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Commission to present long-awaited Innovation Act proposal

The European Commission will present its proposal for an EU Innovation Act on September 9, with a focus on strengthening public procurement as a driver of innovation and facilitating the use of intellectual property (IP) to secure financing.The proposal was initially meant to be published in March. No explanation has been given for the delay, but it may be linked to issues with the associated impact assessment.The Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board issued a negative opinion on the draft impact assessment following its meeting on January 28, and again on February 27, according to a draft of the Innovation Act published by Agence Europe.In it, the Commission lays out the steps it has taken to address the board’s concerns, including avoiding overlap with the upcoming revision of the EU Public Procurement Directives and removing a mandatory target for EU member states to increase overall innovation procurement spending.The Innovation Act, which was included in last year’s start-up and scale-up strategy, is meant to reduce barriers to bringing innovative solutions to the market and speed up the path from research to commercialisation.Central to the initiative, according to the draft proposal, is the introduction of a harmonised EU framework for the procurement of R&D services by public buyers, including pre-commercial procurement. The plans would also introduce an EU preference in public R&D procurement.“Other leading economies in the world are investing five to eight times more in public procurement of R&D than the EU,” it notes. In Europe, the lack of harmonised rules has led to divergent practices across the bloc, legal uncertainty and limited use of joint, cross-border R&D procurement, it says.Related articlesCommission postpones European Innovation ActParliament draft report adds EU Inc safeguards to prevent fraud and regime shoppingThe text highlights a lack of clarity around the valuation and monetisation of IP as another barrier to the commercialisation of research results. Currently in the EU, IP is rarely used as collateral in financing, which restricts the growth potential of innovative firms. A key reason for this, according to the Commission, is the absence of a harmonised methodology for valuing IP.To address this issue, it plans to introduce an EU-wide IP valuation framework, a digital marketplace for commercialising IP, and a competence centre to help innovators access IP-backed finance.The issue was highlighted by a recent report by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, which referred to developing a “functional market for IP-backed finance” as a “core competitiveness imperative for the next decade,” and key to ensuring capital unlocked by other EU initiatives reaches innovative firms.The Innovation Act is one of several ways the Commission hopes to reduce fragmentation in the single market and help innovative companies to scale in Europe, complementing other initiatives such as the EU-wide corporate regime, dubbed EU Inc.The leaked draft is not the final version that will be published on September 9, according to a Commission official.

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Sep 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Columbia makes early-season statement, thumps Queensbury 48-27

A 48-27 statement win caps a big opening night for the Blue Devils, plus highlights from CBA, Averill Park, and Glens Falls.

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Sep 7 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Range labor union leader talks growth, politics, workforce challenges

Emma Krab interviewed LiUNA Local 1097 business manager Shawn Braford about the state of labor in 2026 ahead of Labor Day.

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Sep 7 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • kaxe.org
Union healthcare workers protect NJ patients when laws and regulators cannot

Healthcare workers and patients face a growing threat that cannot be addressed through collective bargaining alone, nurse Debbie White writes.

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Sep 7 • 6:45 AM EDT • Health • newjerseymonitor.com
The Weekend Review: Men and Women continue to impress

There were two more important results for our unbeaten senior teams across Saturday and Sunday’s action, continuing a productive start to the new campaign.On the south coast, Daniel Farke’s men ea...

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Sep 7 • 6:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sherrill, State Employee Unions Reach Deal to Hold Health Benefit Contributions Steady in 2027

New Jersey state employees will not face an increase in their health benefit contribution rates in 2027 under an agreement announced by Gov. Mikie

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Sep 7 • 6:10 AM EDT • Health • mercerme.com
Mamdani says new NYC office will be a tool of union organizers

The Mamdani administration announced a new Office of Worker Power Monday — and is still facing skepticism from business leaders.

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Sep 7 • 6:05 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Green light for Keaau Health Center: Commissioners OK $90M project

The Windward Planning Commission on Thursday cleared the way for Hilo Benioff Medical Center to build an outpatient medical clinic in Keaau.

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Sep 7 • 6:05 AM EDT • Health • westhawaiitoday.com
Union power: Support for labor is at a high in last 25 years, Gallup says

Happy Labor Day.

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Sep 7 • 5:15 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Opinion: How Georgia is helping workers get ahead, businesses grow in AI era

The State of Georgia's strategy to benefit the labor force is to continue efforts that support businesses, grow wages, and help create a fair and safe economy in the AI era.

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Sep 7 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • ajc.com
Football players highlight latest Public Opinion-Aberdeen News AOTW poll

Ten more Watertown and Aberdeen area high school athletes are candidates for our latest AOTW poll.

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Sep 7 • 4:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Opinion: Revaluation delay sacrifices businesses without fixing Hartford’s finances

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam wants to delay the city’s property revaluation as shifting home and office values threaten its financial stability.

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Sep 7 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • hartfordbusiness.com
Warning over future of Olympic Games if Brisbane 2032 program is not modernised

Australia’s most senior sport executive, Kieren Perkins, has called on the IOC to update the sporting program for Brisbane 2032

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Sep 7 • 3:14 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
How Hollyoaks saved the life of Manchester mental health activist

John Junior, 37, says they were seconds from taking their life when the TV soap's plot stopped them.

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Sep 7 • 1:33 AM EDT • Health • bbc.com
Op-Ed: On Labor Day, commit to guarding union rights under threat

New Jersey was at the forefront of collective bargaining, and we owe it to long-ago workers to stand against Trump's attacks

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Sep 7 • 12:10 AM EDT • Health • njspotlightnews.org
When Kentucky business owners retire, let workers buy in

Opinion: Employee ownership could keep Kentucky jobs at home.

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Sep 7 • 12:02 AM EDT • Business • cincinnati.com
USD soccer takes down Drake in Senior Day shutout

VERMILLION, S.D. (USD) — South Dakota women’s soccer closed out its two-match homestand in style Sunday, defeating Drake 2-0 at First Bank & Trust Soccer Complex on Senior Day. The Coyotes earned their third win of the season while handing the Bulldogs, the Missouri Valley Conference preseason favorite, their third loss of the season. The Coyotes […]

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Sep 6 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CPS got mental health reports on Edinburg mom a year before kids’ deaths, records show

KABB Fox News 29 San Antonio provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, investigations, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for San Antonio and nearby towns and communities in South Central Texas, including Bandera, Boerne, Carrizo Springs, Castroville, Cibolo, Converse, Crystal City, Cuero, Del Rio, Devine, Eagle Pass, Floresville, Fredericksburg, Goliad, Helotes, Hondo, Kerrville, Live Oak, New Braunfels, Pearsall, Pleasanton, Poteet, Poth, Sabinal, San Marcos, Seguin, Schertz, Somerset, Universal City, Uvalde, Windcrest.

