Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. The researchers, from firm Aikido Security, said Friday that they found 151 malicious packages that were uploaded to GitHub from March 3 to March 9. Such supply-chain attacks have been...
Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. The researchers, from firm Aikido Security, said Friday that they found 151 malicious packages that were uploaded to GitHub from March 3 to March 9. Such supply-chain attacks have been common for nearly a decade . They usually work by uploading malicious packages with code and names that closely resemble those of widely used code libraries, with the objective of tricking developers into mistakenly incorporating the former into their software. In some cases, these malicious packages are downloaded thousands of times. Defenses see nothing. Decoders see executable code The packages Aikido found this month have adopted a newer technique: selective use of code that isn’t visible when loaded into virtually all editors, terminals, and code review interfaces. While most of the code appears in normal, readable form, malicious functions and payloads—the usual telltale signs of malice—are rendered in unicode characters that are invisible to the human eye. The tactic, which Aikido said it first spotted last year, makes manual code reviews and other traditional defenses nearly useless. Other repositories hit in these attacks include NPM and Open VSX. Read full article Comments
A federal judge on Friday quashed US Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill. Judge James Boasberg said that a “mountain of evidence suggests” that the purpose of the subpoenas was simply to pressure the Fed to cut its key interest rate, as US President Donald Trump has repe...
A federal judge on Friday quashed US Justice Department subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve in January, a severe blow to an investigation that has already attracted strong criticism on Capitol Hill. Judge James Boasberg said that a “mountain of evidence suggests” that the purpose of the subpoenas was simply to pressure the Fed to cut its key interest rate, as US President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded. Fed Chair Jerome Powell revealed the investigation on January 11, prompting Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, to block consideration of Trump’s pick to replace Powell as Fed chair when his term expires May 15. Advertisement Boasberg said in his ruling that the case “thus asks: Did prosecutors issue those subpoenas for a proper purpose? The court finds that they did not.” “There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the president or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will,” he wrote. US Fed chief threatened with criminal indictment by Trump administration US Fed chief threatened with criminal indictment by Trump administration US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who issued the subpoenas, said at a news conference on Friday that she would appeal the ruling.
March 13, 2026, 4:17 p.m. ET Amazon is almost doubling the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription, increasing the fee in the United States by $2 a month, the tech giant announced March 13. According to Amazon, the cost of ad-free Prime Video will now be $4.99 a month, nearly double its previous fee of $2.99 monthly. But the new price is not the only change; Amazon is set to name the ad-free...
March 13, 2026, 4:17 p.m. ET Amazon is almost doubling the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription, increasing the fee in the United States by $2 a month, the tech giant announced March 13. According to Amazon, the cost of ad-free Prime Video will now be $4.99 a month, nearly double its previous fee of $2.99 monthly. But the new price is not the only change; Amazon is set to name the ad-free tier “Prime Video Ultra.” “Delivering ad-free streaming with premium features requires significant investment, and this structure aligns with other major streaming services while ensuring customers have the flexibility to choose how they want to watch,” Amazon said in a news release. The company will also add new features to the new, more expensive subscription, such as the ability to watch Prime Video on up to five devices simultaneously, according to the release. Previously, 4K streaming was available to all Prime Video subscribers; now it will be reserved for those on the $4.99 plan. Amazon has moved to increase profits from Prime Video The company first introduced ads to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024. At the time of the announcement in 2023, Amazon said that breaking up shows and movies with advertisements would allow it “to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time.” Since ads were introduced, all Prime Video customers, including those who already pay for an Amazon Prime subscription, were required to pay an additional fee to remove ads on the streaming platform, which at the time was $2.99. According to CNBC, Amazon Prime subscriptions continue to grow. In an earnings report last month, Amazon said Prime Video had an average ad-supported audience of more than 315 million viewers worldwide, up from 200 million in 2024. Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@usatodayco.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.
A federal judge rejected Justice Department subpoenas seeking records from the Federal Reserve Board related to its headquarters renovations and Chair Jerome Powell's comments to Congress. The judge said the government had no evidence to justify the subpoenas and they reflected an "improper motive" of retaliating against Powell over policy differences. The US Attorney's Office for the District of ...
