Tuesday, 8 September 2026

World

Russia strikes Kyiv the hour the pause ends, and the US envoys leave with nothing agreed

The truth: The three-day pause on strikes covered only Kyiv and Moscow, and only while Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in the two cities.

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Finance

Canada taxed $20 billion of American goods at one minute past midnight, matching the United States item for item

The truth: Canada matched the United States dollar for dollar, and its tariffs began at one minute past midnight on Tuesday.

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Tech

China now builds its own chip printers. Its biggest chipmaker is testing them, and still prints the real chips on ASML's.

The truth: China's answer to being locked out of ASML is not one machine.

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Mind & body

Puberty is a brake coming off, not an engine starting, and the brake gene only works if it came from your father

The truth: The age at which girls' breasts start developing fell about three months every decade between 1977 and 2013, and the age at which doctors call it too early, 8 in girls and 9 in boys, has not moved with it.

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Climate

The world is buying grid batteries faster than ever. The country that makes 85% of them just stopped approving new factories.

The truth: China stopped approving new battery factories to protect Chinese firms from each other, not to slow anybody's grid.

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Space

India's space agency says it will not be privatised. Its workhorse rocket is already made by companies.

The truth: India's space agency answered a different question from the one its own staff asked.

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Biotech

A pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for 271 days, then came out so a human one could go in

The truth: Tim Andrews's pig kidney failed after about six months and was cut out at nine, so the record is not the finding.

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Money

Only the seller knows which used car is the bad one. That is why a buyer pays for a mechanic, a history report and a warranty.

The truth: When you cannot check something yourself, somebody sells you a stand-in for checking.

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Sports

Two in three college quarterbacks came from another school. Almost nobody starts an 18-year-old now.

The truth: American college football stopped coaching quarterbacks and started buying them, because five years ago the NCAA let transfers play straight away and a good starter is now worth $1m to $4m a year.

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Gaming

A new phone chip draws a quarter of each picture and lets AI invent the rest. The first phone using it went on sale in China today.

The truth: Sega called cancelling its billion-dollar online game a decision about risk, but what its president actually described is a size problem: the company would have had to grow enormously to run the service, and it could not.

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Food

Brazil has sold 85% of its soybean crop, and a 10% tax keeps America's out. China's mills are short for the winter.

The truth: China and the United States are about to negotiate over a 10% Chinese tax on American farm goods, and Chinese mill managers say that even without it, crushing American beans from October to January would lose them 150 to 230 yuan a tonne.

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Cyber

Someone published free attack code for the software that guards your computer

The truth: Nightmare Eclipse's three exploits are sitting on GitHub, Kevin Beaumont says they work, and CrowdStrike's advice to its own customers is to switch off one of Falcon's protections while it investigates.

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