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Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.

California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
California is accepting $1.42 billion in broadband grant funding from the Trump administration, but the state is not accepting the Trump administration's demand that it stop enforcing a net neutrality law and other telecom regulations. California's stand against the Trump administration could result in multiple legal battles involving the state, federal government, and Internet providers seeking government funds. Although California told the federal government it would accept the money, it is reserving the right to challenge the condition imposed by the US.

Crypto Docs Host GitBook Hit by AI Agent Security Breach, Urges Users to Rotate Keys - Decrypt
GitBook says attackers accessed infrastructure credentials in an AI-assisted breach, prompting a shutdown and emergency token resets.

Autism diagnoses risen 10-fold since 2010 - mostly in young women
Researchers say the trend is largely being driven by young women who also have conditions like ADHD, anxiety and depression.

College Football Playoff bracket: What 12-team field would look like after first 2026 CFP rankings
The SEC got a big boost from the College Football Playoff committee in the initial rankings
Scepticism as Trump says he’s ending Israel’s $3.8 bn military aid deal
US President Donald Trump says he plans to stop the annual $3.8bn military aid package to Israel by the end of the year.
Prizes, Shared Hazard, and the Speed of Frontier AI
Frontier AI labs compete in a contest for commercial leadership while sharing the risk of catastrophe. Each lab gains from arriving earlier but bears only part of the hazard its speed adds, which this paper calls the hazard externality. In an illustrative calibrated takeoff model, three racing labs get through the takeoff period in 18 months, while a common rule on research shares would stretch it to 69 months. Neither force alone explains racing that fast. Removing the contest first closes over

Fair City on Thursday: 'I thought we could have a chat'
JJ confronts Victor in Thursday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.

A developer opened Postman. Then two AI coding agents changed without their permission.
A developer found Postman’s desktop app installed plugins into Claude Code and Codex without permission, reviving questions about coding agent control.

Rewriting Copyright Law For Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath s…

OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life
OpenAI is starting to reach for desperate — and borderline comical — measures to regain the narrative on data centers.
When Model Complexity Matters in Cross-Subject Naturalistic fMRI Prediction
Increasingly complex neural models predict blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) responses to naturalistic stimuli, but the predictive value of this added complexity remains unclear. We ask when pretrained stimulus representations help and how much downstream complexity is needed, with and without recent measured BOLD history. We compare linear diagnostic references and nonlinear predictors across HCP movie fMRI (154 subjects), BOLD Moments (10 subjects), and Algonauts 2025 (4 subjects). Under a s

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Bomb threats disrupt flights across Europe, no explosive devices found
At least seven flights and an Israel-bound cruise ship received threats, but officials say searches found no explosives.
Agreements Have a Clock: Compute Growth and the Verification of AI Restraint
Rival powers have agreed to limit nuclear arms, phase out ozone-depleting chemicals, and cut greenhouse gases, though each agreement was hard to reach. This paper asks what an agreement to pause frontier AI needs. A follower advances through own research and diffusion from the leader. Because diffusion fades as the gap closes, a paused leader stays ahead longer than its raw lead suggests. A solved agreement game adds voluntary entry, costly monitoring, secret advances, and credible responses. Co

Eric Dane’s Posthumous Memoir Reveals Actor’s Fight With Josh Duhamel on Set: ‘Let’s Go, You P—- Ass Actor!’
Eric Dane posthumously reveals in his memoir that he fought Josh Duhamel on the set of NBC's "Las Vegas" when he was a Season 2 guest star.
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom
Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Weather Adaptive Autonomous Driving
Camera object detectors lose recall in rain, fog, snow and sand, and the confidence threshold at which a detector is deployed decides how many objects it misses and how many false alarms it raises. We study how a frozen detector should make this decision in adverse weather. We first reproduce SeqCRC, a conformal object detector whose first step calibrates the confidence threshold by conformal risk control (CRC), and use that step, calibrated separately in each weather condition, as our baseline.
Thermally enhanced magnon-phonon resonance in van der Waals antiferromagnet FePS3
Strong coupling between collective excitations provides a route to controlling quantum states of matter, yet its evolution under thermal fluctuations remains poorly understood. In the van der Waals antiferromagnet FePS3, strong magnon-phonon coupling is established at low temperatures. At the same time, recent terahertz experiments revealed the counterintuitive stabilization of a long-lived metastable magnetic state with an exceedingly long lifetime of 5 msec at the antiferromagnetic transition,
Aging Untold: What to know about medical uses and risks for anti-wrinkle injections - WBTV
You might think of botulinum toxin injections being linked to wrinkles, but some people use them to treat medical conditions as they age. Dr. Rhea ...