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Sep 6 • 11:36 PM EDT • Health • foxsanantonio.com
CPS got mental health reports on Edinburg mom a year before kids’ deaths, records show

SAN ANTONIO —It shows the department of family and protective services had previously been alerted to mental health concerns involving their mother, Marlene Vid

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Sep 6 • 11:36 PM EDT • Health • news4sanantonio.com
ODU Football set to retire Taylor Heinicke’s #14 jersey

NORFOLK, Va. (COURTESY OF ODU ATHLETICS) – Former Old Dominion quarterback and the 2012 Walter Payton Award winner Taylor Heinicke will have his jersey retired by Old Dominion University during halftime of the Thursday night game on October 15 against Georgia Southern, Old Dominion Athletics Director Dr. Wood Selig announced on Saturday. “I can think of no other […]

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Sep 6 • 10:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No breakthrough as US envoys leave Kyiv

Washington's envoys have brought new, "more effective" proposals on ending the war with Russia, a senior Ukrainian presidential official said

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Sep 6 • 9:13 PM EDT • Politics • euractiv.com
Padres notes: Michael King all ‘business’ against Yankees; Nick Pivetta returns to rotation on Monday

Right-hander Randy Vasquez available out of the bullpen as the Padres work through what Nick Pivetta can give him in his first availability since April

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Sep 6 • 8:21 PM EDT • Business • sandiegouniontribune.com
Researchers create polar wurtzite nitride semiconductor NbAlN

Polar wurtzite nitride semiconductors such as aluminum nitride and gallium nitride underpin high-power and high-frequency electronics. Researchers have now achieved the first epitaxial growth of niobium aluminum nitride (NbAlN) on GaN while preserving its polar crystal structure. Used as a barrier layer, NbAlN increased the interfacial two-dimensional electron gas density from 5.1 × 1012 to 1.7 × 1013 cm−2, opening new possibilities for polarization-based materials design in future GaN electronic devices.

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Sep 6 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Is Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) Undervalued Following Its Near US$1b Debt Offering?

Debt offering puts Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) funding plans in focus Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) recently completed two fixed income offerings totaling about US$997 million, issuing senior unsecured notes maturing in 2031 and 2036. The deals follow a fresh shelf registration for debt securities. At a share price of US$8.26, Tencent Music Entertainment Group has seen the share price return fall 13.33% over the past 30 days and 53.75% year to date. The 3 year total...

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Sep 6 • 6:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
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The core anti-Pangram constituency is phony writers

Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. The Verdict, by Kelsey Piper A lot of people hate AI for drowning the internet in slop and displacing human creatives. You might think that these people would be thrilled by a program that can identify and flag AI-generated work. But many people who hate AI also hate Pangram, an impressively accurate AI detector that produces very few false positives, according to high-quality independent research. This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not)1 or don’t work (this one does)2. Rather than starting from the premise that it would be really valuable to have a working AI detector and scrutinizing Pangram to make sure it lives up to that promise, the article starts from the premise that Pangram obviously has bad vibes and sets out to discover why. (One answer: The CEO microwaved lunch during an interview!) Why aren’t writers who resent Pangram more eager to distinguish themselves from posters who are having ChatGPT ghostwrite all their work? There are a few different things at play, but I think one key dynamic is this: These are often the same people. A core constituency for arguments like Wired’s is “writers” who are using AI to write their posts but resent this fact being made public. They stand to lose from AI detectors because AI detectors call them out. Share When Substack announced a partnership with Pangram, a sizable fraction of the platform’s authors rose up in outrage. Some people had experience with other AI detectors that didn’t work, and some felt that AI writing ought to be encouraged — both of which are fair enough. But the fury was fueled by authors passionately insisting that Pangram kept wrongly accusing them on almost every post they published. Pangram can be wrong, especially on short passages. But in the overwhelming majority of cases where Pangram looked at a whole blog post rather than a single paragraph, the program correctly detected work as AI. Even if we can’t be 100% sure in any individual case, we can notice the trend in the aggregate. Wired quotes Sam Illingworth, a professor of critical AI literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, who said, “I don’t think [AI detectors] work. … I think that detectors are prejudiced against certain people.” This spring, he said that he used AI for research and editing; this summer he acknowledged that in addition to research and editing, he also uses it “now and then for a turn of phrase I keep.” Pangram informs us that most of his posts are 100% AI-written (some are mixed AI-and-human) and that 100% AI-written posts started appearing last year. The favorable interpretation is that, as someone whose recent work Pangram consistently mistakes for AI, Illingworth sees Pangram’s flaws firsthand. The unfavorable interpretation is that the tool’s credibility trades off against his own, because its account of who writes his posts is not consistent with his. Illingworth is not alone in insisting the detector does not work. “It’s a Monday night in late July, and I’m pasting my own Substack draft into an AI detector for the first time. Not because I’m worried. Because I’m curious. I wrote every word of it myself, the way I write everything, out loud in my head first, in a rhythm that still carries the accent of a language I learned to think in before I learned to write in this one,” begins one Substack post by an author indignant that Pangram flags her writing as AI. “That’s the part I had to sit with before I could write this.” If you, like me, have worked with AIs a lot, you won’t even need Pangram there. The author of that piece is AI. It is obviously AI! I checked 10 other posts on the blog, and they were also obviously AI! “I have spent 22 years as an award-winning author and essayist. And now this bullshit tool that learned from MY writing is going to accuse me of plagiarism,” popular Substack writer Carlyn Beccia wrote in an anti-Pangram post. “For the last and final time, AI DETECTORS DO NOT WORK.” Here’s what her writing sounded like in 2020: “Most success stories revolve around one person who believed enough in you to say — give it a try. We call these people muses, but they are so much more than that. They are the strong man giants whose shoulders we stand on so we can see the horizon. Throughout the editing process, I am sure my editor felt less like a giant of greatness and more like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.” Pangram says it was 100% human-written. (So were other articles of hers in 2020.) And here’s what it sounds like now: “And then there is the reshuffling, which sounds like paperwork until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork. The Trump regime recently moved special education oversight from the Education Department to HHS. That is not a minor bureaucratic transfer. It changes the frame.”3 Pangram says this is mostly AI. I am not convinced that Pangram is wrong. In my own experience, Pangram is very effective on long texts — if it marks a long essay as AI, the essay was either written by AI or deliberately written to sound like AI. On tweet-length or paragraph-length texts, it’s not perfectly reliable. It seems to work just as well for non-native English speakers as for native speakers. While I have seen dozens of claims of pre-2022 text returning a positive result on Pangram, I have tried repeatedly to corroborate those and have never once succeeded. To be clear, I’m absolutely not saying that complaining about Pangram suggests a writer is a cheat. There are plenty of other concerns. Most are mistakenly premised, such as the false claim that Pangram trains on work you put into it, but others are reasonable: It’s unreliable on sufficiently short text segments; it creates an internet witch-hunt mentality when there are defensible uses of AI; people who are open about their AI use are sometimes blamed, when the only people really doing something wrong are the ones who hide it; and it isn’t perfect, so a single positive result shouldn’t be taken as decisive proof of misconduct. I’m happy to concede that Pangram is imperfect and possible to over-rely on. If an author’s posts are mostly non-AI and one scans as partially AI, this could be a mistake. It’s also possible to defeat Pangram with intentional effort. If you think we need something more robust and more reliable, fine! But if you don’t like AI and don’t like Pangram, your attitude really ought to be that it’s a shame that our existing tools for AI detection are imperfect, and it’s important to invent better ones. If your stance is instead that AI is evil and so is looking for AI, then ultimately you’re contributing to the sloppification of the internet. You’re making it harder for people who write their own text to distinguish themselves, and providing cover for authors who are definitely not writing their own text. Subscribe Top stories this week, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs Commentators often worry that the decline of reading could mean the decline of liberal democracy — but deliberative governance actually predated widespread literacy. This week, Maibritt Henkel pointed out that many liberal cultures thrive on a culture of raucous, interactive debate, which can happen in-person as easily, if not more so, than in text. Read on, dear reader, to learn more. It may actually cheer you up: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) [ Reading won’t save liberalism ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) Maibritt Henkel · Sep 1 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/reading-wont-save-liberalism) It used to be bad to downplay climate change (if we mean denying its reality). Today, it’s actually good to downplay climate change (if we mean keeping the issue out of political fights so we can make real progress). This counterintuitive view is called “climate hushing,” and contributor Alex Trembath argued that it’s the key to enacting good policy going forward. Get up to speed on the latest in climate politics: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) [ We won’t stop climate change by talking about it ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Alex Trembath · Sep 2 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-wont-stop-climate-change-by-talking) Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing up for the forces of liberalism against Donald Trump’s assault on our closest ally. So, why is one prominent left-wing commenter attacking Carney? Columnist Matthew Yglesias explains: [ ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) [ When "economic liberty" means central planning ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) Matthew Yglesias · Aug 31 [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-economic-liberty-means-central) 🌟Abundance Wins of the Week🌟 Shout out to my home state of California, whose legislature passed two housing bills this week. One requires a housing density minimum in transit-oriented areas of the state’s most transit-rich cities (Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, and Long Beach). Another bill closes two common loopholes used by third parties to delay housing projects, including an opportunity to challenge maps of a given lot created by the developer after a project has been approved. Shout out to our big-state rival, Texas, where pro-housing SB 785 took effect this week. The new state law requires municipalities to have at least one district permitted for manufactured housing without a special permit. This will promote zoning changes in 44% of municipalities. The company Fervo Energy signed a deal with Google for what is set to be the world’s largest enhanced geothermal facility, proving a technology can work at a scale that could be crucial to a decarbonized, energy-abundant economy. Share Worth watching… This week, forecasting legend Nate Silver joined Jerusalem, Matt, and Jeremiah on a crowded episode of the pod. It was a party. And speaking of parties, our round table debated the factional lines within the Democratic Party: Is it possible to be center-left and also anti-establishment? Watch or listen to find out: The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is one of the areas that swung hardest toward Trump in 2024, but musician Bobby Pulido is running to flip it back. Right now, The Argument/Split Ticket’s model has him running 1.1 points behind his Republican opponent in a district Trump won by 18 points. Tune in to find out how he differs from national Democrats and what he thinks he can to do win this seat. On Thursday, Bernie Sanders was among the first politicians to call for a ban on superintelligence. My guest this week, Andrea Miotti, has been lobbying to ban superintelligence for several years, most recently in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. I asked him how he gets legislators to take speculative risks seriously, and we dug into what plans might look like to actually pass a ban. Listen to learn more: What’s News with The Argument The Argument recommends, by Kobe Yank-Jacobs If we ever lose track of Justin Zuckerman, I’ll have the team split up and check all the movie theaters in the city. I’m shocked (and a little jealous) at how often he gets out to see good cinema. This week, he brings us It Ends, a “horror-ish movie,” which he described as a “Gen Z Waiting for Godot.” I was intrigued before he added that it was “funny, dark and existential” — at which point I was fully locked in. I guess I also had existential themes on the mind this week. One morning, a single line from a poem I read long ago just came to me: “Is death a stretch of time in which a life is just a flash?” The poem is called “From 20,000 Feet” by Heather McHugh. I suggest the version in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, which, by tradition, my best friend and I always bring backpacking, extra weight be damned. We’ll stay thematically dark for just one more rec from senior editor John Robert Thomason, whose upcoming trip to Baltimore reminded him to suggest Michael Clune’s memoir White Out (about being addicted to heroin in Baltimore in the 1990s). Ben Lerner’s blurb called it _“_Disturbing, brilliant, hilarious—it’s as if Proust had written Jesus’ Son.” John told me this “seems accurate, with the caveat that I’ve never read Proust.” I, personally, have also shelved Proust until retirement. At this point, I was a little concerned for the team since all of us tossed out such psychologically grim material — maybe we’re all down about the end of summer — but thankfully, at least a few of us were into more upbeat selections. Milan Singh recommended Made In’s 5-quart stainless clad saucier, suggesting he had some fun in the kitchen. Jeremiah Johnson asked if he could recommend yet more Carly Rae Jepsen. Once denied, he offered up Game Changer instead_,_ calling it “the most wildly creative game show, maybe in the entire history of the genre.” Eli Richman mentioned _Lucky, “_a B-tier show with an A-tier cast and an S-tier theme song.” I suppose he was recommending the song, Horns of a Bull. Still, despite these cheerier recs, I couldn’t help but be concerned that we were subconsciously worried about racing toward summer’s end — the end of swim trunks and splashing around. Then a message landed reminding me of the three-day weekend to come. A whole extra day for sunshine. One more swim in the lake. I was grateful this called to mind yet another line from a poem, one by Mary Oliver, the patron saint of every gorgeous summer day (and about whom a documentary is now out). Speaking to God in the poem “Thirst,” she wrote: grant me, in your mercy,a little more time. Love for the earthand love for you are having such a longconversation in my heart. We have merch! We have quarter-zips, keychains, hats, and stickers. Each one is a great conversation starter in its own way. Buy them here. Subscribe More to read: [ The Opening Argument ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite)[ Seeing like an elite ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) Kobe Yank-Jacobs · Sep 4 What do Americans hear when they watch Sen. Bernie Sanders or Vice President JD Vance rail against the elite? Are they thinking of right-wing tech billionaires? Imperious college professors? Liberal magazine writers? [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/seeing-like-an-elite) [ The Weekly Scroll ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline)[ God is back on the timeline ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) Jeremiah Johnson · Sep 5 This week, we’re talking about Substack’s new religious debates, the continuing MAGA influencer scandal, how to retire from YouTube, and aura battles. [ Read full story ](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline) 1 This was a legitimate thing to worry about, but doesn’t seem to be a problem given the actual technology: Marijke Van Vlasselaer, Filip Van Droogenbroeck, and Bram Spruyt’s 2026 paper looks at whether Pangram is less accurate when evaluating the work of non-native speakers of English. It isn’t. That’s because Pangram isn’t really looking at how “unusual” a piece of writing is but whether it has the characteristic patterns of LLMs. The Wired article makes an odd gesture at a different Pangram-is-racist argument. There were several controversies this summer during which upcoming books were canceled after being discovered to be AI-written: “The three novels mentioned earlier — Shy Girl, Daggermouth, and Call Me, easily publishing’s biggest AI-detection scandals — were all written by writers of color.” But come on! As Zvi Mowshowitz put it: “They were not primarily written by people of color. They were primarily written by AIs.” That’s the whole problem! And as my colleague Jeremiah Johnson recently observed with respect to Cambridge’s Arday scandal, a community being unwilling to call out fraud if it’s perpetuated by people of color is not an anti-racist tendency; it is ultimately quite racist. 2 Many non-Pangram detectors don’t work, but many possible airplane designs also don’t work, and no one considers this a general argument against aviation; the thing that matters is whether any detection works. 3 The phrase “empires have always loved” mysteriously became all the rage in the last few years. See here, here, here, here and here. Before 2025, the only use of that phrase I have been able to find is a single Tweet. The logic of the sentence, too, is incoherent in an AI-characteristic way. “...sounds like paperwork, until you remember that empires have always loved paperwork”? Does remembering that make it sound less like paperwork? It’s a craft-ful sentence, but what is it actually saying??

