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Introducing: H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Tourbillon Skeleton Ceramic Alpine Limited Edition

The new H. Moser & Cie. x Alpine Motorsports watch comes in anthracite grey ceramic, with a fully openworked movement in Alpine blue.

Sep 2 • 12:01 PM EDT • Technology • monochrome-watches.com

ATLAS publishes first paper on Public Engagement with Science

You can’t exactly take the ATLAS experiment on tour. At 7,000 tonnes and buried 100 metres underground at CERN, it’s not easy to move. So, for more than a decade, the ATLAS Collaboration has found another way to bring the experiment to people around the world: live, interactive virtual visits with the scientists who work on it. In a recent paper published in the European Physical Journal Plus, the ATLAS Collaboration documents the evolution and impact of its flagship Virtual Visits programme. The paper is the Collaboration’s first publication focused specifically on science education, communication and outreach. It traces the programme from its beginnings as an experimental outreach effort in 2010 through its growth into a global programme – connecting classrooms in the Amazon, schools in the Himalayas and even a research station in Antarctica. Drawing on data collected between 2019 and 2025, the paper examines the programme’s reach and impact. Global reach, local connection Figure 1: World map showing the number of virtual visits across participating countries from 2019 to 2025. Cooler colours (purple and blue) are used for countries with fewer visits, and warmer colours (red and orange) for countries with more visits. (Image: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN) The core mission of the ATLAS Virtual Visit programme is to connect audiences worldwide with particle physicists and engage them in accessible discussions about cutting-edge research. While visiting CERN in person is an unforgettable experience, financial and logistical barriers can make such a trip difficult for many students and public groups. Video conferencing has allowed the Collaboration to break down these barriers: between 2019 and 2025, the Collaboration hosted 698 virtual visits, engaging tens of thousands of participants across nearly 70 countries (see Figure 1). Interactivity is central to the programme. Far from simple one-way broadcasts, Virtual Visit audience members are encouraged to engage in conversation with the scientist(s) hosting the visit. Most hosts are volunteers from the ATLAS Collaboration, who bring their diverse scientific expertise, language skills and cultural backgrounds to each visit. Where possible, audiences are paired with volunteer scientists who share their native language and cultural background, making it easier to engage, ask questions and connect with the hosts. Between 2019 and 2025, Virtual Visits were held in 19 different languages. The core mission of the ATLAS Virtual Visit programme is to connect audiences worldwide with particle physicists and engage them in accessible discussions about cutting-edge research. Constant evolution Figure 2: The number of ATLAS Virtual Visits organised annually since 2019. (Image: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN) The ATLAS Virtual Visit programme has continuously evolved to enhance the visitor experience. Early sessions were hosted directly from the ATLAS Control Room before transitioning in 2014 to a dedicated space in the ATLAS Visitor Centre, equipped with modern videoconferencing technology. In 2019, the ATLAS Collaboration expanded the programme’s reach, introducing live Virtual Visits from the experimental cavern during year-end maintenance stops and long LHC shutdowns. These exclusive sessions take participants beyond the ATLAS visitor platform, offering real-time, up-close views of the towering detector. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person gatherings worldwide, demand for virtual engagement surged. The ATLAS Collaboration adapted rapidly by introducing Open Virtual Visits streamed via Zoom and YouTube, allowing individual science enthusiasts and families to join live guided tours. Figure 2 shows that the programme reached a peak of 155 visits in 2021 and has since maintained around 100 visits per year, demonstrating sustained engagement beyond the pandemic-driven increase. More than just a tour Beyond participation numbers, the paper highlights the positive impact on participants and educators. Teachers report successfully integrating Virtual Visits into their physics curricula, sparking sustained curiosity and in many cases inspiring students to pursue STEM studies and careers. Feedback received also highlighted how the direct dialogue with ATLAS scientists has given students an authentic and personal perspective on particle physics, helping them connect what they learn in the classroom with the people behind ATLAS research. Looking ahead, the programme will continue to evolve with new technologies and communication platforms. The goal is simple: to give even more audiences the opportunity to engage directly with particle physics and make fundamental science open to all. Learn more Breaking barriers: the impact of ATLAS Virtual Visits in science communication (Eur. Phys. J. Plus 141, 874 (2026), arXiv:2601.22457, see figures) ATLAS Virtual Visit Dashboard Register for an ATLAS Virtual Visit

