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OpenAI hires Cursor’s Europe chief, its second sales hire from SpaceX
OpenAI has hired Ismail Elmas, Cursor’s former Europe chief, to run EMEA sales from Munich, its second sales hire from SpaceX in a month.
Never Look Back: Understanding Persistence in 3D Object Memory from Egocentric Videos
As we move through the world and carry out everyday tasks, we encounter objects that may become relevant only later. We are capable of recalling where we left something or what was inside a container, even without knowing we would need it later. Here, we study how an embodied assistant can build a similar memory from egocentric videos, by observing a person's day-to-day activities. We present Ledger, a persistent 3D object memory that combines object locations, their histories, and contextual de
The most interesting mathematical discoveries in OpenAI's 722 new papers | New Scientist
OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics – here are some with the most potential
Biotech companies are struggling to navigate Trump’s new tariffs
Smaller biotech firms are trying to figure out how to win exemptions from Trump's import taxes.
Rays sweep Yankees; Dodgers head to NLCS; Does Cam Jurgens trade signal more changes for Eagles?
Plus, game-by-game picks for NFL Week 5 slate
Has Israel shut the UK consulate in East Jerusalem – or downgraded it?
British Foreign Secretary Miliband said the consulate building would remain but would be called 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
How is America feeling about the AI boom? This new poll reveals the data
Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing “too fast,” while 27% say its development has been “about right” and only 8% say it’s moving “too slow.”The risk that powerful AI mod
Fox Entertainment Global Keys on Content Creators, Microdramas With Diverse Mipcom Slate
Fox Entertainment Global Keys on Content Creators, Microdramas With Diverse Mipcom Slate.
China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
CVE-2026-107575 Progressive Robot hMailServer SPF Macro Expansion resource consumption
A weakness has been identified in Progressive Robot hMailServer up to 6.3.5. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-107575. The affected component should be upgraded.
Interface Doping Mechanism of p-Type Conductivity in Mist-CVD-Grown LiGa5O8 Thin Films
LiGa5O8 is an ultrawide-bandgap oxide semiconductor that has recently been experimentally demonstrated to exhibit p-type conductivity; however, the origin of the observed p-type transport remains poorly understood. In this work, we investigate the origin of p-type conductivity by systematically comparing the electrical, compositional, and structural properties of mist chemical vapor deposition (mist-CVD) grown LiGa5O8 thin films exhibiting either p-type conductivity or insulating behavior under
Prostate cancer cases hit RECORD high as rates jump 7%
The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in England surged by almost 4,000 in just one year, a major national audit has found.
Missouri State vs. Western Kentucky CFB odds Thursday: Hilltoppers should end 4-game skid against FBS foes
Missouri State visits Western Kentucky in Conference USA action on CBS Sports Network on Thursday
Rubio praises nationalism and ties ‘America First’ values to ancient Greece
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Western nations to prioritise their own interests in a speech in Athens.
We’re placing the wrong bets on innovation
I became a social entrepreneur at 14, working in partnership with other students to make our high school a more welcoming home to students with disabilities. We saw what the adults did not: Bullying and harassment could not be wished away with detentions and scoldings. The change required students standing up for one another, changing our school culture one relationship at a time. For more than 30 years I have supported over a million young people working to change the world. From a water fil
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
5 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Don’t pay more at the door for your pass
The global tech ecosystem gathers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 13-15. Get your pass now to save up to $100. Get a second of the same ticket type to save 50%.
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Investors bullish on AI data centers may be fueling Nvidia’s multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization, but the AI chipmaker has also bet billions of dollars on physical AI technologies such as robotics and self-driving cars. Part of that gambit has involved Nvidia developing a full-stack safety system that companies can build upon to reduce the risk of their machines harming nearby people. Nvidia's Halos system launched in 2025 with hardware and software tools to help developers implement guardrails in self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles.
Whoops! Scientists Might Have Had the Origin of Animals All Wrong.
Molecular clocks push the dawn of animal life back to a frozen world 800 million years ago.
Which nut is the healthiest?
Nuts have long had a reputation as diet wreckers - too fatty, too calorific, too moreish. But Gabriela Peacock, nutritionist to the royals, is turning that idea on its head.
Cowboys vs. Buccaneers odds, picks, prediction: Best bets, top player props for Week 5 Thursday Night Football
Back the Over in Arlington as Dak Prescott faces a winless Tampa Bay squad, plus lock in player props and anytime touchdown picks for Thursday night
US scientist’s children erupt in joy after hearing he won Nobel
Video shows US scientist Karl Deisseroth breaking the news to his son and two daughters that he won the Nobel Prize.
ParaZero receives order for DefendAir Net Pods (PRZO:NASDAQ)
ParaZero (PRZO) lands first order for DefendAir Net Pods to enhance drone interception with non-explosive nets.
