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Personal Money

In England the NHS treats the illness and the council charges for the care. The line is GBP 23,250 of savings. →

Hospital treatment in England is free. Help with washing, dressing and daily life is means-tested, and once someone moves into a care home the value of their house is counted too. Andy Burnham has asked Louise Casey to report on it a year early.

Climate & Energy

US House votes 417-3 on whether data centres pay for the power built for them, as a state study warns the biggest US grid could fall short by 2030 →

The US House of Representatives passed its first bill on data centre electricity costs, telling state regulators to consider making very large users pay for the plants and wires built to serve them. A study for Pennsylvania's regulator says the biggest US grid is heading for shortages by 2030 unless something changes. Amazon, meanwhile, has ordered $2.4 billion of its own backup generators.

Food & Farming

African swine fever has cost Asia's pig farms up to $192bn. Now it is killing wild pigs that live on one island each. →

A virus that arrived with farm pigs in 2018 has spread into Asia's forests, and scientists say some island species could be gone within a single human generation.

Biotech & Longevity

Measles has killed more than 1,000 children in Bangladesh, and 83% of confirmed cases never had the vaccine →

Bangladesh has counted more than 194,000 measles cases since March, more than any other country this year. The WHO calls the emergency vaccination campaign a success; a public health expert says it missed too many children, and eight more people died with suspected measles on Tuesday.

Space

SpaceX will try to send Starship to orbit for the first time on 22 September, carrying 26 of its own satellites →

SpaceX set 22 September for the fourteenth test flight of Starship, its giant new rocket, and the first meant to reach orbit. The cargo is 26 of the company's own Starlink internet satellites, so if the rocket fails, no outside customer loses anything.

Finance News

The US central bank raised rates for the first time since 2023, and 16 of 18 officials expect to raise again this year →

The Federal Reserve lifted its main rate to 3.75-4% with no vote against, President Trump demanded 1% within hours, and central banks from Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong followed while Brazil cut.

Mind & Body

When the top of the heart quivers, blood sits still and can clot - and watches now find short episodes nobody knows whether to treat →

In atrial fibrillation the heart's upper chambers quiver instead of beating, and the stroke risk depends on how long it lasts. Smartwatches find far more of it, and trials have not shown the shortest episodes are worth treating.

Cybersecurity

Two tankers heading for the US showed signs of being hacked. The Coast Guard and FBI boarded both at sea. →

The US Coast Guard and the FBI said on Wednesday that they boarded two foreign ships in the Gulf of Mexico in August, after signs that both ships' networks had been broken into. Nobody has said who did it.

Gaming

MindsEye's studio raised 233 million pounds from investors. Its last staff are now being let go. →

Build a Rocket Boy, the Edinburgh studio behind MindsEye, is closing after spending investors' money on a game players rejected. The same day, Heart Machine laid off nearly everyone when a publisher pulled out.

Information Technology

AI is not firing office workers. It is slowing their pay and their hiring. →

A study of 321 US jobs finds pay growing slower where AI can do the work, while the number of people employed has not changed.

Sports

Clearlake bought out Chelsea's chairman and his partner for a reported 950m pounds. Lower down English football, owners are tired of paying losses. →

Chelsea's biggest owner took control after buying out Todd Boehly and Mark Walter, while advisers say at least half the clubs further down English football want new money or a buyer. Also: Tottenham's owners pay in again, Garcia stops Benn, tennis players end their public pay campaign, and the Asian Games open in the rain.

World News

US Congress passes a Russia sanctions bill that lets Trump put 100% tariffs on India and China →

The House sent the bill to Trump by 262 votes to 159. It punishes Russia's banks and tankers, and lets the US president tax goods from the biggest buyers of Russian oil, or choose not to.

Sports

The NBA is in talks to buy control of European basketball. It says it will start its own league either way. →

Adam Silver confirmed negotiations to become EuroLeague's majority owner, and said the NBA's 16-team European league does not need the deal to happen.

Finance News

The US central bank is expected to raise rates today. Lenders already charge it the most since 2007, and its 20-year debt just sold at a 1986 high. →

The rise is aimed at a fuel price set by a war, and governments from Japan to Britain are paying the most to borrow in nearly two decades.

Gaming

A colleague told Rockstar the union was 12 members short. Twelve days after it crossed the line, 34 people were fired. →

Opening papers at the Glasgow tribunal say Rockstar's HR manager had been getting reports from inside the union's private chat since February 2024.

Personal Money

A car dealer could pick the interest rate on the loan he was selling. The higher he picked, the more the lender paid him. →

Britain banned that in 2021 and has ordered 9.1 billion pounds of compensation on 12.1 million car loans. A court froze the payments on 2 July 2026 while four challengers wait to be heard.

Climate & Energy

The EU put its carbon border fee on scrap aluminium, four days after dropping a duty on the same metal →

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to charge the fee on used aluminium and on loads as small as five tonnes, and to delete the clause that would let the EU switch the whole fee off. Four days earlier the European Commission had abandoned a 15 per cent duty on aluminium scrap leaving Europe, because India objected.

Mind & Body

These children's ears detected sound perfectly and passed none of it on - the missing piece was one protein, and a virus has put it back →

The US regulator approved the first gene therapy for deafness in April, on a study of twelve children. Nine of them reached a hearing level that normally avoids a cochlear implant.

