Major US Banks Are Detecting Unauthorized AI Agents Accessing Customer Accounts America’s largest banks are scrambling to defend themselves against a new and rapidly evolving security threat: artificial intelligence agents gaining access to customer accounts, sometimes behaving in ways that appear to go beyond what their human users originally authorized, according to Axios.  Major financial institutions including JPMorgan […]

Apple Deepens Push For Conflict-Free US Titanium For Foldable iPhone Apple’s move to ramp up US supply chains for critical materials and components will send a clear signal to other manufacturers seeking secure, conflict-free supplies of metals and rare earths. The move aligns with the Trump administration’s push to get Western manufacturers to break their dependence on China and limit Beijing’s ability to weaponize these supply […]

Saudi Aramco Evacuates HQ, All Staff Put On Remote Work Saudi oil giant Aramco has evacuated its headquarters in Dhahran after it recently came under a Houthi ballistic missile attack out of Yemen. Sources told the AFP and Reuters that the company told remaining staff to evacuate from its headquarters amid two weeks of intensified Houthi attacks across the region. via Saudi AramcoThe City of Dhahran is in the Eastern Province of […]

Nate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating Hoax Political polling guru Nate Silver unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after a polling operation admitted its surveys were largely fabricated. Silver, whose career has been built around interpreting polling data, was furious after Wedgewood Polling admitted that much of its operation had been an elaborate “social experiment” designed to […]

Sell The Bailout: Skydance Tumbles As Musk’s $1 Billion Check Reminds Everyone Paramount Needs One It took about ten minutes. Just after noon on Thursday, Semafor reported that Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance (SKYD), the newly renamed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery combo run by David Ellison. The stock did what stocks are supposed to do on a billionaire endorsement and spiked to $8.46, up 7.5% on the day. […]

Iran Deploys Artillery, Troops To Kurdish Border Areas Amid Renewed War Fears Kurdish and Middle East regional news sources are saying Iran’s military is building up artillery and personnel in the country’s northwest Kurdish regions bordering Iraq amid an intensifying crackdown on Kurdish opposition groups, and as Israel and the US threaten new attacks. In particular, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) is being targeted, amid […]

Virginia Governor Seeks 6-Year Rate-Freeze If Dominion-NextEra Merger Is Approved By Charles Paullin of UtilityDive Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D, has proposed a six-year rate freeze as part of a suite of conditions she says state regulators should impose if they approve a proposed merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy that could create the largest regulated electric utility in the world. Spanberger’s […]

Trump Calls On Data Center Developers To Pay Communities A Dividend Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has suggested that companies building data centers in the United States should offer local communities a dividend to make them more popular. “If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a ‘dividend,’” Trump said in a […]

“Gotten Too Old Not To Be Greedy”: Virginia State Sen. Arrested, Accused Of Masterminding $4.5 Million Criminal Drug Enterprise Virginia’s Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, 82, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and taken into federal custody on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, money laundering, honest-services fraud/bribery, and maintaining a drug-involved […]

US To Release Heating Oil Reserve In Northeast To Lower Prices Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it will offer a heating oil exchange in a bid to lower costs ahead of the winter as the war in Iran continues. In a statement released on Wednesday, the department announced a proposal request for an exchange of up to 315,000 barrels of ultra-low sulfur distillate, a refined […]

Meta Says Zuckerberg To Stay In California After Considering Relocation Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A possible new wealth tax in California prompted Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to consider leaving the state, according to a new regulatory filing. California voters will decide on Proposition 40 in November. It would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires. If approved, Zuckerberg would have to pay a […]

AI Discovers Critical Security Flaw Affecting Technology Behind 70% Of All Websites Artificial intelligence has uncovered a potentially catastrophic security flaw in one of the internet’s most widely used technologies, setting off a scramble among cybersecurity researchers, software developers, and website operators to prevent hackers from exploiting the discovery, according to the Wall Street Journal. The vulnerability affects […]

Trump Says Iran ‘Making Up Fake’ Attacks In Hormuz To Drive Up Price Of Oil Update(1145ET): Amid fresh reports of the US and Israel drawing up plans to attack Iran after the November midterm elections, President Trump has issued a new Truth Social post, saying Iran is doing everything possible to try and drive up oil prices – suggesting “fake hits” and daily reports of mine explosions – but while also touting the US naval escort […]

