In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet after defining “planets” as objects that (1) orbit a star, (2) are massive enough to become nearly round, and (3) have cleared the neighborhood around their orbit of similar-size objects.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
A 3D gun file repository operator says he created a workaround—“Hochulization”—that changes the hash used by printer gun-detection systems by adding bytes without changing the function of the printed gun parts.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
The U.S. Treasury will keep its regularly scheduled debt auctions, including for long-dated bonds, even as it increases 10- to 30-year buyback sizes that start on September 10.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
NHTSA is expanding a safety investigation into General Motors vehicles after receiving 227 incident reports (rising to 745 when including reports submitted to GM) alleging brake-by-wire eBoost failures can lead to an immediate loss of braking in at least 22 reported crashes.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
About 2.9 million Medicare Advantage policyholders could face forced disenrollment in 2026, with 1 in 10 members affected, and in Vermont 92% of policyholders are losing their plan.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple reportedly trained a proprietary large language model for China with Alibaba’s support, marking a shift from relying on third-party Chinese AI models.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bank of America expects the tariffs from the US-Canada trade talk collapse to have only a “modest” direct impact on Canadian growth, but it warns the larger risk is a confidence hit that could weigh more on investment (and possibly hiring) than the tariff losses.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
India will launch its first tokenized corporate bond in September, with state-owned power financier REC issuing about $57 million in bonds via a SEBI-backed pilot using central bank digital currency for purchases.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose to a two-month high after news the Treasury Department might conduct its own “quantitative easing” using its nearly $1 trillion general account.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Donald Trump invested between $15,001 and $50,000 in SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure signed August 12 and made public August 22.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
General Motors set up a purchasing facility worth up to $4.5 billion with Procura Auto Parts to prepay suppliers and keep components available during future supply-chain shocks.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
13 of the 128 online posts analyzed showed mummified remains with visible fungal colonization, suggesting improper storage and raising health concerns that may not be obvious to buyers.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A suspected Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a small-scale UK power plant for about four days, but the government said there was no risk to the wider UK energy system.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Oil prices and oil stocks fell Monday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will launch an "economic onslaught" against Iran’s financial connections globally, including through secondary sanctions.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
New York and DC have both seen major pushback that keeps commercial driverless robotaxi service illegal or tightly constrained, with DC proposing a 200-vehicle cap and a 15-cent-per-mile fee to fund Metro upgrades and support displaced workers, while New York’s six-month-old driverless expansion proposal remains stalled after taxi drivers, unions, and lawmakers opposed it.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Taiwan indicted nine people—including a Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees—over an alleged scheme to forge documents and illegally export 130 Supermicro B300 AI servers to China in violation of US export controls, with 74 reportedly delivered to Chinese customers.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The Social Security Administration lost nearly 8,000 employees after President Donald Trump returned to office, leaving it with its smallest workforce in decades even though it serves about 75 million beneficiaries.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump threatened to raise tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel to 50% from Jan. 1, 2027, after US-Canada trade talks collapsed.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs logged $1.92B in net inflows last week—the strongest weekly total in 10 months—after $606.3M in net inflows on August 20, their biggest single day in more than three months.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Zillow settled the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit, reversing an agreement that had shut down Redfin’s internet listing service (ILS) for apartment rentals and requiring Redfin to relaunch in the ILS market with “significantly more listings.”
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
