Bernie Sanders argues for a 32-hour work week in the U.S. with no loss in pay, while Stihl’s chairman Nikolas Stihl advocates increasing Germany’s working hours to 40 per week without pay compensation.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
UK Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary Mark Ferguson says Fujitsu’s voluntary bidding moratorium applies to call-off contracts arising via its place on GCA frameworks, so inclusion on DOS7 and other frameworks does not override Fujitsu’s commitment not to seek work with new public sector customers.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that unrestrained development of self-improving AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade and calling it “gambling with our lives.”
Sep 9, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Strike 3 Holdings says a Meta Reality Labs executive’s home internet connection was associated with nearly 20,000 BitTorrent torrented adult-film files, and it seeks to fold that into a lawsuit with potential statutory damages of about $446 million.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CIMA backed a UK Government consultation to overhaul the corporate reporting framework, aiming to deliver a more succinct, cohesive and decision-relevant set of disclosures as current rules haven’t been substantially revised in several years.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NOAA Fisheries proposals would fast-track expansion of new commercial fishing operations in the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea, Rose Atoll, and Pacific Remote Islands national monuments that together cover more than 1.1 million square miles.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy tied to a crypto heist in which his crew stole more than $245M from a victim and “hundreds of millions of dollars” overall.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Block filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish “Builders Bank & Trust,” a national trust bank that would provide custody and other fiduciary services for Bitcoin and stablecoins.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers asked the Commerce Department to add BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (Appin) to the sanctions “entity list,” which would bar U.S. businesses from transacting with them and limit access to key technology like software licenses and cloud infrastructure.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A U.K. think tank, Verdant, estimates planned U.K. data centers will create about 10,400 permanent operational jobs by 2035—roughly one quarter of the 40,200 jobs forecast by techUK.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tencent patched a zero-click WeChat VoIP memory-corruption vulnerability researchers used to build WeWorm, a worm that can take full control of a friend’s WeChat account within seconds without the recipient answering the call.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
A 25-basis-point Fed hike on Sept. 16 would likely cause an initial 1%-5% short-term decline in Bitcoin, with deeper losses possible if forward guidance signals further tightening.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
In OECD PISA data from 2025 (15-year-olds across 91 countries, 760,000+ students), students who never use AI generally outperformed students who use AI in science after adjusting for socioeconomic status, with the performance gap varying by task type and study frequency.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Verge
A security researcher says Manchester Airports Group (MAG) exposed overprivileged Iterable API keys in client-side JavaScript for about four years—first appearing in June–July 2022 and remaining accessible until August 2026—potentially enabling access to 8.8M customers’ data and even deletion or rewriting of records.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Stocks are near record highs while volatility is near 2026 lows, with the Cboe Volatility Index around 15 (below its long-term median of 17.6), leaving markets seemingly exposed if a shock hits in the two months before the Nov. 3 U.S. midterms.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Social Security’s trust fund is projected to run out in 2032, at which point benefits would need to be cut by 22% to keep the program solvent.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AI notetaker lawsuits allege vendors recorded meeting communications without consent and used data in ways that may violate wiretapping and biometric privacy laws—including claims under California’s two-party consent and the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Elon Musk said “Humanity is dying out” after noting that people aged 65 and older now outnumber children aged 5 and under worldwide for the first time in recorded history.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
USD/JPY fell to a seven-month low as markets priced in a high probability of a 25-basis-point Bank of Japan rate hike and looked ahead to U.S. inflation data and the Fed’s Sept. 15–16 meeting.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Humain, a Saudi AI company backed by the $900 billion Public Investment Fund, has begun preparations for an IPO with a target listing in both Saudi Arabia and New York by 2029 after PIF signaled portfolio companies should reduce their draw on sovereign capital.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
