17 September 2026.

Mostly cloudy, 81°F today and 69°F tonight. The rain risk is mainly after 2 a.m., so the forecast leaves dinner outdoors in reasonable shape; take an umbrella if you’ll be out very late. NWS

Reporting checked through 6:12 a.m. ET.

Simon Willison has published a browser interface for Google’s new Gemini Live speech models, including voice selection, a system prompt, interruptions and downloadable transcripts. The implementation uses no libraries: a WebSocket connection carries the conversation, while the Web Audio API handles microphone capture and playback. He built it with a coding model and published the implementation and development conversation. September 15 account, source code

The attraction is how little machinery sits between the user and the model. You can inspect what happens when someone interrupts, how audio is queued, and whether the transcript includes words that were generated but never played. Those details determine whether a voice interface feels conversational or merely talks quickly.

This is an operator’s working demonstration, not a latency benchmark or independent evaluation. I haven’t run it. But it is a good compact artifact for understanding a capability that polished launch videos tend to make look indivisible.

One small security read: Datasette’s new advisory describes a permissions bypass caused by a trailing newline in a table name. Authorization and SQL execution could disagree about which table the name referred to. The fix replaces a permissive regular-expression match with a full-string match; patched releases are 0.65.5 and 1.0a40. The reproductions and regression tests are unusually clear. Maintainer’s advisory

JO Hambro Capital Management is handing its trading to Northern Trust—and inviting its existing traders to go with it. Northern Trust will become the sole outsourced trading provider for the manager, which reported £16.8 billion under management at June’s end. The invitation matters: the announcement does not establish that everyone has accepted. The Trade, September 14

This is a particularly revealing version of outsourcing. The people who know the portfolios, brokers and portfolio managers can potentially remain involved, while their employer supplies a larger global execution operation. Northern Trust’s agency-only service spans equities, fixed income and exchange-traded derivatives, with 24/6 coverage. It has already serviced JO Hambro since 2008 across functions including custody, fund accounting and the middle office.

The commercial appeal is easy to see. A manager can retain investment specialization while spreading the fixed cost of trading coverage across a provider’s client base. Northern Trust gains another part of the daily workflow, making an established servicing relationship more valuable—and potentially harder to unpick.

The unresolved question is how much of the original desk’s judgment survives the new arrangement. Familiar traders help, but broker selection, escalation and competing client demands still sit inside a different operating model. There are no disclosed savings or execution-quality results yet. The transition is worth following because it will test whether a manager can buy scale without losing the accumulated context that made its own desk useful.

Turkey’s BIST 100 fell more than 5% yesterday after Pusula Portföy said some funds could not meet redemptions. The FT reports roughly $1 billion of withdrawals across investment funds, citing fund-flow data. Its account describes concentrated holdings in related companies with limited free floats: purchases that could lift share prices and reported fund values, attracting more money into the same positions. Financial Times, September 16

The reversal brings two forms of liquidity into conflict. Investors can request cash against the latest NAV; the manager must find buyers for the holdings that produced it. When those holdings are concentrated and thinly traded, the sale needed to honor a redemption can undermine the price used to calculate the next one.

So far, the damage appears more concentrated in equities than in Turkey’s currency or sovereign credit. Cinco Días reports a relatively stable lira and more modest effects in bonds and credit insurance. That distinction argues against casually describing every local-market selloff as a countrywide funding crisis. It leaves a sufficiently serious problem inside the fund industry. Cinco Días

The Fed, briefly: yesterday’s quarter-point increase takes the target range to 3.75–4%, with all twelve voting members supporting it. The statement pairs elevated inflation with solid growth, strong productivity and capital investment. It also retains the ample-reserves operating framework. The unanimous vote is a cleaner fact than any attempt to extract the entire next rate cycle from the wording. Federal Reserve, September 16

Because proving that a coloring exists and finding it efficiently are different achievements.

