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Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4's controversial AI features are going live
watchOS 27.3 beta comes with Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 back in September, along with a set of...
Amazon’s Best New Kindle Offering Is a $35 Accessory
If you already have a compatible e-reader, the Kindle Click could be all the upgrade you need.
OpenAI and Anthropic Claim AI Has Disproved a 27-Year-Old Computer Science Hypothesis | HackerNoon
AI may have overturned decades of computer science research. Discover why OpenAI and Anthropic's claimed breakthrough matters.
Heart-healthy salt could prevent 12,000 deaths a year
Researchers found replacing regular salt with a potassium-enriched version could also prevent 60,000 cases of cardiovascular and kidney disease annually in the UK.
Rory McIlroy fine playing in Abu Dhabi: 'Don't think I would ever feel unsafe'
Rory McIlroy has downplayed safety concerns about competing at the Abu Dhabi Championship this week amid the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
Leavitt makes surprising Trump admission after disastrous midterms for Republicans
Karoline Leavitt conceded that rising gas prices impacted the Republican Party's position in the midterm elections as Democrats secured dramatic victories in the "Blue Tsunami." The US president had promised low gas prices during his last presidential campaign, insisting costs would come down to $2
When Listwise Deletion Works: Causal Diagrams and Complete-Case Regression
Listwise deletion (LWD) appears more common than imputation: our review of leading journals finds that about 50% of articles state or imply LWD, versus 7% describing an imputation model. Assuming oracle regression with all required values observed consistently estimates the population average treatment effect, we ask when complete-case regression remains consistent. With constant effects, we offer two checks: whether covariates and the missing indicator satisfy the adjustment criterion in an aug
Chix On Netflix -- Guess The '90s Bombshell!
This week's Chix On Netflix is goin' back to the 90's ... Can you score the sexy star sportin' this hot pink swimwear?!
Oppo F35 Pro Gets ColorOS 17 Update in India
Oppo says ColorOS 17 improves app launch stability by up to 55 percent.
OpenAI Announces End of ChatGPT Classic for Mac: When Will It Stop Working?
OpenAI is phasing out its older ChatGPT desktop application for Mac. Users still running the app are being notified that it will be discontinued on January 30, 2027.
Benchmark chair
James Birdle described his experiment using AI to assist in chair design: What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat i…
iGC: Antibody Optimization via Reinforcement Learning over a Learned Somatic Hypermutation Prior
Antibody affinity maturation is a natural optimization process in which B cells acquire mutations through somatic hypermutation (SHM), undergo selection for improved antigen binding, and iteratively evolve toward higher affinity. Computationally modeling this process requires capturing both biologically plausible mutations and antigen-specific selection. However, existing mutation models do not directly optimize binding, while affinity optimization often neglects realistic mutation trajectories.
Cult favourite fashion brand goes into administration
The Brisbane brand, known for is patterned tights, boasted celebrity fans such as Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Whoopi Goldberg.
Why Democrats may struggle to rein in Trump’s foreign policy
US President Donald Trump's foreign policy agenda faces new constraints after midterm losses.
Regret-based Characterization, Information Limits, and the Sample Complexity of Auditing Adaptive Policies
A policy can earn its performance by where it locates on average or by reacting to information. For any Markov policy $π$ in a finite-horizon MDP, let $ν$ be its open-loop marginal, which plays $π$'s average action distribution at each step. We show that $J(π)-J(ν)$ equals $\sum_t tr Cov(Q^ν_t,π_t)$ under endogenous dynamics. Audits based on immediate costs alone can have the wrong sign. Writing the covariance as a joint-versus-product gap gives the bound $|J(π)-J(ν)|\le\sum_t span_t\sqrt{I(s_t;
Fleabag star offers rent-free flat to new writers
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is donating the accommodation to playwrights from underprivileged backgrounds.
Meta Starts Debut Euro Bond Sale After $15 Billion US Deal
Meta Platforms Inc. is making its debut in the euro bond market, joining a burst of borrowing by the world’s biggest technology companies as they race to finance trillions of dollars of investments in artificial intelligence.
