China's "Dogfighting" Satellites Come Into Focus As US Confirms Space Weapons

Rate-Hike Odds Slide As US Consumer Price Inflation Prints Slowest Since Pre-War July's ongoing decline in oil prices (before the late July/early August rebound) should support lower prices in today's CPI print (with portfolio management impacts expected to be a bigger upside deal for PCE as stocks soared) but expectations were for an uneventful 0.1% MoM rise in the headline print. And the print was perfectly in line, rising 0.,1% MoM and 3.4% YoY (down from +3.5% in June) - the lowest since March... With Goods inflation flat at 0.8% YoY and...

Bluetooth Glitch Exposes Alibaba's Secret Tracking Of Users, Developer Says A San Francisco-based developer discovered that Alibaba Group's AliExpress marketplace secretly hijacked his computer's audio system through hidden browser scripts, allowing the website to run inaudible sound waves at zero volume to create "fingerprints" used to track devices without relying on cookies.  The privacy-focused Brave browser revealed in a series of X posts that the AliExpress marketplace was keeping the developer's computer audio system active through hidden browser scripts, potentially allowing the website to generate a unique identifier for his device. The...

Bye-Bye Bibi? Israeli Opposition Leaders Join Forces In 'Together' Alliance To Topple Netanyahu Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid unveiled Monday that they are merging their parties into a joint ticket dubbed "Together - Led by Bennett" - as a major challenge to current leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections. During a press conference Bennett said the alliance with Lapid is the "most Zionist and patriotic act we have ever done, for the sake of our country" - adding that the "era of division is over." Netanyahu...