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Amazon wants you to wear an AI that remembers your conversations — but do you really want it knowing that much about you?
Your conversations could become Amazon's next shopping opportunity, and that's unsettling
Can It Actually Work? Synthesizing Functional CAD Mechanisms
While LLM agents can generate visually plausible CAD assemblies, these designs often fail to fulfill their intended physical functions. We study functional CAD design, a setting where agents interpret underspecified requests to construct and iteratively revise mechanisms that satisfy functional requirements in physical simulation. Verifying these requirements is nontrivial: different candidate mechanisms may realize the same function through entirely different components, controls, and operating
US Air Force seeks engine using continuous blasts to power missiles
The U.S. Air Force seeks to develop and flight-test a rotating detonation engine for future high-speed weapons.
Bombadil: A Foundation Model for Plant Electrophysiology
Living plants, like animals, use electrical signals to carry information about their physiological state across their body, from roots to branches. These signals can be recorded, as they are in animals, from a pair of differential extracellular electrodes inserted into signal-conducting tissue. While machine-learning models have been trained to predict specific plant stress states from these signals, each of these models has been trained for only a single task and none have been designed to tran
Jalen Hurts blood clot diagnosis timeline: Where the situation started, how it developed and what now
A look at everything that's happened with Hurts' health
Fortnite Battle Pass Skins Leaked for November 2026
Fortnite Battle Pass skins for November 2026 have reportedly leaked, with new teasers showing anime-style Jonesy, Hope, and more.
Dime Community Bancshares Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript - Dime Commercial (NYSE:DCOM)
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) reported third-quarter financial results on Tuesday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.This transcript is brought to you by
Palestinian Filmmaker Rakan Mayasi on His Search for Unconventional Stories and Portraying ‘Communities That Have Not Been on Film Before’
Rakan Mayasi’s 'Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep' made a splash in Cannes with its poetic treatment of a Bedouin community in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
CVE-2026-112239 | TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1 Backend Endpoint permission
A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1. This affects an unknown function of the component Backend Endpoint. Performing a manipulation results in permission issues. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-112239. The attack is possible
YouTuber makes refrigerator that uses fire and salt for cooling
Greenhill Forge built a DIY refrigerator that uses fire, water, and calcium chloride to produce cooling without a conventional compressor.
Six US missile defense systems protecting cities, troops, and warships
Explore six U.S. air and missile defense systems, how they intercept threats, and the different roles they play on land and at sea.
What Language Adds, and at What Cost: Four Controlled Probes of Pathology Vision-Language Models
Vision--language models (VLMs) promise to make computational pathology queryable and able to draft reports, but how much language adds beyond the vision backbone is unclear, because almost every system is evaluated by its developers on test sets of their own choosing. We grade published evidence by how it was produced and test four claims with controlled probes that reuse released checkpoints and public data, varying one input at a time. Report text adds prognostic signal: adding a frozen embedd
6-0 Niners survive Commanders' late charge; Rays reach World Series; Reese lights up WNBA Finals
Plus, our 2026-27 NBA season predictions are in as the season tips off today
‘Horizontal revolt’: Why Albania’s young protesters want PM Rama to go
From the ‘Flamingo Revolution’ to current protests, an inside look at a leaderless youth uprising challenging Edi Rama.
Gen Alpha has a surprisingly optimistic outlook on dating
Gen Z is just about ready to give up on dating. They’re over dating apps. They’re dealing with burnout. They’re not hooking up. Now, the oldest members of Gen Alpha, born between 2010 and 2024, are in their teens and starting to develop crushes and go on their first dates. Are they destined for the same dating struggles? Though they can’t use dating apps until they’re 18, Match Group decided to take an early look at Gen Alpha’s attitudes and expectations around dating. The c
The Sultan of Oman arrives in the UK for the start of his three-day state visit
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are hosting the Sultan of Oman for a three-day state visit this week
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through Web links, researchers reported Monday. Like many online services, Muse allows users to share searches, conversations, images, and similar content with other people. Such share features usually involve clicking an option to create a unique URL that anyone can use to load a page hosting the content.
Cosmological implications of two mock TianQin standard siren catalogs generated under different background cosmological models
Space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as TianQin are expected to detect GW standard sirens for cosmological parameter estimation. All previous studies of TianQin adopted the $Λ$CDM model to generate mock standard siren data. In this work, we quantitatively investigate how the choice of background cosmological model affects mock TianQin standard siren (TQSS) catalogs and the corresponding cosmological implications. Adopting the $Λ$CDM model and a redshift-binned dark energy (DE) reco
Is adding cottage cheese to everything from brownies to flatbreads really the best way to 'proteinmaxx’ – and do you even need to?
In the first episode of the new season of Strange Health, we examine the health benefits of cottage cheese.