From Autonomous Agents to Cognitive Symbionts: Toward AI-Augmented Human Intelligence
For a decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by how much a machine can do on its own. Large foundation models now write code and run multistep tasks, and personal agents act on a person's behalf. Yet people still forget what they once knew, miss what they are not looking at, fail to find the right words, and face hard choices without the benefit of their own history, because the machine that could help stands outside the situation. As AI moves into the physical world, atte
SBi3PCF: cosmology with Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear
We present the first cosmic shear data analysis of the integrated 3-point correlation function (i3PCF), a higher-order weak lensing statistic, and the first simulation-based inference (SBI) analysis of a three-point cosmic shear correlation function on survey data. Using SBi3PCF, our previously developed SBI framework for the i3PCF, we jointly constrain the $w$CDM parameter space with the cosmic shear 2-point correlation functions $ξ_\pm$ (2PCFs) and the i3PCFs $ζ_\pm$ from the Dark Energy Surve
Do mosquito repellent patches work? Experts weigh in on the buzz
As West Nile virus concerns rise, some parents are turning to essential oil patches for easy bite prevention. Mosquito authorities explain why you should stick to sprays instead.
Feyenoord facing fireworks fine after 3-0 loss to Internazionale - DutchNews.nl
Feyenoord are facing a heavy fine from European football authorities after fireworks were let off during their Champions League defeat by Internazionale. Referee Glenn Nyberg suspended the match for several minutes after flares were fired onto the roof from outside De Kuip stadium, damaging the stru
Trump threatened to become ‘Mr Veto’ if he lost Congress. But what can he do?
The US president retains the power to block legislation which is likely create deadlock in government, Daniel Keane reports
U.S. Democratic Party's Win Poses Risk for Korean Semiconductors
Analysis suggests that if the U.S. Democratic Party takes control of Congress, changes in policies and regulations will be limited, which could have a positive
Crimson Desert Patch Notes for Update 2.04.06 – DLC Fixes and Performance Improvements
Crimson Desert update 2.04.06 fixes DLC issues, crashes, and framerate drops. Here are the full patch notes and platform availability details.
CrowdStrike to buy Fiddler AI, Dreadnode for $495m
Fiddler's software will be integrated into CrowdStrike's Falcon platform as Falcon Observe.
Aligning Language Models with General Preferences: An Empirical Study of Direct Nash Optimization
Direct Nash Optimization (DNO) aligns a language model to a general preference function by approximating the Nash equilibrium of a two-player preference game. Its practical variant, DNO-Prct, iterates on-policy sampling, LLM-based rating of the samples together with a teacher's gold response, large-margin preference-pair selection and a DPO-style contrastive update. We re-implement DNO-Prct independently and study it on two open-weight instruct models, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and Mistral 7B Instru
Mapping large-scale structure without galaxy formation - combining fast radio bursts with CMB lensing
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an emerging precision probe of cosmological fluctuations. The amount and quality of observed FRB data will grow enormously over the next decade. FRB dispersion data directly probe the free electron distribution up to intergalactic scales. Precision models of the free electron distribution are necessary to exploit this exciting new probe of large-scale structure. We show that the free electron distribution almost exactly follows the total matter distribution. We confi
Woman still going strong 3 years after stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis
Three years ago, Irene Ho received news that would change her life. The single mum of three was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and learnt that she might only have three to six months to live.Now, 50-year-old Irene has long surpassed that given timeline and continues to make the most of each
Nations Championship: All the remaining fixtures | The Citizen
The Springboks are in action in Italy, France, Ireland and England.