Biotech & Longevity

The first psychedelic medicine is close. The argument is over who may sit in the room. →

The US drug regulator heard the public this week on how psychedelic treatments should be given, days after an LSD-based drug won a second late-stage anxiety trial and a psilocybin treatment went into filing. Most of the argument was about who may supervise a dose, not about the results.

Cybersecurity

Three governments named the program Iran uses to spy on its critics. It arrives as a file from a trusted contact. →

Britain, the United States and the Netherlands published a joint warning on 15 September about a Windows spying program they call CHOSEN BRICK, which the FBI attributes to Iran's intelligence ministry. It reaches dissidents and journalists as a message from someone they know, and it is controlled through a Telegram bot.

Information Technology

SK Hynix is in talks to make memory chips inside Intel's Ohio plant. Production there was meant to start in 2025 and is now due in 2030. →

South Korea's SK Hynix, the world's second-largest maker of memory chips, is discussing leasing part of Intel's unfinished Ohio site. The US government can tax it for staying home and South Korea's government can rule the technology too sensitive to leave.

Food & Farming

Ivory Coast's new cocoa tracking system is stalling, and Ghana just raised the price across the border →

Every cocoa purchase in Ivory Coast has had to go through an electronic card since 1 September, because Europe will soon refuse beans it cannot trace to a plot of land. Traders say the card readers never reached the villages.

World News

The US war on Iran has cost $38bn and left it short of missiles, two official reports say →

The US defence department's independent auditor and the US Congress's budget office both published accounts of the war on Monday and Tuesday. They contradict what President Donald Trump has been saying for months, and between them they give the first official count of what the United States has spent, lost and cannot quickly replace.

Space

The US says it has weapons in orbit. It will not say what they are, or when they went up. →

Two senior American officials said on Monday and Tuesday that the US Space Force operates weapons in orbit. Neither would describe them, and one said that withholding the details is the point.

Personal Money

Australia now guarantees food delivery riders about A$31 an hour. It pays only for the minutes spent on a job. →

Australia's first earnings floor for Uber Eats and DoorDash riders took effect on 17 August, and it leaves the wait between jobs unpaid. Seattle's floor shows why that gap decides what riders take home.

Climate & Energy

Japan is buying six times more Indonesian wood pellets than two years ago, and biomass permits now cover 750,000 hectares of Indonesian forest →

Japan pays some power plants for up to 20 years to burn wood. Indonesia has granted at least 45 biomass permits over natural forest, and most of what they produce is exported, with Japan the biggest buyer.

Mind & Body

Grief is the brain still expecting someone who has died, and for up to one bereaved person in ten it does not ease →

Prolonged grief became a diagnosis only in the last few years, the rules still count only human deaths, and the loss shows up in blood pressure, heart deaths and care homes.

Cybersecurity

Attackers are using a hole in Cisco's email-screening boxes. Cisco says they can hide the signs. →

Cisco warned on Monday that a flaw rated 9.8 out of 10 lets a specially made email take full control of its Secure Email Gateway, and the US cyber-defence agency gave federal offices three days. Elsewhere, attackers made their own accounts inside Artifactory servers, Japan's Digital Agency disclosed a VPN break-in, and Telus found customer accounts opened with stolen logins.

Food & Farming

England takes deep-fried food and Coco Pops off the school menu →

From 2027 schools in England must cut desserts, processed meat and fried food, and breakfast clubs get nutrition standards for the first time.

Finance News

Bank of America says its deal fees will fall at least 10%, and bank shares drop from New York to Tokyo →

Brian Moynihan gave his bank's numbers for July to September early. Rival banks that had said nothing fell with it, on a day the US ten-year borrowing rate touched 5%.

Space

Europe's Vega-C rocket launched two satellites together. One reads the faint glow of plants, and the other measures the air above them. →

ESA's FLEX and the European Union's Sentinel-3C reached orbit from French Guiana on 15 September. The same week, new studies on dark energy and on a giant black-hole merger turned on what lies between a signal and the instrument that catches it.

Gaming

Valve's new headset costs $1,059. Valve had planned for it to cost less than its old $999 one. →

Valve priced its Steam Frame headset at $1,059 on Monday, during a shortage of memory chips. IGN and the worker-owned studio KO_OP cut jobs, and three older games sold again after new add-ons.

World News

Trump says Russia and Ukraine agreed to stop hitting each other's energy sites, and neither side confirms it →

The US president announced an energy truce and blamed Ukraine's refinery strikes for record diesel prices. Ukraine says it will stop only if Russia really does, and Russia's government has not said yes.

Biotech & Longevity

The US regulator approved the first drug for spinal muscular atrophy that works on the muscle itself →

Isembyld is given on top of the drugs that keep nerve cells alive, and children on it moved better after a year while those on a dummy drip got worse. It costs about $310,000 a year and carries a warning about broken bones.

Sports

Kawhi Leonard's trade to Toronto, agreed in June, went through on Monday. He gave up a $7.45m bonus to help it happen. →

The Clippers sent Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto 76 days after agreeing the deal, once the NBA had punished them for paying him outside the salary cap; Europe won golf's Solheim Cup back, and Marc Marquez drew level at the top of MotoGP.

Information Technology

Microsoft wrote a rulebook for its own AI models. It does not cover the OpenAI and Anthropic models Microsoft also sells. →

Microsoft's draft AI code bans hidden reasoning and rejects rights for models, but reaches only the models it builds. Also: China's security minister names two US models, Korea's chipmakers refuse to prepay for power, and Windows fixes break sound and pasting.