Thursday, 1 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Choir of the Málaga Cathedral, Andalusia, Spain. The Roman Catholic church was built in the Renaissance architectural tradition between 1528 and 1782 following the plans drawn by Diego de Siloe. The temple is considered one of the Renaissance jewels in all Andalusia.
Magnet Forensics claims it can bypass Apple's 72-hour auto-reboot and freeze an iPhone in a state where the data inside is far easier for police to reach.
The US has rewritten a fifty-year-old rule: destroying an endangered animal's home no longer counts as harm, as long as you were not aiming at the animal.
The author expected that organising AI agents would take years of careful human design; the models turned out to be good at it, because most management exists to fix problems that only people have.
China has recovered rocket boosters with Long March 10B and Zhuque-3, while countering Starlink through mass spectrum filings and jamming research — though destroying it kinetically would also wreck China's own orbital assets.
The MAHA movement was built on anti-vaccine activism, but its summit ahead of the midterms dropped vaccines entirely and turned into a sponsor showcase, with top slots going for $300,000.
Researchers had an AI read a full earnings filing, then had it judge a 20-point summary of the same text: the buy or sell call flipped on a quarter to a third of the stocks.
The incidents read as AI going rogue are really models with no ability to step outside the script and question what they are doing.
Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund has put about $8 billion into Lucid and owns 58% of it, yet its own EV brand Ceer just unveiled two models aimed squarely at Lucid's luxury segment.
A study of nearly 3,000 Spanish speakers found that pauses, pace and word choice in everyday speech can be fed to a machine-learning model that estimates how fast the brain is aging, pointing the same direction as costly MRI scans and blood tests.
New recordings from electrodes implanted in epilepsy patients show that neural activity travels not just as simple back-and-forth planar waves but also as spirals and concentric rings, and that the shape changes with the task a person is doing.
Physical and mental collapse looks sudden, but the moment it happens is just the last straw on a load that was piling up for months or years.
The author argues that men shielding the women beside them in disasters is not manners but an evolutionary instinct that merely lies dormant today.
Futu, Robinhood and Webull dominate Chinese-language finance chatter online, yet they manage 94, 39 and 600 times less money than BlackRock respectively.
