itself. The Sentix investor confidence index fell to 2.7 in October from 5.1 in the month before, missing…
Prior 52.5 Final Composite PMI 52.0 vs 51.7 prelim Prior 52.5 Key findings: Service sector output rises for third month in a row Input cost inflation strongest since June amid surging fuel prices Business optimism moderates from August's six month high Comment: Tim Moore, Economics Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence…
Eurozone September final services PMI 53.0 vs 53.0 prelim Prior 51.6 Eurozone September final composite PMI 53.1 vs 53.1 prelim Prior 52.0 The breakdown The final numbers reaffirm what we already know from the preliminary estimates, as private sector business activity increased at the quickest rate in nearly three-and-a-half…
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Google's AI tools aim to help educators achieve their teaching goals and provide students with personalized learning experiences.
Longer battery life, better screen, upgraded Siri and new variable aperture camera in refreshed design from last year’s model Apple’s smaller Pro iPhone gets the best kind of spec bump for 2026: longer battery life, faster chips and a fancy new variable aperture for the main camera. The iPhone 18 Pro is one of a pair of slab…
The softer US jobs report on Friday might have offered markets some much-needed relief before the weekend but I don't think it changes the main thing traders should be watching this week. And that is still the bond market.
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found…
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Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls.
Japan officials toughen tone on yen as USD/JPY holds near 158 Nikkei jumps 2.5% to three-month high as AI stocks rally on softer Fed hike bets Saudi Aramco cuts Arab Light price to Asia by $3, widest discount since 2020 Fed minutes preview: one more hike guidance meets softer data as October odds fade Oil slips toward $102…
India’s toy shops provide an unlikely barometer by which to measure its economic relationship with China.
Markets are unlikely to react unless the situation escalates, as contacts have so far tested negative and officials insist there is no outbreak. The main risk is confirmation of plague with secondary cases among those under observation, which could stoke broader health-scare headlines and modest safe-haven demand.
The survey leans hawkish for the BOJ despite softer headline growth. Output price inflation near record highs, rising payrolls and building backlogs point to capacity pressure that supports the case for another hike.
Oil is the main channel here. The surge in energy prices tied to the Middle East conflict lifted milk powder and aluminium, the main drivers of September's gains.
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Experts explain what you should do if you are asked for your current salary during a job interview.
Chalmers's warning on debt servicing costs puts the spotlight on the global rise in bond yields, which is now feeding directly into government budget arithmetic. That keeps fiscal supply and credit concerns on the radar for Australian government bonds ahead of the mid-year update.
The survey sends mixed signals for the Australian dollar and rates. Slower activity, job shedding and weaker confidence argue against further tightening.
There's no direct market read-through yet, because officials describe the situation as stable and close contacts have so far tested negative. And we all trust Russian officials, right?
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
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G7 nations plan to release large amounts of diesel fuel soon, but European countries were not entirely happy about the agreement.
The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.
Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.
