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Gaming

Epic Games tells the team on its delayed Disney shooter, with Marvel and Star Wars characters, to go 'AI first': no more code written by hand →

Epic Games has delayed its Marvel and Star Wars shooter made with Disney, and told its makers to let AI write the code and make the art. Also today: Dragon Quest's creator makes a game in 30 minutes, console sales fall the most in two years, and Steam sets a record.

Sports

Women's football heads for $1bn a year, but Fifpro finds the typical top-flight player earns $1,669 a month →

A survey of about 800 women in top leagues by Fifpro, the footballers' union, finds average pay has tripled since 2017 while most players earn far less, many are not paid all year, and almost half are thinking of quitting early.

Climate & Energy

US regulator rejects a plan to switch off new data centres first in a power shortage, and tells the states to decide who is cut →

FERC turned down the core of PJM's plan to connect data centres on condition they lose power first in an emergency, saying only the states may choose which customers go dark. Also today: UK heat pump grants face a cut for defence, the IEA asks for more diesel, Batam's taps run dry beside data centres, and Nepal's flood is traced to a landslide dam.

Mind & Body

Menopause changes bone, liver and blood fat tests in one sudden step, not a slow slide, a study of 300 million lab tests finds →

Researchers lined up more than a million women by the time since their final period instead of by age, and 52 of 90 common blood and body tests jumped at that moment while men's did not.

Personal Money

UK ministers promise rules for heating oil, the fuel 1.5 million homes burn, after its price nearly doubled in a year →

The UK will regulate heating oil sellers, as its competition watchdog asked in July, but there is no price cap and no start date. Also today, parking apps in England add fees the sign leaves out, only one UK mortgage under 4% is left, Australian cafes raise prices after a card-fee ban, and US home sales fall to their lowest since 2014.

Information Technology

Meta releases Muse Wonder, the first model it says matches OpenAI's and Anthropic's best, and keeps the strongest version for paying users →

Meta's two new AI models score close to the top of an independent ranking, but neither can be downloaded and the stronger one comes only with a $50 or $200 monthly plan. Microsoft, Intel and AMD all showed hardware built to answer AI requests more cheaply.

Biotech & Longevity

Bristol Myers Squibb's lung-scarring drug passes its final trial, but only the lower of its two doses worked →

Bristol Myers Squibb said admilparant slowed the loss of breathing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis over a year at 60 mg while 120 mg fell short, and its radiation cancer drug RYZ101 also passed a final trial.

Finance News

The IMF raises its 2026 world growth forecast to 3.1% as AI spending offsets the war, and warns that emergency oil stocks are running down →

The IMF says spending on chips and data centres kept the world economy growing through the oil shock, but the growth sits in fewer countries, emergency oil stocks are shrinking and government deficits are the biggest since Covid. South Korea's share market then fell more than 6%, led by chipmakers.

Cybersecurity

Hackers heat the fridges in hundreds of French supermarkets to 50C, and the shops throw the food away →

Attackers took over old Danfoss cooling controls overnight on Sunday. Paris prosecutors are investigating, and nobody has said who did it.

World News

Britain says Iran's Revolutionary Guards almost certainly directed the plot at RAF Fairford, and sanctions two Iranians →

Two weeks after five men were arrested near a base US bombers used to strike Iran, Britain's prime minister named Iran's Revolutionary Guards, 29 countries backed him, and nobody has yet been charged.

Food & Farming

Fire destroys the Marche des Enfants Rouges, Paris's oldest covered food market, and all 17 of its stalls →

A fire before dawn on Monday gutted the 411-year-old food market in the Marais and left its traders with nothing, while a famine monitor warned that drought and war are pushing Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan toward famine.

Space

SpaceX is due to launch the space station's last two new solar arrays today, to give more power to a station whose first solar wings are wearing out →

A robot Dragon cargo ship leaves Florida at 10:33 UTC with the final iROSA arrays, 593 kg of experiments and a case to bring a broken robot-arm joint home. On the rest of a quiet day, NASA offers $150,000 for ideas to stop static shocks on the Moon, and two studies test water and rock in Moon-strength gravity.

