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Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk - Engadget
After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.
Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
Trump Mobile apparently failed to obtain necessary authorizations to operate the international calling portion of its phone service, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) wrote in a letter to the company today. Her letter said Trump Mobile also doesn't appear to have submitted a required plan for fighting robocalls.
US moves to modernize missile-tracking fleet with new vessel contract
TOTE Services and Hanwha Philly Shipyard have finalized an agreement to build a new Missile Range Instrumentation Vessel (MRIV) for the United States.
Gifts from big pharma influence doctors' prescriptions, study claims
The amount of gifts and free dinners doctors receive from Big Pharma may influence how many prescriptions they dole out, a sweeping review has found.
“No wonder Nike’s profits are tanking” “Looks ridiculous”: NFL fans mock CeeDee Lamb over “ugly” outfit for TNF game vs. Bucs
CeeDee Lamb had a one-of-a-kind outfit for his arrival in AT&T Stadium ahead of Thursday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Photos: Gaza before and after – a city transformed by war
Archive and recent photos show how three years of war left Gaza's streets, landmarks and public spaces unrecognisable.
This advice from Tom Hanks changed how I work
I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks. I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s futuristic gizmos. It’s heavy and impractical. It has no connection to the internet, no delete key, no spell check. You can’t use artificial intelligence to write on it. I wanted to enlist the typewriter as the symbol of an analog experience
Music group with learning difficulties fulfils late MP's Broadway dream
The Music Man Project is a charity in Essex that teaches music to people with learning disabilities.
Elastic's AlertZero puts AI agents to work on security alert overload - SiliconANGLE
Elastic's AlertZero puts AI agents to work on security alert overload - SiliconANGLE
Rubric-CEPR: Self-Evolving Image Editing via Reward-Verified Self-Distillation
Instruction-guided image editors have become highly capable, yet improving them further still depends on human-edited training pairs or external reward models. Such supervision is costly to obtain and can reward plausible failures: a realistic output may leave the requested change undone or alter content that should be preserved. In this work, we strive to improve a pretrained image editor using only its own generations, without human-edited targets or an external training-time reward model. To
APOD: 2026 October 9 – Stickney Crater
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 9… 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. Stickney Crater Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall.
Lyapunov spectrum of random neural networks
The Lyapunov spectrum of a nonlinear recurrent neural network with random asymmetric couplings is calculated in the limit $N\to\infty$. The calculation is based on a finite-$N$ identity that expresses the cumulative distribution of Lyapunov exponents as a response function of the tangent-space dynamics, with the tangent trajectory selected by a minimum-norm condition rather than by an initial condition. A cavity method then determines this response function at large $N$ through a self-consistent
Russini makes desperate move to salvage career after Vrabel scandal
Dianna Russini resigned from her position at The Athletic, in April, shortly after photos surfaced of her at an adults-only Arizona resort with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.
Uproar in NY after ICE shoots man with child in the car
There are protests and outrage in New York after ICE agents shot a man after surrounding his vehicle.
Albertsons Stock: It Don't Need A Turnaround To Win (Q2 Earnings Preview) (NYSE:ACI)
Albertsons (ACI) stock: valuation-driven buy case with 6.5x P/E, earnings yield, and turnaround catalysts. See here for more details.
Christa Pike Suffering 'Profound Psychological Trauma' After Surviving Botched Execution
Christa Pike is going through some major psychological trauma after surviving her botched execution ... this according to her legal team.
EY revenue hits $57b, AI services up 49%
The firm said revenue from AI services rose 49% in FY2026.
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
High-flying executives from across the world jetted in to the AI inquiry but the most startling revelations came from ordinary Australians.
Floodwaters Overwhelm Thailand
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La-Ribo: RNA Co-Design via Geometry-Latent Flow Matching
RNA function arises from the coupling of nucleotide sequence and three-dimensional structure, motivating their joint design. Coordinating global folding with nucleotide-level detail remains challenging under limited structural supervision. We introduce La-Ribo, a generative framework for RNA sequence-structure co-design via geometry-latent flow matching. La-Ribo retains a sparse phosphate-sugar--base scaffold and encodes nucleotide identity and local conformation in residue-wise latents. A share
Guardians erupt in sixth inning to stun White Sox in Game 4 of ALDS, force deciding Game 5
The Guardians have taken both games in Chicago after trailing 2-0 in the best-of-five ALDS
Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein faces police probe as protest tensions fester
The Democratic Unionist Party calls for the prosecution of Sinn Fein lawmakers who participated in the protest.
IQuest-Q1 Draws Early Developer Attention Across Coding and Agentic Workflows
/PRNewswire/ -- IQuest-Q1 has drawn early praise from developers and industry watchers since launch, particularly for its performance on coding, software...
Emotions run high at the round table as Celebrity Traitors banish two players
Viewers watched to see whether Richard E Grant could save himself at the first round table of the series.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.
