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White hat hackers breach OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in under 72 hours
The researchers struggled to abuse the exploit with an AI agent on Opus 4.8, but the release of Opus 5 changed everything.
Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision
Complex robotic manipulation tasks frequently require a long-term memory of past events and actions. As conditioning on full histories renders policies prone to spurious correlations and degrades performance, many approaches to policy memory involve compressing historical information through expensive VLM queries in-the-loop to process only task-salient information. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach in which computationally intensive VLM queries are made during train-time to lear
Variable aperture is cool, but as a photographer, the reason I want an iPhone 18 Pro is this hidden anti-AI camera tool
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max don't just get more camera controls; there's a built-in tool for authenticating an image in an era of AI slop
A Mathematical Model of Motivated Emotional Mind - Cognitive Embodied System
This article presents a mathematical model of the Motivated Emotional Mind cognitive architecture developed for embodied intelligent systems. Such a system learns to maintain its homeostasis through a generalized form of reinforcement learning based on its internal motivations, termed motivated learning (ML). The principal contribution of this article is a rigorous formalization of the re-entrant loop integrating feedforward processing, lateral interactions, and feedback pathways, together with
Georgia vs. Arkansas prediction, odds, time: 2026 Week 3 college football picks by proven model
The SportsLine Projection Model has revealed its best bets for Georgia vs. Arkansas in an SEC matchup on Saturday
Early voting begins in midterms as campaign shifts focus to cost of living and Iran war – US politics live
Campaigning or control of Congress is expected to ramp up as some states open early voting
Solstice Gold to Participate in the Gentile Mining Investor Forum in London
Solstice joins over 20 companies from Michael Gentile’s portfolio at the inaugural Forum on October 19, 2026, in Mayfair, London
Quote of the day by Clint Eastwood: ‘Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form,’ a powerful life lesson in humility and staying open to new ideas
Clint Eastwood has spent decades playing characters who often say little but leave a lasting impression. Away from the screen, however, the actor and filmmaker has spoken about a very different kind of strength, knowing when to listen.
New DOOGEE Smartwatch Has GPX Route Import and Track Back So You Never Get Lost Outdoors
The DOOGEE Anymoving M1 Pro is the company's new smartwatch with GPX offline navigation and Track Back, amongst other features.
Your iPhone's USB-C port can do a lot more than fast-charge
Discover useful ways to connect storage, displays, keyboards, Ethernet, SD cards and more.
We Knew T. Rex Was Warm-Blooded. Now Scientists Know How Hot
Fossil teeth put the dinosaur’s body temperature at about 36°C, close to ours.
'I've had a mastectomy when it wasn't needed'
The women were among hundreds who were harmed by their treatment at County Durham health trust.
College football picks, Week 3 best bets by Vegas expert: This parlay could return +600
Thomas Casale has locked in his top college football picks for Week 3 and his CFB parlay could pay out around +600
Who gets to decide how quickly AI moves?
The biggest AI companies want to slow development together. The real question is what power they gain in return.
7 ads that define ‘The New York Times’
This week, The New York Times is celebrating the 175 anniversary of its founding on September 18, 1851. To commemorate the major milestone, the publication is paying tribute to one of the institutions that’s kept its journalism running for almost two centuries: advertisers. The campaign’s centerpiece is a nine-page print spread featuring seven real ads from The New York Times’s massive archives, dating all the way back to its inaugural year. It also includes a landing page on the NYT’s Advertisi
‘I Prayed About A Thousand Times That Men Get Periods’: Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan spoke about painful periods and said she has “prayed a thousand times” for men to experience them, adding that it could lead to period holidays at work.
If you multitask on your Apple Watch, don’t upgrade to watchOS 27
Apple ditches the App Switcher and reassigns the Digital Crown shortcut.
