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Wall Street steadied itself after Alphabet and other technology stocks rose.The S&P 500 added 0.5% Wednesday and broke the two-day losing skid it’s been on since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1%.Google’s parent company was one of the strongest forces lifting the market after avoiding some of the worst-case scenarios in an antitrust case. Also helping to steady Wall Street was the bond market, where yields eased following a weaker-than-expected update on the U.S. job market. A day earlier, climbing yields worldwide raised the pressure on the stock…

There is “considerably more doubt” over when future interest rate cuts can take place, the governor of the Bank of England has said.Andrew Bailey told a committee of MPs that the risks around inflation had gone up and he was “more concerned” about weakness in the labour market. Bank staff projections expect the main consumer prices index measure of inflation to rise to 4% this year – double the 2% target rate – from its current level of 3.8%. Food prices are proving the main driver currently, with part of the increases blamed on government tax rises on employers.On the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and Mongolian President Ukhnagiin Khurelsukh (not seen) get together for a trilateral meeting in Beijing, China on September 2, 2025.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesRussia and China on Tuesday signed a legally binding deal to build the long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, deepening commercial ties in what is likely to be seen as a defiant signal to the West.Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, told Russian news agencies that a memorandum of understanding had been signed on the construction of the new…

Amazon is ending a program that let Prime members share free shipping benefits with people outside their household.Instead, Amazon is encouraging users who don’t live with the account holder to pay for their own Prime subscription, offering them a one-year subscription for $14.99.Amazon last raised its Prime membership fee in 2022, when it increased to $139 from $119. By ending the Prime sharing program, called Prime Invitee, the company is nudging users who don’t live with a Prime member to subscribe to their own Prime membership.”The Invitee program, which enabled sharing of the Prime shipping benefit only, is being phased…

New research from Osterman and Silverfort reveals that although nearly 70 percent of organizations believe their identity defenses are ‘mature’ there is a worrying gap between perception and reality. This comes against a rising tide of identity threats, 72.1 percent of identity leaders report that the threat level of identity-related attacks has increased or remained unchanged in the past year. The most significant jumps include AI-powered attacks, ransomware-based attacks, and social engineering of desk staff to reset credentials or MFA factors (up 14.3 percent). Nearly every organization surveyed (93.7 percent) is concerned about account takeover due to compromised credentials in…

Image Source: Designed by Freepik Android devices have become the preferred platform for online casino gaming worldwide. The flexibility and customization options of Android systems appeal to players who want control over their gaming experience. Modern Android smartphones offer processing power that rivals desktop computers for casino gaming performance. Google Play Store policies have shaped how casino apps operate and reach players effectively. Understanding Android-specific features helps you maximize your mobile casino gaming experience. Android App vs Browser Gaming Android users can choose between dedicated casino apps and mobile browser gaming. Native apps typically offer better performance and smoother gameplay…

Training with automated data pipeline Voyager builds on Tencent’s earlier HunyuanWorld 1.0, released in July. Voyager is also part of Tencent’s broader “Hunyuan” ecosystem, which includes the Hunyuan3D-2 model for text-to-3D generation and the previously covered HunyuanVideo for video synthesis. To train Voyager, researchers developed software that automatically analyzes existing videos to process camera movements and calculate depth for every frame—eliminating the need for humans to manually label thousands of hours of footage. The system processed over 100,000 video clips from both real-world recordings and the aforementioned Unreal Engine renders. A diagram of the Voyager world creation pipeline. Credit: Tencent The…

There hasn’t been any official word on Apple Vision Pro shipments and user adoption rates, but it seems its most popular customer is enterprises revolutionizing sales and training.Apple Vision Pro has plenty of customers in the enterprise marketThere are two defining characteristics that keep Apple Vision Pro from saturating the market — weight and price. However, neither of those metrics matters when it is being used for workplace simulations or redesigning a kitchen.According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple Vision Pro’s biggest customer is in the enterprise. It’s a bit of a surprise given several limitations we’ve…

NEW YORK — Federal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data under to a lawsuit settlement with doctors groups and other organizations who sued.The settlement was announced this week by the lead plaintiffs in the case, the Washington State Medical Association.Soon after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, federal health officials deleted or removed information on a range of topics including pregnancy risks, opioid-use disorder and the AIDS epidemic. The move was made in reaction to a Trump executive order that told agencies to stop using the term “gender” in federal policies and documents.The administration saw it as…

The European Union has banned a key ingredient in gel nail polish, raising concerns that products used in salons in the UK and elsewhere may not be safe.From 1 September 2025, Norway, Switzerland, and all 27 EU member states have prohibited the use and sale of the chemical trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide, or TPO. This means that any leftover nail products containing TPO can no longer be used in salons in those countries.Under a post-Brexit framework, the UK is considering imposing a similar ban in late-2026 – but until then, TPO products are still allowed.What is TPO and why are scientists…