Sunday, 6 September 2026
405 stories · 12 beats
12 editions
World
The truth: Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, said the army will not leave southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed across the whole country, which is a condition with no date attached, set seven weeks before Israel votes on 27 October.
Finance
The truth: The money being spent to build AI data centres has become the thing paying parts of the American economy that have nothing to do with AI: trucking firms hauling generators and transformers, insurers writing a new kind of cover, and the electricity arm of Berkshire Hathaway.
Tech
The truth: Memory chips have stopped going to whoever pays most.
Mind & body
The truth: The idea that a memory can be reopened and edited works far better in animals than in people.
Climate
The truth: The US Environmental Protection Agency says states and tribes know their own waters best, and in the same week it proposed cutting the reasons a state may use to refuse a pipeline down to pollution coming out of a pipe.
Space
The truth: Isar Aerospace's rocket reached orbit with European Space Agency money behind it and an agency deadline of 2027 in front of it.
Biotech
The truth: The most promising results on this beat today are all about acting before a person is ill.
Money
The truth: Three places are arguing about the same question without calling it the same question: is a tip a gift, or part of a wage?
Sports
The truth: American college football's opening weekend held one game between ranked teams because two sensible habits meet there: coaches want an easy first match, and the stadiums sell out whoever plays.
Gaming
The truth: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are each getting money back from the US government after import taxes on consoles were struck down, and all three have told courts that the buyers who paid higher console prices while those taxes were being charged are owed nothing.
Food
The truth: The world's food price index hit a four-year high in the same week that farmers in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, said a bumper harvest is nearly worthless to them.
Cyber
The truth: Two security companies, Sansec and Disrex, are the only people telling shop owners that a flaw in Magento is being used to break into online shops.