The Galaxy S27 Ultra camera debate rages on
Will it or won't it... get a new telephoto camera? Plus plenty of other specs up for deliberation
Spacetime Dynamics of Altermagnetic Magnons
Distinguishing altermagnetism from conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism typically relies on momentum-space probes. Here, we show that the real-space spreading of a localized spin excitation provides a distinctive dynamical fingerprint of altermagnetic order. Using linear spin-wave theory on a two-dimensional checkerboard lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor couplings J_1 and J_2, we demonstrate that finite J_2 produces direction-dependent magnon group velocities
Scott Power: ASX healthcare rises as Morgans dissects FY26 reporting season | Stockhead
The ASX healthcare sector finished higher for week ending September 18, 2026 as Morgans released its report analysing FY26 reporting season.
First-month grades for all 20 Premier League teams: A+ to F
Which Premier League teams are acing -- or flunking -- the season so far? Let's grade every team!
From a failing textile mill to a trillion-dollar giant: The Warren Buffett story
Warren Buffett has ended his formal leadership of Berkshire Hathaway after more than six decades, becoming chairman emeritus at 96. His son Howard Buffett takes over as chairman, while Greg Abel remains CEO. Buffett leaves behind a company he transformed from a struggling textile mill into a conglom
In the battle between AI optimists and doomsayers, no one is the winner
It could be the end of the world as we know it. Or maybe it’s all just a marketing stunt. Somehow, these have become the two poles of the debate about the future of artificial intelligence and its potential perils. While the argument has been going for a while, it reached a fever pitch when a researcher at leading AI developer Anthropic resigned and issued a public warning that recklessly designed AI could literally wipe out humanity (for example by helping bad actors create a virus or other
TikTok Star Mason Hull Fighting Child Porn Charges After Cops Say He Initially Confessed
TikToker Mason Hull is fighting back against criminal charges accusing him of buying child porn online, TMZ has learned. The 18-year-old content creator -- known for his Looksmaxxing content -- entered a not guilty plea to 15 counts of possession…
High-end GPUs may be slowing China's AI compute expansion
China's wide gap in token costs stems largely from domestic companies' difficulty in accessing Nvidia high-end GPUs, forcing them to squeeze more value from each token to recoup costs. But supply-chain sources say the scale of China and US AI compute investment may actually be roughly comparable, de
Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation
Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without robot-specific training.Whether this paradigm is also safe, however, has not been asked. We evaluate coding agent under a safety constraint, where each task pairs a manipulation goal with an obstacle the robot must not touch. The agent pursues the goal but collides with the obstacle in most cases, treating ta
World's last known wild Chilean tree daisy gets a lifeline as conservationists use ropes to support its only survivor and two seedlings arrive at a Scottish garden
A rare tree daisy from Chile's Robinson Crusoe Island is receiving a new lifeline after two seedlings arrived at Logan Botanic Garden in south-west Scotland. Dendroseris neriifolia has been reduced to one known wild tree, which grows on a steep cliff and is supported by ropes to prevent it from fall
A geriatrician explains why AI for older adults deserves careful scrutiny
James Deardorff, a geriatrician at UCSF, talks about the benefits and pitfalls of using AI to make care decisions for older adults.
NFL Week 2 odds, predictions, expert picks: Can blitz-heavy Vikings overtake Bears? Will Cards upset Seahawks?
CBSSports.com and SportsLine break down every single NFL game in Week 2
‘My children did not attack Iran’: 2bn South Asians suffer from distant war
A quarter of the world’s population faces a surging cost of living crisis because of the wars in the Middle East.
Cambria Gold Mines to Participate in the Gentile Mining Investor Forum in London
Cambria Gold Mines Inc. joins over 20 companies from Michael Gentile’s portfolio at the inaugural Forum on October 19, 2026, in Mayfair, London
British rapper Sway dies aged 44
Sway, whose hits included Still Speedin' and Level Up, was living in Ghana at the time of his death.
Regulate and Standardize AI? Nope.
Regulate and Standardize AI? Nope.
