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Amex Adds AI, Expense Tracking to Corporate Card to Counter Fintech Rivals
American Express has rolled out an expense-management platform with AI features alongside its new corporate card, as the company’s corporate business faces mounting competition from fintechs.
AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub
Glow found over 13,000 internal images from 300+ organizations exposed in public GitHub repos during AI-assisted code reviews.
Kidney disease in Nicaragua linked to adolescents and young women, and those without occupational heat exposure
Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) is an ongoing global health concern and public health challenge. Often described as a silent health threat, it can progress without the classic metabolic symptoms of kidney disease, such as obesity and diabetes. It is typically not diagnosed until it r
'Natural' pill that boosts the same gut hormone as weight-loss jabs
When Emma Hackett stepped on the scales during a health check last September, she was shocked by the number staring back at her.
Elyos vs Asmodian: Which Aion 2 faction should you choose?
The Elyos and Asmodian are the two Aion 2 factions that players will have to pick from when the game officially launches.
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kyiv region kill four, target power grid
City officials say three killed in Ukraine's capital, as emergency services say child killed in the surrounding region.
Hulk star Lou Ferrigno fulfils childhood dream meeting with Pope Leo XIV
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Incredible Hulk fulfilled a childhood dream by meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday.
Shane Richie banned from driving after speeding
The EastEnders star is told he cannot get behind the wheel for six months.
Airbnb adds AI search, more social features
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations
Sonos’ Beam Ultra and Ace Ultra Herald a New Era for the Company
The brand’s newest products show it’s fully recovered from its 2024 app debacle.
Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties
A bad apple doesn't always ruin the bunch. In fact, it might make the bunch a little stronger. A new study published in Horticulture Research by Ben Mansfeld, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, provides apple breeders with a genomic resource t
Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo says AI safety concerns not 'fake news'
Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.
Blame game for 0-3 teams: Jim Harbaugh must take responsibility for Chargers, Dolphins simply lack any talent
We identify which players, coaches and units are most responsible for their teams' poor starts
N Korea and S Korea exchange threats over DMZ blast
A landmine explosion which injured three South Korean soldiers in the Korean Demilitarized Zone last week.
Multiscale Reconstruction of Weighted Networks from Coarse-Grained Data
Network reconstruction from partial information is usually performed at the same resolution level at which constraints are observable. This becomes problematic when only coarse-grained information is available, while the relevant process occurs at a finer scale. Here we employ the multiscale model of weighted networks introduced in a companion paper and turn it into a probabilistic framework for reconstructing weighted networks across arbitrary aggregation levels. The model is built to preserve
Fact Check: Did Erika Kirk say she fears something is being hidden about husband Charlie’s death?
A claim circulating online suggests that she told Vanity Fair she feared someone was hiding information about the circumstances of Charlie’s death
I Got My Hands on All the New Googlebooks. Are They Better Than Chromebooks?
Google's new laptop initiative may sound like Chromebooks 2.0, but the new hardware requirements and Gemini AI capabilities set it apart from its predecessor. Check out my first thoughts on these upcoming Android systems.
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
Cloudflare said Tuesday it plans to issue quantum-proof TLS certificates, making it one of the first authorities to issue such certificates that use a form of cryptography that is widely believed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The Internet infrastructure provider said it will use an open source platform that issues both classic TLS certificates and a post-quantum equivalent known as Merkle Tree Certificates. The hybrid certificates will be free to both paying and non-paying users.
The astonishing collective impact of household energy shifts
A subtle change in household power habits could eliminate the need to build new gas power plants, say researchers studying energy usage
Laura Hallinan battled with grief - now she's a mental health crusader
In the last ten years, Laura Hallinan's life has changed beyond recognition, mostly due to the fact that four years ago she gave birth to her first child, a girl called Hallie and now has twin boys aged 18 months.
