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AI rivals found rare agreement on safety. Putting it into practice is harder
Leading voices in AI, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, agree that AI development needs to slow down.
CVE-2026-87241 Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Security improper authorization
A flaw has been found in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management 11.2.26.0.000. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-87241.
Scientists reversed biological age in older adults in just 4 weeks
Older adults who changed the balance of fat, carbohydrates, and animal protein in their diets showed signs of reduced biological age after just four weeks. The strongest result appeared in participants eating an omnivorous, lower-fat, higher-carbohydrate diet.
Worried about taking a sick day? What that says about you
As many as half of people report working when sick. The reasons for this are complex, experts say.
Orioles' Shane Baz exits after being hit in arm by line drive
Orioles right-hander Shane Baz left Tuesday's start against the Mets after he was hit on the right arm by Bo Bichette's 105.1 mph liner.
What’s the Pinglu Canal, China’s new gateway to Southeast Asia?
China's first modern river-to-sea canal could significantly cut down time and costs of trade to Southeast Asia.
Leadership requires playing the long game
Many of us have attended meetings where the leader lays out expectations and, at the close, asks, “Is everyone good?” People typically look around to see how everyone wants to answer, and nod in response to the leader’s question. But is everything really OK? The leader may feel like they have two choices. They can believe the team members or not. The problem is that neither response is automatically right. Sometimes things are just as the team says: Everything is great. But other times they
‘Sense And Sensibility’ Red Carpet Premiere Photos: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles & More
Esmé Creed-Miles and Daisy Edgar-Jones attend the premiere of 'Sense and Sensibility' in London.
Apple reportedly accepts Samsung's 1Q27 memory hike, raising the 2027 smartphone cost floor
Apple's acceptance of sharply higher Samsung Electronics memory prices for early 2027 is putting a number on the cost of the AI boom for smartphones. The reported agreement comes just days after Apple limited the iPhone 18 Pro price increase to US$100, highlighting its willingness to absorb part of
PhysStream: Streaming Physics-Grounded Video Generation with Structured Scene Memory and Fine-Grained Motion Control
Interactive control for video generation is moving from coarse prompts toward fine-grained, physically meaningful manipulation of dynamic scenes. Yet existing controllable methods either require the full control schedule before generation starts, or use pixel-space signals that dictate object positions rather than physical dynamics. To address these limitations, we propose PhysStream, an autoregressive model for physics-grounded image-to-video synthesis that incorporates structured scene memory-
$B$-sure. Part II. Scattering transforms as robustness test for tensor-to-scalar ratio detection from CMB observations
Galactic foregrounds represent a major contamination to the measurement of primordial $B$-modes from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarisation. Even after the application of component separation algorithms, foreground residuals may potentially still bias the estimate of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$, causing a false detection. In this work, we present the methodology of a robustness test for the validation of an eventual detection of primordial $B$-modes, as obtained by a fut
Learning Options for Compositional Motor Control with Adapter Banks
Learning flexible motor primitives is a hallmark of skilled motor control. Recent neuroscience theory proposes that motor primitives may be implemented as low-rank perturbations of a shared recurrent network, but leaves open how such a system is learned. We translate this principle into a novel architecture for learning motor skills end-to-end: a shared recurrent core modulated by a bank of residual adapters, each selected by a discrete latent code. Trained on closed-loop biomechanical control,
Pete Alonso hits 300th career homer against former team as Orioles top Mets
Game-tying ninth-inning blast sparks Baltimore's extra-inning win over the Mets and keeps O's in the AL wild-card hunt
News helicopter crash in Los Angeles kills three, injures one
NBC Los Angeles helicopter crashes while covering deadly metro bus collision from the air.
National Bank of Greece to cancel 11.58m shares as buyback programme continues
The National Bank of Greece (NBG) will cancel 11.58 million treasury shares and increase the nominal value of its remaining shares to €3 as part of a capital restructuring, while the bank continues buying back its own shares on Euronext Athens. The bank announced the changes this week, following app
Harry and Meghan told to ‘buy alarm clock’ instead of taxpayer-funded security
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have changed their children's school following security concerns, but one Royal biographer has slammed the pair for citing security concerns over school run traffic
Glass substrates, TGV set to reshape 2027 advanced packaging race
As AI chip package sizes continue to expand, advanced packaging is moving up the technology ladder. Glass substrate and through-glass via (TGV) technologies have become a new competitive focus for supply chains in the US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Players are now positioning themselves
ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents
We introduce and release ScienceBuddy, an interactive scientific research workspace that brings continually improving scientific agents into researchers' everyday workflows. ScienceBuddy supports researchers in carrying out scientific tasks while transforming their requests, feedback, and execution evidence into tasks and evaluation rubrics for continual learning. At its core is recursive-in-recursive self-improvement, a paradigm that couples harness evolution with model reinforcement learning:
The girl with a will to live: the love, hope and pain of raising Elsie – my one in 163 million daughter
She was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. After my decades working in film PR, I now face the biggest campaign of all: the fight for her life
Pennsylvania reports teen as fourth measles death amid feud with RFK Jr.
Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday reported two additional measles-related deaths, bringing the total for the year to four. This is a record-setting year for measles in the U.S. The number of cases is at a 35-year high and there are more deaths than any year since 1992. The newest death according t
Champion Hurricanes give captain Jordan Staal, 38, new deal
Veteran forward Jordan Staal, 38, who captained the Carolina Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup title in June, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy for postseason MVP along the way, signed a one-year contract extension with the club late Tuesday night.
US House votes to end Iran war, 7 Republicans join in favour
For a third time, the US House approved a war powers resolution, halting Trump's ability to continue military action.
US touts its power, avoids Iran war at G20 Energy meeting
United States energy ministers met in Houston, promoting domestic production and energy independence. Washington's policies aim to reverse previous approaches to renewable energy sources. The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has significantly impacted global oil prices and supply chains. The US p
Koffee With Karan 9: Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Dhawan Shoot Episode; Arjun Kapoor Makes A Cameo? | Exclusive
We've exclusively learnt that Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan have shot for an episode of Koffee With Karan 9. This is the first time that they'll feature on the chat show together.
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
How chimps teach their kids tool tricks
Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning.
Shadow electronic warfare runs on commercial chips to shield drones
Shadow EW uses commercial microchips, open architecture, and software updates to bring adaptable EW capabilities to small aircraft.
SaltyMeta: a curated benchmark and protein language model-informed web tool for salty peptide prediction
Excess sodium intake remains a major public health challenge, while salty and saltiness-enhancing peptides offer a potential route to preserve sensory saltiness in reduced-sodium foods. Machine-learning studies of salty peptides, however, are constrained by small datasets, heterogeneous evidence standards, uncertain negative labels, and sequence similarity leakage. Here we present SaltyMeta, a curated benchmark and web-accessible screening framework for salty or saltiness-enhancing short peptide
Source: Chargers signing Valdes-Scantling to practice squad
The Los Angeles Chargers, depleted at receiver after a loss to the Arizona Cardinals, are signing Marquez Valdes-Scantling, 31, to its practice squad, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, adding a veteran who was a 2018 fifth-round choice from USF.
Sarah Abo announces she is leaving Today, with new line-up expected soon
The journalist said she would not be returning from maternity leave.
Conformal Policy Learning with Distribution-Free Safety Guarantees
Policy learning aims to determine who should be treated based on individual characteristics. In high-stakes settings such as medicine and public policy where safety is a central concern, improving the average outcomes alone may not be sufficient: decision makers may also seek to protect individuals from harm, in line with the Hippocratic principle of ``do no harm.'' In this paper, we propose \textit{conformal policy learning} (CPL), a policy learning procedure with a new distribution-free safety
Resident Evil First Reactions Are Saying the Same Thing About Zach Cregger Horror
First reactions to Zach Cregger's Resident Evil are in from the world premiere, and critics are all saying the same thing.
Is There Anything Google’s Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do?
Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.
Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
An agentic society is a collection of AI agents that coordinate autonomously across trust boundaries, on behalf of different principals whose objectives may only partially align. We show experimentally that in agentic societies even honest, competent agents often fail to reach satisfactory outcomes with existing harnesses and messaging primitives, and that faulty or malicious agents can stall collaboration, influence outcomes, and pursue other harmful goals by exploiting vulnerabilities in commu
APOD: 2026 September 16 – Webb’s View of M64
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 16 –… 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. Hubble + WebbHubble Webb’s View of M64 Explanation: Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a nearby spiral galaxy of many names.
Only 1 in 5 Hispanic adults has ideal heart health, according to American Heart Association study
A new report from the American Heart Association is drawing attention to urgent cardiovascular health concerns among Hispanic adults in the U.S..
WSL Power Rankings: Manchester City remain at the top, Chelsea bounce back and Manchester United slip
Top teams and newly promoted sides made statements in a wild week of action
At least 10 dead, dozens missing in Gaza building collapse
At least 10 Palestinians are dead and up to 70 more are believed missing after a building collapsed in Gaza City.
Why retiring comfortably costs more now
Australians hoping to achieve even a comfortable retirement have been dealt a blow as cost-of-living pressures bite hard.
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski Break Up After 9 Years of Marriage
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski—who share daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5—have ended their relationship after nine years of marriage, the actors confirmed Sept. 15.
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
SoftBank CDS Hovers Near 3-Year High on OpenAI Funding Concerns
SoftBank Group Corp.’s credit default swaps hovered near a three-year high as traders assessed potential implications from funding plans for OpenAI, one of SoftBank’s biggest bets.
