(August 11, 2026) – AI, Science, and Tech Updates
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Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: August 11, 2026, 06:43 AM PHT
Last updated: August 11, 2026, 06:43 AM PHT
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1DNA repair enzymes favor specific sequences, shaping mutation patterns in the human genome
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
2US had hottest month on record in July
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
3Engineered enzymes forge carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bonds with high selectivity
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
4Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
The Verge — August 11, 2026, 06:10 AM PHT -
5The sediment story: A journey that impacts India's rivers and surrounding landscapes
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT -
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7Uncovering how Cryptococcus shifts from silent infection to killer fungus
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 05:30 AM PHT -
8Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Amanda Silberling — August 11, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT -
9Fermentation emerges as key pathway for ammonium production beneath the Pearl River Delta
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT -
10AI is making disinformation harder to spot—but we've found a new way to catch it
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT -
11Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
Russell Brandom — August 11, 2026, 04:53 AM PHT -
12Quantum heat circuits learn electronics' oldest trick: Sharing a power supply
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
13As charitable food aid expands, new study raises questions for food security policy
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
14Distant time crystals oscillate in unison, paving the way for spin networks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
15Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
Julie Bort — August 11, 2026, 04:04 AM PHT -
16Record July heat in regions home to 900 million people
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
17AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
Grace Huckins — August 11, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
18AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push
michael.nunez@venturebeat.com (Michael Nuñez) — August 11, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
19Climate change could mean four extra hours of extreme heat on hot days
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT -
20Arctic fossil abandoned in 1948 proves to be record-size Triassic hunter
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT -
21Self-healing composite retains 92% sensing response after 10,000 strain cycles
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
22Illegal fishing captures up to 15% of global marine wild catch, analysis finds
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
23Retail investor attention encourages managers to manipulate earnings, study finds
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
24Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code
bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson) — August 11, 2026, 02:31 AM PHT -
25Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
Amanda Silberling — August 11, 2026, 02:30 AM PHT -
26AI persona practice boosts empathy scores in small pilot study
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 02:20 AM PHT -
27When fever isn't the answer: Infected tadpoles cool themselves to fight viruses
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 11, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
28What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
The Verge — August 11, 2026, 01:28 AM PHT -
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30Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Beth Mole — August 11, 2026, 12:37 AM PHT -
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32Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents — available now
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — August 11, 2026, 12:22 AM PHT -
33Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Rebecca Bellan — August 11, 2026, 12:20 AM PHT -
34Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff (photos)
jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) — August 11, 2026, 12:03 AM PHT -
35Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
Kyle Orland — August 11, 2026, 12:01 AM PHT -
36Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Tim De Chant — August 10, 2026, 11:22 PM PHT -
37One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
Eric Berger — August 10, 2026, 11:05 PM PHT -
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39New GLP-1 pill delivers up to 12% weight loss in 36 weeks
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 10:50 PM PHT -
40Orange Crush: TAG Heuer Drops a Bright Revamp of the Original Metal F1 Watch
Jeremy White — August 10, 2026, 10:47 PM PHT -
41Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next.
VentureBeat — August 10, 2026, 10:30 PM PHT -
42A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
Matt Burgess, wired.com — August 10, 2026, 10:25 PM PHT -
43A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond
Zack Whittaker — August 10, 2026, 10:20 PM PHT -
44Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password
Zack Whittaker — August 10, 2026, 10:14 PM PHT -
45Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 08:27 PM PHT -
46The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
Thomas Macaulay — August 10, 2026, 08:10 PM PHT -
47Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Tim Fernholz — August 10, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
48Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority
VentureBeat — August 10, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
49Apple will stream Friday Night Baseball live in Vision Pro
The Verge — August 10, 2026, 07:33 PM PHT -
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51Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 07:21 PM PHT -
52Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
Saima Sidik — August 10, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
53The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 06:55 PM PHT -
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55Voyager 2 was running out of power. NASA just bought it more time
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 05:45 PM PHT -
56AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
Eric Schmidt, Suhas Mahesh — August 10, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
57These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
Will Douglas Heaven — August 10, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
58Could the northern lights be visible during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12? Maybe.
daisy.dobrijevic@space.com (Daisy Dobrijevic) — August 10, 2026, 03:00 PM PHT -
59For 15,000 years, humans and dogs have been changing each other
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 01:57 PM PHT -
60A daily glass of fruit juice was linked to lower depression scores
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 10:09 AM PHT -
61Scientists find the strength training “sweet spot” for a longer life
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — August 10, 2026, 08:52 AM PHT