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CVE-2026-106037 | kvcache-ai Mooncake up to 0.3.13.post1 Store REST service missing authentication
A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in kvcache-ai Mooncake up to 0.3.13.post1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Store REST service. Such manipulation leads to missing authentication. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-106037. The attack can
Apple Reportedly Plans Not One But Two Product Launch Waves in October
Apple is reportedly preparing two separate product launch waves in October, covering new smart home gear, OLED Macs, and an updated iPad mini.
Testing Refracted Gravity with the kinematics of stacked galaxy clusters
We test Refracted Gravity (RG), a phenomenological modified gravity model that modifies the Poisson equation by introducing an effective gravitational permittivity $ε(ρ_{\rm bar})$ which depends on the baryonic matter density $ρ_{\rm bar}$ and mimics the behaviour of dark matter in cosmic structures. We perform a kinematical analysis of member galaxies for a sample of 74 galaxy clusters, compiled from the Cluster Infall Regions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CIRS). We stack the clusters in thr
Pharmalittle: We're reading about U.S.-funded psychedelic trials, an AstraZeneca R&D center, and more
The Trump administration is advancing the first government-funded clinical trials of the psychedelic drug ibogaine to treat opioid addiction and PTSD
ASX set to edge up, Wall Street rallies towards an all-time high
Even with worries about war, high inflation and cranked-up pressure from the bond market continuing to weigh on it, Wall Street’s benchmark index soared 23 per cent since hitting a bottom in late March.
Tuareg rebels withdraw from strategic town of Kidal in northern Mali
The Azawad Liberation Front said sustained air strikes by Malian troops and Russian allies forced its tactical retreat.
The best time to book Thanksgiving flights is coming. Here’s the date to know
If you’re planning to fly for Thanksgiving but haven’t booked a ticket yet, you might actually be in luck. Travelers could still have a few weeks before they hit the sweet spot for booking their Thanksgiving flights, according to new data from KAYAK. But wait too long, and those potential savings could disappear quickly. KAYAK’s 2026 Holiday Travel Check-In looked at historical airfare trends to determine when travelers are most likely to find cheaper flights for Thanksgiving and Christmas,
Michael Douglas Says He Once Told Julia Roberts to Stick a Golden Globe "Where the Sun Don’t Shine"
Michael Douglas revealed in his new memoir One Helluva Ride that he told Julia Roberts to stick her first Golden Globe award "Where the Sun Don’t Shine" following an interaction with his son.
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
California couple arrested on child abuse charges in surrogacy investigation, police say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into a surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children, police said Tuesday. Silvia Zhang and her husband, Guojun Xuan are expected to face conspiracy to commit child abuse charges, according t
Unraveling Fermi liquid charge and heat transport in RuO$_{2}$
RuO$_2$ is a multi-orbital Fermi liquid for which an array of complementary experimental measurements has recently become available, making it a stringent testbed for quantitative many-body electronic structure theory. Using realistic dynamical mean-field calculations, we compute the spectroscopic and transport properties of RuO$_2$ in the paramagnetic state. We identify RuO$_2$ as a moderately correlated Fermi liquid and obtain (semi-)quantitative agreement with experiment for its optical condu
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
Big Ten basketball preseason poll, predictions 2026-27: Michigan, Purdue overrated; USC, Iowa underrated
Illinois is the favorite to win the Big Ten after reaching the Final Four for the first time since 2005 last season
‘Cost-of-living nightmare’: Consumer confidence slumps to historic low
Households will face “recession-like” conditions next year, a leading forecaster has warned, as evidence shows consumers are losing confidence in the economy.
South Korea’s bank hacks offer a warning about AI-powered cyberattacks
Some of South Korea’s biggest banks have been hacked with the assistance of an artificial intelligent agent, opening up a new front in the AI and cybersecurity worlds. Officials say at least seven financial firms were included in the attack, which saw personal information for 68,000 people stolen, including annual income and loan limits. This marks one of the first times AI tools have been used to disrupt global financial stalwarts. It’s notable, since banks and other financial
Bingone - Official Announcement Trailer | Out of Bounds Showcase 2026
Here's your look at the Bingone announcement trailer for the upcoming bingo-inspired roguelike. Bingone is a sticker-building experience where you bend the rules of bingo, uncover powerful stickers that reshape your strategy, and unleash wild, high-energy combo chains. Bingone will be available on P
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
One Figure, Every Canvas: Editable Flowchart Relayout via Agentic Pipeline
Pipeline figures in ML papers must be repurposed across many canvases, including paper columns, 16:9 slides, portrait posters, 1:1 social teasers, 9:16 phone previews. Each format imposes a different aspect ratio on the same computational graph, where any silently broken connection misrepresents the method. We formulate aspect-ratio-adaptive flowchart relayout as a distinct task: given a raster flowchart and a target ratio, produce a structurally faithful, hallucination-free, editable layout. Ex
NASA Glenn Invites Phase 1 Proposals for Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking Phase 1 proposals for the design and construction of the Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory. The principal purpose of this procurement is to deliver a laboratory facility to support the testing and development of power systems, with associated site work, infrastructure, and systems. The laboratory will provide modern test facilities to advance power research and enable NASA to meet current and future mission needs.
