Saudi Arabia shut down its vital East-West oil pipeline. Iran-backed Houthi fighters seized the strategic island of Perim. Oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel. These events didn’t unfold in isolation. They collided on Sept. 12, 2026, exposing the fragile state of Middle East energy flows. The kingdom’s main alternative route for crude now sits

Eighty percent of teachers across Europe worry that artificial intelligence has entered classrooms faster than anyone can manage. Students already turn to chatbots for homework. Many do so weekly. The gap between what educators see and what they can control grows wider by the month. A fresh survey from Epson lays out the mismatch in

Space is getting crowded. And dangerous. The European Space Agency reports the amount of human-made material in orbit has more than doubled since 2017. Roughly 44,870 objects are now tracked, according to recent analysis drawing on ESA, NASA and other agency data through early 2026. Only about 14,200 of them function as active satellites. The

Debian maintainers pushed out version 13.7 of their flagship distribution today. The point release arrives exactly one month and three days after 13.6. It bundles dozens of security advisories that had already reached users through the security repository. Yet fresh install images now ship with those fixes already applied. The official announcement from the Debian

YouTube just handed millions of households a straightforward fix for a long-standing irritation. Starting this week, users can lock individual profiles on smart TVs, streaming sticks and game consoles with a four-digit code. The move directly addresses what happens when roommates, kids or guests pick up the remote and start browsing someone else’s recommendations. From

Heidi O’Neill walked into Lululemon’s Vancouver headquarters on Sept. 8. She arrived as the company’s new chief executive. The timing could hardly look worse. Four days earlier, Lululemon had slashed its full-year sales and profit forecasts for the second time in three months. Comparable sales fell 9% in the second quarter. Leggings, the product that

Google just wrote its largest check in Europe. The Alphabet unit will pour at least €13 billion, roughly $15.1 billion, into Finland between 2027 and 2028. Three new data centers. An expansion of its long-running site in Hamina. Fresh wind contracts. A 94-megawatt battery. And a 22-year deal to buy up to half the output

The recent surge in gasoline prices is set to add pressure on American households already grappling with inflation and rising living costs. According to a report from Yahoo Finance, this increase will likely amplify consumer spending burdens in the months ahead as fuel costs climb higher than many anticipated. Energy analysts point to several factors

Shares of Shanghai Enflame Technology tripled in value on their first day of trading Friday. The Tencent-backed artificial intelligence chip designer raised $912 million in its initial public offering and saw its market capitalization surge past $25 billion. But the spectacle masks a more complex story of heavy losses, customer concentration and a distinct technical

Amazon has dramatically scaled its commitment to Nvidia hardware. In a span of just five months the cloud giant moved from an agreement to deploy more than one million Nvidia GPUs to a total exceeding three million chips. The latest addition of two million units covers Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra architectures with