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EY revenue hits $57b, AI services up 49%
The firm said revenue from AI services rose 49% in FY2026.
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
High-flying executives from across the world jetted in to the AI inquiry but the most startling revelations came from ordinary Australians.
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI's annualized revenue is much lower than believed - SiliconANGLE
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI's annualized revenue is much lower than believed - SiliconANGLE
Gifts from big pharma influence doctors' prescriptions, study claims
The amount of gifts and free dinners doctors receive from Big Pharma may influence how many prescriptions they dole out, a sweeping review has found.
BREAKING: CSK pacer and veteran batter ruled out of NZ vs IND 2026 T20Is due to injury
New Zealand has been dealt a massive blow as two key players have been ruled out of the upcoming five-match home T20I series against India due to injury.
Brazilian Supreme Court judge issues arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro
Arrest warrant for presidential candidate's brother is issued weeks before Brazil's runoff election.
The Myth of Restrictive Working-Time Agreements: Firms' Working-Time Adjustment after Exit from Collective Bargaining
Employers in Germany argue that collective agreements restrict their flexibility concerning working hours. Using data from the IAB Establishment Panel for the years 2008 to 2024, we investigate working-time adjustments after exit from collective bargaining. We find that exit is associated with only a modest increase in weekly working hours of around 0.3 to 0.6 per cent using fixed-effects and event-study models, corresponding to eight to thirteen additional minutes per week. This adjustment occu
Who is Papa Legba? ‘American Horror Story’ 13 Episode 8 ending explained as witches prepare to stop Satan
Theories suggest Mallory’s time powers and Ben’s 616 mark could help stop Satan in ‘American Horror Story’ Season 13
Lenovo AI Express Aims To Cut AI Factory Deployment To Just 15 Days
Lenovo AI Express is a new quick-start program that cuts AI infrastructure order-to-ship times to 15 business days with validated, right-sized configurations.
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2026: Best Laptops Under Rs. 1 Lakh
These laptops are ideal for casual, work-from-home and multimedia use
Cosmic topology. Part IId. Eigenmodes and correlation matrices of lens spaces
The global topology of the Universe is a longstanding open question. In this work, we examine the statistical signatures of a positively curved universe with a Friedmann--Lemaitre--Robertson--Walker metric and the topology of a lens space $L(p,q)$. Since these manifolds are generally statistically anisotropic and inhomogeneous, their cosmic microwave background (CMB) covariance matrices contain non-zero off-diagonal entries that depend on observer location. We compute these full harmonic-space c
Lyapunov spectrum of random neural networks
The Lyapunov spectrum of a nonlinear recurrent neural network with random asymmetric couplings is calculated in the limit $N\to\infty$. The calculation is based on a finite-$N$ identity that expresses the cumulative distribution of Lyapunov exponents as a response function of the tangent-space dynamics, with the tangent trajectory selected by a minimum-norm condition rather than by an initial condition. A cavity method then determines this response function at large $N$ through a self-consistent
Is Greece v Lionesses on TV? Channel, kick-off time and how to watch World Cup play-off
England travel to Greece for the first leg of their qualifying play-off for the 2027 Women’s World Cup
Trump says US will not strike Iran before midterm elections
Oil prices drop as Trump dismisses speculation of pre-midterm military action against Iran.
AI notetakers are ruining decision-making
Every generation of leaders has been judged on their decisions. Ours may be the first judged on every draft, discussion, hesitation, and deleted comment that preceded them. Leadership has always required making imperfect decisions with incomplete information. What has changed is that every aspect of the decision-making process is now recorded and stored indefinitely. All our collaboration tools such as emails, Slack posts, meeting notes, and AI Copilot logs preserve every detail of our delibe
Music group with learning difficulties fulfils late MP's Broadway dream
The Music Man Project is a charity in Essex that teaches music to people with learning disabilities.
GitHub - grandimam/wy: Understand why AI wrote your code the way it did.
Understand why AI wrote your code the way it did. Contribute to grandimam/wy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration
While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods predominantly imitate demonstrated motions. Such strict motion matching often limits generalization to initial object poses, goal poses, and grasps not shown in the video. Alternatively, discovering a policy via reinforcement learning (RL) allows for broad generalization, but without prior guidance, it struggles with high-dimensional exploration in co
QatarEnergy eyes LNG production in early 2027 amid $3bn loan reports
QatarEnergy is advancing its LNG expansion and has reportedly secured a $3 billion (€2.68bn) loan from Chinese banks as war damage and shipping risks constrain exports. Shipments through Hormuz are recovering, but remain far below pre-war levels.
