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In most cases, hotspot-driven volcanism is relatively sedate, with lava flowing down mountainsides slowly enough that people can walk out of its way. But in a number of locations—Mount Etna, Hawaii, Iceland—lava gets expelled in dramatic fountains that can reach several hundred m

Cracks are forming in the junk bond market as investors demand higher payouts for owning the market's riskiest debt. It isn't time to ditch high-yield bonds, but investors should pay attention to the warning signs. High-yield bonds now yield 8.1%, up from 7.22% a month ago. The i

By Fergal Smith TORONTO, - Canada's main stock index rose on Friday by the most in five weeks, led by gains for Aritzia and metal mining shares, as weaker-than-expected domestic jobs data reduced expectations for Bank of Canada interest rate hikes. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&

Telecommunications stocks sold off on Friday after Elon Musk's SpaceX announced an agreement to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio, aiming to expand its Starlink internet into mobile service. Verizon closed down 8.75% on the news, its worst day since July 2002. Shares of T-

Telecommunications stocks sold off on Friday after Elon Musk's SpaceX announced an agreement to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio, aiming to expand its Starlink internet into mobile service. Verizon closed down 8.75% on the news, its worst day since July 2002. Shares of T-

Early backer Peak XV Partners has sold 12.2 Lakh shares of coworking space provider Awfis in a bulk deal worth ₹29.8 Cr. According to NSE data, the VC giant, via its affiliate entity Peak XV Partners Investment V, offloaded the shares at ₹245 apiece to rake in the amount. The inv

Early release scheme prisoner jailed days after leaving - Published A man has been jailed for a number of shoplifting offences days after being freed under the government's early release scheme. Michael Bogle, 38, was released from HMP Wandsworth on 1 October as part of the first

The S&P 500 gained 46.35 points, or 0.60%, to end at 7,811.71 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 172.83 points, or 0.64%, to 27,365.00. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 429.90 points, or 0.84%, to 51,661.54. The three major indexes pared earlier gains after crude oil

(Bloomberg) -- Treasuries slipped at the end of the week as still-elevated energy costs stoked concern about inflation and backed expectations for further Federal Reserve interest-rate increases. The declines pushed yields across maturities closer to their recent peaks after stro

(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Isaias is lifting to US Gulf Coast crude prices, with nearly three-quarters of oil production in the region shut in. Producers halted about 1.46 million barrels a day of output, or 72% of the regional total, the Marine Minerals Administration said on Frid

By Pablo Sinha Oct 9 - Gold rose for a second straight session on Friday, touching a one-week high, as bargain buying emerged after bullion fell to two-month low earlier this week, while traders assessed the likelihood of further US Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. Spot gold

Anyone who has even tangentially associated with computer programming knows that modern AI coding assistants and agents can be incredibly efficient at generating huge amounts of functional code. But coders making use of those tools also know better than to trust the accuracy of t

AWS Compute Blog Reducing cross-AZ latency with the AWS Lambda metadata endpoint Customers use AWS Lambda to build applications that connect to stateful, latency-sensitive backends such as Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and other services tha

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police. The AI reportedly submitted this incorrect information to a public Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tip line on July 18, but Anthropic didn’t discover the behavior until September

Can the Fort Hood shooter's execution be livestreamed? The US Department of Defense says they plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood military base in 2009. It is believed it would be the first public exec

Outrage has erupted among health experts over news that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still eager to fund a widely condemned vaccine trial that would expose newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B, putting them at high risk of a lifelong infection, which can

Polanski vows to stay as Green leader as he faces criticism after by-election defeat - Published Zack Polanski has vowed to stay on as Green Party leader after his by-election defeat, as he faced pressure from within his own party to resign. The leader of the Jewish Greens, Vivie

The White House has tapped Katie Zacharia, a lawyer and conservative commentator who works for Trump Media & Technology Group, to be its next press secretary, a White House official confirmed to CNBC. Zacharia, a self-described "hardline Trump supporter," has been offered the rol

The “Post-Exam Runaway” Trend The next viral audio for post-stress exams. This sound is being used for leaving an exam the second it ends and skipping the post-exam debrief entirely. The audio says “runaway,” while creators film themselves walking straight past friends, leaving t

Elon Musk's automaker Tesla has changed the brand name of its "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," or FSD, system in Europe to "Assisted Driving" after German regulators called the branding "somewhat misleading." The package is still sold under the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) bra

Elon Musk's automaker Tesla has changed the brand name of its "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," or FSD, system in Europe to "Assisted Driving" after German regulators called the branding "somewhat misleading." The package is still sold under the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) bra

President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unusual legal step: He created a committee to help him decide whether to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Trump has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, and in 2025 ordered her to be fired. The Supreme Court blocked that effort on

The ability of U.S. families to stay current on their debts worsened over the past three years, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. In the central bank's Survey of Consumer Finances, researchers found th

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

The NBA wants access to prediction market data to regulate and detect for insider trading, Commissioner Adam Silver told CNBC on Friday. "Whether it's called a prediction market, whether it's sports betting, it's the same issues for our league and I think for all the leagues, the

“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on. Those were among

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Wall Street's rally Friday looks good enough to keep the S & P 500 and Nasdaq positive for the week. Tech st

Identity and access management startup OTPless has roped in former BharatPe executive Geetanshu Singla as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Singla has taken charge as the CTO of the startup nearly ten months after Anubhav Mathur stepped down from the role in January this ye

Battery storage is now cheaper than a type of natural gas power plant favored by many data center developers, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. On every continent and in each of the 43 markets that Wood Mackenzie surveyed, four-hour duration batteries were less expen

You’ve built the product. Now you need customers. But when you’re starting from zero, there may be no marketing budget, established brand, or sales team to help you find them. So how do you get the first 1,000 people to take a chance on what you’ve built? At TechCrunch Disrupt 20

PC shipments saw a steep drop of about 20 percent in Q3 2026, analysts reported this week. The industry saw its “sharpest decline since “Q1 2023,” Omdia said in an announcement toady. Global shipments of laptops, desktops, and workstations fell 21.2 percent year over year (YoY) t

Bears continued to build up positions against the semiconductor group on Friday, as a series of eyebrow-raising trades in Micron and Nvidia dominated the tape and called into question the move in chips. More than 180,000 puts traded in SMH by midday, compared to 50,000 calls, wit

JPMorgan Chase, the dominant player in the market, earned about $700 million from trading and handling gold, silver and other precious metals during the first six months of the year, according to people familiar quoted by Bloomberg. The bank’s best full-year performance in the bu

Last month we covered the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video: Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in China, whose video captured tiny cilia beating in the airways of a child with a rare respiratory disorder. But allegations surfaced about Xu’s use of AI while making the vid