A spring paper receiving a new Quanta explanation on September 10 gives a four-coloring algorithm with O(n log n) running time, improving on the quadratic algorithms associated with earlier proofs. The advance comes from finding many reducible configurations—or suitable separating cycles—throughout a planar graph. That permits the problem to shrink by a constant factor at each stage, rather than by a small fixed amount. Original paper, revised May 7

It is a lovely example of progress after a famous question has supposedly been settled. “Four colors suffice” remains unchanged. The new proof reveals more structure in the maps themselves, and that stronger understanding makes the construction cheaper. Read Quanta for the visual intuition, then the paper’s abstract for the precise computational claim.

NASA’s account yesterday describes McGetchin crater: 222 meters wide and 43 meters deep, formed sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024. The impact was found later in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery; this week’s research explains what it did to the surrounding ground. NASA, September 16

The crater is impressive, but the thermal footprint is stranger. A cold patch extends roughly four miles across, with nighttime temperatures about 16°F lower than the surroundings. The impact appears to have loosened the surface material, making it retain less heat.

That means an impact can substantially alter terrain well beyond the visible excavation. The implications include the footing a future rover might encounter, not just what an orbital photograph shows. The before-and-after images are worth opening: a familiar-looking lunar surface abruptly acquires a very recent event.

A related evening for the calendar: Danny Meyer and John Grisham, September 28 at 8:15 p.m., 92NY’s Kaufmann Concert Hall, with a streaming option.

Meyer’s new book, What Could Possibly Go Right?, starts from a less comfortable episode than the standard hospitality success story: closing Tabla after years without shutting a restaurant. The advertised conversation covers risk, reinvention, writing and food; Grisham is a longtime friend, so expect a congenial discussion rather than an adversarial interview.

The interesting subject is how a culture changes as it expands—and what a founder learns when affection for a place cannot keep it alive. Prices and selectable seats were not exposed in the listing I could inspect. Exact event and access options

Million Goods opened its larger Fort Greene location on September 10, at 201 DeKalb Avenue. It combines a wine bar, a separate listening room, a garden and clothing retail across two floors. That makes it a promising place to spend an unhurried stretch of an evening, rather than another destination requiring a dinner reservation as its organizing principle. Million Goods coverage, first item; opening date in Eater’s roundup: Fort Greene entry

The clothing selection includes Nicholas Daley, Margaret Howell, Document and Sunflower. Those names suggest a more interesting browse than a rail of merchandise bolted onto a bar: different approaches to texture, tailoring and music-inflected casual clothes.

The new branch lists Thursday–Saturday hours of noon to midnight. Check the dated Fort Greene program for September 16–20 before choosing a night; I haven’t verified a particular performance’s entry terms. The opening itself is the discovery.

At the Museum of the City of New York, Joe Macken’s model occupies roughly 50 by 27 feet, assembled from more than 340 sections of balsa wood, cardboard and glue. He began in 2004 with the building now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza and kept going. The museum supplies binoculars for inspecting the result. He Built This City

This is a catch-up discovery, and an especially appealing one if you enjoy both the city and the act of making things. The scale allows two kinds of looking: the whole urban mass, then the tiny decisions needed to make an individual building recognizable. A model inevitably edits its subject; spending that long on one also becomes a record of attention.

It looks like a good family museum stop with plenty to notice without needing to read every wall label. 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street; weekends 10 a.m.–6 p.m. NYC residents can pay what they can with ID, and visitors 18 and under enter free. Standard adult admission is $23. Visit details

The Astor opened September 15 in the former Library space at 425 Lafayette Street, with Andrew Carmellini, Serge Becker and the Joe’s Pub team behind it. The wood-paneled room offers a welcome alternative to making every pre-theater dinner feel like a logistical compromise. This is an opening discovery; there is no established critical verdict yet. Eater’s dedicated Astor report

The meal I’d consider is shrimp cocktail ($25), followed by Ora King salmon with beluga lentils, young coconut and vadouvan ($38), with broccolini and New Orleans chili crisp ($14) to share. Two salmon mains, the shrimp and the vegetable total $115 before drinks, tax and tip. That is a real dinner with a little spice and texture, rather than a pescatarian negotiation conducted entirely through side dishes. Full dinner and drinks menus

Confirm that the lentils and sauce contain no meat stock or cream. The menu also has clams casino with bacon, so the seafood heading alone is not a sufficient guide.

