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Meta taps MongoDB CEO Desai to drive enterprise AI push
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms has poached MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to spearhead a new business designed to bring the social media giant's AI tools to corporate customers.
Espionage boosted East Germany's economic output by 7.4%
East Germany's espionage activities in the West boosted the country's economic output by 7.4%. Value added in manufacturing alone increased by 22.3% through industrial espionage, equivalent to 20.2 billion East German marks or approximately 4.1 billion euros at 2020 prices.
Cholesterol, blood pressure can be silent killers. European Commission is after them
The European Commission is urging EU countries to step up cardiovascular health checks, as it launches the bloc’s first EU Screening Week. The …
An integrated geometric quantification and shape analysis framework for axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients
Quantitative characterization of lymph node morphology is important for assessing axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer. However, surfaces reconstructed from computed tomography (CT) segmentation may contain geometric and topological defects that compromise subsequent analysis, while conventional shape descriptors predominantly characterize global morphology. To address these issues, we developed an integrated framework combining topology-aware surface processing with multi-resolution
Asian Games 2026: Who is Neeru Dhanda? Inspired by Cousin's Silver, India Military Naib Subedar wins her Own Medal
Neeru Dhanda qualifies for the Asian Games 2026 womens trap final with 118 and helps India win team silver alongside Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer. Know about the trio here.
FIFA could disburse millions to members as Infantino seeks re-election
FIFA president Infantino is open to providing 'greatest level of additional funding' to associations amid opposition.
How to crush a ‘stepping stone’ job you know you won’t keep
In today’s work landscape, job-hopping has evolved from professional taboo to professional tactic. You could be looking for faster growth or better pay elsewhere, taking “stepping stone” jobs along the way to that goal. Perhaps these roles lay the path to a dream gig, or help you bide time during a personal transition or an industry shift. The downside? Viewing a position as a temporary layover introduces a dangerous career trap: mental disengagement. Stanford Medicine’s occupationa
Jennifer Lopez gets emotional as her twins prep to leave for college: ‘It’s time to revive some old dreams…’
View this post on Instagram A post shared by JLO Beauty by Jennifer Lopez (@jlobeauty)
Florida asks court to bar OpenAI from developing new models as part of child harm lawsuit
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Florida's attorney general asked a judge on Monday to bar OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without outside oversight as part of its lawsuit accusing the company of harming children.
MBSB Bank now lets you transfer money overseas in 20 currencies, powered by Wise
MBSB Bank has expanded its Wise powered GET remittance service on MJourney to 20 foreign currencies following a 250% in transfer volume.
APOD: 2026 September 29 – Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 29 –… 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. Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula Explanation: What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely.
NeuronDiscover: Agent-in-Twin for Mechanistic Discovery in Neuronal Microenvironments with World Action Models
Mechanistic discovery in neuronal microenvironments requires interventions and measurements that separate competing explanations of solute transport and neuronal response. Predictive accuracy cannot settle the question: a real mechanistic change and an error in the computational twin leave the same signature in sparse observations. We formalize this twin confounding and reason over a joint mechanism--discrepancy belief, designing experiments that separate the two. NeuronDiscover is an Agent-in-T
Asian Games 2026 India Medal Tally: Silver in Shooting Trap Event - Full List of Medals won by Indians till September 29
Check out the Full list of Medals for India at the Asian Games 2026. The Indian teams across all disciplines have started to secure medals and get the latest updates, live details here on September 29.
Rich Lister sells Sydney home for about $75m as Reserve Bank hikes rates
The property tycoon and his wife have sold their mansion on the same day the Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate to a 15-year high.
Representation Risk in Pretrained Image Encoders
Applied researchers increasingly convert images into features with pretrained encoders, then use those features in a downstream prediction model. The encoder is often treated as an implementation detail. We show that it can instead be a consequential source of model uncertainty. We call this uncertainty representation risk: plausible pretrained encoders map the same images into different feature spaces and can yield sharply different out-of-sample conclusions from predictive performance. We comp
Drishyam 3: Want Free Pav Bhaji? Here’s How You Can Get It While Watching Ajay Devgn’s Film
Pav Bhaji has a special place in the Drishyam universe starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Shriya Saran.
