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MetaMask has started taking affected Ethereum validators offline after disclosing a security incident in part of its infrastructure. The company says client withdrawal keys are outside its control.
Drogheda United will travel to Turkey to face Trabzonspor at the 40,000-seat Papara Park as part of a special relationship between the two clubs.
Global bond rout kicks off again, with US 10-year Treasury yields hitting highest since 2002 Worryingly for Paris, the difference between French and German borrowing costs has widened to a 14-year high this morning. The gap between French and German government bond yields – a market gauge of the risk premium investors demand to…
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Eurozone September final manufacturing PMI 52.9 vs 52.7 prelim Prior 52.7 The breakdown Eurozone manufacturing ended the third quarter on a stronger footing, with the headline PMI rising to 52.9 in September from 52.7 in August - marking its highest level in more than four years. Of note, production and new orders both…
The Royal Shakespeare Company announces ambitious adaptations of novels in season that includes Elizabeth Debicki as Richard II and Damien Molony as Coriolanus The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage two highly experimental novels, written almost 100 years apart and posing serious conundrums for adaptation, according to…
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Euro area bank interest rate statistics: August 2026”.
France September final manufacturing PMI 50.6 vs 50.3 prelim Prior 51.1 The breakdown The final revision higher still marks a decline in French manufacturing activity in September compared to the month before. There was a further slowdown as as new orders continued to decrease, purchasing activity was reduced and price…
Prices fell by 0.2% month on month in September as average price of a home slipped to £274,251, says Nationwide Business live – latest updates Annual house price growth halved in the UK last month, as economic uncertainty sparked by conflict in the Middle East continued to deter homebuyers. The average price of a British home…
Prior 49.6 Key findings: Modest reductions in output and new orders Inflationary pressures intensify, but deterioration in supply chain performance eases Job creation sustained as outlook remains bright Comment: Eleanor Dennison, Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said: "The Italian manufacturing sector ended the…
Anthony Davidson takes us through Lewis Hamilton's 2017 pole lap around the Sepang International Circuit.
Central bank estimates fewer than one in 100 borrowers owe more on their home than its worth Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Reserve Bank says households are well placed to weather the twin storm of rising interest rates and falling property…
Spain September manufacturing PMI 51.0 vs 50.1 expected Prior 49.5 Spain's manufacturing economy returned to growth territory in September, although the sector’s underlying performance remained subdued. The details show that production increased but overall new work continued to decline amid ongoing uncertainty and rising…
Time magazine list includes Australian communications minister after her efforts to take on big tech Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The federal communications minister, Anika Wells, has been named as one of Time magazine’s “world’s most influential rising stars” in recognition of her work on…
India has remained Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania’s largest market for centralized crypto exchange inflows, receiving $88.4 billion through CEXs even as its overall crypto economy contracted 14.7% during the latest reporting period. According to Chainalysis, India recorded $135…
South Korea proposes rules for tokenized stocks, bonds and funds, with a 100M won OTC limit ahead of the Feb. 4, 2027 rollout.
Household energy bills have risen again but there are ways to keep a lid on your expenditure.
The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.
A Michael Jordan jersey from his 'Last Dance' season sells for $12.3m, a record for a piece of Jordan memorabilia.
An Ethereum security researcher estimates about 0.36 ETH in rewards was diverted, while precautionary exits cover validators holding roughly 523,000 ETH.
The Kenya refinery is part of Dangote's ambitious bid to expand and help industralise Africa by 2030.
The NZD/USD pair loses momentum to near 0.5615 during the early European trading hours on Thursday. The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) weakens against the US Dollar (USD) as the tighter New Zealand election race raises investor fears on policy backflips.
Two senior executives at different top-level Premier League clubs have told Sky Sports News they would be “staggered” and “amazed” if 15 clubs were prepared to vote to expel Manchester City from the league, with such a move akin to a “self-inflicted commercial disaster”.
This take on the 1952 novel is lavishly shot and full of excellent performances. It lacks the heft to be a full examination of human nature, but it’s a high-quality family saga It is rarely difficult to distinguish between a John Steinbeck novel and a ray of sunshine.
The Euro (EUR) is down 0.16% at around 1.1310 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Thursday. The major currency pair is under pressure as the US Dollar outperforms due to surging United States (US) Treasury Yields.
There’s no ignoring the holders but what of the hosts, the All Blacks, France and even England? Here’s a rundown of all 24 teams taking part in Australia in 2027 Beaten by Australia last weekend but the manner in which they came back after Rassie Erasmus emptied his bench was emphatic.
The Japanese yen has fallen past 158 against the dollar after traders cut expectations for another Bank of Japan rate hike this month, keeping yen funded carry trades attractive for now while raising the risk of another abrupt reversal that…
According to the Moscow-based organizer Say Agency, the controversial rapper's two October dates in St Petersburg have been cancelled. Russian media states that the decision was made by the authorities, who are reportedly investigating the organizers for alleged fraud.
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Despite recent on-pitch successes and increased media exposure for women's sport in the UK, major barriers remain - particularly in coaching.
Zcash holders approved $8.39M in retroactive grants, including $1.5M tied to the Orchard bug, as ZEC trades near $1,400.
How much attention have you paid to what's happened in the world of sport over the past seven days?
The Steelers agreed to trade cornerback Joey Porter Jr. to the Cowboys for a 2027 sixth-round pick and a 2028 second-rounder, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday night.
The Yankees' homegrown talent such as Ben Rice and Cam Schlittler led the way to help deliver a thorough two-game beatdown of the Red Sox in their AL Wild Card Series, ending with Wednesday's 9-2 win.
Red Sox ace Sonny Gray said after Wednesday's loss to the Yankees that he was frustrated for being lifted after throwing only 70 pitches.
Arike Ogunbowale delivered a record-breaking performance with the Wings' season on the line, scoring 45 points, including a tying 3-pointer to force overtime, to help Dallas force a deciding Game 3 against the Valkyries.
Five Padres pitchers combined on a five-hitter and Gavin Sheets hit a pinch-hit two-run homer, as San Diego swept the Cubs out of the NL Wild Card Series with a 4-1 win.
Just two years removed from a 121-loss season, the White Sox finished off the Astros with a 7-3 win Wednesday to secure their first playoff series win since beating Houston in the 2005 World Series.
Alec Bohm put Philadelphia ahead with a two-out home run in the 10th inning, and the Phillies beat the Braves to force a decisive Game 3 in their National League Wild Card Series.
Rams head coach Sean McVay says the NFL told the team that defensive pass interference should not have been called against cornerback Josh Wallace in Sunday night's loss to the Broncos.
The former Steelers coach revealed an unexpected longtime hobby that shocked the sports and gaming worlds.
The Japanese Yen (JPY) heads lower against the US Dollar (USD) on Thursday as higher US Treasury yields have offset the positive impact of a hawkishly tilted Summary of Opinions by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and soft US inflation numbers.
Lloyds Banking Group and Visa have completed a seven day live stablecoin pilot that settled $750,000 in cross border payment obligations, with funds reaching Visa in under an hour even during the weekend. According to Lloyds Banking Group, the trial…
Switzerland September CPI 0.0% vs 0.0% m/m expected Prior +0.4% Switzerland September CPI +1.0% vs +1.0% y/y expected Prior +0.8% Switzerland September core CPI +0.5% y/y Prior +0.4% The breakdown The readings for September fall within expectations, with headline annual inflation increasing to 1.0% while the monthly figure…
Former Australia rugby international Nathan Charles, who overcame cystic fibrosis to forge a professional career in a contact sport, has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).
EUROPEAN SESSION In the European session, the only highlight is the Swiss CPI data which is expected to increase to 1.0% vs 0.8% prior. The data won't change anything for the SNB, though, as the central bank remains comfortable keeping monetary policy steady with core inflation within target.
Dallas rallied to force a decisive Game 3 and Arike Ogunbowale made history.
Matt Parker and Trey Stone take aim at the obscenely wealthy in the latest episode – but it feels harder now to forget how wealthy they are A little over a year ago, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone renewed their deal with Paramount after a contentious negotiation that held up production of the 2025 season.…
Britain's Sonay Kartal wins on her return to the WTA Tour after six months out with injury as she beats Andrea Lazaro Garcia at the China Open.
The ALDS and NLDS are taking shape. Here's who has the edge -- and who should be on upset watch.
Former champions Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton have set up an all-Welsh World Grand Prix quarter-final in Leicester on Friday.
UK September Nationwide house prices -0.2% vs 0.0% m/m expected Prior +0.2% UK September Nationwide house prices +0.8% vs +1.3% y/y expected Prior +1.6% The breakdownIt's a softer report across the board. Annual house price growth halved to 0.8%, its weakest pace since December 2025, while prices also slipped 0.2% on the…
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes and may have roots in an earlier crypto treasury review.
Ethereum price held above $2,700 on Oct. 1 as a wallet linked to Ethereum co founder Joseph Lubin moved 133,298 ETH, raising questions over whether the large transfer could eventually add selling pressure to the market.
Alex Gibney’s documentary follows the celebrated author’s life up to and after the attack, but what shines through is Rushdie’s remarkable courage The terrifying, inspiring story of how Salman Rushdie survived and thrived after the assassination attempt on him in New York in 2022 is the subject of this excellent documentary…
This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers . Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel.
A new Taschen book comprising 700 images from the National Geographic’s archives charts a dramatic century of dizzying change in the US
Newcastle United head coach Matthias Jaissle could not move his neck at one point, but went on to play before embarking on a coaching career that sees him in Tyneside.
Anthony Joshua said he wants to deliver a "spectacular" victory over Tyson Fury as he predicted the blockbuster heavyweight clash could end with a first-round knockout.
Tyson Fury sits down to talk about the much-anticipated fight with Anthony Joshua on December 11.
Watch the best bits from the Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua press conference.
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua finally came face-to-face on Wednesday - but few could have predicted how their first press conference ahead of their blockbuster heavyweight clash would unfold.
