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iBase Solution targets AI data center EPC contracts with modular liquid cooling, energy storage expertise
Taiwan-based iBase Solution is expanding from industrial computers (IPCs) and energy storage into liquid-cooled prefabricated modular data centers, targeting AI infrastructure construction and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts. The company aims to leverage its energy storage
Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out - Slashdot
July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can't get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web: Nscale's problem is not really Nscale's. It is Britain's. Grid-connection times have become the...
BBC visits Indonesia's wildfire ground blanketed by toxic haze
The BBC is in central Kalimantan, where a toxic haze fuelled by wildfires is choking millions of residents.
Kenya’s Ebola cases hit 8, with no community transmission yet
Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient
Champions League Vibe Check: Barcelona, Bayern Munich impress; Manchester United in trouble
Matchday 3's action is headlined by Barcelona's clash with Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal's trip to Bayern Munich
Elderly man forcibly detained at Elbit Systems protest in Germany
An elderly man was forcibly restrained by police during a protest against Elbit Systems in Ulm, Germany.
Online Conditional Vine Copulas: Forecasting Electricity Demand
We propose an online multivariate distributional forecasting model in which we condition the parameters of a vine copula on covariates. An online algorithm updates the parameters sequentially using only the most recent observations. Existing approaches require full batch re-estimation using all available data at each update step, which makes them computationally slow in large-scale forecasting applications and less suitable for settings in which dependence structures change over time. Simulation
Riteish Deshmukh To Make Telugu Debut With Ram Pothineni’s Psychological Action Thriller
Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is making his Telugu debut in director and star Ram Pothineni's upcoming psychological action thriller #RAPO23.
This smart refrigerator has a 9-inch screen with voice control and automatic doors, but that’s not even my favourite feature
Samsung’s AI Side-by-side refrigerator Family Hub offers some impressive features, especially for cocktail fans
Bad Diagnosis: Analyzing Consent and Data Collection Practices of Mobile Medical Apps
Mobile health (mHealth) apps collect personally-identifiable information while handling uniquely sensitive medical data, ranging from mental health records to real-time glucose or heart rate monitoring -- yet they remain poorly understood at scale. We present the first comprehensive analysis of consent and data collection practices across 10,000+ mHealth apps on the Google Play Store, combining static analysis and privacy policy examination. We develop a rigorous operational definition to distin
Revisiting the Mass and Scale Dependence of the "Lensing is Low" Effect with DECADE
Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) is a critical probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. However, predicted GGL amplitudes tend to be $\sim 20-40\%$ higher than observations, primarily on small scales, a tension called the lensing-is-low problem. If not resolved through astrophysics or measurement systematics, this discrepancy may indicate a tension in our cosmological standard model. J. U. Lange et al. (2021), using foreground galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and lensi
EEG Lempel-Ziv Complexity vis-à-vis Autocorrelation Function
Measures of signal complexity have become increasingly popular in electroencephalography (EEG), where they are often interpreted as indicators of neural information processing, dynamical richness, or conscious state. In contrast, classical measures of temporal dependence, such as the autocorrelation function (ACF), remain more directly linked to known physiological mechanisms and are easier to interpret. The present work revisits, for the EEG practicioner, the relation between normalized Lempel-
Break and Steal an Egg Halloween Part 1 update patch notes
The first Halloween update for Break and Steal an Egg has introduced multiple limited-time events.
Mali’s military and armed groups committing abuses against civilians: HRW
Soldiers, fighters and separatists in West African country committing grave laws-of-war violations, rights group finds.
Taming your browser’s 100+ open tabs is the easy way to speed up your PC
You opened three tabs for a project right when you got to your desk, then opened five more while muted in your first meeting, followed by 14 Reddit articles you’ll definitely read later. Add these to the hundred other tabs you left open yesterday, and by midafternoon your computer fan sounds like a jet taking off. Modern web pages aren’t simple static documents anymore. Every open tab is effectively a mini-application running JavaScript, auto-refreshing ad scripts, and caching
Tiger Shroff Firing: ‘Gangsters Want To Terrorise Bollywood’ Says AICWA; Warns Of Return To Underworld Era
The All Indian Cine Workers Association reacted to the Tiger Shroff firing incident, demanding action against gangsters and better security for Bollywood celebrities.
Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India
Yug-1 is built to analyse such time-dependent data and generate forecasts across multiple variables.
Razer Barracuda V2 Pro arrives in Malaysia with hybrid noise cancelling and 70 hour battery life
Razer has launched the Barracuda V2 Pro wireless headset in Malaysia. Priced at RM969, it packs hybrid noise cancelling and up to 70 hours of battery life.
ENFR: Evidence Networks with Flow-Matched References for Amortized Simulation-Based Model Inference
The evidence, $\mathcal{Z} = p(x | \mathcal{M})$, of a data-generating model $\mathcal{M}$ is a powerful tool in Bayesian frameworks: it enables model inference, model misspecification tests, and goodness-of-fit assessment as an alternative to standard discrepancy statistics, e.g. $χ^2$. While versatile, the evidence is notoriously difficult to compute, even when the likelihood is available. In both likelihood-based and simulation-based inference, estimating $\mathcal{Z}$ provides an immediate s
Sydney opens US$4 billion second airport with few flights
Western Sydney International launches commercial operations with a sparse schedule as major airlines remain cautious.