New York declares state of emergency over rapid spread of measles
New York has declared a state of emergency over the spread of highly infectious - and deadly - measles.
Ranking NFL division leaders by which are most vulnerable after opening month
We have some surprising division leaders after the first month, including the Browns and Giants. Will they hold on?
EU seeks ways to make expansion more palatable to members
The European Commission has put forward ideas it hopes will both ease the EU expansion process and allay concerns among existing members. Several countries, not least war-torn Ukraine, are among the candidates.
Boomers' dividend stocks take beating as bond yields rise, with retirement income on the line
As interest rates and bond yields rise, dividend stocks many boomers rely on for income are taking a beating. There are ways to blunt the portfolio impact.
‘Artificial’ Movie: Release date, Cast & More on the Andrew Garfield Film About Sam Altman
What was once going to be distributed by Amazon MGM before its $50 billion deal with OpenAI, NEON acquired ‘Artificial,’ which depicts OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as well as other controversi…
Watch OpenAI, Anthropic Lead Consumer AI Spending: A16z - Bloomberg
Andreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore says consumer AI adoption is growing, but fewer than 5% of consumers are paying for even one AI product. She discusses why OpenAI and Anthropic dominate spending, with a small group of power users paying as much as $1,000 a month, and why AI’s next consumer o
Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house. Sally Yates, who w
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. 11, 2026. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers the most detailed view yet of distant, wind-carved Martian cliffs, highlighting features the mission’s scientists have long been waiting to see up close.
NeuroCBIR: A Fast and Accurate Image Retrieval System for Whole-Brain and Region-Specific MRI
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in neuroimaging enables the identification of structurally similar brain scans, supporting diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning; however, existing methods are often limited to small datasets, single brain regions, or coarse class labels, thereby restricting their clinical utility and generalizability. Here, we present NeuroCBIR, a framework for fast and flexible retrieval of both whole-brain and region-specific 3D T1w MRI scans. A total of 103 cortica
Fantasy football Week 5 RB preview: Walker and Hubbard on bye; Allen and Pollard move into must-start range
Byes, injuries to star rushers, and messy committees have depleted the position, opening the door for Allen and Pollard to climb into the top 20
Russia denies anti-plague measures after pneumonia death
The death of an employee at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk is still being looked into, the authorities said. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for Russia to be transparent about its findings.
Halloween has gotten so expensive, 1 in 5 shoppers plans to finance it
Halloween has gotten extra scary — scary expensive, that is. While this year, the candy and the cobwebs will be much the same as the years before, the prices have gotten a bit more chilling. According to a new survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers from the professional services network Deloitte, the average consumer will spend around $285 on the holiday that celebrates spookiness (while hoping not to get spooked at the register). $219 of that spending will be done on retail purchases, and arou
Hayden Panettiere’s ex-fiancé claims actress’ jewelry was pawned after her death, demands investigation
Wladimir Klitschko’s latest filing comes as he seeks to become guardian of his and Panettiere’s daughter Kaya’s estate.
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
Document Your Memories and Save 12% on This Fujifilm Instant Camera - CNET
The Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 camera is currently discounted in a few colors.
Astronomy’s ‘adrenaline junkies’: Nobel prize captures the thrill of neutrino physics
Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi reflects on covering the fast-moving field of astronomy honoured by the Nobel physics award.
IPF Changed My Life. This Is How I Advocate for Myself
How one woman with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis takes an active role in her health journey.
The Shield problems hiding in plain sight
The Sheffield Shield batting drought has put pitches under the microscope, but the real problem may be a far more complex combination of factors.
Indian opposition leaders detained during voter lists protest
Police detained Indian opposition leaders during a protest outside the Election Commission in New Delhi where lawmakers
Synthetic Cultural Agents from Aggregate Anchors
Population prompts are widely used to generate synthetic survey responses, but they combine information supplied at inference with associations already encoded during pretraining. We introduce an alternative construction that maps declared aggregate preference anchors into group-indexed choice policies. For each population, the signs of six Global Preferences Survey (GPS) coordinates deterministically label a shared bank of paired synthetic responses, and Direct Preference Optimization fits a pa
The biggest bombshells from Michael Douglas’ memoir
The title of Michael Douglas’ new memoir is “One Helluva Ride,” and the 82-year-old “Romancing the Stone” star definitely delivers that for readers. Join Page Six as we break down the b…
Shouldn’t customer service AI remember you? Siena to expand 'Agent of Record' combining purchase history with support and social
Siena's website describes agents that can update delivery addresses, create return labels, process refunds and arrange replacements
InterMimicGen: Scaling Humanoid Loco-Manipulation through Self-Evolving Motion Imitation
Captured human-object interactions provide rich supervision for humanoid loco-manipulation, but they are sparse, heterogeneous, and not directly executable by robots. We introduce InterMimicGen, a self-evolving motion-imitation framework in which robot motion data and a tracking policy improve each other. First, we consolidate motion-captured human-object interaction datasets and retarget them into humanoid robot references while preserving whole-body coordination and dexterous hand-object relat
Researchers plan robot swarms to assemble and build structures
University of Stuttgart secures €4 million (approx. $9 million) to develop autonomous construction robots for timber buildings.
