World in a Pulse
Briflio distills the day's signals into one calm feed — a personalized mix of the top stories across every topic, with context, not noise.
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now.
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
The mechanical keyboard isn't always so mechanical anymore. Over the past six years, keyboards with optical, Hall-effect, and other "contactless" switches have become increasingly common, often going for higher prices than traditional mechanical keyboards, which already command a premium over basic membrane boards. In return, they promise some theoretical advantages, particularly for gamers. In daily use, though, the differences can be pretty subtle. So what exactly are you paying for?
White House tracking suspected plague death and quarantines in Russia
Panic swept through the region of eastern Siberia following the death of a technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute.
Nobel Prize awarded for showing how nerve cells shape feelings
US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
NFL DFS, Saints vs. Falcons: Top daily Fantasy picks, lineup advice for 'Monday Night Football'
DFS millionaire Mike McClure shares his top daily Fantasy picks and lineups for Atlanta vs. New Orleans on 'Monday Night Football'
Nobel medicine prize honours US and German scientists for optogenetics work
The winners of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be announced in the week.
Do the humanities need a rebrand?
As entry-level job opportunities constrict, tuition costs rise, and AI threatens to disrupt the entire world, questions about the value of a liberal arts degree have intensified. I recently spoke with our client, Christa Acampora, dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at University of Virginia, about the state of higher education. We also talked about the job prospects for liberal arts majors, and why the humanities increasingly matter in an AI world. Celia Jones: As
How Many Nannies Do Celebs Really Use? Kim Kardashian Reveals Shocking Number
Kim spilled.
Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack
David Robinson argues that Silicon Valley lacks the wisdom on how to handle AI safely and urges the industry to seek outside experts to help build a culture that prioritizes it.
Ryzen 7 9800X3D Drops To $429 With Free AIO And Game As AMD Slashes Prices Of Several X3D Chips
Grab the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for $429 at Newegg with a free MSI AIO cooler and Onimusha game, saving nearly $140 total.
Higgsino dark matter compatible with the LUX-ZEPLIN high-energy nuclear-recoil event and IceCube constraints
We examine Higgsino dark matter (DM) as a potential explanation of the $248~\mathrm{keV}$ nuclear-recoil event of interest reported by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, taking into account IceCube constraints on DM annihilation in the Sun. In the nearly pure Higgsino limit, two neutral Majorana states separated by a small mass splitting $δ$ are connected by an off-diagonal coupling to the $Z$ boson, providing a natural realization of inelastic DM. Using a likelihood analysis, we identify 90\% conf
Symptoms that show you need to be taking cheap daily pill
A GP says you will even see an improvement in your mood and energy levels
Yankees vs. Rays ALDS Game 2 parlay, MLB picks: Runs likely at a premium behind Cam Schlittler, Freddy Peralta
It's a pair of standout pitchers on the mound tonight when the Yankees try to avoid a 2-0 ALDS hole at the Rays
Students continue to protest in France as hundreds of schools close
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Sunday about 500 schools likely to be fully or partially closed on Monday.
30 leaders on the legislation shaping their industries
If following a piece of legislation were only as simple, and pleasant, as School House Rock depicts. Proposed legislation or passed laws can change business as usual. Sometimes for the better, sometimes with negative consequences. Often, business leaders must advocate for or against policies that impact their industry, their customers, or how they do business. We asked members of the Fast Company Impact Council what industry legislation—state or federal—they’re following right now and why. Be
Princess Charlene of Monaco is a vision in Elie Saab as she joins husband Prince Albert to host a state banquet
The glamorous Monégasque royal wore the Princess of Wales-approved designer to a sparkling night at the opera
Deliveroo says its first robot deliveries will hit 5 UK cities soon — as a popular GPS app for the blind calls them a 'major step forward' for safety
Deliveroo's first robot deliveries will take place in London this month — and they could bring an added bonus for blind or partially sighted pedestrians.
MoSE3: Learning World-Space SE(3) at Every Pixel
Dense 3D point tracking has been a prominent paradigm for modeling motion in dynamic scenes, but a point track is just a 3-DoF translation curve per pixel: it captures where pixels go, not the rotation of the underlying part, nor which pixels move together as one body. We propose MoSE3, the first feed-forward model that predicts dense SE(3) motion from monocular RGB video, producing full 6-DoF rigid transforms at every pixel in world space. Per-pixel SE(3) motion offers a richer view of how a sc
Symmetry Engineering Enables Deterministic Ensemble Polarization Control in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Optical polarization is a key degree of freedom in quantum photonic and sensing technologies, enabling efficient light--matter coupling and directional emission. However, in defect ensemble-based quantum systems, orientational averaging across many defects suppresses optical anisotropy and eliminates a deterministic polarization axis. Here, symmetry engineering is introduced as a strategy to restore collective optical anisotropy in negatively charged boron vacancy (V_B^-) ensembles hosted in hex
Cancer warning: Experts calls for ban on ingredient in processed meat
Professor Chris Elliot OBE, a former government food safety advisor, says clamping down on nitrates and nitrites could slash the rising number of bowel cancer cases.