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Why UTSA must beat Texas State to rediscover old magic

Give Jeff Traylor an ounce of buzz, and he can multiply it for the masses. Remember five years ago, when the downtown skyline lit up in blue and orange, and folks crammed into the Alamodome all the way to the top row? Remember how, for the first time in its history, one of the biggest cities in the country rallied around a college football team?

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Sep 6 • 5:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
PKK Warns Turkey Disarmament Process Could Collapse Without Political Reforms

Senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) official Cemil Bayik […]

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Sep 6 • 4:50 PM EDT • Politics • themedialine.org
Prestigious Patriot Award presented to Elliot’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit managers

Elliot Health System’s Mary Seigle and Danielle Hanna, managers of its hospital’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) were each recently recognized with a Patriot Award after being nominated by Nicholas

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Sep 6 • 4:15 PM EDT • Health • unionleader.com
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Tobias Harris Draws Bold Prediction; Tough Spurs Decisions Coming?

Bleacher Report named Tobias Harris the Spurs’ best offseason addition and predicted he would rank top-five on the team in clutch minutes in 2026-27.

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Sep 6 • 12:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Telluride: Cristian Mungiu Is Glad You’re Arguing About ‘Fjord.’

The Romanian auteur is on the cusp of his Oscars breakthrough for his Cannes-winning social drama, which has already been hotly debated on social media for months: "People...assume that what the film says is the opinion of the filmmaker, and what the characters say is the truth. Come on."

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Detroit Pistons' Kevin Huerter talks thrill of horse racing ownership

The Shenendehowa High School graduate and Detroit Pistons guard is in his first year as a horse racing owner as part of WinStar Farm.

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Sep 6 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Costs and corruption’: Democrats hone midterm attacks on data centers

Democrats are coalescing around their top attack lines as public opinion of data centers turns rapidly negative.

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Sep 6 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
No bailouts for Jaguar Land Rover amid reports of thousands of job cuts, says minister

Carmaker, which is battling Trump tariffs and Chinese competitors, faces talks with union leaders and government

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Sep 6 • 9:24 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Charlie Woods Stumbles at Junior Players

Charlie Woods shot a 73 in round two of the Junior Players Championship, sitting at even par as he chases leaders Sam Carraher and Giuseppe Puebla.

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Sep 6 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NH's Business: The Granite State still ranks last in nation for state support of public education

Fred Kocker sits down with Senior Political Analyst for NH Fiscal Policy Institute, Brad Reynolds, to talk about how the granite state ranks last in the U.S. for state support of public education.

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Sep 6 • 9:08 AM EDT • Business • wmur.com
Spurs Ideal Midseason Roster Addition Revealed

The San Antonio Spurs are carrying a nearly full roster heading into NBA training camp, and might have to wait for the season to start to sign their next free agent.

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Sep 6 • 8:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
This lifestyle program improved cognition 55% more than basic health advice

Older adults at risk of dementia improved their memory and thinking after following lifestyle programs combining exercise, healthy eating, cognitive training, and social engagement. Those who received regular coaching and structured support improved substantially more than participants given general health advice.

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Sep 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
This lifestyle program improved cognition 55% more than basic health advice

Older adults at risk of dementia improved their memory and thinking after following lifestyle programs combining exercise, healthy eating, cognitive training, and social engagement. Those who received regular coaching and structured support improved substantially more than participants given general health advice.

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‘The Cardinal Countdown: 0 Days Until Kickoff’

TRE RICHARDSON #0 Height: 5’10” Weight: 175lb Position: WR Class: Senior Hometown: Topeka, KS Summary: In nearly every single Jeff Brohm season since he began his coaching career I believe there has been a player who has been identified preseason as a guy who will “excel in the Brohm offense”, and for those keeping tabs, […]

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Endorsement: The way S.F. does business is broken. Prop E would help

OPINION: Cities don’t work without trucks and toilet paper and computers and train cars and contractors. The way San Francisco handles these purchases is broken, the editorial board writes.

