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CVE-2026-104001
The The Slim SEO – AI SEO Plugin, Lightweight, Fast & Automated plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.11.1 This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running dosh
Which Tokens to Merge? Diffusion Dynamics for Efficient Image Generation
Token merging has emerged as an effective training-free strategy for accelerating diffusion models by reducing redundant token computation while minimizing generation degradation. A key challenge is determining which tokens can be safely merged and which should be preserved for subsequent computation. Existing method addresses this by preserving prompt-aligned foreground regions, thereby protecting semantically relevant structures. However, this text-relevance criterion overlooks background obje
Elon Musk showcases 'flying car' Tesla Roadster at SpaceX facility
In a a product reveal staged at a SpaceX rocket development facility, Elon Musk showcased a prototype of the long-delayed Tesla Roadster.
Stratford teen's death inspires mum's drive for earlier rare cancer diagnosis
Hannah York hopes new guidance will help doctors spot signs of soft tissue sarcomas sooner.
Defense bails out Broncos in OT win as Nix, offense struggle
The Broncos' D came up with five sacks, 17 QB hits and two interceptions, enabling Denver to win even though the offense finished with just 168 net yards.
‘Trying to dominate’: How Israel is embedding itself in the Cypriot state
Israel now reaches into Cyprus’s water, gas, health and defence and many Cypriots fear their island is losing control.
All I want for Christmas is AI (apparently)
“They see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good…” No, we’re not changing Santa’s pronouns. We’re talking about the AI-powered gadgets that are likely to be overflowing from his sack this holiday season. AI toys began appearing on the market last year, quickly prompting warnings from child advocacy groups. But the 2026 holiday season will bring a much wider selection of AI gadgets for kids and adults alik
Sex was 'huge preoccupation for Russell Brand', former flatmate tells trial
The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault, which he denies.
I outsourced my life to AI agents for two weeks. It went…weirdly.
We all want to offload our most tedious tasks. But what might we lose in the process?
Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
Android was designed for phones, but that hasn't stopped Google from trying to adapt the OS and its apps to larger machines over the years. Googlebooks are just the latest attempt after tablets, Chromebooks, and foldables induced little change in how people interact with Android software.
High-frequency water megamasers as precision probes of black holes, galaxies and cosmology: A case for a next-generation sub-mm/mm interferometer
Water megamasers in the circumnuclear disks of active galactic nuclei are among the most precise probes of supermassive black holes. VLBI imaging of 22 GHz disk masers has provided geometric distances to independently constrain $H_0$, accurate black hole mass measurements, and sub-parsec views of accretion disk geometry. ALMA has opened a new window into water maser transitions in the sub-mm/mm regime, which trace temperatures, densities and disk regions that are inaccessible at 22 GHz, and can
The healthiest meals in your supermarket's freezer aisle
Researchers have identified a simple way to save over £100 a month on your food bills. Don't buy fresh, buy frozen.
NFL odds: Week 6 parlays featuring favorites, underdogs include Panthers-Eagles, Texans-Jaguars
SportsLine football expert Mike Tierney gives out his favorite parlays for Week 6 of the NFL season
Malaysia’s welcome for Min Aung Hlaing undermines its stand on justice
As the US attacks the ICC, Kuala Lumpur welcomes a leader the court’s prosecutor wants arrested.
Perceptive Discovery Launches Astatine-211 Study Capabilities in the US and UK
/PRNewswire/ -- Perceptive Discovery today announced the availability of astatine-211 (At-211) radiopharmaceutical development studies at its US and UK...
Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon seeks spousal support in divorce filing
Bryon and Kristi Noem’s three children are all adults, meaning child support is not part of the proceedings
China’s AI infrastructure boom fuels earnings surge for local chip firms
GPU designer MetaX, listed in Shanghai and may soon list in Hong Kong, says it turned a profit in the first nine months thanks to more orders.
Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second
Plans to retire it in 2035 are being expedited to prevent potential havoc on tech infrastructure.