Fernand Lopez on Josh Hokit's antics before UFC 334: "He's selling the fight"
Fernand Lopez says Josh Hokit's pre-fight theatrics don't bother him.
‘Every day could cost lives’: UK government blocks Gaza families’ reunion
Britain’s reopened refugee resettlement scheme offers no escape for Palestinians in Gaza.
Retail bundle wars: Walmart is offering combined memberships with Sam’s Club. The price point is curious
Walmart Inc. has announced a new membership option—and included a side of shade. We’ll get to the shade in a moment, but first the deal: The big-box retailer is now offering customers a combined membership to Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus for $120 annually. Combined, those two memberships previously cost $218 a year, or $98 for Walmart+ and $120 for Sam’s Club Plus. “We’re giving people a reason to expect more from their memberships,” Walmart president and CEO John Furner said in
Angine de Poitrine live in London: alien pair are out of this world
The math rock duo’s concept might be bringing fans in, but tonight proves it’s their musical chops that are the real pull
Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on visual reasoning, yet many tasks require evidence that is difficult to obtain through internal reasoning alone: our controlled study on 22 benchmarks shows that simply increasing the inference budget of the base model yields only modest gains. Such tasks demand grounded perception, external knowledge, and numerical measurements obtained through heterogeneous tools, whose outputs must be made interpretable to the model and retai
Nepal’s disaster is an urgent wake-up call
Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03314-6Record-breaking avalanches and floods are signs of things to come. Scientists must evaluate and respond to growing risks in mountain regions.
Dana-Farber, Beth Israel to begin construction of new $1.68 billion cancer hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Lahey Health are starting work on a $1.68 billion cancer hospital in Boston, marking a new phase in their competition with Mass General Brigham.
College basketball rankings: Kansas makes big move in Top 25 And 1 after landing Trey Kaufman-Renn
The Purdue star signed with the Jayhawks, who move into the top five of the CBS Sports preseason rankings
Indonesians protest over land-clearing fires
Students and activists protested across Indonesia over forest fires linked to land clearing for palm oil plantations.
‘You Can See Everything’ perfectly captures what a decade of post-truth has done to us
A tech-world documentary may seem an unlikely candidate for one of those movies people claim simply must be experienced in a theater. You Can See Everything makes a strong case all the same. There are moments in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s beguiling profile of the disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that inspire gasps, convulsive laughter, and involuntary hand gestures. One such moment was especially resonant in my theater, though. (And be warned: There are very mild spoilers ahead.
Woman describes alleged assault by Russell Brand as 'frenzied' and 'violent'
The entertainer denies three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
CVE-2026-113459 | TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1 Editor Plugin information disclosure
A vulnerability was found in TYPO3 AI Integration Extension up to 14.0.1. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Editor Plugin. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-113459. The a
How to watch The Traitors Canada season 4 — free streams from anywhere in the world
The Traitors Canada returns for its fourth season
Europe and the rest of the world must come up with an answer to US science strategy
Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03352-0Europe and the rest of the world must come up with an answer to US science strategy
How Denmark became the sperm donation capital of the world
How Danish sperm became central to the global donor industry.
How the Knicks celebrated their long-awaited championship in the offseason
From Jalen Brunson's SNL appearance to KAT's wedding, it all began with one event that turned into a domino effect: a Knicks title.
Zelenskiy to meet Witkoff as Trump praises Russia and rebukes Ukraine
They are trying to repair ties that have deteriorated this month as President Donald Trump courted Moscow.
AGNC Investment Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript - AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC)
AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) reported third-quarter financial results on Tuesday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga
Guillermo del Toro: ‘It Pains Me Deeply to See Past Generations Fail the Next, We’re Handing Down a World in Ruins’
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro descended on the Morelia Film Festival where he presented 'Pan's Labyrinth' in 3D.
Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
Everyone has that one friend who’s always blinking in photos.
Is a leaked AMD chip the engine of Valve's next handheld? 'Gainsborough' APU might be a clue that the Steam Deck 2 is now inbound
AMD chip in benchmark leak might just be the CPU for the Steam Deck 2.
Humanoid robot shoves 77-pound load, lifts 44 pounds in new demo
KAIST's Humanoid v0.9 pushes 77.2-pound loads and lifts 44.1 pounds using visual feedback and learning-based control.
I’m a Philly forensic psychologist who has conducted dozens of psychopathic evaluations – here’s why an evaluation of R.C. Horsch in the ‘80s didn’t identify him as a possible psychopath
Philadelphia police and FBI are conducting a massive investigation into the home where the late R.C. Horsch and his son lived, along with several women who’ve gone missing.
Auburn dismisses Xavier Atkins, All-American defender reveals intentions to enter transfer portal
What happens next for one of college football's top defensive players?
More than 250,000 displaced in Yemen since fighting escalated: UNHCR
UNICEF says escalating fighting in Taiz is threatening its water systems, serving an estimated three million people.