Use FanDuel promo code to claim $250 bonus bets by targeting Falcons vs. Saints Monday Night Football
Sign up and bet with the latest FanDuel promo code on Monday to get your bonus bets
In Russia-occupied Oleshky, Ukrainians face hunger, drones and landmines
Ukrainians are turning to weeds for sustenance in a town where bodies are reportedly eaten by feral dogs.
Brazilian financial stocks rise by double digits on presidential election news
U.S.-listed shares of Brazilian fintech and financial services companies rose by double digits in premarket trading on Monday following news that South America’s largest country is heading into a runoff election. Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro managed to win 47% of the vote, surprising some poll watchers, while incumbent left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received 47%, the Rio Times reported. The two will face off again later this month as neither candidate scored the 50
What to do if you missed out on Glastonbury tickets
Those who missed out on Sunday should not lose hope, as there are other ways to secure a ticket.
Meet the Startup Battlefield 200 judges who’ll decide the winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the final five Startup Battlefield judges who'll decide who wins the pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Get your pass now to save up to $100, and get a second at 50% off.
This 10-Minute Cooking Method Takes the Stink Out of Salmon
10 minutes and this countertop appliance are all you need for perfect salmon without the mess.
Ending clock changes? Health evidence favors permanent standard time over daylight saving
Several Canadian jurisdictions are moving toward ending the twice-yearly clock change, but a new analysis published in Canadian Medical Association Journal argues that eliminating the clock change is only half the decision: Governments must also decide whether to adopt permanent standard time or per
Contrastive Neural Embeddings Reveal Individual Traits Beyond Conversational Role
Contrastive representation learning is increasingly used to recover low-dimensional structure from neural recordings, but its output is typically validated by decoding accuracy rather than by the geometry of the manifold it produces. We apply CEBRA to EEG recorded from dyads in conversation, and analyze the resulting embedding, which training constrains to the 2D sphere. Labels describing the dyads, including the absolute difference between partners' autism-quotient scores, decode well above cha
Superstar injury updates from NFL Week 4; Alabama, Florida CFP paths diverge
Plus, winners and losers from MLB and WNBA playoffs
Lionel Messi to join Argentina for farewell match against Benin
The friendly marks a symbolic passing of the torch for a player whose international legacy includes a World Cup title.
AI doesn’t need to be superintelligent to be dangerous
We are in a moment of AI anxiety, plagued with the knotty and draining problems raised by the technology’s ever-growing capabilities. What will we do when AI launches massive cyberattacks that might target a government—or destabilize the global stock market? Do we need a kill switch to ensure that AI systems can’t take over the world, and is building one even possible? Should we come to terms with the prospect that AI might be a posthuman species due to inherit the earth? Could artificial intell
Rachel Jupp is a bold choice for BBC News chief, says Katie Razzall
The new director of news takes over from Deborah Turness, who resigned as CEO last year.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra deal: Get £380 off
Amazon is now offering 30% off the flagship Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. It's been updated this year with the brilliant Privacy Display feature
Less Decoder is More Encoder: Geometric Representation Learning from Novel View Synthesis
This paper examines the role of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) in geometric representation learning. In principle, NVS should reason about 3D scene structure, thereby enabling transferable multi-view geometric representations. Yet, existing encoder-based NVS methods yield poor representations. This is not because of a lack of supervisory signal, but rather due to inconspicuous architectural choices: \textit{spatially expressive decoders} that dilute representational capabilities of the scene encoder
Scientists found a new way to make hydrogen from water using light; the material avoids an expensive metal catalyst and could make clean hydrogen production cheaper
Hydrogen has long carried the promise of becoming a cleaner fuel, but making it sustainably remains one of the biggest challenges. Now, researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new material that uses light to split water and produce hydrogen, opening another possible route to solar-po
Nobel Prize 2026 awarded for showing how nerve cells shape feelings
US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded for their work.
Shohei Ohtani still struggling at the plate: Can the Dodgers survive with this version of their superstar?
Ohtani's second half was devastated by injuries and he's just 2 for 8 with no extra-base hits or walks in the NLDS so far
US pulls bombers from UK base: Is Iran manoeuvring Trump’s war plans?
The withdrawal means the US lost a convenient launchpad, not its underlying strike capability, said an expert.
EPAM Unveils New Frontier AI Service, Bridging the Enterprise Intelligence Gap for GenAI and Autonomous Agents
/PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) today announced the launch of a new strategic offering dedicated to powering the next generation of frontier AI...
BBC appoints Rachel Jupp as new director of news
Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor.
The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The full TechCrunch Disrupt Stage lineup revealed, featuring Max Hodak, Mark Wahlberg, Benchmark partners, and more. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second at 50% off.
'Ted Lasso' Season 4: When to Watch the Finale on Apple TV - CNET
The 10th and final episode of Ted Lasso season 4 drops this week on Apple TV. You can stream the first nine episodes now.
