Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc1 after a two-week merge window containing 15,267 commits, the second-highest total in kernel history, pushing the codebase to nearly 41 million lines.
An experiment hunting an exotic particle instead found evidence for two strange new structures that could belong to the XYZ family.
Carnegie Mellon physicists have demonstrated an in-plane version of the anomalous Hall effect, overturning the long-held assumption that the Hall response only appears when a magnetic field is perpendicular to a material.
A July 2026 expedition aboard R/V Falkor (too), led by Trinbagonian scientists, completed the first locally run comprehensive deep-sea survey of Trinidad and Tobago, mapping 13% of uncharted seafloor and finding 25 cold seeps with dozens of potentially new species.
University of Washington simulations of roughly 15,000 stellar streams show the Milky Way's own gravitational structure produces kinks, gaps, and bends that look identical to dark matter subhalo signatures — complicating one of the field's leading indirect detection methods.
The first passenger train to use digital in-cab signalling on the East Coast Main Line has begun operating across a 15-mile section between Welwyn and Hitchin.
Maintainers say a third to half of the net-next patches for the Linux 7.3 development cycle appear to be low-priority AI-generated fixes.
On Aug. 14, the Federal Railroad Administration announced $5.3 billion in National Railroad Partnership Program grants across 23 states — including roughly $2 billion made available after California HSR grants were cancelled.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30, 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy to study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
A gunman opened fire at an annual techno event in Aarau, Switzerland, killing one and wounding five before being arrested the following day.
The first section of HS2’s complex Duddeston Junction Viaduct has been launched over Birmingham’s live railway network, beginning the final crossing of six railway tracks on the approach to Curzon Street Station.
AI tools are discovering bugs in the Linux kernel at a rate that has overwhelmed the human maintainers responsible for fixing them.
A multistate deal announced August 26 ties billions in penalties to sweeping platform changes — from default time limits for minors to algorithmic-feed options — with more payments potentially triggered if other companies join.
Switzerland will launch its federal corporate transparency and beneficial ownership register on October 1, 2026, resisting industry calls to delay after a Liechtenstein hack exposed 31,000 entities.
At ICHEP 2026 in Brazil, both CERN experiments reported their most sensitive searches for double-Higgs production — and ATLAS saw a 2.6 sigma excess that particle physicists are taking seriously.
State and federal officials have launched the $1.8 billion replacement of the aging bridge linking Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin.
Hugging Face explores a $13 billion sale valuation amid consolidation in open-source AI infrastructure
Linux kernel 7.2 officially released with cache-aware scheduling, USB4STREAM support, Apple M3 boot capability, RISC-V expansion, AMD ISP4 driver improvements, and NVIDIA Nova infrastructure
NOAA has deployed two consecutive deep-sea expeditions aboard the Okeanos Explorer around American Samoa to map polymetallic nodule fields and deepwater habitats in the nation's highest-priority region for offshore critical-mineral mapping.
Official licensing brings Retro Games' THEA1200 into the sanctioned Amiga ecosystem ahead of its December launch.
Monash physicists have calculated that mixtures of bosons and fermions can spontaneously form stable, self-bound quantum droplets held together by a precise internal balance, overturning decades of assumptions about strongly interacting systems.