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3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.
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.
College football odds, predictions: Ohio State vs. Iowa, Alabama vs. Mississippi State lead Week 5
CBS Sports experts Brad Crawford and Chris Hummer make their final picks for college football's best games of Week 5
Rainwater washes away highway in Nigeria
Heavy rain over three days caused severe flooding along the Agbarho-Ughelli highway in Delta State, southern Nigeria.
Reinventing the Customer Experience with AI
This session celebrates a new Fast Company recognition program: Fast Company Pacesetters. These are executives who are innovating at the intersection of AI, technology, and the customer experience. How can companies use AI to remove friction without sacrificing trust? What does it mean to design experiences that are not only smarter, but truly natural? If you have customers, you won’t want to miss the insights these leaders will deliver. Pacesetters is presented by TCS.
Lady A singer Charles Kelley reveals blood cancer diagnosis
The Grammy-winning US country music star, 45, says he currently feels "great" and is "hopeful".
Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits.
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.
How NFL defenses are combatting unexpected rise of under-center offenses
Defenses are blitzing under-center passes at a record 51% rate, unleashing linebackers and cornerbacks to disrupt condensed formations and outside zone runs
Why Israel is interfering in Palestinian education
The occupation authorities are trying to censor Palestinian school curricula because they teach national consciousness.
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
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.
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal.
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.
2026 Heisman Trophy stock watch: Jeremiah Smith, Jadan Baugh pacing the field entering Week 5
Will a non-quarterback take home the award for the second time in three years?
Settlers closing in on Ramallah
Israeli settlers are encroaching ever closer to Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.
OpenAI is accused of taking dangerous cyber risks for ‘private gain’ in lawsuit over rogue AI agents
In what is now one of many known cases, OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, launching a cyberattack on Hugging Face. Now, the ChatGPT maker is being sued over that incident and the other attacks that have since come to light—such as its not-so-casual hacking of an Australian national healthcare database. Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), a self-described public interest nonprofit, has sued OpenAI in San Francisco’s Superior Court. LASST alleges that OpenAI
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.
Airbnb adds AI search, more social features
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.
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
Week 4 NFL QB Power Rankings: A new, first-time No. 1 emerges; Drake Maye plummets toward the bottom
Evaluating the NFL's 32 starting quarterbacks ahead of the fourth week of the 2026 regular season
How does Iraq’s security change after US forces withdraw?
Iraq marks US troop withdrawal with 'Sovereignty Days', symbolising a shift after decades of foreign military presence.
Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin just made the single biggest donation ever to a U.S. university
Carnegie Mellon University announced Wednesday that hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion, with the bulk of the money for a new campus in Miami focused on societal challenges.The Pittsburgh-based private research university said the gift is the largest ever single gift to a U.S. university. Other donations topping the billion-dollar mark include $1.8 billion from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins University in 2018. And Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his
Danni becomes first contestant to leave Bake Off
Danni from Dorset was the first of 12 contestants to leave 17th series of the Great British Bake Off.
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.
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.
Week 4 NFL picks, best bets from proven model: This 5-leg parlay pays nearly 25-1
After 10,000 simulations, SportsLine's model reveals its top Week 4 NFL parlay
Palestinian archaeologists race against time to save Gaza’s heritage
A Palestinian team rescued Gaza's artefacts. The question now is where to store them.
Pleasure Principles: Flamingo Estate’s Guide to Slowing Down
In a culture obsessed with optimization and speed, Richard Christiansen is building a business around a radical proposition: What if we slowed down? The founder of Flamingo Estate has transformed his Los Angeles home and garden into a global brand spanning food, fragrance, beauty, and ritual—all designed to reconnect people with the natural world and the simple pleasures of everyday life. In this conversation, Christiansen shares how he turned a personal obsession with nature into a distinctive
Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard tapes
The auction house said it was "very disappointed" the lot could no longer be sold.
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.
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.
Super Bowl stock report for Week 4: Broncos attack difficult schedule, Packers fall to NFC North's bottom rung
We assess the NFL title race after Week 3 and identify four upcoming games that could reshape the Super Bowl picture
Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions
Women make up about 1 percent of US executions. How do states put people to death, and why is it contested?
Checkers and Rally’s are closing stores: See where the most locations have shuttered as national footprint shrinks
It’s no secret that many fast food and fast casual restaurant chains have been having a rough several years. Since the pandemic, restaurants of all stripes have faced a lot of the same issues: lower foot traffic, higher costs, and customers who are increasingly choosy about where they spend their discretionary dollars as inflationary pressures continue to bite. These factors are often key drivers of store closures. Over the past month alone, major chains including Wendy’s, Burger King, an
First Glastonbury 2027 tickets to go on sale
Glastonbury Festival will take place from 23-27 June 2027 at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
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 …
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?
Miami arrives in Death Valley as the elite program Clemson used to be in the ACC
The Tigers have struggled recently while the Hurricanes have momentum not seen since their glory days
Israeli attacks on Gaza kill seven as ‘ceasefire’ violations continue
At least six people killed in drone attack on passenger van and one person killed in strike on residential apartment.
The AI Boom Has a Bill. Who’s Paying?
AI may be the future—but the data centers powering it are already putting unprecedented pressure on the present. They require enormous amounts of electricity and water and can place a disproportionate burden on the communities where they’re built. The question is no longer whether we’ll build the infrastructure for an AI-powered world. It’s whether we can build it as cleaner, smarter, and more equitable. From renewable energy and grid resilience to next-generation cooling and water conservation,
Shane Richie banned from driving after speeding
The EastEnders star is told he cannot get behind the wheel for six months.
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.
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
'Pissed off' Astros players call out booing home fans after Game 1 loss vs. White Sox
The Astros have now lost eight straight home playoff games, and their season is on the line Wednesday
Denmark vs Portugal: UEFA Nations League – Ronaldo, Hojlund, teams, form
Reigning champions Portugal look to build on their winning start as they take on Denmark on match day three.
Anthropic, Google, and Meta CEOs pledge to ‘self police’ AI development, says Trump
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting at the White House aimed at addressing Americans’ fears about the technology.“I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters during an impromptu press conference outside the West Wing.Trump and Hou
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.