A digest of top world and technology headlines, pulled from a handful of publisher feeds once a day and stored here. Every link goes straight to the original story.
77 stories published this day.
NPR World
Russians head to the polls to choose lawmakers for their parliament, the Duma. It's Russia's first nationwide parliamentary race since launching its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
BBC World
The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media throughout his political career.
The Guardian
President repeats longstanding grievances and familiar attacks on ‘fake news’ in latest effort to restrict press freedomTrump bans CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White HouseSign up for the US Breaking News emailShapiro and Newsom aren’t the only governors making moves on AI lately.Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, announced at a news conference today plans for tighter rules on data center development in order to address transparency, energy use and environmental concerns. And Nevada’s governor, Joe Lombardo, a Republican, signed an executive order aimed at tackling similar issues. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Madison Rebecca Colello, 29, surrenders after 20 other cats in severe distress rescued from business in town of WalkerA Louisiana woman faces dozens of animal cruelty charges after 17 cats were found dead at a local business amid dangerously hot conditions without food or water, with 20 other cats in severe distress being rescued.Madison Rebecca Colello, 29, surrendered on Thursday morning at the Livingston parish detention center in Walker, Louisiana. She faces 17 felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty – in connection with the dead cats – and 37 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Continue reading...
Al Jazeera
A new species of living cat has been identified for the first time in more than a century.
Al Jazeera
Germany received the first of nearly three dozen F-35 stealth warplanes it ordered four years ago from Lockheed Martin.
Al Jazeera
Sarah Cotte said her comments were not in support of Hamas, but in support of Palestinians' right to resist.
Al Jazeera
Thousands of people cheered as they welcomed Syrian icon Assala Nasri back at a sold-out concert in Damascus.
BBC World
The US president on Friday announced he is "immediately" banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Al Jazeera
Former air officers, including an air force general, were arrested in a series of operations.
BBC World
A four-year-old child is among those killed in the attack, during which gunmen also opened fire on a police facility.
Al Jazeera
The US president insists media outlets report 'fiction and lies' as he enforces new bans on White House access.
Al Jazeera
Acclaimed Russian film director who won 2026 Grand Prix award at Cannes, has been critical of the war in Ukraine.
The Guardian
US president has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major traditional news media since start of second termUS politics live – latest updatesIn his latest attack on the US constitution’s first amendment and the press, Donald Trump has announced that he is banning outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House over their coverage.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday afternoon, the US president said he was expelling the news outlets over what he called their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and threatened that bans for others outlets could follow. Continue reading...
Al Jazeera
In southern Lebanon, visual artist Lina Jouni transforms debris from Israeli missile strikes into pieces of art.
Al Jazeera
Israeli forces withdraw from outskirts of a town in southern Lebanon after a standoff with Lebanese forces.
NPR World
An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI — and possible paths forward.
NPR World
New reporting finds the abduction of journalist Austin Tice was planned by the Syrian government for weeks.
Al Jazeera
Derbyshire Police said they were investigating an alleged assault but have now decided no further action will be taken.
BBC World
Records in 2024 show the venue had a surplus of millions of dollars once contributions and grants had been factored in.
The Guardian
Navy veteran David Voight, his wife, Amy, and their child were found dead as relatives report Voight was suffering from PTSDAuthorities are investigating what led to the tragic case of a family who was found fatally shot in their San Diego area home on Wednesday morning.The San Diego police department identified the family as Amy Voight, 54, and David Voight, 56, and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter. The family died of gunshot wounds, police said, and investigators found a weapon in the residence. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bearEurope’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.The great debate over AI safety that has erupted in recent days threatens to make the choice moot. If the worst scenarios come to bear – and experts have differing views on this – then the technology will impact the continent regardless. Continue reading...
BBC World
The French president says he has tasked the government with protecting critical infrastructure and defence industry sites.
BBC World
The bank said it "assumed" there would be economic red lines, like oil at $100 a barrel, that the US would be unwilling the cross.
