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Wednesday, 23 September 2026
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This temperature increase shows no signs of slowing, and on our current trajectory, Canada is likely to experience temperatures 5°C above preindustrial levels by the end of the century.
A study led by an international team of researchers, including University of New Mexico paleobiologist Corinne "Cori" Myers, found that Earth's climate over the past 539 million years tended to remain within a small number of recurring climate states.
A former British member of parliament implied that a video filmed from a helicopter on September 11, 2001 shows that no planes actually hit the World Trade Center's south tower, but this claim would be unfounded.
Argentinian president accuses United Nations of being filled with ‘parasites’ in bellicose general assembly speech Javier Milei has condemned the UN as he warned that Argentina would take “matters into our own hands” in its dispute with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
Drug-resistant strains are particularly problematic because the antibiotics used against them are only partially effective.
A version of this story was published in the AI-Energy Nexus newsletter on September 23, 2026.
As readers of this newsletter well know, the huge influx of demand, on top of the electrification that was already underway, is putting a strain on the power system and its supply chain.
Unlike Earth, the moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field.
New research from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in collaboration with other institutions, highlights the fragmented and staggered timing of warming increases across the planet, providing a nuanced perspective on the debate over global-warming acceleration.
JMGO has already had a non-wall-hugger available in China for a while, now it's up for global pre-order.
The seafloor is more than just the ground beneath the sea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, as US President Donald Trump pushes for an end to Russia’s war and Kyiv seeks to shape renewed diplomatic efforts after more than four and a half years of conflict.
Extreme heat caused by this year’s “super El Niño” could lead to as many as 451,000 excess deaths worldwide in the six months to February 2027, according to researchers at the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has hit back at US President Donald Trump’s speech in his address to the UN General Assembly.
Starting today in every country except Australia and the UK, Discord will automatically assign users to an estimated age group based on "multiple account signals," with account restrictions placed on users believed to be between 13 and 17.
President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (a one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence — being spoken
President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence — being spoken
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Brazil ranked first in Chainalysis's redesigned 2026 grassroots crypto adoption index, while Latin America's measured crypto economy grew 9.8% to $593.8 billion in the 12 months ending June 30.
Global broker Aon announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jane Drummond as Global Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), with effect from 1 January 2027.
A corretora global Aon anunciou na terça-feira a nomeação de Jane Drummond para o cargo de Global Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), com efeitos a partir de 1 de janeiro de 2027.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Andrea Lima, from Forum Saúde XXI, prepares the Cascais International Health Forum 2026 on longevity, where “Portugal can perfectly be a European case-study”.
Andrea Lima, do Fórum Saúde XXI, prepara o Cascais International Health Forum 2026, sobre longevidade, onde “Portugal pode perfeitamente ser um case-study europeu”.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.In this episode, @IzzySasada meets members of the Indigenous communities who were relocated around thirty years ago to make way for its construction.
Extreme heat linked to this year’s “super El Niño” could cause up to 451,000 excess deaths worldwide in the six months to February 2027, according to researchers at the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab.
Insider Brief An international survey of 160 quantum companies finds that the industry relies heavily on cross-border suppliers, manufacturing and customers as commercialization advances.
Even amid growing recognition by scientists and policymakers of the power of Indigenous expertise to respond to climate change, the key role that Indigenous governance plays in those knowledge system
Parliament will generally discuss the proposal of the State Budget Government for 2027 on 27 and 28 October, with the overall final vote scheduled for 24 November.
O Parlamento vai debater na generalidade a proposta do Governo de Orçamento do Estado para 2027 nos dias 27 e 28 de outubro, estando a votação final global prevista para 24 de novembro.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind it. TabPFN is pre-trained on synthetic datasets drawn from a prior over structural causal models, rather than on real data. At prediction time it takes the whole training table as context and outputs an approximation of the Bayesian posterior predictive distribution, without per-dataset training or hyperparameter search. Frank explains how this grew out of his earlier work on AutoML and neural architecture search, how the priors are bui
There has been a lot of doom and gloom combined with excitement, if that is possible, about AI in the science news lately. Sabine and I tried to deconstruct the hype associated with the highly touted Open AI solution of one of the Millennium Problems in Mathematics, as well as explore the real concerns and imaginary concerns associated with both the recent Open AI agent hacking of Huggy Face, and the blog post by the CEO of Anthopic arguing for a pause in AI development because of the potential for disaster—a statement endorsed by both Elon Musk and Sam Altman. As usual, things are neither as
The OpenAI → Hugging Face attack has people asking “what else do we need to worry about?” and Anthropic’s filters flag two things: cyber-security and biology. The natural question is: what about bio-security, then? Clem Delangue argues that cyber-warfare defensive capabilities need to be open and to keep pace with frontier models’ attack capabilities Radical Numerics co-founder Eric Nguyen sat down with us and explained why the same models that increase biological capability can also keep defense from falling behind. Building a virus from scratch While he was at Stanford, Eric couldn’t get tra
Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world's monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn't. As first deputy managing director of the IMF and, before that, the Fund's chief economist, she worked on sovereign debt restructuring, followed Argentina's disinflation up close, and built her academic reputation on ideas like dollar dominance and the dominant currency paradigm. Now back at Harvard launching a new Global Economics Lab, her conversation with Tyler ranges from why exchange rates don't adjust the way models predict, to what stablecoins really cost, to whethe
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