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Tech powerhouse’s regulatory push bears similarities to a notorious Washington strategy
Anthropic's AI regulation push mirrors Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto lobbying playbook, with millions in donations and safety rhetoric critics call capture.
iPhone 18 Pro review – forget the Duo, this is a serious professional tool
The new 18 Pro has stepped up its performance, battery life and camera to offer a product worthy of its professional name
World’s tallest wind turbine reaches nearly 1,200 feet in Germany
A 1,197-foot wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, making it the world’s tallest wind turbine.
Response Variability and Stability in Human Reasoning
Understanding how humans reason -- and how reasoning responses vary across tasks and individuals -- remains a core challenge for modeling and explanation in cognitive science. We investigate the stability of response patterns within reasoners and whether variation in these patterns can be used to predict learning effects. We introduce a formal, geometry-based method to quantify distances between individual reasoning patterns and their internal variability, grounded in heuristic theories. The pro
LSU's Will Wade lands first 2027 5-star in guard King Gibson
LSU landed five-star guard King Gibson after the No. 13-ranked prospect in 2027 chose the Tigers over Arkansas, Louisville and Providence.
World Space Week: Which countries have sent people to space?
At least 746 people from 52 countries have been to space, from career astronauts to paying tourists.
How to reclaim 10GB of iPhone space without deleting photos or apps
Few digital warning banners prompt immediate frustration quite like seeing “iPhone Storage Almost Full” right when you open your camera to record a quick video. You might assume that you’re trapped in a terrible trade-off: Either delete three years of family photos or start uninstalling apps you actually use. In reality, most of the storage bloat on your phone doesn’t come from your photo library or active application code. It comes from hidden caches, forgotten off
'Off Campus' co-stars Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston go public with romance at Valentino’s Paris Fashion Week show; fans call them 'It couple of the year' - WATCH
Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston have gone public with their romance!
Shlexball: Mac file search that understands descriptions
Describe what you remember and Shlexball finds the file on your Mac. It searches names and the text inside PDFs and Word documents, with an AI model that runs entirely on your Mac.
New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharoahs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice. But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology reassesses a collection of skulls excavated from tombs in the 1920s and concludes that over one-third show evidence of blunt force trauma.
APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104:… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams Explanation: A deep image of the Sombrero galaxy reveals surprises. M104 is named the Sombrero galaxy because, on shorter exposures, it looks like a hat.
Multimodal reasoning for broadly neutralizing antibody discovery from label-free human B cell repertoires across virus families
Discovering broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) from human natural immune repertoires remains a fundamental challenge in immunology, hindered by: the extreme rarity of bnAb, incomplete understanding of their cellular origins across pathogens, and the inability of existing computational tools to generalize across emerging viral threats. Here we present ImmuneAgent, a closed-loop AI system that integrates multimodal reasoning with continual meta-learning and wet-lab feedback to overcome these
"The injury must really be serious" - Fans fear for Jannik Sinner after Italian reportedly plans to skip Six Kings Slam
Jannik Sinner hasn't played a tour-level match since winning his fifth Grand Slam title at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships as he continues to deal with a knee injury.
Middle East oil exports surpass pre-war levels despite tensions, data shows
IRGC commander says oil flows through US-supervised route in Hormuz are ‘negligible’.
Stop telling women to talk about menopause at work
Recently, menopause has gone from taboo to mainstream, with celebrities turning “the change” into a status symbol and vocal clinicians becoming household names. Those brave women paved the way for more conversation, catalyzing focus and research on women’s health, and we should all be grateful. But what happens in media and pop culture rarely transfers to corporate culture. As a 22-year corporate veteran, I (Kacy) make my living studying and speaking to employees in organizations. From
Matthew Rhys takes Best Actor at Bafta Cymru for performance in Netflix thriller
The actor added another award to his cabinet after winning two lead acting Emmys last month.
US lead in AI over China narrows after DeepSeek gains, BI says
That improving performance spells further market share gains for Chinese contenders Read more at The Business Times.
Wrong Organ, Right Physics: Transferring Echocardiography Pretraining to Lung Ultrasound for Tuberculosis Screening
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is attractive for tuberculosis (TB) screening at primary-care level, but labelled cohorts are small. Echocardiography carries no such constraint, while sharing the same underlying ultrasound imaging physics, signal processing and B-mode appearance as LUS. We ask whether an encoder pretrained on that high-resource ultrasound domain carries representations that remain usable in the low-resource one. Only the encoder varies, across seventeen encoders spanning three architectur
Moon-Like Madagascar
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Moon-Like Madagascar Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search From an astronaut’s perspective looking back at Earth, a patch of bright rock in arid southern Madagascar m
Exercise Timing in Type 1 Diabetes: Before or After Meals?
