September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Granary 2 is sold as a scale that logs what the cat left
TechCrunch's Lauren Forristal, who tested the Vision model, wrote that Granary 2 weighs leftover food in the tray so a dispensed portion is not treated as a meal eaten, while the company says the camera can recognise up to 10 cats. Petlibro's product page writes 129.99 dollars as the Granary 2 list price, with gram-precision scales, optional 1080p cameras and a black colourway expected in late September 2026, and notes that advanced features may require subscriptions.
Herzog wiped Elor Azaria's 2016 Hebron manslaughter conviction
President Isaac Herzog shortened the remaining erasure period on Elor Azaria's manslaughter conviction for killing wounded Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in Hebron in 2016, Al Jazeera reported, against opposition from Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. The Jerusalem Post wrote that Herzog accepted Azaria's request and erased the rest of his criminal file, citing the passage of time, expressed regret and the spirit of Yom Kippur, with Defence Minister Israel Katz welcoming the step.
Hong Kong held a state funeral for Tung Chee-hwa
Hong Kong held only its third state funeral since 1997 for Tung Chee-hwa, its first chief executive, who died on 8 September at 89. Al Jazeera wrote that Politburo member Shi Taifeng chaired an 87-member funeral committee and that Xia Baolong attended with Chief Executive John Lee and former chief executives Leung Chun-ying, Carrie Lam and Donald Tsang. RTHK, in a 20 September 11:37 HKT report, said those officials arrived before 9 am and that a police-escorted hearse then went to Cape Collinson Crematorium.
Huang put the chance of AI ending the world at 0 percent
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang told CBS Sunday Morning there was a 0 percent chance AI would be the end of the world. The Verge set that claim against researchers who have worked on the field for decades. XDA Developers recorded the same 0 percent line with a 2030 horizon. Both pages are dated 20 September 2026.
International Energy Agency (IEA) put US and Europe diesel above 220 dollars a barrel
The National, citing the IEA, put US and Europe diesel above 220 dollars a barrel, about 95 percent above pre-war levels, and said the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects US distillate stocks to fall below 100 million barrels in September. The IEA's own September 2026 Oil Market Report page said Atlantic Basin refining margins hit records in August on sharply higher diesel cracks, while observed global oil inventories plunged another 95 million barrels.
Iran's war-end terms reached Washington through Qatar
Mohsen Rezaei told Al Jazeera on 19 September that Qatar had relayed Iran's conditions for talks to end the war and that Tehran was waiting for Donald Trump's reply. He listed an end to the war on all fronts, release of frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade. Doha News, the Qatari publisher, reported the same interview and wrote that consultations with Doha remain active; it also quoted a 19 September Persian post in which he said seven conditions had been presented.
Machine learning cleaned Bowl vocals off the stage noise floor
NBC News reported on 20 September 2026 that proprietary technology recently deployed at the Hollywood Bowl isolates vocals from stage noise with machine learning. The piece said a growing number of acts are using it at one of music's most iconic venues.
Meloni proposes a school veil ban and a cap on foreign pupils
The Independent reported Giorgia Meloni proposing a school veil ban and a cap on foreign pupils. Al Jazeera, citing AFP and Reuters, said she promised on Sunday at a Brothers of Italy youth festival to ban burqas and niqabs in schools and to make Italian lessons compulsory for parents of foreign students with serious language difficulties.
More Australian auctions listed as clearance slipped
The Australian Financial Review said Cotality's preliminary figures put scheduled capital-city auctions at 1832, up from 1585, in the week to Saturday, while the combined clearance rate slipped to 54 percent from 58.5 percent. The Sydney Morning Herald said Domain's Saturday-evening preliminary Sydney rate was 48 percent from 481 results, with 177 withdrawals counted as unsold.
Mouse TBI exosomes restored ATP only when miR-16-5p stayed in
A 19 September Cell Death Discovery paper reports murine endothelial exosomes that home via SDF-1α/CXCR4 and restore ATP when miR-16-5p remains aboard; depletion ends the rescue.