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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
Trump's New America.gov Chatbot Seems to Drop Acid When You Tell It to Play Minecraft
We know why.
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
Caitlin Clark's historic performance propels Fever past Aces in Game 2, sets up decisive Game 3 in Las Vegas
Clark became the first player in WNBA history with a 25-point, 15-assist game to help set up decisive Game 3 in Las Vegas
What is embryonal carcinoma? Superman actor Christopher Reeve’s son Will revealed that he was diagnosed with the rare testicular cancer a few months after his wedding
Will Reeve, son of the legendary actor Christopher Reeve, has publicly shared his recent battle with testicular cancer. After discovering a hard lump, he underwent surgery to find he had embryonal carcinoma, a notably aggressive form of cancer. Although he faced numerous side effects during chemothe
‘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
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.
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 »
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.
Bear #89 (Backpack) wins Fat Bear Week 2026
Backpack defeated Bear #910 to take the title.
I Ate Raspberries Every Day for a Week—and I Noticed Two Big Changes In How I Felt
These little morsels are one of the healthiest foods you can eat.
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.
North Korea to boost tactical counterattack capabilities near border with South Korea
Head of a department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Yo-Jong also warned that if fire is opened on North Korean military personnel, border units will deliver an "immediate and merciless retaliatory strike"
DPM Metals Inc. (DPM:CA) Presents at Mining Forum Americas 2026 - Slideshow (TSX:DPM:CA) 2026-09-29
2026-09-29. The following slide deck was published by DPM Metals Inc.
Supreme Court lets Trump resume deportations to countries migrants have no ties to
The decision marked the third time the high court has allowed the Trump administration to temporarily enforce the policy. The court has also agreed to hear full oral arguments on the legality of the policy in December
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.
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.
Spectacular feathered dinosaur fossil shows bird-like adaptations
The newly discovered dinosaur Norellraptor barsboldiAndrea Cau et al., Nature Communications (2026) A remarkable and near-complete feathered dinosaur fossil discovered in China has many of the same adaptations for flight found in birds, but probably evolved them independently. The 57-centimetre-long fossil is between 100 million and 145 million years old, and was discovered by a farmer near the town of Lamadong in Liaoning, China. Read more The shocking fossils that show T.
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.
Fantasy football Week 4 TE preview: Slate is filled with excellent options but several stand as must starts
The tight end position is scoring more points across the board in 2026 Fantasy leagues which leads us to a new crop of TEs worth starting in Week 4
Protesters block Orange Order march in Northern Ireland
Protesters block Orange Order route into Catholic area of Portadown after court allows march for first time in 28 years.
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.
Young Guns 3: Kiefer Sutherland Gives Best Update Yet for Western Movie Sequel
Kiefer Sutherland has revealed the best piece of information that fans could have hoped for about the Young Guns franchise.
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.
Norwegian 12-year-olds: British English is 'cringe'
"Basically." "Literally." "Girl…!"
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.
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 ...
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.
Morocco’s pro-Palestine protests challenge Rabat’s deepening Israel ties
Protests across Morocco highlight gap between public opposition to normalisation and Rabat’s closer ties with Israel.
SES Successfully Prices €500 million Eurobond
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Chad Lowe’s daughter Fiona dead at 13: ‘We are deeply heartbroken’
The actor’s middle child has tragically died.
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.
How will El Niño affect the world?
From Australia to California, the UK to Peru, turbulent weather is on the way
When Picky Eating is Actually a Psychiatric Disorder | National Geographic
People who have certain medical conditions also seem to be at higher risk for ARFID. ... HEALTH CONDITIONS · HEALTHY EATING · MENTAL HEALTH. You May ...
Chris Holtmann, DePaul agree to contract extension
DePaul coach Chris Holtmann has agreed to a contract extension that runs through the 2030-31 season.
Somali pirates killed five crew members on hijacked tanker, officials say
The deaths appear to be the first at the hands of Somali pirates in more than a decade.
‘My rogue AI agent texted my ex’: The new meme that lets you pass the blame for your worst behavior
It seems that every other day a new frontier model has made its way somewhere it shouldn’t—so much so that it’s now a meme. In recent months, OpenAI’s agents have managed to hack software company Hugging Face, a German website, and coding website RubyGems. Anthropic’s agents have also had their fair share of “cybersecurity incidents,” with four recorded incidents of agents accessing third-party systems without authorizations. And Google’s Gemini
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.
OpenAI launches always-on AI agents a day after apologizing for a hack by its bots
OpenAI launched a new agent product focused on continuous work just a day after it announced it had refrained from releasing its latest system due to safety concerns.
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.
Trustworthy science journalism is more essential than ever
A demonstration against AI data centres in Edinburgh, UKjeremy sutton-hibbert/Alamy “A giant asteroid strike, global warming, a new plague, or nanomachines going rogue and turning everything into grey goo.” This was a list of the biggest threats we faced, as predicted by a feature to mark New Scientist’s 60th birthday in 2016. “Another threat is artificial intelligence,” we wrote.
Exercise may reshape your gut microbiome to support recovery - News-Medical
The high and growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases, including metabolic, cardiovascular, oncological, and neurodegenerative disorders, ...
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
Online safety boss flags exit, notes power imbalance between big tech and regulator
“With this new digital duty of care and this new era coming about, I think it will be great to have new leadership,” the eSafety Comissioner says.
Who Gets Your TFSA When You Die? Check the Name on Your Account
The name attached to your TFSA could determine how smoothly the account passes to your family after death.
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."
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $8.2 billion. In 2024, computer vision scientist Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs with fellow researchers Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall, with $230 million in funding, some of which came from AMD. The company began working on new world models, which are AI models that aim to provide a useful, predictive simulation of the physical world.
Why are so many animals moving to hotter places as the world warms?
We have long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually doing the opposite. What on earth is going on?
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.
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
US Senate blocks resolution seeking report on Americans killed in West Bank
The resolution cites a 'lack of accountability' by Israel's government and an 'inability to secure justice' by the US.
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.
“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.
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
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
Urban trees in south-east England can’t cope with the changing climate
In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start replacing them with drought-adapted species
'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 ...
Wild Card Series Game 1 winners, losers: Austin Riley plays hero, White Sox start strong (with help from Pope)
The Phillies' Jhoan Duran plan backfired and the Braves took a 1-0 series lead, while the White Sox out-bullpened the Astros
King appoints Morocco’s first female prime minister
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Marrakesh’s long-time mayor as the country’s first female prime minister.
Disney cuts hundreds more jobs for third round of layoffs under new CEO
Hundreds more layoffs just hit Disney, as workers had been anticipating. On Tuesday, Deadline was the first to report that the company’s most recent cuts would impact several hundred employees. A spokesperson for Disney told the outlet that the layoffs primarily impact those in human resources and technology roles. Prior to the announcement, Disney had warned in its August earnings report that cuts were looming: “We remain highly focused on reducing costs across the enterprise
Game of Thrones Movie Aegon’s Conquest Gets Release Date, Director in Huge Update
Westeros is heading to theaters as the first Game of Thrones movie locks in its director and official release date.