Discover how exercise timing in type 1 diabetes, meal timing, insulin on board, and workout intensity can influence glucose responses.
Brock Purdy throws 2 TD passes to lead the undefeated 49ers past the Broncos 24-14
Brock Purdy threw two touchdown passes and Christian McCaffrey ran for a score to lead the undefeated San Francisco 49ers to a 24-14 victory over the Denver Broncos
Bolsonaro beats expectations in Brazil vote, faces Lula in runoff
Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a run-off after Bolsonaro and Lula both fell short of the 50% needed to win
Apple iPhone 18 Pro review: big changes for small differences
Longer battery life, better screen, upgraded Siri and new variable aperture camera in refreshed design from last year’s model
How to Turn Down Sex Without Making Your Partner Feel Rejected
Research suggests a warm, reassuring no can protect relationship satisfaction better than hostility, avoidance, or reluctant sex.
Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York City AI hearing, Bloomberg News reports
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at a New York City hearing on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Why developers are giving Jev a shot
A new AI model called Jev has developers buzzing. We cut through the hype to find out what makes it different - and why it matters.
Easing constipation: A 20-minute walk can get your gut moving almost immediately
Researchers found that just 20 minutes of comfortable walking can rapidly stimulate the gut. Within one to two minutes after exercise, bowel sounds became stronger, more frequent, and lasted longer, suggesting increased intestinal movement. The boost was brief, fading within a few minutes, but it ma
Health Check: CSL places $500m-plus bet on rare kidney and liver disease drug candidate | Stockhead
CSL will pay an upfront US$355 million ($515m) to co-develop an external drug candidate aimed at treating rare kidney and liver diseases.
John Cena Says He Was Terrified When Filming Controversial Apology To China
John Cena filmed an apology video for China after receiving a ton of backlash. Now, the star has admitted that he was very afraid.
Samoa PM apologises after Nazi salute video emerges
Pacific island nation’s leader says 2007 video showing him saying 'Heil Hitler' does not reflect his beliefs.
Airbus board appointments herald CEO decision next year, sources say
PARIS: Airbus has announced a series of board changes including its first female chairperson and the first from outside its Franco-German power base, marking the beginning of crucial leadership decisions expected in the coming year.
Wonyoung, Tzuyu, Fourth Nattawat: Celebs you can catch over the F1 weekend
The Formula 1 weekend is approaching, and this means regional celebrities will also be landing in Singapore. Here's a list of who will be here and where you can catch them.K-pop idol Sangwon from Alpha Drive One will be at two Puma stores — 313@Somerset as well as VivoCity — on Oct 7. View this post
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheriff broke the law, was confirmed by the sta…
JOVE: Joint Execution and Verification for Resource-Aware LLM Task Graphs
Complex reasoning queries can be decomposed into directed acyclic task graphs and distributed across heterogeneous LLMs, reducing latency through parallelism and enabling smaller models to solve complex tasks. In practice, however, the suitability of an LLM for a given subtask may be a priori unknown, and execution alone does not reveal output correctness. We propose JOVE, an online framework that jointly assigns executor LLMs and selects intermediate outputs for paid verification. Verification
World's first full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid robot showcased
RP1 robot is designed with the goal of providing a humanoid robotics system that can be used, modified, trained and continuously extended in real development workflows.
Early Lampard findings could come within weeks
Early recommendations could be issued if evidence highlights patient safety risks, the chair says.
Blake Snell's wife Haeley drops 1-word reaction to Mookie Betts' spouse Brianna's western streetwear look in oversized t-shirts, cowboy hat and boots
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts’ wife, Brianna, turned heads with her latest game-day update on social media.
WA Greens staffer’s Land Forces ban overturned
On Friday, WA Police Minister Reece Whitby said the bar had been set “very high to be an excluded person, and for very good reason”.
Asset manager Schroders to expand in Hong Kong after Nuveen merger: CEO
Government actions are making Hong Kong ‘a more appealing location for private markets professionals’, Richard Oldfield says.
General Hospital Spoilers for What Happens This Week (October 5-9)
General Hospital spoilers reveal what is set to happen during the week of October 5 to 9. Check out the preview here!
Why Oracle’s 1.3GW Project Lighthouse may not see full power until 2029
After 10 months of review, Oracle’s 1.3 GW Wisconsin Data Center fails to get power approval — restarts the entire process
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Has Rare Cautionary Note on AI Safety
Speaking at a tech forum in Kyoto, Masayoshi Son called for global cooperation on AI safeguards, warning that superintelligence could pose a greater threat than conflict between humans if misused. Bloomberg tech editor Mayumi Negishi said the caution marks a notable shift in tone from the longtime t
Ending clock changes? Health evidence favors permanent standard time over daylight saving
Several Canadian jurisdictions are moving toward ending the twice-yearly clock change, but a new analysis published in Canadian Medical Association Journal argues that eliminating the clock change is only half the decision: Governments must also decide whether to adopt permanent standard time or per
Aroa Biosurgery boosts Symphony clinical case with faster diabetic wound healing | Stockhead
ARX (ASX:ARX) has boosted the case for Symphony, with a RCT finding better healing outcomes for DFUs compared to standard care.