Sep 2 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • atlas.cern

August Monthly Review: ChatGPT In Epic

Death, taxes, another frontier lab healthcare launch inspiring truly insane LinkedIn takes. As much as I want to stay away, I repeatedly am the crewman unplugging his ears whenever we pass these sirens. So it’s not the first and probably not the last time we dial up the typewriter rather than tie ourselves to the mast. The full blow-by-blow timeline: Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe The End of the Standalone PHR (Jan 8): ChatGPT Health arrives for consumers, at the time powered by b.well. I was bullish on the approach in that the best way for the PHR to finally solve distribution was to meet consumers were they already are (i.e. When Horizontal Meets Healthcare (Jan 9): OpenAI for Healthcare puts out the shingle for enterprises, with SharePoint ingestion standing in for the EHR integration the product actually needed. Another One: Anthropic’s Healthcare Debut (Jan 16): Claude's version, on HealthEx rails instead of b.well, with Agent Skills for FHIR development as the one true vertical-specific investment. ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung (Apr 24): OpenAI filled in the missing GTM middle with a free product for verified clinicians, effectively peeling the enterprise wrapper off ChatGPT for Healthcare and taking the PLG fight directly to OpenEvidence. OpenAI’s Second Attempt at Health (Jul 31): a relaunch of their patient specific app, now branded Health in ChatGPT, where the privacy partition came out, the connectors thinned, and b.well disappeared in favor of first-party FHIR work against a smaller network Beyond a Shingle So what was announced now? Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. The core portfolio is unchanged from prior announcements we delineated and discussed (aside from the relaunch of patient-facing). Since trade publications still seem to be confusing them by using the wrong names: Enterprise sales motion: ChatGPT for Healthcare Protecting their core product / PLG: ChatGPT for Clinicians Consumer/patient-facing product: Health in ChatGPT So really, this is a feature release (specifically for ChatGPT for Healthcare when it comes to EHR integration). What’s cool about it, though, is that we are moving beyond just putting out a shingle. Everything in the January enterprise launch was horizontalizable: Horizontal tech companies thus generally start verticalization with their “putting out a shingle phase”. Telling the world you’re open for business as a horizontal tech company reliably attracts early inbound interest from buyers who are already trying to force-fit horizontal tools into domain-specific workflows and are eager for any signal that the vendor intends to support their use case more directly. Nothing was really vertical specific, which is exactly what you'd expect from the ultimate hypergrowth horizontal company dipping their toes into specific industries. But eventually you have to stop changing the sign on the door and start changing the product. Can you guess where the horizontal product was going to run out of road? This is the core dilemma writ large: verticalization requires differentiation, while scale economics of consumer and horizontal push toward unification. I’ve buried the lede so deep here it will be painful to some readers, but what should be shocking to no one is that my perspective is that EHR integration is the only path that meaningfully resolves this tension for ChatGPT for Healthcare. Integration with Microsoft Sharepoint is fine, but it is categorically insufficient for any product that hopes to influence clinical decision-making. SMART Money Well here we are, eight months later! Real vertical investment has begun, which surprised a few people. One friend in the industry messaged me: “Absolutely no way Epic gave ChatGPT API access.” Looking forensically at the announcements, the integration is notably read-only across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. So while I’m not a betting man, I'd wager the house this is a SMART on FHIR launch: That sounds a lot like USCDI! The recommended path for the workflow they outline would be SMART on FHIR Their Health AI lead’s post is evocative of both standalone and EHR launch SMART, which another termed “ChartGPT” and “EHR Plugin” The implementation burden for SMART on FHIR is the lowest of the available integrative paths This is the team who literally did patient-facing SMART on FHIR with Epic last month Most importantly, if you’re a horizontal company, you generally still haven’t taken the full plunge and thus (overly) value reusability. SMART on FHIR is the logical compromise: healthcare-specific enough to matter, but standardized enough to reuse. Nobody Asked Judy Another friend asked “I thought they had to go to each health system, or did they go direct to Epic and now health systems opt in?” Given the trust paradigms in healthcare, this functionally cannot be Epic hoovering up all the data for OpenAI and shoving ChatGPT in their customers’ faces (or they would revolt). However, I do believe the aforementioned terrible coverage by TechCrunch and other outlets is probably responsible for that question, given the 325 million reference. When using FHIR as a business associate to an Epic customer, there is no EHR gatekeeping to speak of, as that isn’t how fhir.epic.com works: You register an app You pick your APIs You test against the sandbox APIs You list as “Ready for Production” Hospitals pick your app You test and go live with them Bluntly, nobody had to say yes or no in Verona (nor were they given the chance). Vendor Services (their next developer tier up that I doubt OpenAI is using quite yet in this initial release) certainly has contractual paperwork that some resent, but even there, the twin pressures of mounting antitrust and information blocking make outright gatekeeping increasingly fraught. My friend’s sentiment is, to me, representative of a broader industry neurosis, perhaps a sort of scar tissue of prior eras: people assume the gate is still there and never actually try the door. There are certainly other ways Epic (and any EHR) can put its thumb on the scale, but they are not so dumb as to stand in front of a federally mandated API and play bouncer at this exact moment in time. So I think they can and probably should go deeper, as this release is at best parity and at worst behind vertical-specific competition. OpenEvidence did a basic SMART launch with Sutter Health in February, allowing for more convenient evidence search by providers. They then add patient-context (the equivalent SMART on FHIR flow to what we see here) when Cedars-Sinai went enterprise-wide in May. UpToDate has four distinct applications across deeper workflows like patient engagement listed in Epic Showroom and announced a partnership with Epic to power Art at UGM Abridge and other ambient scribes have invested deeply into the deepest bidirectional clinical copilot workflow with integrations well beyond SMART on FHIR. In that light, the “Who is OpenAI primarily targeting here?” is clear. This release brings them into striking distance of OpenEvidence, but not the others quite yet. They are the only one of the three you can reach without building something truly Epic-specific. When will they go further? Competition is a great motivator to overcome the horizontal demons and start building things that can’t be reused: not across industries, not across EHRs, maybe not past the customer you built them for. That’s the price of actually verticalizing. The question is if and when OpenAI will be willing to pay it. Month in Review Here is the monthly review. As a reminder, this is a regular round-up of the month’s posts and other content to surface things you may have missed across regulation, litigation, interoperability, and beyond. AI assistance is used in these bullet summaries so I can focus on articles. Articles Published: None this month Video Content: The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition (Aug 14): Back to school for us too, with Brad reporting in from the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem’s one year anniversary in DC. We get into the January CMS-0057 deadline, the fall rulemaking reading list, and why enrollment still keeps most apps off FHIR. The Information Exchange: Epic Dúnadan Edition (Aug 25): A UGM roundup with Ryan Brickner joining for the first time to check our takes against what the building actually thinks. Rangers, Ergo sitting on top of EHI, and a down-market lineup that needs some cuts. Regulatory: Stacked Deck, Bad Hand (Aug 05): ONC’s website refresh took the entire HIT Policy Committee record with it, so I rebuilt the archive and went looking for the regulatory capture story everyone assumes is buried in there. Stacking the deck and winning the hand turn out to be very different things. The Sixth Generation of Patient Access (Aug 19): A quick catalog of the five generations of patient access we’ve layered on since HIPAA, and the two candidates now competing to be the sixth. One is planned. The other is the market routing around the plan entirely. Court cases: Three Cases Walk Into a Docket (Aug 06): Two surprise settlements cleared the board in a single week, and then Judge Maddox dropped ninety-four pages on Vyne v. Henry Schein. The sleeper is a DMCA holding that makes direct-to-database a considerably riskier business model. Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL (Aug 10): Nine class actions are headed to Miami, and the Panel signaled it wants to bring the case that spawned them along too. That would leave Epic arguing the requests were obviously fraudulent in one courtroom and unknowable in the other. Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized! (Aug 11): The Ninth Circuit vacated the injunction against Comet, holding that the user is the one accessing the servers rather than the company that built the agent. A real win for agentic access, and a much narrower one than the headline suggests. Veeva v. Epic: Come At Me, Bro (Aug 26): Epic’s response brief wants the dismissal affirmed and, unusually, wants the opinion published as precedent. Buried in it is Epic’s own description of what its non-competes actually prohibit, which current and former employees should read closely. EHRs: The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today (Aug 04): A 1999 SEC exhibit catches Epic licensing nearly its entire product line, Tapestry included, to the company that became TriZetto. The marketing services menu attached to it is the part that will make you blink. Forecast from Verona (Aug 07): The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. Emmie headlines, Art’s context stack is the most ambitious part, and Penny finally gets an autonomous coding date on the calendar. Works With Epic MyChart (Aug 17): Epic’s first new Showroom category since the death of Workshop certifies hardware instead of software, badge on the box and all. Made for iPhone, but for blood pressure cuffs, and rough news for anyone selling the RPM stack sitting in between. UGM Hot Takes 2026 (Aug 20): Everyone else covered the AI announcements, so I went after Savvy deleting the payment gateway, Rangers as Boost with the timer removed, and a down-market lineup with too many entries. Plus the Health Grid tidbits I cannot help myself on. MyChart Central Grows Up (Aug 24): Device data and Emmie turn Epic’s identity hub into a full consumer platform, which is both a logical answer to ChatGPT and a bit of a mistake. It also happens to be the best scraping target Epic has ever shipped. Industry Analysis: The Wrong Yardstick (Aug 12): Vertical software keeps getting judged against Superhuman and Notion, which is the wrong bar entirely. Your user is comparing your product to a whiteboard and forty phone calls before lunch. Primitives vs. Abstractions (Aug 27): Developers want building blocks, systems of record prefer to hand out business logic, and both sides have a real case. There’s no test from the outside that separates the engineering reason from the competitive one, which is why this keeps ending up in court. Cross-industry Comparisons: The Two Kinds of Platform Power (Aug 18): Attention power and record power are different problems that keep getting handed the same regulatory toolkit. Congress’s latest swing at Big Tech shows both what’s possible and where it falls apart. The Dogs of (Platform) War (Aug 21): A CourtListener alert turned up a property management fight with healthcare’s exact shape and none of the Cures Act. Shell prospects, ghost accounts, a notetaker bot that came back to haunt someone, and a lawyer arguing both sides of the same theory in two states. Fractals All the Way Down (Aug 31): Yardi dominates property management right up until you zoom into one segment, where AppFolio owns it outright and Yardi doesn’t appear at all. Where you draw the line around a B2B software market is about to decide an awful lot of cases. Other News: If Judy Had the Courage (Aug 13): A short eulogy for the era when software was allowed to look insane: WinAMP, bold colors, and everything the grey chatbot era has taken from us. External Media: Portland Monthly Health Tech Meetup: Erin O’Brien channeled my own feelings - maybe it’s just because it’s August and beautiful, but the monthly edition of the PDX Health community meetup was a ripper. Make sure to reach out if interested to join for the next one. STAT’s Coverage of Epic This Month: Brittany Trang of STAT did a fantastic job of breaking the FTC investigation that’s been lurking, as well as UGM related coverage, so I had to give her her wish of a meme. Fall Conferences: I’m pumped to be kicking off my fall conference season in NYC at Nabla Accelerate next month, which Chrissy provided the link to apply for. Here’s the rest of my schedule in case you want to meet up: Commonwell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 21-22 eHealthExchange (Austin, TX): Oct 27 Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 28-29 HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 RSNA (Chicago): Nov 29-Dec 3 Posts I Liked: HTI-6 Should Unbundle API Certification: Josh Mandel makes the case that HTI-6 should split (g)(10) into separate authorization and data certifications, so a PACS or a genomics platform can certify only the role it actually performs. Imaging is the urgent example, but the structure solves a much bigger problem. On implementing ePrior Auth with Epic: Scott Rossignol’s field notes from a live ePrior Auth build on Epic, including the two app registrations nobody warns you about and the CPT mapping problem waiting at the end. CMS-0057 implementations are going to be such a beast. Healthcare point solutions are starting to look a lot like streaming services: Spencer Dorn runs the cable-to-streaming arc against health IT and lands squarely on the bundling half of the cycle. Bundling can be good! It can also be bad! Life is nuanced. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

