A UN Environment Programme report says global temperatures are set to rise more than 1.5°C, and lays out strategies to limit how long temperatures stay above that Paris Agreement threshold rather than keeping them below it.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Engadget
A Bloomberg gauge of global government bond yields hit 3.72%, its highest since mid-2008, as Japan, the US, and Europe sold off in synchrony.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The FCC plans to create robocall mitigation scorecards that could rate domestic wireless, wireline, and VoIP providers on how effectively they block illegal spam calls, using both call-blocking metrics and measurable outcomes like how often illegal robocalls still reach consumers—rather than only administrative “checklist” factors.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
NASA is pursuing a simpler “Sortie Suit” variant of its planned lunar spacesuit, developed with Axiom Space under Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons, to speed Artemis landings and reduce suit mass, complexity, and interface complexity with lunar landers.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A $500,000 traditional pre-tax 401(k) balance is taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn (up to a 37% federal bracket plus any state taxes), so it can be worth far less than a $500,000 house equity amount in divorce comparisons.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Eni signed a 25-year contract with PDVSA to become the exclusive operator of Venezuela’s Junín-5 heavy-oil field in the Orinoco Belt, with 35 billion barrels of certified oil in place that currently produces 12,000 bpd.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The article says there are about 3,400 AI data center sites already operational in the US and another 2,000 planned, driven by demands for electricity, clean water for cooling, and land, alongside growing local opposition.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
CNET
Protect Democracy sued four federal agencies seeking an order by September 30 requiring release of the unclassified text, participation terms, participant identities, and criteria in the Trump administration’s secret voluntary framework for pre-release safety testing of frontier AI models.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Circle President Heath Tarbert told the House Financial Services Committee that U.S. financial influence could erode if stablecoin and blockchain-based settlement infrastructure is governed outside the country, and urged Congress to fully implement the GENIUS Act by January 2027.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs strategist Peter Oppenheimer expects S&P 500 (and other global equity markets) to deliver mid- to high-single-digit percentage returns over the next 12 months, lower than the past year’s gains.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Trump administration filed a 20-page brief arguing there is a strong national interest in allowing OpenAI to continue training its large language models on copyrighted material without permission to help the U.S. retain global AI leadership.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google agreed to buy 396 MW of electricity from Fervo’s Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah, with an option to buy an additional 600 MW through June 2030.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple’s reluctance to return processor manufacturing business to Intel stems from a “lack of trust,” including Intel’s pace vs. Apple Silicon and Intel’s reluctance to build manufacturing capacity until it has supply contracts.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Computerworld
A US court ruled Google will not have to sell its ad exchange after the company lost a DOJ antitrust case about advertising technology.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Senator Maggie Hassan asked Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank for documents and details on the bank’s internal anti-money laundering review that led to closing accounts linked to Donald Trump and his businesses in 2021, including the transactions, alerts, and other factors that triggered the review and any communications with law enforcement or regulators.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI’s argument that training AI large language models on copyrighted New York Times text is fair use, warning that a ruling narrowing fair-use doctrine would “severely hamper” “the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Verge
A federal judge ruled Google will not be forced to break up its “network” ads business, and will instead face unspecified behavioral changes after finding it violated U.S. antitrust laws last April.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
More than 153 million scans of U.S. and Canadian drivers’ licenses have been offered for sale on the dark web via a service called Nexus, alongside other documents including medical cards, employment records and residence cards.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Engadget
A US judge rejected the DOJ’s request to break up Google’s ad tech business, instead ordering milder behavioral remedies after finding Google illegally tied its Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP) ad server to its AdX ad exchange in a way that made it nearly impossible for customers to leave.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
Abbott’s Libre Duo CGM was authorized by the FDA to measure both glucose and beta-hydroxybutyrate (ketones) for up to 10 days, acting like a “check engine light” with out-of-range alerts to help detect diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