‘I never gave consent’: The Australians being replaced with copies of themselves
High-flying executives from across the world jetted in to the AI inquiry but the most startling revelations came from ordinary Australians.
Soft sensor tracks bending and twisting in 3D using optical fibers
MIT engineers developed a flexible sensor that reconstructs 3D shapes using soft optical fibers embedded in silicone.
Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report and ...
The review was commissioned in response to growing public discussion around mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, alongside increasing ...
BREAKING: CSK pacer and veteran batter ruled out of NZ vs IND 2026 T20Is due to injury
New Zealand has been dealt a massive blow as two key players have been ruled out of the upcoming five-match home T20I series against India due to injury.
Trump calls Musk a ‘national treasure’ while handing him top US science honour
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 — Donald Trump presented Elon Musk with the top US science medal yesterday, as the rocket tycoon fully returned to the president’s orbit after an explosive...
The shockingly easy fix for your Gmail low-storage nightmare
It’s no exaggeration to say that cloud storage has changed the way we work—and, to some extent, even the way we live. Gone are the days of having your mountains of saved emails exist only on a single local system, without easy instant access from any device in front of you—and dealing with the all-too-common reality of losing your entire email archives when something goes awry. Gone are the days of painstakingly copying all your photos from an old phone to a new one or panicking ove
Identical Twin Sisters Married Identical Twin Brothers—But Didn't Tell Anyone for 4 Years
The Harp Twins’ Camille Kitt and Kennerly Kitt married the drummers in their band, identical twins Dromil Volfgang and Dromal Volfgang, but didn't tell anyone until four years later.
Personal AI Agents Are Great—Until They Share Your Bank Statement in the Work Chat
These hyperactive helpers can sometimes overshare, overpromise and overpurchase.
DreamTrue: Action-Faithful Robot World Model with Counterfactual Post-Training
We present DreamTrue, a multi-view, cross-embodiment robot world model for action-faithful and physically plausible video prediction. Training such a model on existing robot datasets faces two obstacles: imprecise calibration can impair action following, while limited coverage of unsuccessful interactions can bias predictions toward successful outcomes. To improve action following across embodiments, we render action trajectories into image-space conditions and introduce offline geometric calibr
A scalar-extended ${\rm U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}}$ explanation of the LUX-ZEPLIN 248 keV excess
The recently observed dark matter (DM) nuclear recoil event at an energy of $248 \pm 23\,(\text{stat.}) \pm 23\,(\text{syst.})\,\text{keV}$ at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, favoring an inelastic scattering interpretation, has motivated various beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios aimed at explaining the observed excess. In particular, this provides an opportunity to probe models that naturally accommodate inelastic DM scattering. In this work, we explore one such possibility by extending
Mental health and ADHD diagnosis can cause harm, says official review - Financial Times
Diagnosing people with mental health problems or ADHD can limit their lives, according to a government-commissioned review that recommends UK ...
Week 5 Fantasy Football Injuries: Uncertainty rules for Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and many others on Thursday
Fantasy managers will have to pay close attention this week because there are an inordinate number of unknowns on Thursday
Ethiopian drones deliver strikes on Eritrean troops in Tigray — TV
Ethiopian and Eritrean governments have not yet commented on the strikes
Microfinance Competition in the Presence of Moneylenders: Theory and Evidence
After decades of microfinance expansion and despite charging higher interest rates, moneylenders continue to exist alongside microfinance institutions (MFIs). We develop a dynamic model with ex post moral hazard, in which borrowers use MFI loans for production and can rely on moneylenders for bridge loans after shocks to repay MFIs and preserve future access to MFI credit. We then study how MFI competition shapes the coexistence between MFIs and moneylenders. The effect of competition on MFI cre
Law & Order Takes On AI Gone Murderously Awry In Season 26 Premiere — Read Recap And Grade The Ep - TVLine
The team took on Artificial Intelligence in the Season 26 opener. Find out who came out on top!
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration
While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods predominantly imitate demonstrated motions. Such strict motion matching often limits generalization to initial object poses, goal poses, and grasps not shown in the video. Alternatively, discovering a policy via reinforcement learning (RL) allows for broad generalization, but without prior guidance, it struggles with high-dimensional exploration in co
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI's annualized revenue is much lower than believed - SiliconANGLE
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI's annualized revenue is much lower than believed - SiliconANGLE
Johns Hopkins Medicine Experts Share Strategies to Defeat Common Respiratory Viruses
Similar to other viruses, vaccine types and dosing may vary based on a person's age, their underlying health conditions, risks for severe illness and ...
NFL Week 5 picks: Experts face off on 49ers at Seahawks, Falcons vs. Ravens and more
CBS Sports writers Jordan Dajani and Jared Dubin predict this weekend's top games
ICE agent shoots man in car with five-year-old child in New York: Mayor
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity.
