Sunday 20 September 2026
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World59
- Trump Plans Executive Order to Create Board Overseeing NIH Grant Funding
- North Korea fires two missiles ahead of Trump-Xi summit, as allies protest
- Argentina's Left Mobilises 'March of Anger' Against Milei's Austerity
- CNN, Politico, and MS NOW sue Trump over White House ban as president denies 'assault' on free press
- CCTV shows Lamarre-Condon buying second surfboard bag hours after alleged murders
- Pakistan arrests three sisters of Imran Khan ahead of planned protest march
- Al Jazeera News Roundup: From Gaza to Shanghai — Video Highlights of the Day
- Charity launches universal school lunch pilot in Gippsland as food insecurity rises
- East Gippsland residents ordered to evacuate as out-of-control bushfire threatens Victorian town
- AfD wins 37% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, CDU suffers worst state result since 1949
- Albanese launches Australia's bid for UN Security Council seat in New York
- Republican Congresswoman Salazar Escalates Criticism of Trump's Immigration Enforcement
- Houthis Escalate Offensive in Yemen as Saudi-Backed Forces Struggle to Hold Ground
- Al Jazeera Video Roundup: Gaza Artists Honour Macklemore, Netanyahu Tours Al-Aqsa Tunnels
- Cultural destruction goes unpunished as legal efforts stall, experts warn
- Hundreds Protest in Tunisia Calling for Release of Jailed Gaza Flotilla Activists
- Liberal Democrats unveil £2bn fuel duty cut plan amid concerns over policy visibility
- Australia to Ban Card Surcharges from October, Saving Consumers $1.6bn a Year
- One Nation-linked company built $56,000 shed on property of Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man
- Baltic spy chiefs warn Russia could test NATO within months
- California law imposes fines on influencers who fail to disclose political ads
- Landmark survey reveals Australians face years-long waits for dementia diagnosis
- UK's Burnham Welcomes Greenland Security Deal Ahead of Expected First Trump Meeting
- Al Jazeera Video Roundup: Rescue Dog Honoured, Robot Cage Fight, Drone Attack on Moscow, and Gaza Schools Reopen
- Trump Says D.C. Arch Will Now Double as Military Complex with Drones and Snipers
- Iran Sends Conditions for Ending War with US via Qatar, Awaits Trump Response
- FBI Director Patel Claims 605% Surge in AI Use, But Metrics Remain Unclear
- Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrate outside Ed Sheeran concert
- Rare earths supplier urges end to China's 'stranglehold' as Trump-Xi summit approaches
- PM touts Australia's social media laws in talks with former Apple CEO Tim Cook
- Al Jazeera Video Newsfeed: Pro-Palestine Protest, Saudi Threats, White House Ban, and More
- Ukraine Uses New Ballistic Missile in Largest Drone Attack on Moscow as Russia Votes
- Watch and Act warning issued for out-of-control bushfire in Victoria's Central Gippsland
- Waltz defends Trump's ban on media outlets as 'absolutely within his rights'
- Sydney 24-hour economy commissioner's nine overseas trips in 2½ years under scrutiny
- Separate murder charges over stabbing deaths in Sydney and Perth
- Chiltern Railways becomes sixth operator nationalised under Labour
- Lachie Neale faces AFL tribunal in bid to play Saturday's grand final
- One Hospitalised After North Adelaide Aged Care Fire
- Multiple bushfire alerts issued in Tasmania as strong winds hamper firefighting efforts
- Iran claims US planning renewed bombing campaign as Trump returns to White House early
- Ukrainian drone attacks continue across multiple Russian regions, officials report
- Child dead, three others critical in Blue Mountains stabbing; all victims under five
- Heirs of Holocaust victims sue Norton Simon Museum over Nazi-looted 16th-century paintings
- Al Jazeera Newsfeed: Ed Sheeran on Gaza, DR Congo Ebola Trials, Hegseth Tour, and More
- Deaths to Outnumber Births in 40 Years, Intergenerational Report Warns
- Two Dead in Separate Violent Incidents in SA and NSW
- News Helicopter Crash in Los Angeles Kills 3; Separate Party Boat and Sydney Road Crashes Injure Dozens
- Ed Sheeran Apologizes, Calls Gaza War ‘Catastrophic and Unjustifiable’ in Philadelphia Concert
- Explosions in Riyadh Prompt Emergency Alerts and Flight Disruptions
- Al Jazeera Explores Key Global Issues with New Series of Inside Story Episodes
- State Department approves potential $2.6 billion air defense sale to Ukraine
- Merz Vows to Stay On as Exit Polls Show CDU Losses in Two German States
- Ebola vaccination trials begin for frontline health workers in DR Congo
- US Air Force Confirms Deployment of Weapons in Space, White House Offers No Details
- Texas Supreme Court Allows Surrogate Baby to Move to California for Treatment
- Three women killed in domestic violence incidents across NSW in 24 hours
- UK and Israel at Odds Over West Bank Settlement Construction in E1
- Trump’s Trade War With Canada Strains Support in Key Border and Industrial States
Tech14
- Cybersecurity expert remotely hacks BYD Shark 6 with ease, raising concerns about Chinese EV data risks
- Bun Runtime Ditches Zig for Rust in AI-Assisted Rewrite, Eliminating Memory Bugs
- Vocci Ring Enters Crowded AI Notetaker Market With Discreet Wearable
- AI Industry Divided Over Calls for Slower Development as Leaders Clash on Safety
- NHTSA and SAE Launch Consortium to Develop Performance Standards for Autonomous Vehicles
- Delft Researchers Develop Whisker-Guided Drone for Navigation in Darkness
- Gemini's Stock Plunges 80% from IPO, Reigniting Takeover Speculation
- Malicious npm packages bypass new security defenses by hiding code in runtime behavior
- Bitcoin Defies Wipeout Fears as Traders' Worst-Case Scenario Fails to Materialise
- Massive GTA V Data Leak Reveals Early GTA VI Map, Canceled DLCs, and Alternate Ending
- Analysts: Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle stand to benefit from SEC's tokenized-stock push
- Google infiltrated notorious supply-chain hacking gang TeamPCP, monitored attacks from inside
- Researchers break out of OpenAI Codex sandbox with two exploits, one enabling remote code execution
- SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks With Caveats After Clarity Act Fails
Business4
- Serial entrepreneurs place offline bets on in-person connection as loneliness crisis deepens
- UK music tech startup Unit1 raises $20m for hyper-realistic digital concert avatars
- AI giants face antitrust lawsuit over alleged collusion to slow development
- EPA allowed Bayer to choose its own regulations for dicamba herbicide, documents show
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AI research8
- Selective attention calls, guided by model's own state, speed long-context inference
- Adaptive action chunking improves robot control by varying horizon based on prediction reliability.
- Target masks extend robot policies to ordered, long-horizon manipulation
- Co-trained agent roles improve tool-based reasoning and verification
- Hierarchical registries enable fast, trust-aware discovery across agent ecosystems
- Alignment midtraining does not reliably generalize desired model behavior
- Handheld demonstrations improve robot policies without repeated robot execution
- Predicting environment observations during fine-tuning improves later agent exploration