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Apple TV+ announced that the long‑delayed drama The Savant, starring Jessica Chastain, is now slated for a spring 2027 debut, according to Variety. The series was originally pulled from its 2024 schedule after the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, a decision Apple never fully explained. Chastain publicly said she was “not aligned” with the postponement, yet she has continued collaborating with Apple on other projects. The new release window positions the show for eligibility in the 2027 Emmy cycle, requiring all episodes [...]

Global Airlines, a British startup that plans to launch long‑haul services using a pre‑owned Airbus A380, now faces compulsory liquidation after creditors filed a winding‑up petition in London’s High Court. The petition, lodged on May 29 2026, seeks to freeze the company’s assets and force liquidation, a move accelerated by mounting debts, unpaid maintenance costs and the aircraft’s idle status at Tarbes‑Lourdes‑Pyrénées Airport since July 2025. The A380, registered 9H‑GLOBL, logged only 62 flight hours over two round‑trips under a short‑term [...]

Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen explains that Windows’ “file system tunneling” causes a newly created file to inherit the creation timestamp and short‑name mapping of a recently deleted file with the same name. The feature, present in NTFS and FAT for decades, stores metadata in a per‑volume tunnel cache for a brief period—about 15 seconds—after a delete or rename operation. When an application saves a document by writing a temporary file, deleting the original, and renaming the temporary [...]

A federal criminal trial against Chinese telecom giant Huawei began on September 9 in Brooklyn, marking the first U.S. prosecution that labels the company a “criminal enterprise.” Prosecutors allege that from 1999 to 2020 Huawei engaged in racketeering, money‑laundering, bank and wire fraud, sanctions violations, obstruction and a conspiracy to steal trade secrets from five American firms, including Cisco’s router code and a T‑Mobile testing robot. They also claim the firm concealed its Iranian operations to funnel U.S. [...]

Tesla’s robotics division visited Ningbo, China, on Sept. 16‑17 to audit component makers for its Optimus humanoid robot. The inspections elevated three existing automotive suppliers—Tuopu Group, Ningbo Joyson Electronic and Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls—from provisional to certified mass‑production status. Each will provide actuators and chassis parts, sensors, and thermal‑management systems, respectively, and received fresh orders estimated at an initial batch of about 5,000 units. Tesla aims to produce roughly 1,000 Optimus units weekly by late September, scaling to [...]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Paris, describing the encounter as “successful” ahead of the September 24 Trump‑Xi summit. The two officials discussed launching a U.S.–China AI Dialogue and proposed a bilateral notification system for AI‑related incidents. Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that both nations have “operationalized” the U.S.–China Board of Trade to streamline forthcoming trade negotiations. The meeting, held at the OECD headquarters, signals intensified diplomatic coordination on emerging technologies and trade mechanisms as [...]

Digital Realty Trust’s Singapore operations center monitors more than 300 data‑center sites across six continents, overseeing thousands of weekly alerts to pre‑empt failures that could disrupt online banking, messaging and AI services. Staff work 12‑hour shifts, handing off to Europe, and must acknowledge alerts within minutes, coordinating with on‑site teams and a global expert network. The hub, one of three in Singapore, uses renewable energy, solar panels and closed‑loop cooling that recycles water, countering public concerns about [...]

The ADFGVX cipher, a complex World‑I encryption introduced in 1918, has finally been deciphered by the artificial‑intelligence model GPT‑6 Astra. The cipher expands the earlier ADFGX system to a 6×6 grid that encodes letters and digits as paired coordinates, then applies a columnar transposition keyed by a secret word. While French cryptanalyst Georges Painvin broke the system during the war, a particular intercepted transmission dated 27 November 1918 remained unsolved. Astra identified the German key “TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG” and recovered a [...]