A Super League Grand Final week is special for anyone but it is a uniquely special moment for Jack Sinfield.
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
The GBP/USD pair trades in negative territory around 1.3250 during the early European trading hours on Thursday. The British Pound (GBP) edges lower against the US Dollar (USD) amid widening monetary policy divergence between the Bank of England (BoE) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed).
The Australian Dollar (AUD) is up against its major currency pairs on Thursday, but is almost flat against the US Dollar (USD) at around 0.6948 in the early European trade.
Can Joey Porter Jr. clean up the Cowboys' defense?
The NFL trade deadline is Nov. 10, but deals have already started.
Bybit’s 40th proof-of-reserves report shows $19.6B in covered assets, with BTC and ETH user balances up while USDT fell 11.46%.
USD/CHF continues its winning streak for the seventh consecutive trading day, reaching its fresh 16-month high of 0.8367 during Asian hours on Thursday. The currency pair appreciated as the Swiss Franc (CHF) lost ground due to sharply weakening investor sentiment in September.
Test your ball knowledge against today's Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser.
The Indian Rupee (INR) weakens against the US Dollar (USD) on Thursday after an upside move the previous day. The Indian currency faces selling pressure as United States (US) Treasury Yields extend their rally, supporting the USD/INR pair to move higher to near 95.93.
Binance is facing scrutiny from European regulators over its use of a MiCA exemption to continue serving some EU customers after entering July without authorization to operate across the bloc. According to a Financial Times report on Oct.
MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators after an infrastructure security incident, while saying wallets face no immediate threat.
For years, 2027 has loomed over the Taiwan story as the point by which China wants its military to be capable of taking the island by force. However, the latest US assessment suggests that doesn't necessarily mean an invasion is just around the corner.
Let the backstabbing begin in The Celebrity Traitors. Plus: tearjerking searches in Long Lost Family.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) – the benchmark US Crude Oil price – comes under some renewed selling pressure during the Asian session on Thursday, reversing the previous day's modest recovery gains.
The Colombian pop star returns to Spain after eight years with a 12-show residency in Madrid, celebrating Latin culture and turning a chapter of her life into a spectacle of music, freedom and empowerment.
Millions of people in Great Britain face increase from Thursday to an average of £1,723 a year for a typical home What to do as energy bills head for £2,000 a year John Healey is under growing pressure to offer fresh energy support for households in next month’s budget as millions face a 4% rise in charges from Thursday to an…
The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump Clare Naylor paid close attention to how much energy she and her family were using last winter, filling hot-water bottles and bringing out extra blankets to ensure they didn’t go over budget.…
We have action from Southwell and Newcastle live on Sky Sports Racing on Thursday.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Bahrain GP in Malaysia declared 'heat hazard'”.
DogeOS wants to turn DOGE into more than a payments and speculation asset, but its applications still rely on selected operators rather than Dogecoin miners.
The AUD/JPY cross trades in positive territory around 109.95 during the early European session on Thursday.
Gold (XAU/USD) builds on the steady intraday ascent heading into the European session on Thursday and reverses the previous day's modest losses, though the upside potential seems limited.
Open USD is live on four blockchains with Chainlink as an official data oracle and more than $1 billion in launch liquidity.
The $388 million Bitget breach and $320 million Liquid Network exploit accounted for most of September’s losses, though more than $270 million from the latter was later returned.
EUR/JPY halts its four-day losing streak, trading around 179.20 during Asian hours on Thursday. Technical analysis of the daily chart shows that the currency cross remains confined within a descending channel pattern.
Gold prices rose in India on Thursday, according to data compiled by FXStreet.
A cooler-than-expected PCE report sent bitcoin briefly above $85,000 on Wednesday. Treasury yields held near their highest since 2002 and the gains drained away.
Arthur Hayes has reiterated his forecast that Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2030, linking a potential acceleration in late 2027 or early 2028 to stress in debt-funded artificial intelligence infrastructure. Walter Bloomberg, the financial news account on X, reported…
Goldman Sachs has delayed its forecast for a second Federal Reserve rate hike from October to December after August core PCE inflation came in near 3%, below expectations. Goldman Sachs has revised its rate forecast following the September 30 inflation…
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
His videos of cats, loopy contraptions and theme park rides round the heavens (and his back garden) have notched up a billion views. We meet Chris Burton in the suburban home where it all happens Chris Burton is getting ready to redecorate his house.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Sources of Changes in Current Account Balances and Market Operations (Sept.)”.
Midnight’s NIGHT token has climbed 17.73% to $0.03812, breaking above its rising daily channel as traders assess Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson’s forecast that the privacy-focused network could eventually surpass Zcash. Trading View’s Binance NIGHT/USDT daily chart placed the token at $0.03812…
Oil executives expect WTI near $88 by year-end, below current prices, Dallas Fed survey shows ICYMI: BOJ opinions and tankan both point to more rate hikes after September's move Australia's August trade surplus shrinks to A$495M as data center equipment imports surge Australia: RBA dice que la mayoría de los hipotecados…
The US Dollar (USD) outperforms its major currency peers on Thursday. In the Asian session, the US Dollar Index (DXY), which gauges the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, trades 0.13% higher to near 101.60.
Silver price (XAG/USD) gains ground after posting losses the previous day, trading around $60.90 per troy ounce during Asian hours on Thursday.
Lock Jeremy Williams backs hosts to end Webb Ellis Cup drought Australia sixth in world rankings after unbeaten start to coach’s reign The Wallabies have emerged as contenders for next year’s Rugby World Cup as they look to extend a six-match unbeaten run when they face the All Blacks, with lock Jeremy Williams declaring…
Bitcoin is closing its strongest quarter since 2024 after leaving US stocks and gold far behind despite surging bond yields. The largest digital asset has gained about 43% in the third quarter, putting it on course for its second-best third-quarter since 2013 and its third-strongest quarterly advance since US spot Bitcoin…
The USD/JPY pair builds on the previous day's bounce from the 156.40-156.35 region, or a one-and-a-half-week low, and gains strong follow-through traction during the Asian session on Thursday.
The EUR/USD pair drifts lower to around 1.1325 during the early Asian trading hours on Thursday. The US Dollar (USD) strengthens against the Euro (EUR) amid an extended rise in US Treasury yields.
Societe Generale’s Jan Groen reviews August US inflation and growth data, highlighting that Core PCE came in softer than expected but underlying price pressures in services remain firm. Benchmark revisions lowered measured inflation but still show it above levels consistent with the Federal Reserve’s target.
TD Securities economists Oscar Munoz and Eli Nir assess US PCE and GDP revisions as broadly supportive for a firm US macro backdrop and a still-hawkish Federal Reserve stance. They highlight robust US growth, sticky inflation and upgraded GDP forecasts, arguing that lower inflation revisions do not materially alter the…
AUD/JPY halts its seven-day losing streak, trading around 109.80 during Asian hours on Thursday. The currency cross remains stronger as the Australian Dollar (AUD) holds gains following the release of domestic Trade Balance data.
The GBP/USD pair edges lower during the Asian session on Thursday, retreating further from levels beyond the 1.3300 mark, or a one-week high, touched the previous day.
Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving an army of cyber troops creating fake news websites, social media accounts and forged dossiers, all deployed to spread disinformation…
A reading about A$1.5 billion below the poll is a clear miss for a surplus that had already been narrowing, and if the import pattern holds it could weigh on the trade contribution to growth. The composition is more informative than the headline: the imports driving the miss are investment-type goods tied to data center…
The AUD/USD pair trades with mild losses around 0.6945 during the early Asian session on Thursday. The Australian Dollar (AUD) edges lower against the US Dollar (USD) following Australia's Trade Balance data.
In its Financial Stability Review (FSR) published on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said that “households and businesses are well placed to weather a slower economy and falling house prices.”
Australia's Trade Balance narrowed to A$495M MoM in August, followed a surplus of A$1,351M in the previous reading (revised from A$1,923M), according to the latest foreign trade data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.
The USD/CAD pair holds steady around the 1.4235 area during the Asian session on Thursday, consolidating its recent strong gains registered over the past four weeks or so.
US President Donald Trump unveiled a $200 billion investment plan from South Korea, $54 billion of which is slated to go to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Alaska, Reuters reported on Thursday.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price loses ground after posting modest gains in the previous day, trading around $89.10 per barrel during Asian hours on Thursday.
BIP461 would make compliant ECDSA signatures reproducible, enabling comparisons that flag deviations without proving malicious firmware.
Alarm bells for Justin Herbert and Drake Maye? More QB trades on the way?
The classification could assist the CFTC’s claim that it has exclusive federal jurisdiction over event contracts offered on regulated prediction markets.
Tapes made in the 90s, including candid conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher, which were expected to sell for up to £1.6m A collection of unheard Oasis recordings, including 63 live shows, hours of rehearsals and candid conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher, has been pulled from auction after legal action taken…
This is a long-dated signal rather than an immediate shift in supply or demand, since reactors take years to build and the Alaska LNG scheme still needs binding financing, so the near-term effect on oil and gas prices is likely to be limited. It does reinforce US energy and power as a policy priority, which may support…
The reading is still well above the 50 line, so the story is slower growth rather than a downturn, but the drop to a six-month low in a sector reliant on overseas demand will keep attention on how long export strength can last. Sharp cost increases tied to energy, transport and a weak yen, with the Middle East war cited by…
The US official stated on Monday that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Iranian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly immediately leave the United States (US) after talks stalled, Axios reported.
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance. The laws ban employers from using…
MetaMask said it is investigating the threat internally and said it has found no immediate threat to its wallets.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) published the Summary of Opinions from the September monetary policy meeting, with the key findings noted below.
Softer US inflation pulled October Fed hike odds down to near 35%, and USD/JPY fell below 156.50 on the release. It finished back just under 157.50, its fourth straight close on the 157.00 handle.
