
US National Debt Hits $40 Trillion, Rising $90K Per Second
Economists and lawmakers warn the record $40 trillion debt will keep climbing as interest costs and mandatory spending accelerate.
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Economists and lawmakers warn the record $40 trillion debt will keep climbing as interest costs and mandatory spending accelerate.

The carrier will install 4K seatback screens, Bluetooth connectivity and USB-C charging across more than 800 narrowbody aircraft starting in 2028.

Verizon customers across the United States reported outages on Thursday, with Downdetector showing thousands of service disruptions. The carrier advised restarting devices while it investigates the issue.

Stocks rally after August jobs data eases worries about timing of potential rate increases, pushing all three major indexes to their strongest weekly performance since April.

Chief executive Andy Jassy told staff the cloud division will flatten hierarchy and consolidate AI infrastructure teams after duplicate reporting lines slowed product launches.
Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla posted their worst collective month since March 2025 despite earnings beats from several members.
A 0.7-nanometer node prototype packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized die, with production possible within five years.

Cincinnati's 6–5 walk-off win at Yankee Stadium capped a three-game set that averaged 2.8 million concurrent viewers on Apple's Friday Night Baseball package.

A Nature paper reports the model identifies regulatory mutations linked to type 2 diabetes and autoimmune conditions with accuracy exceeding prior statistical methods by a wide margin.

Researchers said the Willow processor sustained encoded qubits long enough to run a verifiable chemistry simulation, a step toward commercially relevant quantum advantage.

A research team at Tokyo Tech builds a prototype transceiver that reduces optical-electrical signal conversion energy by 35%.

A classified annex shared with Congress identifies water utilities and regional grids as most exposed to adversarial manipulation of automated control systems.
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