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September payrolls rose just 29,000 against the 90,000 expected and unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, but slower wage growth and low jobless claims kept the Fed leaning against a second straight hike at its Oct. 27–28 meeting. Futures put an October move at about 25%. JPMorgan still expects a December hike if the next two CPI prints show sticky core inflation.
Apple says it is tightening macOS Full Disk Access because some developers use it to expose files, mail, messages and browsing history without users understanding the risk, and it warns that the danger grows as AI agents become more autonomous. Apple names no one, but the change follows the uproar over Meta's Muse agent surfacing a columnist's iMessage thread, which Meta had blamed on users opting in.
The Rust for CPython team laid out a phased plan at this year's Language Summit: a PEP with success criteria in late 2026, an optional Rust-backed zlib in Python 3.16 (October 2027) with the C code kept as a fallback, and Rust required to build CPython no earlier than 3.18 in 2029. The case rests on rising crash reports since the JIT, free-threading and the new parser landed. The open risks are platform coverage and how few core developers know Rust.
The term opens Monday with a case on whether states and cities can sue oil companies for deceiving the public about climate change. Next comes a Colorado case that could require taxpayers to fund religious preschools that turn away LGBTQ families, with semi-automatic weapons bans and election-law cases waiting behind it. Nina Totenberg notes that the court now issues about twice as many rulings on its fast, thinly explained emergency docket as on the merits.