Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns
Driscoll's departure leaves another vacancy at the Pentagon just as the Iran operation intensifies, deepening a leadership gap at a critical moment.
Overnight Iran fired missiles and drones at US bases across Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain after a US strike killed four at a Sirik wedding party — Tehran calling it a war crime, Washington denying it targeted civilians — while Wall Street's real story kept building underneath: ADP payrolls badly missed, the 10-year climbed on the same energy-inflation fears, and Berkshire's Greg Abel flagged growing local pushback against the data-center buildout even as Broadcom and Chevron press deeper into the AI and Venezuela oil trades; watch today for whether the Gulf strikes stay contained to a fourth night, and how markets read a slowing labor market against a still-rising bond yield.
Driscoll's departure leaves another vacancy at the Pentagon just as the Iran operation intensifies, deepening a leadership gap at a critical moment.
Job creation held positive but August was the smallest gain since January, the clearest sign yet of a broader labor-market slowdown.
Lianyong Wei, 51, died August 23 at a hospital in the Northern Mariana Islands hours after being taken into ICE custody on assault charges; Beijing is now pressing Washington for an explanation of what happened.
Resistance to new data center construction is gaining steam nationwide, Berkshire's incoming CEO says, even as he calls Alphabet a significant AI player after Berkshire grew its stake.
Climate experts are warning that Kalshi and Polymarket users betting on heatwaves and daily temperatures are effectively 'gamifying disasters' as prediction markets, already saturated with sports and political bets, expand into wagers on the planet's future livability.
Iran accused the US of a war crime after a missile strike killed four people, including two children, at a wedding in Sirik, then launched missiles and drones at US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain overnight; most were intercepted, though a drone sparked a fire at a Kuwaiti residential complex. Centcom said its strikes followed IRGC attempts against US forces and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global oil and gas shipments pass.
At least 22 people, including up to 10 Jordanian nationals, died and 28 were injured when a bus crashed on the road between Dahab and Nuweiba in South Sinai; Egypt logged nearly 6,000 traffic deaths in 2025 alone.
A week after glacial-collapse floods tore through the Nepal-Tibet border, at least 1,200 are dead and over 4,200 missing in Nepal alone, with hundreds of foreign nationals still unaccounted for; nearly 12,000 people have been rescued so far, but crews are still working to reach workers believed trapped in hydropower tunnels.
Drivers from the UK, Netherlands and other countries filed a landmark compensation claim in Amsterdam alleging Uber's opaque AI pay-setting algorithm breaches data protection law and depresses earnings, with drivers describing the black-box system as watching and penalizing them in real time.
New research into polyploidy — organisms that duplicate their entire genome — shows the event is usually fatal to cell division but occasionally stabilizes into a huge evolutionary advantage, as seen in New Zealand mud snails carrying three or four chromosome sets instead of two. Scientists still don't know why the duplication happens so reliably across unrelated lineages.
The US Army used its AMP-HEL high-energy laser system to shoot down three drones near the Texas border in late August, an operational first for the AeroVironment-built Locust Laser Weapon System that began delivery in late 2025.
Resistance to new data center construction is gaining steam nationwide, Berkshire's incoming CEO says, even as he calls Alphabet a significant AI player after Berkshire grew its stake.
Chevron will invest $7 billion to double its Venezuela production, part of a broader White House push to ramp up output there after Trump's recent oil deal with Caracas.
CNBC's Investing Club previews Broadcom's earnings and explains the AI-chip dynamics behind Nvidia's continued run ahead of the report.
A federal judge declined the DOJ's push to force Google to sell off parts of its ad tech business, instead accepting milder behavioral remedies — including restrictions on self-preferencing auction tactics — to restore competition after ruling the company illegally monopolized the market.
LWN's editor posted a note that's got the front page talking — community rallying around the long-running Linux news outlet.
New research argues neural nets spontaneously develop symbolic, interpretable structure internally — not just statistical pattern-matching.
The C64 turns 44 — still the best-selling single computer model in history, and HN is nostalgic about it.
A developer's frustration with existing editors turns into a from-scratch build — the classic HN yak-shave, done well enough to spark a 200-comment thread.
Mistral quietly flipped its default to train on free/consumer chats, drawing the usual privacy backlash and enterprise-tier comparisons.
The Netherlands is shifting gold reserves out of North America as a declared 'crisis preparedness' move — HN reading it as a signal on dollar-system trust.
Google's newest fast/cheap Gemini tier lands, with the usual benchmark chart wars in the comments.
A content farm churned out hundreds of thousands of programmatic 'best software' pages purely to get cited by AI answer engines — and it's working.
A European lab claims its 438B model is now the continent's strongest, part of the ongoing push for non-US frontier alternatives.
The world's largest dark matter detector recorded one anomalous event that's got physicists debating whether it's signal or noise.
A security researcher ran AI-assisted audits against curl and found six real CVEs after major AI labs' own tools reportedly found zero.
A walk-back on earlier claims — the Pixel 11 does support ARM's Memory Tagging Extension, a meaningful security win for the GrapheneOS project.