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This development could change poetry forever. Roses are red and now they’re also blue. True blue roses were once thought impossible. Roses can make red and yellow pigments but don’t have an enzyme needed to make blue pigments. At least they didn’t until 2004, when researchers at the Suntory Global Innovation Center in Kyoto, Japan, genetically modified a rose to produce blue pigments. The team inserted the gene for an enzyme that can produce a blue pigment called delphinidin. But those roses were purplish, suggesting it takes more than blue pigment to make flowers blue. Sign up for our newsletter…

US President Donald Trump has disclosed millions of dollars’ worth of stock market trades made during July, including in firms from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to tech and AI giants such as Microsoft.According to official documents, between $6.5m (£4.8m) and $31m worth of stock in Microsoft was sold on behalf of Trump, while they show purchases of between $165,000 and $400,000.Across more than 1,000 trades, shares were bought and sold in AI company Nvidia and software firm Palantir, a contractor with the US defence department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the filing shows.A White House spokesperson said Trump’s stock and…

Netherlands-headquartered Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) has won its first contract with Saipem for cable transportation and transpooling services in the Caspian region, valued at approximately $20 million.Source: SCA Under the contract secured with Saipem Contracting Netherlands BV, SCA will provide engineering, specific equipment fabrication, installation and operation, demobilization and reinstatement to support an offshore energy project in the Caspian region, described as major. The scope includes the delivery of five cable transport carousels, each with a 1,100 ton capacity and associated cable handling equipment. The cable spooling equipment will be mobilized on a cable transport vessel for cable load-out at…

There it was: a pool of blood spreading across the pavement. A section of the high street had been cordoned off and a uniformed police officer gestured for bystanders to move along. It was the long hot summer of 1976, and a racist murder had stunned Southall in west London.“What has happened here, officers?” asked Suresh Grover, then a curious 22-year-old, later to be widely known as a leading racial justice activist. “Go away, it’s just Indian blood,” was the response. Grover was soon to learn that 18-year-old Gurdip Singh Chaggar, an engineering student, had been stabbed to death by…

Claim: September 2026 social media posts shared an authentic story about a chimpanzee rescuing a zookeeper from a faulty electrical cabinet. Rating: In September 2026, some Facebook accounts shared a rumor of a chimpanzee saving a person’s life by pulling them from a faulty electrical cabinet. For example, one Facebook page claimed (archived) a chimpanzee left its enclosure to pull a zookeeper away from an electrical cabinet that shocked him and knocked him to the ground. The post included an image of what appeared to be two security camera screenshots showing the chimpanzee pulling the zookeeper away from the cabinet…

On Tuesday, a strike in the southern town of Alamata killed at least 14 people and injured 22 others, according to the Tigrayan authorities.The town’s mayor, Mogos Shiferaw, told the BBC that more than five drones and one fighter jet had carried out more than 21 strikes starting at around 03:30.”This caused a lot of psychological trauma in our city and our people were in a state of panic,” he said.Mogos said all those killed and injured were civilians, accusing federal forces of targeting two secondary schools.He believed they were struck on suspicion that they were being used by Tigrayan…

Britain is to join a major new ocean science programme, led by the EU, to better forecast extreme weather and climate events, the environment secretary is to announce in New York.The announcement on Wednesday will come as Andy Burnham’s government aims to rebuild the UK’s relationship with Europe, and follows warnings this year’s “supersized” El Niño, tracked in the Pacific Ocean, will fuel more extreme weather globally.Scientists have warned that the global marine monitoring system, which is vital to predict extreme weather events and ultimately to save lives, is under strain after threats by the US administration this year to…

ZDNET’s key takeaways 56.4% of employees have no time for upskilling. Staff lack resources, including materials and measures. Continuous skills measurement could unlock AI upskilling. AI is no longer emerging in the workplace. It’s in the office, and it’s shaping how businesses, employees, and their respective interests operate, and it’s doing so rapidly.  A new study from Workera found that 80% of companies feel they are more likely to be on track for an AI-enabled future in 2026, up from 67% last year. However, some may be missing the boat on what’s most important — their people.  Also: Businesses finally…

Ravie LakshmananSep 23, 2026Malware / Cloud Security Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. According to reports from Aikido, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity, the libraries in question below – The malicious npm package versions include a “hidden Go payload into a legitimate AI memory integration. Versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23, and 0.1.25 contain code that launches the payload when the agent gateway starts and whenever the plugin handles a memory-recall event,” StepSecurity said. “The launcher…

Update (Sept. 23, 2:20 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from an RBI spokesperson on the planned rollout, from the sixth paragraph.Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), an Austrian banking group with operations across Central and Eastern Europe, is expanding its cryptocurrency push through a group-wide partnership with Bitpanda.Bitpanda Enterprise will provide the digital asset infrastructure that RBI’s network banks can use to introduce crypto services, potentially reaching about 18 million customers, according to a joint announcement on Wednesday. Individual banks will determine their offerings and rollout based on local market and regulatory requirements, the companies said.RBI CEO…