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Must Think Of Wealth Transfers Differently: Zentner
Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist and global head of thematic and macro investing at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Money." They discuss how wealth managers must adjust to people living longer. (Source: Bloomberg)
A Fed hike next week seems certain after the latest inflation data. Here's what's ahead
The latest inflation data failed to soothe fears that pricing pressures will be coming down anytime soon.
Wealth Transfers Are Happening Later: Zentner
Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist and global head of thematic and macro investing at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Money." They discuss financial planning, retirement, and the impact of growing life expectancy in the US. (Source: Bloomber
US Should 'Deeply Value' Friendship of It's Allies, Says Former NATO Ambassador
Nicholas Burns, former Ambassador to NATO, reflected on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th and remembered the action of NATO countries in the days following the terror attacks, saying the US should 'deeply value' the friendship of its allies. Burns who also served as the
The Case Against Cutting Social Security: Kathryn Anne Edwards
Bloomberg Opinion's Kathryn Anne Edwards joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Money." Edwards writes that for the last 43 years Social Security has been on autopilot, and makes the case for modernizing the program to meet 2026 economic issues. (Source: Bloomberg)
Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox
At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web.
Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ
Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.
Dan Chung rebuilt a decimated Alger Management after 9/11. He's still finding the market's winners
The CEO and chief investment officer at Fred Alger Management survived the attack by chance. He was tasked with reconstruction after 35 staffers died.
Americans Need To Come Together: Richard Haass
Richard Haass, senior counselor with Centerview Partners, president emeritus for the Council on Foreign Relations, and former advisor to Colin Powell and President George H.W. Bush, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Money." Sentiment sank among consumers from both political parties,
This logistics company’s growth is hiding in its pipeline. Investors have a chance to be early to the upside
The company's new CEO is prioritizing organic growth over acquisitions and could share fresh targets at an investor day this fall.

The legal drama of imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried is waiting on its last act
The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.
AI fears have hit this data stock. Investor Sarat Sethi sees a buying opportunity
Verisk Analytics is a leading data and software provider to the insurance industry, with hard-to-replicate data and a recurring revenue model that make its business difficult to disrupt.
Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
Surging cloud revenue boosted Oracle’s quarterly results. Here’s what analysts are saying
The software giant reported a surge in cloud infrastructure revenue during its latest quarter. Here's what Wall Street analysts are saying.

NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy
NASA asks US states to show them the money.

With Fed rate hike all but assured, here's how markets might react
Traders could look past an expected Fed hike and weigh what higher rates are signaling about the economy.
Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster
In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal.

India's richest state is exploring tokenizing its own assets to fund new infrastructure
Maharashtra is drafting a policy to tokenize the state's assets, including the electricity transmission infrastructure.

Metaplanet cuts executive reward pool by 41%, extinguishes $220 million in value
The bitcoin treasury firm cut the potential Series 10 share pool to 188.2 million.
Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider
This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.

Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer steps down, becomes adviser
Sawyer will become a strategic adviser rather than take the helm of Zodia Solutions, as previously announced.

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
Cloudflare CASB policies introduce a native automation engine built directly on the Cloudflare developer platform to remediate SaaS risks automatically. Security teams can now design event-driven logic to revoke risky file shares and send webhooks without manual intervention.

Core CPI rose a faster-than-forecast 0.3% in August, setting up possible Fed rate hike
The August CPI report had taken on outsized importance after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh two weeks ago suggested the central bank may have to act if inflation doesn't soon slow.

Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026)
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ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral
Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.

Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell?
ULA is preparing to resume launching the Vulcan rocket in the coming weeks.

Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?
"We felt like now is the time to pour gas on that fire."

HIVE brings in enterprise veteran to scale BUZZ HPC's AI cloud business

Popular women's clothing chain closes 177 stores
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play
Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm's startups.
Stocks Climb in Run-Up to Next Week’s Fed Decision: Markets Wrap
The final stretch of a jittery week on Wall Street saw stocks rising, with a decline in oil prices tempering concerns about inflationary pressures ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve decision.

1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
1.1.1.1 now validates DNSSEC signatures using NIST’s post-quantum ML-DSA-44 algorithm. Here is how we manage 2,420-byte signatures and downgrade risks at scale.

India Calls for Bigger Biofuel Push as Oil Prices Soar

Peter Schiff says the 7.76 cents of metal inside every nickel makes it a better bet than U.S. Treasuries

How Is Nucor’s Stock Performance Compared to Other Steel Stocks

Is IDEXX Laboratories Stock Underperforming the Dow?

How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility
Workers now enables Node.js compatibility by default, supports applications up to 64 mebibytes, and adds a URL-based module registry with import.meta, lazy compilation, shared code caches, and clearer errors.

Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Automatic Key Exchange probes TLS 1.3-capable customer origins to learn which key agreement algorithms they support. We then lead with the most secure algorithm when connecting to the origin, preferring post-quantum connections wherever the origin supports it.

Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026)
Is "responsible use of generative AI" in the room with us right now?

Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
Use production traffic and security signals to prioritize findings, prepare edge mitigations when safe, and propose code patches. By combining WAF data with OpenAI Daybreak models, Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation helps teams identify and patch the most critical threats fi

Self-Host Weekly (28 August 2026)
I'll take "things nobody asked for" for $500, Alex

Self-Host Weekly (21 August 2026)
This is your capt(AI)n speaking

Self-Host Weekly (14 August 2026)
Death and SSO taxes