Japan’s Tankan Large Manufacturing Index rose to 24 in the third quarter (Q3) from 22 in the previous reading, weaker than the market expectation of 25.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on September 17 and 18, 2026”.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Tankan (Sept.): Summary and Outline”.
The Kiwi has followed US bond yields all month, and better numbers from New Zealand's biggest export market didn't change that on Wednesday. China's official services index came in at 50.2 against a 49.3 forecast, and the private services and factory gauges beat as well.
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Germany, France, Italy and Spain all reported September inflation above forecast, which should have lifted bets on another European Central Bank (ECB) hike and the Euro with them. EUR/USD closed lower instead, its second straight close under 1.1350.
Gold price (XAU/USD) tumbles to near $4,150 during the early Asian session on Thursday, pressured by elevated US Treasury bond yields. Traders await the US September employment data for fresh impetus, which will be released later on Friday.
Markets put a better than 80% chance on the Bank of England (BoE) raising the UK's Bank Rate from 3.75% on November 5, and GBP/USD still couldn't close above 1.3300.
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to near 5.30% on Wednesday, its highest since 2007, on the same day US inflation came in under forecast. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied on the inflation release, faded for the rest of the session and closed on its low, just under 51,000.
Gemini 4 Argon tops 12 of 18 benchmarks in Google's own table, writes a million tokens per reply and resists hijacking best. Cyber defenders get it first, with the guardrails off.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to…
The drop from 52.0 to 49.6 points to softer factory momentum, with the fall in new orders the signal most likely to draw attention because it reverses two months of improvement. The mix is awkward for rate and growth debates: weaker demand and job losses argue for patience, but oil, raw material and freight costs are still…
Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony has been ruled out of the AL Wild Card Series and the foreseeable future after damaging muscles in his wrist during Game 1, Red Sox manager Chad Tracy said Wednesday.
Titans quarterback Cam Ward on Wednesday addressed fans' threats to his family on social media.
Packers wide receiver Jayden Reed will undergo season-ending neck surgery and be placed on injured reserve, coach Matt LaFleur said Wednesday.
Arizona State hockey coach Greg Powers has been placed on paid administrative leave days after several members of his team asked the university to remove him pending an investigation into a teammate's collapse.
Suns forward Dillon Brooks was charged Monday with driving under the influence following his March arrest in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to court records.
Coach Jorge Jesus said he's not planning to start Cristiano Ronaldo in Portugal's game against Denmark in the Nations League on Thursday but said there is no feud between the pair.
Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?
Vaping is about to becoming more expensive due to a new tax on products.
The Aussie Dollar posted losses of 0.57% against the US Dollar on Wednesday, even though US data trimmed hawkish bets on the Federal Reserve, while the dovish tilt of RBA’s Governor Michele Bullock weighed on the antipodean.
Its research platform represents aviation fuel benefits as transferable tokens that are retired after a claim, while commercial scale remains unquantified.
A Southern California man has created a system which translates cars passing on Interstates in California into soothing music.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said, “Inflation is still too high, about 3%, new data doesn't alter outlook,” he said at a Q&A at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The USD/JPY registers modest gains of 0.08% on Wednesday after US inflation data trimmed market bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike at the October 28 meeting. At the time of writing, the pair trades at 157.42.
Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.
The team behind the MyDoge wallet opened a public test of DogeOS, a layer that lets developers build lending platforms and games on top of the meme coin network.
Astros manager Joe Espada spoke to his players, attempting to tamp down the emotions after his team was booed by the home crowd in Game 1.
Steelers cornerback Joey Porter will miss his fourth straight game as he has officially been declared out for Thursday night's game against the Browns.
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Winning at fantasy or at life requires following your feelings. Liz Loza makes sure you have the facts to inform those decisions.
Jaylen Warren is in position to build off a solid Week 3 performance with Rico Dowdle out for Thursday's game in Cleveland.
From LeBron James' fit in Philadelphia to Kawhi Leonard's return to Toronto, we're answering the biggest preseason questions for all 30 teams.
As training camps get underway across the league, Bobby Marks examines roster, contract and fit questions for all 30 teams.
Third ODI: Aus 322-9, SA 145-4; Australia won by 45 runs (DLS) Wicketkeeper and Marsh hit half-centures while Peake also impresses Australia have avoided a whitewash in their ODI series in South Africa with Pat Cummins’ encouraging comeback and the return to form of Adam Zampa and Alex Carey inspiring them to a morale-boosting…
State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.
Somerset pair Craig Overton and Sophie Luff win the top prizes at the Professional Cricketers’ Association awards.
Ethena highlighted Standard Chartered research as current USDe supply remains below the first milestone for revenue-funded token purchases.
Google’s science AI model was the best at forecasting flu-related hospital admissions, the Centers for Disease Control announced.
Gerwyn Price set up an all-Welsh quarter-final showdown with Jonny Clayton with a straight-sets win over Ross Smith at the World Grand Prix, as Ryan Joyce and Nathan Aspinall also progressed in Leicester.
Somerset duo Craig Overton and Sophie Luff have won the headline accolades at the 2026 PCA awards in partnership with Toyota while emerging England stars Sonny Baker and Tilly Corteen-Coleman also received coveted honours at Exhibition White City.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “'My scoring was unreal!' - Aspinall feels he is playing 'top-five' darts”.
Reminder: The "border exemption" to your rights is real.
Chelsea have a penalty overturned by VAR, while Lauren James and Maika Hamano come close to scoring a winner during their 0-0 draw away at Lyon in the Champions League.
Ravens RB Derrick Henry faces his former team, the Titans, on Sunday for the first time since leaving Tennessee after the 2023 season. He said it's "always love" for the Titans, just not much when they play on Sunday.
An internal memo warned FBI staff that ShinyHunters, the group claiming it hacked the bureau's jobs site, may hold their private details.
We've seen four weeks of college football. How has that changed our opinions about the top signal-callers?
After a controversial last-second win earlier in the season, the tables were turned on the Wolverines.
There were plenty of encouraging signs for Chelsea as they claimed a valuable point in the Champions League on their head coach Sonia Bompastor’s return to face her former team OL Lyonnes. The goalless draw was a slow-burner but concluded with a flurry of late action where both teams missed chances to steal the points.
Softer inflation gave markets some breathing room early Wednesday. But by the end of the session, Treasury yields were higher, the dollar had strengthened against most major currencies, and the stock market’s gains were concentrated in the Nasdaq indices.
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Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Hong Kong will trade on October 2, 5, 6 and 7 without Stock Connect flows in either direction, which may leave China-focused and dual-listed shares on thinner, more offshore-driven liquidity. With the onshore yuan market shut, offshore yuan carries price discovery with less depth, and mainland commodity and financial futures…
It's possible to send electrical signals right through human tissues.
The bank also expects Ethena’s ENA token to rise roughly sevenfold to $2 by the end of 2028 as USDe scales and token buybacks increase.
Lauren James saw a late penalty decision overturned by VAR as Chelsea played out a goalless draw away to last season's Women's Champions League finalists and eight-time winners Lyon.
A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.
VC Chris Degnan and former board adviser to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for competitor Cognition -- and everyone is arguing on X about it.
Manchester City's punishment for breaching Premier League rules should be handed down before the end of this season, senior football figures tell BBC Sport.
Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte apologized for the top-ranked Longhorns' vulgar on-field celebrations during their win over Tennessee and called them "embarrassing" for the school.
Jayden Daniels returned to practice in a limited capacity, but his status for games remains up in the air.
The Coinbase-backed group's first Senate endorsements—Republicans Jon Husted and Ashley Hinson and Democrat Chris Pappas—come two weeks after the Clarity Act's collapse, as the industry's fight shifts to the campaign trail.
Highlights of the third ODI between South Africa and Australia.
Hackers behind Bitget’s $387.5 million breach are turning to Zcash's privacy features to hide the stolen funds as crypto firms increasingly block other escape routes. About 2,746 ZEC worth roughly $3.9 million was transferred Wednesday into Zcash’s Ironwood shielded pool through three transactions, according to on-chain…
Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lisa Cook crossed the wires on Wednesday and said she is committed to returning inflation to the Fed’s 2% goal while preserving the strength of the labor market.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its…
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its…
Germany forward Kevin Schade is wanted by Liverpool, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden are among the Manchester City players drawing interest from Europe's top clubs, plus more.
We asked over 30 NFL players about CTE concerns, and their answers ranged from fear to resignation.
Would players want to know if they have the disease? Some would and some wouldn't.
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Jonny Clayton showcased his clinical finishing, landing four ton-plus checkouts to defeat Wessel Nijman at the World Grand Prix.
Guardiola’s success at Manchester City was underpinned by financial cheating. Now he can only double down on his adherence to the owners “Do you know the question that you are asking me?
In a TruthSocial post, Donald Trump is calling for Jerome Powell to resign from the Fed Board over alleged mismanagement and cost overruns in the Federal Reserve headquarters renovation. He says he has asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to review an inspector general’s report and determine what action to take.
Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.
A capacity crowd witnessed a host of batting records on Wednesday, Shubman Gill leading the way with 223 not out off 133 balls as India beat West Indies by eight wickets in their second ODI.
The event schedule for next year’s historic double TCS London Marathon has been decided by a rock, paper, scissors contest between two former winners.
Reddit says it's fighting "automated abuse."
The computer hacker who released documents which led to the Premier League investigation into Manchester City says Gianni Infantino "should have no place in the future of the game".
The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash's Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.
Work provided information concerning City’s finances He called City decision ‘historic for English football’ Rui Pinto, whose leaks of private documents helped to trigger the Premier League’s investigation into Manchester City’s financial affairs, will no longer be protected as a witness by the Portuguese authorities, it can be…
Manchester City's principal sponsor, Etihad Airways, has said it is considering taking legal action against the Premier League.
After more than a decade of public feuding and false starts, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua exchange pleasantries, trade jokes and even discuss going for a pint at a news conference in London.
The 41-year-old captain announced his departure on Instagram minutes after coach Jorge Jesus insisted he would train, having missed three sessions in a row.