Queensland has acquired parts of three huge cattle properties covering almost 396,000 hectares; the deal protects 174 wetlands on one station and habitat for threatened birds across northern Australia
Queensland has secured major portions of three vast cattle properties across Cape York and the Gulf of Carpentaria, adding almost 396,000 hectares to the state’s protected area network. The Queensland Government says in a press release that the acquisitions cover 137,000 hectares of Kendall River St
Ultra-processed foods that won't give you bowel cancer, study finds
Researchers found processed meats such as hot dogs and deli meats were linked to an eight per cent higher risk of developing the disease.
NFL Week 6 best bets: Texans to shine against Jaguars in London, two anytime TD scorers for Bears-Falcons
Back C.J. Stroud and Houston to deliver an upset, Drake Maye and New England to cover, and two tight ends to clear their receiving totals
US in ‘denuclearisation’ talks with Russia and China: Trump
US and Russia each have more than 4,000 warheads. China set to catch up with them within five years, Trump says.
Regions Financial Non-GAAP EPS of $0.73 beats by $0.07, revenue of $1.99B misses by $10M
Regions Financial Non-GAAP EPS of $0.73 beats by $0.07, revenue of $1.99B misses by $10M
'Jobless Actors Go To These Protests': Payal Rohatagi Slams Imran Khan, Calls Him 'Stupid'
Imran Khan attended the protests at the August Kranti Maidan on October 10, where he was detained by the cops.
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
My favourite Apple HomeView feature makes it easier to follow recipes without touching your screen
It can turn web recipes into step-by-step cooking instructions with hands-free timers
From picometre displacements to a three-dimensional lattice gas of polar skyrmions
Polar skyrmions, the electric analogues of magnetic skyrmions, form arrays in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices that are known to be only short-range ordered, but how this disordered ensemble is organized in three dimensions, and how its microscopic structure underlies this organization, have remained largely inaccessible. Here, using three-dimensional difference pair distribution function (3D-ΔPDF) analysis of X-ray diffuse scattering, we show that the polar skyrmion bubbles form a three-dimensional
Mask-wearing during haze: When should I wear one and how many times can I reuse it?
Members of the public generally do not need to wear N95 masks when commuting to work, school or while indoors, the Ministry of Health has clarified in an update to its haze advisory on Thursday (Oct 15) night. The advice comes as haze conditions continue to worsen in Singapore, with the 24-hour Poll
4 possible finishes to Nikki Bella vs. Paige II on WWE SmackDown tonight
Paige and Nikki Bella have been embroiled in a deeply personal rivalry on SmackDown. It all began at SummerSlam when Nikki backstabbed the Anti-Diva after losing the Women's Tag Team Championship.
Poland scrambles fighter jets as Russia strikes western Ukraine
Countries along NATO’s eastern flank growing increasingly concerned about the risk of escalation of the war in Ukraine.
Holland America Line Unveils Bar 1873, a Stunning Venue Inspired by More Than 150 Years of Maritime Heritage
/PRNewswire/ -- Holland America Line is introducing Bar 1873, a new signature gathering place where contemporary design, cocktails and live music bring more...
London housing project wins top architecture award
Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was recognised for the way it responds to its surroundings.
CoreWeave Faces Funding Risks as Costs Rise
CoreWeave has been become embroiled in a tug of war between investors who see rising bond yields as a rally-killer for the AI trade and those who think rising demand for computing power justifies the enthusiasm. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
Welcome to Edition 9.15 of the Rocket Report! The launch I'm most looking forward to in the next few weeks is that of Japan's Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission. MMX is one of the marquee space science missions launching this year, and it's set to leave Earth as soon as Monday (US time) aboard a Japanese H3 rocket. The spacecraft will visit Phobos and Deimos, the two asteroid-like moons of Mars, deploying a rover and collecting specimens for return to Earth in 2031.
Winter sea ice loss may be underestimated, ancient clues from a warmer Arctic suggest
Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) more than previously thought, after researchers used clues from a warm period 6,000 years ago to improve the reliability of climate models.
