World in a Pulse
Briflio distills the day's signals into one calm feed — a personalized mix of the top stories across every topic, with context, not noise.
Ahead of U.S. IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible finacing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
Cricut’s new compact crafter prints, cuts, and laminates stickers
All you have to do is peel.
Ice Age Artists Turned Mammoth Tusks Into Figurines by Following Patterns Already Inside the Ivory
Digital scans reveal a distinctive artistic tradition that emerged in Ice Age Ukraine.
Meningitis warning signs as scientists uncover what made outbreak so dangerous
More than 20 young people, mostly students, were infected during the Kent Meningitis B outbreak in March, which was linked to a nightclub in Canterbury
2026 WNBA playoff predictions: Expert picks for entire bracket with unanimous choice for champion
This is the most wide-open WNBA postseason in recent memory. Who will emerge from the pack?
Iraqi airports halt Iranian flights after new US aviation sanctions
Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Sulaimaniyah airports suspend flights as US ramps up pressure on Iran's aviation sector.
Michael Dell Climbs To World's Fourth-Richest, Passing Mark Zuckerberg And Sergei Brin
Dell Technologies shares rose almost 6% Friday while Meta’s slipped more than 3%.
Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says
The BBC's financial situation "may well mean" some channels and stations close, Matt Brittin says.
Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is he
Govinda Reacts To Visiting Lalbaugcha Raja With Komal Rani, ‘If We Are Getting Famous…’
Govinda spoke about the viral videos featuring him visiting Lalbaugcha Raja with his rumoured girlfriend Komal Rani Sarwankar. He revealed that it has been his tradition for a very long time, visiting the pandal with actresses he had upcoming movies with, so that it does good business at the box off
Daily briefing: Will AI really be the death of us all?
Nature unpacks why AI companies are calling for a slowdown. Plus, the best clock ever and a new, unusual phase of boron.
Mold and heat closed Pittsburgh-area schools – an expert explains the risks to kids
Mold spores, 90-degree classrooms and aging pipes: An environmental health expert explains why Pennsylvania’s old schools are harder on kids than adults.
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Poland boosts air defence after ‘Russian provocations’ amid Ukraine war
Alleged incursions put NATO nations on alert as Ukraine launches strikes on Russia during parliamentary voting.
‘Unabomber’ Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Say Russell Crowe’s Ted Kaczynski Film Fizzles
"Unabomber," Netflix's new psychological drama starring Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay about the early years of Ted Kaczynski, isn’t igniting Rotten Tomatoes’ critics.
Taylor Swift 'Cleveland!' Lyrics Take Aim at Haters, Reference Travis Kelce Wedding
Taylor Swift went from referencing her hubby Travis Kelce's wood to now talking about his hood ... shouting him out in her newest batch of songs.
Deloitte touts AI-enabled M&A platform
Deloitte touts AI-enabled M&A platform; FoxPointe launches AI Services for SMBs; Avalara announced new agent hub; and other accounting tech news and updates.
Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountability
The US Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company's network.
The Climate Movement Is Out of Big Ideas
And in search of a political wave to catch.
NHS to suspend staff suspected of snooping on patient records
There have been too many cases of staff abusing patient trust, and enough is enough, the head of the NHS in England says.
What is Puka Nacua's status for Rams' Week 3 showdown at Broncos?
Nacua missed Week 2 with a hip injury and is struggling to get healthy
Ed Sheeran concerts at Robert Kraft stadiums cancelled over weather
Singer's tour has faced numerous setbacks after expulsion of rapper Macklemore over support for Palestine drew backlash.
Examining Beer Pours From Around The World
Around the world, beer pours vary from sizing to foam amount and more. From the Czech Republic to Japan to Italy, beer pours showcase culture.
U2 celebrate 50th anniversary at the school where they formed
The rock band go back to their roots, playing a gig in the Dublin playground where they first met.
Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is he
AD-WM: Action-Discriminative World Models for Counterfactual Model Predictive Control
Latent world models are typically trained to predict factual transitions, whereas model predictive control (MPC) must compare alternative actions from the same state. A model can therefore achieve low factual prediction error yet poorly distinguish candidate actions. We introduce AD-WM, an action-discriminative joint-embedding world model for counterfactual MPC. AD-WM combines residual latent dynamics with predictor-level action-recovery regularization, using inverse dynamics and a normalized re
Voting is now open for Fat Bear Week 2026
The bracketed competition is live right now and you can cast you votes on your favorite very fat bear
Everyone's Still Talking About Climate Change, Actually
The conversation is now all about energy security, competitiveness, and affordability.
Sparks fire Lynne Roberts: Los Angeles moves on from second-year coach as team's postseason drought continues
The Sparks made several win-now moves during the offseason but were still unable to reach the playoffs
Lebanese in Brazil, Brazilian in Lebanon
Their families left Lebanon generations ago. For some Lebanese Brazilians, Lebanon’s pull never disappeared.
Scholar Rock added to Wedbush's Best Ideas List
Scholar Rock added to Wedbush's Best Ideas List
All Things Go NYC Festival Canceled Due to ‘Severe Weather Conditions’
The three-day festival was set to feature performances from Zara Larsson, Lola Young, Carly Rae Jepsen and more.
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
nthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
Leaked: Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra design revealed
A reliable insider has revealed the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra design in full. Check it out here
Need Last-Minute Stocking Stuffers? We Found 20 Great Picks Under $25
We found affordable stocking stuffers under $25 that blend practicality and fun, from tech accessories to pocket tools.
