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Lured in by Albo ‘slur’, News24 misses the joke and mistakes comedy skit for real news report | Weekly Beast

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Lured in by Albo ‘slur’, News24 misses the joke and mistakes comedy skit for real news report | Weekly Beast

Comedian says he didn’t expect Murdoch network to be ‘as gullible and digitally illiterate as their target audience’. Plus: Karl Stefanovic falls silent There’s nothing worse than being left out of a joke. At News24, though, they didn’t…

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Boeing is turning the MQ-25 Stingray drone into an electronic warfare heavyweight

Boeing is turning the MQ-25 Stingray drone into an electronic warfare heavyweight

Boeing receives $12.68 million investment to update the MQ-25's RF blanker, encrypted storage, and mission computer security, running through November 2029 The change is a recent one: the Navy's April 2026 acquisition report lists…

GPT-6 Astra's Safety Claim Rests on a Guarantee That Just Failed in Public

GPT-6 Astra's Safety Claim Rests on a Guarantee That Just Failed in Public

GPT-6 Astra shipped a few weeks ago as, in OpenAI's own words , its most aligned model yet, the first to hit the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's Preparedness Framework. That classification is worth taking seriously…

Why is Uber pulling out of some African markets?

Why is Uber pulling out of some African markets?

Uber’s exits from Nigeria and Uganda highlight the growing challenges of making ride-hailing work in Africa.

Audio8-tts-preview-0.6b: The Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model That Supports Speech Generation

Audio8-tts-preview-0.6b: The Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model That Supports Speech Generation

Overview Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b is a 0.6-billion-parameter multilingual text-to-speech model from Edge0 that supports ordinary speech generation and zero-shot voice cloning. Its main model contains 601,159,424 parameters, excluding the…

Glass thinner than a human hair: How the new iPhone bends but doesn’t break

Straits Times

Glass thinner than a human hair: How the new iPhone bends but doesn’t break

The super thin layer of glass in a foldable iPhone is reportedly less than 30 micrometers thick.

Straits Times

Iran claims to have captured a US ‘sail drone’ near Hormuz Strait

Iran claims to have captured a US ‘sail drone’ near Hormuz Strait

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says its navy struck a US-operated surface drone at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz.

Palantir and Anduril awarded a $192 million US Army contract to build TITAN data-gathering system

Palantir and Anduril awarded a $192 million US Army contract to build TITAN data-gathering system

The US Army has moved TITAN from prototypes into production Palantir received $127 million under the latest TITAN contract award Anduril secured $65 million for TITAN hardware and integration work The US Army has shifted its Tactical…

Shipaton at Week Six: Buildhorn Has Officially Been Submitted to Apple

Shipaton at Week Six: Buildhorn Has Officially Been Submitted to Apple

Buildhorn has been submitted to Apple for review. Six weeks into Shipaton, this week covers the widget data sync bug I chased down right before hitting submit, and how I put together the app screenshots. Note: This is the 6th post about my…

Daily briefing: Skeleton teeth show evidence of the earliest known habitual drug use

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02901-x Traces of the psychoactive compound arecoline suggest that two people regularly sucked on psychoactive betel nuts. Plus, what motivates people to take action on…

NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02892-9 The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core…

Osteoporosis affects millions: could modified cells rebuild their bones?

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02828-3 Small trial hints at regenerative potential of bone-seeking marrow cells.