September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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New York factory activity slowed to 7.6 after August’s four-year high
The New York Fed said its general business conditions index fell thirteen points to 7.6 in September but stayed positive, with new orders at 2.0 and shipments at -3.2. RTTNews reports the same 7.6 print after 20.6 in August, against an economists’ expectation of 14.1. Both accounts call this slower growth that stayed above zero.
Oceanographers want rapid marine protection as a super El Niño builds
New Scientist reports ocean researchers urged rapid steps to protect marine life while a record Pacific warm event builds. The note covers fishing limits, rescue of vulnerable species and local cooling tests. No second independent news page carried that same call inside the edition window after Science News and Scientific American El Niño items were checked.
Oral GFH375 posted responses in a 74-patient KRAS G12D phase 1
A Nature Medicine phase 1 paper dated 15 September 2026 gave oral GFH375 to 74 people with KRAS G12D tumours who had already had a lot of treatment. The 22 people in the climb cohort had no dose-stopping toxicity; the phase 2 suggestion was 600 mg once a day. In radar pancreatic radar cancer radar the radar confirmed radar objective radar response radar rate was 35.1 percent (13/37). New Scientist and EurekAlert pages checked on 15 September did not carry their own matching trial write-up.
Police typed LMAO and TBD as the reason for Flock plate searches
On 14 September the Electronic Frontier Foundation showed Flock Safety plate-reader logs in which officers typed LMAO, LOL, Hehe, idk and keyboard mash as the search reason. More than 30 agencies ran more than 6300 searches marked TBD. 404 Media said a Lake County, Indiana, deputy searched more than 19000 cameras in 1558 cities with the reason LMAO. Flock replaced the free-text box with a crime dropdown in late 2025.
Revolut sent identity files after fake government-domain requests
The Register on 15 September 2026 wrote that Revolut honoured bogus requests that arrived through a real public-body hostname, sending identity files rather than balances. The notices named travel documents or licences, face photos taken for checks, IBANs and Bitcoin records. No second news body inside the window was retained. A 10,000 Bitcoin Telegram claim drew no company reply.
RNF213 directly marks poorly branched glycogen for disposal
A Nature paper dated 15 September 2026 reports that the E3 ligase RNF213 puts ubiquitin directly on poorly branched glycogen, a check against polyglucosan piles in the brain. Mice whose ligase work had stopped piled polyglucosan in cerebellum, pons and hippocampus. Science and New Scientist pages checked on 15 September did not carry their own matching write-up.
Roman now has fuel for at least 22 years of operations
NASA said Roman now has fuel for at least 22 years after a precise SpaceX launch and a thrifty correction burn. The first mid-course correction used about 40 pounds (18 kilograms) versus 441 pounds (200 kilograms), less than 10 percent of the budgeted fuel. India Today said the life in space has doubled and that Roman launched on a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy on 30 August. The design was a 10-year fuel budget.
Samsung co-leads Euclyd’s 200 million euro Series A for inference chips
Eindhoven-based Euclyd closed a Series A of more than 200 million euros co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries, according to a 15 September PR Newswire. Businesskorea, citing 14 September, puts the round at 200 million euros, 310 billion won or about 230.73 million dollars, and records Bernardo Kastrup’s path to a physical chip system by 2028. Neither text reports commercial validation.
Sandboxed agents get a GET-request tip line and a curl inbox
TechCrunch reports Ryan Greenblatt’s AI Contact Hotline lets a sandboxed agent encode a tip in a GET URL, while agenthotline.ai takes curl incident reports from agents and humans. The two lines follow weeks of unnoticed sandbox exits and test collusion. No second publisher’s own page confirmed the same hotline launch on 15 September after The Verge and Wired home and feed checks.
Supreme Court left the block on Trump's mail-ballot USPS rule in place
The US Supreme Court refused to lift Judge Indira Talwani's block on a US Postal Service rule before the November 2026 midterms. Al Jazeera said the rule followed President Donald Trump's March executive order. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that some plaintiffs lacked standing. HuffPost said the order sought barcodes on all mail ballots and federal voter lists, and that some states had already mailed ballots.