Sep 2 • 5:05 AM EDT • Health • healthapiguy.substack.com

ESPN Unlimited now fully integrated into YouTube TV

At long last, the partnership between ESPN and YouTube TV has reached its final form. About 10 months since Disney and YouTube TV finalized a new distribution agreement following fraught negotiations that kept Disney-owned networks blacked out on YouTube TV for weeks during the heart of football season, the moment YouTube TV subscribers have all…

Sep 1 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NASA Roman’s Planet Imager Has Powered On

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and

Sep 1 • 9:06 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

NASA Roman Space Telescope’s Antenna, ‘Visor’ Deployed

Roman’s antenna and visor-like sunshade have successfully deployed.

Sep 1 • 8:59 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

Six Films Preserved from the Father of Forensic Science

Thanks to a National Film Preservation Fund Grant (NFPF), the WashU Libraries’ Film & Media Archive has successfully completed the preservation of six short reels of scientific film made by Dr. Rutherford Birchard Hayes Gradwohl (1877-1959). An 1898 graduate of the WashU School of Medicine, R.B.H. Gradwohl went on to found the modern version of […]

Aug 31 • 5:04 PM EDT • Science • library.washu.edu

AMC Entertainment Creates “Leawood Films” With the Aim of Having More Movies Distributed on to the Big Screen

New distribution venture will focus solely on films fully financed by their filmmakers, or already completed films, leveraging AMC's…...

Aug 31 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com

House lawmakers return to Washington with stopgap funding bill among priorities

The bill would keep the federal government fully funded through early December, removing the possibility of a shutdown before the midterm elections

Aug 31 • 10:11 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Western training for Ukraine's troops is purposefully close to the war

Norway is leading training for Ukrainian troops in eastern Poland to preserve training time and keep lessons tied to the battlefield.

Aug 31 • 7:25 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

HSV set for big win in Arsenal transfer talks

Hamburger SV are in talks to buy Fabio Vieira from Arsenal for around €10m, though a deal still hasn’t been fully agreed at this stage.Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty ImagesSami Mokbel reported for t...

Aug 31 • 7:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

OpenClaw that Sam Altman spent billions on and claims to have beaten GTA 6 gets 'largest update in its history'

OpenClaw has rolled out OpenClaw 2.0, marking the most extensive software upgrade in the open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent platform’s history since its debut last year. Announcing the release, the development team playfully referenced Rockstar Games’ upcoming November title launch with the social post, “HA!

Aug 31 • 6:57 AM EDT • Technology • timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Microsoft Is Slowly Healing Windows 11, With OneDrive Finally Allowing Users To Fully Opt Out Of The Service, Getting Rid Of The Incessant Reminder

Microsoft is making it easier to opt out of OneDrive on Windows 11 by removing persistent backup prompts and improving user control

Aug 30 • 4:14 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Is Oscar Health (OSCR) Fully Priced Following Raised 2026 Guidance?

Oscar Health (OSCR) recently reported record first half 2026 results and raised its full year guidance, a combination that appears to have supported renewed investor attention on the stock this month. At a share price of US$30.47, Oscar Health has seen some short term volatility, with a 7 day share price return down 4.9%. However, the 90 day share price return of 37.07% and 3 year total shareholder return of 363.07% suggest momentum has been strong over a longer stretch as investors react to...

Aug 29 • 4:13 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Judge rules Trump unlawfully targeted foreign students who criticized Israel

The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.