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Lee Health insurance decision a blow to seniors

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Opinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It

Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

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Healthcare unions: Staffing shortages mean there are CT hospitals violating law with inadequate oversight

The hospital’s responsibility is simply to sign off that they are staying compliant with the law, but there is no follow-up or checkup by DPH,” said Gadomski

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Jonathan Aranda's Extra-Inning Blast Lifts Rays Past Rangers

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 6-3 in extra innings to improve to 85-57 and maintain a four-game AL East lead. Jonathan Aranda hit a three-run homer in the 10th, Junior Caminero launched his AL-leading 38th home run and Drew Rasmussen dominated.

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Nigel Farage to be quizzed as he battles to contain growing donations scandal

The Reform UK leader is under pressure after senior aides appeared to plot how to bypass electoral laws on foreign donations

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Sep 6 • 4:01 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
#1 Brandon Valley runs past #3 O’Gorman, 34-21

BRANDON, S.D. (KELO) – #1 Brandon Valley welcomed #3 O’Gorman for a top three matchup, one that saw the Lynx win 34-21. Brandon Valley junior running back Ryder Mueller carried the boats for the Lynx, rushing for three touchdowns, and picking up another one through the air that initially got them on the board. He […]

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Chaminade (NY) stuns Hendricken with last-second TD

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Hendricken were stunned in their season opener on Saturday night, falling to Chaminade, 18-17. The Hawks led 17-12 with 2:02 left in the fourth quarter after a Jamel Flomo interception, but the Flyers were able to win the game thanks touchdown catch from Michael Genovese as time expired. Senior quarterback Isaiah […]

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RFU Board needs an immediate overhaul

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK WELCOME to a new season where the Prem ring-fencers’ idea of progress was not only to shut the door on their Champ “partners” participating in the Prem Cup, but also give the aspiring clubs in England’s second tier a slap in the face this week by revealing […] The post RFU Board needs an immediate overhaul appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

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Sep 5 • 9:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dorival Júnior weighs up clash with Atlético-MG

After the 2-0 victory over Atlético-MG this Saturday (5) at MorumBIS, in a match valid for the 26th round of the Brazilian Championship, head coach Dorival Júnior gave a press conference.“We never...

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Sep 5 • 9:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
📋 Fluminense and Vasco confirmed for derby at the Maracanã

It’s Saturday (5) for a clássico valid for the 26th round of the Brasileirão at the Maracanã.Fluminense and Vasco face off starting at 9pm (Brasília time).It will be another reunion after more t...

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Pete Buttigieg talks unions, Brent Spence Bridge at Labor Day picnic

Buttigieg, a potential presidential candidate in 2028, spoke about affordability, gerrymandering and the Brent Spence Bridge at the Labor Day picnic.

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Sep 5 • 6:48 PM EDT • Politics • cincinnati.com
Ben Roethlisberger Returns to Pittsburgh for Special Reunion

Ben Roethlisberger was back in Pittsburgh at Acrisure Stadium on Saturday. No, he is not returning to play for the Steelers at the age of 44. The Steelers already have a 40-plus-year-old quarterback leading the offense.His actual reason for being in attendance was to watch his alma mater, Miami University. That is Miami (OH), where […] The post Ben Roethlisberger Returns to Pittsburgh for Special Reunion appeared first on HEAVY.

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Jalen Hurts Buying Into New Scheme in 2026

Eagles QB Jalen Hurts working through learning curve in new OC Sean Mannion's new offensive scheme

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Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Gallagher brothers brought some rock star energy to a sleepy, and sweaty, Venice Film Festival Saturday, where the documentary about their reunion tour made its

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Chamber looks to build on business recruitment momentum

The El Dorado-Union County Chamber of Commerce is working with seven active state recruitment and expansion projects, has helped support 201 new jobs and is putting more attention on housing, infrastructure, health care and workforce needs.

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Princeton senior running back Jordan Hall offered by Ohio State

Princeton senior running back Jordan Hall received an offer from Ohio State on Sept. 5 while at the Buckeyes season opener against Ball State.

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‘Everybody has a good memory of a toy’: Geppetto’s toy store to celebrate 50 years in business with September celebrations

Geppetto’s toy store has come a long way since its opening half a century ago. Now considered one of the largest independent toy retailers in the United States, Gepetto’s started with humble beginnings in the Bazaar del Mundo plaza in Old T…

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Why Timberwolves Must Consider a Reunion With Kevin Love

Could Kevin Love help the Minnesota Timberwolves?

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Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham: What De Zerbi said

Tottenham Hotspur failed to have a shot on target in a Premier League match for the first time since April 2022 against Brentford under Antonio Conte. Tottenham Hotspur have failed to score in three successive Premier League games for the first time since November 2021, while it is the first time a Roberto De Zerbi side has failed to do so in Europe's big five leagues since Brighton and Hove Albion in January 2024.

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Italy's far-right Vannacci lashes EU in business summit address

Italy's rising ​far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European ‌Union should halt political integration and start defending its cultural identity instead, prompting former Prime Minister Mario Monti to warn against his "fascist rhetoric."

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Italy’s far-right Vannacci lashes EU in business summit address

By Valentina Za, Elvira Pollina and Francesca Landini CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Italy's rising far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European Union should halt political integration and...

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Italy’s far-right Vannacci lashes EU in business summit address

By Valentina Za, Elvira Pollina and Francesca Landini CERNOBBIO, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Italy's rising far-right politician Roberto Vannacci told a high profile business forum on Saturday that the European Union should halt political integration and...

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Boeing opens its own medical clinic at Port San Antonio

Boeing's new 4,200-square-foot medical clinic near its Port San Antonio facility will provide primary and dental care to its workers.

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Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

The Gallagher brothers bring rock star energy to the Venice Film Festival with their documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.”.

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Sep 5 • 9:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

The Gallagher brothers bring rock star energy to the Venice Film Festival with their documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.” The film, premiering Saturday, explores their reunion tour and

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Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

The Gallagher brothers bring rock star energy to the Venice Film Festival with their documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.” The film, premiering Saturday, explores their reunion tour and

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Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

The Gallagher brothers bring rock star energy to the Venice Film Festival with their documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.” | Talk 1370

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Sep 5 • 9:27 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Oasis reunion tour documentary rocks Venice Film Festival

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Gallagher brothers brought some rock star energy to a sleepy, and sweaty, Venice Film Festival Saturday, where the documentary about their reunion tour is making

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Taylor Hanson apparently has a big fan sitting at the judge’s table on ‘DWTS’

Taylor Hanson addresses the possibility of dancing to ‘MMMBop’ on ‘DWTS,’ admitting judge Bruno Tonioli confessed to buying his first single in 1997.

