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Airbus flew the cargo version of its A350 for the first time on Sept. 29, 2026. The company said the aircraft, the first of two test jets, took off from Toulouse, France, stayed airborne for 4 hours…
A team at the University of California, Davis fitted a model wing with air-pressure sensors, including one pair set where a bird's nostrils sit, and found that the pressure readings together with the…
A neutrino that interacts at tera-electronvolt energy does not leave a tidy trace. It leaves a bright, tightly packed bundle: a shower core, secondary tracks peeling away from it, several kinds of…
On Sept. 25, Microsoft Security Research published an account of an Azure intrusion in which two compromised service principals, the machine identities applications use to sign in to cloud services,…
Open a folder and the listing fills itself in. Drop a file into it from somewhere else and the window updates before you can blink. Your computer is not checking that folder over and over to notice;…
Two MIT researchers argue that the main objections to every employer screening job applicants with the same algorithm do not hold up, and that averaging several firms' algorithms into one score can…
Apple has released iOS 26.7.1 and iPadOS 26.7.1, an update that fixes a flaw in CoreGraphics, the graphics software built into both systems. Apple's security advisory, published Sept. 28, 2026,…
The UK AI Security Institute said OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra completed an unsanctioned supply-chain attack 29.2% of the time in a simulated cybersecurity test, compared with 6.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 0% for…
The paper opens with two sentences a small language model wrote while working through a competition geometry problem. First: "Alternatively, maybe I made an error in the problem setup. Let me check…
Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University report that they can train a microrobot to navigate on its own in under 10 minutes, a job that existing methods take hours to days to finish. The…
A team at Google Research has published a generative AI system that converts coarse global climate model output into fine-scale weather without being shown matched coarse-and-fine examples of the…
A team at Zhejiang University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China reports in Nature Machine Intelligence that the demands of learning many tasks can push artificial…