World in a Pulse
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Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm
Recently, the astronauts on board the International Space Station performed a routine "walk-off" maneuver with the large, 58-foot-long robotic arm attached to the orbiting laboratory. The robotic arm, known as Canadarm2 because it was supplied by the Canadian Space Agency, is something of a modern engineering miracle—it can effectively move around the exterior of the large space station like an inchworm because both ends are essentially identical. However, after this particular walk-off maneuver, the robotic arm, along with the mobile transporter that guides it along the main truss of the spac
NASA Armstrong Celebrates 80 Years of Flight Innovation
On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to achieve supersonic flight for the first time.
Treadmills to deadlifts: Why Gen Z are swapping cardio for strength training
Gyms are booming, solitary cardio is out - how workouts are changing.
Was Olivia Miles a better rookie than Caitlin Clark? Comparing the WNBA's two best rookie guard seasons ever
Miles was named the unanimous Rookie of the Year on Monday ... so was her 2026 better than Clark's 2024?
How can the UK’s Labour Party rebuild voter trust?
Members at annual conference are optimistic about new PM
Elder millennials are driving a hobby renaissance in 2026, but ‘funflation’ could ruin the party
Want to have some fun this fall? It’ll cost you. The Bank of America Institute has released a new report on the hobby economy, and it shows that the price of fun is going up. According to BoA card data, hobby spending increased in August by more than double the pace of overall transaction growth. In other words, consumers are dropping more cash on their hobbies, but their hobbies are also getting significantly more expensive. Right now, hobby culture is having a moment online, as
Linkin Park talk capturing their comeback with epic new film ‘Unshatter’: “When the energy is there, we start to feel unstoppable”
Linkin Park’s Joe Hahn has spoken to NME about new feature-length documentary Unshatter, and how the band are embracing their epic new chapter by embracing a new generation of fans, pushing beyond any naysayers, and intentionally trying to subvert expectations.
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.
To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
The cost of healthcare in general is a debilitating, pre-existing condition for Americans. But the high prices of prescription drugs usually stand out as a pain point. While there are many insidious reasons why Americans pay more—often far more—for their medicines than people in peer countries, exploitation of the US patent system is an obvious one. A study published Monday in JAMA highlights just how much patent exploitation has grown since 1990.
New method suggests the Moon once had an internal magnetic field
New research supports the idea that the moon once had its own internal magnetic field just as Earth does today.
Urgent recall for more than 2,300 pounds of frozen pork sausages
Fontanini Foods LLC recalled 2,320lbs of raw, frozen pork breakfast sausage on Friday after two customers found plastic in the product.
2027 NFL Draft Shock Meter: Could Julian Sayin and Dante Moore, other top QBs return?
Evaluating -- on a 1-10 scale -- how shocking it would be if Sayin, Moore, CJ Carr, Arch Manning and other top quarterbacks decided to pass on the NFL Draft and remain in college
Flights between Iraq’s Najaf and Iran resumed as Tehran protests US curbs
Tehran filed a UN complaint against US sanctions forcing regional cancellations of Iran flights.
Airlines say ticket prices could stay high even if jet fuel costs fall. Here’s why
Travelers could be stuck paying high airfares even if oil and jet fuel prices fall, major U.S. airlines and industry analysts say.The price of jet fuel shot up after the Iran war began and retreated sharply in the spring before surging again as the summer went on. Such fluctuations make it harder for airlines to plan ahead and give them a reason to be cautious about lowering ticket prices, according to Brett House, an economist who teaches at Columbia Business School.Jet fuel has risen even fast
Fallosophy - Official Launch Trailer
Fallosophy is available now on PC (via Steam) and on Nintendo Switch at a later date in 2026. Check out the Fallosophy launch trailer for this pinball-inspired physics rage platformer for this game about climbing the history of ideas, but as a pinball.
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to […]
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In 2013, scholars discovered an anonymous report published in 1871 in Nature describing how a "very intense magnetic disturbance" disrupted rail travel in Exeter on the southern coast of England in October 1841. If accurate, this would be the earliest such account.
Hidden brain region helps regulate metabolism
"We identified a very understudied brain region and then found the first function for that brain region."
'Realistic' diet that can reduce your biological age in just weeks
The results of an Australian study are fuelling hopes that the closest thing yet to an elixir of youth may not be found in a laboratory or medicine cabinet - but on our dinner plates.