Trader Joe’s is opening 30 new stores: See a full list of locations, including 2 that are coming this week
If there’s any grocery store chain that can be said to have a loyal fanbase, it’s Trader Joe’s. Customers not only go crazy for its food items, but also its branded products, like the $3 Trader Joe’s tote bags that often have massive resale value. When a new Trader Joe’s opens in an area, it’s often treated as an event, drawing news stories in local media. As for those openings, Trader Joe’s has confirmed that two new stores are opening this week, with another 28 to follow. Here’s what
Meet Kate DePetro, Fox News’ Social-Media Ambassador to Younger Viewers
Meet Kate DePetro, Fox News' Social-Media Ambassador to Younger Viewers
US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
As I sat in the cab of the pickup truck and manually rolled down the windows, I closed my eyes and, for the briefest moment, flashed back to opening the windows on a cold, winter day in my dad’s 1975 Ford Ranger to let more cigarette smoke escape. I opened my eyes and looked through the windshield at a wall in the Slate Customer Experience Center studded with bright color chips. Last week, in a former Tesla store staffed by some former Tesla employees, Slate opened its first showroom.
A boundary integral method for computing electron repulsion integrals in heterogeneous dielectric environments
We present a boundary integral method for evaluating electron repulsion integrals (ERIs) in dielectric environments of piecewise constant permittivity. This generalizes conventional bare-Coulomb ERIs by incorporating screening from structured dielectric surroundings, such as the substrates and/or encapsulating layers present in modern two-dimensional-material devices. We formulate the problem as a second-kind boundary integral equation for the induced surface charge on the dielectric interfaces,
ProteinGeoBench: Frontier Structural-Biology Agents Are Fluent at Lookup but Lost in Geometry
Frontier agents retrieve structural metadata well and compute geometry from coordinates less reliably. We ask how much of a benchmark score reflects that gap and how much reflects the evaluation configuration around the model. We study ProteinGeoBench, a suite of 131 protein-structure tasks, using 4,249 rollouts from four frontier models and 4,486 further trials across 26 models. Three of the four frontier models fall within 0.031 of one another (0.785 to 0.816) with no difference between them r
Enshrouded Springlands Ancient Spire location and puzzle guide
The Ancient Spires in Enshrouded are massive towers containing mini-puzzles that you can solve to unlock hidden puzzles and rewards.
Israeli attacks kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza
A couple and a 17-year-old are among those killed by Israeli air attacks and gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
Switch tracks: Rewiring rolling stock for a new era
Fast-growing markets in Asia are difficult for global rail OEMs to access. Value could shift from new builds toward servicing and renewals—while OEMs prepare for future opportunities.
BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra channels to close
The closurse are announced as the corporation continues to try to save £500m over two years.
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]
Text-to-Image Generative Modeling Without Language Pretraining
Modern text-to-image (T2I) systems use internet-scale language pretraining for text-conditioned image generation. We ask whether language pretraining is necessary for strong T2I generation. We introduce Halcyon, a family of early-fusion multimodal autoregressive models pretrained entirely from scratch on GPIC, a dataset of 100M image-text pairs. Halcyon-0.52B outperforms LlamaGen-XL/8 (48.0 vs. 63.3 gFD) with 18.2$\times$ less pretraining compute. Further, Halcyon-1.6B outperforms JiT-T2I-XXL/8+
Physics-Constrained Modeling and Inference of the Equation of State for Dissociative Materials
Equations of state (EOSs) describe how a material's internal energy and pressure change with temperature and density. They are inputs to hydrodynamic simulations in materials science and planetary science. We model the ion-thermal free-energy term for dissociative materials, where molecular bonds break apart to form new species under extreme conditions. This term is governed by two latent physical processes, a molar-mass surface and a Debye-temperature curve, neither of which is observed directl
Covid failings in care homes: What the inquiry says
From the shocking lack of PPE to restrictions on visitors - the key points from the sixth Covid inquiry report.
NBA predictions: Expert picks for 2026-27 awards as Wemby has inside track to two honors, but what about ROY?
With the season about to begin, our CBS Sports NBA experts are pulling out their crystal balls
Torched cars, ransacked businesses: Anti-Sharia crusader warns France 'civil war' could be imported to US
A top House Republican blames France riots on mass migration, warning America could face the same future if it doesn't learn from the Paris chaos.
Trump still plans on sending $5,000 checks after midterms, but even his fans are skeptical
President Donald Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections — but even some of his devoted fans are doubting that government payouts would arrive.“I mean, I guess it’s good for some people. I really don’t care,” said Jamie Alvarez, who attended Trump’s recent Alaska rally in a red, white and blue outfit. “I don’t feel like your vote should be bought. I feel like you should vote for who you feel i
Clayface star says uncomfortable prosthetics helped his performance
Tom Rhys Harries says he spent half his time on set with the make-up team.