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Falcon' Sets Sales, Louis Garrel As John Elkann
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Falcon' Sets Sales & Announces Louis Garrel In Role Of Fiat Boss John Elkann
‘I saved over the last five days $3,105’: Zendesk CEO on Meta’s Muse
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier told TNW the company will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, up from about zero two years ago.
A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
In July 2010, US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) predicted the rise of prediction markets and the problems they could cause.
Constraints on Primordial Oscillatory Features from the Power Spectrum and Bispectrum of Redshift-Space Galaxy Clustering in DESI DR1
We constrain oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum using the public DESI DR1 galaxy and quasar clustering data. Our analysis is based on a custom pipeline for the redshift-space power spectrum and bispectrum of the six main DESI DR1 tracers, modeled with the Lagrangian effective field theory,which provides a principled resummation of the non-linear damping of the features. We consider oscillations that are linear and logarithmic in wavenumber, and, for the first time, consistentl
Structure alone supports efficient visual computation in the Drosophila visual system
Understanding the extent to which measured synaptic wiring determines computation remains a central challenge. Here, we couple the proofread adult Drosophila melanogaster connectome to an anatomically faithful model of its eye. Visual information is inputted in the eye model, then passed to the connectome, and finally read from a Kenyon-cell-centered linear decoder. This creates a connectome-only model in which the anatomical graph and eye geometry are fixed and only scalar synaptic gains and ne
Missouri freshman DJ Jones receives heart transplant after team health staff flagged issue
The Tigers' top recruit has been hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Florida after team medical staff flagged an issue during standard freshman intake
Two killed after building partially collapses in Turkiye’s Istanbul
Eight survivors rescued from the rubble as fears of further collapse slow operations in Istanbul’s Maltepe district.
Microsoft Xbox broadens entertainment push with new XP division
Microsoft Xbox broadens entertainment push with new XP division
Slow Horses and EastEnders favourites star in first-look images for new "feel-good" chocolate empire drama
Period drama The Cadburys will air in 2027.
Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2026: Best Deals on OnePlus Smartphones
OnePlus Nord-series smartphones and the premium OnePlus 15-series models are discounted in the Amazon Great Indian Festival 2026 sale.
Video. Manny Pacquiao hosts Polish president Karol Nawrocki for Manila boxing workout
Video. Polish President Karol Nawrocki trains in Manila with boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, who now leads the Philippines’ National Anti-Poverty Commission.
Feedback to the primary visual cortex is highly concentrated on the central visual field representation
Retrograde tracer injections in marmoset monkeys revealed a striking feature of neural circuitry in primate visual system: among neurons projecting to the primary visual cortex (striate cortex, V1), the proportion of extrastriate feedback neurons relative to thalamic feedforward neurons decreases markedly with visual field eccentricity. This supports the Central-Peripheral Dichotomy theory, which proposes fundamentally distinct computational specializations --- visual recognition and attentional
Ranking all 32 NFL teams into tiers: 49ers among the elite, but some teams not as good as they seem
Plus, the Rams still sit among the NFL's best despite slow start, and two squads sit at the very bottom of the barrel
Hegseth address sailors in pushup apology and Trump impression
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did a ‘two pushup’ forfeit after factual errors addressing US sailors.
‘I Am Jane Doe’ protests are taking place nationwide today as movement spreads in the wake of Cornell lawsuit
“I am Jane Doe.” For weeks, that rallying cry has permeated social media as people have spoken out in support of Cornell University’s Jane Doe, who sued the university, Chi Phi fraternity, and seven of its members for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her. Today (Thursday, October 8), the movement is expanding with nationwide “I am Jane Doe” protests planned. Over 150 events are expected to take place under the banner “#StopSexualViolence: From the Frat House
Daredevil’s Shocking Cancellation Gets Unsurprising Reply From Born Again Star
Daredevil: Born Again's Mr. Charles actor reacts to the show's Season 3 cancellation and teases his character's unfinished arc.
Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders | TechCrunch
Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
CVE-2026-107583 Progressive Robot hMailServer Message View information disclosure
A security vulnerability has been detected in Progressive Robot hMailServer up to 6.3.5. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-107583. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.
Magnetic Order from First-Principles Linear Response
The magnetic order of a material is usually predicted by comparing the energies of trial spin configurations, a strategy that cannot reach orders outside the chosen set and rapidly becomes intractable as the number of magnetic sites grows. We show that the order can instead be identified directly from the paramagnetic state: the leading eigenmodes of its self-consistent magnetization response, obtained with spin--orbit coupling at arbitrary wavevector within the primitive cell, determine both th
Meet Nicole Kidman’s daughter, Faith Margaret, who was at Chanel’s SS27 show
The youngest child of the Practical Magic 2 actress turned heads at Paris Fashion Week, where her sibling, Sunday Rose, walked the Miu Miu runway.