Tetairoa McMillan, Bryce Young star as Panthers defeat Lions
Carolina receiver Tetairoa McMillan was dominant in his team's 32-36 win over Detroit Lions Sunday night, catching 14 passes for 192 yards and two touchdowns from teammate Bryce Young, who threw for 329 yards to help the Panthers even their record at 2-2.
Dan Campbell 'not talking about' moving on from Lions DC Kelvin Sheppard
Dan Campbell is not ready to discuss firing defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard despite the Lions' defensive struggles.
Holiday cottage company insisted on a death certificate to amend our break
Sykes Holiday Cottages showed no empathy and insisted on paperwork we didn’t have so soon after my husband’s death
Trump Lashes Out at Fox News for 'Not Covering' His Ohio Rally: 'Who Makes These Decisions?'
President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News on Truth Social, claiming the network wasn't covering his rally in Ohio.
Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York AI hearing, Bloomberg reports
News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the report Read more at The Business Times.
S$^{2}$-PINN: Stochastic Separable Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for random partial differential equations (PDEs) is ubiquitous in computational science and engineering. However, classical spectral solvers for this class of problems face the curse of dimensionality, and existing neural solvers often ignore the stochastic structure that makes moments and calibration tractable. We introduce a stochastic separable physics-informed neural network, dubbed S$^{2}$-PINN, that represents the solution $u(t,\mathbf{x},\mathbf{Z})$ of a r
Trial results show no survival benefit with the use of proton therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Initial results of the NRG Oncology NRG-GI003 clinical study comparing proton and photon therapy for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) indicate that proton therapy did not improve the primary objective of overall survival (OS). At the planned interim analysis, the trial was relea
NeuroLens: Learning Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics from Chronic Recordings
Understanding how neural activity represents higher-order cognition and how these representations evolve over time has long been a central pursuit in neuroscience. However, current analytical tools cannot easily distinguish representational plasticity from recording instability in chronic neural recordings. Here, we introduce NeuroLens (Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics), a self-supervised model based on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) framework that learns denoised, seman
NFL reviewing heated exchange between referee, Vikings' Eric Wilson
The league is looking into two separate incidents involving a player and an official during Week 4
Lions grades: Panthers quarterback Bryce Young dices Detroit's defense
For the third time in four games, the Detroit Lions have allowed an opposing quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards.
Tech-driven defence boom sparks demand for UK offices and research labs
Property investors in Britain are targeting defence clients to capitalise on growing spending on rearmament, including to occupy former bank offices in London's Canary Wharf financial district, real estate companies have told Reuters. A boom in defence technology — from drone programming to AI-enhan
Sister Wives' Janelle Brown Reacts to Ex Kody Brown Trying to Ruin Her Image: "F--k Him"
Sister Wives' Janelle Brown would like to slam the door on Kody Brown's claims she concocted a "backdoor deal" to screw Meri Brown out of money. She detailed her side on the series' Oct. 4 premiere.
OpenAI's Altman says AI benefits warrant accepting some risks
Oct 4 (Reuters) - OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks and argued the technology should remain broadly accessible to the public
Asia Among Most Vulnerable to AI Correction, Asean Unit Warns
Southeast Asia plus China, Japan and South Korea are more at risk than most economies to any potential collapse in the artificial-intelligence boom, which could trigger shocks across financial markets and the real economy.
Starwatch: how to spot Saturn as it makes it closest approach to Earth this year
The planet looks like a moderately bright, creamy-white object and is easily visible to the naked eye
Lampard Inquiry considers early findings on Essex deaths
Early recommendations could be issued if evidence highlights patient safety risks, the chair says.
2026 MLB playoff bracket: Schedule, scores, where to watch with Division Series underway
Eight teams remain in the 2026 MLB playoffs, with the best-of-five LDS round underway
Djokovic defeats top seed Zverev to reach China Open semifinals
Novak Djokovic to face Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals in Beijing after the Russian defeats Francisco Cerundolo.
8th RD20 Conference to Be Held in South Africa, Its First in Africa
/PRNewswire/ -- The 8th RD20 Conference will be held on October 19-23, 2026, in Pretoria, South Africa, hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial...
Fact Check: Is Trump planning to file a $10B lawsuit if Democrats win the midterms?
The claim surfaced as Republicans are projected to lose the November midterm election