Cristiano Ronaldo says he has left Portugal's international camp and will explain why "in time", hours after head coach Jorge Jesus denied any rift with the player.
Renée Slegers did not attend the post‑match press conference, the manager understood to have been too furious after Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead in their draw with Paris FC on Wednesday night. The assistant coach Aaron D’Antino stepped in to speak to the media instead of Slegers, after a disastrous mix-up between the…
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U. S.
England boss Thomas Tuchel says it will be impossible to find "another Harry Kane" as his free-scoring captain continues to break new ground.
Bitcoin has gained about 42.5% heading into the end of Q3, but Bitfinex analysts have warned that another sustained advance will require stronger spot buying as leverage falls and ETF inflows slow. Bitfinex Alpha reported on Sep.
Boycotting Disney is hard.
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
Updates from the ODI match at NWC Oval Start time in Potchefstroom is 1.30pm local/9.30pm AEST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email 2nd over: Australia 10-0 (Marsh 5, Head 5) And the quiet times lasted one over!
Kalshi is ending a trader-volume incentive program nearly a year early as scrutiny of activity in its crypto markets intensifies. The prediction-market operator told the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that its Volume Incentive Program will terminate no earlier than Oct.
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
The Mexican Peso (MXN) prolongs its agony, extending losses by over 0.11% against the Greenback for the third straight day on Wednesday, while USD/MXN continues to trade above the psychological level of 18.00 as the carry trade loses its appeal.
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Joshua reveals he is speaking to Peter Fury on training Fury vows to ‘blast him out’ at London press conference Anthony Joshua has revealed that he is in contact with Tyson Fury’s uncle Peter, in a surprise twist to the buildup between the two former world champion heavyweights who will finally meet in the ring in Cardiff in…
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Petrobras has developed two research-stage applications with the Cardano Foundation and PUC-Rio to track environmental claims for sustainable aviation fuel and lifecycle data for its renewable-content Diesel R. The Cardano Foundation announced the projects on Sep.
The organization’s endorsements in the House and Senate came as many polls showed Democrats favored to regain control of both chambers in 2027.
XRP has recovered above $1.50 after falling below $1.47 on Sep. 30, as a reported shareholder vote in favor of Evernorth’s merger with Armada Acquisition Corp.
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
Base’s Cobalt lets traders set transaction conditions while giving issuers tools for compliance checks, stock splits and forced token transfers.
Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted-dying campaigner • From Childline to changing TV for ever: Esther Rantzen’s revolutionary life • Esther Rantzen: from That’s Life! to Childline – in pictures Esther Rantzen, the Bafta-winning TV presenter and founder of Childline, has died aged 86.
Bloomberg’s Allium-powered dashboard gives Terminal users hourly data on stablecoin supply, issuance, transfers and activity across blockchain networks.
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
DogeOS has opened its public testnet on Sep. 30, bringing an EVM-compatible application layer to Dogecoin with DOGE as its native transaction-fee token, following a $6.9 million funding round announced in May 2025.
The two proposals would define event contracts as "swaps" while excluding "casino-style gambling products"—a bid to cement the agency's exclusive jurisdiction as states sue prediction-market operators over gambling claims.
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers. The investigation…
Google is investing $1.2M to line Chile's Unidos de Buin canal, saving 1.9 billion gallons of water annually. See how we boost watershed health.
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit Senior Downing Street officials have been reaching out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test public support for the UK rejoining the EU. Aides to Andy Burnham have been talking to EU experts in a…
The US Dollar (USD) has traded with marginal gains, coming under pressure following daily tops near 101.50 as investors evaluated softer-than-expected PCE data in August and trimmed some bets on extra tightening by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in the following months.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged private fund adviser Meyer Global Management LLC (MGM) and its CEO, Owen E. H.
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Comments from US President Trump on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz: US has almost total control of the Strait of Hormuz. You will see things happening very soon (regarding Iran); there has been historic flows of oil out of Hormuz in the last three days.
The proposed BTC and ETH loans would pair custodied borrower collateral with DAO assets securing a separate source of funding.
Quant price has climbed back above $300 after a sharp late-September pullback, with daily momentum strengthening as traders watch resistance near $329. The recovery follows The Clearing House’s selection of Quant for its planned U.
The Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades is expanding, welcoming 14 new partners to accelerate training and career access nationwide. For every 100 skilled trades worker…
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EUR/USD remains on the defensive on Wednesday as a broadly stronger US Dollar (USD) weighs on the pair, leaving the Euro on track for a loss of more than 2% in September. At the time of writing, EUR/USD trades around 1.1337, close to Tuesday’s low of 1.1312, its weakest level since May 2025.
Gold prices (XAU/USD) retreated on Wednesday, down 0.6%, after US inflation data came in above the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) 2% goal but below estimates, prompting investors to price in a less hawkish central bank than expected. The XAU/USD trades at $4,155 at the time of writing.
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As a Syrian glassmaker created his wares in Damascus, watching his craft reminded this reporter to slow down and enjoy the moment.
BTC slipped back below $84,000 after briefly topping $85,000 following August PCE data, while oil recovered and gold eased.
Trump criticized $2.4bn rehab amid attempts to pressure then Fed chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates An internal watchdog said the Federal Reserve mismanaged costs associated with a $2.4bn renovation of its Washington DC headquarters, but noted that no criminal violations occurred, according to a report released on…
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, calling it a “toothless” attempt to address a top voter concern ahead of November’s midterm…
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Oil rebounds on Wednesday and remains on track for a monthly gain of around 5.5%. The lack of progress in US-Iran negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz keeps geopolitical risks elevated, even as Middle East supply conditions improve.
Bitcoin ETFs added $66 million Tuesday, matching August's nine-day run and topping it in dollars. How long will the streak stay alive?
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
With FCA applications now open, the expected October 2027 regime will preserve safeguards for in-scope retail borrowing collateral while allowing a lending trust exemption.
Petrobras developed two Cardano-based applications to track sustainability claims tied to aviation fuel and renewable diesel as part of an ongoing research collaboration.
In the first half of this year, the sector poured millions into lobbying, with most of it tied to pushing the U. S.
Award-winning, Guardian-produced film focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians extends run after sold-out screenings NAZA, the award-winning documentary about Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, has opened at No 1 at the Italian box office, beating rival titles including Avengers Endgame…
Ministers should introduce a properly targeted social tariff rather than tinker with the warm homes discount Energy bills forecast to jump by £276 a year from January What to do as prices head for £2,000 a year After the hopeful good vibes in Liverpool, here comes a reminder of what is coming this winter: a mighty new year…
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doing…
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Christine Lagarde: Interview with La Croix”.
Russia says it has a "promising, reusable manned transport spacecraft."
Open USD has launched on four blockchains with more than $1 billion in liquidity commitments from five founding partners, introducing a stablecoin model that ties company rewards and ownership to token supply and use. According to a report, Open Standard’s…
At the EDUCAUSE annual conference, Google.org announced its support of three higher education initiatives to scale ethical AI readiness, modernize institutional planning…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Christopher Kenji Dinelli and Jacob David “Kobe” Frankel for allegedly orchestrating a fraud scheme that raised more than $8.7 million from 35 investors through their fund, Beyond…
Decrypt is the destination, Myriad is the infrastructure and MYR is the token for a connected media ecosystem.
Soneium has adopted OP Enterprise’s fully managed service to support its tokenized intellectual property plans, with OP Labs providing chain operations under a 99.9% monthly uptime target. Soneium announced the agreement in a Sept.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said that a protection fund created by the company in 2022 “absorbed the financial impact of the incident“ that resulted in $388 million in user losses.
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said that France’s debt situation is “serious at 120% of GDP and without a path to lowering it.”
Developing North Sea fields does not contradict net zero goals, according to Simone Rossi New oil and gas projects are a “no-brainer” that pose “no contradiction” to the net zero agenda, according to the head of EDF Energy. Simone Rossi has joined a string of renewables leaders in making the case for more North Sea production…
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
Paymentscan's Sept. 29 snapshot shows a new tracked volume high and a higher implied amount per transaction.
European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Isabel Schnabel said Wednesday that high costs are passed through to consumers more quickly when the economy is resilient.
PEPE price has held above $0.000004 as its September rally cools, with improving weekly momentum facing a bearish short-term setup near $0.0000041. Trading View’s Binance PEPE/USDT daily chart showed the token at $0.00000433 on Sep.
Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI The White House misspelled “United States” under the signature of Donald Trump on an accord he signed with AI executives on Tuesday. At the bottom of the accord on “Super Intelligence”, the…
The one-page pact, which Trump called "morally binding," asks companies to adopt internal controls, independent audits and board oversight—but carries no penalties and drew criticism for its thin detail.
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
Now you can automate your most repetitive tasks more easily with reusable custom instructions through skills, which will be replacing gems.
On International Translation Day, learn how members of our team bring cultural nuance to Translate to connect people globally.
This October, Waze will help drivers find screening clinics, assess their health risks, and schedule routine checkups.
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
The Fed's favorite inflation gauge came in cooler than expected, rate-hike odds fell and Bitcoin traders took the hint.
Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump’s relationship with tech leaders and the White House’s new AI-powered site On Tuesday night, late-night hosts discussed a Maha summit in Washington DC, the White House’s new AI -powered website and Donald Trump once again falling asleep on live TV.
AUD/USD declines 0.41% on Wednesday and trades around 0.6960 at the time of writing, having fully erased its initial rebound following the release of softer-than-expected United States (US) inflation data.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Isabel Schnabel: Monetary policy in a world of overlapping shocks”.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rule amendments that would facilitate capital formation in the public and private markets by expanding retail investor choice and promoting innovation in regulated fund structures while…
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January Household energy prices are set to soar in January, with a typical bill forecast to jump by £276 to the equivalent of nearly £2,000 year.…
The “overwhelming majority” of Open Standard’s equity will be distributed over time to partners based on how much they help grow the stablecoin, CEO Zach Abrams said.
