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Chemistry Nobel goes to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai
Honoured for work on chirality and asymmetric synthesis. They share 12 million kronor.
Wire archives
October 2026
133 items · Page 11 of 12
Friday, October 9
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WWF: monitored wildlife populations down 73% since 1970
The Living Planet Report also logs recoveries, like wild tigers up more than 70% in 15 years.
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Oracle Health breach reportedly hits nearly 20 million people
Attackers went through legacy Cerner systems. Texas filings list nearly 3 million residents.
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EU agrees its largest Russia sanctions expansion since 2022
1,646 people and entities added, including 77 lawmakers elected in occupied Ukrainian territory.
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TSMC's September revenue jumps 54.6% year on year
NT$511.86 billion for the month, nearly flat versus August. Nine-month revenue is up 41.1%.
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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 1M-token window
Priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output for prompts under 100k tokens.
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Pwn2Own Ireland surfaces 45 zero-days
$232,500 paid out, including three more compromises of the Samsung Galaxy S26.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6, and ChatGPT now builds its own interface
Answers can arrive as working charts, forms and calculators instead of paragraphs. OpenAI says the Instant variant answers web-search questions 44% sooner than GPT-5.6 Instant.
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Manus raises over $500M after its Meta deal falls apart
The AI agent startup went back to investors once the proposed acquisition unravelled.
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Microsoft and Nvidia unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra
Built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chips, from $2,600, alongside a $6,000 RTX Spark dev box.
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Snapdragon X2 Elite: Can Windows on Arm Finally Shake Its Second-Class Stigma?
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite promises 3nm efficiency, an 80 TOPS NPU, and faster x86 emulation. Can Windows on Arm finally shed its reputation as the laptop you return?
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Neutral Atoms: How QuEra and Harvard Are Building Quantum Computers Out of Lasers
Neutral-atom arrays trap thousands of qubits with laser tweezers and skip the dilution fridge. Here is what QuEra and Harvard's logical qubits actually prove, and what they don't.