September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Google Cloud and Accenture open a joint unit that places engineers inside customers
Google Cloud and Accenture have set up the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit that sends forward-deployed engineers into companies to build applications on Gemini Enterprise. Under the deal Google trains up to 1,000 Accenture consultants. The Next Web counts it as the fifth on-site bet of this year.
Heel striking saved energy while increasing impact loading
In human and chimpanzee walking experiments, heel-first steps used less energy but produced higher impact loading; the inference about fossil hominins remains indirect.
Households put the chance of higher US unemployment at 44.4 per cent, the highest since April 2020
In the New York Fed's August survey the mean probability of higher unemployment reached 44.4 per cent. Median expected household spending growth rose to 5.2 per cent and expected income growth stayed at 3.0 per cent. The mean probability of missing a minimum debt payment rose to 13.2 per cent.
Houthi attacks strike four southern Saudi cities and wound 73 civilians
Major General Turki Al-Maliki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, announced that Houthi attacks struck civilian and economic sites across Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, wounding at least 73 people including women and children. The Saudi Energy Ministry reported fires and temporary operational halts at multiple southern energy facilities.
Huawei goes on trial in New York over racketeering and trade-secret charges
Jury selection opened on Tuesday in a New York criminal case against Huawei Technologies. The Associated Press wrote that the company is accused of stealing technology and trade secrets, wire and bank fraud, doing business in North Korea, and installing equipment that helped Iran monitor protesters in 2009. The South China Morning Post reported that Huawei pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts.
Hubble and Webb find 27 tiny distant objects that kept their original colours
Hubble and Webb turned up 27 newly found trans-Neptunian objects, the smallest about 5 kilometres across. Their surface colours match those of much larger bodies in the same region. Correio Braziliense reported that both cold and hot orbital groups kept their formation colours, and that researchers found fewer small objects than some models predicted.
Hungarian inflation edges up to 1.3 per cent in August as services cost 5.0 per cent more
Consumer prices in Hungary were 1.3 per cent higher in August than a year earlier and 0.2 per cent higher than in July. Core inflation stood at 2.0 per cent. Food was 1.4 per cent cheaper than a year earlier, while services cost 5.0 per cent more.
Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats; Zakharova promises a harsh response
Foreign Minister Anita Orban announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats for activities incompatible with their status, and said the step does not mean breaking off relations with Russia. Maria Zakharova said Moscow would answer in a harsh and painful way. Viktor Orban lost office in April 2026 after 16 years.
Iceland summons ambassador Billy Long over Trump's map placing the island under the US flag
Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Gunnarsdottir called in US ambassador Billy Long, who took up the post last month, after Trump posted a Truth Social map showing Iceland under the American flag. The ministry said the post was completely inappropriate. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen repeated that Greenland does not want to be American.
Jan Mayen's quake buried Kjerulf Glacier under a rock avalanche unseen in 40 years of satellite images
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake on Jan Mayen on 10 March 2025 triggered a rock avalanche that covered part of the Kjerulf Glacier about 7 km from the epicentre. A GEOMAR Helmholtz team found no comparable earthquake-triggered avalanche on the island in 40 years of satellite images. The paper appeared in PNAS. Warming and permafrost thaw may have weakened the slope; that reading comes from a single event, and warming has not been shown to have produced the avalanche directly.