A federal judge rejected Justice Department subpoenas seeking records from the Federal Reserve Board related to its headquarters renovations and Chair Jerome Powell's comments to Congress. The judge said the government had no evidence to justify the subpoenas and they reflected an "improper motive" of retaliating against Powell over policy differences. The US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said they would appeal the decision, which was welcomed by a Republican senator who called the investigation "a failed attack on Fed independence". Bloomberg's Elliot Stein joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Trump administration authorized Venezuela to sell fertilizers and other petrochemicals to US companies, further loosening sanctions just as the Iran war tightens global supplies of critical crop nutrients. The new measure, disclosed Friday in Treasury Department documents, expands a US effort to gradually reintegrate Venezuela into the global energy market. The White House aims to stimulate th...
The Trump administration authorized Venezuela to sell fertilizers and other petrochemicals to US companies, further loosening sanctions just as the Iran war tightens global supplies of critical crop nutrients. The new measure, disclosed Friday in Treasury Department documents, expands a US effort to gradually reintegrate Venezuela into the global energy market. The White House aims to stimulate the South American nation’s economy after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro in January. The move comes as US farmers rush to secure fertilizers in the peak spring planting season, especially ammonia and urea that Venezuela once exported in abundance. The escalating conflict in the Middle East is disrupting supplies that normally flow through the Strait of Hormuz. New Orleans prices for urea, which is widely applied to US corn fields, are up 28% since the war on Iran started through Friday, according to Bloomberg Green Markets. The US imports over a third of its urea from the Middle East, according to The Fertilizer Institute . By authorizing the sale of Venezuelan fertilizers to US companies, the Trump administration is sending a supply signal to an industry that impacts food prices at a time of inflationary pressures caused by the war-driven oil price spike. The license still requires companies to seek a separate authorization from Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. In addition to the fertilizer measure, the Treasury Department issued a license allowing work on Venezuela’s power grid, a crucial step toward revitalizing the oil sector and other industries while improving the lives of people across the country who deal with persistent outages. The Treasury Department implemented the fertilizer measure by expanding the definition of Venezuela-origin oil in an existing license. As with Venezuela’s US-controlled oil sales, US buyers are required to deposit payment into a blocked offshore account for subsequent disbursement to Venezuela’s central bank. Venezuel...
imaginima/E+ via Getty Images The number of oil and gas rigs actively drilling in the U.S. gained 2 to 553, rising for the second week in a row after falling for three straight weeks, Baker Hughes said Friday in its latest survey . During the week ended March 13, the number of active drilling rigs targeting crude oil in the U.S. rose by 1 to 412, the highest since early February, gas rigs added 1 ...
imaginima/E+ via Getty Images The number of oil and gas rigs actively drilling in the U.S. gained 2 to 553, rising for the second week in a row after falling for three straight weeks, Baker Hughes said Friday in its latest survey . During the week ended March 13, the number of active drilling rigs targeting crude oil in the U.S. rose by 1 to 412, the highest since early February, gas rigs added 1 to 133, and 8 rigs remained classified as miscellaneous. Despite this week's increase, the total rig count was down by 39, or 6.6%, from the same time last year, with oil rigs down 75, or 15.4%, and gas rigs up 33, or 33%, compared to a year ago. The number of rigs targeting oil in the Permian Basin stayed flat at 241, the oil rig count in the Eagle Ford added 1 to 33, and the Williston Basin lost 1 to 26. ETFs: ( USO ), ( UCO ), ( SCO ), ( USL ), ( DBO ), ( DRIP ), ( GUSH ), ( USOI ), ( UNG ), ( BOIL ), ( KOLD ), ( UNL ), ( FCG ) More on crude oil Oil Above $100: Why Game Theory Suggests This Spike Won't Last How Will Markets React If The U.S. Deploys Ground Troops In Iran? Strait Of Hormuz: Buy The Fear Before This Waterway Clears
(RTTNews) - Following the sell-off seen during Thursday's session, stocks rebounded in early trading on Friday but showed a notable move back to the downside as the day progressed. The major averages pulled back well off their early highs and into negative territory. The major averages added to the steep losses posted in the previous session, falling to new three-month closing lows. The Nasdaq sli...
