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The smartphone is becoming the agent
Your smartphone already knows where you are, what time your next meeting starts, and which apps you use. Alibaba now wants it to do something with all that information. The company is betting on that idea with Qwen Intelligence, a platform designed to help smartphone makers build AI agents directly
Norwegian 12-year-olds: British English is 'cringe'
"Basically." "Literally." "Girl…!"
Insects are essential to vertebrate life—as food, shelter and medicine
While insects provide an essential food source for many vertebrate species, they're more than just a protein-laden snack. Chimpanzees use them to sterilize wounds, and herons use them as fishing bait. Sloths rely on moths to maintain the algae in their fur, which they then eat. Birds and reptiles la
France faces needle and syringe shortage
Pharmacies struggle to secure key medical supplies ahead of vaccine program
Forrestania boosts gold resource at WA hub
Forrestania Resources has bolstered its WA gold inventory, tabling a new 285,700-ounce resource for its Ladies project and lifting high-confidence ounces by 43 per cent.
India’s Ujjain tense as mosque partially demolished for Hindu pilgrimage
Fearing outright demolition, Muslims volunteer to take down parts of the city's Shahi Mosque themselves.
How to make a big ask of a colleague
Self-reliance is a virtue that is drilled into most of us from an early age. After all, most of the work you’re asked to do in school from kindergarten onward through college is done individually. Group work is done sparingly. When a student does ask for help, teachers are reluctant to give answers away. They often answer cagily at best, and so many students will stop asking for assistance. These habits are so deeply ingrained that they are likely to persist well into your work life. As a res
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ prison release date moved up again, could be out sooner
Sean 'Diddy' Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison after being convicted in July 2025
Trump hosted tech leaders for an AI power lunch
The president announced the signing of "a morally binding agreement" with AI companies on self-regulation. It was a rare tech industry lunch that …
Trump's New America.gov Chatbot Seems to Drop Acid When You Tell It to Play Minecraft
We know why.
Crystal spacing predicts magnetic states in complex alloys better than electron count
In materials chemistry, identifying common parameters that can organize magnetic ground states across complex intermetallic compounds remains a central challenge. Researchers have long used chemically tunable parameters to control magnetic properties. One is valence-electron concentration, commonly
'The story is always the same': NC officials confront broken involuntary commitment system
These are just a few of the many issues within a larger, more complex mental health system that this committee was formed to address. A mandate for ...
Dodgers expect healthier Shohei Ohtani for NLDS opener
The Dodgers, aided by a lengthy break before they open the playoffs, expect a healthier Shohei Ohtani at the top of their lineup for the postseason.
Gentle giant Backpack declared the winner of Alaska’s Fat Bear Week
The contest celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.
‘ChatGPT for the win’: Parents are using AI to skip out on children’s school photo day
With a new school year underway, kids everywhere are saying “cheese” for school picture day—but some penny-pinching parents are cutting photographers out of the equation. In their place, those parents are employing artificial intelligence to generate picture day-style images of their children. Others are getting their kids’ pictures taken as normal, but avoiding paying for the final images by using AI agents to erase watermarks from the proofs. Both methods may be cheaper than she
“BBC Dad” Shares Photos of "Very Grown Up" Kids 9 Years After They Crashed Viral Interview
Nearly 10 years after professor Robert Kelly went viral when his kids crashed his live interview on the BBC, he shared pictures of his “very grown-up” kids.
DeepSeek Unveils Huawei AI Chip Tools That May Replace Nvidia’s
DeepSeek has publicly released software it created with Huawei Technologies Co. to program AI chips, showcasing its close partnership with the Chinese company working to develop technologies to replace Nvidia Corp.
Glencore Secures Approval for Key Australian Coal Mine Expansion
Glencore Plc and Yancoal Australia Ltd. have received approval for a major expansion of their jointly owned coal mines in the Hunter Valley region of eastern Australia that enables operations to continue until 2045.
Emissions after the Paris accord made Europe’s heatwaves more severe
Nature, Published online: 29 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03035-wA heatwave in 2025 would have been one-third of a degree cooler without the greenhouse gases released since 2015.
