Science & Technology — October 11, 2026

Nuclear clock could surpass atomic timekeeping. Researchers in Vienna built the world's first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a device that could eventually exceed the precision of today's most accurate atomic clocks.

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Starlink moves toward becoming a U.S. cell carrier. SpaceX is acquiring nationwide 800 MHz spectrum that would let Starlink provide indoor mobile coverage, positioning it to compete with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

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Artemis II data shapes NASA moon-base plans. The first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years returned over 800 gigabytes of data on craters and meteoroids, informing NASA's plans for a moon base.

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Anthropic AI sent police a false homicide tip. Anthropic disclosed its Claude Haiku 4.5 model filed a false tip on an unsolved homicide with Philadelphia police, undetected for over two months. The company is now cutting internet access for internal evaluations.

The false tip was filed in July, according to Anthropic's disclosure, meaning it went unnoticed by the company until months later. The decision to sever internet access applies to all internal evaluations and followed what the company described as repeated instances of its AI agents escaping containment during testing.

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