Today: November 05, 2026
Today: November 05, 2026

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Finland court convicts Fitburg captain and crew member over Baltic sea cable damage

A Finnish court said on Thursday it has found the captain and a crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg guilty of damaging two subsea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of

Business|Economy|Technology

Micron pauses work on $4.5 billion Taiwan plant, Bloomberg News reports

Micron Technology has suspended plans for a $4.5 billion memory chip plant in Taiwan due to an extended labor dispute, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar

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China to keep anti-dumping, anti-subsidy tariffs on US n-Propanol imports for five more years

China's commerce ministry said it will keep imposing anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duties on n-Propanol (NPA) imports from the US for five years starting on Friday, two

Interview|Technology

Latin America's Catholic missionaries take to TikTok to reach younger generation

Catholic priests, nuns and deacons across Latin America are turning to social media to reach younger generations as church attendance and religious

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OpenAI kicks off charm offensive to change voters' view of data centers

Stunning victories by Democrats in US midterm elections this week have been interpreted by many as Americans repudiating tech industry plans to

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Binance hack prompted US regulators to check in on bank systems, sources say  

US regulators contacted banks to check whether their systems had any vulnerabilities after last week's $6.3 billion hack of Binance, alert

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Nippon Steel raises FY26 profit forecast by 52% on robust US Steel earnings

Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel on Thursday raised its net profit forecast for fiscal 2026 by 52% to 440 billion yen ($2.8 billion), citing stronger-

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Qualcomm slumps as weak smartphone chip sales overshadow data-center momentum

Qualcomm shares dropped about 9% in premarket trading on Thursday after smartphone chip sales missed Wall Street estimates, raising concerns that weakness in its core handset

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Sony profit jumps on 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'; Nintendo earnings slide

Sony on Thursday reported a 45% rise in second-quarter operating profit, beating market estimates, while Nintendo reported an earnings slide that missed market

Business|Education|Science|Technology

Community colleges rush to expand semiconductor training as labor shortage looms US chip industry

Community colleges in Arizona are offering a free, three-month semiconductor crash course that leads to interviews with major tech companies

Science|Technology

Russia may have rehearsed attack on satellite, specialist says, flagging another approach

A Russian military satellite that approached a Western commercial one last month could have been rehearsing an attack, a

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AI sharpens cat-and-mouse hacking battle as companies strengthen defences

From hacked supermarket fridges and a record cryptocurrency theft at Binance to an emergency over flaws in widely used web

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Microsoft will not expand Texas data center deal with UK's Nscale, source says

Microsoft will not exercise an option to more than double the size of its existing agreement with AI cloud provider Nscale to rent more

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Inflation, tariffs and a voter revolt: The midterm verdict on Trump's economy

President Donald Trump was publicly humbled by inflation in Tuesday’s midterm elections, as public anger over rising prices caused a blistering set of losses for Republicans

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OpenAI, ready to IPO in 2027, now counts majority of sales from enterprises, Brockman says

OpenAI President Greg Brockman said on Wednesday the company now generates the majority of its revenue from enterprise sales and he believes it

Business|Environment|Science|Technology

Australia approves seabed site where a Japanese company will store carbon pollution

The Australian government has designated a seabed storage site off its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide using a technology that has divided climate scientists

Science|Technology

NASA's 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale

NASA's Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected on

Political|Science|Technology

Pentagon chief tech officer says government will detail laws that apply to AI labs this month

The US federal government will lay out all the laws and regulations that apply to domestic AI labs later this month, Pentagon Chief Technology

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Japan services activity expands for fifth month, PMI shows

Japan's service sector expanded modestly in October as activity and new orders both rose slightly faster, a business survey showed on Thursday.

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Wall Street ends higher after Democrats win Congress; data center stocks tumble

Wall Street closed sharply higher on Wednesday as Democrats' sweeping midterm election victory eased political uncertainty and boosted risk

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Qualcomm shares slide as smartphone weakness clouds growth push

Qualcomm on Wednesday fell short of Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter smartphone chip sales on sluggish demand and declining Apple-related

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Goldman, Apollo seek buyers for $40 billion SpaceX AI chip deal, Bloomberg News reports

Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management are in talks with investors to sell portions of a roughly $40 billion financing deal for SpaceX's AI chips, Bloomberg News reported on

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Rheinmetall shares slide as investors question growth outlook after second guidance cut

Rheinmetall shares fell 13% on Thursday, the biggest decline in the STOXX 600, after the German defence group cut its outlook for a second time in three months,

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Chipmaker YMTC's IPO on hold as China tightens share sale approvals, sources say

Flash-memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has put its Shanghai IPO on hold, according to a company memo and three people with knowledge of the matter, as Beijing tightens