RedScroll — Today's Signal — edition 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-09-05T10:20:35.931Z
NPR
Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte has posted bail after order issued for her arrest on charges she publicly threatened to arrange assassination of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
BBC News
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have led President Donald Trump's efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war - but talks have stalled.
Reuters
Iranian tanker hit by US attack near Iran's Kharg Island, Tasnim says Reuters
Reuters
How escalating attacks are upending daily life in Kyiv Reuters
Associated Press
Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods AP News
Associated Press
Dan McKee faces rematch with Helena Foulkes amid turmoil over Washington Bridge AP News
BBC News
The US president says the move will help ranchers, but conservationists say it could derail efforts to recover populations.
BBC News
Authorities fear the death toll in Viacha will rise and warn people to stay away from the barracks due to a risk of further explosions.
NPR
Democrats and Republicans have found common ground in this campaign season. Both parties have poured millions into ads attacking data centers as the public continues to protest the AI facilities.
Associated Press
Supreme Court lets White House continue construction on Trump’s $400 million ballroom AP News
NPR
As political races heat up heading into the midterms, candidates from both parties are increasingly joining the fray to voice concerns over Flock surveillance cameras.
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE: White House reviews candidates to replace Hegseth deputy Feinberg, sources say Reuters
Defense News
Brussels is weighing a rare waiver that would let Kyiv tap its €90 billion loan for U. -made interceptors for the first time.
BBC Conflict
Zelensky avuga ko Uburusiya bwarashe ku cyicaro gikuru cy'ubutasi bwa Ukraine mu gitero cya 'drone' BBC
BBC Conflict
Epitsentr vs Bukovyna: Ukraine Premier League stats & head-to-head BBC
BBC Conflict
Why did USS Lincoln turn up in Thailand looking so rusty?
Defense News
The Air Force is accelerating its timeline for a cheaper, more expendable successor to the MQ-9A Reaper after combat losses.
Defense News
President Donald Trump will use the Qatari-donated jet to travel to Ireland next week, the plane's first international trip since the swap in Turkey.
Defense News
Opposition from the U. and Russia has raised doubts that countries meeting Friday will agree on international rules about the use of autonomous weapons.
The War Zone
New photos of the WZ-X airborne give us a clearer view of the aircraft's unique wing design.
The War Zone
Have a great and relaxing weekend gang!
The War Zone
The USAF has aggressive cost and schedule goals for new drones to succeed the MQ-9 fleet that has suffered major losses.
The War Zone
The ship pulled into Thailand earlier this week caked in rust and algae after 286 days at sea.
Bellingcat
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. On a June night in 1996, in a basement apartment in Boston’s Chinatown, a killer put a pistol to the back of a young man’s head and pulled the trigger.
MIT Technology Review AI
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector.
The Verge AI
A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra.
MIT Technology Review AI
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once.
DeepMind Blog
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
DeepMind Blog
Introducing Gemini 3.
Google AI Blog
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
OpenAI News
Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.
Google AI Blog
The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.
The Verge AI
Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire.
OpenAI News
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
MarkTechPost
Adaption Labs has released Invent a Dataset, which generates a structured, training-ready dataset from a description of the behavior you want a model to learn. There is no seed corpus, no schema design, and no labeling guide.
NVIDIA AI Blog
Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware.
Hugging Face Blog
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
NVIDIA AI Blog
I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.
Hugging Face Blog
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Last Week in AI
Google announces Gemini 3. 7 Flash, Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed, A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians.
The Verge
The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda.
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Ars Technica
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.
Ars Technica
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives.
Ars Technica
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents.
MIT Technology Review
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business.
The Verge
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week.
The Verge
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October.
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
TechCrunch
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
TechCrunch
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
Bloomberg Markets
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail for a criminal case accusing her of threatening to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. She said she fears for her own life.
BBC Business
The price of unleaded hits 163p a litre, according to motoring group the RAC, as oil prices remain elevated.
Bloomberg Markets
Leonardo SpA, the Italian state-controlled defense company, is aiming to deepen ties with Ukraine’s fast-growing military-technology sector through its new Kyiv unit, seeking partnership, investment or acquisition opportunities, Chief Executive Officer Lorenzo Mariani said.
Bloomberg Markets
More European wealth managers have turned pessimistic on the region’s stocks, taking the view that this year’s rally is likely to falter while markets in the US and developing countries power ahead.
BBC Business
The president's remarks came as stronger-than-expected jobs figures added to growing expectations that rates could be increased.
