August 2026
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Cursor brings code hosting inside its own editor
Cursor's Origin layer brings repositories into the editor; Google previews Gemini Enterprise editions for legal and finance teams, while Mozilla.ai opens shared agent skills to Octonous users.
Dental plaque puts sea bream on Osaka tables as Sardis yields a face-down marble figure
Dental plaque from eight Osaka adults preserved proteins from sea bream and other foods. At Sardis, a marble figure dated to about 470 BCE emerged face-down as paving in a Roman avenue.
Deuterated silicon nitride turns one wavelength into a 1.7-octave spectrum
Dawn Tan and Luo Xianshu obtained light from 587 to 1883 nanometres in a nitride waveguide built from deuterated silane. A pillared chip at Institute of Science Tokyo changes which cells it sorts between 23 and 26 degrees Celsius.
DOM 08006 grains hold a 150 to 600 microtesla cloud field as falling rocks melt 40 per cent
Inclusions from DOM 08006 carry a field of 150 to 600 microteslas from the solar system's first 200,000 years. Across 75 filmed falls, a rock can lose 40 per cent of its mass to melting before it fragments.
Domestic demand holds up in India while RBI flags tariffs and West Asia risk
The August bulletin says high-frequency indicators kept July's momentum, with double-digit growth in both merchandise exports and imports. Headline consumer inflation edged above target on supply-side pressure while core inflation stayed steady. Credit growth was high, liquidity comfortable and government bond yields softening, while foreign capital inflows rebounded.
DuckDB previews client-server mode with Cyanoptera
DuckDB 2.0, codenamed Cyanoptera, adds a client/server mode with a CONNECT statement, targeted for autumn 2026. SageMaker HyperPod lets data scientists create Ray clusters from Studio instead of writing Kubernetes manifests.
Eroding US coastal marshes send about 660,000 tonnes of carbon to the ocean each year
Combining Landsat imagery with USGS lidar for 1985 to 2022, researchers tracked marsh erosion from Texas to Maine and estimated that it delivers about 660,000 tonnes of carbon a year into coastal waters. After accounting for carbon retained in newly formed marshes, net annual export is roughly 380,000 tonnes. The Mississippi River Delta contributes a large share; the periods after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Ida in 2021 stand out separately.
For the first time since mid-May, Bitcoin trades above 80,000 dollars
Bitcoin rose as much as 2.5 per cent to 80,908 dollars on Aug 25 in Asian trading, a level last seen on May 15. The token remains well below the peak of about 126,000 dollars it reached in October. The move followed U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's announcement that the government will step up repurchases of long-dated bonds to pull long-term yields down, which weakened the dollar.
Germany revises second-quarter growth up as ifo reaches a one-year high
Destatis revised second-quarter growth to 0.3 per cent from a preliminary 0.2 per cent. The ifo business climate index reached 88.8 in August, from 86.7 in July and above the 87.2 forecast. Exports rose 2 per cent quarter on quarter. Household consumption rose 0.1 per cent while investment fell 0.2 per cent. First-quarter growth was 0.4 per cent; the annual forecast was cut to 0.5 per cent from 1 per cent.
Humanoids fold shirts and throw front flips at a Shanghai robot carnival
Humanoids perform for crowds in Shanghai as Amazon sketches an automated delivery station and Beijing vendors show robots for kitchens and rough terrain.