Silver (XAG/USD) trades under pressure on Wednesday even as traders reduce bets that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise interest rates again in October following softer-than-expected US PCE inflation data.
The order -- Harbinger's biggest ever -- comes as the startup is reportedly considering an IPO.
XRP price has traded near $1.50 on Sep. 30 as weaker futures positioning and slower U.
Andrew Bailey’s comments come as fears grow that rogue models could take financial system hostage Business live – latest updates The governor of the Bank of England has called for the “right to intervene” in the AI industry amid growing fears that rogue models could take the financial system hostage. Andrew Bailey said the…
The Pound Sterling (GBP) posts solid gains versus the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday, edging up 0.42% as the latest US inflation figures were below estimates, reaffirming New York Federal Reserve (Fed) President John Williams' comments that the Fed is in no rush to tighten monetary policy.
New full-day measurements correct the block-halt claim, while separate data show a steep drop in successful app traffic.
As it battles with states over prediction markets, the CFTC sent two related rules on swaps definitions for White House review.
Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017. Prosecutors have now valued the theft at more than 30 times that.
Unprecedented university donation from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will go toward building a new Miami campus Carnegie Mellon University will receive an unprecedented $3bn donation from the billionaire investor Ken Griffin, making it the largest single donation in the history of US education. Griffin, 57, is the founder and CEO…
New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles.
The company says it needs to "keep evolving alongside changing customer expectations".
Discord is "opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget."
Wing patterns, flight dynamics create "motion dazzle" effect, make it harder to gauge speed, direction.
Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. Now, CoreWeave is bringing the next generation of NVIDIA infrastructure to production.
Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio to watermark AI-designed proteins while maintaining biological function. Read the full research report here.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Crypto Long & Short: What will the AI agents run on?”.
Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown UK politics live – latest updates Tens of thousands of people have formally demanded NHS England blocks the Palantir-powered national medical data platform from handling their personal information. More…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top AI leaders announced a signed pledge called a “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” — a voluntary promise to implement more controls and safety measures as the rapid development of artificial intelligence continues. But there seems to be a catch.
The 2027 BMW 330 starts at $49,900, the i3 50 xDrive at $61,500.
‘I’d read stories about gangs killing drug-pushers who targeted young people. Police would find their bodies at the bottom of five-storey buildings.
A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.
Fitbit Air costs around $146 in India, roughly $47 more than its U. S.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits.
This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.
This conversational AI assistant is intended to provide personalized feedback to creators, rather than generic advice.
In a new series, we review the best art exhibitions currently showing in commercial galleries, where entrance is free Walking into Gabriel Orozco’s show is like waking up with a headache and trying to piece together whatever the hell you did last night. Everything in the Mexican conceptualist’s exhibition is splintered…
UK crypto firms have gained access to the Financial Conduct Authority’s new authorization process as the country begins moving digital asset businesses toward full financial services regulation. The Financial Conduct Authority said on Sept.
Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be exceptionally fast and lightweight.
The staff added a no-central-party condition, raising a harder question than how much a project buys back.
With us to mark the 24th anniversary of 24 Hour Party People, the director’s work includes everything from Cracker to A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland to Welcome to Sarajevo. And, of course, The Trip Of course, the 90s couldn’t be any more in vogue at the minute – but the 90s couldn’t have happened without the 80s.
Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m.
Boost for John Healey before budget as GDP figure shows UK economy grew faster than first estimated in second quarter UK household income grew at a stronger pace than previously estimated during the first six months of the year, according to revisions of official data. The rise in income per head to 1.1% between January and…
Fed up with condensation, mould and musty smells? A dehumidifier could help – plus, they’re a cheaper way to dry laundry compared with tumble dryers • The best electric blankets and heated throws, tested by our expert You don’t have to live in the American deep south to feel the effects of humidity.
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
The five-month application window precedes the new regulatory framework’s planned introduction in October 2027, after years of legislative development.
Consumer Price Index (CPI): +0.4% in Aug 2026 News Release Historical Data Unemployment Rate: 4.1% in Aug 2026 News Release Historical Data Payroll Employment: +162,000(p) in Aug 2026 News Release Historical Data Average Hourly Earnings: +$0.10(p) in Aug 2026 News Release Historical Data Producer Price Index - Final Demand…
There’s no Leon, Claire or Ada Wong in Cregger’s adaptation. Instead, it re-creates something more fundamental – the strange, terrifying experience of actually playing the game • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?
AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.
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Parents can limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, who can see their Status updates, and control who can add teens to groups.
Environment Agency warns residents of 6m at-risk properties to prepare for wet and windy three months ahead More than two million people in England are unaware their properties are at risk of flooding, as the UK braces for a wet and stormy start to the winter, according to the Environment Agency. Experts say the next three…
Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K is slimmer and faster, but its biggest upgrade may be the thing you’ll actually hold in your hand: a redesigned remote that’s easier to use, especially in the dark.
THORChain will not — or can not — block addresses linked to the $387.5 million Bitget hack. Can the devs be prosecuted for money laundering?
Pay receipts and Convert settlement change now, while Funding-backed recurring sends face a later cutoff.
For those employed in arduous solitary work such as cab driving, a marathon phone call is the perfect place to navigate the dislocations of immigrant life Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The question of the week is: “who are Uber drivers always talking to on the phone?” It’s one that regularly…
This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. This milestone means that thousands of entities including journalists, civil society, state and local governments, election management bodies, and public schools are being protected from cyberattacks.
Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star in this unconvincing mystery about a struggling writer who is asked to ghostwrite for a bestselling author The nation is crying out for a really enjoyable erotic mystery-thriller, a taste potentially at least as strong as the cosy-crime fetish currently dominating our every waking moment.…
A new exhibit of Lenape paintings, traditional dress and music proves their modern-day culture is vibrant and alive During the 19th century, the US government funded more than 500 “Indian boarding schools” aimed at forcibly assimilating Native American children into western culture. Students were taken from their families…
Federal Reserve Board finalizes changes to enhance the transparency and public accountability of its stress test and reduce volatility in its stress test-related capital requirements
As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is that regular insurers "heard a bunch of scary science words and freaked out."
Petrobras is testing the blockchain in two research projects aimed at preventing emissions benefits from being counted twice and tracing fuel data across production and use.
Singapore’s crypto economy grew 55.4% to $284 billion as institutional-platform activity surged 94%, while the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam stood out for small-value P2P transfers.
Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model. By balancing expected output quality against token costs, organizations can dramatically cut AI spend while maintaining performance.
You can now use built-in error monitoring in Cloudflare Workers to group production failures and send stack traces, logs, traces, and application context directly to a coding agent to investigate further and open a pull request.
Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. Its expanded API and cf CLI also let agents search, register, and transfer domains.
Cloudflare’s AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agents for access to tokens, APIs, and MCP tools. U.
Pay Per Use is now in beta. AI companies report when they use publishers’ content, and Cloudflare handles billing, payouts, and reporting, so our customers are paid according to use.
AI Gateway User Insights now adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisions. This is available free to AI Gateway users.
Tinder has been pushing users toward more real-world experiences for some time.
Cloudflare Containers now start 6x faster, let your agent choose each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem snapshots in public beta, all controlled from a Durable Object.
More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. We're giving site owners the tools to see who's visiting, decide who gets in, and charge for access.
Slipknot sharing their stage with a man accused of wrongdoing by more than a dozen women is the antithesis of everything the genre should stand for, even if he denies it
Personal income increased $66.6 billion (0.2 percent at a monthly rate) in August, according to estimates released today by the U. S.
Prior estimate 1.5% revised higher to 2.2% US Q2 GDP revised to 2.2% vs 1.5% expected; inflation measures soften Real GDP: +2.2% annualized vs +1.5% expected. Previous estimate +1.5%.
Prior was 3.3% Headline y/y 3.4% vs 3.7% expected (3.7% prior) Headline m/m +0.3% vs +0.4% expected (+0.2% prior) Core PCE (excluding food & energy): Core m/m +0.2% vs +0.3% expected Prior +0.2% Consumer spending and income for August: Personal income +0.2% vs +0.4% expected. Prior month +0.4% Personal spending +0.9% vs +0.8%…
Prior was -118.9 billion The US international trade deficit in goods widened to $132.6 billion in August, up $13.7 billion from $118.9 billion in July. The increase was driven primarily by a larger rise in imports than exports.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the second quarter of 2026 (April, May, and June), according to the third estimate released today by the U. S.
DOE's reserve exchange takes bids through October 6, while August PCE arrives before any newly offered crude can be delivered.
Prior was +38K Construction +15K Manufacturing +17K Natural resources and mining -1K Financial activities -16K Professional and business services -11K Education and health services +55K Leisure and hospitality +22K Wages for all workers +3.2% vs +3.2% prior Job stayers +3.0% vs +3.0% prior Job changers +4.8% vs +4.7% prior This…
Michael Saylor says Strategy and Strive can compete while growing Bitcoin-backed credit as both firms expand BTC and preferred-stock products.
Utilita Arena, Birmingham First announced in 2019 and now launching with just three of the original lineup, the Dolls whip up a whirlwind of hair-flipping and put on a decent spectacle The road to the Pussycat Dolls’ comeback tour has been fraught. Originally announced in 2019 with all but one of the group’s original members on…
Crypto businesses should apply by Feb. 28, 2027, while existing money laundering registrations will not convert into FCA authorization.
Arab communities on both sides of the border grapple with ongoing tensions as US-Canada relations continue to sour In Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest community of Arab Americans in the US, one industry has risen above all others in recent years: Yemeni cafes. At the forefront is Qahwah House, a powerhouse in the…
Prior +2.9% HICP +3.3% vs +3.2% y/y expected Prior +2.9% Core CPI Y/Y +2.4% vs +2.4% prior Germany's inflation rate accelerated to 3.3% y/y in September, according to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), up from 2.9% in August. Consumer prices increased 0.6% m/m, compared with a 0.2% rise in August.