Family told to call locksmith over mental health fears
A force should have flagged mental health services after a family called about their son, IOPC says.
Radley dodges sin bin after ugly tackle
Victor Radley was lucky not to be sin binned when he was penalised for an ugly hip-drop tackle on Herbie Farnworth.
Double beds, aircon and big-screen TVs: Indonesia suspends officials over luxury prison cells
The discovery of the compound has renewed scrutiny of Indonesia’s prisons, which have long faced allegations that well-connected inmates can obtain preferential treatment through bribery
Inox Clean Energy IPO: INOXGFL Group Firm Files DRHP To Raise Up To Rs 10,000 Crore
Inox Clean Energy IPO: The proposed IPO will comprise a fresh issue of equity shares worth up to Rs 8,000 crore and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of shares worth up to Rs 2,000 crore.
Hoda Kotb Shares "Worry" Over Daughter Hope’s Health 3 Years After Diabetes Diagnosis
Hoda Kotb said she often monitors daughter Hope's insulin levels "all night" after the 7-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2023: "I am concerned."
I Bought a $60 Course on How to Make AI Sound Human
It was the worst $60 I ever spent, but I did learn something intriguingContinue reading on Ai-Ai-OH »
CVE-2026-102599 Engine.IO Transport Upgrade denial of service
A vulnerability was identified in Engine.IO up to 6.6.9. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-102599. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Dinosaur snacked on seaweed washed up on North American coasts, fossil teeth suggest
Storms routinely wash marine material ashore, providing food for land animals and other organisms. This is known as marine subsidization (MS). Today, MS is particularly common in coastal ecosystems and is especially important to animals when land ecosystems produce less food than usual, such as duri
Hidden habits that make your social anxiety worse - and how to break them
Social anxiety is more common than many think. Here's what you need to know about the condition.
Red Sox OF Anthony (hand) exits early; Game 2 status unclear
It's unclear whether Red Sox OF Roman Anthony will be available for Game 2 of their AL Wild Card Series after suffering an injury to the same hand that sidelined him for nearly four months.
Hegseth to cut number of US general and admiral positions by 20%
Pentagon official says the plan will be announced in the defence secretary's 'State of the Force' address in Virginia.
MongoDB, Inc. (MDB) Analyst/Investor Day Transcript
MongoDB, Inc. (MDB) Analyst/Investor Day September 29, 2026 11:00 AM EDTCompany ParticipantsJess Lubert - Vice President of Investor RelationsMichael Berry...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan warms hearts after returning from Paris Fashion Week: Invites paparazzi to take group pics
Fashioning her burgundy hair, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan returned from Paris. Upon returning on Tuesday night, the actress shared a warm interaction with the paparazzi at the airport when she stopped to take a group photo with them.
Cheap smartphones could soon be a thing of the past, as AI boom snaps up chips — more than 230 million devices a year could be gone by the end of the decade
You might want to forget about that upgrade
Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
Researchers published late-stage clinical trial data today for the latest obesity drug, retatrutide—expected to be the most powerful formula yet—and the results appear in line with high expectations. Patients with obesity on the highest retatrutide dose lost an average of 25 percent of their body weight after 80 weeks, and an average of 30 percent after an extension period to 104 weeks.
APOD: 2026 September 30 – Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 30 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries Explanation: Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries.
Federal lawsuit filed after man with mental health conditions dies of dehydration in the ...
The family of Tommy Ricke, who had known mental health conditions, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against multiple parties following ...
Aces star A'ja Wilson receives technical foul after heated interaction with Fever fan: 'That is unacceptable'
Wilson exchanged words with a Fever fan sitting behind the basket after a fourth-quarter foul
OpenAI launches ‘dots,’ personal AI assistant ‘built to handle everything’
AI giant launches 'dots' to rival Meta's Muse and Google's Gemini Spark.
Forrestania boosts gold resource at WA hub
Forrestania Resources has bolstered its WA gold inventory, tabling a new 285,700-ounce resource for its Ladies project and lifting high-confidence ounces by 43 per cent.
