The Fed indicated rates will remain higher for longer. What does that mean for you? The Federal Reserve's decision this week to keep its benchmark rate at a two-decade high should have ripple effects across the economy. Here's what to know. 05/3/2024 - 4:30 am | View Link
Average long-term US mortgage rate rises for again, reaching highest level more than five months The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed this week to its highest level in more than five months, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers in what’s typically the housing market’s ... 05/2/2024 - 11:40 am | View Link
Buyers are taking on riskier adjustable rate mortgages as affordability worsens American homebuyers are taking on riskier adjustable rate mortgages to address affordability concerns despite the potential for payments to increase in the future. 05/1/2024 - 11:11 am | View Link
Adjustable-rate mortgage demand surges to highest level this year as 30-year rate keeps climbing Mortgage applications fell 2.3% in the last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said. The average rate for a 30-year mortgage is 7.29%. 05/1/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Average Mortgage Interest Rates: By Credit Score, Loan Type and Year According to U.S. News ... Fixed-rate mortgages lock in your interest rate for the duration of your loan. This means your monthly payment (principal and interest only) remains the same whether you opt ... 04/30/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for May 4's Wordle solution revealed.
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Though Prime Video may be seen as a secondary benefit to your Amazon Prime membership (after that glorious free two-day shipping), the streamer’s deep catalog of great movies deserves more fanfare. We’ve pored over their huge selection of new releases and classics to bring you the films we love that you can stream today.
Does AI have a place in the music industry? At least one label seems to think so. The record label Sub Pop told the Los Angeles Times that the music video for "The Hardest Part," a single release on May 2 by the artist Washed Out, is the first collaboration between a major music artist, filmmaker, and OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator.
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft)
It's been a bad couple of years for Microsoft's security and privacy efforts. Misconfigured endpoints, rogue security certificates, and weak passwords have all caused or risked the exposure of sensitive data, and Microsoft has been criticized by security researchers, US lawmakers, and regulatory agencies for how it has responded to and disclosed these threats.
The most high-profile of these breaches involved a China-based hacking group named Storm-0558, which breached Microsoft's Azure service and collected data for over a month in mid-2023 before being discovered and driven out.
Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 lunar probe blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on May 3, 2024 in Wenchang, China. (credit: Li Zhenzhou/VCG via Getty Images)
China is going back to the Moon for more samples.
On Friday the country launched its largest rocket, the Long March 5, carrying an orbiter, lander, ascent vehicle, and a return spacecraft.