Over 30,000 attendees filled the Oregon Convention Center for the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, where Atari launched its 50th anniversary celebration for the 2600 with new homebrew games and appearances by its original creators.
Ocean Exploration Trust and partners have launched the final 2026 voyage of E/V Nautilus, mapping and diving on unmapped seamounts at the eastern edge of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument with a ten-person Hawaiian science team aboard.
Two tourist trains collided on the only rail line to Machu Picchu Pueblo on October 2, 2026, suspending service for hours with no injuries reported.
A century-old fossil from the same Egyptian limestone that built the Great Sphinx has been reclassified as a new crocodile species after micro-CT scanning revealed features the original classification missed.
Virgin Group has confirmed a signed order with Alstom for 12 Avelia Stream high-speed trains, including 30 years of maintenance, with cross-Channel services planned to begin in 2030.
Mammoet installed the first 2,200-tonne span of Budapest's new Közvágóhíd railway bridge over Soroksári út in a single weekend, using self-propelled modular transporters to keep the arterial road's closure to a minimum.
Multiple passengers from the August 13, 2026 Lewes train derailment have begun legal proceedings against Southern Rail and Network Rail for physical and psychological injuries.
The Transpennine Route Upgrade is replacing Common Lane bridge at Church Fenton so the railway can eventually accommodate overhead electrification.
Atari announced a modernized recreation of its 1983 8-bit home computer, featuring a mechanical keyboard, 25 built-in games, and HDMI output, set to begin shipping in April 2027.
On 6 October 2026, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
Switzerland's glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in 2026, bringing the five-year total to nearly 20%. A winter with almost no snow, followed by 76 days of summer heatwaves that pushed the freezing point above 4,000 m, drove what scientists call a 'complete explosion of melt rates.'
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 30, 2026 requiring state agencies to continue using “artificial intelligence” and “AI,” directly countering President Trump’s move to rename the technology “super intelligence” in federal communications — a one-day-apart clash that turns a naming convention into a federal-state policy dispute.
The Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station marks the first time a NASA astronaut has flown twice on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
The Ocean Exploration Trust's research vessel has embarked on a 20-day mission to map never-before-seen ridges and seamounts in the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary.
An unauthorized actor had access to a Defense Manpower Data Center file-sharing server for roughly nine months before the breach was discovered in mid-July.
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc5 on September 27, 2026, with an unusual diffstat where drivers account for less than a third of changes and selftests make up roughly a quarter.
The Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus has begun a 20-day expedition to map previously unmapped deep-sea habitats around Hawaiʻi and within Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary.
A sub-Neptune planet 73 light-years away orbits in the opposite direction of its small host star, challenging standard models of planetary system formation.
CISA is ending its weekly Vulnerability Bulletin at the end of September 2026, shifting from severity-based scoring toward risk-based prioritization under Binding Operational Directive 26-04.
Morocco and the African Development Bank signed two financing agreements totaling €405 million on September 17, 2026, to extend the high-speed rail network and support vocational training programs.
Qualcomm used Snapdragon Summit 2026 to commit to official Debian and Ubuntu support on its X2-series ARM chips, with a working Debian build by year-end and Ubuntu certification on select laptops in early 2027.
Balfour Beatty plans to grow its UK workforce to 16,000 by end of 2027, adding 2,000 roles — half through apprenticeships and early-career schemes — as a £2.1bn power transmission order book and £6-8bn pipeline drive a 30 per cent headcount rise in four years.