Wholesale inflation jumped in September, keeping affordability in focus ahead of midterm elections
U.S. wholesale inflation jumped in September to its highest level in more than four years, marking the second higher-than-expected inflation reading this week and deepening concerns about the economy just weeks before the midterm elections. The producer…
Online ads used to deliver ‘clickless’ spyware, researchers say | Piracy
An Israeli advertising agency served millions of online ads allowing “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university said. Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto,…
Lisa Cook’s lawyer challenges impartiality of Trump panel examining Fed mortgage claims
Mike Lee calls Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s warnings about inflationary pressure from artificial intelligence “ridiculously stupid.” He claims that the Federal Reserve’s rate policy is driven by political motivations to protect the…
United States: What we have in Shkreli is just the tip of the iceberg
Martin Shkreli’s exile from the drug world may not have stuck, according to regulators who say he returned almost as soon as the court ordered him to leave the world. In a new filing, the Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from New York…
AI godfathers say models are so out of control they must be isolated for all our safety
Sign up to see the future, today Unmissable innovations at the cutting edge of science and technology Since ChatGPT blew up the tech industry, the so-called godfathers of AI have remained pretty dour about their creations – well, except for one of them –…
“Nightmare Scenario”: Zero-Click Spyware Infects Phones Via Targeted Ads
Citizen Lab researchers say Discover-Tech operates an advertising platform, Controlium, that can allow its users to “deanonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices” once an ad appears. Overall, researchers estimate that millions of devices…
The most powerful weight-loss drug yet is not yet approved, but its black market could already be turning deadly
An experimental drug called retatrutide is poised to become the most effective weight-loss drug ever seen. Unfortunately, some people appear to suffer serious and even fatal complications from taking copied versions of the as-yet-unapproved drug. The…
Bad news for investors in Micron and Sandisk stocks
Chinese competition is intensifying. *Stock prices used were prices on the afternoon of October 12, 2026. The video was published on October 14, 2026. Parkev Tatevosian, CFA has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool ranks and…
Social Security’s 2027 COLA is the largest since 2023. How it affects your payments.
Social Security and SSI benefits will increase 3.6% in 2027 for more than 72 million people, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Wednesday. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is the largest since 2023 and means that, on…