Cybersecurity

A close aide to Israel's prime minister is hacked, and messages said to be his leak online 16 days before Israel votes →

WhatsApp messages said to be from Jonatan Urich, an adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, leaked on Sunday, after Haaretz reported a hole in a tool he built with AI. His lawyers confirmed the hack. Also today, malware at a contractor exposed 8.7 million records of a Japanese karaoke chain, and three more big US law firms reported break-ins.

Space

Blue Origin confirms it is building a crew spacecraft, and aims to fly New Glenn again in December from a rebuilt pad →

Blue Origin's chief says it has invested in flying people, while NASA will not pay to bring in a new crew ship. Its Florida pad, wrecked in May, is being rebuilt for a December flight.

Personal Money

A US lenders' group expects home loan rates to stay above 7% through 2027, as the US central bank keeps raising its rate →

The Mortgage Bankers Association told its convention on Sunday that 30-year US home loan rates will stay above 7% until the end of 2027, and that fewer loans will be made. In Britain, lenders expect more missed card payments, and roofing tops the list of scams.

Food & Farming

The UK recalls eggs from a Ukrainian company over Salmonella, found while officials hunt the source of three outbreaks that have made more than 650 people ill →

A new strain of the food-poisoning germ turned up in eggs from Kyiv. The biggest outbreak, thought to be linked to imported eggs, has run since August 2025 and is still growing.

Mind & Body

US maternity wards close as Medicaid cuts take effect: 52 shut since the law passed in July 2025, eight more announced →

A US campaign group counts 52 birth wards closed since the law cutting Medicaid was passed, and the charity March of Dimes names 31 more rural ones at risk, while the federal survey that tracked mothers' health has been stopped.

Biotech & Longevity

US measles cases reach 4,080, and the CDC's count of two deaths leaves out the five that Pennsylvania reports →

The US is having its worst measles year since 1991, with 414 people taken to hospital, while the CDC and Pennsylvania disagree on how to count a measles death.

Gaming

An EA producer finds 600 original video tapes of Wing Commander 3 and says a 30th-anniversary remaster is coming →

Jim Vessella, who has been copying EA's old video archive into digital files, told a retro games show that the 1994 space game will return with its filmed scenes restored, though no date or price has been given.

Sports

The Arizona Cardinals trade Marvin Harrison Jr., the fourth pick of the 2024 NFL draft, to the Houston Texans for a second- and a sixth-round pick →

Arizona sold Harrison two and a half years after drafting him, for less than the first-round pick it wanted. Houston gets a 24-year-old receiver for about $9.6m over two seasons; Arizona keeps the $22.5m bonus it already paid.

Finance News

India's rupee jumps 1%, its biggest rise since April, as its central bank starts selling the state oil firms all their dollars →

From Monday India's central bank supplies the dollars its three state oil companies need, and the rupee rose 1% to 95.76, but India's ten-year borrowing rate climbed to its highest since 2023.

World News

Trump announces an energy ceasefire in Ukraine that Russia has not confirmed, and Russian drones hit power plants within hours →

Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting each other's power and fuel sites. Russia said nothing, Ukraine said it would agree if Russia did, and a Russian drone hit a Kyiv power plant the same day.

Information Technology

Ukraine knocks out a third Yandex data centre in four days, and Iran's security chief threatens the Gulf's data centres and cables →

Drones shut Yandex's Vladimir site on Sunday and taxi and banking apps failed as far away as Kazakhstan and Armenia; over the same weekend Iran named the region's data centres and undersea cables as targets if heavy fighting returns.

Climate & Energy

El Nino pushes the Pacific's El Nino patch to a record 29.70C in September, and the world's seas to their warmest September on record →

Copernicus, the EU's climate service, says the El Nino patch of the Pacific hit an all-time high in September and the world's seas set a September record, but it cannot yet call this the strongest El Nino ever.