I would try it for the combination of room, location and this particular order. Whether it becomes somewhere to return will depend on cooking and hospitality. Dinner is listed daily, 5–11 p.m.; reservation inventory wasn’t verified. Hours and location

Taka Okabe’s Allevol deserves a closer look. Simon Crompton’s September 11 profile traces the label to Okabe’s search for dark, straight selvedge jeans while working in London IT. The more appealing part is the willingness to alter the originals.

The Roku Roku jean changes the back rise; the Pat duffle draws on a British postman’s coat but adds a removable hood. Crompton describes fabrics that are often lighter and more approachable than strict reproduction clothing. There is plenty of affection for old garments, without an obligation to preserve every inconvenience. Read the maker profile

The dark-grey loopwheel sweatshirt shows the approach: a shaped collar, dropped shoulders and a Waldes half-lock zip, based on 1950s American store-brand sportswear. The cotton fabric is made in Wakayama, Japan, with seamless sides. Its US storefront currently displays $290; I found no evidence of a markdown. Exact garment

That price buys construction and a particular silhouette, not technical performance. The item-specific chart gives Large a 22.5-inch pit-to-pit measurement and 26.8-inch length; those measurements still need comparison with a garment that fits. I couldn’t verify the selected Large’s stock or the full US delivery and return terms, so I wouldn’t order it yet. The broader recommendation is to get to know the maker.

The uncertainty in yesterday’s practice report has become a definite problem: Christian Mahogany and Blake Miller are out tonight, with hip and knee injuries respectively. Cornerback D.J. Reed is questionable with a foot injury; Juice Scruggs returned to full participation and has no game designation. Lions’ final report, September 16

Detroit arrives after a 31–30 overtime win over New Orleans, secured when the Saints failed a two-point attempt. Buffalo’s new Highmark Stadium gets its first regular-season visitors with both teams 1–0. The protection changes make Detroit’s early-down efficiency worth watching: falling behind the chains would give the replacement line a much less forgiving evening.

Kickoff: 8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video with a US subscription. Official viewing guide

BETTING — PASS. Dimers’ forecast, updated 9:45 p.m. ET yesterday, gives Buffalo 68.1%. Its listed −213 moneyline requires about 68.05% just to break even—effectively no margin even before model uncertainty. That listing is not a verified executable FanDuel or DraftKings quote. The spread forecast is 50–50 at 5.5, and the total lacks enough supporting probability detail for a recommendation. Forecast and listed markets

John Talabot has returned under a new name, OR, his initials as Oriol Riverola. “Nokik Messiah,” released yesterday, is the first track from Music for Empty Stadiums, due October 30 as AD 93’s hundredth release. Give it 6 minutes 33 seconds. Official listen

Talabot describes the project as pursuing “the most euphoric possible variant of ambient.” Stereogum’s Chris DeVille hears a pulsing, flickering piece without a firm outline. That is an enticing proposition: the emotional lift associated with a large dance floor, freed from the obligation to keep arranging everything around a kick drum. First coverage, September 16

Those descriptions come from the artist and critic, not firsthand listening. But of the new releases I found, this is the one I’d put on first: expansive electronics with a clear idea behind them, and no need to commit to the seventeen-track album yet.

Peacock Premium or Premium Plus in the US; 93 minutes. Steven Soderbergh directs Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married intelligence officers whose professional suspicions become inseparable from marital trust. Watch the film

For a shorter evening, this is an attractive alternative to beginning another season of television. David Koepp’s screenplay builds suspense through motives, withheld information and conversations in which everyone has something to conceal. James Berardinelli’s review singles out the dialogue, atmosphere and controlled pace; the London opening gives way to a story that demands attention without demanding several nights. Read the review

The caveat is that concentration: it is a puzzle to follow, not background viewing. The pleasure is adult actors being intelligent, stylish and potentially untrustworthy for an hour and a half. That sounds like a good use of a Thursday.