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Polymarket Puts October Fed “No Change” at 60% as Rate-Hike Bets Collapse in 24 Hours. A Polymarket contract asking whether the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged after its October meeting jumped to a 60% implied probability of “yes” as of September 30, 2026, a move of about 27 points in a single day.…
OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.
Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. Now, CoreWeave is bringing the next generation of NVIDIA infrastructure to production. At CoreWeave Fully Connected, running this week in San Francisco, CoreWeave announced…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the computers of AI company Hugging Face,…
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…
The arrest of a 24-year-old man in Amsterdam, which occurred a week before ShinyHunters hacked the FBI, marks a major turning point for law enforcement’s push to track down the group’s members. The post Alleged ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands appeared first on CyberScoop.
A decade ago, most merchants read payment data like a utility bill: check the total once a month, confirm it looks roughly right, move on. Payment performance now sits close enough to revenue that a merchant who can’t see why transactions fail is losing sales it never records. For background, see our recent coverage. Payment…
ShinyHunters says it never intended to publish the sensitive personal data it claims to have stolen from the FBI, but the group also admits it cannot guarantee that a smaller sample already shared with journalists will stay private. The statement, sent to CBC News on Monday, September 29, 2026, marks the latest twist in a…
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit shut down EvilTokens on September 22, 2026, ending a seven-month run that saw the AI-built phishing service compromise more than 12,000 Microsoft 365 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations worldwide. The takedown, backed by a federal court order out of the Eastern District of Virginia, seized 50 websites and disabled more than…
VS Code ships a native Test Explorer, but out of the box it only understands testing frameworks that already have an extension wired up. If your team runs a custom test runner, an internal DSL, or a framework the Marketplace hasn’t caught up to, the built-in Testing view stays empty. The fix is the Testing…
