Calendar-based malware attacks rose sharply, increasing 282% in June from the prior month, 338% in July, 1,216% in August, and is projected to increase 2,852% in September over August.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Best Buy is selling Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X for $1,000 with a 14-inch 2K 16:10 OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon X2 Elite 12-core CPU, 16GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vujcic said EU banks need to operate on much larger scale in deeper capital markets to compete directly with large US banks, noting EU lenders lag US peers in trading and post-trading activities.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) for UPI person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions above INR 2,000 has led influencers to see it as a step toward ecosystem monetisation while expecting merchants to test ways to limit fee exposure.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rocket Lab fell 5% to $64.38 while AST SpaceMobile dropped 6% to $58.68 and Planet Labs slid 4% to $16.27, suggesting space-sector profit-taking rather than deal-specific news.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fenimore Asset Management said it sold its position in Boston Omaha Corporation (NYSE:BOC) after the company’s fiber operation underperformed and “better opportunities arose elsewhere.”
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
EnBW and partners inaugurated the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, with its first turbines already supplying electricity to the grid and the rest being commissioned in stages in the coming months.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
FunnyPlaying’s FPGB Mini plays original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges and is priced at $69.99 (discounted from $89.99), while Analogue’s Pocket is $239.99.
Sep 18, 2026 ·The Verge
Fenimore Asset Management newly added Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) in its Q2 2026 letter, with the stock closing Sept. 17, 2026 at $658.32 per share and up 37.13% over the past year.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX shares fell more than 2% after the Starship 14th test flight was pushed to Sept. 28 from Sept. 22, with the mission aiming to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and complete about six orbits in roughly 10 hours.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AMC theatergoers can buy a Street Fighter popcorn bucket shaped like Guile’s gravity-defying flattop hair that can be worn on your head.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson is set to discuss how Twilio’s playbook is translating to fusion, after Inertia raised a $450 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
KDE will mark its 30th anniversary at Akademy in Graz, where a Sunday talk proposes an “AI-native” Plasma that compiles itself per user, device, and moment from a small portable user model into an encrypted, vendor-agnostic personal kernel (“Kadai”).
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Register
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4% in early morning trade while the S&P 500 lagged.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The best retro tech picks include Skullcandy Jib wired earbuds ($8, save $2), Kodak FZ55 compact digital camera ($140, save $20), and a RetroWave 7-in-1 radio with a 2,000 mAh battery that also functions as a power bank.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Fenimore Asset Management said it initiated a new position in Tyler Technologies (NYSE:TYL), describing it as the leading software provider to state and local governments with a large installed base, strong customer retention, and high switching costs.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Hacktron AI security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two vulnerabilities in Discourse’s image-processing pipeline and gain access to multiple OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts, demonstrating that an unflagged ImageMagick/libheif bug (fixed months earlier but without a CVE) could still be exploitable.
Sep 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple’s AirPods 5 ANC models block 50% more noise than AirPods 4 and offer “Live Translation,” with the better-equipped $149 Wireless Charging Case version also adding swipeable volume controls, audible Find My, and Qi/Apple Watch wireless charging.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Engadget
A Pew Research Center survey across 37 countries finds that in 34 of them, more people expect AI to lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years than more jobs.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
An optical engineer, Xu, won Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest for imaging beating cilia on living cells using diffractive super-resolution microscopy.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
