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Listen to this article in summarized format Brent crude rose 3.8% to around $105 a barrel after crossing $100 on Wednesday for the first time since July. The latest jump came as the Iran conflict escalated, increasing fears that a prolonged disruption could add to price pressures

Air traffic chaos and compensation: 'Shutdown cost us more than £1,000' - Published Catie and Phil Allen should have been enjoying their first holiday in two-and-a-half years. Instead, they are at home ringing round for refunds that won't be paid. The couple are among the many th

Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest publicly announced deal to date for credits generated from cutting methane emissions in rice farming. The four-year agreement will

Listen to this article in summarized format Citi said the FPI registration process, which earlier took anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, can now be fast-tracked to five business days through eFPI@Citi. The launch comes as international investors are increasingly evaluati

U.S. wholesale prices rose in August, according to a report Thursday that could play a key role in the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decision. The producer price index, a measure of final demand costs for goods and services, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4% for the

The News A few minutes before President Donald Trump got on stage in Dallas Wednesday night, Joe Allen was warning a hard-right crowd across town about immigration. “You look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants,” he said. “They’ve already broken out and

ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack. The company said in a website notice that hackers stole th

OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors Dozens of websites, apparently. OpenAI's autonomous AI agents have accessed more undisclosed

Kuwait is taking a page from Qatar’s playbook: When a vehicle is used to break the law, crush it. Authorities flattened 21 tankers and trucks seized in two cases involving the theft, transport, and resale of subsidized diesel. Some owners had knowingly leased their vehicles for t

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala has taken a stake in China’s Luckin Coffee as part of a $1 billion investment alongside private equity firm Centurium Capital. Mubadala has been one of the world’s most active sovereign wealth funds, a run that has continued despite the Ir

The issuance of this bond is likely at 7.85%-7.90% coupon, the bank said citing market expectations. This is part of its Rs 8500 crore capital-raising plan for the fiscal. The bank would be looking to raise Rs 4000 crore through tier 2 bonds in the future. On Wednesday, Indian go

The Scoop President Donald Trump’s top cryptocurrency adviser is warning senators that next week could be the last chance Congress gets to accomplish the crypto industry’s top legislative priority — at least, for a while. “I would say to everyone, Republican and Democrat: Get on

Corporate profits in the second quarter revealed a widening divide between Gulf economies six months into the Iran war. Listed companies in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi are growing quickly, benefiting from higher oil prices and their ability to keep energy exports flowing, while fi

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A healthcare stock has been on a bull run of late, defying weak stock market sentiment. Still, ICICI Securities believes it has more steam left. The brokerage firm has upgraded the stock to a 'buy' from an 'add' and raised the target price. The stock we are discussing is Nephroca

Media workflows get better wth LucidLink Cloud file streamer LucidLink is extending its media workflow capabilities and developer tools, while developing centralized managed service provider facilities. Peter Thompson, co-founder and CEO of LucidLink, said: “LucidLink is expandin

Commvault recovering Active Directory faster Commvault’s Active Directory Pre Recover reduces the time it takes to recover Active Directory (AD) from hours to minutes. Active Directory Pre Recover creates a clean, standby copy of AD in an isolated, air-gapped environment, using e

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Omni Pro's seat ventilation impressed us, though your mileage may vary. It's a nice upgrade to the original Omni, but the question of longevity remains. Pros - +Fan seat ventilation works surprisingly well - +Lightweight, comfortable - +Has five recline

This is the third consecutive day of over 0.3% fall in the local currency, as the rupee came under pressure due to rising crude oil prices, foreign equity outflows and continued dollar demand from local importers. "Given the steep rise in spot USD/INR over the past three sessions

Scality’s Maestro manages ARTESCA fleets Scality’s new Maestro product manages multiple installations of ARTESCA cloud object storage. ARTESCA is an S3-compatible, cloud-native version of Scality’s RING object storage. Maestro is a fleet management platform purpose-built for serv

Ahead of its Snapdragon Summit later this month, Qualcomm disclosed the Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPU for its next premium mobile Snapdragon platform. The NPU adds an Element Accelerator and larger shared memory, positioning it alongside the previously detailed Oryon CPU