Outbreak of liver disease sparked in connection to shellfish
A multi-state outbreak of a dangerous liver disease is being investigated by officials after more than three dozen people have been sickened.
Is Polymarket Legal in California? September 2026 Status
Find out if Polymarket is legal in California, how it's regulated, and what you can trade there in 2026.
India’s Cockroach movement joins opposition push to oust election chief
India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party has joined opposition calls for election chief Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
Starbucks to close at least 10 Bay Area stores
The closures are evenly spread around the Bay Area but don't appear headed for two major cities.
Ed Sheeran's next US concerts cancelled due to bad weather
The star's concerts in Massachusetts on Friday and Saturday are cancelled after severe weather warnings.
Google is launching AI chips into space to see if they survive up there
MVP is not a data center. It is a small test platform carrying four of Google's tensor processing units, or TPUs. The chips provide roughly the computing...
Honor launches X9e Pro from RM1,899 with 6.8in screen, 11,000mAh battery
Honor has unveiled the latest addition to its midrange smartphone lineup with the X9e Pro, equipped with a 6.8in Amoled screen.
Lake District space museum launched by Britain's first astronaut
Helen Sharman officially opened the John Dulcamara Space Flight Museum at Grizedale Observatory.
Naturally occurring human peptide shows promise against Alzheimer's
"The study suggests that peptide-based therapies may offer a new approach to treating complex neurodegenerative diseases."
Army vs. Temple betting preview: Odds, picks, predictions, line, spread for Week 4 college football on Friday
Army travels to Temple on Friday for a Week 4 college football matchup
Timeline: Man City’s Premier League financial charges to reported verdict
City reportedly found guilty of all but one of the 115 charges that were first brought in February 2023.
Bill Gates Warns AI Is ‘Powerful’ Enough To ‘Cause A Billion Deaths’
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” Gates told “Meet the Press.”
‘South Park’ Season 29 Premiere Hits 4.2 Million Viewers in Three Days and Jumps 33% in Rating After Renaming to ‘South America’ (EXCLUSIVE)
'South Park' aka 'South America' hit 4.3 million viewers in three days with its Season 29 premiere.
Universal and Sony Launch a New $9 Billion Lawsuit Against AI Music Generator Suno
Sony and UMG are suing Suno again, claiming its v6 model launders stolen copyrighted music through user data and outputs.
How do you safely test an AI agent that’s trying to break things?
OpenAI’s rogue-agent incidents show the trade-off at the heart of cyber evals: Giving models the tools they need to prove themselves can also give them a way out. A new report from the cybersecurity research organization Transluce shows that swarms of OpenAI agents tried to hack their way into seve
Scientists Found a New Giant Feathered Dinosaur With Nightmare Claws. But It Ate Plants
The new dinosaur reveals how several bizarre plant-eaters shared the same Cretaceous ecosystem.
$100 million in teen pregnancy prevention funds remain unused. What happened?
With days left to go in the 2026 fiscal year, lawmakers push the health department to spend the money congress allocated to prevent teen pregnancy. An NPR exclusive.
Texas vs. Tennessee prediction, pick, odds, spread: Longhorns face tough road test against Vols
How will No. 1 Texas fare in its first major road test of the season at No. 14 Tennessee?
Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech
Israeli PM's criticism of Al Jazeera during UNGA address threatens safety of journalists, the media network says.
Former Prosecutor Reacts To Bombshell Testimony From Caleb Flynn's Mistress
Former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn is currently on trial for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn.
Ex-GTA developer's studio faces closure after debut game flopped
Build A Rocket Boy, founded by Leslie Benzies, has gone into administration after its debut game flopped.
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
Temporal Gradient Inversion for Private Trajectory Reconstruction in Embodied Reinforcement Learning
Distributed learning in embodied reinforcement-learning agents offers a degree of privacy by retaining raw sensor data on-device and transmitting only policy gradients to the server. Yet temporal structure can amplify this leakage beyond single-frame attacks. We introduce Temporal Reconstruction Attack on Consecutive Encodings (TRACE), an amortized temporal gradient-inversion attack that autoregressively reconstructs the sequence of private observation-action trajectories from per-step policy-le
Is China catching up to the US and SpaceX on reusable rockets?
The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
Poland plans pharmacy access for biological medicines after policy reform
Patient advocates welcome the move but warn that funding and medicine availability remain concerns
English football can punish Manchester City for violations, but can Premier League ever recover what was lost?
An appeal will delay any immediate sanctions, but a guilty verdict on 114 charges leaves 17 years of trophies, title races and rivals like Liverpool and Arsenal trapped in an existential fog
Families fleeing Yemen’s war face displacement, hunger and water shortages
Fighting between Houthi and government-aligned forces forces families out of their homes in Yemen.
Greenberg Traurig Climbs to No. 6 on JAMES Magazine's Top Law-Firm-Affiliated Governmental Affairs Firms in Georgia List
/PRNewswire/ -- Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has been recognized by JAMES Magazine as the No. 6 law-firm-affiliated governmental affairs firm in...
‘Glueing’ Is the Dating Trend That Keeps You Stuck in a Bad Relationship
Therapists say intense chemistry can blur red flags, mask incompatibility, and make it harder to leave an unhealthy relationship.