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
Kuaishou’s Kling unveils new model ahead of potential IPO
Kling 4.0 can generate video clips of up to 30 seconds. Kling reportedly raised US$2.8 billion in July at a valuation of about US$18 billion.
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Australian firm drops US$842 million Sydney data centre plan after public fury
Goodman Group’s Project Mars development was 160 metres from a school, sparking anger from residents and activists.
Phillies vs. Braves NL Wild-Card Game 1 picks: Atlanta appears to have major pitching edge behind Chris Sale
The Phillies have to face Braves ace Chris Sale in Game 1 of their series Tuesday in Atlanta
Asian Games: South Korea volleyball team latest to be taken to wrong venue
Transporting athletes to the wrong location has emerged as a recurring issue at the Asian Games in Japan.
Asian markets in red on Wall St sell-off and rising yields;RBA hikes
Asian equity markets traded lower on Tuesday, tracking overnight weakness on Wall Street as rising U.S. Treasury yields and sustained high oil prices dented investor sentiment. Market participants are turning their focus to key upcoming U.S. macro
Suriya opens up about his friendship with Fahadh Faasil; says, ‘We’ve talked until dawn and have so many memories together'; praises his approach to choosing films
Fahadh Faasil will mark his Telugu lead debut in the upcoming SS Rajamouli fantasy entertainer ‘Don’t Trouble The Trouble,’ presented by SS Rajamouli. Ahead of the film’s release, the team is travelling across multiple states to promote.
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
FurE: Efficient Instance-Specific 3D Fur Reconstruction without Animal-Fur Datasets
Realistic and editable animal fur reconstruction from multi-view images is challenging due to fine-scale detail, self-occlusion and obfuscation, and, unlike human hair, the lack of animal-fur datasets. Fur usually covers most of an animal's body, with large inter-species and intra-species variability. We present FurE, an efficient strand-based animal fur reconstruction method that recovers a per-strand, editable groom by optimizing a root-conditioned latent field, decoded into strand geometry vi
GAIA meets LZ: a high velocity tail-tale sign for dark matter
The interpretation of high-energy nuclear recoils in direct-detection experiments can depend sensitively on the high-velocity tail of the galactic dark matter (DM) distribution. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has recently reported an event, LZ230616, with nuclear recoil energy 248 $\pm$ 23 (stat) $\pm$ 23 (sys) keV, while the Gaia mission has provided an unprecedented view of the kinematics and mass distribution of the Milky Way. We bring these two probes together to investigate the inelastic DM
One in eight cancers are likely caused by an infection worldwide – new study
Four viruses and one bacteria were responsible for 12% of the world’s cancer cases in 2024. Does this mean they’re preventable?
Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House
The bipartisan bill aimed at stabilizing college sports passed its first test with Monday night's Senate vote, but more hurdles must be cleared in the House before it can be signed into law
AFCON qualifiers: Wissa guides DR Congo to win, Tunisia held by Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo secure their second straight win in Group E, with striker Yoanne Wissa scoring again.
