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Universities are making different choices about AI. How will they fit with their public missions?
Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from an emerging technology to one that is forcing universities to make consequential choices.
Towards Physically Grounded Articulated 3D Assets: A Multi-Agent Pipeline and Benchmark
In this paper, we study physically grounded articulated 3D asset generation---moving the goal from reproducing how objects look to capturing how they move and function. Inspired by the literature on procedural and agentic generation, we present Artisan, a system that extends the latest method Articraft by introducing a multi-agent pipeline with physical simulation feedback, enabling comprehensive attributes beyond geometry, appearance, and physically plausible articulation, such as collision-fre
Why the worst El Niño killed millions – and how we can avoid a repeat | New Scientist
The world hasn't experienced an El Niño this strong since the 1870s, when it sparked a terrible global famine. Are we better prepared this time?
Six-item 'American Covid' kit pharmacist urges people to keep at home
Keeping the six items ready at home can help if you suddenly fall ill with the virus
Alabama's Ryan Coleman-Williams unlikely to play vs. Tennessee amid multiple injuries
The junior wide receiver is dealing with knee and head injuries suffered against Georgia and is likely week-to-week moving forward, Kalen DeBoer said
‘Totally unfair’: Navi Pillay slams US sanctions against ICC
Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay has condemned US sanctions against the International Criminal Court.
When AI runs the company, what exactly is leadership for?
For quite some time in the already long series of articles I’ve been writing on what is and what should be corporate AI, I have been discussing concepts such as agents, working with ontologies and world models that represent the company, connecting them with management tools such as ERPs or CRMs, and basically, learning to optimize a company to the limit. However, now that we are talking, as Mustafa Suleyman says, about AI wiping out most white collar jobs in the next 12 months, we should try to
John Oliver Greets His New Skydance Overlords With Sexy Fanfic Pics of Insurance Mascot
“Hope you’re happy with what you bought,” the Last Week Tonight host cracked after showcasing several hypersexualized illustrations of Liberty Mutual’s new mascot
'GPU pricing to climb significantly' warns PC maker and 'elevated prices could stick around for some time' — while Nvidia's RTX 5090 might be on its deathbed
There's a salvo of worrying rumors for GPUs including that graphics cards will get 'significantly' pricier.
Galaxy Z Fold 8 popularity saves Samsung from shipment slump
The memory shortage continues to hit hard, but a strong product lineup helps Samsung retain its market dominance.
Unifying spherical convolutions through lifting
We develop a unified description of convolution on the sphere by lifting to the rotation group. A number of definitions of spherical convolution have been proposed, differing in whether the kernel is axisymmetric or directional, whether the output is on the sphere or the rotation group, whether the signals carry spin, and in their computational cost. No unified treatment exists. Regarding the sphere as the homogeneous space $S^2 \cong \text{SO(3)}/\text{SO(2)}$, we lift a spin $s$ field to the r
PhySeqNet: physics-informed fluorescent foci detection for BARseq spatial transcriptomics
BARseq enables spatially resolved gene-expression profiling across intact tissue, but its sensitivity depends on accurate detection and decoding of dense fluorescent rolonies. Existing spot-calling approaches can be conservative where signals overlap, while supervised deep learning is limited by the lack of reliable manual ground truth in real tissue images. Here we present PhySeqNet, a physics-informed deep learning framework for annotation-free fluorescent foci detection in BARseq. PhySeqNet t
Use DraftKings promo code to get $200 bonus bets by targeting Rams vs. Bills on Monday Night Football
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Photos: Protests over voter lists escalate in India’s capital
India’s opposition parties have marched in New Delhi to protest a voter list purge they say favours PM Modi's party.
Realized Tail-Risk Conditional Autoregressive Expectile Models: Accurate and Stable Forecasting Performance
A realized tail-risk conditional autoregressive expectile (RTCARE) model is proposed for joint forecasting of value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES). Realized tail measures such as the realized quantile and the realized ES, constructed from intraday high-frequency returns, are incorporated into the dynamics and measurement equations of the conditional expectile, allowing information about lower-tail risk to enter the forecasts. The parameters are estimated by Markov chain Monte Carlo, a
The Right’s Desperate Conspiracy Theory About James Talarico Goes Up In Flames
No, the Texas Senate candidate did not secretly travel to Ohio to receive treatment for a mental health episode
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million.
F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
Formula 1’s lengthy 2026 season is entering its final stretch. The sport took to the floodlit streets of Singapore on Sunday night, but Saturday saw action, too; this Grand Prix weekend was also the final of six sprints this year. The night race might be one of modern F1’s greatest spectacles. From overhead shots, the track becomes a bright, illuminated ribbon among the looming darkness of the city-state’s overpasses and skyscrapers. At ground level, the cars shower glittering sparks from their titanium skid blocks as the drivers flirt with how close they can get to the walls.
