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(Bloomberg) -- Corn futures soared by the most since June after the US Department of Agriculture delivered a bigger-than-anticipated reduction in yield as hot weather impacts America’s top crop. Futures climbed by as much as 4.6% in Chicago. Prices for corn surpassed gains in whe

Once-in-a-generation solar eclipse wows millions in UK and Europe - Published The UK and Europe have enjoyed their most dramatic solar eclipse for nearly 30 years, with millions thought to have witnessed the once-in-a-generation event. Those watching the astronomical phenomenon f

ICE plans to equip agents with gloves that can deliver electric shocks - Published US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may soon be equipped with gloves that can deliver electric shocks as they carry out their law enforcement duties. ICE plans to spend up to $20m

Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development. Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce ar

Fernandes the centre of attention - but what next for Man Utd captain? - Published Bruno Fernandes was the centre of attention in every sense on a historic night at Croke Park. One of the biggest cheers of the evening from a sell-out crowd for the first 'soccer' match between Eng

After years of standing in the sun, retail investors could have a dark cloud forming over their heads. Technological advancements helped level the playing field for Main Street and Wall Street investors over decades. Following the Covid trading boom and a banner performance in 20

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a show cause notice (SCN) to the key managerial personnel (KMP) of fintech major Paytm over alleged violations of disclosure norms. In a filing with the exchanges, the fintech giant said that the notice, dated August 11

Scottish Labour leader hopefuls warn against party divisions - Published Scottish Labour leadership contenders have warned about the dangers of internal feuds and briefings at their first party hustings in Glasgow. Monica Lennon, Joe Fagan and Michael Marra made their cases to su

Atletico agree £34m deal for Tottenham's Romero - Published Atletico Madrid have agreed a £34.2m (40m euros) fee to sign Cristian Romero from Tottenham. The 28-year-old is set to become Atletico's fourth signing of the summer, while Spurs will also retain a 15% sell-on clause as

Qualcomm details Snapdragon C specs for $300 laptops for the first time — claims 67% faster performance on battery than Intel N250, AC performance remains a mystery Devices coming from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo Qualcomm is getting into some of the nitty-gritty details of the Snapdra

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by quantum theory. The results appeared in a preprint posted to arXiv

Shares of Wendy's jumped more than 14% Wednesday after the Financial Times reported that Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management is preparing a takeover bid for the struggling burger chain. Trading of the stock, which is up about 4% this year as of Wednesday's close, was temporarily

The News The final week of the race to fill former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s, D-Calif., seat is being roiled by disputes over the role of the local Democratic Party and money. A supporter of Melissa Hernandez, a local transit official backed by the centrist New Democrats, filed a Fede

Saudi Arabia has surged oil exports through a pipeline that stretches across Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, as Riyadh looks for alternatives to the Red Sea since Iran's Houthi allies declared a maritime embargo of the kingdom. Oil exports from Egypt's Mediterranean port of Sidi

Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training. In an up

High above the Earth, a new generation of robots designed to keep satellites working longer is replacing its predecessor — quite literally. This week, a spacecraft built and operated by Northrop Grumman called a Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) unplugged from a communications sate

New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner - Published The son of beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner was lying in wait before killing the filmmaker and his wife, a new indictment alleges. Nick Reiner, 32, who is accused o

First 100% British chocolate bar made since 1932 - Published A chocolate bar has been made using entirely British ingredients for the first time in nearly a century, with cocoa from not Brazil or Bali, but Berkshire. Created at the University of Reading, it was named the Reading

(Bloomberg) -- A $42 billion auction of 10-year US Treasuries resulted in the highest yield for the benchmark securities since 2007, luring decent appetite from investors who’ve been demanding more compensation to finance the US government. The yield at Wednesday’s sale came in a

President Trump was sued by nonprofit news groups today over Truth Social’s “Truth API” that sells real-time access to posts from Trump and other top users of the social network. Trump is profiting from selling preferential access to government information, the lawsuit said. Trum

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The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used

More than 5.1 Lakh complaints were registered against ecommerce and quick commerce platforms on the National Consumer Helpline in 2025, the government informed the Parliament. This is a near 14% jump from 4.4 Lakh complaints registered against online marketplaces in 2024. In a wr

Artificial intelligence neocloud CoreWeave saw shares pop 19% on Wednesday after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers for AI compute capacity. The company, which rents out high-powered computing capacity needed to run and b

Lettuce prices cratered in July as the multistate cyclospora outbreak pushed diners to shun the leafy green. Prices for the vegetable tumbled 16.4% from June, the largest one-month decline on record, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor

Hundreds of US government drones have switched from border surveillance to a different surveillance mission this summer—looking for signs of screwworm infestations in wild animals and livestock herds. The flesh-eating New World Screwworm is the parasitic larva that emerges from e

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced today that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2026 solicitation 2. Applications are due on

GB's Evans wins European gold in 100m breaststroke - Published Great Britain's Angharad Evans won her first European Championship gold in the 100m breaststroke final in Paris. The 23-year-old comfortably finished first in a championship record time of one minute and 4.87 seconds,

Off the Wire Press Releases MILPITAS, Calif. and TOKYO, Aug. 12, 2026 — Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation, and Sandisk Corporation today unveiled their new 9th-generation, high-performance 2Tb QLC 3D flash memory technology designed to support the gr

Short sellers betting against SpaceX are rapidly retreating from the trade, just as the newly public stock rebounds from its post-IPO slump. Short interest in SpaceX fell to about 11% of the company's publicly traded shares Wednesday, down sharply from a peak of 34% last week, ac

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday as attacks on ships in the Middle East continued and talks to end the Iran war hit an impasse. However, the gains were limited after forecasters cut global oil demand projections for 2026. Brent futu

The U.S. budget deficit soared to its highest monthly level in more than five years amid a surge in Medicare costs and as interest on the federal debt continued to weigh on the nation's fiscal picture, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. In addition to the big single-mont