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AI Slowdown: The Devil’s in the Details
AI leaders loosely agree to pace development, but China and Trump have something else in mind

Samsung quietly makes the Galaxy A08 official with a bigger battery
And that seems to be the only hardware upgrade it brings. A few days ago, the Samsung Galaxy A08 was listed by an online retailer in the UAE, and now the...
Scientists built a floating farm that grew broccoli, lettuce and pak choi using seawater; all three had over 80% germination
Scientists have developed a floating farm that uses sunlight to turn seawater into fresh irrigation water, allowing vegetables to grow without relying on conventional freshwater supplies. The experimental system, known as a double-layered vertical solar sea farm, produced enough clean water to suppo

Lumos gains traction with US rollout of flagship point-of-care respiratory test | Stockhead
Lumos Diagnostics (ASX:LDX) gains traction with the US commercial rollout of its FebriDx point-of-care test.

These five rookies balled out in their NFL debuts, but is their early success sustainable?
A closer look at snap counts, pressure rates, usage and other underlying numbers helps separate potentially sustainable rookie performances from one-game outliers
Athletes share ‘what women in sport look like’ to rebut Sydney Sweeney ad
Female athletes are against a sports-betting ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.

Sabbaticals are a powerful retention tool. Here’s the research to prove it
Formal sabbatical policies are increasingly attractive for employees, but are often misunderstood by companies considering them. Giving employees more than a vacation—months, not days or weeks—provides unexpected benefits to companies: combatting burnout, building culture, encouraging work-life balance, and satisfying younger workers. Addressing burnout takes longer than a weekend/vacation First, a sabbatical provides enough time to truly recover and return to who you are outside your job.

Free-to-air TV crowned Australia’s most trusted news source
Almost 90 per cent of those surveyed trust TV more than social media, AI content and most other news sources.

Technology sovereignty is about keeping control, not geography
Sovereignty depends on retaining operational command, oversight, and choice
The Dimensity 9600 Pro is the flagship chipset Google wishes the Tensor G6 was
From Triple-SIM Triple Active to 4K/240fps slow-mo video and VVC support, there's a lot to like here.
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Is porridge really the healthiest breakfast?
It's been shown time and time again that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.
Analyzing the Chiefs' win over the Broncos
Making his Chiefs debut, Kenneth Walker III powered Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs past the Broncos.
US repeals pollution limits for fossil fuel power plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency ends a rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants.

This startup just raised $32 million to build solar farms using robots—and much less land
Solar farms have a land problem. When a new project was planned in a St. Louis suburb, the county zoning board rejected the design, arguing that it took up too much space and sat too close to a neighboring subdivision. The developer then turned to a startup called Planted to rethink the plan using a digital twin and robots. The result: The project used 40% less land to produce the same amount of power, allowing it to move forward.At a time when energy demand is surging, but solar projects often

Five things you may not know about Emmy history-maker Matthew Rhys
The Welsh actor became the first person to win two lead acting prizes in one night at the Emmy Awards.
Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.

Never mind Pixel HiLight: These upcoming Pro flagships will officially have a rear screen
Xiaomi has officially announced that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series is coming, while showing off the rear display.
One of the fundamental forces is stronger than we thought
The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle physics

PROFESSOR ROB GALLOWAY: What two patients taught me about ageing well
I've spent enough time working in A&E to know that living longer and living well are two very different things.

NFL Week 2 picks and score predictions: Bills top Lions in Thursday shootout, Seahawks suffer shocking loss
Here's your weekly dose of John Breech's NFL picks
Why is pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suing Columbia University?
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University and its dean for alleged institutional racism targeting pro-Palestine students.

Wall Street Breakfast Podcast: Alarm Bells On Wall Street (NYSEARCA:SPY)
One Wall Street firm sees a painful replay of 2018. Verizon, T-Mobile are finally calling a truce in their ad war. One Costco staple just got a lot more expensive and harder to buy.

Catherine O'Hara honoured by on-screen children at Emmys
Catherine O'Hara has been honoured by three of her on-screen children – Macaulay Culkin, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy – during the Emmy Awards.
Oracle starts new round of layoffs as AI spending rises
Oracle had 141,000 employees in May, down from 162,000 a year earlier.
Claude could soon get a feature that lets it peep into your bank account
You'll obviously have to give it the necessary permissions once the feature becomes available.

