Edition #89

The One Thing

• ‘It's awful’: How tariffs, soaring fuel costs and higher interest rates are squeezing American companies

Signals

• FedEx levies fees on US imports from Canada, Europe and others
• FleetCor, CEO agree to pay $100 million over hidden fuel-card fees
• An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
• Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
• Creators are moving up their holiday content calendars
• Pinterest unveils new suite of ad tools, including Visual Search Ads, in its pitch to brands
• 'We simply don't know' - JP Morgan struggling to forecast oil prices due to Trump's war with Iran
• Dollar General CEO raises major red flag about consumers
• 80-year-old discount fashion chain closing 120 stores
• A Mission-Driven Coffee Chain Grew From 4 Employees to Hundreds. Now It Faces a Federal Labor Lawsuit
• Butterball settles EEOC allegation it was liable for vendor’s failure to process ADA leave request
• A Massive New Study of 588,000 Workers Links Working From Home to Isolation and Mental Health Problems

Watch Your Back

• ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
• Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
• Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
• BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions
• North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide

Antics

• Cathie Wood: Cathie Wood Never Sold Ark's Core Stake in Tesla Despite the Stock Trailing Every Other Magnificent Seven Name in 2026. Here's Why Her Multi-Year Conviction Hasn't Wavered.
• Customer-Centric "Huawei + Partners" Collaboration System Launched to Scale AI Across Industries

What's Being Built

• Mycel — Bring one past deliverable. Mycel drafts every future one.
• Minicart — Launch your store. Let AI run the busywork.
• Answers by Context.dev — Give it a research task + the JSON shape you want back.