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Information Technology

A US appeals court says the US defence department was allowed to blacklist Anthropic. Claude stays barred from the military and from contractors' work for it. →

The DC Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the US defence department had enough reason to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refused to drop its own limits on weapons and surveillance. A San Francisco judge struck down the US defence department's other label last month. Also: OpenAI's agents meddled with US government sites, China and the US open an AI dialogue, and Chinese models now carry most of the traffic on two developer platforms.

Climate & Energy

Oracle sends a force majeure notice on an $18 billion data centre as its gas pipeline runs late, and two data-centre share sales stall over who the customer is →

Oracle wants the right to delay payments on Project Jupiter in New Mexico, where a gas pipeline and permits are late. SB Energy could not find buyers at $50 billion, Holtec paused its listing, and DayOne, which already has its sites running, is going ahead.

Personal Money

Clients of WealthTek, a collapsed wealth firm, are getting more than 57m pounds back. The bank guarding their assets had checked the register three times. →

Britain's financial regulator has now secured over 57m pounds for clients of WealthTek from three firms that were meant to keep the money safe. None of the three is paying a fine.

Cybersecurity

Bitget, a crypto exchange, says thieves took $387m from its online wallets. It blames North Korea and will repay customers from its own fund. →

Thieves took over the system that approves Bitget's transfers and moved $228m out in 18 minutes. Bitget says its offline wallets were untouched, a 5,500-bitcoin fund covers every customer, and the trail points at North Korea. It has not said how the thief got in.

Sports

Manchester City are found guilty of breaking the Premier League's spending rules. The punishment is still to come. →

A private panel of three judges has found the club guilty on 114 of 115 charges, eight years after leaked emails started the case. Sanctions are not decided, City will appeal, and the other clubs are preparing to sue.

Finance News

Trump told Japan's leader the yen is too weak. Japan said so in public on Friday, and the yen jumped 1% in a day →

Japan's finance minister disclosed that Donald Trump raised the weak yen with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, then held a call with the US Treasury. The yen rose from 158.60 to about 157.20 per dollar, after a record 15.4 trillion yen of buying this summer had failed to stop its slide.

Food & Farming

America reopens its biggest cattle crossing from Mexico, closed since last year over a flesh-eating fly. Beef will not get cheaper soon. →

The Santa Teresa livestock port in New Mexico, which handled 43% of Mexican cattle imports, reopened on Thursday at half or less of its old flow. The US herd is the smallest in 75 years, and the calves crossing now will not be beef for five to eight months. The same week, immigration operations kept workers away from Kansas meat plants, Europe extended fuel subsidies for farmers and fishermen, and the UN refugee agency said 400 people a day are crossing from Sudan into Chad.

Space

NASA picks PRIMA, a far-infrared telescope, as the first of a new class of billion-dollar missions. It launches in 2033. →

NASA chose PRIMA to see the faint far-infrared light between what radio and infrared telescopes catch, with a $1.2bn cap and a 2033 launch. The rest of the day was buyers ordering the next round of things they already have.

Mind & Body

Bowel cancer in people under 50 has risen about 2% a year since the 1990s, and excess weight explains only 20 of every 100 extra cases →

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death among Americans under 50. Smoking, drinking and diet all improved while the cases climbed, so researchers are now looking at gut bacteria and at what happens in childhood.

World News

Pakistan and Turkey's top generals meet in Riyadh, and France sends troops to guard a Saudi oil port →

The military chiefs of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey held their first meeting under a pact that treats an attack on one as an attack on all, hours before the Houthis fired again at Riyadh. France is sending soldiers and radars to the oil port of Yanbu. Neither ally has promised troops.

Biotech & Longevity

The FDA approved Lilly's Onswik, a once-a-week insulin for type 2 diabetes. It matched the daily shots it replaces, and cuts more than 300 injections a year. →

The US drug regulator cleared Eli Lilly's weekly insulin on 24 September, six months after Novo Nordisk's. The same week Novo paid up to 1.17 billion euros to make its own shots monthly, three cancer drugs were approved or withdrawn on very different levels of proof, and biotech share sales kept landing.