Aug 28 • 11:41 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com

Invisors ranks no. 12 on the Atlanta Business Chronicle 2026 Best Places to Work list

Atlanta Business Chronicle revealed that Invisors, a Workday Services Partner, is ranked no. 12 on its 2026 Best Places to Work list in the medium company category. This marks Invisors' sixth consecutive year on the list, which recognizes companies in the metro-Atlanta area that successfully go above and beyond for their employees.

Aug 28 • 10:45 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Florida health system settles Medicare Advantage fraud claims for $542M

In a statement, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that Villages Health System self-reported the upcoding and fully cooperated with an investigation. The incidents occurred between 2020 and 2024.

Aug 28 • 7:53 AM EDT • Health • healthexec.com

UFC Shanghai Weigh-Ins Blunder as 3 Fighters Miss Weight

The UFC Shanghai weigh-ins featured a massive blunder as three fighters competing on Saturday’s card missed weight.The UFC travels to SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center for this weekend’s UFC Fight Night card, which features a five-round bantamweight bout between Umar Nurmagomedov and Song Yadong in the headliner.Thankfully, the main event is on, as both Nurmagomedov […] The post UFC Shanghai Weigh-Ins Blunder as 3 Fighters Miss Weight appeared first on HEAVY.

Aug 28 • 2:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

49ers' most agonizing roster decision looming on 2026 cutdown day

The San Francisco 49ers are approaching the final stages of the 2026 preseason with a roster that looks increasingly defined at the top but painfully unsettled underneath. With assistant head coach Chris Foerster helping steer daily operations during Kyle Shanahan’s recovery from an offseason vehicle accident, the exhibition slate provided really […] The post 49ers' most agonizing roster decision looming on 2026 cutdown day appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Aug 28 • 1:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Meta settlement falls short on teen mental health protections, whistleblower says

A whistleblower whose testimony helped build a child safety case against Meta Platforms said on Wednesday that the firm's settlement with a coalition of U.S. states does not meaningfully address harms ​from social media that he described in court.

Aug 27 • 3:14 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com

Scripps Research and collaborators awarded $19.5 million to establish an open-access autonomous chemistry laboratory

A new award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $19.5 million over four years will expand robotic systems, analytical instrumentation and dedicated staff at the Automated Synthesis Facility at Scripps Research by supporting a collaborative effort among Scripps Research, UCLA and Sunthetics (an AI-for-chemistry company) to establish a nationally accessible, fully automated chemistry laboratory. This “Chemistry Node” will be one of 20 AI-enabled NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratory (NSF PCL) nodes across the United States, which will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering, driving discoveries across a wide range of fields.

Aug 26 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org

Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion

When fully grown, the octopuses that survive could eat up to four blue crabs per day in the Mediterranean Sea

Aug 25 • 11:30 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com

Pebble Time 2 review: The perfect smartwatch for a select group of people

Pebble Time 2 is a smartwatch designed to push back against the trend, and it does so beautifully.

Aug 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform that runs privately on Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX-powered Linux machines without cloud fees.

Aug 25 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • venturebeat.com

Quest VR Headset Becomes Unlocked Hardware

The Quest virtual reality headset gets a fully unlocked bootloader thanks to the QuestStack tool, which automates a complex process of privilege escalation to provide stable, privileged access to t…

Aug 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com

Taylor Swift admits she chooses her words carefully when mocking critics

Turns out, Taylor Swift has been critiquing her critics this entire time. But just how she claps back at her detractors takes, typical for Swift, a bit of decoding to see.

Aug 25 • 12:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Mule helps scientists build the clearest horse and donkey genomes yet

A mule has helped researchers build the most complete reference genomes to date for horses and donkeys, giving scientists access to complex regions of DNA that earlier versions could not fully capture.

Aug 24 • 2:20 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

A New Study Explores Whether Exercise Can Really Cancel Out the Health Risks of Your Desk Job

Scientists debate whether it’s possible to fully reverse the metabolic effects of a sedentary life.

Aug 24 • 10:26 AM EDT • Health • outsideonline.com

A spatially programmable microfluidic chip for multi-stage particle and cell separation

A programmable microfluidic device developed at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, combines deterministic lateral displacement, a microfluidic technique that is used to separate particles according to their size, with temperature-responsive polymer micropillars to dynamically change the separation conditions along a single channel. Using this device, the researchers successfully separated multiple particle populations. Additionally, they efficiently isolated viable cancer cells, white blood cells, and red blood cells from diluted whole blood.

Aug 24 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org

Google wants $1,099 for the Pixel 11 Pro — here's how I paid only $399

At $1,099, the new Pixel 11 Pro can be a tough sell. Thankfully, I just bought one for only $399. Here's how I pulled it off.

Aug 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com

I’m a retired doctor. Volunteering at a community clinic gave me an entirely new medical education

“It was only after retiring from mainstream medicine when I fully comprehended the callous limitations of our health care system,” writes Benjamin I. Lee.

Aug 24 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

'Lanterns': Is Antaan really Atrocitus?

This backstory seems awfully familiar...

Aug 23 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

Zoetis Earnings Reveal a Divided Business, But Can its Pipeline Restore Growth?

Zoetis Inc. (NYSE:ZTS) entered 2026 as a leader in animal health, but its latest earnings show that even a strong market position cannot fully insulate the company from weaker consumer demand. Fiscal Q2 2026 revenue remained flat at $2.5 billion and declined 1% on an organic operational basis, as pressure in the U.S. companion-animal market […]

Aug 23 • 3:49 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

AMD’s AM4 CPUs Like The Re-Launched Ryzen 7 5800X3D Deliver Negligible Gaming Improvements In Newer Motherboards, Making Older Hardware Relevant During DRAM Crisis

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D shows negligible gaming gains on newer motherboards, proving older AM4 hardware remains fully relevant amid the current DRAM crisis

Aug 22 • 8:30 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Dodgers Get Double Dose of Good News on Shohei Ohtani

The Los Angeles Dodgers are getting close to getting Shohei Ohtani back on the mound, and he is seemingly ready to be fully unleashed.