Mutual Information in High-Dimensional Neural Coding
Estimating mutual information in large neural populations is limited by the exponential growth of possible neural response patterns. Here we apply a Monte Carlo framework to make this problem tractable by sampling from a conditionally independent population model fit from single-neuron responses. The estimator accurately recovers analytical ground truth, corrects finite-data bias, and scales to empirical recordings containing 100 to 10,000 neurons from visual cortex, hippocampus, and retina. Acr
Slow progress in disciplining officials linked to contract that grounded Gauteng airwing | The Citizen
Almost R157 million was paid for the irregular hiring of helicopters for the Gauteng Traffic Police Airwing.
UN warns nearly 1 million in Gaza face flood risks as winter approaches
The UN is warning that nearly one million displaced Palestinians face flooding risks as winter approaches.
The U.S. eliminated measles 26 years ago. Now it could lose that status in a matter of weeks
The U.S. declared measles eliminated in 2000—but it could soon lose that status, depending on the conclusions of a meeting of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) next month. Measles cases in the United States are rising; there could be twice as many cases in 2026 as in 2025. The measles tracker run by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health counted 4,267 cases as of October 15. The total for last year was 2,286. Pennsylvania has accounted for more than a quarter of the 2026
Kriti Sanon approaches Delhi High Court for personality rights protection, court asks for compilation of judgments and raises questions over IP Division’s jurisdiction as similar celebrity cases increase
Actor Kriti Sanon has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of her personality rights. During a hearing on Friday, the court asked her counsel to submit a detailed compilation of judgments and research on the scope of such rights and whether the High Court’s Intellectual Property Divisi
Cheap laptop with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and 120 Hz display scores 50% discount
Best Buy is now offering a massive $650 discount on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i budget laptop. The laptop comes equipped with a relatively powerful six-core Intel CPU paired with 16 GB of DDR5 RAM and 512 GB of storage. A 120 Hz displays is also on offer
Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
Blue Origin announced a major expansion of its already considerable Florida launch facilities on Friday morning with the intent of eventually flying 150 rockets a year from there. The company said it would add two additional launch pads for the New Glenn rocket, in addition to two already under construction at Cape Canaveral.
Pt-induced semimetallic transport and enhanced thermoelectric response in the half-Heusler alloy YNi_{0.5}Pt_{0.5}Bi
Half-Heusler alloys provide a versatile platform for tuning electronic and thermal transport through chemical substitution. Here, we investigate the thermoelectric and magnetotransport properties of spark-plasma-sintered YNi_{0.5}Pt_{0.5}Bi. Partial substitution of Ni by Pt drives YNiBi toward semimetallic transport, characterized by hole-dominated conduction, a low Hall carrier concentration of $\mathrm{1.9 \times 10^{19} cm^{-3}}$, and a sizeable nonsaturating magnetoresistance of 18$\%$ at 30
Transferable conditional brain charts link cortico-subcortical structure to Alzheimer's disease progression
Normative models chart how brain measures vary across the lifespan, expressing each individual as a deviation from a healthy reference. However, most regional models of cortical thickness disregard dependencies between cortical and subcortical anatomy, and transferring them to a new site typically requires retraining or a recalibration of location and scale alone. We condition lifespan norms of cortical thickness on subcortical volume, such that each deviation indicates whether an individual's c
Couple arrested after 200 people found at alleged illegal rehab centre in Mpumalanga | The Citizen
The couple was accommodating about 200 people on the property despite not being legally authorised to run such a facility.
‘It was fake’: Indian villagers allege forgery behind Adani mine project
Forged signatures and thumbprints - even of dead and fictitious people - allegedly used to obtain land for bauxite mine.
You can now sit at Elizabeth Holmes’s desk
The tech world relishes a good founder story. These figures are often young college dropouts with minimalist wardrobes, obsessive behaviors, and eccentric (and often flat out bizarre) tendencies—perfect objects of fascination. But few sagas have captivated audiences quite as intensely as that of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The wide-eyed CEO promised a world of needleless blood tests, yet delivered little more than a persona consisting of Steve Jobs-inspired outfits and an unnaturally d
Daisy Edgar Jones, Sense and Sensibility Cast Detail the Biggest—and Best—Changes From the Book
The cast of Sense and Sensibility—including Daisy Edgar-Jones and Frank Dillane—spoke to some of the biggest changes the film makes from the book in an exclusive interview with E! News.