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‘The Cardinal Countdown: 1 Day Until Kickoff’

ISAAC BROWN #1 Height: 5’9” Weight: 190lb Position: RB Class: Junior Hometown: Miami, FL Summary: This is another one of those posts that should be easy to write, but can actually pose a challenge as to where to even start. The injuries from last year created a situation where we got to see the real […]

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ThreeSixty Journalism: Beyond crayons: art therapy tackles youth mental health crisis

Additional reporting by Charlie Xiong, Johnson Senior High; Anais Froberg-Martinez, Perpich Center for Arts Education; and King Primus, Roseville Area High School Increasingly popular art therapy programs, including two in the Twin Citi…

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Dominion gas plant, rising healthcare premiums and Lewis Ginter strike

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The politicians who can fix America’s polarization problem will win (Opinion)

The elected officials who figure out how to govern across difference will dominate the next decade of American politics. With dysfunction and paralysis having become the status quo in Washington, elected officials who work together to get…

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Mizzou Hoops Player Review: Trent Pierce

As a junior Pierce missed time due to an injury, but stepped back into a familiar role.

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State health leaders visit ESCC to discuss workforce shortages

Eastern Shore Community College welcomed Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Marvin B. Figueroa and other state leaders to its Melfa campus Friday, Aug. 28, for discussions about expanding the region’s healthcare workforce. Figueroa was joined by Heidi Hertz, director of Virginia’s Rural Health Transformation Initiative; Dr. Felicia Ganther, senior vice chancellor for academic and workforce services with the ... Read More

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Will a Turnaround Plan Revive Volkswagen or Merely Delay Its Demise?

The beleaguered auto giant reached a deal with unions to cut tens of thousands of jobs and slash production. Is it enough to revive an iconic German company?

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Troy produces a dominating season-opening victory over Amsterdam

Troy, a football team that lost in the 2025 Super Bowl against Niskayuna, opened its 2026 season in style Friday with a resounding 47-8 victory over Amsterdam.

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Shooting threat ends Jacksonville high school football game early

An apparent shooting threat cut short a high school football game in Jacksonville on Sept. 4. Here's what we know.

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Trump’s latest clemency grants aid a union boss and a Jay-Z associate

President Donald Trump issued 30 clemency grants on Thursday, including for a drug dealer-turned-executive of Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s sprawling company.

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Newport Beach college student has business in the bag with company

Newport Beach resident Brooks Orradre, a senior at Southern Methodist University, has found success with his Velantra handbags brand.

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Tomatoes Contain an Invisible Ingredient With Surprising Effects on Liver Health

A tomato contains a hidden ingredient that the eye cannot see, and it may be just as important to liver health as the red pigment that made the fruit famous.

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15 discouraging hours with Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and 10 brilliant ones with He Who Watches

