Houthis assure EU they will not target European commercial ships in Red Sea
Sources: Kurdistan24
German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
- There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis.
- Germany's Education Minister Karin Prien told newspaper Bild that the ban was a "scandal".
- Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities.
Sources: BBC News
Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model
- Sep 24, 2026 Typed decisions with a probability for every option, in a single forward pass: matching Jev's accuracy and speed with an LLM.
- Johannes HötterVP GrowthMarko Rosenmüller, PhDTechnical Lead AITL;DR: In this post, we show how an off-the-shelf LLM can make typed decisions in a single forward pass.
- This approach makes it possible to turn an LLM into a Jev-like decision model.
Sources: Privatemode
Ohio college janitor hid in ceiling above locker room to photograph women’s soccer team, police say
- A janitor at Wilmington College in Ohio was arrested Tuesday for hiding in the ceiling above a locker room to photograph the women’s soccer team as they changed, police said.
- Jayson Barker was charged with 11 counts of voyeurism after a member of the team spotted the alleged offender snapping photos from above in a locker room at the Scheve Athletic Center.
- Barker was detained by campus security until police arrived.
Sources: NBC News
Manchester City confident they can prove ‘innocence’ over charges: Chairman
- Man City to appeal the 114 breaches of Premier League financial rules, and chairman says club are confident of success.
- Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said the club is confident of proving their innocence, the day after media reported that City had been found guilty of 114 breaches of Premier League financial rules in a long-running case.
- In an open letter to supporters on Saturday, Al Mubarak said the process was far from over and City’s confidence in proving the club’s innocence “is just as strong as when this began”.
Sources: Al Jazeera
yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
- Download tar.gz Download .zip README.md drawgent: your coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas# drawgent connects your own Claude Code, Codex or opencode (your install, login, config and repo) to an Excali
Sources: Tangled
National security becomes Trump’s buzzword for legal fights
- When President Trump announced he was kicking three news organizations out of the White House, he made clear it was because of his displeasure with their reporting.
- But days into the ban, he turned to a familiar argument to justify his decision.
- “Fake News people and publications that only write negatively,...
Sources: The Hill
'America First' means evaluating real cost of our wars — and who pays the ultimate price
- “America First” must ensure that the innocent, powerless civilians of any and every nation on earth, be it Iran, Israel, China, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Cuba or even Canada, understand that the people of the United States are not their enemy.
Sources: The Hill
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
- While the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was being decorated in Quito by Ecuador’s president for “helping to promote peace in the region”, 10 Ecuadorian fishers whose boat had been blown up by US forces were adrift in the eastern Pacific.
- Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, right, presents the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, with Ecuador’s highest ranking National Order of Merit, the Grand Cross, at Carondelet palace in Quito, on 9 September.
- Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/APOn 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international
Sources: Guardian
Kehoe says he's 'disappointed' GOP-favored map in Missouri is blocked again
- Mike Kehoe (R), who championed last year’s redistricting efforts in his state, shared his disappointment in a Supreme Court decision requiring Missouri to use its old congressional map in the November election.
- “It is disappointing that today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court means Missouri will conduct its November general election under...
Sources: The Hill
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
- Millions of people have watched me carry my daughter and food back to my seat at a San Francisco Giants game.
- They have praised me as “mom of the year” and called my husband too many names to list.
- Some have sent me DMs or posted TikTok commentary videos about why I need to leave him.
Sources: Substack
Pope Leo XIV calls to protect migrants during his official visit to France
- Father Philip Larrey and Father Michael Baggott are on France 24.
Sources: France 24
At least 10 people killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks
- New strikes come after the US proposes a fresh round of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in the UAE.
- Russia and Ukraine have traded attacks that have killed at least 10 people as the United States pushes for talks to end the war.
- Russian attacks killed four people in Ukraine, while Ukrainian strikes killed six in Russia and Russian-occupied territory, officials on both sides said on Saturday.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Harrison’s late try gives Red Roses victory over New Zealand in Twickenham thriller
Sources: Telegraph
'A once-in-a-lifetime event': Faithful and curious flock to Pope Leo XIV's Mass in Paris
- Before the service, the 71-year-old leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics rode down the avenue in his open-top "popemobile" and waved to crowds pressed tightly against security barriers.
- Phones in hands raised as high as possible as onlookers tried to catch a lasting glimpse of this fleeting but historic m
Sources: France 24
Women take up arms as sexual violence ravages eastern DRC
- NewsFeedAs war and sexual violence rage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), women are joining pro-government Wazalendo fighters to defend their communities.
- However, the armed group itself faces serious accusations of human rights abuses, including gang rape.