Prisco's Week 4 NFL picks: Eagles upset Rams, Texans over Cowboys
Pete Prisco reveals all of his Week 4 picks, including the Browns upsetting the Steelers and the 49ers over the Broncos
Flydubai flight to Israel diverted after attack on pilot
Dramatic video shows the aftermath of an attack on a pilot on a Flydubai flight to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Think your AI chatbot is helping you? Researchers say there’s a risk users may not recognize
Despite repeated warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence, users have become increasingly reliant on AI chatbots—particularly those offering companionship. Yet despite chatbots’ utility for tasks like answering quick queries or offering brief advice, their benefits might not be outweighing the costs. A new, peer-reviewed study from researchers at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute suggests that AI chatbots used for companionship, despite offering momentary be
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is getting a Counter-Strike-inspired game mode that I can't believe it never had before
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 seemingly still has a few surprises left, including this latest reveal about a Counter-Strike-like game mode.
Why AI gets interesting when it meets the physical world
BRKZ CEO Ibrahim Manna on the AI agents running his cement deliveries, and why the physical world is where enterprise AI gets interesting.
Polar’s huge free watch update adds Garmin-style controls and makes your phone less important
Polar’s huge free watch update adds nine new graphs, better battery protection and a shortcut Garmin users will recognise
Machine learning algorithm sets XRP price for October 31, 2026
Although XRP has been consolidating in September, Finbold’s AI Agent expects a breakout above $1.51 by October 31, 2026.
2-Dimensional spectral gating for denoising bioacoustics recordings
Isolating vocalizations from noise in bioacoustics recordings is a prerequisite to many ecological analyses, including species identification, animal communication understanding, and individual or population-level variability studies. However, when recordings are acquired in open environments, vocalizations, noise, or signal-to-noise ratio can vary widely across individuals, species, environment, and recording conditions, making it hard to develop robust and generalizable methods for ecological
Western Kentucky vs. New Mexico State prediction, odds: Week 4 college football Thursday picks by proven model
The SportsLine Projection Model has revealed its best bets for the Thursday matchup between New Mexico State and Western Kentucky on CBS Sports Network
Russian Navy ships arrive in Indonesia
The Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs, and the Pechenga tanker departed from Vladivostok on September 10 for the Asia-Pacific deployment
The Morning Risk Report: Trump Defends Light-Touch AI Strategy After Industry Sounds Alarms
Plus: English soccer giant Manchester City found guilty of sweeping financial breaches, and OpenAI scraps release of new AI model over safety concerns.
Composers, Filmmakers Sync Up at World Soundtrack Awards’ Film Music Days
This year, the World Soundtrack Award's Film Music Days brings composers and filmmakers together in concert.
Trump hosted tech leaders for an AI power lunch
The president announced the signing of "a morally binding agreement" with AI companies on self-regulation. It was a rare tech industry lunch that …
Point2Part: Unified 3D Partitioning from Point Prompts
Existing 3D part decomposition methods do not necessarily partition the original shape into non-overlapping parts that collectively cover the entire shape, allowing overlaps or gaps that hinder downstream part-level applications. We instead formulate part decomposition as a joint partitioning of the entire shape, where the predicted parts are non-overlapping and jointly recover the entire shape. Our key insight is that part decomposition should consider all desired parts jointly, rather than mod
CMB Injection Bounds on Moduli Fields
Light scalar fields with gravitational strength interactions (moduli) are ubiquitous in string, supergravity, and extra-dimensional models. If produced in the early universe with lifetimes exceeding the epoch of recombination, slowly decaying moduli inject energetic particles into the Standard Model plasma, leaving distinct imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this paper we systematically derive CMB injection bounds on light moduli ($10^3\ {\rm eV}\leq m_{\rm{mod}}\leq 10^8\ {\r
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT update on safety concerns - UPI.com
The latest version of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence model will not now be released after researchers raised concerns about its behavior in tests.