La-Ribo: RNA Co-Design via Geometry-Latent Flow Matching
RNA function arises from the coupling of nucleotide sequence and three-dimensional structure, motivating their joint design. Coordinating global folding with nucleotide-level detail remains challenging under limited structural supervision. We introduce La-Ribo, a generative framework for RNA sequence-structure co-design via geometry-latent flow matching. La-Ribo retains a sparse phosphate-sugar--base scaffold and encodes nucleotide identity and local conformation in residue-wise latents. A share
“We are at a crossroads” - Former India wicket-keeper's huge remark after Ajit Agarkar's exit from selection committee ahead of NZ vs IND 2026 series
Former wicketkeeper-batter Deep Dasgupta believes Indian cricket is at a crucial juncture and needs clear communication among its key decision-makers.
Singapore man allegedly linked to investment scheme involving gamblers charged; over S$2.2mil losses caused
SINGAPORE: A man allegedly involved in cheating cases linked to more than S$2.2 million in losses was handed three charges on Friday (Oct 9).
This advice from Tom Hanks changed how I work
I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks. I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s futuristic gizmos. It’s heavy and impractical. It has no connection to the internet, no delete key, no spell check. You can’t use artificial intelligence to write on it. I wanted to enlist the typewriter as the symbol of an analog experience
Miss Universe factions clash over 2027 host country claims
Nawat Itsaragrisil (left) and Raul Rocha in happier times/MISS UNIVERSE THAILAND INSTAGRAM Filipino pageant fans woke up to news that the 76th Miss Universe edition will be hosted in Vietnam next
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
Rubric-CEPR: Self-Evolving Image Editing via Reward-Verified Self-Distillation
Instruction-guided image editors have become highly capable, yet improving them further still depends on human-edited training pairs or external reward models. Such supervision is costly to obtain and can reward plausible failures: a realistic output may leave the requested change undone or alter content that should be preserved. In this work, we strive to improve a pretrained image editor using only its own generations, without human-edited targets or an external training-time reward model. To
Floodwaters Overwhelm Thailand
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report and ...
The review was commissioned in response to growing public discussion around mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, alongside increasing ...
Guardians erupt in sixth inning to stun White Sox in Game 4 of ALDS, force deciding Game 5
The Guardians have taken both games in Chicago after trailing 2-0 in the best-of-five ALDS
Diggers Rest
An estimated 4000 tonnes of construction rubble was brazenly dumped on Suji An's property by her former tenants.
The Panel Information Matrix Test
The Information Matrix (IM) test is a natural specification check for likelihood-based models, yet cross-sectional implementations are often badly sized, confound neglected heterogeneity with distributional misspecification, and require third derivatives. We develop the panel information matrix (PIM) test for models with fixed effects. Explicit fixed effects isolate functional-form misspecification from time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Although the profile maximum likelihood estimator in
Thai Actor Apologises to Indian Fans Over ‘Bollywood Hero’ Stereotypes: 'Had No Intention of Mocking Any Race’
Thai actor Fourth Nattawat has apologised to Indian fans after facing backlash for using exaggerated gestures and stereotypes to guess Bollywood Hero on a game show.
A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance
CVE-2026-87109 Ops Manager Sensitive MFA Enrollment Information Exposure in User Listings
An authenticated Ops Manager organization member can retrieve another member's pending authenticator enrollment seed through user-listing endpoints while that member's enrollment is unconfirmed. This results in disclosure of secret authentication material to another member of the same organization o
Are eurozone bond markets warning of a recession as growth slows?
Eurostat's cycle clock, which tracks the economy's phases, flags a sharp slowdown in the eurozone. Bond markets highlight French fiscal stress, sticky inflation and ECB hikes. But that could shift soon.
Mental health and ADHD diagnosis can cause harm, says official review - Financial Times
Diagnosing people with mental health problems or ADHD can limit their lives, according to a government-commissioned review that recommends UK ...
Russini makes desperate move to salvage career after Vrabel scandal
Dianna Russini resigned from her position at The Athletic, in April, shortly after photos surfaced of her at an adults-only Arizona resort with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.
From Aden to Sanaa, Yemenis struggle to deal with soaring living costs
As fighting intensifies, Yemenis face a deepening economic crisis, with unpaid salaries and rising prices.
IT Ministry flags misleading protest content, tells social media platforms to act on official complaints
The government has issued an advisory to social media platforms regarding unlawful content about ongoing protests. Large social media firms must prioritize addressing concerns raised by authorized bodies and law enforcement agencies. Content that is misleading or manipulated must be labeled to preve
Annecy Sci-Fi Animation ‘Pilgrims,’ From ‘Japan Sinks: 2020’ Director Heo Pyoungkang, Lands at EST N8 (EXCLUSIVE)
Heo Pyoungkang’s ‘Pilgrims,’ adapted from Kim Choyeop, is EST N8’s first animated title and launches sales at Busan’s ACFM.