Aug 22 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Spotted: New Shimano Dura-Ace R9300 groupset breaks cover at La Vuelta a España

It's 13-speed, and it has a new shifter button, but it hasn't switched to fully wireless

Aug 22 • 3:30 PM EDT • Technology • cyclingnews.com

Reimagining how scientists study the chemistry of the air

Professor Victoria Barber and doctoral student Cooper Crabtree are spearheading Keck Foundation-funded project charting a path toward better understanding atmospheric oxidation. by Álvaro Castillo, UCLA College of Letters and Science From the vantage point of Victoria Barber, a UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, understanding the chemical reactions that shape air quality and climate are among the most pressing scientific challenges of our time. And thanks to a recent grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, she and doctoral student Cooper Crabtree will spearhead a new research project exploring exactly how pollutants form in the atmosphere. Specifically, the project will examine how volatile organic compounds transform through atmospheric oxidation and explore how pollutants, like smog, form in the atmosphere. VOCs are released by sources ranging from trees and wildfires to vehicle exhaust pipes and consumer products such as cologne and perfume. As they undergo atmospheric oxidation, they can transform into a wide range of other compounds. Anyone in Southern California can attest to the urgency of this area of research — for example, in late July of this year, Los Angeles County was under an active ozone pollution advisory for almost a full week. While many people associate ozone with the protective ozone layer high in the stratosphere, ground-level or tropospheric ozone is a harmful secondary pollutant formed through atmospheric oxidation. Understanding how VOCs transform into pollutants like ozone is therefore critical to improving air-quality forecasts and informing strategies to reduce exposure. “My group is focused on trying accelerate our understanding of these networks of reactions so that we can do a better job of predicting how those pollutants form,” Barber said. “When we make decisions about how we might alter emissions, we can understand how that’s going to influence the production of these downstream pollutants.” With support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, Barber and Crabtree are developing new experimental approaches that will combine — and improve — techniques to study hundreds of chemical systems more efficiently than traditional methods allow. Instead of spending years decoding a single VOC, the project seeks to dramatically expand the pace and scale of discovery. The grant comes at a particularly important moment for environmental research. Barber, who joined UCLA in 2023, says funding for climate and air-quality research, especially for early career scientists, has become increasingly difficult to secure, a challenge compounded for ambitious projects that require building entirely new research infrastructure. The Keck Foundation’s support, Barber said, provides the flexibility to pursue bold early-stage, high-risk ideas that may be more difficult to fund using conventional federal funding sources. “It’s really, really hard to do environmental research under the current federal paradigm,” Barber said. “By stepping in and providing stable and flexible funding to explore this new idea, the Keck Foundation is making a huge difference to my research program.” In addition to funding early-career faculty, the Keck Foundation’s support is also focused on empowering graduate students like Crabtree in their scientific growth. The project gives Crabtree the opportunity to help develop an entirely new experimental approach to studying atmospheric chemistry — an experience that will provide him with valuable technical skills, scientific training and preparation for the next stage of his career. Stable funding also allows doctoral students like Crabtree to devote themselves more fully to research rather than balancing their scientific work with additional teaching responsibilities needed to cover funding gaps. “Getting to devote more of my time to research this past school year has greatly improved the pace and quality of our experiments, data analysis and planning for our future work,” said Crabtree, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry. “I feel very lucky — especially amid the current uncertainty surrounding scientific funding — to be able to continue exploring exciting knowledge gaps in our field and growing as a scientific researcher.” For Barber, mentorship is among the most rewarding and important aspects of her role as a faculty member. “Our jobs as faculty are to do good science and make good scientists,” she said. “I believe the Keck Foundation shares this belief and sees the potential positive impact this project can have.”

Aug 21 • 3:28 PM EDT • Science • chemistry.ucla.edu

Iowa State Football 2026 Defensive Player of the Year Prediction

Let us be honest about something. The 2026 Iowa State offense is going to need some time to figure itself out. A new quarterback making his Big 12 debut, an entirely new offensive line, and a wide receiver room still sorting out its pecking order. Jaylen Raynor is talented but nobody should expect a fully […]

Aug 21 • 1:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

China rejects US claim that Myanmar analyst wrongfully detained

Min Zin was arrested on June 3 after the Chinese government invited him to attend a conference.

Aug 21 • 8:48 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

Greece seeks to fully rescind health benefits for former deputy supervisor after plea

Aug 20 • 6:13 PM EDT • Health • 13wham.com

‘Please stay strong’: brother sends message to American deemed wrongfully detained in China

The brother of an American scholar detained in China welcomed the news Thursday that he was declared wrongfully detained, saying he hopes that it will help lead to his release.

Aug 20 • 3:01 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Rubio designates US citizen held in China as wrongfully detained as Trump prepares to host Xi at White House

The Trump administration designated Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China weeks before President Donald Trump is set to host Xi Jinping at the White House.

Aug 20 • 2:08 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Someone already figured out how to fully control Pixel 11 Pro’s ‘HiLight’ and make it useful [Gallery]

Google's "HiLight" feature on Pixel 11 Pro is very limited, but a third-party developer already figured out how to fully control it.

Aug 20 • 12:05 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

BioVivo Science launches VeriPalmetto with fully traceable saw palmetto supply chain

The ingredient addresses growing demand for authenticated, US-sourced saw palmetto — with direct harvester relationships, standardised fatty acid profiles and rigorous batch testing to counter adulteration risks in the category

Aug 20 • 9:28 AM EDT • Science • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com

"Delta Reign" TCG Set Officially Revealed for November, Full...

Delta Reign starring Mega Rayquaza ex has now been fully revealed! As posted before, it will release on November 6th as our sixth English Mega Evolution

Aug 20 • 9:05 AM EDT • Technology • pokebeach.com

SNK Entertainment dissolved after 10 years. Most of its businesses transferred to parent company SNK

SNK Corporation's fully-owned subsidiary SNK Entertainment was officially dissolved as of August 20, 2026.

Aug 20 • 1:17 AM EDT • Entertainment • automaton-media.com

Broncos’ Sean Payton Shares Goal for Bo Nix on Friday

The Denver Broncos‘ injury struggles at wideout earlier in camp were much discussed earlier in the month. However, by far and away the biggest concern for the team will be ensuring that come the season opener on September 14 at Arrowhead, Bo Nix is fully healthy and ready to go after breaking his ankle in […] The post Broncos’ Sean Payton Shares Goal for Bo Nix on Friday appeared first on HEAVY.

Aug 19 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Roundup: Partnership CEO search / Broadband expansion / Tariff negotiations

Time frame: The Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership tells Daily Report it expects to have a new CEO in place in three to four months. The organization launched its national search for a new CEO on Aug. 4. While internal milestones won’t be shared, the Partnership says it remains committed to moving thoughtfully and steadily […]

Aug 19 • 3:26 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com

It is finally time to talk about the impact of fluctuating hormones

For decades, women have felt the need to hide the impact of changes in their hormones, while scientists have excluded women from research to avoid hormonal fluctuations complicating their research. Thankfully, this is starting to change

Aug 19 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • newscientist.com

Gwyneth Paltrow is fully in her AI era

Gwyneth Paltrow is investing in AI startups, embracing the technology at Goop, and talking about AI on her podcast.

Aug 19 • 10:16 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

‘Moto Snap’ magnetic wireless charger leaks, hopefully as a sign of more Qi2 to come [Gallery]

Qi2 magnetic wireless charging is finally making some headway in the Android world, with Motorola recently having launched its first...