How to get Sculker Claws in Minecraft Dungeons II (A Monstrosity in the Meadow quest)
Minecraft Dungeons II features a large variety of melee and ranged weapons to support playstyles for every type of player.
‘Economic war’: Is Iran losing its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz?
Crude flows through Hormuz have recovered, but tanker insurance costs and geopolitical risks remain barriers to a return to normality.
Carbon credits for avoided food waste are now on the market
If a company wants to reduce its carbon footprint, it may buy carbon credits issued by Verra, the world’s largest carbon crediting program. Those credits could be for projects like renewable energy or forest restoration, letting a company claim the environmental benefits from a newly built wind farm or trees planted on once-cleared land. Now there’s a new option: carbon credits for rescued food, which help fund organizations that collect would-be food waste and distribute it to people in need
Fatima Sana Shaikh Opens Up On Playing ACP Jasleen In Hunkkaar: The Roar, Calls It A ‘Rewarding’ Experience
Fatima Sana Shaikh shared behind-the-scenes moments from the sets of Hunnkaar: The Roar and thanked the audience for showering the series with love.
The smartphone is becoming the agent
Your smartphone already knows where you are, what time your next meeting starts, and which apps you use. Alibaba now wants it to do something with all that information. The company is betting on that idea with Qwen Intelligence, a platform designed to help smartphone makers build AI agents directly
Skill-Space Shooting for Autonomous Robot Policy Improvement
Robots deployed in the physical world must be able to improve beyond their initial training as they encounter new situations and failures. For this improvement to scale across tasks, it must make effective use of experience without requiring human demonstration of each correction. Recent agentic systems offer a way to reduce this reliance on human effort by using foundation models to autonomously compose learned behaviors to complete tasks. Yet completing tasks this way does not itself teach a t
How Thermodynamically Accessible are Quaternary Mixed-Metal Chalcohalides?
Quaternary mixed-metal chalcohalides (MMCHs) are a promising mixed-anion semiconductor family, but their thermodynamic accessibility remains largely unexplored. We combine density functional theory with the Alexandria Materials Database to carry out a rapid and reliable evaluation of the thermodynamic accessibility of 54 M(II)$_2$M(III)Ch$_2$X$_3$ compounds. All evaluated MMCHs are predicted to be thermodynamically unstable, but a considerable fraction of MMCHs lie within computational uncertain
Traversing the solution space of neural networks with Hessian Null Space Continuation
On a single task, deep networks can learn many solutions, depending on their optimizer, training data, architecture, and hyperparameters. Many of these solutions are mode-connected: rather than isolated points in weight space, they are connected by low-loss regions. Yet how their internal computation varies within these regions is unknown. A parallel line of work has identified the degeneracy of neural representations: many networks reach similar training loss with distinct internal structures.
PM: Milan appeals - Amorim desperate for 'equaliser' Hojbjerg in January as price attracts
AC Milan's midfield is one of the strongest areas in the squad, but it can be further strengthened in January and it appears this would be the plan.
Iraq celebrates National Sovereignty Day as US troops withdraw
Iraq’s security forces held parades in Baghdad and Najaf to celebrate ‘Sovereignty Day’ as US troops withdraw.
Information Games: Strategic Crowding and Firm Repositioning in Language-Model Space
Firms follow changing economic opportunities, but rivalry changes their response. We develop ESCAPE, a rational-share game of distribution-valued positioning with heterogeneous capability costs, establish a unique equilibrium, and derive an exact reallocation restriction separating opportunity and crowding contributions. Competition need not push firms apart: rational firms can enter increasingly crowded regions, because the full reallocation gain can be positive even when its crowding component
Crimson Desert's Charting the Unknown DLC delayed by two weeks "to deliver a more polished and stable gameplay experience"
You'll unfortunately have to wait a little longer to play Crimson Desert's Charting the Unknown DLC.
