'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
Uber abruptly wound down operations in Nigeria and Uganda on September 2, cutting off rides users said were still underway.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Register
Uber abruptly wound down operations in Nigeria and Uganda on September 2, cutting off rides users said were still underway.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
Ray Dalio says the U.S. “debt supply and demand problem” is nearing a point where debt will be harder to finance, warning that the next “Big Debt Cycle” could lead to another global financial crisis.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
China’s Commerce Ministry accused other G20 nations of “promoting protectionism” after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said 19 of the G20 members agreed to address an “unsustainable equilibrium” caused by a “stream of cheap exports.”
Sep 3, 2026 ·
CNBC
Google Gemini told a group of climbers Mt. Shasta would take an eight-hour trek, but they took 16 hours just to reach the summit and were later rescued after wandering off-route due to inadequate planning and a dead phone with AllTrails.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
The US 30-year Treasury yield has climbed back toward its highest level since 2007, with Japan’s rise in rates (10-year yields around 3% for the first time since 1996) increasing the risk that Japan could reduce demand for Treasurys and, via yen support, sell Treasurys to obtain dollars.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Children told Dame Rachel de Souza the UK's Online Safety Act has "made absolutely no difference" to their ability to avoid harmful content more than a year after key child duties took effect.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
Maersk is testing an Anemoi rotor-sail system on an 8,700 TEU Lima-class container ship, aiming to cut average net fuel and greenhouse-gas emissions by 9.1% and up to 21% on some voyages.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
PG&E plans to defer about $2 billion of its planned 2027 spending after California lawmakers failed to advance wildfire-liability reforms, cutting its 2027 capital investment plan from $13.4 billion to $11.4 billion and reducing its debt-financing needs by roughly $2 billion.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ArcelorMittal abandoned its planned takeover of the remaining 51% of its 2015 joint venture with CLN after Italy’s government used “golden power” to impose conditions requiring government approval for workforce/structural reductions and maintenance of existing operations for five years.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
UnitedHealthcare will remove prior authorization requirements for a broad range of services starting October 1 across commercial plans, Medicare Advantage, ACA plans and certain other coverage, including cardiology, genetic and laboratory testing, chiropractic care, therapy services, and orthopedic and musculoskeletal procedures.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Divorcing at 68 and electing COBRA after losing a spouse’s large-employer coverage does not pause Medicare’s 8-month Special Enrollment Period for Part B, so waiting until COBRA expires can forfeit the right to enroll.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gold was up 0.1% to $4,386.94 an ounce in early trading after Trump indicated Middle East military action would likely be short-lived, easing inflation jitters tied to energy prices.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A new multimillion-dollar ad campaign by Build American AI, funded by Leading the Future, is aiming to sway public opinion against opposition to building AI data centers in battleground states starting with Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
CNET
Trump secured new drug pricing agreements with nine pharmaceutical companies, expanding the administration’s total to 26 companies and requiring outpatient-drug discounts across all state Medicaid programs.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VMware plans to release an updated version of vSphere Standard (its low-end server virtualization bundle) after not significantly changing it since 2023, with major last releases being vSphere Standard 8 in 2022 and no new cut in 2025 alongside vSphere 9/VCF 9.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
A judge ruled Wednesday that Google will not be forced to sell its ad-technology business in the DOJ’s 2023 antitrust case, ordering instead changes to how it operates without specifying the exact adjustments in the publicly reported order.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos was the only AI model in Booz Allen’s tests to autonomously complete the full cyber kill chain end-to-end (CWI score 80), including full domain compromise with and without credentials.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Anthropic’s free checker at claude.com/check-content uploads an image/audio/video file and, if it finds embedded C2PA content credentials, confirms “This file shows signs it was processed by Claude.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·CNET
The Senate’s August spending bill includes a provision that would block the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from implementing rules giving political appointees full control over what science is funded and allowing them to cancel grants at any time, and the House passed a stopgap measure that delays that risk until the stopgap expires on December 11.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI’s Astra reasoning model is reported to use a technique called “recurrent depth” (also known as “opaque recurrence”), which loops over queries in a less linear way that could make a model’s chain of thought harder to monitor.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