Aug 19 • 10:15 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

How the Wisconsin governor’s race became a data center hate-off

Both candidates are trying to surf the anti-tech wave — without fully betraying the AI boom’s beneficiaries.

Aug 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com

16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb

A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning hundreds of years. Researchers found 16 mummified people, the remains of at least four more, and a mummified dog, with burials ranging from wealthy individuals laid in coffins with amulets and imported goods to later bodies carefully stacked in increasingly crowded spaces.

Aug 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Yankees are 'woefully unprepared' for postseason after Max Fried injury

Fried's injury could come back to bite Yankees GM Brian Cashman.

Aug 18 • 11:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

From spheres to 12-fanged grains, scientists tame unruly sand in graphics and simulations

On a sunny summer's day, children build sandcastles on the beach. But behind every castle and crumbling dune lies a surprisingly difficult scientific problem. In fact, the physics of sand is not yet fully ...

Aug 18 • 9:20 AM EDT • Science • techxplore.com

A decade after settlement, medical care still falls short at Baltimore jail

A decade-old settlement requiring the state to improve medical care at a Baltimore jail was extended for the third time this June after the federal court found the state remained partially or fully noncompliant with several requirements.

Aug 17 • 4:56 AM EDT • Health • marylandmatters.org

BUSINESS ‘Punk, intense and all-encompassing’: Chicagoan Dawn Heilung brings trans artists into focus

Gender Fucked Productions (Gender Fucked) Founder and former Executive Director and Artistic Director Dawn Heilung uses many labels to describe themselves— queer, bisexual, pansexual, polyamorous, trans, non-binary, transfeminine—because “I don’t think one can fully encompass my experience.” “I started [the trans, enby and queer arts and event production focused nonprofit] Gender Fucked Productions in 2022 because […]

Aug 16 • 9:24 PM EDT • Business • windycitytimes.com

Android 17 Pixel Update Adds Quick Settings Feature We've Dreamed Of

It's no secret that Google's Pixel phones lack many of the customization options that Samsung phones have. Even Apple's iPhone has added more features in recent years that let you fully tweak...

Aug 16 • 4:21 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com

Business is blooming: First Street Flowers stand a hit in the Village

A typical Thursday morning for Hannah Lazarz is spent in her front yard with a pair of shears. She carefully picks out her next batch of flowers, snipping them at an angle and plucking off most leaves. Those selected are bound for bouquets and jars for her flower stand, First

Aug 16 • 1:36 PM EDT • Business • youarecurrent.com

Lakers Had Clear Reason Why They Wanted LeBron James Out

Moving on from LeBron James gave the Lakers the financial freedom to commit fully to Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves.

Aug 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Ghost Army’ film documents World War II trickery

The MacArthur Museum screens “The Ghost Army,” a documentary about American soldiers, “many of whom would later have illustrious careers in art, design and fashion,” who tricked the Germans with rubber tanks, sound effects and carefully crafted illusions during World War II, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Aug 15 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com

Scientists solve the mystery of a brain “switch” that can trigger weight loss in opposite ways

Scientists have uncovered why two seemingly opposite ways of targeting the same brain receptor can both promote weight loss. In mice, activating the GIP receptor in the brainstem reduced appetite, while blocking it in the hypothalamus removed a kind of “brake” on fullness signals. The discovery helps explain why very different obesity drugs can achieve similar results and suggests that carefully combining GIP-targeting treatments with GLP-1 drugs like those related to Wegovy and Ozempic could produce stronger effects.

Aug 14 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

MVNU launches online Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology

MOUNT VERNON — Mount Vernon Nazarene University has launched its Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MS-SLP), a graduate program featuring fully online coursework and extensive clinical training to prepare the next generation of skilled speech-language pathologists. Offered through MVNU’s College of Adult and Professional Studies, the program prepares students to diagnose and treat a […]

Aug 14 • 3:15 PM EDT • Science • knoxpages.com

Lawsuit alleges Newaygo County Jail, prison health providers failed to treat inmate’s MS

When Shane Veltkamp, now 31, entered the Newaygo County Jail in July 2023, he was fully mobile, independent and able to care for himself, although he would be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, while detained, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the county […]

Aug 14 • 2:30 PM EDT • Health • michiganadvance.com

Why Editors Will Shape the Next Wave of Branded Entertainment

Little Black Book, As brands move beyond one-off campaigns and towards recurring formats and fully-fledged entertainment IP, the editors who can shape real emotion and character are becoming more important than ever, writes Alexander Jamieson, co-founder and managing partner of No Sushi

Aug 14 • 11:16 AM EDT • Entertainment • lbbonline.com

World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers

A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge numbers of costly, noise-producing microwave cables.

Aug 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios

Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games. The streaming giant is closing Los Angeles-based Night School studio, which it acquired in 2021 and plans to close Helsinki-based Moonloot, which was founded in 2022. Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users. The game was hailed by Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters in a call with investors. Six weeks later, Night School is closing. Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree. A second Oxenfree game followed after the purchase, as well as a mobile game designed to tie in to an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror. Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game. “We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” a Netflix spokesperson told Game File. Netflix is also cutting jobs from its internal games team. A rep declined to say how many jobs were being lost by these cutbacks. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best,” the rep said. Netflix started releasing video games, initially on mobile as a free bonus to subscribers, in 2021. By 2023, Mike Verdu, then the head of Netflix’s game operations, was telling me that the company was committed to growing carefully, as it offered more games and built up internal game studios. At the time, it hadn’t made any gaming job cuts. Since then, Netflix has altered its approach. In 2024, it shut down Team Blue, a start-up studio led by ex-Call of Duty and Halo developers that was exploring making a high-end first-person game for the service. Last October, Netflix shut down another studio, Boss Fight, shortly after Peters praised the team’s Squid Game game to investors. (One of Boss Fight’s main developers now works on the Netflix FIFA game for outside studio Delphi.) And in December, Netflix sold cozy game studio Spry Fox back to its founders. Amid all of this, Netflix has shifted from emphasizing mobile games to offering games through TVs and PCs, via streamed connections, with phones used as controllers. That’s how Night School’s Unhinged worked, along with games such as Boggle and Party Crashers that have collectively helped the Netflix game controller app chart well on mobile app stores. The studio cuts leave Netflix with a central gaming team that works with external developers, and a dedicated first party studio in, Helsinki-based Next Games, which produced many of the company’s couch-centric party games. The move away from having a roster of internal game studios aligns with Netflix’s own approach to shows and movies, which are largely produced externally. The company owns few TV/film production studios of its own. The gaming industry overall is seeing large holders of multiple studios cut back, with Sony, Ubisoft, Embracer, Microsoft and other giants closing or selling off studios. Cuts in California-based studios, where costs often run relatively high, have been particularly acute. Netflix has faced skepticism about its gaming plans for years. The moves today are likely to fuel them, and the company has few upcoming projects to counter the narrative. Among the few hinted, acclaimed independent studio Don’t Nod said last year it was working on a game tied to a major Netflix franchise.

