General News

October 25, 2026 @ 1:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A severe security flaw has emerged in PHP, the programming language that underpins roughly 70 percent of websites with a detectable server-side component. Two related vulnerabilities, each assigned a critical severity rating of 9.2 out of 10, allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution… Read More

October 24, 2026 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing from Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has laid bare a months-long, often tense negotiation between Mark Zuckerberg and a special committee of the company’s independent directors over how to raise equity capital for an enormous artificial intelligence… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European financial supervisors have reached out to Google following a significant cloud computing disruption earlier this week that temporarily disabled online services at multiple major banks. The outage, which occurred on Tuesday and persisted for several hours, stemmed from a power-related incident at a third-party… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 4:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States closed fiscal year 2026 with interest payments on the national debt climbing at a pace that outstripped growth in overall spending, tax collections, and the broader economy. Treasury Department figures show net interest outlays rose 8 percent to $1.05 trillion, up from… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 5:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

High earnings do not automatically translate into financial breathing room. According to Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s 2026 Retirement Survey and Insights Report, 36.6 percent of respondents with household incomes above $500,000 describe their situation as living primarily paycheck to paycheck. In the survey’s framing, that… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Asian semiconductor stocks tumbled early this week, triggering roughly $800 million in leveraged crypto liquidations, with perpetual futures on SanDisk recording more forced closures than those on XRP. The selloff, concentrated in South Korean names, illustrated how crypto venues have become venues for leveraged bets… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has expanded sharply, with daily turnover rising 3.6 times since 2023 to account for nearly one-fifth of trading on the stock exchange’s Main Board, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Chief Executive Julia Leung said. The growth reflects efforts to… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Europol has warned that advances in quantum computing could eventually place crypto-assets at risk, and it is urging the industry, policymakers and technical operators to start preparing well before any such capability exists.On 7 October 2026 the EU law-enforcement agency released two studies examining how… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) market continues to operate at a choppy pace. According to data from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA)/CCLEAR, September saw 48 new securities offerings, a 15.8% decline from August and a 40.7% decline versus the same month the prior year. Closed deals… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Michael Wong  |  

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering a commitment of up to €25 million to a new private equity fund targeting lower mid-market companies in Turkey, as the country’s private equity industry seeks to recover from a prolonged downturn in investment. The proposed investment in… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A couple in the West Midlands has described a violent home invasion in which masked intruders beat the husband and threatened to kill his pregnant wife and their unborn child unless cryptocurrency was handed over. The attack took place on the afternoon of 13 December… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Friday’s September employment report is expected to show that US hiring cooled after August’s unexpectedly strong gain, even as the labor market remains broadly intact. Economists surveyed ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics release look for roughly 90,000 nonfarm payroll jobs to have been… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Risk assets started the week on weaker footing after President Donald Trump declined to close off the chance of further US military action against Iran before November’s midterm elections. Speaking Sunday, he said he expected the conflict to be won “very soon” and that oil… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has highlighted an unusual split inside the U.S. stock market that, in the bank’s view, looks uncomfortably close to the late-1990s technology boom. A record share of S&P 500 companies now display negative beta, meaning they have recently tended to fall when… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

John Aland, an accounting professor at the University of Notre Dame, is currently conducting research on crowdfunding offerings and investor decisions. Aland, a contributor at Kingscrowd, is partnering with the firm to promote the effort to better understand investors who are considering or have participated… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, has begun working at the nonprofit grant platform Manifund. Co-founder Austin Chen made the news public on September 11, 2026, explaining that Ellison will help improve the organization’s funding tools and study better ways to steer philanthropic… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York financial regulators have spelled out how banks, insurers, and other supervised firms should measure cyber risk so those findings actually shape day-to-day security programs. On September 10, 2026, Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

There has been much discussion about California’s shortcomings and the rise of the Sunshine State. While California has incredible natural beauty, it falls short in governance, infrastructure, and tax burdens. Florida, by contrast, has a balanced budget, no income taxes, and is expected to soon… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal investigators are examining reports that scans of millions of American identity documents may have been exposed through a company that verifies IDs for businesses, Bloomberg News reported after a bureau spokesperson confirmed the inquiry. The warning arrived as an underground service calling itself Nexus… Read More