Cowboys vs. Buccaneers prediction, odds, time: Week 5 'Thursday Night Football' picks from advanced model
SportsLine's model has revealed its Tampa Bay vs. Dallas picks for 'Thursday Night Football' in Week 5 with Baker Mayfield (thumb) still out for Tampa Bay
South Korea to recall Ukraine envoy in diplomatic row over POWs
South Korea recalls envoy from Kyiv amid diplomatic tensions over alleged transfer of North Korean soldiers to Seoul.
JPM sees software rally extending, favors Microsoft, ServiceNow, Snowflake
JPM sees software rally extending, favors Microsoft, ServiceNow, Snowflake
Sony’s $169M Horror Hit Is Instantly No. 2 on Digital Streaming
Sony’s $169M horror hit quickly climbs to No. 2 on digital charts after a successful theatrical run and strong fan response.
JPMorgan Private Bank Says AI Set to Drive Strong Earnings
Nataliia Lipikhina, head of EMEA equity strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, discusses how artificial intelligence continues to underpin global equity markets, particularly the tech sector. "I think the market comes to realization that actually the AI story continues," she tells Bloomberg Television.
Tetris3D: 3D Scene Generation With Objects That Fit Together
We propose Tetris3D, a generative framework for single-image 3D scene reconstruction that recovers objects which are physically and geometrically coherent as a scene. Existing methods often generate objects independently or couple them implicitly, providing limited guidance for ensuring fine-grained spatial compatibility between neighboring objects that interact with one another. To address this, we explicitly condition the generation of each object on the geometry of surrounding objects and the
Residents airlifted to safety in central Chile as El Niño blamed for torrential rains
The Mapocho river has burst its banks after an unusually large amount of rain fell in recent days.
Do Generative Priors Align with Human Naturalness Perception?
Visual generative models are trained to capture the probability distributions of natural images, yet whether their native priors reflect the regularities governing human perception of image naturalness remains an open question. Here, we probe these priors through native prediction errors across 25 open image and video generators. Because raw single-image losses are dominated by scene content and visual complexity, we evaluate directional loss differences using content-preserving, paired relation
The Yankees' modern failures were on full display as their season fittingly ends with sweep
The Rays swept the Yankees in the 2026 ALDS, and there was a sense of inevitability in the Bronx on Wednesday night
UK’s Burnham ‘open’ to Germany joining GCAP fighter jet programme
GCAP pact between the UK, Italy and Japan to build a new fighter jet welcomed Canada as an ‘observer' in July
American Express just revealed its biggest airport lounge expansion ever
American Express is making another big bet on airport lounges, and its next expansion includes what will become the largest Centurion Lounge in its network. The company announced plans to open new Centurion Lounges at Newark Liberty International Airport and London Heathrow on Thursday, along with plans to significantly expand its existing spaces in the Philadelphia and Houston airports. American Express (Amex) is calling it the largest expansion of the Centurion Lounge network to date.
Actor Simon Pegg reveals ADHD diagnosis: 'It's just who I am'
The Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible films star had previously put symptoms down to "character fault".
Here’s an idea to help workers displaced by AI
An influential think tank suggests how to pay for higher unemployment benefits in an era of workforce anxiety.
Decoupling Exploration from Optimization in RLVR
Modern language models undergo reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on top of already-trained checkpoints. A key promise of RLVR is the discovery of new reasoning strategies. In principle, a model can sample novel ideas absent from its prior training data. In practice, however, augmenting RLVR with strong novelty incentives has seen limited success and can degrade model quality. Because verifiable rewards supervise only a narrow slice of the model's knowledge and behavior, such
Could humans live up to 194 years? Scientists find a possible biological limit
DNA mutations that accumulate in cells over a lifetime? A new mathematical study suggests that even in that highly theoretical situation, human longevity could still have a limit.
"Ominous signs" of winter pressures as NHS waiting list grows
NHS winter pressures appear to be building already, with rises in waiting times for planned surgery.
Why Rulani will be happy if Sundowns or Pirates win MTN8 | The Citizen
'It is very hard to decide who will win but whoever does I will be very happy,' said the former Pirates and Sundowns coach.
French PM vows changes as students keep up school protests
French PM Sebastien Lecornu has promised to address student concerns as protests force hundreds of schools to close.
Trump’s Lake America controversy is driving interest to these Google Maps alternatives
Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to.After President Donald Trump ordered a new name for Lake Ontario, the two U.S. tech giants quickly fell in line, relabeling the body of water on their digital maps.The move sparked a backlash among some users, already unhappy with the companies’ decisions to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on their maps following a previous Trump edict.The controversy and lingering worries abou
Gaten Matarazzo on life after Stranger Things as he makes West End debut
The actor opens up about finding his way in the West End as he makes his debut in a revival of Rent.