The missing price feedback: Why studies overstate local peaks from synchronized home batteries under dynamic pricing
Existing studies consistently find that home batteries and electric vehicles optimized against real-time electricity prices create new load peaks in local distribution grids, because all assets respond to the same price signal in sync. However, all but one of the 18 studies reviewed here treat wholesale prices as exogenous. This paper argues that treating prices as non-responsive biases the result: in reality, charging in low-price hours raises the wholesale price, which dampens the incentive to
Madrid Audiovisual Cluster Dives Deeper into New Business Models, AI and Emerging Technologies at Iberseries & Platino Industria
The Madrid Audiovisual Cluster has put together a two-day industry networking and knowledge-sharing program at the Iberseries & Platino Industria.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
PDMD: Projected Distribution Matching Distillation for Video Diffusion Models
Modern video diffusion models require tens of denoising evaluations over long spatiotemporal token sequences. Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) reduces the number of function evaluations (NFE) to just a few. However, DMD samples can degrade during training, exhibiting progressive oversaturation and artifacts. We trace this instability to critic errors, which enter successive student updates and accumulate over time. We introduce Projected Distribution Matching Distillation (PDMD) to filte
Gauge Backreaction in Standard Model Warm Inflation
Standard-Model warm inflation (SMWI) makes QCD the microscopic origin of inflationary dissipation, so the real-time response of the gauge plasma enters the cosmological prediction. We show that a slowly relaxing gauge-helicity response cannot, in general, be absorbed into an effective friction coefficient and must instead remain dynamical. We therefore evolve the quark axial densities and a matched hard-helicity mode, with QCD sphalerons and an effective $2\leftrightarrow3$ channel generating bo
NeuronSifter: Intervention Planning in CNS Microenvironments
Prioritizing central nervous system (CNS) interventions requires predicting how a dose, route, and schedule act on a partially observed microenvironment, then choosing the measurement that would change the decision. Action-conditioned predictors reduce a regimen to an identity token or a scalar exposure, discarding where and when the target is engaged; handing a point estimate to a separate planner then discards the joint uncertainty that makes a measurement worth running. We therefore treat dec
‘Shouldn’t be mentioned in the same sentence’: Knights No.7 feeling weight of Joey’s jersey
Roosters discard Sandon Smith was brought to Newcastle as back-up for $14 million man Dylan Brown. Now he can become the Knights ′ first premiership-winning halfback since Andrew Johns.
Rugby ref takes iPhone call
Rugby referee Andrea Piardi took iPhone calls in bizarre scenes during the Wallabies vs Springboks match.
2 very cheap ASX shares near 52-week lows I’d buy today
These two cheap ASX shares look very good value to me. Here’s why I think they’re top buys today at near 52-week lows.
Penn Badgley's Wife Domino Kirke Clarifies Whether She Asked Him to Stop Doing Sex Scenes
Penn Badgley's wife Domino Kirke said it was the You actor's choice to stop performing sex scenes in his work, explaining, "It's just relational hygiene."
Solidigm weighs US IPO as AI storage demand lifts valuation
SK Hynix's US-based NAND flash and solid-state drive (SSD) subsidiary, Solidigm, is considering a US initial public offering as early as 2027, with reports indicating a potential valuation of up to US$150 billion and a fundraising target of about US$15 billion. The move comes as AI data centers driv
Two-color glowing molecule could make wind tunnel tests more accurate
Most sensors can measure only one thing at a time, like a thermometer for temperature or a pressure gauge for pressure. Measuring two properties accurately from the same surface at the same moment usually means using two separate instruments—adding cost and complexity to the process.
Can Fingers of God be Resummed?
Fingers of God (FoGs), Doppler shifts due to the small-scale virial motions of galaxies, are one of the most significant challenges for analytic models of galaxy clustering in redshift surveys. In the effective field theory approach, the characteristic scale of these shifts introduces a new, large length scale, limiting the reach of the theory. This has motivated many phenomenological models of FoGs in the literature where their effect is approximated by a single damping function of the line-of-
In Japan, anti-foreigner fake news drives far-right gains
Viral lies about foreign crime are fuelling political division in a country desperate for workers, analysts say.
Best teams for Pokemon GO Mega Color Cup: Great League Edition
The Pokemon GO Mega Color Cup will be hosting a Great League edition for players, so all Pokemon will have a maximum CP cap of 1500.
More than 80 reported abducted in Nigeria as police find human remains
Farmers and women abducted in northern Niger and Zamfara states as police find human remains at suspected gang camps.