Voters honour Renee Good and Alex Pretti at Minnesota memorials
Voters honour Renee Good and Alex Pretti at Minnesota memorials
Why taste, conviction, foresight, and courage are the traits we need in the age of AI
Many call the development of artificial intelligence the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but I disagree. I would say AI is the first, and the last, intelligence revolution. Every industrial revolution makes something that was once expensive very cheap—power, computation, information. In the AI era, the cost collapse is cognition itself. Imagine you buy a Tesla in 2026 for $39,990, and in two years, the same model costs $200. That’s the price collapse we are now seeing in AI inference, where mod
Maura Higgins shares ‘reality’ of competing on Dancing With The Stars
The Love Island star is taking part on the US version of the dancing series, where she has been paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas.
The AI Pentesting wave. Pay for effort vs pay for impact.
The AI Pentesting wave. Pay for effort vs pay for impact.
Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra dummy 'confirms' huge changes
See how the S27 Ultra compares to its predecessor and rivals in real life thanks to a new dummy unit of Samsung's upcoming flagship phone
Sam Altman just renamed himself ‘Ram Altman’ in U.S. Midterms aftermath — the panic is setting in, but is the AI bubble starting to crack?
Sam's memory loss may be one for the record books
NYC Marathon runner's death linked to rhabdomyolysis. What is the rare condition?
... Health, told the Times. Uren, who sees ... Not every case is preventable, particularly those caused by injuries or underlying medical conditions.
PowerBall: History made again as nine players become millionaires in one night | The Citizen
These extraordinary wins were made possible through the cascading mechanism.
‘Call me senator’: How Abdul El-Sayed beat Trump’s hate to create history
The 42-year-old Democrat has defeated Republican Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim senator in the US.
Billionaires React To Democratic Midterm Sweep—Musk Jokes About ‘Space Lasers’ As Hoffman Calls Him Out
Musk quipped that his “election-interfering space lasers” had failed, while Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman criticized the world's richest man's massive campaign spending.
Celebrity hairstylist John Frieda dies aged 75
He was stylist to the stars in the 1960s and 1970s before creating a global range of hair products.
Google Will Block Search in Schools That Reject Its AI Features
Google will turn off Search for K-12 student accounts if school administrators choose to disable AI features; also launches Guided Learning.
Databricks opens new office, plans $350m Singapore investment
Databricks also launched an AI accelerator for startups that aims to support more than 100 early-stage companies over three years.
Scientists Found That Seabirds Get Jet Lag — And It Makes Them Fly Off Course
Even seabirds get jet lag, and it's actually a problem.
A Bayesian Optimized Biquad Filter-Burg Model for Real-Time EEG Phase Estimation
Real-time phase estimation on stimulus-aligned transient EEG is critical for closed-loop neuromodulation systems targeting the theta-band, yet most real-time phase estimation methods have been developed and validated on resting-state, high-fidelity signals in the alpha band. Recent work has pursued deep learning architectures, while individualized classical bandpass filter tuning remains underexplored. This study characterizes the spectral and temporal properties of non-anticipative bandpass fil
Prisco's Week 9 NFL expert picks: Jaguars roll over Lamar Jackson-less Ravens, Cowboys rebound
Pete Prisco reveals all of his Week 9 picks, including the Bills handing the Vikings their second straight loss
Donald Trump punished: what we learned from the Democrat landslide
States and districts that voted for Trump two years ago abandoned president’s allies in the midterms
Meet the new gadgets designed to kill our dependence on gadgets
On our video call, Shreyas Narlanka holds up a 3-inch square screen called Meadow. It looks like a thick, equilateral iPhone 13 mini. It would easily fit in my jeans’ front pocket. I instantly wanted one. The Meadow is just one of a small but growing merry band of devices that want to help people cut their hyperdependency on their smartphones. There’s Ikko’s MindOne Pro, a kids’ phone called Freckle, the Light Flip phone, and even an aluminum case called RePod designed to turn
Sasha Lacuna continues to make waves at The Miss Globe 2026 in Thailand
Bb. Pilipinas Globe Sasha Lacuna. Image: INQUIRER.net/Armin P. Adina Binibining Pilipinas Sasha Lacuna's trajectory at The Miss Globe pageant's 2026 edition continues to rise as the
OpenAI Wants to Stop You from Hating Data Centers by Renaming Them
OpenAI is launching a policy push to rebrand data centers as AI compute campuses to defuse growing public backlash.
