Overseas worker visa applications for UK tech fell 7% to 34,936 in 2025, down from 37,376 in 2024 and below the 53,729 peak in 2022, marking a third consecutive annual decline.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Register
Traders cut their odds of a Fed rate hike in September to 35% from 52% a week ago, while the dollar index edged 0.1% higher to 99.62 as Iran conflict risks kept sentiment fragile.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
China exported 4.65 million tons of refined fuel last month, up 6.7% from June but down 12.9% year over year.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google has reportedly told suppliers it will stop manufacturing Pixel phones, watches, and earbuds in China starting in 2027 and shift production to countries including Vietnam and India, starting with no Pixel manufacturing in China next year.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
A study of Theban Tomb 209 found 16 mummified people (1,444 bones) plus one mummified dog and disarticulated remains of at least four other individuals, showing that Egyptian burial practice shifted over centuries from individual coffin burials to reused sites with vertical superposition and declining coffin use.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Citadel Securities urged the SEC to reconsider its June proposal to scrap the 2005 “order protection rule,” arguing it could divert trading from public exchanges, harm retail investors, and reduce market liquidity.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 60 largest US data centers under construction by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are estimated to produce 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually when fully operational, about 7% of 2025 US power-sector emissions (equivalent to running 27 coal power plants or adding 24 million gas-powered cars).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
The U.S. imports 100% of its cesium, and Power Metals says its northeastern Ontario Case Lake project is targeting early 2027 production after advancing into permitting.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Android 17 QPR2 beta 3 adds a built-in app lock that requires passcode or biometrics to open selected apps and also disables notifications plus prevents widgets or shortcuts for those locked apps from appearing on the home screen.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Jeanie Buss says the Buss family cannot sell the Lakers stake without her consent and that any vote suggesting the family is selling would be void under a 2017 court order, with no sale of the JAB Trust’s 17.8% ownership interest able to be effectuated without approval by Jeanie, Janie, and Joey Buss.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNBC
In the 2025–2026 school year, only 92.4% of US kindergartners were vaccinated with the MMR shot, down from 92.5% last year, while nonmedical exemptions rose to 4% from 3.2%.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nearly 90% of the 5,000 most popular domains (87.2%) violate W3C/WHATWG HTML specs in at least one place, with only 12.8% having fully valid HTML and only 2.6% returning zero errors and zero best-practice warnings.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Register
Amazon’s updated Conditions of Use require disputes to be resolved by binding arbitration and bar new class-action lawsuits for customers who continued using the service after Aug. 14.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Egypt and Libya have moved into active discussions for a Libya–Egypt crude oil pipeline from Tobruk to Alexandria that is expected to be about 800 km long and cost over $1 billion, but key items like final capacity, financing, and an investment decision are not yet agreed.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Investigators say Apple’s latest spyware threat notifications generated a record high number of help requests—about 30% to 40% more than the nonprofit usually receives after prior notification waves—and the alerts went out to customers in 110 countries.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Dane County voted on April 16 to cut its $80,000 funding for Flock license-plate cameras and ban further spending, after which the county’s cameras went dark and stopped feeding data to 140 other law-enforcement agencies in the Flock network.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Supreme Court denied Verizon’s petition for a $47 million refund of an FCC fine, ending its request to have a lower court order the FCC to issue that refund.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
California’s Proposition 40 would take 5% of all assets owned by the state’s richest residents, with proceeds directed to healthcare, schools and food assistance if it passes in the Nov. 3 vote.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
XRP fell nearly 8% over the past 30 days and, despite a 113% volume jump in 24 hours to nearly $1 billion, still faces risk of dropping below $1 as selling pressure only eases there.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
September WTI crude (CLU26) closed up $2.10 (+2.55%) and September RBOB gasoline (RBU26) closed up $0.0860 (+2.70%) on Monday to 3-week highs.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
