CISA's deadline for U.S. federal civilian agencies to patch CVE-2026-85046, an actively exploited type confusion flaw in Chrome's V8 engine, falls on September 18, 2026. Google fixed it on September 3 in Chrome 152.0.7977.82.
A study published on 16 September 2026 in Discover Animals documents a humpback whale remaining underwater beside her stillborn calf off Australia's Gold Coast — the first detailed record of the behaviour in the species.
NASA says Albania will sign the Artemis Accords at its Washington headquarters at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, 21 September 2026, becoming the 73rd country signatory — the third to join in three weeks, after Türkiye and Djibouti.
A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck 49 km from Kainantu on September 20, 2026, at a depth of 104.3 km. USGS issued a Green alert, and felt reports arrived from Port Moresby, more than 400 km away.
China's market regulator SAMR published a September 18, 2026 filing covering 183,211 BYD Tang and Qin vehicles built from 2014 to 2022. A brake pedal stopper pad can crack and detach, leaving brake lights permanently lit.
Anthropic folded its Cowork workspace into ordinary Claude chat on September 16, 2026, and launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta. Pro and Max subscribers get the change first.
French quantum computing maker Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on August 28 under the ticker PSQL. Shares rose as much as 73% before paring gains to about 40%, after a SPAC merger valuing it near $2 billion.
Apple released iOS 27 on September 14, 2026 with the first public Siri AI. Apple says EU Mac and Vision Pro users get it, but iOS, iPadOS and watchOS do not at the outset.
Four paying AI subscribers filed an antitrust class action on Sept. 18 in California, alleging Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI illegally agreed to slow AI development after Dario Amodei's Sept. 12 essay.
Real Madrid beat Santiago Wanderers 3-1 at the Bernabeu on 19 September 2026 to take the Under-20 Intercontinental Cup for the first time, before a competition-record crowd of 52,117. Wanderers finished with eight men.
Organizer CESA called off the September 21 closing day of Tokyo Game Show 2026 as Typhoon Dujuan tracked toward eastern Japan, cutting the show's first five-day edition to four days. Monday tickets are refunded and stage events move to livestream.
Converse apologized and removed an image from its Chuck 70 X campaign with aespa's Karina after users said its lighting evoked Klan and lynching imagery. Snopes rated the claim true on September 18.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opened to $60 million from 3,684 North American theaters on September 18-20, more than doubling the series' previous best debut and nearly matching Afterlife's entire domestic run in three days.
TP-Link showed off the Archer 8 Ultra router and Deco 8 Ultra mesh system at IFA 2026, calling it the industry's first complete Wi-Fi 8 product lineup.
A whale carcass washed ashore at Salt Marsh, Trelawny, on 18 September and drew sharks into shallow water. Jamaica's NEPA issued a public advisory on 19 September telling people to stay out of the sea, keep children and pets off the shoreline and leave the carcass alone.