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- Current price of oil as of September 23, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
- Cambodia claims it has ‘completely dismantled all large-scale scam compounds in the kingdom’ without presenting evidence that it did
Experts say many compounds have closed, but the criminal networks behind them have largely escaped investigation and punishment.
- Dolly Parton’s estate accuses nephew of threatening to destroy her legacy
The country icon’s estate is seeking a restraining order against Bryan Seaver, who was also Parton's former security chief.
- ‘It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down”: Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence
"Do we really want to develop a super ntelligence that ... could act independently of human control? I don’t think we do.”
- Lufthansa chair: After the hottest August on record, business needs to pursue climate pragmatism not purity
Business leaders must integrate sustainability across core functions to maintain performance, build resilience, and address an accelerating climate crisis.
Technology
- After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai
Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles.
- America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.
Decades of cheaper imports left US dependent on China for crucial rare earth processing.
- The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had…
- Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse.
- A new report from Europe raises serious alarms about orbital collisions
"I think we are going to lose the ability to use certain orbits."
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