FLEX and Sentinel-3C launched
The European Space Agency’s FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in Europe’s Earth Observation Programmes.

Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.

Chiefs vs. Broncos overreactions: Should Sean Payton reclaim play-calling duties? Patrick Mahomes fully back?
Are these storylines from Kansas City's 'Monday Night Football' win over Denver valid or mere overreactions?
Nairobi to host World Athletics Championships in 2029
Nairobi beats London, Munich and Rome to become the first African hosts, World Athletics says.

Why simpler food labels require sophisticated innovation
Consumers are asking food companies to deliver more in every product. They increasingly want recognizable ingredients and shorter, simpler labels. At the same time, they still expect great taste, appealing texture, nutritional value, consistent quality, and affordability. For manufacturers, those expectations are arriving as a tidal wave rather than as separate trends. Consumers want all these attributes in a single package and have little patience for trade-offs. A more familiar ingredient l

‘Russian Actress Ke Saath Adventure Movie Karo’: Fan’s Unusual Request Leaves Shah Rukh Khan Surprised
Shah Rukh Khan gave a hilarious response to a fan's unusual request during an #AskSRK session to work with a Russian actress in an adventure film.
Apple Siri AI: A waitlist, English only, and not on EU iPhones
Apple shipped iOS 27 on Monday, and the rebuilt Siri AI does not come with it in the European Union. Apple's own availability notes rule out iOS, iPadOS and watchOS in the EU. A Mac or a Vision Pro still works, as long as the device is set to English. Everyone else signs up for a waitlist. Daily usa

I’ve finally found a cooler box that won’t take over my shed for 11 months of the year, and it's not a YETI
While not in the same ice-retention league as a YETI, the Coleman Snap 'N Go beats the pants off it for storability

First-of-a-kind virus stopper now has $10 million in backing from US military
A convenient nasal spray is a serious contender for treating a bunch of respiratory viral infections, including the common cold.

NHS to roll out at-home HPV cervical screenings in Wolverhampton
Eligible women will be able to order a free self-testing kit online through the NHS app.

Much sought-after O'Neill named in N Ireland squad
Ceadach O'Neill, who has attracted interest from the FAI, has been named in the Northern Ireland squad for the upcoming Nations League games.
Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed
The Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region.

Google researchers have been playing with AI ‘consciousness.’ What they found was unexpected
On the surface, stopping artificial intelligence from seeing itself as conscious seems like a no-brainer. An AI model that sees itself as possessing individual emotions, beliefs, and consciousness can promote harmful delusions in its users and lead to overly personal human-machine relationships. But when AI loses its sense of self, what else falls by the wayside? AI researchers at Google put that question to the test, removing the safety guardrails that keep AI models from claiming to b

Dolly Parton remembered by Sally Field and Reba McEntire at 2026 Emmys: “If there are truly angels on Earth, then we just lost one"
Dolly Parton was honoured at the 2026 Emmy Awards, with Sally Field and Reba McEntire paying tribute to the late country legend.

Kioxia is pushing NAND closer to DRAM territory
AI's memory appetite gives Kioxia a reason to turn ultra-fast NAND into a serious DRAM alternative for data centers

Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh
Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. There must be a case of upgrade fever taking hold in Gothenburg. Yesterday, we saw the revised Volvo XC40; today it’s the turn of another pair of Volvo SUVs, the bestselling XC60 and the three-row XC90.
Will El Niño bring winter snow to the UK?
Will El Niño bring winter snow to the UK? Matt Taylor looks ahead to the autumn and winter months.

Fruit juice now banned in school dinner crackdown
The Government has banned primary schools from serving fruit juice in a bid to reduce children's sugar intake, sparking a wave of backlash from diet experts.