Climate & Energy

Hurricane Simon reaches 150 mph as it nears Mexico's Pacific coast, and Tropical Storm Rachel's waves flood homes in Long Beach, California →

Two Pacific storms closed on North America in the same weekend that Hurricane Isaias killed four people in the US: Simon, a Category 4, heads for the coast between Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta with up to 30 inches of rain, while Rachel's waves and wind reach southern California.

Food & Farming

Alaska's pollock trawlers catch about 300,000 salmon a year while Yukon villages may not fish for Chinook, and trawling becomes an election fight →

Boats catching the fish for fish sticks also net hundreds of thousands of salmon a year, as western Alaska's salmon runs collapse and river villages give up fishing. Scientists blame warmer water most, but the trawl nets are what voters can change.

Information Technology

Microsoft's boss says every AI model should be treated as possibly compromised, with an emergency brake a person can pull mid-task →

Satya Nadella wrote on Saturday that AI models should be watched like a staff member who might cause harm, and stopped by a person at any moment. It came a day after Anthropic cut all its AI tests off the internet and a new Trump administration group told AI firms to report their incidents.

Personal Money

US Supreme Court hears Anderson v. Intel, on when savers can sue over weak returns in a 401(k) workplace pension, and the justices lean towards Intel →

The case decides how hard it is for US workers to challenge the funds their employer picks for their retirement savings. Elsewhere, US Medicaid dropped refugees, and England's 2012 student borrowers wait on the Budget.

Cybersecurity

Ledger finds a hidden chip in a crypto wallet sold by a reseller, as reports say thieves took more than $86m from hundreds of wallets →

Ledger, which makes small devices for keeping crypto coins safe, says one customer's wallet held a chip it never put there. The wallets came through a reseller, CryptoBillis, and Ledger has asked it to pause sales.

World News

India shuts much of Delhi and detains thousands to stop a protest over 130 million names cut from voter lists →

Police held the Cockroach Janta Party's leaders on their plane and closed dozens of metro stations; a court freed the leaders on Sunday as India's Supreme Court met.

Sports

Riders refuse to start Il Lombardia for five minutes over cars on race roads, then Paul Seixas, 20, becomes its youngest winner →

Cycling's riders stood still at the start of one of the sport's five great one-day races after a rider's death and two more vehicles on Italian courses in a week. Also: fans stop a Madrid match, Portugal suspends Ronaldo, and the top two US college football teams change places.

Biotech & Longevity

US regulator approves the immune drug Tecentriq for one kind of stage 3 colon cancer, after a trial found it halved the risk of the cancer returning →

The FDA approved Genentech's Tecentriq, given with chemotherapy, for colon cancers that cannot fix their own DNA copying mistakes. A trial of 712 patients found it halved the risk of the cancer returning or death. Also: a monthly schizophrenia shot, a new herpes pill, a 140-country survey of trust in science, and the latest on Ebola and the Russian plague-lab death.

Finance News

A missile strike on Riyadh's airport kills 12 as Saudi Arabia opens a world oil congress and keeps its big investment summit on →

The deadliest attack on a Gulf Arab country since the Iran war began hit Riyadh's airport on Saturday. Saudi Arabia says its oil congress, which opens on Sunday, and its flagship investment summit later this month will both go ahead.

Gaming

GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek says it will release the whole game if its crypto coin reaches $30 million →

Cyberleek, who has leaked footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 since August, set a price on 10 October: if its coin reaches $30 million in total value, the full story goes online. The coin was worth $3.8 million that day, and the game comes out on 19 November.

Space

Three clouds of charged gas from the Sun put the northern lights over southern England, and the Met Office says they may return until Tuesday →

One group of sunspots threw three clouds of charged gas at Earth in three days. The northern lights reached Devon, Hampshire and Kent on Friday and Saturday, and nobody could say in advance how far south they would get.

Mind & Body

The US food regulator's draft rule would let some chemicals be added straight into food without a safety review, if each stays under 0.5 parts per billion →

A rule sold in August as closing one food-safety loophole also widens another, campaigners found. Elsewhere, US reporters counted over 1,000 eye-damage reports on weight-loss drugs, and a world survey measured trust in science.