Logistics & Supply Chain (opens original source in a new tab)Supply Chain DiveBNSF adds faster intermodal service in the SouthwestThe Phoenix-to-Dallas-Fort Worth route is over three days long and will run six days a week due to increased shipper demand. (opens original source in a new tab)Alejandra Carranza·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)STAT NewsSTAT+: The IRS is probing UnitedHealth, and a private equity slowdownUnitedHealth faces an investigation over tax payments, and we examine why PE deals for doctor groups are slowing. (opens original source in a new tab)Bob Herman·17 August 2026
Industry News (opens original source in a new tab)AGBIFlydubai returns to Iranian airspace for first time since start of warFlydubai has resumed flying over Iranian airspace for the first time since the outbreak of the Iran conflict – although Dubai-based Emirates continues to avoid the country. The UAE low-cost carrier is now operating its twice-daily service between Dubai and Baku in Azerbaijan through Iranian airspace, according to flight tracking data. Since the conflict began […] (opens original source in a new tab)Gavin Gibbon·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)YourStory5 Books that explain why we compare ourselves with othersExplore 5 insightful books that explain why we compare ourselves with others and how to build confidence beyond external validation. (opens original source in a new tab)17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)CoinDeskThe Coldcard hack proves reputation is not a security modelA community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert. (opens original source in a new tab)Zach Herbert·17 August 2026
Industry News (opens original source in a new tab)AGBIEgypt reports 20% rise in new company registrationsThe number of companies set up in Egypt rose by 20 percent year on year in the first six months of 2026, according to a cabinet statement. About 26,000 companies were set up over the period, with total capital of EGP97.5 billion ($1.9 billion), the statement said. Half the businesses were established in the Nile […] (opens original source in a new tab)Pramod Kumar·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)IEEE SpectrumFrom AI Copilots to Agent SwarmsThe impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as triaging problems, debugging code, and testing the software. At the time, we were hoping for a 25 percent productivity boost from AI use over the course of two or three years.But with each new release, the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM (opens original source in a new tab)Andrej Zdravkovic·17 August 2026
Industry News (opens original source in a new tab)AGBIPIF contribution to Saudi non-oil economy rises nearly $100bnSaudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund increased its share of the kingdom’s non-oil economy last year by nearly $100 billion, as the sovereign wealth fund continued to invest heavily at home and expand internationally. PIF accounted for 11 percent of non-oil GDP in 2025, up from 10 percent a year earlier, the fund’s latest annual report […] (opens original source in a new tab)Pramod Kumar·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)STAT NewsSTAT+: Akeso and Summit’s lung cancer drug shows worsening tumor-progression benefitEurope pulls Tavneos over trial integrity concerns, pricing concerns over AstraZeneca's hypertension drug, and more biotech news from The Readout (opens original source in a new tab)Meghana Keshavan·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker News⚡ Weekly Recap: VMware Exploits, Windows 0-Day, MCP Attacks, Browser Hijacks and MoreThe expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was already there and defenses that assumed nobody would look too closely. So, nothing magical. Just a (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·17 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)STAT NewsSTAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about an AstraZeneca setback, falling U.S. drug prices, and moreAstraZeneca is discontinuing a late-stage drug trial in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, extending a run of setbacks (opens original source in a new tab)Ed Silverman·17 August 2026