AI notetakers are ruining decision-making
Every generation of leaders has been judged on their decisions. Ours may be the first judged on every draft, discussion, hesitation, and deleted comment that preceded them. Leadership has always required making imperfect decisions with incomplete information. What has changed is that every aspect of the decision-making process is now recorded and stored indefinitely. All our collaboration tools such as emails, Slack posts, meeting notes, and AI Copilot logs preserve every detail of our delibe
Thai Actor Apologises to Indian Fans Over ‘Bollywood Hero’ Stereotypes: 'Had No Intention of Mocking Any Race’
Thai actor Fourth Nattawat has apologised to Indian fans after facing backlash for using exaggerated gestures and stereotypes to guess Bollywood Hero on a game show.
Microsoft teams with Nvidia to take on Apple MacBook Pro with new Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra combines Nvidia RTX Spark hardware, up to 128GB of RAM, and professional software support, while lacking high-speed Nvidia connectivity.
Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
Likely in the next few weeks, a federal judge will decide if Donald Trump can become the first president to personally profit from selling early access to government information in his social media posts. At a hearing Wednesday, Department of Justice civil attorney Brantley Mayers argued that there was no conflict whatsoever with Trump charging up to $100,000 monthly for instant API access to Truth Social posts that often break news from his administration. Trump is the largest stakeholder and majority owner of Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company that owns Truth Social, and
Cosmic topology. Part IId. Eigenmodes and correlation matrices of lens spaces
The global topology of the Universe is a longstanding open question. In this work, we examine the statistical signatures of a positively curved universe with a Friedmann--Lemaitre--Robertson--Walker metric and the topology of a lens space $L(p,q)$. Since these manifolds are generally statistically anisotropic and inhomogeneous, their cosmic microwave background (CMB) covariance matrices contain non-zero off-diagonal entries that depend on observer location. We compute these full harmonic-space c
Sexual assault survivors’ stories may shift over time – a psychologist explains why it doesn’t mean they’re lying
The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
"I have spoken to the selectors" - Former India opener's huge claim on Mohammad Shami's potential return for NZ vs IND 2026 series
Ahead of India's upcoming tour of New Zealand, former opener Aakash Chopra has claimed that Mohammad Shami wouldn't return to the Men in Blue lineup, much like Bhuvneshwar Kumar, just because Ajit Aga
Kaiser Reef gold production fuels $40M war chest
Gold producer Kaiser Reef has built a $40 million cash and bullion position after a strong September quarter, delivering 6263 gold ounces from its Tasmanian and Victorian assets.
The Panel Information Matrix Test
The Information Matrix (IM) test is a natural specification check for likelihood-based models, yet cross-sectional implementations are often badly sized, confound neglected heterogeneity with distributional misspecification, and require third derivatives. We develop the panel information matrix (PIM) test for models with fixed effects. Explicit fixed effects isolate functional-form misspecification from time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Although the profile maximum likelihood estimator in
See Céline Dion's Graceful Recovery After Falling Onstage During Paris Residency
Céline Dion proved she was a true professional when she gracefully recovered from an onstage fall during the Oct. 7 show of her Paris residency.
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
One of the regulations that make vehicles in the US different from those in Europe or Japan is our headlight rules. They’re laid out in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and changing them is—or used to be—a lengthy, laborious process, which is a major reason automotive lighting technology has lagged in the US.
Technion researchers develop green hydrogen process that makes epoxide
Technion researchers developed a green hydrogen process that produces an epoxide instead of oxygen, achieving 98% efficiency in experiments.
Neural Decoding as Cognitive Inference
The brain maintains stable cognition despite continuously changing neural activity. How to extract stable cognitive states from variable neural observations remains a central problem in neural decoding. Existing neural decoding methods map neural observations to predefined external labels based on the stimulus-response principle, often capturing recording-specific spurious correlations. Inspired by how the brain infers the world, and specifically by Bayesian brain theory, we recast neural decodi
Historic Tour Down Under locked in on Seven and 7plus Sport
A world-first will be live, free and exclusive on Seven and 7plus Sport as part of a new multi-year deal.
Mexico prison clash in strife-torn Sinaloa state leaves 10 dead
Nine inmates and one visitor killed in Sinaloa prison riot, local authorities say.
The Myth of Restrictive Working-Time Agreements: Firms' Working-Time Adjustment after Exit from Collective Bargaining
Employers in Germany argue that collective agreements restrict their flexibility concerning working hours. Using data from the IAB Establishment Panel for the years 2008 to 2024, we investigate working-time adjustments after exit from collective bargaining. We find that exit is associated with only a modest increase in weekly working hours of around 0.3 to 0.6 per cent using fixed-effects and event-study models, corresponding to eight to thirteen additional minutes per week. This adjustment occu
Miss Universe factions clash over 2027 host country claims
Nawat Itsaragrisil (left) and Raul Rocha in happier times/MISS UNIVERSE THAILAND INSTAGRAM Filipino pageant fans woke up to news that the 76th Miss Universe edition will be hosted in Vietnam next