Sources: Al Jazeera
China, US agree to set up channel for AI safety incidents, cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods
- Beijing and Washington promised to expand dialogue on AI safety and between the countries' militaries while also cutting tariffs on about $30 billion (€26.3 billion) of "non-sensitive goods.
- " The pledges follow the three-day summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in the US.
- US President Trump described the summit in an online post as "one of Friendship, Strength, and Success" for both nations.
Sources: DW
IShowSpeed opens up about feeling alone despite becoming a global streaming star
- Image Via InstagramIShowSpeed has opened up about a side of fame that fans do not often see.
- On September 25, 2026, the popular streamer spoke about feeling alone even though millions of people know him.
- In a series of posts on X, he explained the difference between his online character, “Speed,” and his real-life self, Darren.
Sources: Times of India
An Iowa company thought it was paying legitimate vendor invoices and transferred more than $800,000 to a scammer-controlled account; four years later, the US government has recovered about $375,000
- Representative Image (AI-generated)An Iowa company that believed it was paying legitimate vendor invoices instead transferred more than $800,000 to a bank account controlled by a scammer in 2022.
- About four years later, the US government has recovered roughly $375,000 of the fraud proceeds through a federal forfeiture case.
- The US Department of Justice (DOJ), in an announcement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, said the money had been moved through other accounts after the original payments were made.
Sources: Times of India
Russia adapts fertilizer, coal terminals in Baltic, Arctic ports to export Black Sea grain
Sources: Reuters
US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
Sources: Reuters
United in debt: America has become a nation of fake rich people
- An essay by John Mac Ghlionn examines the growing divide between Americans' physical financial realities and the performative wealth displayed through social media and consumer credit.
Sources: The Hill
Pope Leo XIV addresses youth at giant Paris Mass
- 🇫🇷 🇻🇦 During #Pope Leo XIV's giant Mass at the Place de la Concorde in #Paris on Saturday, he spoke directly to Catholic youth, calling them the "Church of today".
- The pontiff made efforts to connect with young people during his visit, holding a youth vigil at the Stade de #France on Friday.
Sources: France 24
Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged
- A third person has been arrested in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune in Mississippi’s capital city, while investigators said they had determined the scene where her body was found hanging had been staged.
- Eric Clark, 45, surrendered to authorities on Friday and was charged with murder, according to the Jackson police department (JPD).
- Clark was scheduled to make a court appearance on Monday.
Sources: Guardian
Cuba condemns US ‘collective punishment’ as Trump predicts deal
- The foreign minister’s comments come days after the US told the UN that ‘freedom will be coming’ to Cuba.
- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has condemned the United States’s oil blockade against his country during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), calling it an “act of collective punishment” intended to trigger a humanitarian crisis.
- His comments on Saturday come as tensions between Washington and Havana remain high and as US President Donald Trump predicted that the two countries would reach an agreement, while saying he did not believe military action would be nece
Sources: Al Jazeera
Drake’s girlfriend Pinkchyu accidentally lifted the curtain on her private life during N3on’s stream
- Image Via XDrake’s girlfriend Pinkchyu recently gave viewers an unexpected look into her private life while appearing on N3on’s stream.
- The cosplayer and former VTuber has kept many personal details away from the public for years.
- However, during the livestream, Pinkchyu accidentally revealed that she is 24 years old.
Sources: Times of India
China pushes back against US on Iran and Cuba in UN speech
- Asia Respect for Gulf sovereignty and an end to pressure on Cuba dominate China’s UN speech, as Vice President Han Zheng pushes back without naming the US.
- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng indirectly asked the United States to respect the sovereignty of Iran and Cuba during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Sources: CNA, Times of India
Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
- I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip.1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, making floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems.
- In this article, I look at the algorithm behind the chip's tangent instruction.
- One popular approach for trigonometric functions is an algorithm called CORDIC.
Sources: Righto
‘Stop arming Israel’: Pro-Palestine protesters march on Labour conference
- NewsFeedPro-Palestine protesters have marched on Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, calling for an end to UK arms sales to Israel and the imposition of sanctions.
- The protest follows Labour’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, but demonstrators say the measures do not go far enough.
Sources: Al Jazeera
A library card is becoming an unexpected money-saving tool in US; one Chicago-area library partnered with local businesses for discounts, while Brooklyn added 150,018 cardholders through August, up 16% from 2 years earlier
- A library card is becoming an unexpected money-saving tool for Americans, as public libraries expand beyond books and offer access to free entertainment, technology help, community services and, in some places, discounts at local businesses.
- In Glenview, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, the local library partnered with businesses during September's Library Card Sign-Up Month to offer special deals to cardholders.
- Offers included discounts on purchases and services, with one deal offering 10% off wine and another providing a free month of robotics classes, according to Fortune.