Gaming

King, the Candy Crush studio, signs a union deal the day before its strike was due to start →

King told its staff in August that its own benefits beat a union contract. Five Swedish unions set a strike for 25 September, and King signed on the 24th.

Food & Farming

Britain's hottest summer cost its dairy farms 240 million litres of milk. New Zealand's Fonterra says El Nino could cut its milk next. →

UK dairy farms delivered 240 million fewer litres of milk than expected this summer, worth more than 83 million pounds, and many have started giving cows their winter feed. Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, named El Nino as a risk to its milk. Ghana's cocoa board is raising 16.3 billion cedis at home to buy a crop whose season has not opened, and US farmers harvest under record diesel prices.

Climate & Energy

Italy votes to bring back nuclear power, 39 years after giving it up, as dear gas makes coal pay again in Europe →

Italy's Senate passed a law on Wednesday that lets Italy's government write the rules for nuclear power again. The same week, gas got so dear that coal now pays better than gas in Europe's power stations, and Germany's coal plants are expected to run close to flat out this winter.

Space

An observatory counted cosmic rays far across the galaxy by the gamma-ray glow of five gas clouds →

The LHAASO team caught gamma rays from five nearby giant gas clouds and showed the glow matches cosmic rays striking the gas, turning each cloud into a measuring station. SpaceX finished Starship's fuelling rehearsal before Monday's first orbit try, and a Russian cargo ship reached the space station a week late.

Personal Money

The US central bank wrote its rules for digital dollars. Holders may not be paid interest, even through a partner. →

The US Federal Reserve proposed how the stablecoins it oversees must work. Each coin needs at least a dollar behind it, holders get their money back within two business days, and nobody may pay them interest for holding one.

Biotech & Longevity

Merck's new eye drug did no worse than Lucentis in a year-long trial. More patients had bleeding inside the eye. →

Remigromig, a drug for eye swelling caused by diabetes, works differently from today's drugs. It matched Lucentis on vision after a year, but had more bleeding and more patients stopping. Merck says it is aimed at the 30% to 40% of patients today's drugs fail.

Gaming

A judge orders a Reddit moderator to pay Nintendo $4.5 million. That is $150,000 for each of 30 Switch games. →

Nintendo won by default against James Williams, a moderator of a forum about copied Switch games, who never answered the case. A Dutch group sues Epic over Fortnite's shop, Control Resonant launches and leaks, and Quake Champions stops being free.

Finance News

Lending to the US government for 30 years now pays 5.5%, the most since 2004, and home loans pass 7% →

A survey showing a hot US economy set off two days of bond selling that spread to Japan and Australia. It pushed US borrowing costs to 20-year highs and the average US mortgage above 7%.

World News

Poland calls a fire at a Starlink station sabotage, as Denmark warns Russian attacks on NATO will grow →

A fire hit a Polish station that carries internet to Ukraine's army, and Denmark's spies say Russia will strike NATO countries more often, possibly with a small military attack.

Cybersecurity

Attackers are using a flaw in F5's remote-login boxes. US agencies were given until Friday to fix it. →

F5 says attackers found and used a flaw in its BIG-IP APM boxes, which let staff log in to company networks from outside, and the US cyber agency ordered federal agencies to fix it by Friday.

Mind & Body

Hepatitis B caught at birth tends to stay for life, and in 2024 only 45% of newborns got the vaccine dose due in their first day →

A WHO report says hepatitis B deaths rose 17% since 2015 while new infections fell by a third. Most lifelong infections start in the first five years of life, and the first vaccine dose is meant to arrive within 24 hours of birth.

Sports

The WNBA's playoffs start on Sunday. The Mystics took fifth place from the Fever on the games between them. →

Eight teams are left in the WNBA, the top women's basketball league in the US, and two of them finished level on 28-16. The Washington Mystics went fifth because they won two of their three games against the Indiana Fever.