Necessary conditions for benchmarking next-generation AI in materials discovery
Current AI predicts materials by speeding up energy minimisation and training on large databases. However, scaling data generation prevents manual analysis by domain experts. If novelty is evaluated by chemical compositions or traditional representations in Crystallographic Information Files, or standard structure matchers based on manually chosen thresholds, one can easily generate millions of ``new'' compositions or files without discovering truly novel materials. This paper uses a hierarchy o
Seafood mix recalled over fears of contamination with deadly bacteria
An urgent recall has been issued for a packaged seafood mix sold in six states over concerns it may be contaminated with deadly bacteria.
PGA Tour's chief has key decisions to make as DP World Tour puts foot in the ground about LIV Golf
The Monday Tee Sheet dives into what's on Brian Rolapp's plate, which golfers starred over the weekend and how the sport's landscape may change in the next two years
France school shooting: Police detain pupil after two injured
Officials say a staff member disarmed the suspect, who hid a hunting shotgun in a guitar case, before police arrived.
Intentionally Overidentifying Local Projections
Local projections (LPs) have become a standard tool for estimating dynamic effects in macroeconomics and are typically implemented using ordinary least squares (OLS) for a given lag order. We propose an alternative approach that exploits additional lags as excluded instrumental variables (IVs). Under a finite-order model with martingale-difference shocks, the resulting (optimally weighted) IV estimator is never asymptotically less efficient than OLS and, as we show, can deliver substantial effic
Hepworth piece could fetch up to £8m at auction
A post-war sculpture inspired by the Cornish landscape is set to go under the hammer.
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch, or record users' activity all the time and gather all possible context.
Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
Google is releasing its second Fitbit tracker of 2026, offering fans of the aging Charge 6 a more refined option. The new Fitbit Edge slots right in between the Pixel Watch 5 and the Fitbit Air, featuring a compact screen and more health sensors than the Air. You won't get all the apps and features of the Pixel Watch 5, but the Edge is only about half as expensive. The Fitbit Edge is essentially a new Charge 6, but it has more of a Pixel Watch aesthetic. Squish Google's smartwatch from the sides, and you've got the Edge.
A Core Demographic of People Who Love AI: Pedophiles
AI models that are partially or fully open-source have led to a major surge in child sex abuse material online.
US turns to low-cost Blackbeard hypersonic missile to overwhelm Chinese defences
At US$385,000 per unit, the carrier-launched weapons are being developed with an emphasis on affordability and mass production.
Jamey Eisenberg's Week 5 Fantasy stock watch: Jayden Daniels, Braelon Allen rise as Jaylen Waddle struggles
Jayden Daniels and Braelon Allen boost their Fantasy value in Week 5, while Tyler Shough and Jaylen Waddle raise concerns
Pope Leo continues working after lung surgery announcement
Pope Leo continues working after lung surgery announcement
As midterms approach, Trump is sticking with tariffs even though voters disapprove
Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U.S. trading partners since the Great Depression is a winner.A recent poll suggests that is a big gamble with less than a month before the Nov. 3 midterms. Most U.S. adults disapprove of his trade policies, with more than 64
‘The Beatles’ Biopics Producer Says Releasing All Four Movies at Once in 2028 Will Have a ‘Cumulative Power That’s Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts’
Pippa Harris discussed the strategy to release all four Beatles movies simultaneously in 2028 and not expecting people to see them on the same day
NVIDIA And Cisco Cram 4x OSFP's Bandwidth Density Into An OSFP-Sized Module, Pushing AI Fabrics To 12.8 Tb/s With USFP
NVIDIA & Cisco have partnered to create USFP, an ultra-dense and compact form factor that drives up to 400 Gb/s speeds.
Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
For over a decade now, the only "official" way to play Hideo Kojima's cult classic, P.T.—the long-discontinued "playable trailer" for Kojima's canceled "Silent Hills" project—has been via one of the increasingly rare PlayStation 4s that previously downloaded a copy during its monthslong availability window. Now, though, one coder is helping to preserve the game with a porting tool that builds a playable x86 PC executable from the original PS4 files. Coder Lorean Xavier said he was inspired to work on the "P.T. for PC" project "because P.T.
The Singularity—Humans Merging With AI—Is Coming Within 19 Years. But It’s Already Starting Inside You Now.
Brain implants, deepfakes, and nanobots may be early steps toward a “You 2,” says futurist Ray Kurzweil.
People think I'm in my 20s and are stunned when I say I'm almost 50
On her birthday last month, she posted a video holding a cupcake with candles that changed from 29 to 39 and finally 49 - sparking a fierce debate about her real age.
The Rays can thank the Guardians for their biggest star: How a 'bad trade' sent Junior Caminero to Tampa
Cleveland swapped Caminero for Tobias Myers in a deal that even Guards exec Chris Antonetti admitted was a 'bad trade'
Taylor man arrested in weekend double shooting, police say
Joeseph Garcia was arrested after allegedly fleeing from the scene, according to authorities.