Aug 13 • 2:47 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news

Jennifer Garner cofounded a $732 million business at 45, and says her age came with perks: ‘I’m blissfully not motivated by needing to be in charge’

Millionaire actress Jennifer Garner became a cofounder after two decades in Hollywood success, and says she had one big advantage over younger founders.

Aug 13 • 12:06 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com

Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO) Stock Rises on Q2 2026 Earnings

Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (MLCO) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.3 billion, down 40.0% from a year earlier, as gross profit fell sharply to $429.4 million. Despite the weaker top line, operating profit improved to $127.8 million, while net income attributable to common shareholders rose to $22.7 million, or $0.057 per diluted share.Cash generation strengthened meaningfully during the quarter. Cash from operating activit

Aug 13 • 10:31 AM EDT • Entertainment • quiverquant.com

Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) Stock May Be Fully Priced After Record Revenue

Madison Square Garden Entertainment has delivered a very strong share price run over the past three years, while the latest valuation checks suggest the stock now leans expensive rather than like an obvious bargain. The stock has returned 186.8% over the past three years, which puts recent buyers in a very different position to investors who entered earlier in the move. Recent record revenue and higher event activity can support expectations for healthier earnings, while any setback in...

Aug 13 • 9:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Asia-Pacific parliamentarians urge bolder action for universal health coverage, climate resilience and responsible AI

Parliamentarians representing 16 countries from across the Asia-Pacific region concluded the Ninth Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (APPFGH) today, reaffirming their key role in advancing universal health coverage (UHC) amid the risks and opportunities posed by AI and climate change. In adopting the Phnom Penh Communiqué, parliamentarians urged fellow legislators regionwide to strengthen sustainable financing for UHC to widen access to health for all, including the most vulnerable populations; promote responsible governance of AI amid ethical concerns over this fast-evolving technology; and build climate-resilient health systems to anticipate and respond to mounting pressures ranging from rising sea levels in coastal areas to air pollution and other environmental degradation.The National Assembly of Cambodia, with support from Cambodia’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), hosted the Forum in Phnom Penh from 11 to 13 August 2026 – the first time the Forum has convened in a Mekong country.Parliamentarians urge action to close gaps in accessIn the Communiqué, parliamentarians recognized that at-risk and marginalized groups are the ones most severely affected by gaps in access to health services. These groups include people living in poverty, women and children, persons with disabilities, older people, migrants, refugees, and those in rural, remote or island communities. The Communiqué urges fellow parliamentarians and policy-makers to advocate for laws and policies that support sustainable financing to protect people from financial hardship, with a focus on primary health care, prevention and equity. "The Communiqué is a call to action. It sets out ambitious, concrete measures that deliver meaningful impact on the ground. We are all accountable for advancing universal health coverage and translating our commitments into tangible results. Cambodia is fully committed to advancing UHC, including the promotion of ‘healthy people, prosperous country’ campaign,” said Samdech Maha Rathsapheathika Thipadei Khuon Sudary, President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia.His Excellency Professor Chheang Ra, Minister of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia, highlighted the need for collaboration beyond the health sector. “Universal health coverage cannot be achieved by the Ministry of Health alone. It requires support, particularly from parliamentarians, across political, legislative, financial, social protection, education, infrastructure, and environmental domains. While each country follows its own path, one factor is universally critical for success: strong governance and leadership. We all believe in this principle, and in our respective political roles, we remain committed to strengthening these key success factors to ensure that no one is left behind.”Promoting responsible AI adoption Parliamentarians acknowledged that, while AI has already demonstrated its ability to improve access to health services and support delivery, careful and ethical governance is necessary to safeguard quality, safety, privacy and public trust. This underscores the importance of parliamentarians in promoting legal and regulatory frameworks addressing liability, records ownership and data governance, while embracing innovation that protects ethical practice.“Without strong governance, safeguards for privacy and data security, sustainable financing, and attention to those most at risk of exclusion, new technologies may widen existing gaps instead of closing them. This is why parliamentarians matter. We pass laws. We approve budgets. We scrutinize government action. We represent communities. We can ask whether health services are reaching rural, remote, ageing, poor, and marginalized populations. We can ask whether innovation is being guided by equity, evidence, and ethics,” said Hon. Man Hee Lee, President of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health.Building climate-resilient health systemsParliamentarians also reiterated that the climate crisis is a direct threat to people’s health and to achieving UHC more broadly, deepening the same gaps in access already faced by at-risk and marginalized communities. They recognized the need for WHO Member States to ensure sufficient national appropriations and oversight, and for parliamentarians to raise awareness in their constituencies and mobilize local action in building climate-resilient and sustainable health systems.“Universal health coverage, climate change and AI cannot be addressed in isolation. The same communities struggling to access health services today are often the ones most exposed to climate shocks, and most in need of the opportunities AI can offer if this technology is governed responsibly,” said Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific. “Having served previously in this Forum myself as a parliamentarian from Tonga, I recognize how the Phnom Penh Communiqué reflects the shared resolve of legislators across the Asia-Pacific region: the laws parliamentarians pass and the budgets they approve help ensure this progress reaches the people who need it most.”As the Forum drew to a close, delegates reflected on what they would carry back to their own parliaments and constituencies.“I wish to share three points here worth carrying home from Phnom Penh: we need to invest in primary health care as the foundation of coverage; we need to remove the barriers that keep people from care, whether financial, geographic or social; and we need to build systems that are inclusive by design, protecting those most at risk of being left behind,” added Hon. Ouch Borith, First Vice-President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia.###Notes for editors:The Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (APPFGH) is a platform for parliamentarians to exchange ideas, build political will, strengthen capacity and foster collaboration towards sustainable health action. This was the ninth meeting of the APPFGH, with the theme “Universal Health Coverage in the era of Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence”. Target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls on countries to achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health services, and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. In the Western Pacific, UHC service coverage index (SDG 3.8.1) rose from 63 in 2000 to 81 in 2023 (figures include Indonesia), and roughly one in four people in the Western Pacific have experienced financial hardship (SDG 3.8.2). Progress towards UHC in the Asia-Pacific region remains uneven, with hundreds of millions of people still lacking access to essential health services or facing financial hardship due to health-related expenses. Strengthening the role of parliaments – through legislation, financing and oversight – is central to closing this gap and accelerating progress towards UHC across the region.Parliamentarians participating in APPFGH in Cambodia this week include: Hon. Pehin Dato Adanan YUSOF, Brunei Darussalam; Hon. Rosmawatty ABDUL MUMIN, Brunei Darussalam; Hon. LORK Kheng, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. YOS Phanita, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. KHOUN Khundy, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. HENG Halim, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. KHOENG Noupheap, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. SENG Nhak, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. LY Sukry, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. NHOEURN Raden, Kingdom of Cambodia; Hon. Dr Ratu Atonio LALABALAVU, Republic of Fiji; Hon. Vijay NATH, Republic of Fiji; Hon. Man Hee LEE, Republic of Korea; Hon. Dr Jiho CHA, Republic of Korea; Hon. Jonghun BAEK, Republic of Korea; Hon. Youngsuk SEO, Republic of Korea; Hon. Dr Phayvanh KEOPASEUTH, Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Hon. Suhaizan Bin KAIAT, Malaysia; Hon. Dr Perpetua KONMAN, Federated States of Micronesia; Hon. Ganmaa DAVAASAMBUU, Mongolia; Hon. Charmaine SCOTTY, Republic of Naoero; Hon. Vincent Ambance KUMURA, Papua New Guinea; Hon. Dr Edwin CRUZADO, Republic of the Philippines; Hon. AUUAPAAU Mulipola Aloitafua Mulipola, Samoa; Hon. ASIATA TAVUI Tafu Salevao, Samoa; Hon. Dr Alani Petelo TANGITAU, Tonga; Hon. Paul PAOLO, Republic of Vanuatu; Hon. Franklyn Ezra WILLIAM, Republic of Vanuatu.For more information, contact: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific: wprocom@who.int National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia (International Relations Department): ir.nacambodia@gmail.com

