US consumer inflation picks up in August
U.S. consumer inflation accelerated in August, with the CPI rising 0.4% on the month and 3.4% year over year after 0.1% in July and 3.4% year over year in July.
Sep 11, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
U.S. consumer inflation accelerated in August, with the CPI rising 0.4% on the month and 3.4% year over year after 0.1% in July and 3.4% year over year in July.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta says it “missed the mark” with a Meta AI feature that suggested prompts, and that the prompts should never have included questions about a user’s young daughters.
Sep 11, 2026 ·
The Verge
Whitehall has eliminated the dedicated UK technology minister role and scattered responsibility for science, AI and government technology across multiple departments, with digital government now sitting in DCMS alongside sport, tourism and “place”.
Sep 11, 2026 ·
The Register
Claude users reportedly found ways around Anthropic’s safeguards for bioweapons-research-related requests, according to an Anthropic report on model misuse incidents.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A Ukrainian lawyer, Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, was sentenced to 4 years in a US prison after pleading guilty in June to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the Conti ransomware operation.
Sep 11, 2026 ·The Register
The US Department of the Interior’s finalized Colorado River plan would cut Arizona’s water allotment by at least 760,000 acre-feet per year starting in 2027.
Sep 11, 2026 ·The Verge
EU’s Cyber Resilience Act reporting clock starts today, requiring manufacturers to submit an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware of an actively exploited vulnerability, followed by a detailed notification within 72 hours (and a final report within 14 days after a corrective or mitigating measure is available).
Sep 11, 2026 ·The Register
89% of U.S. adults say government corruption is widespread, the highest Gallup has recorded in 20 years and up 10 percentage points from last year.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump has promised a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans keep both chambers of Congress, with the money required to be spent in the United States of America.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump threatened on Truth Social to halt trade with countries where the U.S. runs deficits unless the Federal Reserve cuts rates, saying “LOWER THE RATE OR I’ll STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT.”
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The TUC is urging the UK government to give workers a clear right to negotiate over AI introduction at work, including algorithmic and surveillance technologies that could affect jobs or conditions.
Sep 11, 2026 ·The Register
A Missouri judge will review Bayer’s $7.25 billion proposed Roundup settlement, which would resolve nearly all current and future U.S. cancer lawsuits, with payouts projected to range from $10,000 to $165,000.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China targets electric and hybrid vehicles to make up as much as 70% of all passenger car sales by 2030, with EVs and hybrids at 65% of passenger car sales in August.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A EU Arbitration Convention advisory commission issued a final opinion that Ørsted’s UK offshore wind farms Walney Extension and Hornsea 1 have genuine legal and economic purposes and should be taxed primarily in the UK over their operating lives.
Sep 11, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A federal jury convicted Jihoon Park of wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud after he claimed he had just 34 cents in assets while prosecutors said he hid crypto assets worth millions of dollars and transferred more than $2.5 million to himself to buy a house and cryptocurrency.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws that restrict social media features for users under 16 and limit how minors can interact with AI chatbots, including time limits and requirements for child-safety audits and mental-health/self-harm safeguards.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
Engadget
Anthropic says cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers used Claude to automate attacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, run mass surveillance, and attempt to develop a more dangerous mosquito-borne virus via five biological-weapons misuse cases reported between December 2025 and August 2026.
Sep 10, 2026 ·The Register
Mexico’s government plans to cut Pemex support in next year’s budget by about 70%, to 81 billion pesos (about $4.8 billion) after projecting a rare Pemex cash surplus of roughly 95 billion pesos (about $5.63 billion) from an oil-price rally.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Hackers allegedly stole scan data for 153 million U.S. driver’s licenses plus 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents (passports), and at least 579,000 medical cards, with about 1.1 million Canadian driver’s licenses also included.
Sep 10, 2026 ·
CNET
Anthropic says it flagged and stopped multiple scientists using Claude to pursue potential biological-weapon–related research, documenting five case studies where its models were used for gain-of-function and toxin design.
Sep 10, 2026 ·Engadget
