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Once a physical AI product is in the field, the compute problem changes shape. Fleet data starts arriving faster than a team can label it, every retraining cycle has to be validated before it ships to hardware, and the sim-to-real loop stops being a research exercise and becomes a release process. That is the stage the 2026 Nebius Physical AI Awards is built for: startups with a demonstrable product, meaningful traction, and a plan to scale. Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) runs the program with NVIDIA. Applications are open now and close October 25, 2026. Finalists and winners are announced in mid-November…

Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. According to court documents, 25-year-old Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and 26-year-old Harafat Mogaji carried out these attacks while stationed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. They stole victims’ employee email credentials in spamming and phishing campaigns. The defendants then used “spoofed” email addresses that mimicked business partners’ emails, along with the credentials, to redirect payments to accounts controlled by accomplices in the United States and…

“Onchain transactions between two individuals shouldn’t mean publishing your financial history to the world,” Joe Andrews, CEO of Aztec Labs, said in a statement.Andrews added that Aztec Labs chose DAI because it considers it “the most decentralized of the mass-market stablecoins used today on Ethereum.” He said the wallet could support other assets later.Aztec’s zk.money hides payments once money is inside. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)Ethereum already has apps that hide payments, though transfers from an ordinary wallet remain public. Its developers are weighing changes for the planned 2027 Hegotá upgrade that could let privacy apps handle transaction approvals and fees with less…

A look one thousand years into the past is revealing clues about how to develop the bacteria-fighting drugs of the future.A concoction from a 10th century medical manuscript damaged cell membranes, altered the expression of disease-promoting genes and interfered with interbacterial communication when added to bacterial cultures, researchers report September 3 in mSphere. What’s more, three kinds of harmful bacteria developed resistance to the medicinal mixture much more slowly compared with conventional single-molecule antibiotics. “The difference is remarkable,” says Omar El-Halfawy, a microbiologist at the University of Regina in Canada who was not involved in the research.This impaired ability to…

Before turning to the pension triple lock changes, Burnham accepted he may “pay a political price” by trying to make the reforms but argued “someone has to go through the pain barrier and rip the plaster off”.The triple lock was introduced in 2010 by the coalition government and designed to ensure the value of the state pension was not overtaken by the increase in the cost of living or the incomes of working people.It means the state pension rates rise every April by either inflation, earnings growth or 2.5% – whichever is the highest.Burnham said this will stay in place…

Using satellite data and water samples taken by ships over the last 40 years, researchers employed machine learning to untangle the history of marine heat waves hitting simultaneously with acidification events.They found that these compound events happen more frequently than would be expected by chance, attributing them to ocean physics that allow marine heat waves to become unusually acidic in some regions.The resulting database captured some “double-hit” heat-acidity events that have been largely ignored in the scientific literature, such as a massive 2016 event in the Southern Pacific Ocean that lasted eight months.Experts say more research is urgently needed…

Pierre Bechelany, Fluor’s Business Group President of Energy Solutions, underlined: “Reaching FID is an important milestone for LNG Canada and Fluor. Our long-standing relationship and successful delivery of Phase 1 provides a strong foundation for the work ahead. As construction progresses, our focus will remain on safety, quality and collaboration with our partners, First Nations and local communities.”The joint venture delivered Phase 1, including engineering, procurement, fabrication management, construction, and commissioning of two processing trains and associated infrastructure. The facility began producing LNG in June 2025, with the handover of the facility completed in October 2025.In August 2025, JGC and…

On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump’s third attempt to levy global tariffs will face a challenge in court, after his first two attempts were ruled unlawful, including a landmark ruling earlier this year by the Supreme Court. While the latest batch of tariffs appears to rest on sturdier legal ground than the two that were struck down, they, too, will likely be ruled out of bounds by the U.S. Court of International Trade. At issue is the implementation this summer of tariffs of between 10 percent and 12.5 percent on nearly every U.S. trading partner, ostensibly because all of them—59…

Image courtesy of Paul Ellis/AFP Andy Burnham has given his first conference speech as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister.Speaking in Liverpool on Tuesday (29 September), he made a number of key pledges, including commitments to end the pensions ‘triple lock’ from 2030, introduce new leasehold reforms and launch a National Care Service. Join 75,000 newsletter subscribers who trust us to check the facts Sign up to get weekly updates on politics, immigration, health and more. Subscribe to weekly email newsletters from Full Fact for updates on politics, immigration, health and more. Our fact checks are free to…

The king of Morocco on Tuesday named Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri the country’s first woman prime minister, the royal cabinet announced, after her party won last week’s parliamentary elections. Her centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) had dominated the vote, winning 97 out of 395 seats in the House of Representatives – 31 more than the next closest competitor, although the poll was marked by the lowest turnout in two decades. The royal cabinet said King Mohammed VI has now tasked the 50-year-old, who also served as housing minister, with “forming the new government”. Without an outright majority,…