Ransomware Hit Tokyo Rail Operator Keio. Its Trains Kept Running.
Keio confirmed the attack on 26 September and cut off parts of its network. Business systems, including at a group hotel...
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Anthropic Says Sonnet 5.5 Costs Up to 30% Less a Task. A Tester Measured 50% More at Max Effort.
The new Sonnet keeps Sonnet 5's US$2 and US$10 prices. Artificial Analysis found it spent a record number of tokens at i...
The First Approved Drug for MCT8 Deficiency Treats the Body's Excess Hormone, Not the Brain
The FDA approved Egetis's Emcitate (tiratricol) on 28 September. It lowers the thyroid hormone that builds up in the blo...
Bats First Took Flight in Europe, a Study of 103 Genomes and 44 Fossils Finds
The Bat1K analysis puts the bat ancestor in late-Palaeocene Europe and rejects African, Asian and North American origins...
Apple Patched an Exploited Flaw in iOS 26, Which Most iPhones Still Run
The CoreGraphics bug was used against targeted people on versions before iOS 27. Nearly 80% of iPhones were still on iOS...
OpenAI Upgraded Its Mid-Priced Model a Week After Launch, Without Raising the Price
GPT-6.1 Sol keeps GPT-6 Sol's US$2 and US$10 rate and halves the cache price. OpenAI says it nearly matches its flagship...
Singapore's Newest Chip Fab Opened in Record Time. Volume Production Starts in 2027.
VSMC, owned by Vanguard and NXP, opened its Tampines plant after 22 months of construction. It is in trial production no...
A Drug Aimed at a Weak Point in Some Cancers Shrank Tumours in 7 of 66 Patients
The first WRN inhibitor tested in people was tolerable and controlled disease in 74% of patients whose MSI cancers had m...
A 120-Million-Year-Old Mammal From China Swam With Platypus Feet and a Coypu's Tail
Dongoconodon platycauda, found in Liaoning, had webbed feet for pushing and a flattened tail for steering, and it replac...
The US and China Agreed to an AI Incident Channel. Only Washington Calls It Super Intelligence
A White House fact sheet says both presidents chose the term, and sets talks for November. Xi's own remarks still spoke...
The Philippines Blocked Discord for a Day, Without a Court Order
The block followed a 24-hour ultimatum over child safety and ended after the platform promised new measures. The legal b...
A Chinese GLP-1 Pill Taken Without Fasting Cut Blood Sugar in a Phase 3 Trial
Hengrui's safiglipron lowered HbA1c by up to 1.45 points against placebo in 284 people with early type 2 diabetes. The r...
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