Clippers docked 5 first-round picks, fined $30M
As a result of the investigation into the Kawhi Leonard signing, the NBA docked the Clippers five first-round picks, fined them $30 million and suspended owner Steve Ballmer for a year. The Clippers plan to challenge the…
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EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after 'new escalation' in Germany
Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
News live: Vanuatu minister condemns Australia ‘not doing enough’ on climate crisis; Marles and Hegseth talk weapons in US
Meanwhile investors fret that soaring oil prices will reignite inflationary pressures. Follow the day’s news live.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastShadow treasurer says tobacco plans would bring…
Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups
Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuelsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking new…
Minneapolis shooting kills two, wounds three police officers
Police say suspected gunman is also dead and that several people, including three officers, were wounded.
Business
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Broadcom delivers strong earnings view as CEO touts growth with AI labs
Broadcom gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter but provided robust earnings guidance for fiscal 2028.
Kuwait fends off Iranian attack as Trump says renewed Mideast hostilities will not last 'too long'
On Thursday, Kuwait's army said it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran.
South Korea's semiconductor exports just tripled year-over-year. Is it too much of a good thing?
If growth were to slow in the semiconductor sector, would the slowdown take the Korean economy with it?
Inside India newsletter: India’s economic growth is smashing forecasts, but its biggest stocks aren't feeling the love
India's strong economic growth has surprised every quarter for the last year, but the performance of its key stock benchmarks has been deeply disappointing.
Technology
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Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
Science
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Research on Optimized Fuzzy PID Temperature Control Strategy Based on Improved Particle Swarm Optimization
arXiv:2609.00001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise temperature control is critical in industrial automation, governing product quality in processes from chemical reactors to furnaces. However, high-order inertia, ti…
HyperWorld: Hypergraph-Structured State Serialization Improves Learned Textual World Models
arXiv:2609.00002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable language-model agents to predict environment dynamics and plan before acting. In text environments, the model must learn symbolic action effects from se…
I-CARE: Analysis of interference-related phenomena in a controllable, diverse and representative unlearning setting for text-to-image models
arXiv:2609.00003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning studies the removal of knowledge from an AI model, making the system forget a concept it previously learned. Despite rapid progress in generative machine…
Discrete-Time MDP Modeling for Multi-Item Capacitated Lot Sizing with Stochastic Demand Timing
arXiv:2609.00004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies a finite-horizon multi-item capacitated lot-sizing problem in which demand quantities are deterministic, while demand-arrival periods are stochastic. Eac…
Sports
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Clippers docked 5 first-round picks, fined $30M
As a result of the investigation into the Kawhi Leonard signing, the NBA docked the Clippers five first-round picks, fined them $30 million and suspended owner Steve Ballmer for a year. The Clippers plan to challenge the…
Roberts: Ohtani feels good but no timeline to pitch
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he thinks Shohei Ohtani is "in a good spot" physically, but the team does not have a timeline to decide if the two-way star will pitch again this season.
Tiger's license suspended 5 years after plea deal
Tiger Woods had his driver's license suspended five years Wednesday after striking a plea deal in his DUI case.
Georgia AG to SEC: Oust LSU if Kiffin plays pros
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is encouraging Greg Sankey to take "all measures available," including suspending and/or removing LSU from the SEC if the Tigers roster former NFL players.
Entertainment
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Trump’s DOJ Skewered By NYT For Backing OpenAI & “Trillion-Dollar AI Companies” In Copyright Suit Featuring Media Heavyweights & Star-Studded Scribes
Donald Trump told GOP congressional candidates visiting the White House on Wednesday evening that “the media has gained respect for us, they cannot believe what we’ve done.” The New York Times might beg to differ, at lea…
Google Won’t Have To Break Up Its Ad Business, Judge Rules, Though It Will Have To Change Its Ways
Google will not have to break up its advertising operations, a federal judge has ruled, though it will have to alter its business practices. Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, ha…
David Zayas Returning For ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Season 2 — Is Batista Alive?
Dexter star David Zayas is returning to his fan-favorite role of Angel Batista for the second season of Showtime’s Dexter: Resurrection, sources confirm to Deadline. Zayas was spotted shooting alongside series lead Micha…
‘Marshals’: Kayce Dutton Is A “Chaos Magnet” In Season 2 With Explosive New Trailer For ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff
Marshals is back with more explosions, missing children and rural romances. CBS on Wednesday unveiled the first trailer for Season 2 of the CBS procedural, which stars Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton, who ends the clip climb…
Health
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WHO Director-General visits Jordan to recognize strong collaboration on health system delivery, emergency relief and advancing mental health
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today concluded the first day of his two-day State visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, underscoring the strong partnership betwe…
WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. The notification of withdrawal raises issues that will be considered by the WHO E…
Paying tribute to David Nabarro
Tribute to Dr David Nabarro
Timor-Leste certified malaria-free by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Timor-Leste as malaria-free, a remarkable achievement for a country that prioritized the disease and embarked on a concerted, nation-wide response shortly after gaining i…