‘A bad call’: Greens rift deepens over Steele-John allegations
A dispute over whether Jordon Steele-John should take leave during an investigation has deepened a rift within the Greens over allegations about his behaviour towards women.
What Earth's sixth mass extinction event means for humans
Human activity is driving plants and animals to extinction at an unprecedented rate. As countries meet in Armenia to discuss ways to reverse nature loss, DW reveals how declining biodiversity is already harming people.
Gen Z doesn’t have a feedback problem. We all do
When I started my first company, the only feedback my team ever got from me was praise. I was too scared to be critical. This was in the 2010s, when you couldn’t go a day without seeing a headline about millennials and how we coddled we were. Leaders claimed that they had to walk on eggshells around us, fearing that if they gave the “participation generation” anything but praise, we would quit. As a leader of millennials myself at the time, it felt like there was some truth in that. But it
Gigi Hadid spreads her wings on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026 runway
The blond beauty was the very first supermodel the brand confirmed when they announced the LA show.
'The GPU never reads the same text twice': Belgian startup Corbenic wants to turn your server's SSD into AI memory, but its 14x speedup owes more to reading less
Galahad promises exact, encrypted KV cache reuse for vLLM, SGLang, and Llama.cpp
Learning to Correct Geometry in Generated Videos
Generated videos often lose geometric consistency under camera motion: structures warp under viewpoint change, parallax becomes inconsistent, and smooth camera movement may collapse into shot-like transitions. We argue that this failure is largely a data problem. In web-scale video corpora, most visible motion comes from dynamic objects captured by static or weakly moving cameras, leaving only sparse supervision for viewpoint-induced appearance changes. To address this, we propose Video Geometry
Autumn Paints Poland’s Bieszczady Mountains
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Autumn Paints Poland’s… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission: Biomes About About Us Subscribe 🛜 RSS Contact Us Search As the air grows cooler and days shorter, brown bears prowl the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland
NHS leaders say maternity care organisation is 'not fit for purpose'
The NHS Alliance said "difficult decisions" lie ahead and some maternity services may have to be consolidated.
Christian Yelich's girlfriend Paige Almendariz drops 4-word reaction to the Brewers captain's NLCS victory celebration
Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers punched their tickets to the World Series in dominant fashion, outclassing the reigning champions, the LA Dodgers, in the NLCS by sweeping the series 4-0.
Brazil: Lula, Bolsonaro clash in heated presidential debate
The candidates traded barbs, including over Bolsonaro's ties to US President Donald Trump in their first debate, days before the October 25 election runoff.
Input-output analysis with a sphere packing approach
Input-output analysis with linear programming is widely used in the planning of national economies. However, linear programming attains its optimum at a vertex of the feasible set, and a small deviation of the optimal plan in some direction violates a constraint. So far, little attention has been paid to finding sets of production plans which guarantee both the supply-demand balance of an economy and a given level of its gross domestic product (GDP), and the sphere packing approach cannot be app
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley returns to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway after 16 years
The Angel made her debut in the lingerie spectacular in 2006.
Lady Mayor: London can shape the global conversation on trusted AI
As the UK prepares to host the G20 presidency in 2027, it has an opportunity to shape the global conversation on trusted AI, writes Susan Langley.
Albania's PM refuses to quit with violent protests in sixth day
The unrest follows months of anti-government protests in the Balkan nation, initially sparked by a controversial resort development in an ecologically protected area linked to US President Donald Trump's family. #EuropeNews
Greek authorities say 12 migrants die in two incidents in Aegean Sea
At least 1,209 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, according to the International Organisation for Migration. #EuropeNews
Companies exploiting welfare system by using residents as 'cash cows,' BBC finds
Agents try to attract people on housing benefit by using social media videos that offer free rooms and holidays.
Former UFC light heavyweight contender explains the lesson behind Dana White’s alleged Power Slap experiment
The UFC’s decision not to re-sign undefeated bantamweight Farid Basharat has sparked another debate in what the promotion values in its fighters.
Germany news: Berlin conference seeks to drum up investment
The "Invest in Germany Summit" is set to kick off in Berlin as the government looks to fill gaps in public funding. DW has more.
Eurobank repurchases 1.95 million shares for €8.65 million
Eurobank S.A. repurchased 1.95 million of its own shares for €8.65 million over five trading days between October 12 and October 16, the lender announced on Monday. The purchases were made under the bank’s share buyback programme, approved by shareholders at the annual general meeting on April 28 an
‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho’s ‘Paradise Lost’ Clinches 118-Country Sales Ahead of Hawai‘i Festival U.S. Bow
Yeon Sang-ho’s thriller ‘Paradise Lost’ has sold to 118 countries and will have its U.S. premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.
Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to public benefit fund
Anthropic has separately committed US$200 million to study AI's effects on the labour market.