In the last few weeks, while playing some video games that I might review, I emailed two cries for help. I sent the first to a rep for Capcom, confessing that the company’s samurai game Onimusha Way of the Sword (out today for PC and console) was crushing me. “Feels like I’m playing ‘hard’ mode, not ‘normal,’” I wrote. “And I don’t want to have to knock it down to “story”. I’m exploring, trying to level my gear, but these two-phase boss fights with no mid-fight checkpoints are brutal.” I wagered I was only about halfway through the game, if that. I wasn’t sure I could keep up with the steepening difficulty curve. Was I missing something? Then, on Monday, I took some photos of some puzzles that were baffling me in the mind-bending He Who Watches (out now on PC), wrote out lengthy descriptions of how I’d been trying to solve them and asked Bobby Vanden, the game’s solo developer, for a nudge in the right direction. I told Vanden I’d spent hours on these puzzles. “I’m stuck in triplicate,” I told him. Could he tell me if the solutions I was attempting were even on the right track? I didn’t mention that the puzzles—coupled with major time pressures from other work—were stressing me out so much that playing the game was giving me headaches. This double dose of panic was unusual. I’m used to managing a workload full of reporting and reviewing, used to a crowded schedule and the need to stay calm amid the bustle. But I was stressed about these games. No one was forcing me to review them, nor even play them. I’d simply found them interesting enough to start, hoped they’d be interesting enough to write about and I’d sunk hours into them assuming I’d made the right call. Suddenly, however, I felt trapped. I was emailing for a way out. Above: This guy took me about an hour to beat. The feedback I got from Capcom confirmed my fears. They didn’t say it, but I will: Onimusha Way of the Sword is not for me. It’s a brutally hard game in need of a normal difficulty level. It’s a game that spikes so severely during its abundant boss fights—yet offers such flawed ways to improve when outside of them—that it feels like a bait-and-switch. In the new Onimusha, you play as famed samurai Musashi Miyamoto, aided by a magical soul-absorbing gauntlet that is possessed by a lady who offers advice. (Way of the Sword is a continuation of Capcom’s long-dormant Onimusha series, but that set-up had me wondering if the company was cribbing from their ill-fated Bionic Commando reboot; read about “wife-arm” when you get a chance). Way of the Sword is partially set in 17th century Kyoto, an explorable city where Miyamoto can fight demons, help civilians and eventually rescue ghostly dogs. The city evolves over time, with new mini adventures and obtainable loot on offer, all feeding into systems that promise to upgrade your gear and sword-fighting skills. Upgrades, however, are so incremental as to be imperceptible, causing the exploration of Kyoto to feel like inconsequential busywork. From that hub, players can go on linear missions into forests and old temples, where they will encounter many of the game’s tough bosses. Combat in Way of the Sword is akin to many modern melee games. Players are asked to mix attacks with dodges and parries. They’re encouraged to deplete an enemy’s stamina bar in order to do greater damage to its health bar. The old Onimusha games’ signature move was the issen, a counter-attack so sudden it’s all but pre-emptive. You strike just as they begin to strike toward you, beating them to the cut. By definition, the issen is a high risk move, leaving you wide open to pain. It feels risky in the game, especially against bosses, who can maul you in just a few blows. A game might train you to perform an issen well by offering a variety of lesser enemies who are not as tough as the boss but get close. Or it might offer a toehold against bosses by saving or checkpointing the player’s progress when a boss’ first health bar has been destroyed and before the second health bar appears. It might offer the less skilled player a chance to over-level their character, should the player simply commit to playing through its optional sidequests. Way of the Sword does none of this. Fighting its trivially easy grunt enemies and then its ferociously adept bosses is like playing a game of chess where I’ve got a rook, while the opposing side is all pawns and five queens. Bosses simply don’t checkpoint. You may be able to clear a boss’ first phase without taking much damage. Good for you. Do it again, every time you fail the second phase. As for the the central Kyoto hub, I kept pace with all of its added side activities and never felt like I was overpowered. Bosses could still easily buckle me. The new Onimusha, I concluded, is just too discouraging to keep playing. The advice I got from Capcom had been well-intentioned. They reminded me of the game’s various systems. They alerted me to an optional assist that flashes recommended button inputs (basically: counter this move; dodge that move). It was a little helpful. So was dropping down to “story mode,” which I tried last night. Story mode turns on those button prompts by default. It makes countering and dodging way too easy, nearly automatic. I don’t consider myself a master of action games like these, but I’ve cleared the likes of God of War, Stellar Blade, Star Wars Jedi and others of sub-Sekiro difficulty and had a fun time doing so. Not here. Not yet. Unless they patch Onimusha: Way of the Sword and add a middle difficulty or just checkpoint the damn bosses when they’re between health bars, my streak of loving Capcom games released in 2026 will likely end at two. It’s a shame, because I was having a good time finding those ghostly dogs. And then there’s He Who Watches, a phenomenal first person puzzle game with Portal vibes, except instead of a portal gun you’ve got a magical bow that shoots one arrow that can activate switches or be used to drag blocks. The twist is an actual twist: you can also walk on walls and the ceiling, reorienting gravity as you do, thereby placing blocks onto those other surfaces. Walking on walls and ceilings to solve problems is really the best thing. Would that I could in reality. He Who Watches consists of locked-room challenges, each brief enough to only require about a minute to actually solving, though it will take five, 10, eventually 30 minutes to figure out said solutions. They are not obvious! It’s a game of layered mechanics and shocking solutions. For example, see if you can follow this: You can drag a block to a wall. Then you can walk on the wall, which now feels like the floor, and drag that block across the wall. Later, back on the floor, you might realize you can look up. The block is still on the wall, stuck to it. You can shoot your magic arrow to its underside. Doing so creates a tether, so that you can yank the block off the wall and carry it, as if it were a balloon, into the spot where you need it to be to solve the puzzle. Here, watch Vanden explain some of the game’s basics in this launch trailer: As with any great puzzle game, the solutions to He Who Watches’ puzzles elicit relief and amazement. Oh my god, that worked! I didn’t even think that could be possible! Learning to solve the game’s puzzles feels like learning magic. But, oh, does the game get hard. Its Steam reviews, mostly glowing, are full of players remarking how quickly He Who Watches made them sweat. Wrote one: “loving this one already although my brain is hurting!” Wrote another: “As you get further in the game it feels like you need an IQ level of at least 120+.” Vanden has shown some mercy. Each locked room puzzle includes an optional junior version of the puzzle, meant to teach you. Difficulty nevertheless ramps severely. By the time I was emailing Vanden for help, I was struggling to even clear one of the hint puzzles. When I messaged him, my stress was exacerbated by strange things I’d found in the game’s various hubs: suspicious passageways, odd blocks and some intriguing locked doors. These were hints of secrets, I realized, yet I sensed I needed to play further into the game to understand them. I was stuck, but I wanted to see the rest. Vanden offered to give me the exact solutions, to solve those three puzzles for me, but first he gave four nudges. Three were for the specific puzzles, but his best hint was for all and ultimately proved to be a terrific life lesson: go back a bit, he suggested. Do the puzzles right before those. They were teaching you something. Focus on what their lesson was. Don’t rush, in other words. Recognize what you’ve accomplished. Build off of that. I did so. I absorbed the lessons. I saw those three tough puzzles in a new light. I solved one the night after he wrote back, another the morning after. I left a third for another time. I didn’t need it and I wanted to plunge deeper into the game, closer to the moment when I was sure I could start unlocking those secret doors. My head stopped hurting, too. He Who Watches feels special. It’s got more challenges, and I’m undeterred. It’s also nice that its puzzles don’t have a surprise second health bar. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: In brief… 🎮 Ilari Kuittinen, co-founder of Helsinki-based Housemarque (Super Stardust HD, Resogun, Returnal) has stepped down from his studio, after a 31-year run, saying he’s “ taking a rare and well-deserved breather.” Sony purchased Housemarque in 2021, and the studio released its newest game, Saros, earlier this year. Trend-watch: Sony-owned Insomniac saw its founder Ted Price retire in early 2025, after a 30-year run. Sony-owned Sucker Punch saw its co-founder Brian Fleming step down in late 2025, after a 28-year run. 👀 Savvy Games Group chief Brian Ward is stepping down from the Saudi-government-backed games conglomerate, Bloomberg reports. No word on a long-term successor yet, nor if this augurs any closer integration between Savvy and Electronic Arts. EA was purchased by a consortium led by Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund, in early August. 💿 Square Enix has denied a Japanese media report that the company was planning to go private. In very different Square Enix news, the company revealed that the physical version of Final Fantasy VII: Revelation, the April 2027 finale of its radical remakes of FFVII, will include just one disc in its case, requiring a download for the rest. The first two FFVII remakes in the trilogy shipped on two discs apiece. While Square hasn’t commented on the reason why, a feature here in Game File last month broke down the processes and costs for physical games. The expense of a second disc comes out of the game publisher’s cut of each copy. Square could be saving in excess of a dollar a copy with this move. 🟥 Grand Theft Auto IV’s 26-minute ’‘extended look” gameplay showcase that premiered on Netflix last week—and was exclusive to the platform for six hours—drew 31.1 million views in its first four days, the streamer announced. (Netflix calculates views as total viewed hours divided by runtime; excludes replays). Compared to YouTube: The version that later premiered on Rockstar Games’ YouTube channel is sitting at 22.6 million views after seven days (YouTube’s more liberal counting system tallies anyone who viewed even just the first few second.) Compared to other Netflix mega-events: Last year, Stranger Things season 5’s first four episodes, which debuted together, drew a record 59.6 million views in their first few days on Netflix. For more of a live event type of comparison, in 2024, the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match drew 65 million concurrent streams as it happened; Netflix didn’t release live numbers for the GTA premiere. ☁️ Microsoft is changing the way it charges for cloud gaming, from an all-you-can-play offer for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, to caps for the subscription’s tiers (15 hours per month at the Ultimate tier), with the option to buy more hours in bulk beyond that. The company also said it will sell batches of cloud gaming time to non-Game Pass subscribers, details TBA. Microsoft does not release figures for cloud game usage, but said its changes would impact 4% of Game Pass subscribers. That implies a small portion of its subscribers exceed the 15-hour monthly mark. Cloud gaming offers the promise of playing games without the need for console or PC hardware, as the graphics, sound and controls are all transmitted via a streaming connection. Microsoft notes that its cloud gaming service can be used for a range of things, including Xbox One players using it to play newer-gen Xbox Series games via streaming; and people playing games via streaming, sans any console, “in markets where consoles are less available or affordable.” (That latter use case could even be relevant in Xbox’s home market soon, as console prices keep rising.) Take Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick recently told investors he expects game-streaming tech, which has been only lightly adopted by gamers for over a decade, to be widely used within three years. 🇺🇸 The Trump administration has published multiple agenda-driven web video games to the White House’s website. One called Build The Wall partially clones Tetris as it asks players to build a wall to stop a “zombie border siege.” While actual Tetris involves clearing lines and basically not building a wall, the Trump-backed game omits the line-clearing aspect (and omits the fun as well). On Instagram, Tetris’ official license holders reacted by stating: “At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community. P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall.’ P.P.S.: We take copyright infringement very seriously.” Item 3: The week ahead: Tuesday, September 8 Game releases: Mewgenics (consoles; already out on PC) is an engrossing tactical combat game (with cats). It is getting its console port right after the release of a Star Wars tactics game and ahead of the late September launch of a Fire Emblem–a bumper crop for the genre. Wanderburg (PC) is an auto-shooting game like Vampire Survivors, but you’re a castle on wheels Event: Nintendo airs a 30-minute Nintendo Direct (10am ET) focused on The Legend of Zelda’s 40th Anniversary. A full unveiling of the upcoming remake of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is expected. Will they also show footage from next year’s live action movie? Tease the next big 3D Zelda? Add Link to Mario Kart World? Shadow-drop a new Tingle game? Wednesday, September 9 Event: Nintendo again! On this day, they’re planning to air a 45-minute Nintendo Direct (10am ET) focused on games heading to Switch 2 this winter. Followed by about an hour of gameplay demoed by the company’s Treehouse team. The September Nintendo Directs are always some of the year’s biggest. The 2025 edition included announcements of several major 2026 Switch/Switch 2 games: Pokémon Pokopia, Mario Tennis Fever, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave. Plus the return of the Virtual Boy. Friday, September 11 Game release: EA Sports NHL 27 (PlayStation, Xbox) is a hockey game. There are so few that an indie studio that had been making wacky sci-fi first-person shooters just announced that, hey, we’re going to fill a void and make a hockey game for PC.

