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Are the U.S. and Iran negotiating? President Trump says talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are happening right now, but Tehran flatly denies it. The diplomatic confusion comes as another cargo ship is attacked, sending oil prices higher.

The international oil benchmark Brent crude rose again to 2.7% with traffic through the crucial waterway at a trickle compared to its peacetime flow.

NBC News - Aug 04, 2026 7:16am EDT

East Asia is baking in ‘cruelly hot’ summer

A deadly heat wave is setting temperature records in South Korea and complicating earthquake recovery efforts in Japan, where three lions have also died at a zoo.

NBC News - Aug 04, 2026 7:01am EDT

What is Trump Media's Truth API and why is it controversial?

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has set up a paid service to give Wall Street firms access to Truth Social's most influential accounts.

BBC News - Aug 04, 2026 7:01am EDT

Hackers steal more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin from Canada-based company

Toronto Star - Aug 04, 2026 6:38am EDT

SpaceX rocket set for Moon collision on August 5: How big will the impact be?

On Wednesday, the Moon is going to experience a collision as a drifting SpaceX rocket will smash itself to the lunar surface. The upper section of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to impact the...

International The News - Aug 04, 2026 6:33am EDT

What to watch for in Michigan’s blockbuster primary

The matchup between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens headlines the last big election night before November.

NBC News - Aug 04, 2026 6:02am EDT

Red flags: A tech company claims it can identify Australia’s most at-risk children

Ruby O’Rourke says every warning sign of her own abuse as a child had been missed. She spent 12 years building software so that won’t happen to the next child.

Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 04, 2026 5:44am EDT

Amazon Enters $3 Trillion Club as AI, Cloud Growth Power Rally

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 04, 2026 5:35am EDT

Dubai's favourite robot Bu Sunaidah has a wife now. Meet Moza, the internet's newest robot bride

Dubai's viral humanoid robot Bu Sunaidah has introduced robot Moza in a wedding-themed social media post that has attracted likes and shares across the UAE.

Gulf News - Aug 04, 2026 5:11am EDT

Apple restores Telegram after brief removal due to content violations

The messaging app Telegram has been restored to Apple's App Store after a brief removal due to content norm violations, the company said. 'Telegram...

Daily Sabah - Aug 04, 2026 4:59am EDT

Apple’s India Sales Top $10 Billion on Widening Retail Push

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 04, 2026 4:28am EDT

Smart vacuums swept up in U.S. ban on imports of Chinese robots

American consumers are set to lose access to the latest models as new Trump administration regulations shut out the Chinese companies that dominate smart vacuum sales.

NBC News - Aug 04, 2026 4:01am EDT

‘Deeply misled’: Nine says news bargaining plan could cost jobs

Nine chief executive Matt Stanton says a late change to how deals are counted undervalues the company’s journalism and puts newsroom jobs at risk.

Sydney Morning Herald - Aug 04, 2026 3:36am EDT

Tata’s Battery Unit Turns To Own Tech For Making Lithium Cells

Deccan Chronicle - Aug 04, 2026 3:30am EDT

WhatsApp accounts under review: Why users lost access for 24 hours

WhatsApp users worldwide report 24-hour account reviews and sudden feature blocks as the platform works to restore mistakenly flagged accounts.

Gulf News - Aug 04, 2026 2:17am EDT

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Whoever wins, we lose

Register UK - Aug 04, 2026 12:59am EDT

Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

BBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:51pm EDT

Jim Cramer says Wall Street's latest trading trend is creating buying opportunities

CNBC's Jim Cramer said stocks are increasingly moving as part of thematic trading baskets rather than on company-specific fundamentals.

CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 7:18pm EDT

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one?

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 7:08pm EDT

Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings picture

If you were to strip out Big Tech's investment gains from private AI companies, the earnings story is a lot less bullish.

CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 6:52pm EDT

Video Myspace owners plan to relaunch platform

ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 1:34pm EDT

Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in

APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 1:22pm EDT

Video OpenAI says its AI models launched their own hack against other company

ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 12:55pm EDT

Creator of test at the heart of rogue AI hacks warns ‘there have likely been more’

Dawn Song, who helped create the cybersecurity evaluation entangled in the recent OpenAI and Anthropic rogue-agent incidents, says the disclosed cases probably aren’t the only ones.

NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 12:40pm EDT