Sources: Times of India
‘Gruesome crime’: Neighbor charged with murder after Georgia DoorDash driver found dismembered
- Police in Smyrna, Georgia, said Friday they found the dismembered remains of a woman stuffed into garbage bags inside a car trunk at an apartment complex this week.
- The victim, Shanteria Mosley — known to family and friends as “KT” — worked as a DoorDash delivery driver.
- Investigators said one of the bags “was pulled tightly showing the outline of a body part.
Sources: NBC News
Iraq seeks US exemption from ban on Iranian flights
- Ali al-Zaidi’s government urges dialogue to de-escalate regional tensions amid US sanctions on Iranian airlines.
- Iraq is in direct talks with Washington as it seeks to exempt some of its airports from United States measures targeting Iranian airline flights in the region.
- Four Iraqi airports suspended all flights to and from Iran on Friday, days after Washington announced new aviation sanctions on any global company doing business with Iranian airlines.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Trump rejects combining US-China AI efforts
- The US president said the country should not cooperate with China on the technology despite growing concerns.
- United States President Donald Trump has said the country will not be heeding growing calls to regulate the development of artificial intelligence.
- Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US and China presidents
Sources: Al Jazeera
Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt
- Tokyo, Japan – Nearly eight years after moving to Japan for work, Abdul feels more accustomed to life in the East Asian country than in his native Bangladesh.
- But as the Japanese government moves to tighten the rules for permanent residency and public sentiment towards immigrants sours, Abdul is reconsidering his future.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Ukraine strikes Russian defense plant producing missile components, General Staff says
- WarSeptember 26, 2026 8:45 pm • 2 min readRussian Defence Ministry officials show off the Russia's 9M729 cruise missile at the military Patriot Park outside Moscow on January 23, 2019.
- (Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)Ukrainian forces struck the Azov Optical-Mechanical Plant in Russia’s Rostov Oblast overnight on Sept.
- A fire broke out at the plant’s foundry, while equipment in five production buildings was damaged, according to the military.
Sources: Kyiv Independent
Cuba accuses US at UN of deliberately inflicting humanitarian suffering
- NewsFeedCuba’s FM, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, has accused the US at the UN of waging an economic war against the Cuban people, calling its blockade a crime and collective punishment.
- He stated that the US is deliberately attempting to provoke a humanitarian crisis on the island.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Colleges must help America keep the promise it makes to its military
- military reaches record recruitment numbers, higher education institutions must improve their support systems to fulfill the promise of opportunity for service members and veterans.
Sources: The Hill
Spotlight - Maricarmen Vs The ‘Vultures’: A “social tragedy” mobilising Spaniards
- Protests are ongoing in Madrid right now, with many demonstrators holding signs and banners that read “Maricarmen vs the Vultures”.
Sources: France 24
Backlash over data centers tests Europe's AI ambitions
- Massive data centers needed to run AI are triggering protests across Europe.
- Their operators counter that they boost digital sovereignty and energy independence.
Sources: DW
Pope Leo draws 800,000 people to central Paris for open-air Mass on iconic square
Sources: AP
Brazil's Lula bans online gambling ahead of presidential election
- The left-wing leader, who is running against the son of the incarcerated former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, signed a provisional order on Friday that "prohibits all sports betting and online casinos".
- The online gambling industry in Brazil was legalised in 2018 and has since been blamed for widesp
Sources: BBC News
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale
Sources: Arxiv
Three siblings in Essex cut down their neighbours’ 33-foot Leylandii trees after a boundary row; the dispute ended with about £30,500 in damages and £178,668 in the neighbours’ legal costs
- View from Robert McCarthy's home towards the old Leylandii trees at the bottom of the garden.
- (Photos: The Standard)Three siblings in Essex were ordered to pay about £30,500 in damages and £178,668 in their neighbours’ legal costs after cutting down a row of 33-foot Leylandii trees during a long-running boundary dispute.
- The court found that the siblings had trespassed into their neighbours’ garden and acted in a 'high-handed' and 'bullying' manner.
Sources: Times of India
Seoul built an architectural installation from mushrooms and agricultural waste; its walls were grown rather than constructed
- Image Credit: ANOMALIASeoul became the setting for an unique architectural experiment in 2025, where a public installation was made from mushroom mycelium and agricultural waste instead of conventional building materials.
- Named as Walls of Public Life, the project was created by Mumbai-based Anomalia for the 5th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Sources: Times of India
Coltrane's Shadow
Sources: Tabletmag
HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own
Sources: Stanford
Seattle prosecutors mull hate crime charge for woman who bit circle in victim’s forehead
- A Seattle woman will need surgery for a gnarly wound, after a stranger, who called her “an inferior race”, took a bite of flesh from her forehead in a surprise attack.
