Equinor awards Emerson 13-year measurement technology agreement - World Oil

Philosophy professor Claudia Emerson has been awarded the 2026 Trailblazer Award in the Science for Policy category by the Canadian Science Policy Centre, recognizing her impactful contributions to Canadian science and society. Emerson's work focuses on identifying and addressing ethics issues and policy gaps that arise along the discovery-to-delivery pathway for novel health technologies and interventions.

Here’s your NYT Strands hint for today, plus the spangram and all of today’s Strands answers for puzzle No. 959 on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. Today’s Strands theme was tricky. It helps to be a runner. Read on for all the answers.

A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.