Apollo Research flags potential AI safety risk in Z.ai model
Z.ai describes GLM-5.3 as a model for coding and cyber-related tasks, offered through its API.
Gen4P: Video Generators are 4D Perceivers
We introduce Gen4P, a unified framework for recovering 4D geometry and motion from monocular video. We show that a pretrained video generator can be repurposed into a feed-forward 4D perceiver without iterative denoising. Building on on-demand querying, Gen4P processes clean video latents in a single encoder pass and predicts the requested 4D attributes through a lightweight cross-attention decoder. The on-demand query formulation enables flexible spatial sampling, and our proposed continuous-ti
Depression treatment during pregnancy may benefit babies' brain development, randomized trial finds
Treating depression during pregnancy influences infant brain development and early emotional function, according to new research published in Nature Communications.
Documenting Trofinetide Treatment Phenotypes in Rett Syndrome with a Dual-LLM Consensus Pipeline
Objective: Trofinetide, approved in 2023 as the first Rett syndrome treatment, lacks scalable real-world monitoring because chart review is labor-intensive. We developed a dual large language model (LLM) consensus pipeline to extract 18 treatment-response phenotypes, comprising 4 adverse effects, 13 Rett clinical features, and medication refusal, from clinical notes. Materials and Methods: We analyzed 26,763 notes from 108 patients with confirmed sustained trofinetide exposure at Texas Children'
NFL DFS, Week 6 Sunday: Top daily Fantasy picks, lineup advice for FanDuel, DraftKings
DFS millionaire Mike McClure shares his top daily Fantasy picks and lineups for the NFL Week 6 Sunday main slate
India vs West India: Fifth T20 International – teams, start, lineups, Hope
India host West Indies in the final match of the tour on Saturday with an all-time classic T20 series level at 2-2.
Google Research’s chief on why scientific AI is so underappreciated
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Once a year, Google holds a conference on its campus called Research@. Scientific researchers from inside and outside the company pack an on-campus auditorium for a highly compressed look at what its 26-year-old Google Research lab has been up to. This year’s edition emphasized AI—surprise!—and covered a vast amount of ground, from predicting natural disasters to fact-checking technical documents to helping doctors better serve patien
Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says
The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin
US states sue OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adults
HARRISBURG: At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company's chatbot mode
I ignored this Google Maps feature for 10 years, and now I can’t live without it
I thought that lists and saved locations weren't a necessary feature until I realized how much time they saved me when I started using them.
Army sniper claims US troops killed 'reptilian beings' near Area 51
A former Army sniper has revealed the incredible events which allegedly left a US soldier dead as the military hunted alien invaders in the Nevada desert.
Is Milton Friedman to blame for America’s health care woes?
Health policy experts John McDonough and Stuart Butler debate where the U.S. medical system went wrong — and how to fix it.
Dodgers tip cap to Brewers as title reign ends in NLCS sweep
The Dodgers' quest for a three-peat ended Wednesday night in a 6-4 loss to the Brewers, who defeated them so thoroughly in the NLCS that it left L.A. with little to second-guess.
Why is China buying up gold?
Beijing’s gold purchases reflect a shift away from reliance on US dollar assets, experts say.
Tesla’s new Roadster is a jumping piece of vaporware
The new Tesla Roadster finally showed up on Thursday night in a cloud of compressed air at SpaceX’s rocket test site in McGregor, Texas. It was the perfect example of Elon Musk’s personal brand: the epic announcement full of grandiose promises, the magic act that keeps the audience staring at the smoke while the real trouble happens backstage (see his delayed Optimus, the delayed Cybercab, and Tesla’s lack of true autonomous driving). The Roadster showed off its ability to do absolutely usele
‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ star Ben Barnes marries ‘American Idol’ alum Aubrey Cleland
'In a world of 8 billion people, it is extraordinary to find someone who feels like your person,' Ben Barnes wrote while announcing the news