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Elon Musk buys nearly 1bn in Tesla stock in push for more control

The Guardian

Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, on 16 June 2023. Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, on 16 June 2023. Tesla shares rose by more than 8% after news of CEO's transactions, a week after he was offered $1tn pay package Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, has purchased nearly $1bn worth of the electric-vehicle maker's stock, a regulatory filing showed, reinforcing Musk's push for greater control over Tesla. Tesla shares jumped more than 8% in premarket trading on Monday following the news. Tesla is racing to meet its ambitious targets on robotaxis, artificial intelligence and robotics as it looks to pivot from an EV maker to a tech leader.


Stealth radio hides signal in background noise to protect drone pilots

New Scientist

As drones have risen to prominence on the battlefield, so too has electronic warfare, in which adversaries attempt to mask, jam or trace radio signals.


Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

The Guardian

Google declined to comment on its planning application for the Thurrock site. Google declined to comment on its planning application for the Thurrock site. Planning documents show impact of Thurrock'hyperscale' unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity A new Google datacentre in Essex is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show. Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the Thurrock "hyperscale datacentre" will be part of a wave of mammoth computer and AI power houses if it secures planning consent. The plans were submitted by a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and the carbon impact emerged before a concerted push by Donald Trump's White House and Downing Street to ramp up AI capacity in Britain. Multibillion-dollar investment deals with some of Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies are expected to be announced during the US president's state visit to the UK, which starts on Tuesday.


Letters from Our Readers

The New Yorker

Readers respond to John Seabrook's piece on floods, Eyal Press's article on the National Restaurant Association, and Adam Gopnik's essay on the history of gambling in New York. John Seabrook's piece on the increasing frequency and formidable power of river flooding is both moving and scientifically instructive (" The Flood Will Come, " July 28th). I served as Vermont's commissioner of health for eight years, during which time I participated in the state's annual flood-disaster response, and I believe it's important to expand the public-safety discussion so that it includes the protection of human health and wellness. Climate change poses the biggest threat to public health, and storms and floods have abundant immediate impacts: drinking-water contamination; mold damage to homes and businesses; the spread of infectious disease; soil erosion that affects food quality; and limitations on recreation, transportation, and medical-care access. Climate change is also a major source of stress on the population's mental health, and on the country's already fragile mental-health system.


WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More

WIRED

This year's WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day's worth of insights and provocative conversations. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the leading experts in CRISPR, whole-genome sequencing, vaccines, and more for a series of eye-opening conversations and keynotes. If you weren't able to join us in person, no worries; you can watch them all right here.


MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It's Not Going to Get It From Trump's Corporate-Friendly EPA

WIRED

It's Not Going to Get It From Trump's Corporate-Friendly EPA The White House's new Make America Healthy Again strategy makes some asks of the EPA--but critics say the agency is too industry-friendly to make a difference. When Jean-Marie Kauth first read the Make America Healthy Again commission report, released by the White House in May, she was "thrilled about some of the things they identified," she says. "They clearly called out industry as a pernicious influence on why EPA has not been very successful in regulating chemicals, especially pesticides." Kauth's daughter died of leukemia at age 8 after, Kauth says, she was exposed to the insecticide chlorpyrifos, which the EPA banned in 2021. Kauth, a professor at Benedictine University in Illinois, now serves as a member of the EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC), a group of outside experts who advise the agency on children's health issues.


Watch: Winning moments from the 77th Emmy Awards

BBC News

The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles on Sunday night, with shows The Studio, The Pit and Adolescence dominating the awards. Owen Cooper became the youngest ever male Emmy winner at 15-years-old, for his breakout role in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence. Seth Rogan's comedy series The Studio scooped up four Emmys, while The Pitt beat out the likes of Severance and The White Lotus to win Best Drama. 'No doubt' Russia will cross Nato border if Ukraine falls, former US VP says Former US Vice-President Mike Pence calls for security guarantees in Ukraine to help deliver "just and lasting peace". The US House Oversight Committee has released new surveillance footage recorded hours before the convicted paedophile's death.


Google Pixel 10 Pro review: one of the very best smaller phones

The Guardian

The Pixel 10 Pro offers the best of Google's hardware without an enormous screen, making it a contender for the top smaller phone. The Pixel 10 Pro offers the best of Google's hardware without an enormous screen, making it a contender for the top smaller phone. Mon 15 Sep 2025 02.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 15 Sep 2025 02.03 EDT The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. The Pixel 10 Pro is Google's best phone that is still a pocketable, easy-to-handle size, taking the excellent Pixel 10 and beefing it up in the camera department.


North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to help forge deepfake ID

The Japan Times

North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card to create a realistic-looking image meant to make a phishing attempt seem more credible, a South Korean cybersecurity firm found. A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document to attack a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers. Attackers used the artificial intelligence tool to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card in order to create a realistic-looking image meant to make a phishing attempt seem more credible, according to research published Sunday by Genians, a South Korean cybersecurity firm. Instead of including a real image, the email linked to malware capable of extracting data from recipients' devices, according to Genians. The group responsible for the attack, which researchers have dubbed Kimsuky, is a suspected North Korea-sponsored cyber-espionage unit previously linked to other spying efforts against South Korean targets.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,299

Al Jazeera

How is Russia replenishing its military? What is a'coalition of the willing'? How China forgot promises and'debts' to Ukraine How are Europe, the US pulling apart on Ukraine? Despite Russian drone strikes, Kharkiv's factories stand firm for Ukraine's security Russian forces killed two people in Ukraine's Kherson, including a 49-year-old woman who was found dead in the rubble of her home, authorities said, a day after Russian attacks killed six people across the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian soldiers were advancing in the border areas of the northern Sumy region, and said Russian forces had suffered significant losses in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions along the 1,000km (620-mile) front line.