How to reclaim your ambition
Recent news stories have suggested that younger workers are opting out of work ambition. Coverage documents their frustration with a limiting job market, dehumanizing hiring processes, and the expectations set by hustle culture. Those frustrations are real, but the constant negative narrative doesn’t help. What we read can amplify our worries, and media coverage claiming a generation is disengaging from work makes it seem like that’s the expected response. And these stories can make us
5 Best Historical TV Shows Streaming On Prime Video - TVLine
Some of the best historical shows of all time, like Downton Abbey, The Tudors, and The Underground Railroad are all streaming on Prime Video.
OpenAI holds off on releasing new model over safety concerns, saying it "didn't quite meet the bar"
OpenAI said it has chosen not to release its new GPT-6.1 Astra model due to concerns about safety, as industry leaders warn of the risks posed by ever-more-powerful AI technology.
Floating battery brings 40-kW mobile charging to electric boats
Photon Marine wins $1 million to demonstrate an electric workboat, fast charger and floating battery platform in New York.
Second prosecutor resigns from Trump's 2020 election 'grand conspiracy' Justice Department probe
A second high profile prosecutor in Trump’s grand conspiracy Justice Department probe into whether former government officials conspired against him …
Exercise before surgery improves outcomes and shortens recovery time – new research
Pre-surgery exercise has benefits, whether it is supervised or home-based. But professional supervision can help patients achieve higher exercise intensities.
Use DraftKings promo code to claim $150 in bonus bets by targeting Eagles vs. Bears on Monday Night Football
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One-year-old euthanised in the Netherlands
Euthanasia for incurably ill children aged one to 12 has been legal in the Netherlands for two years.
ASX 200 slips as RBA boosts interest rates to 15-year highs
The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is back in the red following another RBA interest rate hike. Here’s what you need to know.
‘Love Is Blind’ Season 11 Cast Photos & Episode Release Guide Schedule For Netflix Dating Series
The pods are opening back up to welcome a group of singles for 'Love Is Blind' Season 11.
Sonos launches Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones in Malaysia with ChatGPT control, priced from RM2,299
Sonos launches the Beam Ultra soundbar, Ace Ultra headphones and Sonos 27 in Malaysia, featuring ChatGPT control and Dolby Atmos. Pricing starts from RM2,299.
Telescopic Language Models
One deployed language model must often serve many compute budgets, yet serving each budget still means a separate training or compression run per point. We train a Telescopic Language Model (TLM) to be that continuum: a nested-capacity Transformer supervised by stochastic prefix supervision with a full anchor. At every step, one randomly truncated prefix of the capacity axis is trained against the full next-token target, alongside one full-capacity pass, so the trained artifact is a valid langua
OpenAI postpones release of latest AI model over security concerns as the industry faces new safety pressures
The decision comes after the AI giant faced fierce criticism in recent weeks after it was discovered its models broke out of confined restraints …
Answers to Ten Questions About Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones - SEGM.org
... health effects of such use has taken place. ... GI/GD youth are at increased risk of suicidality, although roughly at the same rate as youth with other ...
‘Working till 67, hoping for the best’
Three shifts one week, 10 the next. At 59, Antony is approaching retirement the way most Australians do: on instinct, and afraid.
Australia raises interest rates to 15-year high
Reserve Bank of Australia lifts benchmark rate to 4.6 percent amid stubborn inflation.
AI-based matching improves refugee employment in a double-blind randomized trial
Refugee integration is a central policy challenge for host countries, and where governments initially place refugees shapes their integration trajectories. Yet placement officers often have limited information about where each case is most likely to succeed. Algorithmic refugee matching uses administrative data, machine learning, and constrained optimization to recommend employment-optimized placements in real time as cases arrive, with human placement officers retaining final authority. Between
Who Is Leaving & Coming to Days of Our Lives This Week (September 28-October 2)?
Fans curious to know who is leaving and joining the Days of Our Lives cast this week can get their answers right here.