BAG Ventures announces close of a $11.3M Fund I to invest in all things AI.
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.
Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four years, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise UK banks are Europe’s biggest financial backers of the global coal industry, providing billions of pounds in funding for the climate-wrecking fossil fuel in the past four years, according to a report. The study found…
UK cements its place as fastest-growing G7 country so far this year This morning’s upgrade to UK growth in April-June is a boost to Andy Burnham, analysts say, even though he didn’t take office until almost a month later. Chris Beauchamp , chief market analyst at IG , says: “Still on a post-speech high, the upgraded figure is…
Robinhood is leaning deeper into crypto as they look to unlock their “everything app” vision.
Malaysian police have detained two men and seized 30 Bitcoin mining machines after uncovering an operation in Seri Iskandar that allegedly used an illegal electricity connection.on. According to Perak Tengah district police chief Supt Hafezul Helmi Hamzah, the district’s Criminal…
Metaplanet directors defended its executive share plan after a 41% cut, while questions remain over Simon Gerovich’s August share exercise.
The former congressman says he made $823 on the trades, had no inside information, and had checked the platform's rules first.
Headlines: European stocks slip back as oil and bond yields edge higher from session lows Gold extends the recovery amid renewed US-Iran deal hopes and dovish Fed's Williams comments French inflation jumps in September as HICP rises to 3.4% German state CPI readings point to inflation climbing back above 3% in September Germany…
New York’s mayor Mamdani is putting his political capital behind one of our greatest art forms with his pledge of Opera for All – and 70,000 free tickets to prove it Opera for All. It’s the credo of every opera house in the world, and each has its own ways and means of attracting new – and, crucially, younger – audiences.
CryptoQuant flagged potential selling pressure as deposit transactions and depositing addresses hit their highest counts since October 2025.
The new clearinghouse may clear fully collateralized derivatives; Coinbase's separate stock-futures proposal remains pending.
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 30, 2026
Pump.fun price is up about 14% as PUMP tests $0.006, with strong momentum and another $1.02 million token buyback supporting attention.
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
A roughly $16 million exchange deposit and a separate $5.78 million sale have been combined into headlines about a $22 million whale dump. The distinction matters because Hyperliquid Strategies has been accumulating HYPE too.
Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well-known actor and a TikTok account that he claimed had cloned his “lustrous” baritone voice in its AI-generated…
Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab law An Iranian court’s decision to uphold a sentence of 74 lashes against the popular singer Parastoo Ahmadi for performing without a hijab has sparked outrage among rights groups, who described it as…
Machine-learning models set an 'optimal price' per item per restaurant, and have widened the gap between branches two miles apart.
Three transfers pushed about 15% of the stolen ZEC into Ironwood, where payments hide their senders, recipients and amounts.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders meet on September 30 to decide whether to approve a merger built around an XRP treasury.
If ownership data is split across a token wrapper, a special-purpose vehicle (SPV), a broker’s internal ledger and a transfer agent's off-chain database, we are setting the stage for a Paperwork Crisis for the blockchain age, argues Fairmint’s Joris Delanoue.
As the European Commission’s MiCA review consultation closes, Europe must decide whether its crypto rulebook is protecting the market without making it too costly to build in.
BitMine owns nearly 5% of Ethereum’s stated supply and has staked most of it. Its September filings invite a closer question than the size of one treasury: how much validator operation, withdrawal authority and economic reward sit inside the same…
Six companies signed a safety pact covering hacking and biological threats, with no penalties or deadline for putting the checks in place.
CryptoQuant’s trend gauge registered an emphatic reading just as its estimate of new spot demand deteriorated. The apparent contradiction tells a more useful story about who bought the breakout, who supplied the coins and why a strong trend can lose…
Greece's biggest International Animation Festival, Animasyros, is now firmly ranked among the top events of its kind in Europe. With a programme richer than ever, this year's festival showcased more than 280 films by established and emerging filmmakers from 50 different countries.
Bitget has restored BTC, ETH and USDT withdrawals after its $387.5M hack, with P2P and remaining services set to reopen Friday.
The Connecticut Senator's subcommittee released its report on Monday and referred the findings to Treasury and the Justice Department.
Independent directors cite management’s financial risk and restructuring role, but leave questions about Gerovich’s exercised shares and MMXX Ventures unanswered.
Crypto prices rose early Wednesday after better-than-forecast inflation data, but gave up those gains as interest rates continued to surge.
Ether ETFs shed $3 million Tuesday after seven days of inflows, following an $8 million outflow from Zcash funds at the start of the week.
Bitcoin held near $83,000 as the 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.6%, while DeFi tokens reversed and lighter fell after Robinhood unveiled U. S.
Châtaigniers en fleurs, valued at $180m, to be auctioned along with 11 other works by likes of Cézanne and Monet For more than 50 years it was held in a private art collection with an “almost mythical status” that was likened to a miniature version of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. But on Wednesday a painting by Vincent van Gogh…
From touchscreen and QR-code devices to NFC cards and Bitcoin-only models, this guide compares hardware wallets by security, connectivity, usability and recovery options to help users choose the right fit.
SlowMist identified malicious activity weeks before the Bitget theft, involving a zero-day vulnerability, two security products and a custom withdrawal tool.
Bitcoin’s newly confirmed bull market is already showing signs that the rally powering it may be losing momentum. Last week, the top digital asset climbed to an eight-month high near $87,400 after reclaiming a long-term technical threshold that CryptoQuant says marked the start of a fresh bullish phase.
Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again platform…
He knows a thing or two about tech, but what to make of the views of a man who met Jeffrey Epstein 30 times and couldn’t see what a monster he was? The Bill Gates rehabilitation tour is in full swing.
Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights ‘I decide my past,” says a village matriarch in this intriguingly political and poetic drama from Suzannah Mirghani, making her feature debut…
Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, Georgia, kissing a man – who was not her husband – in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it’s fake is…
Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline Inside a bothy overlooking the Summer Isles, in the north-west of Scotland, the lilting tones of a traditional Gaelic duo fill a room full of…
Ethereum trades near $2,680 as ETF outflows, high Treasury yields and U. S.
Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Ethena’s ENA token with a $2 price target for the end of 2028, putting the bank’s first published valuation at roughly eight times the token’s current market price. Standard Chartered Global Research said on…
Bakery chain, whose sales are up 7.7%, says move is necessary to provide growth in ‘most cost-efficient manner’ Business live – latest updates Greggs has announced plans to close four of its factories, in a move that could result in 740 job losses over the next two and a half years. The bakery chain said it was consulting on…
Our Financial Policy Committee (FPC) meets to identify risks to financial stability and agree policy actions aimed at safeguarding the resilience of the UK financial system.
Pi Network trades near $0.092 as $0.10 resistance holds, with Protocol 28 due Oct. 16 and RSI showing modest momentum improvement.
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
Prior +3.3% HICP +4.1% vs +3.8% y/y expected Prior +3.2% Italy's preliminary September inflation data showed a significant acceleration in price pressures, with the consumer price index rising 4.2% y/y, up from 3.3% in August. On a monthly basis, CPI increased 0.7%.
Binance would shift the contract toward a public-stock index after a transition notice; SpaceX offers a measured but incomplete precedent.
Work in the hospitality industry made me who I am. Without it, young people are denied not only an income and a step on the career ladder, but important life skills Everyone remembers their first job.
In a new documentary, film-maker Erin Lee Carr lifts the lid on the 2000s TV show that shocked America It was in 2003, while listening to country radio, that Kelly first heard the casting call: “Have you dreamed about plastic surgery but never thought you could afford it?” She immediately turned up the volume. The pitch…
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online After a tiring day as a school maintenance worker, 28-year-old Paul loves nothing more than unwinding with a good romance novel – ideally one with a fantasy or horror element to it. He reads five or six a…
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions François Perrodo is what is known in motorsport as a gentleman driver. In June, he raced at Le Mans, earning a podium place.
National Gallery, London Grab your straw boater – and revel in these light-as-souffle masterpieces that celebrate life’s pleasures, from picnics to dances to frolics in the bushes ‘They knew how to enjoy themselves,” David Hockney once told me, gleefully pointing out the cigarette and cigar butts littering the ground under…
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Congress got rid of a $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric vehicle buyers. One year later, are people still buying EVs?
The ChatGPT maker is pursuing fresh funding after delaying its public listing, while expanding its AI tools despite mounting safety concerns.
Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’ Missouri Williams, China Miéville and Polly Barton are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Goldsmiths prize. The £10,000 award recognises fiction that “breaks the…
The new Zakura nodes caught up with the network in just over six hours in Gemini’s deployments. The crypto exchange’s previous software took close to a day.
OKX’s 47th proof-of-reserves report shows $27.4 billion in primary assets as user BTC, ETH and USDT balances increased from August.
Asset management platform HANetf has listed ETCs in London, Frankfurt and Paris providing pound sterling and euro-hedged exposure to bitcoin.
Australia’s crypto firms have reached a Sept. 30 deadline to enter the country’s financial services licensing process before ASIC’s temporary no action protection expires.
Well, the latest German state CPI readings are starting to paint a fairly clear picture ahead of the national report later today. The state readings released around the same time: Bavaria September CPI +3.2% vs +2.9% y/y prior Saxony September CPI +3.3% vs +2.9% y/y prior North Rhine Westphalia September CPI +3.3% vs +2.9% y/y…
The first novel in over a decade from the acclaimed Haitian-American author lacks the power of earlier works Dèy, Edwidge Danticat’s first novel in over a decade, begins with a bang. Magnolia, the daughter of Haitian parents now shopping for a birthday present for her own daughter, hears gunfire, maybe bombs, in a Miami mall.
Pedro Almodóvar provides a vocal cameo and his style can be traced back to this influential film This cult supernatural mystery from 1979 is a deeply strange cheese dream of a film from Spain, in which almost the entire opening 10 minutes unfolds in a jittery quiet. There are some longueurs and some pop-eyed silent-movie acting…
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Quarterly Schedule of Outright Purchases of Japanese Government Bonds (Competitive Auction Method) (October-December 2026)”.