Rethinking the design space of Vanilla Pixel Diffusion Transformers
Pixel-space diffusion models have recently re-emerged as a compelling alternative to latent diffusion, avoiding the lossy latent bottleneck and separately trained autoencoder. JiT shows that a vanilla diffusion transformer can generate directly in pixel space by replacing the commonly used velocity prediction ($\boldsymbol{u}$-prediction) with clean image prediction ($\boldsymbol{x_0}$-prediction). In this work, we revisit this choice and introduce MFlow, an adaptive parameterization that learns
Ionic switching between supermagnetic states
Supermagnetic states are typically set during synthesis. Changing and retaining these states requires sustained external stimulus. Without resynthesis or continued stimulus, we show, for the first time, a reversible magneto-ionic switching between superferromagnetic (SFM) and superspin-glass (SSG) states using room-temperature Li-ion transport. We utilize the incomplete lithiation of NiO into nanoscale Ni and Li2O to switch between the states. Lithiation generates a fragmented nano-Ni network th
Distributional signatures of computation: inferring mechanisms from computation time distributions
Computational complexity theory provides a framework for analysing abstract models of computation, whereas computational systems operate as finite physical implementations whose behaviour is shaped by their architecture and physical substrate. In such systems, computational organisation cannot be directly characterised from algorithms or internal representations. Building on the use of reaction time distributions to constrain mechanisms in cognitive science, we introduce an empirical framework f
“I want Natalia Silva next” - Jasmine Jasudavicius calls for title shot after UFC Edmonton upset
Jasmine Jasudavicius wants the belt and the rematch, and she wants both in Toronto.
Emmanuel Macron slams 'failures' over protest unrest in France but refuses his interior minister's resignation
But France's president has refused his interior minister Laurent Nunez's resignation after nationwide protests turned violent over the weekend.
Market Efficiency in a Changing Asset Population: Mobility, Entry, and Survival over Cryptocurrency's Full History
Weak-form efficiency implies symmetry restrictions on the Markov chain governing movement across the cryptocurrency capitalisation distribution. We test them on the full listed population: 8,970 assets, 690 weekly cross-sections, 2013 to 2026, with entry, exit and survival observed rather than inferred. Symmetry is rejected in every era, but the asymmetry falls by seventy percent, and what converged is entry-driven compositional churn rather than coins' own valuations. The bottom decile earns 27
BBC pauses civil service secondment scheme
The BBC said all journalism and editorial decisions are made by BBC journalists and editors.
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
Party like it’s CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape
A Savannah police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
SPD officer Amber Harpe was fired for sharing her Flock access with her ICE agent husband.
Military Archives - Interesting Engineering
Stay informed about the latest advancements in military technology, defense strategies, and global conflicts. Explore the intersection of technology and the military world.
Deep LLM layers expose passage-level context in EEG during silent reading
In a previous report we showed that a decoder can recover open-vocabulary word-level information from 19-channel EEG recorded during silent reading, by aligning short EEG windows with hidden-state embeddings of the presented word taken from a large language model (LLM). That analysis contrasted two of the model's 33 layers: the context-free input embedding and one mid-depth layer. Here we ask how EEG-decodable structure is distributed over the full depth of the language model. We trained one dec
Transfer rumors, news: Galatasaray eye Man Utd's Fernandes
Galatasaray are ready to move for Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes. Transfer Talk has the latest.
India news: CJP alleges 'deliberate' delay in leaders' release
CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were due to be released on Sunday. The judge in the case has recused himself after claiming that he was threatened. DW has more.
CSE removes 2,000 Rehub bonds from listed market
The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) will delist 2,000 Series 2 bonds issued by Rehub Plc from Tuesday, October 20, 2026, following their repayment in accordance with the terms of issue. The bonds are listed on the Corporate Bond Market of the CSE’s Regulated Market and trade under the code REHUBS2,…
Obama calls Trump admin’s Ilhan Omar investigation ‘appalling', accuses officials of intimidation
Barack Obama warned that the investigation into Ilhan Omar could normalize political intimidation and encourage future presidents to target opponents
Anthropic commits 5% of its stock to a new 'public benefit' fund
Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, with the amount potentially increasing as its shares grow in value
What to Know About the Obscure Private Trust Looming Over Anthropic’s IPO
The AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves.
APOD: 2026 October 19 – Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 19 –… 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. Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source Explanation: Explanation : What is Treble Clef?
Equatorial Guinea is expanding an ambitious malaria elimination plan
Equatorial Guinea has tackled malaria with a successful strategy on Bioko Island
Meet the new Kerrigans: The Castle stage show’s cast revealed
It’s the vibe, 2.0 – the actors bringing Australia’s most beloved fictional family to the stage have been announced.
France’s Macron declines minister’s resignation after violent protests
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledges that police 'lost control' during weekend protests.
Chinese-Made Video Systems Deployed in Korean Army Command Centers, Raising Security Fears
One in every six video-conferencing units operated by the Republic of Korea Army is Chinese-made, raising concerns over potential leaks of military secrets. Th
Monstrous MCU Hero Appears in Thunderbolts* Art & It’s Not Abomination or Red Hulk
Thunderbolts concept art reveals Man-Thing nearly joined Marvel’s superhero team, but concerns about overshadowing Bob led to his exclusion.