- The incident occurred in broad daylight on 18 September when Diana Gonzalez, 36, was walking to a local convenience store and the alleged assailant, identified by prosecutors as Kamilia Chadli, threw a food wrapper at her, the victim told Seattle police.
- After Gonzalez asked the woman why she had done that, Chadli allegedly yelled, “You’re the inferior race,” as well as used a homophobic slur, before spitting on Gonzalez and dragg
Sources: Guardian
Indian-origin woman robbed of $20,000 worth of jewelry during evening walk in Canada, stranger lady touched her feet, hugged, swapped gold necklace with fake in seconds
- 78-year-old Indian woman was robbed of her gold jewelry during her evening walk in Brampton, Canada.
- (Photo: CTV News)A 78-year-old Indian-origin woman was the target of a daring robbery in Brampton, Canada, when she was on her evening walk in the neighborhood.
- Her son Raghavendra Kumar told the police that his mother does not speak English and when the con woman approached her, she thought it was a neighbor or someone she knew.
Sources: Times of India
Colombia extradites leader of armed group to US in shift towards Washington
- Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella has emerged as close ally the of Trump administration in South America.
- The Colombian government has extradited an alleged drug trafficking leader to the United States, part of a shift in the country’s security policy into greater alignment with Washington.
- President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday the extradition of Geovany Andres Rojas, who is accused of leading an organisation formed by previous members of the FARC rebel group.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Trump and Xi agree to set up AI safety channel as military and trade talks continue
- They also agreed to continue cooperating through a Board of Trade focused on selected bilateral issues.
- The White House said the board began operating this week.
- The summit produced no major breakthroughs, but analysts said the steps toward greater cooperation we
Sources: CBS News
Zelenskyy: Russia is not preparing to stop war and plans major spending on drones
Sources: Pravda
A Pennsylvania grandfather built a backyard amusement park with a 105-foot waterslide, go-kart track and vintage carousel; his $24,700 roller coaster then triggered a zoning fight
- The roller coaster was built as part of his hobby of restoring vintage amusement rides for his grandchildren.
- (Photos: Centre Daily Times)Michael Chorba, a 60-year-old grandfather in Pennsylvania, has spent years turning his backyard into a private amusement area for his family.
- The property already has a go-kart track, a 105-foot waterslide and a vintage carousel.
Sources: Times of India
Video CDs break Windows Explorer
- There is an odd bug in Windows related to Video CDs.
- To reproduce it: Insert a Video CD (if you don't have one, you can download this file, extract it and burn it with something that supports bin+cue images, like AnyBurn).
- Open Explorer and copy the Video CD contents to the PC (you can copy just the MPEGAV folder, which contains the big multimedia files).
Sources: Blogspot
Powerful storm causes widespread flooding, outages in northeast U.S.
- A slow-moving, powerful storm crept along the coast of the northeast U.
- on Saturday, producing high winds that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands while whipping up big waves and heavy rains that created dangerous conditions in some places.
Sources: CBC
Saudi FM accuses Iran of ‘flagrant attacks’ and condemns Houthis at UNGA
- NewsFeedSaudi Arabia has used its address to the UN General Assembly to accuse Iran of flagrant attacks on civilian and economic targets across the region, while calling on the international community to condemn Houthi actions threatening Red Sea shipping.
Sources: Al Jazeera
Who is Christos Marafatsos, the Greek-American businessman accompanying Kimberly Guilfoyle to key meetings?
- Kimberly Guilfoyle under scanner as a private company lobbyist accompanies her to crucial energy meetings.
- A Wall Street Journal investigation reported that Marafatsos, 39, has frequently accompanied Guilfoyle to high-level meetings despite having no official role in the US government.
- He is a registered lobbyist for Greek construction
Sources: Times of India
Azerbaijan marks its Remembrance Day looking forward to a future of peace
- The events of that autumn in 2020 changed the 30-year status quo generated by the dissolution of the Soviet Union which had brought decades of deep-rooted conflict and regional stagnation between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
- The cessation of hostilities in November 2020 reshaped the strategic landscape of the region establishing a new polit
Sources: Euronews
Fremantle's recovery from inexplicable collapse begins by sitting in grief
- Even before Fremantle's heartbroken players left the field of play at the MCG, the recovery from one of the most devastating losses in league history had already begun.
Sources: ABC Australia
Kai Cenat shares plans for a Seven Wonders streaming tour as fans accuse him of copying IShowSpeed
- Getty ImagesKai Cenat has shared plans to take his livestreams on a tour of the Seven Wonders of the World.
- The idea came while the streamer was in Iceland, where he is currently creating travel-focused content from inside a volcano.
- Many fans have enjoyed seeing Kai travel and stream from unusual places.
Sources: Times of India
UK to Offer Loans to First-Time Buyers to Boost Home Ownership
Sources: Bloomberg