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
Investors are pricing a nearly 93% chance the Fed raises rates by 25 basis points to a 3.75%-4% range, but multiple economists say the call could hinge on inflation progress toward 2% and how restrictive policy is deemed.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A federal judge granted David Streever a preliminary injunction blocking ICE from threatening to prosecute him over a January email criticizing ICE leadership for protected political speech that the judge said did not contain a physical threat of violence.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft will make its new Government Community Cloud productivity suite tier—plus companion agent-management product—available for federal buyers starting October 1, with capabilities rolling out as individual workloads clear required government security accreditation.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A large Bitcoin holder moved 1,604 BTC (about $122.1 million) between two unknown wallets at 12:20 UTC on Sep. 16, hours before the Federal Reserve’s 2 p.m. rate decision.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kalshi traders give Democrats a 54% chance to win the U.S. Senate this November and Polymarket gives them a 59% chance, suggesting modest Democratic improvement since mid-April.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNBC
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 3.2% after the U.S. Senate failed a procedural vote on the Clarity Act, with 49 votes in favor—11 short of the threshold needed to bring it to the main floor—leaving the bill shelved for the rest of the year.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple introduced Reference Image on iPhone 18 Pro, generating a cryptographically signed “digital negative” at the moment of capture so images can be verified for authenticity and metadata integrity (not retroactively).
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Computerworld
XRP was down about 9.4% (trading around $1.28) after the Senate failed a 49–50 cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, stripping XRP’s commodity status of federal legal protection for now.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
American Battery Technology’s revenue rose more than 400% year over year to $21.7 million and it posted its first-ever adjusted gross profit of $1.7 million, after erasing all long-term debt during the year.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 10-year Treasury yield fell below 5% ahead of the Fed’s Wednesday decision, with investors largely expecting a 25-basis-point rate hike after its two-day policy meeting.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A bipartisan bill would ban the use of federal surface transportation funds to purchase Flock automated license plate readers after lawmakers cited alleged law-enforcement abuse of Flock footage, including at least 100 instances over the past eight years.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
U.S. homebuilder sentiment fell to 32 in September (down from 35 in August), the lowest since September 2025, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market index.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by a quarter point to a 3.75%–4% range to curb stubborn inflation and return to its 2% price goal, with most officials forecasting one more rate increase this year.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. saw $450 million in outflows on Sept. 15, the biggest one-day redemption since June 25.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SK Hynix is reportedly in talks with Intel to manufacture RAM chips in the U.S., with options including leasing space at Intel’s planned Ohio factory or forming a joint venture that could involve cloud-service providers.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
US EV sales have stalled, with new electric vehicle sales in the US falling to their lowest level since 2022, even as respondents in the Here-SBD EV Index 2026 report charging-infrastructure ratings improving to 85% good or very good in 2026 from 72% last year.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNET
Over the last decade and a half, AI executives and AI founders—including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and others—have repeatedly called for regulation, starting from 2017 when Musk urged US governors to regulate AI “right away” and continuing through 2023 with Altman asking Congress for a new AI regulator and a Senate hearing in which Amodei warned AI could help create bioweapons.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) says it has confirmed the country’s first-ever personal data breach carried out by an autonomous AI agent, which used a known large language model to chain phases of an attack after scanning files and running vulnerability scans to gain read/write access to systems containing personal data and invoices.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Register