Call adjustments help bats keep their echolocation signals distinct, study finds
Bats can produce ultrasonic pulses with high frequencies between 20,000 and 120,000 hertz, which are inaudible to humans. The sound waves they produce travel forward, hitting nearby objects and bouncing back in the form of echoes.
Microsoft's AI PC push meets a wall of RAM prices, but Redmond is still beating the drum
Customers are sweating assets amid tight budgets, yet that doesn't stop an exec from Redmond getting creative with the sales pitch
Type 2 Diabetes: 54% Young Adults Enter Remission with Diet, Exercise
More than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes entered remission after following a low calorie diet and supervised exercise program for six months, a new study found.
NBA Power Rankings: Summing up all 30 teams' starts
Here's where all 30 NBA teams rank after two weeks of action, plus the four words used to describe how each team has started the season.
Can Russia compete with the US, China and the EU in Africa?
Moscow pledges more trade and investment in Africa, where leaders want local industries, technology and jobs.
Left-Digit Bias: Theory and Empirical Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment
Demand often drops sharply at whole-dollar prices. To explain this phenomenon, known as left-digit bias, we develop a random utility model in which consumers consider a good only if its price is below a heterogeneous attention threshold. Masses of consumers with integer attention thresholds generate demand discontinuities. When a tax is introduced, the model predicts a weaker demand response compared to rational choice for left-digit biased consumers. Using data from a tax experiment, we find th
South Korean TV drama production at risk of collapse, industry groups warn
SEOUL —Twelve South Korean industry groups urged the government on Wednesday (Nov 4) to invest in and support production of Korean television dramas, known as K-dramas, warning that the country's production base risked collapse.K-dramas have been hugely popular globally, but the number produced has
‘Totally insane’: Alex Stamos on giving AI agents your bank logins
Alex Stamos says people give agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct whole 1Password vaults, leaving banks facing bots with real logins.
DreamX: Video Diffusion Model is a Universal Latent Action Learner
Learning a universal action representation from video requires modeling dynamics that are consistent across different executions of the same action yet invariant to changes in embodiment and appearance. Existing latent action models infer actions from visual transitions, but their representations often entangle the underlying action with irrelevant visual variations, limiting transfer across embodiments. We introduce DreamX, which repurposes a pretrained video diffusion model as a universal late
Air pollution: Indian capital Delhi's air quality worsens ahead of Diwali festival
On Wednesday morning, Delhi's air quality index reading was at 377, in the "very poor" category.
Empirical Bayes Flow Matching for Continuous Cryo-EM Heterogeneity
We address the problem of learning generative priors over high-dimensional latent variables from indirect, noisy observations, with a focus on continuous heterogeneity in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). In this setting, 3D atomic structures $x \in \mathbb{R}^{3N_a}$ are never directly observed and must be inferred from 2D projection images $y$ generated by a complex, non-linear forward operator. We propose Empirical Bayes Flow Matching (EB-FM), a method that learns a flow matching prior $p_θ
"He did not let any ego get in the way" - Ambati Rayudu lauds star India player for his contribution in NZ vs IND 2026 1st ODI
Former Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu praised skipper Shubman Gill’s innings in the run chase in the series opener against New Zealand, even though it was far from his usual stroke-filled style and te
Musk makes light of defeats after record spend on Republican candidates
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is the world's richest man and the largest individual donor in the US midterms.
SK hynix Investment in New York May Face Uncertainty
The $45 billion investment plan for a semiconductor factory in New York, which was being promoted by Solidigm, SK hynix’s U.S. NAND flash sub-subsidiary, has b
Emmerdale airs explosive Joe Tate and Caleb Miligan confrontation in early ITVX release
Warning: Contains spoilers for Wednesday's episode of Emmerdale, which airs at 8pm on ITV1 or can be streamed now on ITVX.