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Weekly Portland women’s sports wrap up (9/4)

Weekly Portland women’s sports wrap up (9/4) presented by Rebound Rebound Orthopedics and Neurosurgery and Rivermark Community Credit Union.

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380 SSM Health Dean Medical Group nurses to vote on union in Dane County

Nurses will vote on union representation at 10 Dane County clinics, citing staffing, burnout and patient care.

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FA to canvass England players in World Cup review

The Football Association's review into England's World Cup campaign will canvass the opinions of players involved in the tournament.

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STHS and Prominence Health Partner to Raise Malnutrition Awareness Among Local Seniors

Mega Doctor News Good nutrition is one of the most important, yet often overlooked, components of healthy aging. As people grow older, changes in appetite, chronic health conditions, medications and other age-related factors can make it more difficult to meet their nutritional needs, increasing the risk for serious health complications. Unfortunately, malnutrition is often a […]

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Get free personal training while helping Exercise Science students build skills

Key takeaways: For Exercise and Sport Sciences students, working with someone they don’t already know provides an important opportunity to translate classroom learning into practical experience. All Exercise Science students have the opportunity to serve as student trainers during their senior year, said Jason Casey, Ph.D., associate professor of Exercise Science. “We greatly value these […]

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Sep 4 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • early-bird.msudenver.edu
Logan Health Primary Care Providers Sign Vote of 'No Confidence' in Leadership

Just over half a year after Logan Health primary care providers unionized, providers signed a vote of no confidence in the hospital’s primary care leadership. Despite months of being in the bargaining process with Logan Health and representatives from the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), providers wrote they “no longer have confidence that […]

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Sep 4 • 4:08 PM EDT • Health • flatheadbeacon.com
Livingstone cleared to play against UTEP

OU junior receiver Parker Livingstone was cleared to play Saturday according to On3’s Pete Nakos.

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Sep 4 • 3:32 PM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com
San Antonio charter schools partner as enrollment declines loom

The School of Science and Technology is bringing Compass Rose Public Schools under its umbrella.

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Sep 4 • 3:30 PM EDT • Science • expressnews.com
Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states. Last year, the nation added more than 411,000 union members — the largest annual growth since 2008, according to a study published just ahead of the Labor Day holiday by the Illinois Economic […]

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Sep 4 • 3:12 PM EDT • Politics • stateline.org
‘Maybe we should call it egalitarianism, or even humanism’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

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Sep 4 • 2:29 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
Vin Cherwoo, longtime AP sports desk editor and union leader, dies at 56

Vin Cherwoo, a trusted editor and writer for The Associated Press sports desk for more than three decades and the president of the News Media Guild, has died. Cherwoo died early Friday in Tampa, Florida, following a long illness, said his wife, Stacy. Known affectionately as “Woo” by many colleagues and friends, Cherwoo was a reliable mainstay of the sports department’s night editing crew.

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Sep 4 • 1:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Opinion: San Diego must reject the demonization of Jews in politics

Describing Jewish political participation as foreign, corrupt, or subversive is a clear attempt to normalize prejudice and hatred.

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Sep 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • timesofsandiego.com
Health Your Self: Losing it

A few months ago, I couldn’t find my cell phone. I called again and again from our landline. I never heard it ring. Hours later, I found where I’d left it: in the refrigerator. My husband and daughter thought this was hysterical. I found it scary. Was I having early cognitive decline?

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Sep 4 • 12:52 PM EDT • Health • wamc.org
Bloom Healthcare Acquires Christian Care House Calls

Colorado-based Bloom Healthcare has acquired Christian Care House Calls, which provides home-based senior primary care in Texas. The deal expands the

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Sep 4 • 12:30 PM EDT • Health • hospicenews.com
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Directors Council names Marvin DeJear interim executive director

The Directors Council has named board chair Marvin DeJear interim executive director as Jerrica Marshall has stepped down from the role after three years to pursue a new professional opportunity in Omaha. The Directors Council, formed in 2004, is a coalition of local diverse senior-level organizational leaders who collaborate to serve Central Iowa with an emphasis…

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Sep 4 • 12:21 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Controversy Over Merger Of UN Women And UNFPA Continues

Women’s organisations are anxious that Secretary-General António Guterres will push the controversial proposed merger of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN

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Sep 4 • 12:05 PM EDT • Health • healthpolicy-watch.news
Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has been endorsed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the IAM Union’s Michigan Machinists Council. EMILYs List endorsed Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks for Michigan lieutenant governor. Former U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow has endorsed Rebecca Amidon, Democratic candidate for Michigan’s open 32nd […]

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Sep 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • michiganadvance.com