The Economist Business
Its business is booming as consumers look to take charge of their health
The Economist Business
And a blow to Germany’s co-operative model of industrial relations
CNBC Finance
Filling open commissioner positions at the regulatory agency has been a sticking point in negotiations over the Clarity Act.
BBC Business
Xbox said the limits were due to the rising cost of cloud gaming, and would allow it to invest more in its performance
The Economist Business
The mountain of debt funding their expansion is growing rapidly
CNBC Business
Maria Bartiromo, the longtime host of Fox News and Fox Business programming, has disputed reports she was fired from the cable TV networks.
CNBC Business
Engelbert oversaw a period of unprecedented growth for the WNBA, but has faced criticism from players over her leadership.
CNBC Finance
Bitcoin headed for its third straight winning week, as traders searched for refuge amid volatile moves in equities, currencies and bond markets.
CNBC Business
Wealthy travelers are moving their typical summer getaways to autumn.
NASA
The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.
NASA
NASA will host a virtual webinar at 2 p. 2, titled “The RS-25 Engine and the Future of Artemis Missions: An Accessible Webinar for the Blind and Low-Vision Community.
NASA
On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus.
NASA
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos!
NASA
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 12:15 p.
NASA
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 After Curiosity’s 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise.
ScienceDaily
Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth.
ScienceDaily
A substance found in edible sea squirts appeared to reverse several signs of aging in older mice. Plasmalogen supplements improved memory and learning, strengthened connections between brain cells, reduced inflammation, and even helped the mice grow thicker, darker hair.
ScienceDaily
Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks by changing heart activity and increasing the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. The findings suggest that something as simple as controlling your breath can directly influence how you evaluate choices.
ScienceDaily
A giant iceberg measuring more than 76 square kilometers broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in August 2026, marking the Arctic’s largest glacier calving event since 2020.
ScienceDaily
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected.
ScienceDaily
UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change their behavior depending on how they process glucose and on physical contact…
CoinDesk
Blockchain investment in Southeast Asia in 2026 has been led by crypto financial services, though funding remains heavily concentrated in Singapore and a handful of companies.
CoinDesk
AMC boss Adam Aron called Robinhood’s stock tokens “synthetic equity” and threatened legal action. Vlad Tenev says the brokerage stands behind the product.
CoinDesk
Daily order-book traders fell about 40% from a year ago while volume rose 79%, as the value held on XRPL climbed above $4 billion.
Cointelegraph
US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000.
CoinDesk
's largest retail investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown, has reversed course following the FCA's decision to lift its retail ban on crypto ETPs in October.
Decrypt
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures.
Decrypt
The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.
Decrypt
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health's tokenized shares on Robinhood's new blockchain. It started a new trend that's spreading fast.
Decrypt
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers.
Cointelegraph
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents.
Cointelegraph
The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month.
Cointelegraph
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchain-based records.
Polygon
Four decades after it released, Konami's classic platformer continues to inspire its competition.
Polygon
From the USS Enterprise to the Borg Cube, these are the five starships that left the biggest mark on Star Trek.
Polygon
Weaving's impressive performance cements her status as a scream queen.
Rolling Stone
A representative for Sony Pictures Television said Thornton's employment has been "terminated"
Rolling Stone
Stella Parton urged people to "show more compassion and wisdom" moving forward
Rolling Stone
The "Bee Keeper Collector's Box" was released in a limited quantity of 500 for the anniversary of B'Day , but does not include any vinyl records from her catalog
Rolling Stone
"I hope that someday a young Filipino kid comes to Hollywood, sees my name and thinks, 'Oh, maybe I can get here too,'" said the Broadway legend
IGN
IGN's Logan Plant shares 14 predictions for the pair of Nintendo Directs airing in the coming days.
IGN
Tim Schafer, game designer and founder of Psychonauts developer Double Fine, gave a strong response after Xbox divested the studio as part of its massive restructuring efforts this summer.
IGN
DC fans are convinced the DCU's Wonder Woman will be played by Adria Arjona after she posted a video of her workout routine ahead of Man of Tomorrow.
Defense News
Scroll for Today's News
Find your perfect role. Match with the best jobs, optimize your resume and generate tailored cover letters in seconds.
Search, discover, and copy thousands of emojis — meanings, collections, and more.
Across the Fold
World
War Desk
Trending AI
Technology
Business
Science
Crypto Desk
Culture