OPPO ColorOS 17 Announced With Fluid Design, AI Upgrades, and Major Performance Gains
OPPO has announced ColorOS 17, a new version of its Android skin based on Android 17. A bunch of improvements are included.
The axion mass in the post-inflationary scenario in a minimal scaling model
We calculate the dark matter axion mass in the post-inflationary scenario in a minimal model with a set of classical field theory simulations on $12\,288^3$ grids. In the model, the Peccei-Quinn U(1) symmetry is broken by a complex scalar field at a temperature $f_{\rm a} \sim 10^{11}$ GeV, creating a string network. The strings become the boundaries of domain walls at the QCD transition, which draw the strings together and annihilate them. The decay of the strings and domain walls leaves behind
Dynamic Generalized Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport
Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GW-OT) extends classical optimal transport by introducing structure-aware transport cost. This is particularly relevant for spatial transcriptomics, where dynamical reconstruction should preserve tissue structure in addition to matching expression patterns. While static formulations have been widely used for such structure-aware alignment, a general dynamic formulation for reconstructing continuous trajectories is still missing. We introduce Travelling Pair
GdS: 'There's no time' - Amorim has Cardinale's backing but turning point is needed
The alarm bells are not ringing for Gerry Cardinale just yet, but Ruben Amorim hopes that Sunday's game against Lecce brings a turning point.
Israel is killing the people who could end its wars
From Iran to Gaza and Lebanon, assassinations have repeatedly removed figures capable of negotiating an end to conflict.
Think you can design a better iPhone? Here’s your chance
If you ever wanted to design your own iPhone, a new website gives you the tools. “Design the Next iPhone” is a one-off site from Neal Agarwal, a game designer, that lets users add features ranging from serious to absurd to customize a new iPhone. The site features a 3D rendering of a standard iPhone that users can rotate and redesign with drag and drop features. You can add familiar features like a dual or Pro camera, volume button, lightning port, Apple logo, and home butto
Boy George defends Ed Sheeran in social media rant
Boy George has claimed Ed Sheeran was right to get "rid" of Macklemore from his tour.The 65-year-old pop star shared a rant on social media after being tricked into thinking an old clip of the singer-songwriter performing solo was a new video following the rapper's departure from his US shows.He wro
Amid mixed reception online for the Dyson Camerajet, we ask Dyson how it created the video toothbrush capturing everyone's attention
A camera in a toothbrush? Dyson's head of product development tells us how (and why)
Embedding Models Measure in Peculiar Ways
Embedding spaces define notions of semantic similarity and distance. We study whether those embeddings reflect physical measurements of mass, distance, time and volume, which admit a unique, objective notion of semantic equivalence and distance. We find that physical measurement is only weakly modeled in the embedding space, and that instead quite peculiar measurement patterns can be observed. Further analysis indicates that embedding representations of physical measurements are strongly influen
This Bat Has the Longest Tongue Among Mammals and It Hides It Inside Its Chest
A flower's hidden nectar may have helped drive the evolution of one of the strangest tongues in the mammalian world.
Doctors raise concerns about views and experience of members on federal task force
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names new members to powerful federal task force that plays a key role in determining the kind of preventive case people get. In a major departure, the new members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force include specialists instead of experts on preventive c
Artist’s uniquely Queensland ode to her 101-year-old dad wins top portrait prize
Many finalist pieces this year celebrated “quiet achievers” and honoured home and belonging, organisers said.
Deadly blast hits mosque at Pakistan police complex
Several people have reportedly been killed in an explosion at a mosque near a police complex in northwest Pakistan.
Employers aren’t giving up on computer science grads. Here’s what they want instead
Not long ago, a computer science degree was widely seen as a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Over the past year, a different narrative has taken hold: In the age of artificial intelligence, that path is collapsing. From coders working at Chipotle to the ”bursting” of the computer science bubble, a growing chorus has suggested that a degree once synonymous with opportunity no longer delivers. The numbers don’t match the story. The pessimistic narrative around computer
Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson’s ‘Brothers’ Mystery Gets New Twist
Matthew McConaughey addresses the theory that Woody Harrelson is his real-life brother while promoting their Apple TV show Brothers.