The Guardian
The musician is serving a 50-month federal prison term for prostitution-related offensesAttorneys representing rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs say they are no longer acting for the disgraced star in a dispute over months of unpaid legal bills.The musician, who is serving a 50-month federal prison term for prostitution-related offenses, has become increasingly belligerent in recent months, causing “a total breakdown in cooperation and communication” with New York law firm Sher Tremonte, one of its partners, Michael Tremonte, said in a court filing.This article was amended on 18 September 2026. An earlier version wrongly stated that Combs sued record producer Jonathan Hay for defamation. Hay is the plaintiff. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Buckingham Palace has rebutted claim by Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, that then prince told him ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’Earl Spencer has doubled down on his bombshell claim that King Charles said of Diana, Princess of Wales, “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough” days after her death, saying he is telling the truth.The alleged comments, revealed in Charles Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, prompted Buckingham Palace to issue an extraordinary statement suggesting Diana’s brother had misremembered events, saying “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise”. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers, many of whom were childrenSurvivors from a prison cell in Nigeria where 37 suspected illegal goldminers died while in the custody of a paramilitary group this week have recounted their panic and struggle for breath, as police on Friday fired teargas at people protesting against the deaths and imposed an overnight curfew in the city of Minna.The victims – many of whom were children – were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which had raided suspected illegal gold mines and locked up dozens of miners in the city, the state capital of the mineral-rich state of Niger. Continue reading...
BBC World
Organisers have apologised for playing the North Korean national anthem for the South Korean men's hockey team at the Asian Games in Japan.
BBC World
Since taking control in 1965, Buffett grew a struggling textile mill into a global conglomerate.
BBC World
O'Leary described his choice of language as "careless" and said "it won't happen again".
The Guardian
Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s electionsBrazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally motivated just two weeks before the presidential election.On 4 October, the leftwing incumbent will face the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been gaining ground in recent weeks. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackersVast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.The files include criminal records, victim statements, internal emails and sensitive information held by more than 40 police forces across the UK. Continue reading...
NPR World
The 17 goals agreed upon by world leaders are incredibly ambitious. Are we even close to achieving any of them? If we don't, is the project a failure?
BBC World
Authorities linked the deaths to disease, but this has been disputed by intelligence reports and relatives of the accused.
NPR World
A federal judge ruled yesterday that President Trump cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without a 30-day notice. And, recent lawsuits seek to keep armed federal officers away from polling sites.
NPR World
Ms. Rachel has conquered YouTube, Netflix and the toy aisle. Now she's making an album, with real instruments, big feelings and her littlest listeners in mind.
NPR World
South Africa has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world, and a spate of killings of nine women in the same area in recent weeks has led to renewed outrage.
NPR World
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that these potential strikes "intend to paralyze NATO" in an attempt to demonstrate that Article 5 "exists only in theory."
NPR World
The Houthis' biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen's 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices, extending their reach to a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia's oil exports.
TechCrunch
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
The Verge
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]
Ars Technica
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
TechCrunch
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
TechCrunch
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
TechCrunch
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Wired
The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.
Wired
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
Ars Technica
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
TechCrunch
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
The Verge
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]
The Verge
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently […]
TechCrunch
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
Ars Technica
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
Ars Technica
Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.
TechCrunch
Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.
TechCrunch
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Ars Technica
The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
TechCrunch
An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.
TechCrunch
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Watch […]
The Verge
It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]
The Verge
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]
The Verge
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]
Wired
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.
The Verge
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reportedly contains "OpenAI's algorithmic secrets," according to The […]
The Verge
The FCC has announced it's waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. During Brendan Carr's tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC, […]
Wired
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.
Wired
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
The Verge
Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Lenovo laptop. The Yoga Slim 7X is a slim 14-inch machine with a 2K 16:10 OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon’s high-end X2 Elite processor with 12 […]
The Verge
FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and ROMs. The FPGB Mini's cartridge support is limited to the Game Boy and Game Boy Color so it isn't as capable as the Analogue Pocket that's also compatible with the GBA […]
Ars Technica
Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
Ars Technica
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Wired
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
Wired
After three months of daily anti-government protests—dubbed the Flamingo Revolution—the sudden mass suspension of Instagram accounts has led to fears of brigading against demonstrators.
Wired
From a calendar that keeps my family organized to a frame that rescues photos from my camera roll, these favorites make thoughtful gifts.
Ars Technica
“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."
Wired
How are women really faring in Silicon Valley? Submit your questions to our panel and we'll give you the scoop on September 24.
Wired
David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.