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Meta raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance to a range of $130 billion to $145 billion to expand AI infrastructure capacity.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Meta raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance to a range of $130 billion to $145 billion to expand AI infrastructure capacity.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The FBI and U.S. Coast Guard boarded two U.S.-bound oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico from August 21 to August 24 after hackers reportedly compromised at least one ship’s networks and took control of navigation, propulsion, and cargo systems, with the agencies reporting no operational disruptions, vessel instability, physical danger to crews, or environmental impacts.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
TCL Tab 10 Gen 4 tablet is $150 (down from $200), Narwal Freo 20 robot vacuum and mop is $699 (down from $799), and Aurzen Roku TV E1R mini portable projector is $90 (down from $140) on Amazon today.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
CNET
An independent Starling Advisory Group review says Fed supervisory staff knew Silicon Valley Bank’s key vulnerabilities as early as March 2022 but did not act promptly and decisively, in part due to a culture of risk aversion and unclear decision rights about who could be certain an intervention was correct.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Costco’s fiscal Q4 2026 earnings will not include the DoorDash same-day delivery partnership because the deal went live after the quarter closed, but Q3 already showed digitally-enabled comparable sales of +21.5% and e-commerce traffic up 37%.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
South Korea’s Kospi is up almost 60% in 2026 (and the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF EWY is up almost 88% this year).
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Builders Stage session on October 13–15 in San Francisco will debate the trade-offs between open and proprietary AI for startups, led by Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes.
Sep 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Microsoft says Edge’s Internet Explorer (IE) Mode is guaranteed support only through the end of 2029, with customers receiving one year’s notice before it is retired.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Register
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years on Wednesday, while investors kept bets on gold and other metal plays strong.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s Muse AI assistant is now available on Mac and can interact with your files, messages, calendar, notes, and mail inside native apps, with opt-in access and approval prompts before sensitive actions.
Sep 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Orion’s $2,195 AI-enabled mattress pad cools during sleep and gradually warms back to room temperature by wake-up time, and the reviewer reports sleeping better over a few months of use.
Sep 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
GhostCode device-code phishing lets attackers steal Microsoft OAuth authentication tokens, register attacker-controlled devices, and obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT) that provides SSO-equivalent access to a victim’s Microsoft 365 environment for the PRT’s lifetime (14 days by default).
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) remains the standout franchise entry according to the re-review, with its synth-and-metal score by Vince Dicola and ballads from Stan Bush (“Dare” and “The Touch”) singled out as major highlights.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Private student loans generally require you to be enrolled at an accredited eligible school (often at least half-time), be within a lender-set age range, and meet income and credit-score minimums—plus use the money for specific eligible expenses like tuition/fees, housing, transportation, meals, and textbooks/supplies.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The FCC is waiving its 25% foreign-equity limit in the Paramount–Warner Bros. case to allow three sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5% of the company.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Seagate’s 2026 Data Infrastructure Readiness Report found 38% of organizations say they’re prepared for AI-driven storage demand growth, while 62% are ill-prepared.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Siri Recap on Apple Watch frames Apple’s approach to AI-augmented ambient audio as keeping personal data, audio recordings, and transcripts from being stored, while relying on privacy “guardrails” rather than obtaining consent from everyone who could be exposed.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Computerworld
Nasdaq rose above its 50-day moving average with conviction, prompting Investor's Business Daily to raise recommended stock market exposure to 60%-80%.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A 27-year-old guest on Caleb Hammer cashed out her 401(k) twice in 2019 and 2020, including money used for her first home down payment, which Hammer said generally triggers both ordinary income tax and a 10% IRS early-withdrawal penalty before age 59½.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets at the end of August 2026, and in Q2 said Robinhood Banking topped $3 billion in deposits, its credit card business surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, and prediction markets traded more than 3.5 billion contracts.
Sep 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