Anthropic says Claude is now leading more than a quarter of its AI research
Anthropic said Claude now leads 26% of its AI research work, up from under 1% in March, as the industry tracks AI's ability to self-improvement.
CVE-2026-13471 LatePoint Plugin Abilities API execute resource injection
A flaw has been found in LatePoint Plugin up to 5.6.3 on WordPress. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-13471.
A Gaussian process coarse-grained potential for Na-montmorillonite
Hydraulic transport in compacted bentonite is diffusion-controlled and governed by the hydration and microstructure of sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT). Experiments cannot resolve how platelet interactions govern pore structure, transport and stiffness, while existing coarse-grained models smooth hydration oscillations or require manual corrections. We develop a tabulated potential combining Morse interactions between platelet centre and edge sites with a Gaussian process regression correction tr
T2 estimation from MOLLI acquisitions
Cardiac T1 and T2 quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that provides characterization of a multitude of myocardial pathologies. However, each parameter requires its own specialized acquisition sequence, which may be time-consuming. In this work, we demonstrate that MOLLI, an acquisition sequence commonly used to perform T1 mapping, is also sensitive to T2, and can also be used for myocardial T2 mapping. Although MOLLI is not designed for T2 mapping, its signal evolution i
Rogan's bombed try sparks scuffle
Lily Rogan has a bizarre bombed try chance for the Tigers, tempers continuing to erupt on the field.
United Nations says US may have committed war crimes in Iran: What it means
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
Leviathan Metals Corp to Participate in the Gentile Mining Investor Forum in London
Leviathan Metals joins over 20 companies from Michael Gentile’s portfolio at the inaugural Forum on October 19, 2026, in Mayfair, London
Johnny Marr guitars sell for more than £560k at auction
One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.
How Certis builds employee trust to scale security bots
Certis Group CEO Tian Beng Ng explains why fast AI decisions need human accountability, and why digital employees require the same oversight as staff.
CVE-2026-12954 | Mapster WP Maps Plugin up to 1.23.0 on WordPress my_profile_update acf-photo-gallery-groups input validation
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mapster WP Maps Plugin up to 1.23.0 on WordPress. This issue affects the function my_profile_update. The manipulation of the argument acf-photo-gallery-groups results in improper input validation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-12954. It
He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature
David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.
DWP autism and dyslexia update over new plan to track sickness absence
The DWP has faced questions over a new unit being set up to cut absence at work
5 Things Sami Zayn Can Do on SmackDown Tonight After Becoming The Undisputed WWE Champion
Sami Zayn has once again reached the top of WWE, and this time, he will walk into Friday Night SmackDown as the Undisputed WWE Champion.
Russia Foreign Ministry reaffirms Arctic peace priority, readiness for dialogue
Vladislav Maslennikov noted that as the largest Arctic power, Russia has all the capabilities needed to independently develop and ensure the security of its Arctic Zone and accomplish national objectives in the Arctic
National Cheeseburger Day freebies and deals: McDonald’s, Five Guys, Burger King, more. See the full list
When thinking of American food, cheeseburgers naturally come to mind. But are they truly a product of the United States? Since today (Friday, September 18, 2026) is National Cheeseburger Day, it’s the perfect opportunity to investigate. Let’s work up an appetite by mulling this over before getting into all the best freebies and deals to celebrate. Who invented the burger? Like many culinary delights, the burger wasn’t so much invented but evolved in the great melting pot of the U
Oasis will not headline Glastonbury 2027, organiser Emily Eavis confirms
The rock band will not be stopping at Worthy Farm despite being on tour at that time next summer.