A July 2026 CREA analysis found 18 shipments of fuel made from Russian crude entered EU ports — more than double June's 8 shipments — despite a January 2026 ban on such imports, with Spain and Cyprus each re...
On August 10, 2026, São Paulo Civil Police indicted Goldman Sachs employees Felipe Guerra Acosta and Natan Lima Reinig for fraud (estelionato) and fraudulent administration of a joint stock company, alleging...
Russia's federal budget deficit reached 2.8% of GDP (6.5 trillion rubles, $79 billion) in the first seven months of 2026, far exceeding the official full year target of 1.6% of GDP, due to war spending that...
On August 11, 2026, the euro weakened to 1.1542 against the dollar as stalled US Iran negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz drove a 5% spike in Brent crude oil above $87 a barrel, rekindling inflation fears...
On August 11, 2026, Databricks acquired ElectricSQL (the startup behind PGlite) to embed a full Postgres database inside AI agent sandboxes.
On the night of August 11–12, 2026, a massive Ukrainian drone attack triggered widespread power outages across occupied Crimea, part of the sustained 'Crimean Switch Off' campaign that has struck over 164 en...
Foreign investors sold a net $25.48 billion in Asian equities in July 2026, marking the ninth consecutive month of net outflows, driven by AI spending and semiconductor valuation concerns [2][8].
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT ads to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea between June and August 2026, with ads shown only to Free and Go plan users.
## The Tihamah Attack and the Broader U.S.-Iran Maritime Crisis
On August 10, 2026, Mozilla disclosed that an unencrypted copy of a GPG private signing subkey for Firefox and Thunderbird Linux artifacts was accidentally committed to a private GitHub repository.
TU Dortmund physicists demonstrated that multiple continuous time crystals inside an InGaAs semiconductor can synchronize their oscillations over distances up to 40 µm—more than 1,000 times the size of a sin...
DeepSeek V4 Flash, at just $0.14 per million input tokens, is 105 times cheaper to run on benchmarks than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, driving a 67% share of OpenCode usage and fueling a global AI price war.