Thursday, 10 September 2026
367 stories · 12 beats · 4 signals
Signals
Iran said it struck ten ships near the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage much of the world's oil is carried through. The United States had sunk five Iranian tankers.
A barrel of Brent crude, the oil price most countries follow, closed at $101.21. That is its first close above $100 since July.
Diesel in Serbia reached 234 dinars a litre, more than drivers there have ever paid. About a third of the oil now leaving the Gulf cannot be traced to a buyer.
Apple added $100 to the price of every iPhone. The memory chips inside cost more because computer centres running artificial intelligence are buying them up.
America's grid forecaster expects record electricity demand in 2026 and again in 2027. One Ohio electricity company is planning for demand that nearly triples.
Companies building artificial intelligence are now outbidding bitcoin miners for electricity.
N-able, which sells software companies use to manage their computers, shipped its fourth emergency repair in five weeks. Every copy a customer runs on its own machines still needs somebody there to install it.
American inspections of food sites in other countries are down about 35% since 2019. The law asks for more than 19,000 a year, and 1,140 were done.
Britain brought forward to January 2027 the date by which companies must build an easier way to stop a subscription. Ten million subscriptions are running that nobody wants.
Australia told shops to check that a buyer is over 18, without saying what counts as proof. Valve, which runs the Steam game shop, accepted only an Australian credit card; Epic bought four different checks.
12 editions
World
The truth: On Wednesday the UN's nuclear inspectors reported Iran to the Security Council, because Iran has kept them out of its bombed nuclear sites since June 2025.
Finance
The truth: The US Treasury told everyone on Wednesday exactly which bonds it would buy on Thursday, and traders bought that kind of bond first so they could sell it straight back.
Tech
The truth: Apple raised the price of every iPhone by $100 because the memory inside it now costs more, and it costs more because AI data centres are buying it.
Mind & body
The truth: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists told doctors in March 2026 that they can diagnose endometriosis from symptoms and an examination and start treatment straight away, with no operation.
Climate
The truth: The hottest month ever measured is not arriving as weather.
Space
The truth: The US military is building the ability to move satellites around each other as a way of fighting, and it is buying most of that ability from companies.
Biotech
The truth: The Columbia team did not fail at editing.
Money
The truth: Britain is not banning subscriptions.
Sports
The truth: American football moved its opening game to a Wednesday so that a game in Melbourne could be shown on Thursday evening in the United States.
Gaming
The truth: Nintendo now has a console that runs what a PlayStation 5 runs, so other publishers are moving their existing games onto it.
Food
The truth: The United States has a law asking for more than 19,000 inspections of food sites abroad every year, and about 420 people to do them.
Cyber
The truth: Four spying groups linked to China all used the same break-in tool against Chrome this month, and Proofpoint says its author built it by reading repairs Google had already published in Chromium's public code.