Cornell Accuser Told Police She Was Raped in 2024, Transcript Reveals
The Cornell student at the center of a reopened criminal investigation told campus police, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped" ... a detail that was not included in the district attorney's summary of the initial interview.
Unlocking AI as a research tool for plant microscopy
Software created by University of Queensland scientists could help AI platforms overcome a blind spot limiting their value in plant research. UQ Ph.D. student Tianqi Wei said even advanced vision-language models (VLMs) had difficulty interpreting images of microscopic plant details.
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?, a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture "shows OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.” One of the co-creators of the piece, a man in his “late 30s” who gave his name as “Kevin,” said that he and members of the Berkeley-based Odd Friend Studio spent the last five days working to build What Iceberg? out of
Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Powerful Storms Continue to… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search The northeastern and central Pacific basins are busy with tropical cyclone activity in this image acqu
Menopause supplements are no better than 6p multivitamins
Supplements that claim to tackle symptoms of the menopause are overpriced and no more beneficial than a bog-standard multivitamin, researchers have concluded.
USMNT's exciting next generation offers mixed results in win against Chile
The USMNT came back from 2-1 down to beat Chile 4-2 on Tuesday with Sebastian Berhalter notching a goal and assist, while newcomers Julian Hall and Mathis Albert also scored
Trump calls Kim Jong Un a ‘friend’ and plays down N Korea’s nuclear arsenal
US president's comments came after he was asked why North Korea can have nuclear weapons when Iran cannot.
Opec+ likely to stick with plan for steady quotas, delegates say
Nations will probably ratify their existing roadmap to keep targets unchanged in November Read more at The Business Times.
Jennifer Lawrence To Star in Resident Evil Director Zach Cregger’s Sci-Fi Thriller The Flood
Jennifer Lawrence will star in The Flood, Zach Cregger's sci-fi thriller. The Resident Evil director calls it his most disturbing film yet.
Deloitte UK Partner Pay Grows to $1.5 Million on AI Demand
Deloitte’s UK business paid its equity partners an average of about £1.13 million ($1.5 million) last year, up 7% from the year prior as the firm said demand for advice on artificial intelligence drove profit.
Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission.
Bear #89 (Backpack) wins Fat Bear Week 2026
Backpack defeated Bear #910 to take the title.
Medical Applications of Graph Convolutional Networks Using Electronic Health Records
Reported limitations included data-related challenges (68%), model-related issues (60%), and application-level barriers (28%), involving data ...
Fare and trip times set for direct shuttle link to Sydney’s new airport
The shuttle bus connection will offer passengers a quicker but more expensive journey than public transport to Western Sydney International Airport.
‘No clarity’: New rules leave home buyers and sellers in the dark
New laws aim to improve transparency in the property market, but it remains unclear where consumers can find certain types of information.
CIO Launches SmartCoby Ultra Slim SS5K on Kickstarter, Building on Ultra Slim 3K's Breakout Crowdfunding Success
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Chad Lowe’s daughter Fiona dead at 13: ‘We are deeply heartbroken’
The actor’s middle child has tragically died.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help? - Engadget
AI companies have quickly readied tools to assist in the research legal cases after some lawyers were fined for using filings filled with fake case citations.
Charts show 40% of the world is exposed to dangerous levels of ozone
Scientists from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service say that extreme heat and human-caused air pollution have boosted the amount of ozone at ground-level.
New York prosecutors reopen investigation into alleged rape at Cornell University
An investigation into an alleged gang rape in 2024 at Cornell University has been reopened after the woman who reported the assault sued the school and others. At the time, no criminal charges were filed, though Cornell said it investigated and took disciplinary action, including suspensions and exp
Lynx crash out of playoffs as Liberty become first No. 8 seed to down a No. 1 seed in WNBA playoff history
The Lynx showed little fight in the 87-71 loss on Tuesday night
Middle aged woman to be executed for 1995 teen murder
Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is due to be executed by lethal in...
SES Successfully Prices €500 million Eurobond
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How ‘Harry Potter’ Accidentally Helped Create a Real-Life Owl Crisis
Fans wanted their own Hedwig, but many underestimated the cost and care involved, leaving sanctuaries to deal with the fallout.