According to Sina Finance, South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday that August auto exports fell 29.8% year over year to $3.85 billion from $5.49 billion a year earlier. The ministry said fewer working days during the summer holiday and production disruptions at some automakers due to strikes affected exports. Exports to North America and the European Union fell 28.2% and 16.8%, respectively, to $1.84 billion and $659 million. Exports to Asia and the Middle East declined 41.9% and 23.6%, respectively, to $343 million and $234 million. Commercial vehicle exports fell 26.9% year over year to 146,000 units. Domestic auto sales in South Korea totaled 110,000 units in August, down 20.8% from a year earlier, while auto production fell 35.8% to 206,000 units. The ministry said auto exports and production are expected to improve later this year as major automakers reach wage agreements.

The agency said the intrusion began with an attacker exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN-connected device used by the Government Solution Service

Bitcoin mining companies shut down massively in the second quarter, which might seem like a surrender, but that's not the case. Many miners didn't completely withdraw from the computing power field; instead, they were redirected to AI infrastructure upgrades.

AirAsia Group shares fell as much as 21%, their biggest single-day drop since March 9, after a media report said Malaysia had contacted other local airlines to potentially take over the low-cost carrier's domestic market share. According to Sina Finance, citing two people familiar with the matter, Malaysian authorities are monitoring AirAsia's financial condition, and talks with Malaysia Airlines and Batik Air are part of contingency planning. The stock fell to its lowest level since 2022. Capital A Ltd. shares, its parent company, dropped as much as 18% to a more than one-year low.

Elham Credit Partners has hired former BlackRock Inc. executive Stephen Allan to pursue private credit opportunities in Australia, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg reported.

A whale address beginning with 0xc36a restructured its ZEC and PUMP accumulation plan on September 17, placing large buy orders below the current market price. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the address set buy orders for about $5.4 million in ZEC at $1,019 and about $16.3 million in PUMP at $0.00278, with both levels roughly 26% below the current price. The address currently holds about $14.73 million in ZEC long positions and $3.74 million in PUMP long positions, and it added about $3.82 million in new ZEC long trades today. It now holds about $18.4 million in positions across ZEC and PUMP, with unrealized gains of about $1.61 million on ZEC, or 124%, and about $220,000 on PUMP, or 63%. If all of the pending buy orders are filled, the planned ZEC exposure would rise to about $20.13 million and PUMP exposure to about $20.04 million, for a combined total of about $40.17 million.

The win probability for the Seattle Mariners option in Polymarket's Seattle Mariners vs. Los Angeles Angels market surged from 52% one hour ago to 97.75%, according to Catcher Predict monitoring. According to ChainCatcher, the move reflected a 45.75 percentage point swing and came amid a warning to watch for related breaking news.

Polish state-owned energy company Orlen's trading unit in Switzerland signed a contract in November 2023 to buy 6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude and paid a $230 million unsecured advance to Dubai-based Hannon International for conversion into USDT. According to Odaily, Hannon International later routed the funds through multiple intermediaries, leaving a $50 million shortfall after $135 million was exchanged for 85 million USDT. From January to March 2024, private keys controlling more than 132 million USDT were handed over via USB storage devices to brokers linked to Venezuela's state oil company. The brokers later disappeared, and the Venezuelan company did not release the crude cargo. Orlen canceled the contract in March 2024 and estimated total losses at $378 million to $424 million. Polish prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Orlen Trading Switzerland's management, and three former senior executives have been charged and could face up to 25 years in prison. Orlen has also launched international arbitration in Dubai to seek recovery of the $230 million prepayment.

According to Sina Finance, British AI startup Emulate, founded last month by a team of former DeepMind scientists, is launching a new funding round worth hundreds of millions of dollars at a post-money valuation close to $4 billion. The company was incorporated in August 2026, and its founders include former Google DeepMind researchers Jack Parker-Holder and Matthew McGill. Emulate is in advanced talks with potential investors and plans to raise up to $700 million, which would value the company at $3.7 billion. The round is expected to be co-led by Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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ISO 9001:2026 is the first major revision to the international quality management benchmark since 2015

The flaw has already been exploited in the wild and CISA has added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

A probe into fraudulent requests for Revolut customer data has led Italian investigators to a compromised government email account, turning a financial data leak into a wider investigation into the security of Italy’s trusted digital communications system.

Lawson and FamilyMart are using AI to create new convenience store foods, including a pickle-flavoured lemon tart and sweet potato canele. AI is mainly used for ideas and sales trends, while human experts still test and finalise the products before they reach stores.

White House spokesman Kush Desai said that from the government's perspective, the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates today was rather regrettable and lacked any particularly convincing economic basis. Trump, meanwhile, again urged the Fed to quickly cut interest rates below 1%.

After the CLARITY debacle: A shift in the path of US crypto regulation and institutional inertia.