WEKA partnering Backblaze for its B2 cloud storage WEKA, which supplies high-speed unstructured data access for AI and accelerated computing, has a deal with Backblaze to store data needed for re-use in its B2 cloud storage. The two companies say GPUs need extremely fast access t

AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platform — joining a growing roster of ecosystem partners. By connecting Raptor to NVIDIA NVLink scale-up and Spectrum-X scale

Gear up: The latest PC games and major updates are ready to play on GeForce NOW this week. WARDOGS drops onto the cloud at early-access launch, alongside the Valheim 1.0 Deep North update and Bus Simulator 27 — part of nine new titles joining the cloud. The newest PC releases can

Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — 'agent-first' Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time Technique has specifically been employed to progress an ‘agentic Linux’ distro called Omarchy. A Linux

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Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation to $3.7 billion, the company announced on Thursday. It announced the original Series C in June, which was $300 million at a $1.8 billion va

Snapchat announced on Thursday that it’s launching “Snapchat Plans,” a suite of features for creating, sharing, and managing real-world events with friends. The new event-planning features allow users to send and receive invitations and track details like the time, location, and

The pilot uses distributed ledger technology and connects the bond market with the RBI’s wholesale central bank digital currency, or e-rupee. For live updates on US Markets, click here Demat 2.0 is a new market infrastructure built to test a different way of handling corporate bo

Delhi High Court (HC) has restrained D2C brand Beco parent entity Kwick Living from continuing its “War on What’s Hidden” advertising campaign targeting HUL’s Surf Excel and Vim products. The ad in question compares Beco’s cleaning products with Surf Excel and Vim dishwash gel. T

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. The NFL is going Down Under. The San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams will face off tonight in Melbourne in the league's first regular-season game in Australia.

Nasdaq's venture capital arm is investing $100 million in Kraken parent Payward, partnering with the crypto firm to launch tokenized equities in 2027 and build a market infrastructure and surveillance technology to support them. The deal expands on a previously announced partners

Nasdaq's venture capital arm is investing $100 million in Kraken parent Payward, partnering with the crypto firm to launch tokenized equities in 2027 and build a market infrastructure and surveillance technology to support them. The deal expands on a previously announced partners

Hi friends 👋, Happy Thursday! We dropped a new notboring.com website this week, and this is our second essay of the week. Lock-in season. This one is a continuation of the series arguing that strategy is important and moats matter. It’s still popular for startups to say that the

On Thursday, the benchmark Sensex rose 138 points to close at 74,902. During the upmove, six stocks from the BSE 250 Small-cap Index touched fresh 52-week highs, marking their highest price levels in the past year. A 52-week high refers to the highest price at which a stock has t

The company has delivered 56 projects comprising 17 million square feet in the last three decades. "We have around 11 million sq ft of ongoing housing and commercial projects. The company has a strong launch pipeline of 45 million sq ft across three major cities -- Bengaluru, Hyd

Investors are increasingly piling into riskier small- and mid-cap mutual funds while moving away from index-linked large-cap funds, tempted by strong recent performance in the broader market. Large-cap funds have seen net outflows for two consecutive months. In August, the catego

In a regulatory filing, the company said it has achieved sales bookings of over 600 apartments, valuing more than Rs 600 crore in 60 hours in its project 'Vyana at The Reserve' in Vadgaon, Pune. The sales velocity reflects overwhelming customer confidence, it added. Kolte-Patil h

China's AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market Chinese AI accelerators see increased demand as export controls bite. Biren Technology, a leading supplier of AI accelerator

NSE IPO: Months after filing papers, and nearly a decade after its first attempt to enter the primary market, National Stock Exchange (NSE) initial public offering is all set to reach another milestone. The NSE IPO price band is expected to be announced soon this week, according

Piston, a cardless payments platform connecting commercial fleets with gas stations and convenience stores, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by FPV Ventures, with participation from existing investors Spark Capital and Pear VC. The round takes its total capi

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AI - SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS