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By Field Level Media Aug 31 (Field Level Media) – Kelsey Plum’s season with the Phoenix Mercury has come to an end — and her participation with the U.S. women’s basketball team in the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup is over before it began. Plum, who is dealing with an injury to her lower left leg, posted the news Monday on social media. “I did everything I could to be […]

By Field Level Media Aug 31 (Field Level Media) – The inaugural WTGL season will tee off without the world’s top-ranked women’s golfer. Nelly Korda was not among the 25 players named to the five team rosters unveiled Monday for the tech-infused indoor golf competition. In fact, only four of the top 10 players in the Rolex Rankings will be participating when action begins in November at the SoFi Center […]

By Field Level Media Aug 31 (Field Level Media) – LIV Golf may file for bankruptcy protection as soon as next week, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The struggling league is racing to secure funding in order to move forward with a “slimmed-down” version for 2027, per the report. Meanwhile, players who are owed millions in guaranteed payouts reportedly have been sent settlement offers valued at “a few cents […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths. More than 1,360 people have recovered from the virus, in what authorities said was an “encouraging” development. The outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements. The situation is particularly concerning at displacement sites, […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — The coffin of late King Harald V of Norway traveled through the royal palace to its chapel on Monday, with Queen Mette-Marit joining the procession in her first official appearance since assuming the title. Harald passed away Friday at age 89, and his son, the crown prince, immediately became King Haakon VIII. His wife became Queen Mette-Marit, while his oldest child, Ingrid Alexandra, became crown princess […]

Aug 31 (Reuters) – Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT has begun producing advanced high-bandwidth memory in small quantities, the Information reported on Monday. • CXMT is making HBM3E, an advanced type of high-bandwidth memory that is used in AI chipsets, the report said, citing two people familiar with the matter. • The company plans to expand production in 2027, according to the report. • Several Chinese chip designers, including Alibaba Group’s […]

By Dietrich Knauth and Diana Novak Jones Aug 31 (Reuters) – Meta has agreed to improve how it verifies the age of users of its platforms such as Facebook and Instagram as part of an $18 billion legal settlement with U.S. states that is aimed at curbing children’s use of social media. Here is a look at what Meta said it will do to ensure that users are as old […]

By Federico Maccioni DUBAI, Aug 31 (Reuters) –  Saudi Arabia-backed artificial intelligence company Humain has partnered with digital infrastructure firm DataVolt to develop around 100 megawatts (MW) of the first phase of a planned data center at Oxagon, an industrial city under development in NEOM, on the kingdom’s Red Sea coast, NEOM said in a statement on Monday.  • The facility is expected to be available in 2028, integrating renewable […]

Aug 31 (Reuters) – Kalshi permanently banned former U.S. congressman George Santos from its platform on Monday and imposed a penalty of $71,356, citing insider trading. The company said in a disciplinary action that its compliance department had found reasonable cause to believe the former lawmaker engaged in illicit trading. The move comes as prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket have seen a rise in suspicious trading activity, presenting new […]