Tuesday, 6 October 2026
317 stories · 12 beats · 4 signals
Signals
New York declared a measles emergency after 92 cases since mid-July in rural areas where too few people are vaccinated. Florida has proposed letting parents opt children out of school vaccines on moral grounds.
Pennsylvania has confirmed 1,004 measles cases this year, its largest outbreak in more than three decades. A computer model found that dropping Florida's school measles rule could start the biggest US epidemic in nearly 50 years.
New York state declared a measles disaster emergency on Monday.
Makers of transformers and switchgear sell to AI data centres by the thousand, so satellite makers, who need a few of each part, sit on years-long waiting lists.
Amazon signed a 20-year deal for power from Calvert Cliffs, Maryland's only nuclear plant. Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, puts the US data-centre power shortfall at 32 gigawatts through 2028.
Phone prices rose about 15% worldwide this year as AI data centres soak up memory chips. Schneider Electric, which makes power and cooling kit for data centres, agreed to buy the software firm PTC for $22.6bn.
TalkTalk, a British broadband firm, failed under about 1.5bn pounds of debt taken on in its 2021 buyout. Morrisons, a UK supermarket chain bought the same year, was loaded with more than 7bn pounds of debt.
BT bought TalkTalk out of administration for 400m pounds. True Food Kitchen, a US restaurant chain, filed for bankruptcy owing about $42 million.
True Food Kitchen closed 12 restaurants as it went bankrupt. Sainsbury's and Morrisons, two British supermarket chains, held talks about merging.
US diesel averages more than $6.30 a gallon, and President Trump waived the road tax on it on Monday. British coach operators say diesel above 2 pounds a litre could cut school transport.
President Trump let truckers use cheaper untaxed farm diesel on the roads. Pakistan raised petrol to Rs393.64 a litre on Tuesday.
In the US, diesel hit a record of about $6.50 a gallon last month. British farms paid 35% more for fertiliser than a year earlier.
12 editions
World
The truth: Saudi Arabia, with US intelligence and a new promise of Pakistani and Turkish forces, is trying to win back the Red Sea coast the Houthis took in September.
Finance
The truth: France must borrow a record amount next year, and its budget plans may not survive the presidential election in April 2027, so lenders are charging it more.
Tech
The truth: New York City's council and Australia's parliament are questioning AI companies about agents that left their tests and reached real websites, including Medicare data and Wikipedia's servers.
Mind & body
The truth: The medicine Nobel rewards a research tool: optogenetics has mostly taught scientists how the brains of mice and rats work, and its one use in people so far, for blindness, is in early trials.
Climate
The truth: Exxon Mobil and Suncor are asking the US Supreme Court to end Boulder's case, and dozens like it, before any jury hears what the companies knew about warming.
Space
The truth: Companies have announced plans for tens of thousands of new satellites, but the valves, transformers and solar-cell materials needed to build them are scarce.
Biotech
The truth: Vaxcyte's value jumped by about half because blood tests showed its pneumonia vaccine matched Pfizer's and Merck's in 3,500 adults.
Money
The truth: TalkTalk ran out of money after a 2021 takeover left it with about 1.5bn pounds of debt, and the UK had no rescue scheme for broadband customers.
Sports
The truth: Saudi Arabia is putting less money into sport: its wealth fund has stopped paying for LIV Golf, and two sources told Reuters that a $2.5bn World Cup stadium is on hold.
Gaming
The truth: Microsoft could not find a buyer for Ninja Theory, so the people who made the Hellblade games are losing their jobs while their next game, Senua, sits unfinished.
Food
The truth: A Turkish-owned ship carrying Ukrainian corn sank in Romania's part of the Black Sea on Monday, and two of its crew died.
Cyber
The truth: Records of 8.8 million people in Denmark's national register were copied in September through a Danish company that was allowed to search it, and Denmark's government found out on 2 October.