Miami (OH) vs. Buffalo picks, odds, predictions, start time: Betting preview for Tuesday college football
Miami (OH) hosts Buffalo on Tuesday for a Week 10 college football matchup in the MAC
UN elects five judges to International Court of Justice amid record cases
The election, held at UN headquarters, required several rounds of voting to fill the fifth and final seat.

Eagle Point: The Preferreds Offer Good Risk-Reward With A 10% Yield (NYSE:ECC)
Eagle Point Credit Company's stock has plunged as losses, weak net investment income, and an unsustainable 27% yield raise cut risks. Click for this ECC update.

Why Kim Kardashian came back to 'the worst TV drama ever'
The media personality and businesswoman says she's worked on her acting for series two of All's Fair.
Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
FlowTranslator: Training-Free In-Image Machine Translation with Flow-Based Editing
In-image machine translation (IIMT) replaces text in an image with its translation while preserving the surrounding visual context. Existing task-specific models achieve convincing performance but require massive paired training images before and after translation. As advanced text-to-image (T2I) models have reached a practically usable level of multilingual text generation, we argue that this capability can be transferred to IIMT and present FlowTranslator. It is a training-free IIMT framework
Orbital Hall effect from the Wannier function approach
Using the Wannier function approach, we develop a gauge-covariant formalism for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) operator and the orbital Hall conductivity (OHC). The Wannier function formulation resolves the position-operator ambiguity inherent to Bloch states, providing a transparent and rigorous theory of orbital transport. Our formalism is validated through a finite-lattice calculation of the Haldane model, where the OAM operator is evaluated exactly from its real-space definition. Our res

'Multi-cancer' blood tests coming to some GP surgeries soon
The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner.

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US Department of Justice expands its probe into Alaska’s US Senate election
The Trump administration is doubling down on allegations Democrats stood up a 'spoiler' candidate against Republicans.

Xbox’s Arkane Studios Attracts Multiple Bidders, Including Ubisoft
Microsoft’s gaming unit is looking to divest the French company behind ‘Dishonored’ and ‘Marvel’s Blade’

White House Bunny Rabbit Has Nothing to Say About Midterms, Plenty to Eat
Our politicians have hopped out of Washington, D.C. for Election Day ... but Charlie still managed to land an exclusive interview with a very important figure at the White House -- a bunny rabbit.
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.

Tipster brings bad news for the Galaxy Z Fold9 and Z Fold9 Ultra cameras
The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra upgraded the 12MP ultra-wide of the Z Fold7 to a 50MP sensor, but left the other two modules the same.
New framework helps turn biodiversity goals into measurable action
The new study by Newcastle University and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) offers a practical roadmap for tracking progress toward halting species extinctions by 2050. It guides users from understanding where species are most at risk in a given area, through taking action to
RSV-related hospital costs high in kids with underlying medical conditions - CIDRAP
Direct medical costs were adjusted to 2025 dollars for the study. Those with neurologic, neuromuscular conditions see highest costs. A total of 1,715 ...

Kentucky vs. Manhattan prediction, odds: 2026 college basketball picks for Tuesday, Nov. 3 from proven model
SportsLine's model reveals its best bets for Manhattan Jaspers vs. Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday
Kazakhstan releases second tiger into the wild
Kazakhstan has released a second Siberian tiger, this time a male named Amur, into a nature reserve.

AMD Soars After Huge Guidance News (NASDAQ:AMD)
AMD Q3 earnings beat highlights surging data center growth, Q4 revenue acceleration, and valuation risks vs. Nvidia. Click to read more about the AMD stock.

Terry Dubrow Reveals Cadaveric Fat Transfers Are the "Hot New" Procedure—Yes, Really
Terry Dubrow revealed a shocking truth, stunning Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg during his appearance on her podcast when he revealed fat transfers from cadavers are a new cosmetic trend.

Apple's iOS 27.3 is offering a major upgrade to your web browsing
New Safari features are coming for the iPhone, iPad and Mac and are in the Beta right now

Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users.
Body size, not competition, may kick-start evolution
A new evolutionary theory suggests changes in body size, rather than competition for food and habitat, may drive the earliest physical differences between species.
Predicting protein structures at any folding stage from sequence
Protein structure predictors reliably identify native conformations, but do not describe the continuum connecting unfolded ensembles to folded states. Here we present FoldScape, a sequence-conditioned deep learning framework that generates C$α$ conformational ensembles at a specified folding fraction $Q$. FoldScape reconstructs three-dimensional chains through hierarchical, sliding-window regressions of one-dimensional inter-residue distances, followed by chain assembly and sampling with a recti

Champions League panic meter: Man United end skid with late drama; Atletico, Roma in trouble
A late comeback against AS Roma has given Man United a boost, ending their nine-game winless streak
Democrat Jon Ossoff wins Georgia US Senate race
Ossoff is re-elected to a second term, winning a key seat for Democrats as the party tries to retake the Senate.

