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(September 12, 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: September 12, 2026, 07:39 AM PHT
Last updated: September 12, 2026, 07:39 AM PHT
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1Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Marina Temkin — September 12, 2026, 06:58 AM PHT -
2Smart, self-healing packaging uses AI to detect food spoilage in real time
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
3Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — September 12, 2026, 06:06 AM PHT -
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5AI helps find hidden human proteins and reveals what they do
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
6Emerging SARS-CoV-2 sublineage RE.2.2 displays distinct structural features
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT -
7Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
Connie Loizos — September 12, 2026, 05:19 AM PHT -
8Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
Beth Mole — September 12, 2026, 05:14 AM PHT -
9Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Julie Bort — September 12, 2026, 04:59 AM PHT -
10OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Tim Fernholz — September 12, 2026, 04:57 AM PHT -
11Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
The Verge — September 12, 2026, 04:44 AM PHT -
1210,000 years of wheat and barley selection reveal shared climate-adaptation genes
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
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14Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
The Verge — September 12, 2026, 04:24 AM PHT -
15New measure captures how scientists' identities shift across academic disciplines
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
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17A star is exploding 45 million light-years away — here's how you can see it
Jamie Carter — September 12, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
18Bite, buzz, release: How bees make flowers give up their pollen
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT -
19Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
Russell Brandom — September 12, 2026, 03:35 AM PHT -
20ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
Jon Brodkin — September 12, 2026, 03:34 AM PHT -
21The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
Kate Knibbs — September 12, 2026, 03:21 AM PHT -
22Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox
Ivan Mehta — September 12, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
23Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite to orbit for secret customer (photo)
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — September 12, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
24Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
Dhruv Mehrotra — September 12, 2026, 02:59 AM PHT -
25Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ
TechCrunch Events — September 12, 2026, 02:58 AM PHT -
26Scientists discover a strange new form of ice that could help explain the interiors of Neptune and Uranus
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
27Smart pen detects pressure and movement to identify children's writing difficulties sooner
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
28Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
Jeremy Hsu — September 12, 2026, 02:22 AM PHT -
29Fertilizers and extreme heat are damaging coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, isotope analyses reveal
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 02:20 AM PHT -
30New study offers a detailed look at how wildfire smoke impacts Reno's air quality
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
31IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election
Elizabeth Fuscaldo — September 12, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
32AI extracts interpretable constitutive laws directly from solid-mechanics data
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
33Stream every single Star Trek show from anywhere, and save up to 75% with this VPN deal
paul.brett@futurenet.com (Paul Brett) — September 12, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
34The White House says Truth Social is the ‘most powerful and popular social media platform in the world’
The Verge — September 12, 2026, 01:39 AM PHT -
35Brain's ability to hear a musical beat remains distinctly human, study suggests
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 01:20 AM PHT -
36Travel bots are making decisions for us—convenient, but should we trust them?
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 01:20 AM PHT -
37Why making friends at university feels harder than it really is
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 01:00 AM PHT -
38Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
The Verge — September 12, 2026, 12:55 AM PHT -
39Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
Kirsten Korosec — September 12, 2026, 12:46 AM PHT -
40First Antarctic-wide map of grounded icebergs reveals 'picket fence effect' holding sea ice in place
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 12:40 AM PHT -
41What's carving active gullies on Mars? It's not water
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 12:20 AM PHT -
42Seasonal forecasts could give northern India months of warning before severe winter air pollution
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — September 12, 2026, 12:20 AM PHT -
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45One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Lauren Goode — September 11, 2026, 11:00 PM PHT -
46On this day in space! Sept. 11, 1985: The International Cometary Explorer makes 1st comet flyby in history for NASA and Europe
Hanneke Weitering — September 11, 2026, 10:00 PM PHT -
47Wavy alien dune fields stretch across Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 11, 2026
chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) — September 11, 2026, 10:00 PM PHT -
48Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider
Zack Whittaker — September 11, 2026, 09:32 PM PHT -
49Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Zehra Munir, Financial Times — September 11, 2026, 09:02 PM PHT -
502 private spacecraft zoom within 650 feet of each other to showcase 'advanced capabilities' in orbit (photos)
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — September 11, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
51Your next prescription could be treating a side effect from the last one
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 08:17 PM PHT -
52The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
Thomas Macaulay — September 11, 2026, 08:10 PM PHT -
53Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 07:52 PM PHT -
54Wasps are disappearing this summer, and scientists are worried
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 07:38 PM PHT -
55What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Jacek Krywko — September 11, 2026, 07:20 PM PHT -
56This Man Has a Cult Internet Following Over His Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass
Miles Klee — September 11, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
57'I take the compact Nikon Stabilized 12×25 binoculars with me everywhere' — they now have $73 off, the best we've seen this year
paul.brett@futurenet.com (Paul Brett) — September 11, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
58I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere’s Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren’t Sold on It
Boone Ashworth — September 11, 2026, 06:45 PM PHT -
59Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'
Keith Cooper — September 11, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
60The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Drones
Fernanda González — September 11, 2026, 05:15 PM PHT -
61Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Will Knight — September 11, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
62Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech
Jessica Hamzelou — September 11, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
63Physicists just found a tiny glitch in time itself
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 01:18 PM PHT -
64Corsair Discount Code: Up to 50% Off for September 2026
Luke Larsen — September 11, 2026, 01:00 PM PHT -
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66Scientists find signs of extreme aging and youth in the same 117-year-old
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 12:27 PM PHT -
67Scientists discover the human heart can regrow muscle after a heart attack
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — September 11, 2026, 10:56 AM PHT
