South Korean Go grandmaster Shin Jin-seo defeated AI engine KataGo 11.5 points in the deciding third game of a three-match series in Seoul, after losing the opener and winning game two. Playing black over 221 moves and roughly three hours, Shin built a large territorial framework starting around move 80 to seal the win under a two-stone handicap, the toughest margin considered playable for humans against top AI.
Scientists led by Endawoke Yizengaw at The Aerospace Corporation analyzed data from the intense November 2025 solar storm and found unprecedented, coast-to-coast atmospheric disturbances across the continental United States. These disturbances pushed GPS positioning errors past 10 meters in some regions, a scale of disruption not previously documented.
Adobe has launched a new Slack integration bringing over 70 tools from apps including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign and Firefly directly into the messaging platform. The feature is available now to Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, letting users message Slackbot to complete creative tasks using content from Slack channels, Canvases and Adobe Creative Cloud assets. An Adobe account is not required, though logging in unlocks fuller access to the tools.
Wednesday's New York Times Connections puzzle grouped 16 words where eight could precede 'dog,' including hunting, rescue, sheep and sausage dog versus corn, prairie, salty and top dog. Solvers had to separate genuine canine breeds from food terms, animal names and slang phrases, tripping up many players who assumed all eight belonged together.
Google released two new AI models on Wednesday: a standard Gemini 3.8 Flash built for agentic tasks, coding, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber, tuned specifically for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. CEO Sundar Pichai said 3.8 Flash beats many larger frontier models on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at lower cost, while Flash Cyber scored 86.2% on the CyberGym benchmark and found vulnerabilities across 20 programming languages with over 70% success in internal testing.
Governments and funders in India, Peru and Vietnam have introduced new guidelines that punish researchers for fabricated data, plagiarism, image manipulation and peer-review fraud. Sanctions include cutting bonuses, blocking access to future grants and downgrading the institutional rankings of universities linked to misconduct cases. The moves follow reports showing sharp rises in fabricated citations and suspected paper-mill activity in scientific literature.
At a Zurich ceremony on September 3, researchers received Ig Nobel awards for offbeat but rigorous studies, including a biomechanics team that produced a cross-species definition of kissing excluding food-sharing behavior, a physics group that engineered urinal designs to minimize splashback, and soil scientists who buried and later exhumed 1,000 pairs of underwear to study decomposition rates linked to land use.
Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center found that two doses of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, given before chemotherapy completely prevented mice from developing neuropathy, a painful nerve condition affecting up to 60% of patients on platinum-based cancer drugs. The findings, published in Science, suggest the compound protects sensory nerve endings from the energy depletion that chemotherapy drugs typically cause.
A phase of clinical testing involving sixteen patients with multiple sclerosis and related autoimmune disorders showed symptom improvement after researchers used a modified virus to instruct T cells inside the body to produce chimeric antigen receptors, targeting the B cells responsible for autoimmune attacks. The findings, published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine, mark one of the first demonstrations that CAR-T therapy can be generated directly inside a patient rather than engineered in a lab and reinfused.
Researchers developed a palladium(II)/(IV)-catalyzed decarboxylative rearrangement that converts β-hydroxy carboxylic acids into homologated ketones and aldehydes through a concerted mechanism, rather than the radical or carbocation steps used in earlier electrochemical versions from 1960. The method proceeds via a six-membered Pd(IV) intermediate that fragments with carbon migration and loss of carbon dioxide, preserving stereochemical information at the migrating carbon while inverting the adjacent center. The team demonstrated its practical value by using this rearrangement as a key step in a short total synthesis of the natural product (+)-rupestine D.
A trove of roughly 153 million scanned driver's licenses, reportedly stolen from an identity verification company, has surfaced for sale online. The leak underscores how centralized repositories of scanned IDs, built to confirm users' identities, have themselves become prime targets for hackers.
Uber has begun operating the UK's first robotaxi service in London, using 15 Ford Mustang electric vehicles fitted with Wayve's autonomous driving technology. Each car currently requires a human safety driver ready to intervene, and rides cost the same as a standard UberX, Electric or Comfort trip. The self-driving option only appears in the app after booking, if a suitable vehicle is nearby.
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