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
Germany’s Bundeskartellamt said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency consent prompts favor Apple’s own apps over third-party apps by using wording, design, and selection options that could encourage consent for Apple while discouraging it for others.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Prediction markets put Paramount’s successful acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery at 74% by July 2027, with 22% odds the deal fails by that date.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNBC
North Carolina’s DMV plans to deploy mobile IDs in December via the NC Wallet app and expand support to Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, and Samsung Wallet early next year for drivers and state ID holders at no extra cost.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) signed a memorandum of understanding with ByteDance to set a shared framework intended to protect MPA members’ copyrighted intellectual property from infringement by ByteDance AI models, including those used on TikTok, TikTok UDS Joint Venture, CapCut, and Dreamina.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Protests and legal challenges are targeting DHS’s border wall and “virtual wall” security buildup, including ongoing construction efforts that activists say are harming protected desert ecosystems and cutting into Big Bend’s river corridor.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
CMS ended the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration on July 28, 2026, and the program cost the federal government $9.8 billion in 2025 and 2026, leaving millions potentially facing higher stand-alone Medicare drug plan premiums in 2027.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he is “not in favor” of Apple buying Chinese-made RAM from CXMT and Yangtze Memory Technologies for devices sold in the US, and the US also restricts trade by US firms with those companies so Apple must obtain a license to share product information with them.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Apple says a macOS Screen Sharing vulnerability can be exploited from the network to let attackers view a user’s screen, access files, and gain root access, and it has been seen in the Netherlands on multiple systems with crypto-mining software uploaded.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office ordered Apple to stop the design of iPhone and iPad data-consent prompts from steering users away from third-party app data use and toward Apple’s apps, and Apple has four months to change the design and wording.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Verge
Chevron increased its Venezuela oil production from 40,000 bpd to 250,000 bpd over the past few years, and expects its output there to rise 50% by end-2028 to 420,000 bpd.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. home builder sentiment rose to a National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market index of 35 in August from 34 in July, but it has stayed below 40 for a 16th straight month—its longest weak streak since 2012.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Skeleton 150—buried beneath Stirling Castle—shows the only known case of trebuchet trauma in the archaeological record, with injuries consistent with a crushing impact to the upper back/head at close to 300 km/h.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Austria fined Bitpanda the equivalent of $81,150 for MiCA breaches, the first enforcement fine under Europe’s MiCA framework.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI reported Q2 revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18% from the prior quarter, as investors reacted to slower-than-hoped growth while Meta’s social media addiction trial continues and semiconductors slid nearly 5% the prior day.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The UK government awarded Capita a £31 million contract to build and operate UKHSA’s Single Service Centre (SSC), with government estimates that a COVID-scale emergency would raise the centre’s total workload to £350 million.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Apps tracking you typically relies less on “secret listening” and more on building a detailed profile from device identifiers (e.g., ad tracking IDs) plus signals like your browsing entry point, network connections, and sensor data like location, camera, and microphone access.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
SpaceX flew Falcon 9 165 times last year and is expected to fly about 20 fewer missions this year, with commercial satellite customers reporting they can no longer reliably plan launches after 2028.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
