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Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown - Slashdot
Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that ...
Cross-sector generalization of accident-process role classification in occupational accident narratives
Occupational accident narratives contain valuable information about work situations, unfavourable conditions, accident events, and their consequences. Automatically structuring these narratives can facilitate large-scale accident analysis and support occupational risk prevention. However, the terminology and writing styles used to describe accidents vary considerably across sectors and organisations, raising questions about the ability of automated coding systems to generalize beyond their train
Y chromosome loss could be the first sign of cancer
As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet. Just ask any cell with a pair of X chromosomes if it feels overly bothered by that trivial loss of DNA.
BrainWideBench: Benchmarking large-scale pretraining and across-animal transfer in multi-region neural recordings
Advances in large-scale neural recording have made it possible to collect data across many animals and distributed brain regions, raising the question of whether this scale can be exploited to learn general-purpose neural representations transferable across diverse downstream tasks. Yet, progress toward this goal has been limited by fragmented evaluation protocols and a narrow focus on individual task domains. Here, we present BrainWideBench, a benchmark for evaluating across-animal transfer on
Lisa Leslie statue unveiled on Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena
WNBA trailblazer Lisa Leslie became the 16th person -- and first Sparks player -- honored with a statue in what's become known as Star Plaza outside Crypto.com Arena.
Massive explosions at Syrian army weapons depot near Aleppo
Explosions rocked a Syrian army ammunition depot south of Aleppo, injuring at least four people.
Refurbished vs. new tech: Which gear is safe to buy used (and what to avoid)
The tech industry wants you to believe that every device must be unboxed fresh from the factory floor. But for practical professionals, buying certified refurbished hardware is the easiest way to pocket a 40%-60% discount without sacrificing performance. The catch? “Refurbished” products cover a wide spectrum. On one end, you have manufacturer-certified enterprise gear meticulously restored to like-new performance and backed by a solid warranty. On the other, you have a mystery bo
BBC removes That Mitchell and Webb show scenes that 'no longer works'
The broadcaster has been accused of ‘classic overkill’ after it removed 11 sketches from the comedy duo's BAFTA-winning television show amid concerns of racism and racial stereotyping
T. Rowe Fund Targets Chinese Winners of Booming AI Supply Chain
A top-performing T. Rowe Price fund is ramping up bets on Greater China companies lower down the AI supply chain, betting the region’s investment cycle still has room to catch up with global trends.
Oppo Pad 5 review: Genuine contender, or just another iPad clone?
Oppo's mid-level tablet is a pretty safe bet
Resurrecting Electroweak Dark Matter via Type-II Seesaw in light of recent LZ Event
The recent observation of the high-energy nuclear recoil event LZ230616 with a recoil energy around 248 keV provides an interesting possibility to probe inelastic doublet dark matter (iDM). However, the electroweak doublet DM scenarios face strong constraints from solar DM capture for DM masses around the TeV scale which give rise to correct thermal relic density. In this work, we revive the inelastic doublet DM (iDM) scenario via type-II seesaw. In particular, we consider an inert lepton double
Young people aren't snowflakes - mental distress is rising, says head of official review
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
Fantasy Baseball Week 27 Preview: Top 10 sleeper hitters include Henry Bolte, A.J. Ewing
Scott White highlights 10 Week 27 sleeper hitters, with the Diamondbacks, Blue Jays and White Sox boasting the best matchups
Imran Khan’s family says three sisters detained ahead of Islamabad march
Imran Khan’s family says three of his sisters have been detained in Lahore ahead of a march demanding his release.
IIT-Bombay professor Suryanarayana Doolla, who faces SC/ST Act FIR in Sahil Wakode case, has multiple teaching, research awards
IIT-Bombay professor Suryanarayana Doolla, who resigned after an FIR under the SC/ST Act in connection with the death by suicide of student Sahil Wakode, has received multiple teaching and research awards. Here's a look at his academic career, research work and administrative responsibilities.
The Odyssey Takes Down Yet Another Disney King With New Milestone
The Odyssey crosses $1.72 billion worldwide, dethroning a Disney giant at the global box office as it continues its record-breaking run.
Bessent Hails ‘Successful’ China Talks on AI, Trade
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described talks with his Chinese counterparts that spanned artificial intelligence, trade and investment as “very successful” ahead of this week’s summit between presidents of the world’s two biggest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle shares what we know. (Sourc
Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design
Professional graphic design is a long-horizon agentic task in which structured, editable artifacts emerge from many interdependent actions, yet outcomes admit no reliable programmatic oracle. We introduce a continual adaptation framework in which a frozen frontier model operates professional design software through more than 230 tools, while an external procedural memory of natural-language skills accumulates and refines reusable design procedures from experience. The memory widens by acquiring
APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 –… 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. Cocoon Nebula Wide Field Explanation: When does a nebula look like a comet?