Ex-Asda boss Andy Bond linked to plan, with buyout team understood to be negotiating with financial backer Poundland’s management team are in “advanced talks” to lead a bid for the ailing cut-price retailer that could save up to 11,000 jobs. The former Asda boss Andy Bond, who ran Poundland for a number of years from 2016 then…
Coinbase has teased plans to let users open Pokémon trading card packs from their phones, with each pull backed by a physical card that can either remain in a vault or be shipped to its owner. Coinbase previewed the feature…
Germany September unemployment change 12k vs 1k expected Prior 4k Germany September unemployment rate 6.4% vs 6.4% expected Prior 6.4% The breakdown German unemployment rose significantly more than expected in September as the jobless figure grew by 12,000 to 3.01 million in seasonally adjusted terms. Despite that, the…
Kalshi plans to end its volume incentive program from Oct. 13 as disputed ETH perpetual trades face scrutiny and September volume hits a record.
PM says he is looking at all options and ministers will examine ‘what is doable’ and the ‘pros and cons’ UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham has opened the door to the UK rejoining the EU, saying Britain could “go all the way”, as he prepares to reconsider Labour’s post-Brexit red lines. The prime minister used a…
A 2.2% decline from Tuesday’s captured quote would reach Seyffart’s average holder cost estimate; yields and ETF flows will help show what follows.
AllUnity has launched its US dollar backed USDAU stablecoin across six blockchain networks as the regulated European issuer expands its business payment infrastructure into dollar settlement and stablecoin based foreign exchange. AllUnity said on Sept.
Female DIY experts and tradeswomen talk about their experiences of a traditionally male-dominated domain.
At receptions at Labour conference, Burnham played a series of regionally specific tracks – but did he hit the right notes? Freshly minted as prime minister, Andy Burnham has been holding a series of reception events at Labour conference – soundtracked with regionally specific songs.
Binance Pay has opened crypto payments to eligible overseas users at millions of PayPay supported merchant locations across Japan through the HIVEX payment network. Binance said on Sept.
Here's the level analysts are watching and what a break below it could mean for the bulls.
The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed As Andy Burnham delivered his conference speech to the Labour faithful yesterday, it was hard not to recall Jeremy Corbyn’s words after the party’s shattering 2019 election defeat.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Liquidity Indicators in the JGB Markets (August)”.
AllUnity is launching USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin, expanding a MiCA-regulated lineup that already covers the euro, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
Estonia artist Merike Estna did something extremely unusual for the Venice Biennale, even by its own standards. Over the past five months, she created paintings live in front of daily visitors.
Zcash price is testing $1,400 after losing $1,500, while RSI cools and one analyst watches the $1,170-$1,210 support zone.
France September preliminary CPI +3.0% vs +2.8% y/y expected Prior +2.4% France September preliminary HICP +3.4% vs +3.1% y/y expected Prior +2.6% The breakdown The pickup in French inflation was fairly broad, although energy remains the standout driver. Energy prices accelerated to +21.2% y/y from +16.7% in August…
Bitcoin’s Bull Score has climbed to 90 out of 100 after its latest rally, but weakening spot and futures demand has raised questions over whether BTC has enough buying support to resume its move higher. CryptoQuant’s Bull Score Index has…
Cap poised to rise by 16% to equivalent of £1,999 for dual-fuel bill, the biggest quarterly increase since January 2023 Business live – latest updates Household energy bills in Great Britain are predicted to reach almost £2,000 a year for the typical household from January as the impact of the Middle East war continues…
HSBC has named its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin, with a second-half 2026 launch planned through PayMe and its Hong Kong mobile app.
Germany August retail sales +1.3% vs +1.5% m/m expected Prior -3.4% The breakdown The rebound here is notable, even if it misses on forecasts by a little. It at least substantiates that the drop in July ties much to a heavy decline in petrol station sales, following the end of the fuel discount that was in effect during May…
Germany August import prices +1.0% vs +0.7% m/m expected Prior +0.2% Germany August import prices +8.3% vs +8.0% y/y expected Prior +6.8% The breakdown Import prices rose another 1.0% on the month in August, pushing the annual rate up sharply to 8.3% from 6.8%. This marks the strongest annual increase since December 2022.
UK Q2 final GDP +0.5% vs +0.4% q/q prelim Prior (Q1) +0.6% UK Q2 final GDP +1.4% vs +1.2% y/y prelim Prior (Q1) +0.9% The breakdownIt is a mild revision higher to the initial estimate, reaffirming a more resilient UK economic picture in the second quarter. The services sector in particular held up relatively well, with output…
UK Q2 final GDP +0.5% vs +0.4% q/q prelim Prior (Q1) +0.6% UK Q2 final GDP +1.4% vs +1.2% y/y prelim Prior (Q1) +0.9% The breakdown More to follow... What does the data measure?
There are origami cats, Ecuadorian midwives and painful images from the Ukraine war at this year’s event, all under the theme ‘Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams’
Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining For the marine biologists in this whimsical eco-documentary, the answer is about 5000 metres down. In the lab, we watch them observing, describing, and classifying the…
Converted from Victorian buffet bars, ticket offices and waiting rooms, these station pubs offer beautifully restored interiors, real ales and a slice of railway history No prizes for guessing what this pub used to be… The Old Ticket Office has high ceilings, walls painted shades of locomotive green and booths resembling…
Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves Under the letter “B” in the index at the back of Carlo Rovelli’s latest book you will find Francis Bacon, bats, behaviourism, Henri Bergson, and the big bang. This intriguing little miscellany reflects the…
Robinhood users could soon get an AI agent that trades on their behalf, even at 2 a.m. But if a trade goes wrong, users' bear the risk, not Robinhood.
The prediction market was valued at $22 billion in a $1 billion funding round just four months ago, after doubling its valuation from December.
Robinhood plans U. S.
The regulated operator is mirroring ownership of selected investment funds on XRPL while keeping its existing database as the official record.
Richard Armitage’s smug scientist and Annabel Scholey’s frosty cop team up to solve a murder. Plus Martin Compston’s raucous cocktail sesh in Las Vegas.
Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
Illinois draft rules explain how its 0.2% crypto tax could apply to stablecoins, DeFi, bridges and fee-based wallet transfers from 2027.
The PM said Brexit has ‘done more harm than good’ and wants an assessment before the next UK-EU summit Andy Burnham has said Brexit has “done more harm than good” and pledged to launch a major review of the UK’s relationship with the EU, opening the door to a potential referendum over rejoining the union. He said he would “lay…
Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age. More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a…
Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be ‘pioneer of tech as a force for good’ Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government’s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a “staging post”. Earlier this year the government…
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI Poor Greta Garbo. Perhaps, in life, she thought her final indignity would be the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore TV sketch from 1970, showing Pete as the legendary recluse standing on the back of a flatbed truck as it…
Kalshi is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation as Sequoia, Wellington, Tiger Global and Dragoneer circle.
A trend guage tracked on onchain analysis firm CryptoQuant is near its ceiling. The buyers who drove BTC to an eight-month high are already pulling back.
German inflation will be one of the main economic data points to watch out for in European trading today, with the September reading expected to show a further pick up in price pressures. Here's what markets are looking for: CPI +3.1% y/y expected; Prior +2.9% HICP +3.2% y/y expected; Prior +2.9% The August report already…
Illinois’ draft rules spell out how its 0.2% digital asset transaction tax would apply to stablecoins, DeFi platforms, crypto bridges and self-custody transfers.
Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially.
Ripple and CSD BR are putting BTG Pactual fund-share records on XRP Ledger while CSD BR keeps the official ownership records.
The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.
Patrice Talon has transformed the west African country’s economy and infrastructure at the expense of political freedom In recent years, a building boom has reshaped Benin’s largest city, Cotonou, and a shiny new coastal road has reduced journey times to Ouidah, the west African country’s spiritual and cultural capital. In…
The musical powerhouse has spawned huge hits, but which do its troupers love to belt out – even for the 1,700th time? From Broadway legend Idina Menzel to composer Stephen Schwartz, they reveal all Idina Menzel originated the role of Elphaba, the witch of the west who turns out not to be so wicked (but still very green) .
In February, ai.com drew enough traffic to crash its website after a $15 million Super Bowl ad, but months later, users are still wondering what’s happened to their promised AI agent.
Goldman: Persian Gulf oil exports back at 2025 average after doubling in September USD/JPY slips to around 156.4 as half-year-end flows and Fed comments weigh China official manufacturing PMI returns to growth at 50.1, non-manufacturing 50.2 RatingDog China manufacturing PMI 52.1 tops forecast, services 51.6 also beats…
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Frank Elderson: Supervisory risk appetite, efficiency and effectiveness”.
A return to growth in the official manufacturing survey, alongside a jump in the non-manufacturing index, gives China-sensitive assets a supportive final data point before the holiday. Factory strength matters for industrial commodities, including oil, and RatingDog's finding that manufacturers' input costs are being pushed…
Stronger readings from both surveys, ahead of a week-long Chinese holiday, give China-sensitive assets a supportive last data point before mainland markets close. The rise in manufacturers' input costs, driven by metals and oil, is the detail most relevant to commodity markets, since it suggests firms are absorbing higher…
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Payment and Settlement Statistics (Aug.)”.