I Bought a $60 Course on How to Make AI Sound Human
It was the worst $60 I ever spent, but I did learn something intriguingContinue reading on Ai-Ai-OH »
CVE-2026-93463 | baserCMS User Community BaserCMS up to 5.3.0/5.4.0 cross site scripting
A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in baserCMS User Community BaserCMS up to 5.3.0/5.4.0. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-93463. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no a
Exact bispectra in strongly mixed multifield inflation
Using the effective field theory of inflationary fluctuations extended by a massive isocurvature scalar, at unit sound speed, we compute the primordial bispectra generated by every cubic interaction of dimension four or less in the unitary gauge, with the curvature--isocurvature quadratic mixing resummed to all orders in the dimensionless mixing strength $λ=ρ/H$. Placing the mixing in the free Hamiltonian [...], every scale-invariant tree-level bispectrum reduces to a single Schwinger-parameter
Travel plans? Here's what to know as measles exposures reach trains and games
Measles is traveling, with outbreaks in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, and exposures on transportation and in sports. What should you know before getting on a plane or train?
Phillies vs. Braves prediction, odds, time: 2026 MLB playoff picks for NL Wild Card Game 2 from proven model
SportsLine's model simulated Philadelphia Phillies vs. Atlanta Braves 10,000 times and revealed its MLB picks for Wednesday's NL Wild Card matchup
Russians start ‘last-second’ booking of tours — expert
Maya Lomidze noted that consumer behavior had changed in Russia
ACM Research operating subsidiary reports backlog of $2.5B as of Sept. 29
ACM Research operating subsidiary reports backlog of $2.5B as of Sept. 29
US actor Chad Lowe 'heartbroken' by death of daughter Fiona aged 13
Lowe and his wife Kim Painter announce the death of their daughter, who "was the light of our lives".
DeepSeek Unveils Huawei AI Chip Tools That May Replace Nvidia’s
DeepSeek has publicly released software it created with Huawei Technologies Co. to program AI chips, showcasing its close partnership with the Chinese company working to develop technologies to replace Nvidia Corp.
Imagine3D-LLM: Teaching MLLMs to Imagine 3D Scenes Before Answering
Reasoning about the 3D world from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While modern MLLMs handle single-image inputs effectively, they struggle to integrate evidence across viewpoints into a coherent 3D understanding. A growing body of work attempts to close this gap by injecting 3D awareness into MLLMs, either by boosting fine-grained pixel-level cross-view correspondence or by fusing features from 3D geometry foundation models, yet a s
The case for vaccines to combat Alzheimer's disease
Vaccines against other diseases, including BCG for tuberculosis and Shingrix against herpes, significantly help ward off dementia, position paper explains
Which Attention Heads are like the Human Head? Not the Ones that Compute
Brain-AI alignment is often interpreted as a sign that model and brain perform similar computations. Whether the aligned units are causally involved in model computation is rarely checked. On an abstract pattern-completion task (AAABAAA $\rightarrow$ B), we compare LLM attention-head representations with human EEG and test how ablating those heads affects task performance. Alignment and causation dissociate: brain-aligned heads contribute to performance, but their removal is substantially less d
College football Bottom 10 after Week 4: Time not on Michigan's side
After a controversial last-second win earlier in the season, the tables were turned on the Wolverines.
Ireland vs Israel Nations League match will go ahead, coach confirms
The Football Association of Ireland says the team will fulfil the second fixture despite public opposition.
Debiased Inference for Bounding Wage Inequality with Many Controls
We study estimation and inference for a partially identified parameter whose identified set depends on a first-stage nuisance parameter that must itself be estimated. Combining the criterion-function approach with the theory of Neyman-orthogonal moments that underlies double/debiased machine learning, we propose a two-step procedure: the point-identified nuisance is estimated by flexible machine-learning methods, and the set-identified target is recovered as a level set of a sample criterion bui
Channel 4 Making 'Trauma' Doc About Stroke Recovery
Channel 4 is making a 'Trauma: My Broken Brain' doc about stroke recovery with the Stroke Association.