Florida's Burmese pythons are carrying three previously unknown RNA viruses; scientists are investigating whether they could reach native snakes
an alphavirus, a hepacivirus and an arterivirus. They also detected a previously characterised serpentovirus.
RNADyn: A Benchmark for Generating and Understanding RNA Dynamics
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) functions through conformational changes that are not fully captured by static structures. However, large-scale standardized RNA dynamics data remain limited, and existing approaches typically treat trajectory generation and dynamics understanding as separate objectives. Here, we introduce RNADynBench, a standardized RNA molecular dynamics (MD) benchmark with 2585 quality-controlled 100-ns all-atom trajectories and leakage-controlled splits. Building on RNADynBench, we dev
Saints vs. Falcons picks, player props: Expert's best bets for Monday Night Football in NFL Week 4
Target a high-scoring NFC South clash in New Orleans with top player props for Bijan Robinson and Chris Olave, plus value on anytime touchdowns
Samoa Prime Minister apologises after Nazi salute video surfaces
Samoa PM has apologised after a video of him resurfaced, showing him leading a Nazi salute and saying ‘Heil Hitler'.
The $64 billion functional drink boom has found its next target: kids
Mere decades ago, children would quench their thirst with sugary, neon-colored Hi-C, Kool-Aid, and Capri Sun, and in more desperate moments, even the backyard garden hose was sufficient. But recently, there’s been a proliferation of new children-focused beverage innovations from mainstay brands like Kraft Heinz’s Capri Sun and Kool-Aid and Nestlé’s Gerber, as well as startups founded by Jennifer Garner, the actress, and Michelle Obama, the former first lady, that come with stronger hydr
Sky News paused for breaking election bombshell
A snap election has been called.
Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
I wasn’t prepared for Element and Millet’s new outdoor collab to go this hard – those hairy suede approach shoes are simply incredible
The second Millet x Element collection takes skate style into the mountains, and some of its best pieces are already disappearing
Should we keep children away from sugar for their first 1000 days? | New Scientist
The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our children eating any sugar at all? Columnist Alice Klein takes a look at the evidence for cutting out sugar from conception to age 2
Broken scale symmetries in undercomplete linear autoencoders
Neural network loss landscapes have many symmetries, which are preserved by gradient flow but broken by finite-stepsize stochastic gradient descent (SGD). A canonical example of such a symmetry is scale in homogeneous networks: one can scale up the parameters in one layer and down in the next without changing the network output. Previous work has documented cases in which SGD breaks this symmetry in favor of balancing gradient noise or minimizing fluctuations. Here, we show that the solution geo
Use BetMGM bonus code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 bonus bets by targeting Falcons vs. Saints Monday Night Football
Use the latest MGM promo code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses for Saints vs. Falcons, Monday Night Football
Before UK Greens, who else has equated Zionism with racism?
Israel condemns the move as the party's vote causes an uproar, including among party members.
Once Upon a Farm Expands Kids Portfolio With Organic Electrolyte Pouches
Providing real-food fuel for the back-to-school season, this expansion solidifies the brand's leadership in organic, simple, nutritious foods for children, addressing growing parental demand for clean snack options across all early childhood stages Download High-Res Product Images Here....
Indian singer Anuv Jain on finding success without the Bollywood boost
The star reveals why he is "very selective" about releasing music - and shares his future collab hopes.
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
4DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agents on Inverse Graphics of Dynamic Scenes
We introduce 4DCodeBench, a benchmark for 4D inverse graphics through code generation, in which agents reconstruct dynamic scenes from video as executable graphics programs. To accomplish this, agents must translate visual observations into compact representations of scene structure and dynamics, by implementing abstractions such as physical simulations to reproduce complex behavior. To evaluate this capability, we curate a set of real-world videos and construct synthetic scenes spanning diverse
When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
German, U.S. scientists win Nobel in medicine for advancements in optogenetics
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics," the award-giving body said Monday.
CBS Sports 138: Alabama joins Texas, Georgia in top four as SEC teams headline college football rankings
The SEC claims three of the top four spots, while a massive logjam complicates the middle of our comprehensive FBS rankings
Is Iran charging a toll to allow oil traffic through Hormuz?
Crude exports bypassing Hormuz surged in September, yet oil prices remain high. Could a secret fee be the reason?
7 oil exporters agree to keep production steady this November as Iran war disrupts global supplies
Seven major oil-exporting countries agreed Sunday to keep production steady in November at a time when the Iran war has driven the price of benchmark Brent crude oil above $100 a barrel.The so-called OPEC+ subgroup — Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman — will meet again on Nov. 1 to review conditions in the oil market.The fighting with Iran, which began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28, has disrupted global oil supplies and driven prices higher.The Group of S
Mark Ruffalo Tells Trump ‘Hands Off Our F—ing Vote’ or ‘I’m Gonna Hulk Out’: ‘You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry’
Mark Ruffalo slammed Trump at a Hands Off Our Vote event, saying he's going to "Hulk out" if he attempts to restrict voting in the midterms.