The Australian dollar was lower after t he data , as the softer-than-expected monthly trimmed mean reading was seen as the more encouraging signal for inflation. The market is pricing only around a 25% chance of a November hike, well below Westpac's stated base case that the RBA follows up next month, which suggests the…
I'll have details and implications posted separately. Added, here it is: RatingDog China manufacturing PMI 52.1 tops forecast, services 51.6 also beats S&P Global / RatingDog PMIs, September: Manufacturing 52.1 expected 51.6, prior 51.5 Services 51.6 expected 51.1, prior 51.4 Background: China PMIs preview: official…
I'll have details and implications posted separately. Added, here that is: China official manufacturing PMI returns to growth at 50.1, non-manufacturing 50.2 National Bureau of Statistics PMIs (September): Manufacturing 50.1 expected 50.1, prior 49.8 Non-Manufacturing 50.2 expected 49.3, prior 49.00 Composite 50.7 prior 49.5…
I'll have details and implications posted separately. ADDED, here it is: Australian dollar marked lower on the data Consumer Price Index (YoY) (Aug) 4% surging fuel prices impact expected 4.0%, prior 3.5% Consumer Price Index (MoM) (Aug) 0.4% expected 0.4%, prior 1.0% Trimmed Mean CPI (YoY) (Aug) 3.6% expected 3.6%, prior…
For the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the key message is that inflation expectations did not move as oil prices jumped, which ANZ described as encouraging while stressing it is early. Against that, wage expectations edged up and ANZ says spare capacity may be getting used up faster than the central bank assumed in its recent…
The industrial production miss and the softer retail print complicate the case for the Bank of Japan to move again quickly, and traders will weigh them against the strength implied by manufacturers' own projections for September and October. A former BoJ executive director has put the chance of an October hike at around 20%…
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
US president also issues executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’ Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal, called the…
Mindgard said it discovered in July that Kimi models K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade developer's safety limits.
Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.
The advertising watchdog said that viewers could assume from the ad that replacing all normal food with Huel was "nutritionally appropriate".
Retatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon.
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.
Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificial intelligence agent Muse Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of AI tools. During its annual showcase for developers in San…
The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
This Northern Ireland-set police drama has never felt like this before … Race riots, organised crime and institutional politics bring it bang up to date Blue Lights has always been a very modern cop drama. Its tales of everyday callouts, fractious office relationships and complex long-term efforts to smash organised crime have…
The Australian dollar is the most direct read-through. A print at or above forecast would strengthen the case for further tightening and could support the currency and short-dated yields.
A move in the official manufacturing PMI back above 50 would be read as a modest positive for China-sensitive assets, including the Australian dollar, the yuan and industrial metals. For oil, the question is whether the data changes the view on Chinese fuel demand, and a soft non-manufacturing print would keep demand worries…
How can Manchester City be trusted under these owners after they were found to have devised £900m of ‘sham’ contracts? How bad could it be, really?
FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
Agencies publish resolution plan feedback letters for 15 banking organizations
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
Chilean film-maker whose trilogy on Augusto Pinochet’s coup brought him to international attention Hawker Hunter jets bomb the presidential palace in the Chilean capital, Santiago, setting it ablaze. It is 11 September 1973, and General Augusto Pinochet ’s bloody coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government is under…
A former chef contacted Hackney Council after complaining to managers at the members' club.
Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more are taking over San Francisco during Disrupt Week.
US cannabis and drinks firm Tilray, which took over in March, says it will improve beers, pubs and working conditions BrewDog’s new owner has urged drinkers to give the ailing brand “a second chance” as it invests more than £50m in improving the company’s beers, pubs and working conditions. The US cannabis and drinks company…
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
By linking Brexit, voting reform and public services, the prime minister made a powerful, personal pitch for a brighter future Andy Burnham’s first speech as prime minister to a Labour conference was a serious attempt to argue that rebuilding the public realm will be better for the country than shrinking the state. He is right…
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’ Analysis: PM’s promises will take time to come good Key takeaways from Burnham’s conference speech Andy Burnham has staked his future on a gamble that the public will back radical progressive policies on social care, electoral reform and…
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
For all the talk, the real value of GB Grid lies in giving the regulator perfect data to drive down costs What is Burnham’s GB Grid plan and could it bring down energy bills? Did share prices shudder as Andy Burnham unveiled Great British Grid (GBG) as a public sector challenger to the trio of private sector firms that own and…
Henry Cavill is partnering with Googlebook to build a video game, coming this November.
Researchers say the IPO market was off to a solid start but tailed off in the third quarter Smart ring maker Oura Inc says it is postponing a planned initial public offering due to market “uncertainty”. In a Tuesday press release, Oura said it is delaying the stock market float “despite strong demand”.
Original triple lock was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty but OBR says it contributes to unsustainability of public finances The prime minister has announced that the pensions triple lock will be scrapped in its current form, to partly fund a national care service.
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.
The PM was at times emotional during his conference speech in which he outlined his long-term plan for the UK.
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
The wearable technology company had been expected to list its shares in the US.
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
Bank allows employees to delay being in workplace at least three days a week until 2027, if permission granted Barclays has watered down its return-to-office plans after a major staff backlash , with the bank allowing some employees to wait until next year before having to be in at least three days a week. The bank this summer…
The triple lock guarantees that the state pension is not overtaken by inflation or wage increases.
America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.
The quality of life for people living next to one would be destroyed, writes Moira Brewer ; plus a letter from Mark Davis So, George Osborne thinks people who don’t want an AI datacentre on their doorstep are nimbys ( OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain, 22 September ). He ought to come and…
Tom Watson responds to an article by Clive Lewis about the former Labour deputy leader’s new job at the technology company Clive Lewis is, unusually, right about one thing in his recent article: there is a danger of rot setting in ( Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics…
I had expected him to try to forge a political consensus on this thorny issue at this stage, but he has gone further than that.
Nothing was off the table, no coded hints, and by the end no one could be in any doubt about what Burnham believed You’ve got to hand it to Andy Burnham. He left nothing out on the pitch.
Viral CCTV footage shows the star checking in on a woman he thought was in distress, but who was only engrossed in social media. Perhaps we could all use some Cruise Name: Doomscrolling interventions.
Artists Xin Liu and Eunjo Lee used Google AI to create new artworks with LAS Art Foundation and Google Arts & Culture Lab.
Patrick Branco Ruivo to leave post after decision contrary to France’s ‘value of equality’ sparked outrage and strike The head of the operating company that runs the Eiffel Tower is to step down after a row over female staff being ordered to stay out of sight during a visit by a Hindu religious group. Patrick Branco Ruivo…
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated A water company has been ordered to pay a record fine of almost £8m for hundreds of sewage spills at popular bathing spots and sensitive habitats in Cornwall and Devon. On one occasion, untreated sewage gushed through a harbour…
The prime minister said he wants to reduce energy costs in his first conference speech as Labour leader.
Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.
Uhura Bionics, part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one that carries emotions.
Private members’ club apologises after former employee exposes issue at its Shoreditch House venue The Soho House private members’ club has launched an investigation after out-of-date food was mislabelled in one of its kitchens. The club, which charges up to £4,500 a year for membership, has apologised after a former employee…
The postponement of the IPO will delay some of the company's plans for its proceeds from the IPO, as well as those of its shareholders.
Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’ Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out an expansive vision for collecting, sharing and analyzing US health information at a Maha event hosted by a close ally and outspoken anti-vaccine activist. Medical and…
Eating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults.
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
It marks another ratcheting up of Trump’s trade war and affects nearly $1bn in imports of a $880bn trade relationship US- Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early on Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1bn worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic…
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged multiple entities that are likely operated by individuals located overseas for defrauding hundreds of retail investors, including many in the U. S., through so-called investment confidence scams where…
Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phone, Dazzle claims to understand your hobbies, interests, food, and style preferences, how you like to spend their time, and with whom.
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Newsflash: the number of mortgages approved by UK lenders has fallen to its lowest level since the end of 2023. Just 54,918 new home loans were approved in August on a seasonally-adjusted basis, new Bank of England data shows, as rising borrowing costs deterred…
It is the latest escalation in the Canada-US trade war after negotiations collapsed in late August, with no word on when talks may resume.
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Amanda Blanc says flooding threat is ‘absolutely increasing’, as she also warns ministers over ‘kite flying’ before budget Business live – latest updates The boss of Britain’s biggest insurer has said that homes being built now in England could become uninsurable in the future because they are sited in flood-risk areas.…
Average five-year fixed mortgage interest rate has hit 5.94%, its highest since October 2023, says Moneyfacts Demand for UK mortgages slumped to a 32-month low in August as buyers were deterred by rising costs linked to the war in Iran. Just 54,918 mortgages for new home purchases were approved in August, the Bank of England…
Proposed government-backed network body welcomed by some in sector but others call it just another quango Nils Pratley: Burnham’s electricity grid idea is interesting – but it’s not ‘public control’ Andy Burnham’s first address to the Labour party conference as prime minister addressed Britain’s rising energy costs and sluggish…
Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows A record hot summer collided unhappily with rising energy costs for households across the US that struggled to the point where many were disconnected from their electricity supply…
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.
Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.
The former transportation secretary says weaker fuel-economy standards could raise long-term costs for drivers and leave U. S.
Three news outlets that President Trump banished from White House grounds asked a federal court to block the ban until the case is resolved.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “ECB amends monetary policy implementation guidelines as part of regular review”.
John Healey said the government is in talks with the US over Donald Trump's threat to stop exports.
Content creation degrees aim to help people make money from social media, but are they worth the money?
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
The average price of a litre of diesel at the pump stands at 198.32p, according to the RAC motoring body.
The US-Israel war with Iran has caused fuel prices to soar due to disruption of global oil supplies.
The threatened proposal aims to protect US consumers from rising costs, but it could trigger major economic waves if it were to happen.
John Healey's speech comes ahead of next month's Budget, as he faces pressure to bring down government borrowing costs.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against New York-based investment adviser Zoe Financial Inc. for failing to fully and fairly disclose material facts concerning conflicts of interest to its clients and prospective…
Aldi is the only major supermarket chain that doesn't operate a loyalty scheme, which are hugely popular and used by millions of shoppers.
Chancellor John Healey will set out his plans for UK taxes in October.
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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Accounting staffing company MAVI emerges from stealth with $4 million in funding.
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Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review.
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The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
Read the original report for the full details and source context behind “Christine Lagarde: Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament”.
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”