COMPASS 2.0: psychometric representational similarity analysis distinguishes symptom structure from personal signal
Language models can score psychiatric questionnaires from speech, but agreement with self-report may reflect the questionnaire rather than the person. We introduce psychometric representational similarity analysis, a framework for comparing the structure of speech-derived scores, self-report, item wording and theory, and implement it alongside person-level construct scoring in COMPASS 2.0. We show how similarly worded items induce covariance without psychological signal. In pre-registered discov
Source: Seahawks decide not to sign RB Joe Mixon after physical
The Seahawks decided not to sign veteran running back Joe Mixon to their practice squad after he underwent a physical, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Naked Trump statue goes on display in Strasbourg
Titled "The Orange Plague," a gold-coated statue presents Donald Trump sitting on a smaller man's back. The Danish artist blamed Trump for getting in the way of efforts to address climate change.
A massive Gatorade recall is affecting 37 states. Here’s what to look for
A new recall is coming for the hydration aisle. PepsiCo is pulling around 122,000 cases of Gatorade from the shelves. According to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration notice, PepsiCo is voluntarily recalling various Gatorade products across 37 US states due to undeclared Yellow No. 6 and Yellow No. 5 artificial food dyes. According to the notice, the recall initiated on Sept. 25, with the FDA classifying it as a class II recall on Oct. 2. The FDA classified a Class II recall as one
From films to streaming prices - how the Warner Bros deal could affect you
The deal is expected to alter the entertainment and news industries but could it mean higher prices for consumers?
After Samsung's price hikes, this Galaxy Z Fold 8 deal won't stick around
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is on sale for $1,549 and the Z Fold 8 Ultra for $1,699. With the RAM crisis driving price hikes, now is the time to buy a foldable.
How to Deep Clean Your Home From Top to Bottom Without Getting Overwhelmed - CNET
Cleaning doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Use our expert advice to deep clean your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and beyond.
Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data
NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet. This artist’s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation. The white dwarf is the “dead” core of a star that burned through all of its nuclear fuel and lost its outer envelope of gas and dust to space.
Interplay between Excitability and Noise in Analog Spiking Neurons
A spiking neuron is a dynamical system exhibiting a limit cycle (a spike) when subject to sufficiently excitatory input. Famous neuroscience experiments by Bryant and Segundo as well as Mainen and Sejnowski revealed that the spike times of some biological neurons are more reliable when subject to time-varying stimuli compared to constant ones. Provided with an industrial physics-based transient noise SPICE simulation framework compatible with foundry transistor compact models, we have demonstrat
Dana White's Contender Series start time: Where to watch, live stream Week 9 and the full fight card
Ten more fighters pursue their dreams of signing a UFC contract on Tuesday night
‘The act of writing is, fundamentally, an act of seduction’: Author Susan Orlean on luring readers
The American journalist and bestselling author on the sexy – and unsexy – sides of her craft. Plus: the special superpower that helps someone become a writer.
Two-thirds of workers use DIY ‘hacks’ to make office life more bearable
In a world in which companies are forcing employees back into the office in a never-ending, post-pandemic RTO push, two-thirds of office workers are secretly “hacking” their workspaces to meet their needs. According to an international survey released earlier this year by global design firm Gensler, a clear majority of workers use do-it-yourself fixes to maintain comfort and privacy and personalize their workspaces. The anonymous, panel-based survey included nearly 16,500 worke
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition.
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots and Instinct.
Base Models Can Reason By Taking a Cue From Training Data
In this paper, we study how training data creates associations between the tokens at the start of a base model's response and the reasoning behavior that follows. First, we demonstrate that fixing particular starting token cues makes a base model's performance competitive with that of its reinforcement learning (RL)-trained counterparts on math and coding. For instance, the cue ".\n\nOkay" raises Olmo-3-7B's MATH-500 pass@1 accuracy from 42% to 78%, while "Alright," raises Qwen3-14B's from 72% t
Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation - Nature
Nature - Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation
CDC 'closely monitoring' possible plague outbreak in Russia
Officials at the CDC said they were working alongside other departments to 'assess developments' as more information becomes available.
Michael Penix Jr. has completely revived the Falcons' offense. Can it continue after a hot start?
The Falcons are leading the league in scoring over the last two weeks with Penix, but the question remains whether this is real or a mirage
‘There’s plenty you can do’: The lifestyle changes you can make to curb the risk of dementia
We’re no longer considered powerless hostages to neurodegeneration as we age.
Tradeweb Remains An Interesting Growth Play In The Financial Sector (NASDAQ:TW)
Tradeweb Markets stock remains a "Buy" given its record Q2 2026 volumes, potential Q3 revenue upside, and durable network effects. Click for more on TW stock.
Corden, Jones reunite for their new series The Choir
Gavin & Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth Jones will reunite for their new comedy drama series The Choir.