Aug 12 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int

Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

Exploit Wednesday's back, baby

Aug 12 • 2:12 PM EDT • Technology • theregister.com

After Surprising OT Development, Could Steelers Trade Broderick Jones?

As the Pittsburgh Steelers begin their first week of game preparation under new head coach Mike McCarthy, one name remains a bit of a mystery heading into the 2026 season. Offensive tackle Broderick Jones is fully cleared for football activities after dealing with a neck injury last season. Iheanachor entered the NFL as a player expected to need some development during his rookie season.

Aug 12 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Team Prepares Joint US Military Medical Personnel for Global Health Engagements

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Directorate of Global Health Engagements, in collaboration with cadre from the Uniformed Services University (USU), National Institute for Defense Health Cooperation (NIDHC), and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), successfully conducted a Fundamentals of Global Health Engagements (FOGHE) course at the Ramstein Air Base Aug. 3-7.

Aug 12 • 7:47 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net

Atlantic Trivia, August 12, 2026: Faith and Science

Spain marketed itself as the lone populated place where today’s solar eclipse “can be fully enjoyed”—a snub to what cloudy Nordic capital also in the path of totality?

Aug 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • theatlantic.com

What Devon Witherspoon said about contract negotiations with Seahawks

Devon Witherspoon remains in contract negotiations that could make him the highest paid cornerback in the NFL, but the Seahawks star said he's fully focused on the field.

Aug 11 • 8:23 PM EDT • Sports • seattletimes.com

Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let People Fully Take Over Other Devices On A Call

Zoom screen-sharing bug let people fully take over other devices on a call.

Aug 11 • 2:44 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Marvel's Wolverine "fully playable" on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be

The controversy around Sony's decision to end production of PlayStation discs rages on. But Insomniac is all-in on physical media for Marvel's Wolverine.

Aug 11 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Trump Administration Bypasses Science Again, Doubles Down on Restrictions to Childhood Vaccines

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration today issued a new executive order directing changes to the federal childhood vaccine schedule that, if fully implemented, would reduce access to life-saving vaccines for children, add new barriers to care, and further degrade the scientific process the federal government has relied on for decades to ensure vaccine access […]

Aug 11 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • familiesusa.org

Is this Microsoft’s canceled Surface Phone from 2014? Mysterious Windows Phone prototype appears in new photos

Images floating around online have revealed a Windows Phone prototype from late 2013 that looks awfully like a pocketable Surface of some kind.

Aug 11 • 6:41 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

Cowboys Give 4-Time Pro Bowler Historic Contract Extension

It was highly expected, but the Dallas Cowboys have finally taken care of one of their top defenders. NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported that the Cowboys and defensive lineman Quinnen Williams have agreed on a three-year, $105.9 million contract extension. Williams will get $101 million total guaranteed and $63.35 million fully guaranteed at signing, which […] The post Cowboys Give 4-Time Pro Bowler Historic Contract Extension appeared first on HEAVY.

Aug 10 • 7:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Battlefield 6 Player Successfully Refunds Game After 470 Hours of Game Time Due to Game Modes Being Removed by Devs

One Battlefield 6 player managed to successfully issue a refund for the game, and this is despite pouring in 470 hours of playtime.

Aug 10 • 5:42 PM EDT • Technology • mp1st.com

Quinnen Williams, Cowboys agree to massive $105.9M extension, making star DT one of NFL's highest-paid

Williams' new three-year deal includes $101 million guaranteed and $63.35 million fully guaranteed at signing

Aug 10 • 5:16 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Why businesses may need to rethink how they plan

According to Axios, we have entered a new era of “post-processable velocity,” where the pace of technological and AI-driven change is faster than individuals, companies, markets and governments can fully absorb, understand or respond to in real time. The major shift is from information moving faster than humans can process to capabilities changing faster than […]

Aug 10 • 10:23 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com

Appeals court says Trump is unlawfully constructing White House ballroom

Aug 7 • 3:34 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

NASA successfully gives Voyager 2 another year of life

Engineers employed a 'Big Bang' maneuver to keep the power flowing on the 49-year-old spacecraft.

Aug 7 • 3:01 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com

The creatures born from code: Generative AI threatens to upend citizen science records

You need to tread carefully among the leaf litter of the Indonesian scrubland and its tropical rainforests. The dead leaves might seem caught in a gentle breeze, but there's more here than meets the eye. ...

Aug 7 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

Growing the Game Has Never Felt More Meaningful

Fast-forward almost 30 years, and here I am playing a major role in influencing the next generation of golfers: Being named a national ambassador for Youth on Course. From that gritty Leisure Time course to playing some of the top-ranked golf courses in the country, working alongside the top golf coaches in the world, and even hitting balls next to Tiger Woods and his son Charlie (seriously, here's proof!), this sport has opened so many doors for me. Just like I did nearly 30 years ago with my dad and Uncle Chris, I can create experiences that, hopefully, stick with them for the rest of their lives, too.

Aug 7 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com