September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Banxico holds at 6.50 percent and drops the line that it would stay there
The Banco de México board unanimously held the overnight rate at 6.50 percent. Headline inflation rose from 3.10 percent to 3.42 percent between early July and early September, while core inflation fell from 3.95 percent to 3.79 percent. The board still expects the 3 percent target in late 2027, and it removed the sentence that had pointed to keeping the rate unchanged.
Beijing graphene reservoirs confine cryo-EM ice
Nature Methods reports that a liquid film under 100 nm is unstable before vitrification and that this instability sets how thick the cryo-EM ice becomes. Reservoirs made of graphene hold that film in place, and reservoir depth changes that thickness in a reproducible way. Even ice between graphene sheets lets researchers image macromolecule particles, and the pictures show higher contrast, less motion and better orientations. Science News and Eos searches returned no page on the study.
Bitget traces 351.6 million dollars in unauthorized wallet transfers
Bitget chief executive Gracy Chen said about 351.6 million dollars moved in 19 unauthorized transfers from hot and warm wallets, CNBC reported, and The Hacker News says the firm suspects North Korean hackers. Cold wallets stayed secure. Chen said a user protection fund of more than 464 million dollars covers the loss. Earlier chain estimates of about 183 million dollars missed some affected chains.
Bundestag passes a fuel-tax cut of about 2.5 billion euros
Germany's Bundestag and Bundesrat passed a fuel-tax cut that lowers the energy tax on petrol and diesel from 1 October through the end of the year, tagesschau and Der Spiegel reported. tagesschau put the cut at 14 cents a litre, about 17 cents with VAT, and the cost at about 2.5 billion euros. Der Spiegel put it at 14.04 cents, 16.7 cents once the missing VAT is counted, and 2.485 billion euros less tax. The states carry half.
Croatia approves a Nord Stream extradition and the defence appeals
Lawyer Ljubo Pavasovic Viskovic said a Croatian court approved on 18 September the extradition to Germany of a man wanted over the 2022 Nord Stream explosions. He said the ruling is not final and that he is appealing, so it is unclear when or whether a handover happens. German prosecutors call the suspect Vladimir Z. The Associated Press reported that Polish authorities identify the same man as Volodymyr Zhuravlov. He was arrested in Pula in August. The charge is not a conviction.
DHH has not written code by hand since around March
At the Rails World 2026 keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson said he has not written a line of code by hand since around March, after 25 years as a professional programmer. He told the audience that English is a better programming language than Ruby, and that manual coding no longer makes economic sense for most programmers and companies. That economic claim is his, from the keynote.
Erkan Kilimci is among new arrests as the fund probe reaches 45
Former Turkish central-bank deputy governor Erkan Kilimci was jailed on 25 September in the Istanbul fund probe. He served from 2016 to 2018 and later sat on the Tera Yatırım board. With the new arrests, the number of people jailed in the probe rose to 45.
Fernandez fires Tovar and apologises for missing Trump's meeting
President Laura Fernandez dismissed Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar after he attended Donald Trump's Shield of the Americas meeting in New York without telling her. Al Jazeera says the government called that a strategic harm which kept Fernandez out of the Tuesday session. La Nación reports she then apologised to US ambassador Melinda Hildebrand. Foreign Trade Minister Indiana Trejos becomes acting foreign minister.
Fidan, Dar and Faisal set urgent chiefs' talks after missiles toward Taif and Yanbu
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met on Thursday in New York. Al Jazeera wrote that they agreed to call an urgent chiefs-of-staff meeting under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. The National reported that the three ministers discussed an urgent chiefs meeting to support Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia said air defences destroyed 6 ballistic missiles headed for Taif and Yanbu.
Gemini 4 is still in refinement before an early output
Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind's new chief, told The Information's summit that Gemini 4 is in post-training refinement and that Google aims to release it much earlier than the end of the year. Encouraged by the results, the team wants an early version out as soon as possible, followed by fast iterations. Safety testing continues and engineers already use the model internally in Antigravity; no date was given.