France’s consumer regulator fined Boohoo.com UK $2.7m after finding it mislabelled synthetic products as “leather,” “faux leather,” and “suede” and failed to provide required textile and shoe composition information, alongside misleading discount promotions.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project to test whether an LLM can translate C programs comprising hundreds of thousands of lines into “safe, behaviourally correct and maintainable” Rust by first decomposing the code into smaller components.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
The U.S. dollar hovered near multi-month lows as traders reacted to the U.S. Treasury’s plan to double long-end bond buybacks to $4 billion per operation after 30-year yields hit almost two-decade highs.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to outline threatened sanctions on Iran at a press conference Monday, with oil futures down more than 1% ahead of the announcement and investors also watching risks around the Strait of Hormuz.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Iran’s rial fell to 2.02 million per U.S. dollar on informal markets, a record low as the U.S. prepared new sanctions and blockade pressure.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Xinuos’s claim against IBM and Red Hat is not valid and that the time to re-litigate has expired, meaning the case is effectively dead while Xinuos seeks a rare full-bench rehearing.
Aug 23, 2026 ·The Register
Nissan canceled its plan to establish Nissan Bank U.S. in Salt Lake City, citing cost reductions and long-term financial health.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Curaleaf began a takeover bid for Aurora Cannabis valuing the deal at about $260 million and offering Aurora shareholders $4 per share—0.3463 Curaleaf shares plus $0.75 cash per Aurora share (with a potential cap of $5 if Curaleaf stock rises above a set level).
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million (about $966 million) for serious GDPR infringements involving automated driver account deactivations without sufficient warning or human oversight.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The Trump administration doubled its Treasury long-dated bond liquidity-support buybacks from $2 billion to $4 billion per operation, pushing the 30-year yield down to 5.19% before it rose as high as 5.27% by Thursday.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Data-center demand tied to AI is driving electricity prices higher nationwide, prompting Democrats and Republicans to push back on hyperscalers building large campuses on local energy grids.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Connecticut streamer, Warren Pandiscia, filed a class action lawsuit alleging Twitch and Amazon used his Twitch streams and videos to train Amazon AI models without licensing or permission.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
40% of companies surveyed by resume builder in 2024 said they posted a fake job listing, and lawmakers in multiple states are now moving to ban or restrict “ghost jobs.”
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley argued the country needs a “compromise” between privacy and safety amid backlash over alleged misuse of Flock cameras, drones, and license plate recognition.
Aug 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s AI training was lawful under copyright law, while ordering only a $1.5 billion settlement based on Anthropic’s pirating from illegal online shadow libraries rather than on the training itself.
Aug 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
China’s manned space program said the Chang’e 7 mission “does not meet the conditions for launch” and therefore cannot be carried out during this year’s planned launch window, with the launch deferred to 2027.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
In March 2026, President Donald Trump made 175 financial transactions and bought at least $51 million in corporate and municipal bonds, with the purchases spanning municipal issuers and bonds tied to companies including Nvidia, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, Boeing, Constellation Energy and Occidental Petroleum.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Citigroup and Wells Fargo have room under the 10% national deposits cap to pursue a $100 billion-plus-asset regional bank, according to investment bankers, consultants and investors, and five regionals—Fifth Third, Huntington, Citizens, KeyCorp and Regions—fit the criteria; additional possible targets include Zions for Wells Fargo and First Horizon for Citigroup.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
CNBC
If Eileen’s husband dies before she does, the $2 million bloodline trust will pass to their daughter instead of giving Eileen his share, leaving her with nothing under the trust terms.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Krakatau’s 1883 eruption cooled non-tropical Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures by an average of 0.6°C (1.1°F) over the following months and years by injecting sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