(RTTNews) - Following the sell-off seen during Thursday's session, stocks rebounded in early trading on Friday but showed a notable move back to the downside as the day progressed. The major averages pulled back well off their early highs and into negative territory. The major averages added to the steep losses posted in the previous session, falling to new three-month closing lows. The Nasdaq slid 206.62 points or 0.9 percent to 22,105.36, the S&P 500 fell 10.43 points or 0.6 percent to 6,632.19 and the Dow dipped 119.38 points or 0.3 percent to 46,558.47. For the week, the Dow plunged by 2.0 percent, the S&P 500 tumbled by 1.6 percent and the Nasdaq slumped by 1.3 percent. The pullback seen over the course of the session came as trading continued to be largely driven by reaction to crude oil prices. Stocks initially benefitted from a pullback by the price of crude oil, with crude for April delivery plunging by as much as 3.9 percent after skyrocketing over the course of the two previous sessions. However, crude oil prices recovered from the early pullback and moved sharply higher over the course of the session, leading to the downturn by stocks. The volatility shown by oil came as President Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against Iran, calling the regime "deranged scumbags" that he has the "great honor" to kill. On the U.S. economic front, a typically closely watched Commerce Department report showed the annual rate of consumer price growth unexpectedly slowed in January. The Commerce Department said the annual rate of growth by its PCE price index slipped to 2.8 percent in January from 2.9 percent in December. The annual rate of growth was expected to remain unchanged. Meanwhile, the annual rate of growth by the core PCE price index, which excludes food and energy prices, ticked up to 3.1 percent in January from 3.0 percent in December. Economists had the pace of growth to remain unchanged. A separate report from the Commerce Department showed U.S. econom...
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Costco Wholesale (COST +0.50%) has grown into one of the world's largest retailers, and its business success has translated to life-changing returns for shareholders. The stock has returned more than 6,330% over its lifetime, turning a $10,000 investment into more than $642,000. Shoppers flock to its stores for its vast selection of bulk-quantity goods and quirky customer favorites, like its famou...
Costco Wholesale (COST +0.50%) has grown into one of the world's largest retailers, and its business success has translated to life-changing returns for shareholders. The stock has returned more than 6,330% over its lifetime, turning a $10,000 investment into more than $642,000. Shoppers flock to its stores for its vast selection of bulk-quantity goods and quirky customer favorites, like its famous $1.50 hot dog meal, which hasn't increased in price since it launched over 40 years ago. But can Costco stock continue making investors wealthy? Here is what investors can expect. Why the business can continue making shareholders richer Costco's business is wonderfully simple. The company sells a wide variety of bulk-quantity goods, food, beverages, and odds and ends at low prices. Shoppers often treat their store visits like field trips, and the brand is so beloved that Costco doesn't need to spend any money on advertising. The catch? You need to purchase a membership to shop at Costco, and that's how the company makes most of its profits. High-margin membership fees allow Costco to act as a price leader, selling its goods at razor-thin markups that reinforce its reputation as a place where people shop for deals. The beauty of Costco's model is that it gatekeeps its stores. Costco is popular with high earners, who are willing to spend upfront on bulk quantities in the name of per-unit savings and to pay for the privilege of shopping there. High earners also account for an outsized share of total retail spending, making them a lucrative customer demographic. Expand NASDAQ : COST Costco Wholesale Today's Change ( 0.50 %) $ 5.02 Current Price $ 1008.34 Key Data Points Market Cap $445B Day's Range $ 1002.00 - $ 1012.79 52wk Range $ 844.06 - $ 1067.08 Volume 67K Avg Vol 2.5M Gross Margin 12.93 % Dividend Yield 0.52 % Costco currently has 82.1 million paid memberships and continues to grow steadily. Paid memberships grew by 4.8% year over year in the most recent quarter. Manag...