August 31, 2026
Stories from this day
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World · 3 min readNepal-China flood: 804 dead on August 30, 2026 — 3,048 missing, 9 Koreans on day five
Scale — 804 dead and 3,048 missing as of the afternoon of August 30; the toll rose 178 in two days
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World · 3 min readIceland rejects EU talks on August 30, 2026 — 52.8% against, 82.5% turnout
Result — 52.8% No to 47.2% Yes across all six constituencies; a 13-year reopening fails
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's August 30, 2026 reshuffle — the justice nominee led the drop-the-case caucus
Scale — six ministry nominees at once: finance, justice, defense, land, SMEs, gender equality
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Tech · 3 min readOpenAI cuts off Cursor on November 12, 2026 — the reason is who now owns it
Decision — OpenAI ends direct model supply to Cursor on November 12, 2026
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Economy · 3 min readSalesforce revenue of $11.345 billion (August 26, 2026) — $2.6bn of the profit jump is Anthropic
Results — quarterly revenue of $11.345bn, up 10.83%, slightly ahead of estimates
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Economy · 3 min readSK hynix US revenue of 84.5648 trillion won — tripled in a year, 64.1% of the total
Number — first-half US revenue of ₩84.5648tn, 64.1% of the total, roughly tripled in a year
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Issues · 4 min readWhat a Korean confirmation hearing is — and why a minister is appointed anyway
Core — ministers are not subject to legislative consent; there is a hearing but no veto
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Economy · 4 min readWhat a strategic petroleum reserve is — and why the US stock hit a 1983 low
Definition — crude a government stores in salt caverns against a supply shock
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Tech · 4 min readWhat an AI token is — how much text $10 per million tokens actually buys
Unit — a token is a word fragment, not a word, and counts differ sharply by language
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World · 4 min readHow EU accession works — the 35 chapters between applying and joining
Structure — application, candidate status, negotiations, 35 chapters, treaty ratification