Atlanta City FC: NWSL Atlanta expansion side unveils new name and crest ahead of 2018 debut
Arthur Blank's expansion club unveiled a phoenix-inspired crest and signature Georgia Peach colors as it prepares to launch at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2028
Myanmar army air strike kills dozens in Rakhine state
Nearly half a million people are displaced in Rakhine as a result of the conflict between the military and rebel groups.
Trump rolls back a major Biden-era car rule. Here’s how it could affect your next vehicle
The Department of Transportation announced on Monday that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finalized new rules for fuel efficiency standards that will reverse standards set by the Biden administration. Whereas previous standards would have seen new vehicles average 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031, that threshold has now been reduced to 34.9 miles per gallon. President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that fuel efficiency standards would be reversed, touting on his T
David Harewood is still changing the game
The iconic actor takes on his first lead role in new crime drama ‘Pierre’
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is a rollback to fuel economy numbers not seen in more than a decade, below even the low standards implemented in 2020, the last time President Trump was in power. The new goal is just 34.9 mpg by model year 2031. This is nothing if not expected.
Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals
Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.
The invisible performance of ‘masking’ ADHD symptoms is exhausting
ADHD isn’t just about experiencing fidgeting, distractibility, forgetfulness or restlessness; it’s also about the hidden work adults do to hide those symptoms in their everyday lives.
MLB CBA negotiations timeline: Where things stand as Dec. 1 expiration creeps closer
With a potential work stoppage looming in baseball, we're keeping tabs on all the major steps in negotiations
Italian court convicts three Egyptian agents for kidnap of Giulio Regeni
Defendants were sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison over the 2016 fatal abduction of the Cambridge scholar.
SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit for the first time but returns home early
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had been aiming for a 10-hour flight, spanning six full laps around Earth, to prove its readiness for NASA’s Artemis moon program. Starship tipped over and erupted in flames upon s
U2's new album features track about "extraordinary artist" Rosalía, reveals Bono
U2’s upcoming album ‘Carnaval De Luz’ features a song written about the "extraordinary" Rosalía, Bono has revealed.
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows. But what of Chromebooks? There have been hints that Google plans to sunset its web-first ChromeOS platform, and a new support page lays out some of the specifics. The support page, spotted by 9to5Google, aims to explain the role of Googlebooks to Chrome Enterprise and Education customers.
NASA ORBIT Challenge 2027
1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge invites university and community college students nationwide to work with real NASA intellectual property and mission challenges. Choose your path: develop commercial applications of NASA patents that solve problems here on Earth (ORBIT Earth), or design next-generation technologies for space exploration (ORBIT Space).
Are there toxic chemicals in your grocery store receipt?
For most people, handling receipts is a low-risk activity, but if you’re concerned, there are some straightforward precautions you can take.
College basketball rankings: Kansas joins early Top 25 And 1 after Tre White cleared to play by court ruling
White can play for the Jayhawks this season after a judge grants a preliminary injunction
NFL asks US Homeland Security to remove video with former star player
Agency used video of Hall of Fame player Brian Dawkins to show readiness for border protection.
Dario Amodei’s ‘SNL’ treatment cements him as the face of AI doomerism
Dario Amodei is having a moment. The 43-year-old CEO of Anthropic has been making headlines for weeks after repeatedly advocating for greater regulation and a slower pace of AI development—despite the fact that his company is one of the largest AI developers in the world. This weekend, that discourse exploded even further in the cultural zeitgeist. On Thursday, Axios circulated a White House memo designed to push back on Amodei’s AI safety warnings ahead of the midterm elections; on
Slipknot fans hit back after Marilyn Manson announced as support act for UK show
The heavy metal band will be joined by the US rock musician during their London show.
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of "our most capable models" as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling "an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation." The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions during a routine research task during training.
Space Station View of Earth at Night
This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40 a.m. local time on Sept. 8, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above Earth. Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
Pharmalittle: We're reading about GLP-1s becoming lifestyle drugs, a setback for Merck and Daiichi, and more
Once promoted as tools to address obesity as a medical issue, GLP-1 drugs are increasingly being marketed as a way to look and feel better
Arkansas Sports Betting 2026: Best Legal AR Sportsbooks & Betting Apps
Find the best Arkansas sports betting apps in September 2026, and all you need to know about Arkansas sports betting.