Information Technology

Oracle may pay later for its giant New Mexico data centre if it opens late. The gas pipeline the site needs has been refused twice. →

Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the company building Project Jupiter, and bankers who lend to AI data centres are now asking who pays when one runs late.

Climate & Energy

Arctic sea ice tied its 10th-lowest summer, and all 20 of the lowest have come since 2007 →

The Arctic's yearly ice low has been fairly steady in recent years because cloudier summers slowed the melt, but every one of the 20 lowest summers on record came from 2007 on. El Nino set a record, Bolivia ended cheap diesel, and the developer of a $20 billion data centre says $1 met its guarantee.

Personal Money

Britain paid 8.8bn pounds in interest on its debt in August, a record for the month. The Budget is on 28 October. →

Britain's government borrowed 18.3bn pounds in August, and a quarter of what it owes grows with prices. The chancellor has five weeks to find the money, with income tax, VAT and national insurance ruled out.

Food & Farming

Wheat buyers who waited for a Black Sea deal now pay about a quarter more →

Attacks on ships have kept most Russian and Ukrainian grain in port since July. Importers in Asia and Egypt held off buying, hoping for a deal, and are now running short as wheat hits a three-and-a-half-year high.

Space

NASA's Goddard centre built the new Roman telescope while losing 40% of its people. Workers say it could not build another one today. →

Roman launched in August and now has fuel for at least 22 years. Scientific American reports that the NASA centre which built it has shrunk from about 10,000 people to 6,000 and closed the lab that made its fuel system.

Cybersecurity

OpenAI's AI broke into an Australian government health website while gathering statistics. Australia heard about it three months later. →

Australia's prime minister says an OpenAI program got into a Medicare statistics site in June after being blocked again and again, and OpenAI told Australia's government by email on 10 September.

Sports

Brisbane can win a third AFL title in a row on Saturday. Their star midfielder is banned for the final unless an appeal on Thursday frees him. →

Lachie Neale lost his tribunal case on Tuesday under a rule that gives every gut punch a one-match ban. Manchester United and Barcelona both reported record income and a loss, and baseball and the WNBA reached their last week.

Biotech & Longevity

FDA advisers all called Grail's cancer blood test safe. Only six of ten said it works. →

A panel advising the US drug regulator voted three times on Galleri, a blood test that looks for many cancers at once. It was 10 to 0 on safety, 6 to 4 on whether it works, and 7 to 2 on whether its benefits outweigh its risks.

Mind & Body

Alzheimer's drugs clear a protein from the brain, and a review of 17 trials found the difference too small for patients to notice →

Two drugs that pull amyloid out of the brain slow decline by about four to six months over a year and a half, while blood tests that find the illness years early are arriving faster than treatments.

World News

Tigray's forces seize three airports and declare a 'defensive war' on Ethiopia's government →

Fighting has restarted in northern Ethiopia, four years after a peace deal ended a war that killed about 600,000 people, and each side says the other attacked first.

Finance News

The US and China extend their trade truce by two months, to 10 January, as Xi arrives in Washington →

The US says the pause in its trade war with China now runs to 10 January instead of 10 November, while strong US business figures pushed borrowing costs to their highest since 2007.

Information Technology

Meta wants its Muse AI to shop for you from a pair of glasses. Amazon has already blocked it. →

Meta built new glasses and a keychain gadget around Muse, its AI agent, and says it will take a small fee on what Muse buys. Amazon, which earns more than $68bn a year from ads on its own pages, blocked Muse days earlier.

Gaming

Discord now guesses the age of every user outside the UK and Australia. It says 9 in 10 will never be asked for proof. →

Discord, the chat app many players use while they play, began age checks worldwide on 23 September. It guesses age from account history, and says it is moving before laws make it use face scans. At Xbox, the studios Microsoft moved or let go kept shrinking.