Friday, 2 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Gene Autry in 1942. Autry died on this date in 1998.
Harry Warnecke / Robert F. Cranston · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The SEC has proposed letting public companies report earnings every six months instead of every quarter, citing cost savings and long-term thinking, and drew a record 280,000-plus comments, over 99% opposed, most from ordinary investors.
Most of the soldiers Cortés brought into Mexico were local peoples who resented Aztec rule, and Pizarro simply copied the same play in Peru.
California's governor signed a batch of laws barring employers from using AI to discipline or fire workers without human review, to surveil bathrooms, or to infer employees' emotions, and requiring licensed clinicians to make clinical decisions.
African companies and governments are rushing to adopt AI built in the US and China without the ability to test whether it is safe for their own people; African officials told the UN they want a role in writing the rules.
Administrators across US schools are using investigations, funding threats and campus police to suppress student journalism, and they usually go after the faculty adviser rather than the students.
China is building two low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations at once, and what is holding both back is not satellites but the rockets needed to launch them.
Voting is the last step of a movement, not a substitute for one; without people who keep organising between elections, a ballot buys very little, and shrinking politics down to voting was the point.
Split software into modules with contracts you can state precisely and reliability becomes something you can budget; leave the boundaries vague and the multiplication turns every small fault into a system-wide failure.
Micron's latest quarterly profit jumped 1,078% year on year on a 70% net margin, with roughly $1.57 million of net profit per employee over the past year, driven by AI data-centre demand for memory chips.