The 2026 midterm elections could change everything for Trump. Here’s what’s at stake
The midterm elections have the potential to upend everything from politics, to business, to the stock market. But the person most impacted by Tuesday’s results could be President Donald Trump and determine the course of his final two years in office. On the political front, the battle to control Congress remains front and center with a number of seats in play, including 435 in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 in the U.S. Senate. At issue, whether Democrats will gain control

Moroccan-Belgian Superhero Picture ‘Atoman’ Secures North American Release – AFM
Moroccan-Belgian Superhero Picture ‘Atoman’ Secures North American Release - AFM
Google Lets Schools Turn Off Gemini, But Not the AI in Search
Schools that want their K-12 students to have access to Google Search will soon have to turn it on themselves, and the AI features built into Search will come with it, under changes the Alphabet Inc. company announced Tuesday.

Android and iOS apps will be able to bypass the share sheet next year
This is courtesy of a new Quick Share SDK that Google just announced. Quick Share has come a long way over the past year. It started working with Apple's...
Comment on "Long-range magnetic fields in the ground state of the Standard Model plasma"
We revisit the two-loop parity-odd photon polarization analyzed by Boyarsky, Ruchayskiy, and Shaposhnikov [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 111602 (2012)]. The original calculation neglected opposite- fermion-flow partner diagrams for the tadpole and exchange-bubble topologies alike. We quantify the impact of the properly restored exchange-bubble coefficients on the static magnetic response.
What older adults living with certain chronic health conditions need to know about RSV
Adults over 50 years with certain chronic health conditions face higher risk of severe RSV symptoms. Still, RSV's impact is underestimated.

College Football Playoff Rankings reaction: Notre Dame among underrated teams slighted, SEC's efforts succeed
The selection committee gave the SEC plenty of love with its new metric, leaving Notre Dame with no room for error and two-loss Alabama sitting way too high
FBI arrests man for sending over 700 threatening letters to US officials
The suspect, an Oklahoma City man, is accused of mailing hoax letters with white powder and treason warnings.
FinTech Adoption, Bank Profitability, and Stability: The Mediating Role of Operational Cost Efficiency in Bangladesh's Commercial Banking Sector
While financial technology (FinTech) is seen as a contributor to bank performance, the empirical evidence of digitization's ability to translate into improved profit and stability outcomes and efficiency gains, within emerging systems dominated by banks is not conclusive. The direct impact of a composite FinTech Adoption Index (FTI) on the profitability (ROE) and stability (ln(Z-score)) of Bangladesh's commercial banks is explored in this study along with whether operational cost efficiency (CIR

Josh O'Connor: Bond rumours 'bizarre pinch-me moment'
Challengers star Josh O'Connor has said rumours of him playing James Bond are a "bizarre pinch-me moment".

Apple Is Putting an Age Limit on Falling in Love With AI - CNET
Dating and AI companion apps have new age gate restrictions, while apps that share your location will have to disclose it.
Nearly Linear-Time Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Weakly Observable Graph Bandits
We study online learning with directed weakly observable feedback graphs and propose a Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) policy that achieves best-of-both-worlds guarantee with nearly linear expected time complexity. To preserve the simple structure of FTPL, we develop a novel graph-based loss estimator that combines forced exploration, conditional geometric resampling and adaptive learning rates with surrogate probabilities. Our policy achieves $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(δ_*^{1/3} T^{2/3})$ regret f

A Student Looking for Shark Teeth Found a Spear Point Up to 4,500 Years Old
Learn how a brief stop during an ecology field trip turned into an archaeological discovery dating back 3,000 to 4,500 years.
Visualization and Characterization of Gene Group Distribution Patterns Across Genomes
Genes of the same family often lie close together on a chromosome, yet how far apart family members sit, and whether their spacing follows any pattern, has rarely been measured consistently across genomes. We built an interactive web application that places the members of any of the 1,396 FlyBase gene groups on the banded ideogram of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and lists each member's neighbours. While browsing it, we found strikingly symmetric gene sets in which consecutive members

College Football Playoff Rankings: Miami (FL) opens at No. 1 over Georgia as SEC dominates top 25
The initial College Football Playoff rankings are out, setting the stage for the final month of the 2026 season
Democrat Roy Cooper flips North Carolina US Senate seat
Roy Cooper beat out Republican Michael Whatley.

Here’s How Much You Would Have Made Owning Ecolab Stock In The Last 20 Years - Ecolab (NYSE:ECL)
Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 1.14% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 10.0%. Currently, Ecolab has a market capitalization of $86.49 billion. Buying

Katie Zacharia Shops at Sephora on Election Day, Weeks After White House Firing
Katie Zacharia is taking it easy on Election Day ... doing some retail therapy instead of answering questions from the White House press corps or studying for the bar exam.