PGA Tour sets new membership criteria, eligibility ahead of landscape-changing 2028 restructuring
Hundreds of players will find homes in the Championship Series or Challenger Series when the PGA Tour reformats in 2028
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will pause attacks if Russia spares infrastructure
Zelenskyy insists de-escalation depends on US ensuring Russia's genuine readiness to stop war and attacks on Ukraine.
AQ is the new IQ
What does it take to operate, let alone succeed, in an environment where the pace is relentless, the stakes are massive, and every decision carries a risk of failure, at least on some scale? How do you orient yourself when you know you can’t rely on the past to inform your sense of what might happen next? How can you hold deep-seated biases at bay, keep your emotions in check, and step outside of your own perspective—“telescope up,” as I like to say—when it’s time to pull the trigger and execute

Home Alone and Schitt's Creek stars pay tribute to late Catherine O'Hara
Tributes were also paid to Dolly Parton, James Van Der Beek and Tim Curry.

US Senator Sanders and podcaster Bannon, longtime foes, to urge AI restrictions
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans.

Trump privately met with OpenAI’s Altman at GOP convention, MS Now reports
Sept 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met privately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, MS Now reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the meeting.

'Unfit For Office': Donald Trump Condemned For Dismissing AI Warnings As 'A Hoax'
The US president was accused of “gaslighting” the world.
MedStar Health doctors train for rare emergency scenarios - WBAL-TV
Others may have none at all, just because of the frequency of those medical conditions and the frequency with which they present to the ED, but they ...

Week 2 NFL odds, picks, predictions: Computer model backs Seahawks and Buccaneers
SportsLine's advanced model has simulated every game in the Week 2 NFL schedule 10,000 times and locked in its NFL best bets today

Pensioners are ‘big winners’ with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to £13,000 – business live
Wage growth – used to set triple-lock pension – slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit £13,000 next year

R/GA’s new tool helps brands embrace the hyper-personalized future of advertising
The creative company R/GA thinks the marketing and advertising campaigns of the future will act like living systems, evolving with real-time data and responding to site-specific conditions. To make that possible, it says new platforms will have to come online—and it’s starting with a new AI tool called the BRDNA Sequencer. The BRDNA Sequencer trains itself on a company’s brand guidelines—including fonts, colors, layout rules, and tone of voice—and translates them into a format that arti

Beabadoobee – ‘Pylon’ review: making peace with the mess of being in your mid-twenties
Beabadoobee embraces uncertainty on 'Pylon', her rawer, more forceful fourth album - read the NME review here.

CVE-2026-89141 tigroumeow AI Engine Plugin Public API module access control
A vulnerability was found in tigroumeow AI Engine Plugin up to 3.7.7 on WordPress. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-89141.

Dell's DFO Management and Sequence to take Baldwin private in $7.7 billion deal
Sept 14 (Reuters) - Dell chief Michael Dell's DFO Management, along with Sequence Holdings, will take Baldwin Group private in a $7.7 billion deal, the companies said on Monday, providing the insurance broker greater flexibility to pursue AI investments.

3,800 mph-speeding Blackbeard hypersonic missile ordered by US Navy
The US Navy has placed an order for Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic weapons, advancing the air-launched system into production.
National Recovery Month: Shining Light On The VA Substance Abuse Recovery Program (SARP)
... Program (SARP) Increasing awareness about recovery from mental health and substance use conditions through VA treatment and support services.

Olympiacos vs Jagiellonia Bialystok Prediction and Betting Tips | September 16th 2026
Olympiacos will welcome Jagiellonia Bialystok to the Karaiskakis Stadium in their UEFA Europa League campaign opener on Wednesday.
Benchmark US government bond yield hits 19-year peak as oil prices surge
The 10-year US Treasury yield hit 5.02 percent on Tuesday for the first time since the 2007 global financial crisis.

Nearly 72% of Americans have this health complaint, new CDC report finds
If you regularly feel tired, you’re not alone. In fact, according to a recent study, most Americans experience fatigue fairly regularly. A report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s health statistics agency, 71.5% of U.S. adults experience fatigue at least a few times within a three-month period. The study used reported data from the 2024 National Health Interview Survey to estimate fatigue symptoms for individuals ages 18 and old

Watch Taylor Swift make surprise appearance at the 2026 Emmys
Taylor Swift has made a surprise appearance at the 2026 Emmys, appearing alongside Mariska Hargitay for a 'Law & Order: SVU' sketch.