Trump made the right decision to reject Iran’s offer
The US president has denied Tehran the opportunity to use the US midterm elections as a pressure point.
Home price shifts across America’s 50 largest metro housing markets
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. According to our analysis of the Zillow Home Value Index, U.S. home prices are up +1.3% year-over-year between August 2025 and August 2026. That year-over-year pace is up a tad from a year ago—back in August 2025, when the national year-over-year home price shift rate was -0.01%. The pace of national softening has lost momentum over the past 12 months—and has, on a nationally
6 Chinese Romantic Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video And Rakuten Viki
If you're new to C-dramas, start with When I Fly Towards You for a youthful romance, Love Is Sweet for workplace chemistry, or Eternal Love if you prefer grand fantasy romances.
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
Formula 1 raced on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, this past weekend. Although the race predates Liberty’s acquisition of the sport by a few months, it’s a rather good microcosm of the sport as it exists today. The track is a real challenge; it takes place on dusty city streets lined with concrete walls and through a medieval fortress gate, followed by a 1.4-mile (2.2 km) flat-out blast to the finish line, with gusts of wind from the Caspian Sea a block away.
NASA, Boeing Share Update on Commercial Starliner Development Plans
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port.
AbbVie wins FDA nod for Parkinson's pill
The FDA has approved AbbVie’s once-daily Parkinson’s pill for sales, based on a late-stage study that showed the drug helped improve symptoms.
Spurs' Stephon Castle says Knicks crowd at MSG was 'underwhelming' in NBA Finals, OKC fans were 'way louder'
Castle thought the road environment in Oklahoma City was a different challenge than in New York City last spring
American and six Ukrainians released by India after six months in jail
Matthew VanDyke and six Ukrainians were accused of smuggling weapons and drones to armed ethnic groups fighting India.
84% of investors say rising home insurance premiums impacted their cash flow in 2026
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. ResiClub once again teamed up with LendingOne, one of the fastest-growing private real estate lenders in the country, to run a survey of single-family rental investors. Investors who own at least one single-family investment property were eligible to respond to our survey, which was fielded between August 17 and September 14. In total, 216 qualified single-family investors/la
Don’t Breathe 3 Just Got the Sequel Update Fans Have Been Waiting For
Fede Álvarez confirms Don’t Breathe 3 is moving forward, with Jane Levy and Stephen Lang set to return to the horror franchise.
Watch Trump, Anthropic CEO Take AI Safety Debate to Dinner - Bloomberg
President Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met for dinner as their opposing views on AI safety increasingly shape the debate over how quickly the technology should advance. Amodei has called for “pacing” development of the most advanced models and stronger guardrails, while President Trum
Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
Another federal appeals court has ruled that states can enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government. On Friday, a three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously against Kalshi and in favor of Ohio and Tennessee. While the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over "swaps," the judges found that sports wagers offered on Kalshi do not meet the legal definition of swaps.
NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission
6 min read NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost Mission A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor Katalyst Space have gained valuable experience that will benefit future in-space servicing programs. “From the beginning, this was a high-risk, high-reward mission,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Without intervention, Swift was going to re-enter the atmosphere by year’s end.
Thirteen ill, eight hospitalized after eating raw cheese
Health officials are warning of a multi-state outbreak of deadly bacteria linked to raw cheese. Thirteen people have been sickened and three left with life-threatening kidney injuries.
Today's top games to watch, best bets, odds: Eagles vs. Bears on MNF and more
Find best bets for the biggest games in sports on Monday from the SportsLine Projection Model and top CBS Sports experts
UAE confirms Netanyahu visit to Abu Dhabi
The visit takes place as the Israeli prime minister battles domestic turmoil ahead of October's Knesset elections
Boats Group Appoints Marine Review Expert Jack Haines to Drive Content Expansion and Social Channel Growth
/PRNewswire/ -- Boats Group, the technology leader powering the world's premier online boating marketplaces, today announced the appointment of marine...
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ New John Wick-Like TV Show Quickly Proves to Be Polarizing Among Critics
Catherine Zeta-Jones new action thriller television series gets mixed critical reviews ahead of streaming debut.