Vanilla Scotogenic Model at the future Muon Collider
The vanilla scotogenic model (VSM) featuring three right-handed neutrinos and an inert scalar doublet, offers a unified explanation of neutrino masses, dark matter (DM), and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through leptogenesis. The typical mass scale of such a scenario lies in the vicinity of $\sim$ 10 TeV and above, whereas enhanced second-generation Yukawa couplings lower the leptogenesis scale to $\sim 1$ \TeV, allowing the model to be probed at the future muon colliders. Adhering to DM,
Graphlets as structural fingerprints of complex networks
Complex networks are often compared using selected graph-theoretical measures that capture a selected set of properties with effects ranging from local to global, such as degree, clustering or betweenness centrality. Here we introduce a structural fingerprinting framework based on graphlets: small rooted subgraphs whose distributions provide a systematic description of local-to-mesoscale topology. Across synthetic networks generated from several random graph models, graphlet fingerprints capture
New Jersey Devils sign Luke Evangelista to 5-year extension
The New Jersey Devils signed forward Luke Evangelista, 24, to a five-year contract extension on Tuesday night, securing his place among the club's deep forward group after he was acquired from the Nashville Predators earlier this month for draft picks.
Republican forces Congress to hold impeachment vote for Pete Hegseth
United States Representative Thomas Massie is forcing fellow Republicans to vote whether to impeach Secretary of Defense
Korean Air-Asiana Merger Clears Final Hurdle, Paving Way for Top 10 Airline
The last administrative obstacle to the merger of Korean Air and Asiana Airlines has been removed, paving the way for the launch of a major airline ranking amo
Jason Pours His Heart Out After Britt Break up in General Hospital Spoilers Video
The recent spoilers video of the General Hospital showcase shows Jason pouring his heart out after Britt's breakup.
Senate Votes to Block Crypto Bill in Major Blow to the Industry
The landmark legislation, known as the Clarity Act, stalled in the Senate as Democrats raised concerns about President Trump’s personal investments in crypto.
Hong Kong’s data centre ambitions face US$2.6 billion funding test
As North American investors pull back, the city increasingly relies on mainland Chinese demand Read more at The Business Times.
Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques
Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed "David Greybeard" break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, researchers following in her footsteps have found that adult chimpanzees in Senegal literally hand youngsters the tools for learning.
GLP-1 drug slows aging in mice | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
These include reduced risks of cardiovascular, kidney, liver, and neurodegenerative diseases. But not all of these effects can be explained by weight ...
Capitals re-sign Ryan Leonard to 8-year, $84 million extension
The Washington Capitals have re-signed forward Ryan Leonard to an eight-year, $84 million contract extension, the team announced Tuesday.
US plans $2.8 bln sale of heavy aerial bombs to Israel — newspaper
An article in The Washington Post explained that the deal was planned to be implemented through the Foreign Military Financing mechanism, which provides grants and loans to help other countries buy American weapons
An Integrative Multidimensional Conceptualization of Telework Behavior: A Systematic Review and Grounded Theory Approach
Telework has expanded rapidly, and understanding the behaviors employees enact under it has become correspondingly important. This study develops an integrative conceptual framework specifying the multidimensional nature of telework behavior. A systematic literature review following PRISMA identified 114 review articles, which were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory. Six behavioral dimensions were identified, covering performance, communication, environmental, task, policy, and well-b
'Slow Horses' Season 6 Episode Release Schedule
Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb and his crew of MI5 misfits are back for more misadventures. Here is how to watch "Slow Horses" Season 6.
Two Chinese Firms Used Binance to Launder Iranian Oil Money, US Says
Federal prosecutors said proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil flowed through Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, to finance terrorism.
Anthropic to open Singapore office, its 5th in APAC
Anthropic said it already has offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Sydney.
The chemistry of embrittlement: How hydrogen dwindles cohesion in iron during fracture
Normally strong and tough, steel$\unicode{x2014}$with iron as its base$\unicode{x2014}$falls prey to severe embrittlement when infiltrated by hydrogen; the insights into why are not well understood. This work explores how hydrogen affects bond strength in iron during fracture and why it reduces cohesion between fracture surfaces, laying bare the central role of electrostatic repulsion.
Do you feel guilty when calling in sick at work? This might be why...
As many as half of people report working when sick. The reasons for this are complex, experts say.
Red Sox shut down Justin Slaten; Garrett Crochet progresses
Justin Slaten likely will miss the rest of the season after being on the injured list the past month because of right elbow inflammation. Garrett Crochet threw about 30 pitches as he continues to progress.
Seoul court orders North Korea to pay $32.5m for blowing up office
Pyongyang blew up the Inter-Korean Liaison Office building in June 2020 after days of rising tensions.
Mapping AI Economic Complexity
Green economic complexity provides a generalizable framework for examining countries' productive capabilities in a defined product set. We apply this framework to AI-enabling goods within the full product space, linking current specialization with adjacent diversification opportunities. Using BACI exports for 2007-2023 and 103 AI-enabling goods, we measure complexity-weighted specialization (AECI), product-level adjacent opportunities (AIAP), and average complexity-weighted relatedness of remain
AOC Says the Real Problem in Ed Sheeran-Macklemore Fallout Is Stadium Owners' Censorship: ‘Not Just About One Artist’
AOC is weighing in on the fallout from Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour over his pro-Palestinian comments.