It Is Not About What We Want To Eat – Yinka Quadri Reveals Why He's Supporting Tinubu For Second Term
Veteran Yoruba actor Yinka Quadri has explained why he and other members of the Yoruba film industry are supporting President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a
Mike Love and Al Jardine of the Beach Boys Play Simultaneous, Historic Shows
As a frail Love played what could be his final Beach Boys concert, in Nashville on Sunday, Jardine was taking the stage in Cerritos, California, with ex-bandmates Bruce Johnston and David Marks
This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
This M5 Pro MacBook Pro is actually down to a normal price ($600 off)
Save nearly 20 percent on this monster M5 Pro MacBook Pro setup right now.
Biotech Startup Proposes Genetically Modified Microbes for Mars Settlement
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnology research startup suggests. Our species has launched nearly 50 missions to Mars since 1960, all of them robotic. If everything goes according to plan, they've all been building toward crewed Red Plan
Designing Protein Structures from Natural Language
A central challenge in de novo protein design is generating proteins with desired structural and functional properties. Existing design models typically require a dedicated input representation for each property, limiting the design objectives they support. We develop Prompteina, the first all-atom structure generation model that supports new and broader design objectives specified in natural language, analogous to text-to-image generation. To train Prompteina, we construct Prompteina-Data, a pa
Is Polymarket Legal in California? October 2026 Status
Find out if Polymarket is legal in California, how it's regulated, and what you can trade there in 2026.
UK PM Andy Burnham vows to renegotiate post-Brexit trade deal with EU
PM Burnham confirms talks in Brussels next month, insisting the British public will be 'the boss' of the reset.
Silicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at Tech Week
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from U.S. government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago.Presiden
Trump’s Vendetta Against Ilhan Omar Now Involves Federal Agents Raiding Her Home
Homeland Security executed a search warrant at the Somali-American congresswoman's home, reportedly in connection to a probe into her immigration paperwork
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Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the game, players must reach a target article using only article links. We compared sentence embedding models and LLMs across five Wikipedia languages and five academic-literature datasets. We const
Do AIs already process information in a way that gives rise to consciousness? | New Scientist
A leading theory of consciousness explains experience as information flowing through a global workspace in the mind. On board a luxury yacht, neuroscientists and philosophers recently debated signs of a similar workspace in the chatbot Claude
DyssomniaNN: Multi-Scale Spiking Neural Modeling of Human Sleep Disorders and Perceived Restedness
Clinical sleep medicine repeatedly documents profound divergences between objective sleep duration and subjective daytime impairment, notably exemplified by sleep state misperception in paradoxical insomnia and boundary instability in narcolepsy type 1. Here, we present DyssomniaNN: a multi-scale biophysical computational framework coupling Borbély's two-process regulation of sleep homeostasis and circadian drive with Saper's hypothalamic reciprocal flip-flop circuit and a recurrent corticothala
Eagles RB Will Shipley could miss weeks, per report: What's next with Saquon Barkley, Tank Bigsby also hurt
The Eagles are down to two healthy RBs on their active roster
The ICJ’s Rohingya ruling will test the OIC’s promises
Backing the genocide case against Myanmar must be followed by concrete action to protect the Rohingya.
Hilton’s AI Trip Planner Wants To Book Your Travel. Customers Aren’t So Sure Yet.
The hotel is using AI to keep bookings in-house, but most travelers still don’t trust a chatbot to plan their vacation.
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade Spars With Rachel Campos-Duffy Over Ukraine: 'Putin Is the Hitler of Our Time'
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade and Rachel Campos-Duffy clash over Trump's Russia policy, with Kilmeade comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation
A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables. Yet even a strong generalist like $π_{0.5}$ achieves 0% pickup success in our captured deployment scenes without adaptation, and collecting real demonstrations in every user's environment is prohibitively expensive. We present Splat2Act, an automated real-to-sim-to-real pipeline that personalizes a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy
Scientists Shielded Fruit Flies From Earth’s Magnetic Field. Some Lived 20% Longer
Removing Earth’s magnetic field changed mitochondria, movement and lifespan in fruit flies.
People think I'm in my 20s - they're stunned to find out my real age
Cat Pierce, 49, believes the most important part of her beauty regime has nothing to do with what she puts on her face - and credits looking after her mental health and managing stress.
Warriors' Kristaps Porziņģis remains away from team as he deals with mystery illness
The Warriors re-signed Porziņģis to a two-year, $40 million deal this summer, but he has not been available in the preseason
Blast kills teenager, injures dozens in northern Israel
A 15-year-old was killed and around 20 people injured when unexploded ordnance detonated in northern Israel.
When your AI system breaks—and what to do about it
The announcement of a new AI model or feature fills me with a mixture of anticipation and dread. I’m excited to see what “new thing” I might be able to do, but I also know that some of my existing processes and systems might break as a result. Every AI tool comes with the disclaimer that it can make mistakes. You might set up a workflow that is perfectly fine one day and perfectly awful the next. It’s an ongoing challenge. Unlike traditional software, once an AI system is up and running,
Britney Spears Just Released a 2001 Song She Wrote With Justin Timberlake
Spears recorded "She'll Never Be Me" for Britney, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, but the track was left unfinished and scrapped from the record to prioritize other songs