Young people are not snowflakes, head of mental health review says
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Prof Fonagy says being young is much harder now than it was.
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Arsenal injury update: White, Mosquera and Saliba latest return dates
Arsenal have just over a fortnight to stew over a defeat to Brighton, with the only positive being some encouraging signs on the injury front.
Iran’s military says US preparing to resume strikes
Tehran threatens retaliation as Trump weighs military action while Qatar pushes to revive talks.
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[Opening Market] KOSPI Reclaims 6,930, Eying 7,000
On Sept. 21, the domestic stock market stepped up to challenge the 7,000 mark again, showing a slight recovery in risk asset appetite ahead of the upcoming Chu
Sweet Magnolias Stars And Creator Say Goodbye To Canceled Netflix Drama: 'I Hope Serenity Will Always Have A Place In Your Heart' - TVLine
The cast and creator of Sweet Magnolias are saying goodbye to Serenity — read their tributes to the canceled Netflix drama.
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
His family’s tech ventures grow as US President pushes faster AI development.
China’s Z.ai faces scrutiny after coding tool uploads local data
A developer said a 15-kilobyte project file was uploaded to Alibaba's cloud.
US proposes AI incident alert system in talks with China, Bessent says
The U.S. is proposing a new notification system with China for artificial intelligence incidents that could threaten national security.
High Reconstruction Quality and Restart Repeatability Do Not Guarantee Recovery of Ground-Truth Muscle Synergies
High reconstruction quality and agreement across repeated fits do not necessarily establish recovery of muscle synergies. We tested whether a variance-accounted-for (VAF)/elbow rule recovers the generating synergy count and spatial vectors, whether high restart repeatability indicates recovery, and how five design factors affect recovery. Non-negative matrix factorisation was applied to 4,320 synthetic 16-muscle datasets varying generating rank, noise, trial count, spatial similarity and activat
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
Before the count begins, all eyes will be on the red carpet. Follow our live coverage.
Mourinho fumes at referees in news conference after Madrid derby defeat
Fuming Real Madrid manager waves printouts of what he believes were clear red-card tackles by Atletico Madrid players.
Testing Conditional Stochastic Dominance via Copula Derivatives
Comparing two populations at the same physical covariate value requires more than conditional means or isolated target-point decisions: researchers may need evidence about an entire conditional-distribution ordering over a continuum, even when covariate margins differ. This paper makes that common-value comparison estimable under an explicit structure--flexibility tradeoff and turns the resulting surface into simultaneous evidence for first-order stochastic dominance. Population-specific margins
When Jaya Prada Recalled Dharmendra's Flirting On Set; Said Rajesh Khanna Would 'Come Very Late' To Shoot
The veteran actress also spoke about doing 5 shifts in a day.
Iran and China create first-of-their-kind autonomous AI influence campaigns
The campaigns caught the attention of U.S. intelligence, major tech companies and security experts.
Your Agents Should Have Names
Your Agents Should Have Names
Non-linear halo bias for accurate modelling of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
Halo models provide the standard framework for interpreting cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies and inferring the connection between dusty star-forming galaxies and their host dark matter halos. Recent studies have shown that inaccuracies in the modelling of halo clustering may bias the inferred parameters governing star formation in dark matter halos. In this work, we investigate whether a more detailed description of halo clustering can alleviate these shortcomings. We incorporate a
UK's first one-stop shop for dementia diagnosis and care opens on NHS
Experts say the 'game-changing' clinic offers a fully-integrated service that combines rapid assessment, prevention advice and personalised support.
Milan and Juventus end blips with home wins
FLORENCE (Italy), Sept 21 — AC Milan and Juventus ended short Serie A slides yesterday, as Fiorentina held Napoli and high-flying Como suffered a shock defeat to Frosinone.Milan...
Who actually has power at the United Nations?
Every country at the United Nations gets a vote. But five countries have a power the other 188 don’t.
The "Rough" HAR Model
This paper proposes discrete-time approximations to rough continuous-time models of realized variance (RV). The leading rough models can be viewed as autoregressive processes driven by fractional Gaussian noise. We show that the Wold representation of this noise concentrates its dependence at the first lag when the Hurst parameter is below one half. Augmenting the autoregressive (AR) and heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models with a first-order moving-average (MA(1)) component therefore appro
Who Killed Hal Jordan? Lanterns Fans Think They’ve Found His Killer
Lanterns fans debate who killed Hal Jordan after Episode 6 revealed his tragic fate, with suspects ranging from Sinestro to Noah.
Quote of the day by Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock: 'We're building a new species here' — an audacious vision to replace manual labor with humanoid AI
Physical AI is coming in the form of humanoid robots, but are we ready?
