A hawkish Fed hike is expected to weaken Asian currencies—especially the yen—ahead of the Bank of Japan’s Friday monetary-policy meeting, with strategists pointing to yen weakness toward the 200-day moving average near 158 per dollar.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Standard Chartered expects continued US-Iran stalemate and escalating physical risks to keep oil prices supported above a higher floor even as Brent fell 2.88% to $105.6/bbl and WTI fell 3.33% to $102.3/bbl.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tyrannosaurus rex’s body temperature was likely around 36.3°C (about 97°F), putting it in the same warm-blooded range as humans (98.6°F) and similar to large mammals and large flightless birds like ostriches and emus.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNET
The House overwhelmingly approved the bipartisan “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act,” which would require AM radio to be included in new cars, trucks, and SUVs at no additional charge to consumers, sending the bill to the Senate.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The U.S. average diesel price hit $6.301 per gallon and gasoline reached $4.355 per gallon, after oil prices moved back above $100 per barrel amid slumping global inventories.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two child-sex-abuse survivors sued Jeffrey Epstein’s estate seeking a court-supervised process to preserve and identify whether their images are in Epstein’s collection and whether the estate should be held liable for “perhaps dozens or even hundreds” of CSAM violations.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said it’s “not clear” inflation is defeated after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both propose embedding third-party safety evaluators with unprecedented access to frontier AI systems—including intermediate training checkpoints—so evaluators can publish findings on risks, incidents, and access received without editorial control by the companies.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A Basel Action Network report estimates AI could generate up to 211 million metric tons of e-waste per year by 2050, with 15%–20% attributed to AI—equating to 70,000 metric tons of e-waste per gigawatt of data center capacity.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
CISA will discontinue its weekly vulnerability bulletin after Monday, September 28, replacing its static severity approach with a June Binding Operational Directive that prioritizes fixes based on real-world risk.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Register
Jamie Dimon said US small businesses are in a “mini boom,” with growth in new small businesses “much more than we’ve had.”
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft’s chief legal officer says lawmakers should make secrecy orders in government subpoenas the exception, arguing courts must impose meaningful limits on both the scope of demands for LinkedIn user data and the secrecy that can accompany them.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Computerworld
California’s BEAD plan would accept $1.86 billion in federal broadband funds while agreeing to statewide exemptions that prevent enforcing state net neutrality and rate-regulation rules against any ISP receiving BEAD subgrants for up to 14 years.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Highway will pay $100,000 when a broker uses its guarantee standard and a load is lost, with only one payout reported across roughly one million loads.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
October WTI crude oil closed down $3.40 (-3.21%) on Wednesday as signs of additional crude supply reaching the market eased supply concerns.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Most Federal Open Market Committee members project at least one more 25 basis point rate hike by year-end 2026, with 12 of 18 members’ projections averaging 4.125% for 2026’s appropriate policy rate.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement is presented as a comparison against the statement from the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in July.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNBC
The Fed raised the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points to a target range of 3.75% to 4% from 3.50% to 3.75%, its first hike since 2023.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ShinyHunters published hundreds of thousands of files stolen from Florida’s DAVID motor vehicle database, including vehicle ownership certificates with names, addresses, and vehicle identification numbers—and some records that include Social Security numbers and other government documents.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The U.S. International Development Finance Corp (DFC) approved a $500 million trade financing facility that could unlock up to $20 billion in U.S. exports to emerging markets and support up to 10,000 U.S. jobs.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