“Massive Concession”: LA Registrar Admits It Has No Way To Check Citizenship Of 20,000 Flagged Voters Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Los Angeles County election officials admitted in a federal court filing Tuesday that they have no independent way to verify voter citizenship beyond the voter’s own attestation. The intensifying case, which was initially assigned to a Trump-appointed judge, was transferred to a […]

New Migrant Caravan Heads North Through Mexico Hoping For Democratic Midterm Victory Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, A new migrant caravan consisting of hundreds of Central American migrants departed southern Mexico on Tuesday, with some hoping Democratic victories in November’s midterm elections could lead to changes in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. The group, calling itself […]

“Not To My Knowledge”: Ilhan Omar Can’t Quite Rule Out Marrying Her Brother In Wild Interview… And Trump Noticed As the investigation into whether Ilhan Omar married her brother to scam US immigration, the Minnesota Democrat just stepped in it, big time.  In her first interview since Homeland Security Investigations agents searched her Washington home last week, the Minnesota Democrat sat down with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, about […]

Watch: Paris Looters Boast About Stolen Haul Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Masked groups in Paris are openly bragging on social media about the designer goods and electronics they just looted, turning what began as student complaints about school conditions into a free-for-all that media outlets have had to repackage as a cost-of-living cry. The clip shows looters displaying their take while the official story has […]

“Everyone Has Blown Up”: London Macro Traders Carried-Out As French Carry Trade Implodes (Again) For the better part of three years, the hottest seat in London’s multi-manager world was a European rates book: lever up French OATs in repo, clip the carry, collect the seven-figure payout. This month, the French bond market sent the bill. According to a must-read report from eFinancialCareers’ Sarah Butcher, London’s macro hedge funds […]

FCC Chair Warns Broadcasters On Airing Fake Polls Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr warned on Oct. 21 that broadcasters could violate their federal license obligations by airing fabricated polls or polls designed to disrupt elections and manipulate voter behavior. Carr’s statement comes just before the Nov.3 midterm congressional elections. “During this […]

French Police Identify Antifa As The “Ideologically Distinct Group” Behind The Riots Despite Democratic Denials Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Years ago, I called Antifa the Keyser Söze of the left, after the character in “The Usual Suspects.” In the film, the character Virgil explains how Söze stayed in the shadows to be portrayed as a myth: “becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at […]

Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Santa Fe judge on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43.9 million violations of state consumer-protection law by making misleading statements about Facebook users’ data privacy and control. The case, filed in 2021, grew out of the […]

“Lost Its Mojo”: Wolfe Downgrades Netflix As Billions In Content Spending Fails To Deliver Hits Wolfe Research downgraded Netflix early Thursday, warning that “bears are winning the engagement debate” and that the subscription-based streaming service “has lost its mojo.” “Engagement failed to respond to rising investment, and last week’s content leadership changes convince us that solutions require patience & lower incremental […]

Jobless Claims Near 60-Year Lows Amid ‘Low-Hire, Low Fire, Low-Inspire’ Economy The number of American filing for unemployment benefits for the first time dropped (again) last week to 194k – basically in line with 60 year lows… Michigan saw the largest rise in initial claims last week while Ohio and Tennessee saw the biggest decline… Continuing Claims ticked up but remains very close to 3 year lows… The cleanest way […]

Futures Slide As Market Runs Out Of AI Patience, Oil Jumps On Saudi Attacks US futures are lower as the AI trade discovered that there is no right answer on capex: Meta spent more, Tesla spent less, and the market slammed both (after an initial kneejerk bounce), while a fresh wave of deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia, a US-ordered departure of diplomats from the kingdom and an NYT report that the US and Israel have drawn up plans for […]

Music Publishers Sue Anthropic For Copyright Infringement Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal district court in California is set to hear arguments this week as a group of music publishers sues Anthropic, alleging that the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is stealing their work. Led by Concord Music Group, the plaintiffs say that Anthropic trained its AI model, Claude, using copyrighted lyrics from their […]