Robotics event shines light on Iranian girls’ tech dreams
TECH ARENA Iranian female students compete in a robotics challenge during the annual RoboCup event at Tehran’s Mosallah Mosque on Sept. 17. —Agence France-Presse TEHRAN — In a hall adorned
'Rusty treasure' find revealed as Europe's largest assemblage of prehistoric iron bars
Analysis of a "rusty treasure" excavated during industrial gravel extraction at Deinham, Austria, reveals it is the largest mass find of prehistoric iron bars in Europe, pointing to iron production and trade during the Iron Age on an unprecedented scale.
Commission’s industrial AI push has yet to accelerate
Von der Leyen's SOTEU speech teased 'game-changing' AI projects for areas targeted in 2025 strategy
Cover 32: Steelers offense is broken under Aaron Rodgers, plus games balls, biggest gaffes from Week 2
Tyler Sullivan dives into all the biggest items from Week 2 in the NFL, including Dak Prescott's record-setting day
Brownlow Medal 2026 red carpet LIVE updates: What to expect from AFL’s most fashionable event
Before the count begins, all eyes will be on the red carpet. Follow our live coverage.
Match forecasts in UEFA club competitions: Elo ratings versus Transfermarkt valuations
The pre-season strengths of European football clubs are usually measured by two proxies in the literature. Football Club Elo Ratings provide strictly performance-based Elo ratings from the early days of the European Cups, while Transfermarkt valuations are crowd-based estimates of squad market values. This paper compares them by evaluating their ability to forecast the results of matches played in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League between the seasons 2020/21 and 2024/25. The t
Presley Gerber, Cindy Crawford's son, dies aged 27
His family asked for privacy during a "very difficult and painful time" following the model's death.
First Came Space Force. Now Prepare For AI Force
Trump is forming a new "AI Force" and appointing an AI Czar to lead it.
Indiana man wants new trial in killing of teens where pagan ritual evidence can be introduced
A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed by unknown participants in a pa
Rare earth exposure during pregnancy linked to higher risk of low birthweight
A study of nearly 4,900 pregnant women in China has found an association between prenatal exposure to rare earth elements and an increased risk of low birthweight.
Pharma, patient groups want a slice of the EU budget
Brussels wants to merge several existing funds, including the EU's health programme
Olympic champion cyclist Evenepoel wins record 4th straight world time-trial title
MONTREAL, Sept 21 — Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel etched his name into the history books with a dominant fourth successive world time-trial victory in Montreal yesterday.The...
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ costing Amer
"Drug fight should begin from Mundra Port, not Punjab": says AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal stated the drug fight should start from Gujarat's Mundra Port. He reacted to BJP chief Nitin Nabin's remarks on Punjab's anti-drug campaign. Nabin launched a 13-day 'Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra' from Pathankot. The BJP's campaign aims to disrupt drug supply networks and aid rehabilitatio
Ke Huy Quan Says His $100,000 ‘Indiana Jones’ Residual Check Was ‘Life-Changing’ As a Child Actor: It ‘Didn’t Make Any Sense’
Ke Huy Quan shared in his new memoir "Never Say Die," which came out on Tuesday, the feeling of receiving his first residual check of $100,000
India’s Surprise Growth Market Is China But Trade Deficits Swell
India is selling more manufactured goods to China, with electronics emerging as a bright spot in a trade relationship that remains overwhelmingly tilted in Beijing’s favor.
MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments
We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual tool use, trained at 2B, 4B, and 8B scales. Through careful design of our environments, data, and training recipes, MintAct models match the performance of per-domain specialists across all of these capabilities. To enable this, we develop a scalable environment and reinforcement learning (RL) infrastructure. On the environment side, we host hundreds
'Rusty treasure' found in Danube has 2,000-year-old iron that could equip a whole army with weapons
Archaeologists in Austria have analyzed a collection of 500 iron bars that were likely lost in a Danube shipwreck 2,200 years ago.
Learning Cardiac Features: ECG Biometrics Across Time and~Exercise
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) carry subject-specific patterns enabling reliable individual discrimination, forming the basis of ECG biometrics. Beyond authentication, this paradigm holds significant potential to secure sensitive cardiac data and to serve as a pretext task in self-supervised learning. Yet, most studies remain confined to singlesession, resting data, leaving robustness to temporal and physiological variations largely untested. We address this gap by evaluating ECG biometrics under rea
Adam Liaw’s lamb sausage tagine
I’ve switched lamb pieces for lamb sausages for a quicker tagine that is both affordable and easy.
If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
iPhone now alerts you when someone calls your name: Here’s how to turn on this hidden Apple iOS 26 feature
iOS 26 features: Apple's innovative Name Recognition feature is designed to assist iPhone users by sending alerts when their name is mentioned. This accessibility tool actively listens for the user's name and provides notifications. Users have the option to teach their device the different ways thei
Guy Gardner Is Back! Nathan Fillion Breaks Down His ‘Lanterns’ Debut and Why He’s the DC Universe’s Main Throughline
DC Universe star Nation Fillion on his 'Lanterns' Episode 6 debut.