Elastic's AlertZero puts AI agents to work on security alert overload - SiliconANGLE
Elastic's AlertZero puts AI agents to work on security alert overload - SiliconANGLE
DreamTrue: Action-Faithful Robot World Model with Counterfactual Post-Training
We present DreamTrue, a multi-view, cross-embodiment robot world model for action-faithful and physically plausible video prediction. Training such a model on existing robot datasets faces two obstacles: imprecise calibration can impair action following, while limited coverage of unsuccessful interactions can bias predictions toward successful outcomes. To improve action following across embodiments, we render action trajectories into image-space conditions and introduce offline geometric calibr
A scalar-extended ${\rm U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}}$ explanation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV excess
The recently observed dark matter (DM) nuclear recoil event at an energy of $248 \pm 23\,(\text{stat.}) \pm 23\,(\text{syst.})\,\text{keV}$ at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, favoring an inelastic scattering interpretation, has motivated various beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios aimed at explaining the observed excess. In particular, this provides an opportunity to probe models that naturally accommodate inelastic DM scattering. In this work, we explore one such possibility by extending
Johns Hopkins Medicine Experts Share Strategies to Defeat Common Respiratory Viruses
Similar to other viruses, vaccine types and dosing may vary based on a person's age, their underlying health conditions, risks for severe illness and ...
"I have spoken to the selectors" - Former India opener's huge claim on Mohammad Shami's potential return for NZ vs IND 2026 series
Ahead of India's upcoming tour of New Zealand, former opener Aakash Chopra has claimed that Mohammad Shami wouldn't return to the Men in Blue lineup, much like Bhuvneshwar Kumar, just because Ajit Aga
Primary school teacher accused of filming more than 350 children
Timothy Blamires, a Victorian teacher arrested in April, has been hit with 11 new charges after the number of alleged victims and incidents grew.
Microfinance Competition in the Presence of Moneylenders: Theory and Evidence
After decades of microfinance expansion and despite charging higher interest rates, moneylenders continue to exist alongside microfinance institutions (MFIs). We develop a dynamic model with ex post moral hazard, in which borrowers use MFI loans for production and can rely on moneylenders for bridge loans after shocks to repay MFIs and preserve future access to MFI credit. We then study how MFI competition shapes the coexistence between MFIs and moneylenders. The effect of competition on MFI cre
What happened to Maxim Naumov’s parents? ‘Special Forces’ contestant breaks down recounting deadly plane crash
The Olympian recalled his last conversation with his parents and how he felt ‘bittersweet’ during the Olympics.
Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk - Engadget
After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.
Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them is—or used to be—a lengthy, laborious process, which is a major reason automotive lighting technology has lagged in the US.
Norwich data centre raises fears of noise and wildlife impact
The data centre, which will have 72 chiller units on its roof, will generate 150 jobs, planners hear.
Sexual assault survivors’ stories may shift over time – a psychologist explains why it doesn’t mean they’re lying
The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
Why Manchester United vs Tottenham is more than just a battle of Premier League underachievers
Manchester United return to Premier League action with a foreboding fixture list ahead of them and an even more daunting list of problems, making Saturday’s clash with Tottenham all the more significant
How October 7 changed Lebanon and Hezbollah’s political reality
Analysts say Hezbollah's decision on October 8 to join a 'war of support' for Gaza changed Lebanon's political reality.
ASX Runners of the Week: Alvo, Pioneer Minerals & Dalaroo
The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is... Alvo Minerals, which soared 257% on its promising heavy rare earths grades and a potential game-changing processing route for its Brazilian project.
Law & Order Takes On AI Gone Murderously Awry In Season 26 Premiere — Read Recap And Grade The Ep - TVLine
The team took on Artificial Intelligence in the Season 26 opener. Find out who came out on top!
Personal AI Agents Are Great—Until They Share Your Bank Statement in the Work Chat
These hyperactive helpers can sometimes overshare, overpromise and overpurchase.
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
High-flying executives from across the world jetted in to the AI inquiry but the most startling revelations came from ordinary Australians.
APOD: 2026 October 9 – Stickney Crater
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 9… 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. Stickney Crater Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall.
Neural Decoding as Cognitive Inference
The brain maintains stable cognition despite continuously changing neural activity. How to extract stable cognitive states from variable neural observations remains a central problem in neural decoding. Existing neural decoding methods map neural observations to predefined external labels based on the stimulus-response principle, often capturing recording-specific spurious correlations. Inspired by how the brain infers the world, and specifically by Bayesian brain theory, we recast neural decodi
Week 5 Fantasy Football Injuries: Uncertainty rules for Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and many others on Thursday
Fantasy managers will have to pay close attention this week because there are an inordinate number of unknowns on Thursday
Afghanistan’s emerald miners struggle with tools but attract global buyers
Afghan miners endure harsh conditions, relying on basic tools to extract precious emeralds in Panjshir's steep valleys.
Bladex: A Capital-Light Shift With More Room To Run (NYSE:BLX)
Bladex is executing a capital-light, fee-driven strategy, supporting mid-teens ROE and attractive risk-adjusted returns for Latin America-focused investors. I rate BLX stock a buy.
Olivia Colman on viral Wicker memes: 'This has never happened to me before'
Steamy jokes have flooded social media ahead of the release of the actress's latest film.