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Syracuse University in Upstate New York announced the establishment of its new Center for the Creator Economy earlier this week. It is the first academic center of its kind on a college campus to focus on the current creator-driven economic landscape. The center draws inspiration from new kinds of…

America's top banker sounds warning on US stock market fall Media caption, Watch: 'I'm more worried than others about stock market fall', says JP Morgan boss BySimon Jack, business editor, and Michael Sheils McNamee, business reporter Published 9 October 2025 There is a higher risk of a serious fall…

US regional banking stocks fell sharply on Thursday after two banks disclosed issues with bad and fraudulent loans, amplifying concerns on Wall Street around the state of credit markets. Zions Bancorp announced it had a $50m charge-off over two bad loans from its subsidiary, California Bank & Trust…

There are now almost daily attacks on critical infrastructure. In the same week that drones were spotted over several European airports, a cyberattack against security software used by many of those same hubs, including Berlin Airport, left passengers and personnel scrambling. At the same time,…

Name: Rawdogging marathons. Age: In its therapeutic sense, brand new. Appearance: It doesn’t look like much, to be fair. I don’t even know what it is. Originally, rawdogging was a slang term for having sex without a condom. They have marathons for that? Over the years, however, it has come to mean…

Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead. One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections were resistant to…

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December, asked a federal judge on Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count on he could be eligible for the death penalty. In a court filing, attorneys for Mangione said the death…

A "we're hiring" sign is displayed outside a Target store, after U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in July, in Encinitas, California, U.S. August 1, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Seasonal hiring in the retail industry is poised to fall to its lowest level since the 2009 recession, an…

The world’s biggest capital cities are now sweltering under 25% more extremely hot days each year than in the 1990s, an analysis has found. Without urgent action to protect millions of people from high temperatures, more and more will suffer in the dangerous conditions, analysts said. From…

Correction: After publishing, Red Hat confirmed that it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances, and not GitHub. Title and story updated. An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development…

A leading British tech investor has described soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies as “disconcerting”, amid concerns of an AI stock market bubble. James Anderson was an early backer of Tesla, Amazon and China’s Tencent and Alibaba, generating vast returns for Baillie Gifford’s…

This report is from this week's CNBC's The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what's driving the world's second-largest economy. You can subscribe here. The big story Immigration anxieties and a challenging job market have sparked an online backlash over China's…

We’ve long known about the Producer-Manager Dilemma (PMD)– the challenge of leading other professionals while continuing to generate and execute work. But the problem is truly exacerbated for experienced rainmakers because the burden of both of those roles is higher, including significant leadership…

Outbreak Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry Responders ask for $25 million to contain the disease. They have $2.2 million. Beth Mole – Sep 26, 2025 2:25 PM | 95 Health care workers must take extreme precautions when working with individuals infected by the…

New Covid strain named ‘Frankenstein’ expected to spike in France this autumn Vaccination campaign set to begin in October The Covid-19 vaccination campaign in October focuses on people most at risk of developing severe illness Published Sunday 21 September 2025 - 13:16   A new Covid-19 variant…

Humanity now faces the existential threat of a leviathan with three heads: a steadily worsening climate crisis, increasingly deadly pandemics, and an unprecedented weaponization of antiscience that renders us helpless in our collective efforts to address any of the great challenges we face. The…

On my first project shadow at Trail of Bits, I investigated a variety of popular Electron-based applications for code integrity checking bypasses. I discovered a way to backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and Chrome by tampering with executable content outside of their code integrity checks. Looking…

Workers apply labels to boxes of goods in Hagerstown, Maryland, on May 21, 2024. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images See all topics Email Link Copied! The US job market is stalling out. Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years,…

Ebola outbreak kills 15 in DR Congo 20 hours ago Farouk ChothiaBBC News AFP via Getty Images More than 2,000 people died in an Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo in 2018-20 At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health…

Dane Sherrets 3 min read·3 days ago Just got back from DEF CON 33. Like every year, during a talk or panel someone will say some version of “hackers are the future” or “the world needs hackers” (this year I most clearly remember it during Hacker Jeopardy). I always nod along … because I strongly…

Russia prides itself on being an energy superpower, but some of its citizens are suddenly struggling to fill their fuel tanks after weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes crippled refining capacity across the country. Petrol stations in several regions have run dry while prices have surged to record highs…

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot…

The CEO of the $100 billion fintech company, Vlad Tenev, is bringing his C-suite back into the office five days a week. Managers will have to commute just four days, and individual contributors will report three days a week to the office. While employees without direct reports have escaped stricter…

Prompt injection, where adversaries manipulate inputs to make large language models behave in unintended ways, has long posed a threat to AI systems since the earliest days of LLM deployment. While defenders have made progress securing models against text-based attacks, the shift to multimodal and…

Fri, Aug 1 20254:17 PM EDT Stocks close lower Stocks closed lower on Friday, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report worried investors that the economy is meaningfully slowing down. The S&P 500 slipped 1.6% to close 6,238.01, while the Nasdaq Composite pulled back 2.24% 20,650.13. The Dow Jones…

Gift a 404 Media subscription to a friend. A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month, 404 Media has…

More than a 100 million people in the US will face dangerous conditions over the weekend as a heat dome that has scorched much of the center of the country nudges eastward. Heat advisories were in place on Friday all across the north-eastern coast from Portland, Maine, to Wilmington, North Carolina,…

The emergence of a rightwing populist party in Japan’s upper house election on Sunday running on a Trump-style “Japanese First” slogan has raised concerns of a backlash against the growing foreign presence in the country. The party, Sanseito, has successfully tapped into unease around an expanding…

Donald Trump faced a fresh crisis on Wednesday as it was reported that his name appears in US justice department files about Jeffrey Epstein and the Congress subpoenaed testimony from the sex offender’s partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell. The US president’s spokesman denied an account in the Wall…

The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in central Bangkok has revealed a sex scandal that has rocked Thailand, with allegations of blackmail, lavish gifts and a string of dismissals raising questions about the money and power enjoyed by the country’s orange-robed clergy.…

Inflation accelerated in June as the impacts of Donald Trump’s tariffs slowly started to show in US prices. Business leaders have said for months that the high, volatile rates of Trump’s tariffs will force companies to raise consumer prices. Prices remained stable in the spring, particularly as many…

At least two people were killed Monday evening in New Jersey amid heavy rain and flooding in that state and New York, according to authorities. The pair died in the city of Plainfield when the car they were in was swept into Cedar Brook during flash flooding, local officials announced on Facebook.…

Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a lewd letter and sketch of a naked woman. Trump’s lawsuit on Friday, which also targets Dow Jones and News Corp, was filed in the…