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From Suno composing uncanny elevator music to Tilly Norwood delivering customer-service-inflected one-liners, artificial intelligence has rattled creative industries. You can add math to the list after OpenAI said that, using thousands of agents, it had solved a decades-old puzzle known as the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.“The artists and the musicians have already gone through this,” says Juspreet Singh Sandhu, a mathematician at Colorado State University.Despite what timed high school exams might have you believe, mathematicians aren’t focused on getting the right answer as fast as possible. In fact, contrary to math’s image as a practical subject, the development of…

Scammers built a counterfeit version of Upbit-backed GIWA blockchain and lured 1,333 wallets into depositing 767 ETH, worth about $2 million, before draining almost all of it.The fake network appeared to be GIWA’s anticipated Ethereum Layer 2 mainnet, complete with an RPC endpoint, cross-chain bridge, and Chain ID 9134, the identifier associated with the planned launch.But GIWA’s mainnet was not live.In an X post, GIWA said claims that its production RPC had leaked were false because no mainnet RPC exists. Its documentation lists only GIWA Sepolia, which uses Chain ID 91342, while the production network remains under development.DYORSWAP, whose community…

Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, we discuss China’s burgeoning electric-vehicle exports—now entering a key market for U.S. automakers—and the environmental impacts of Beijing’s massive “Belt and Road Initiative,” which funds and builds overseas infrastructure projects like roads, railways, ports and dams. One such project threatens the survival of the world’s most critically endangered ape. Listen and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart. KILEY PRICE As the United States engages in trade wars with some of its closest allies, it’s rattling major industries here at home.…

This past weekend marked the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, which claimed more than 250 lives — 108 in North Carolina — and left hundreds of thousands of people without power for days to weeks. In Asheville, the largest city in the western part of the state, the storm left residents without drinking water for 53 days. Part of what made the storm so devastating to the region when it hit, 400 miles inland from where it made landfall, is that the Appalachian Mountains’ typically porous soils were already saturated by recent rainfall. The rainwater hit bedrock and raced down…

UK security services were aware in advance about a group of men arrested in connection to a bomb plot against an RAF base used by the US military, Wes Streeting, the defence secretary has indicated.Five men were arrested on terrorism charges after armed officers found explosives in three vans parked minutes from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which hosts US air force missions against Iran.Police were alerted after a local woman driving near the base in the early hours of Sunday saw the vans and men acting unusually, and called 999. Speaking to the BBC on Monday morning the woman said…

The prime minister’s Sunday morning BBC interview set hares running when it comes to the future of a policy once seen as politically untouchable.The timing of the PM’s new social care plan sparked suggestions the government could be about to signal the death knell to the state pension triple lock after 16 years. Andy Burnham said he will put forward tough decisions to fund a new national care service as part of Labour’s next general election manifesto, seeking a mandate to make the changes next Parliament.The triple lock, which in theory expires at the end of this Parliament, means state…

Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery.This is Honor’s first flagship launch — Robot Phone aside — since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera island is Arri-inspired, drawing from the “three-lens turret” design first introduced in 1937’s Arriflex 35, complete with a knurled texture around the main lens.Arri has played a part in the camera itself, contributing the ability to shoot in Arri LogC3, together with 14 preset Arri Look…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies over the weekend to secure their systems against attacks exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. Citrix released security updates to address the flaws (tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772) days after national cybersecurity agencies, IT suppliers, and security teams began privately contacting Citrix customers and advising them to shut down their NetScaler appliances. For instance, the Dutch National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-NL) reportedly warned organizations in the Netherlands about two critical NetScaler zero-days without CVE IDs that allowed threat actors to place shellcode directly into memory. On Sunday, Citrix…

A $202 billion U.S. Treasury coupon settlement on Sept. 30 will test overnight financing at quarter-end. The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York says the market is calm for now but warns that net new supply could lift repo borrowing rates. Whether that pressure reaches Bitcoin is a separate, unobserved question.The Treasury calendar puts a reopened 10-year inflation-protected bond and two-, five- and seven-year notes on Wednesday’s settlement date. The TIPS, two-year, five-year and seven-year announcements set public face amounts of $19 billion, $69 billion, $70 billion and $44 billion, respectively, totaling $202 billion.Treasury also estimates $143.58 billion of…

Tropical forests hold up to $714 billion in potential drug value, with the Amazon accounting for $215 billion of the total, according to a new analysis.Ongoing deforestation threatens to permanently erase undiscovered plant species and lifesaving medicinal compounds before scientists can study them.While pricing nature highlights its economic value to counter clearing, experts warn it risks repeating past extraction and resource grabs unless paired with strict benefit-sharing and local scientific leadership.See All Key Ideas An analysis by the London-based group Zero Carbon Analytics (ZCA) supports a claim conservationists have made for decades: Tropical forests are worth more standing…