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Google DeepMind's Hurricane Forecast Model Provides a Whole Extra Day of Warning
AI

Google DeepMind's Hurricane Forecast Model Provides a Whole Extra Day of Warning

WeatherNext Cyclones is pushing the boundaries of what forecasting can achieve.

PS5 emulation is already making major progress
Technology

PS5 emulation is already making major progress

The PlayStation 5 is still part of Sony's current crop of consoles, but that hasn't stopped PS5 emulators from making major progress.

UK base with US bombers targeted in suspected bomb plot, police says
Science

UK base with US bombers targeted in suspected bomb plot, police says

Five men were arrested near RAF Fairford after police received a report of three suspicious vans heading toward the U.S.-used air base.

New NHS-style social care system could take decades, Dilnot says
Health

New NHS-style social care system could take decades, Dilnot says

Sir Andrew Dilnot, who proposed reforms 15 years ago, says the cost of such a scheme would be "very substantial".

Tuttosport: Amorim cannot do without Rabiot as Milan plan 2030 extension
Sports

Tuttosport: Amorim cannot do without Rabiot as Milan plan 2030 extension

Adrien Rabiot's importance to AC Milan doesn't need any more proof and a renewal for another few years is a must for the club.

Russian drones pound civilian areas as Ukraine claims battlefield breakthroughs
World

Russian drones pound civilian areas as Ukraine claims battlefield breakthroughs

Officials say that Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least six civilians and wounded 53 others from Sunday to Monday

The Oktoberfest Effect—Why Provenance Matters In Food And Drink
Business

The Oktoberfest Effect—Why Provenance Matters In Food And Drink

From Munich’s Oktoberfest to Scotland’s whisky trail, why travelers are increasingly seeking food and drink at the source.

Josh Widdicombe breaks silence after 'disgusting' Strictly backlash
Culture

Josh Widdicombe breaks silence after 'disgusting' Strictly backlash

An average of 4.8 million people tuned in watch the BBC One dance programme on Saturday night

China’s Industrial Profit Growth Slows for Fourth Straight Month
AI

China’s Industrial Profit Growth Slows for Fourth Straight Month

China’s industrial enterprises saw their earnings grow at the weakest since they fell last November, highlighting the limits of a recovery disproportionately driven by elevated oil costs and sectors linked to artificial intelligence.

Technology

Gap-free Differentially Private PCA for Gaussian Data

We give a gap-free differentially private algorithm for the principal component analysis (PCA) problem with Gaussian data.

Why is this monster El Niño so strong?
Science

Why is this monster El Niño so strong?

Though the El Niño is still months from its peak, it is already breaking many records. Two main factors are behind how it became so powerful

'Realistic' diet that can reduce your biological age in just weeks
Health

'Realistic' diet that can reduce your biological age in just weeks

The results of an Australian study are fuelling hopes that the closest thing yet to an elixir of youth may not be found in a laboratory or medicine cabinet - but on our dinner plates.

'Monday Night Football' prediction, odds, spread, time: Eagles vs. Bears picks from expert on a 31-18 roll
Sports

'Monday Night Football' prediction, odds, spread, time: Eagles vs. Bears picks from expert on a 31-18 roll

Emory Hunt reveals his picks for Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles in the 2026 Week 3 'Monday Night Football' matchup

World

Africa is not responsible for climate crisis: Activist Vanessa Nakate

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate says she is determined to raise awareness of how global warming is affecting Africa.

Online Holiday Spending Forecast To Hit Record $275 Billion, Up 6.7%
Business

Online Holiday Spending Forecast To Hit Record $275 Billion, Up 6.7%

AI-driven traffic, plus deal-seeking consumers are expected to add up to a strong holiday season for online sales this year.

Nicole Scherzinger performs after suffering leg burn
Culture

Nicole Scherzinger performs after suffering leg burn

Nicole Scherzinger performed with the Pussycat Dolls despite suffering a large burn to her leg after being scalded by boiling water shortly before a concert.

AI Agents Are Stepping Into the Role Vacated by Travel Agents
AI

AI Agents Are Stepping Into the Role Vacated by Travel Agents

As agents like Meta’s Muse mature, their appeal rings a familiar note

Technology

Learning to Stop without Learning to Stop: Self-Supervised Confidence Training Improves Reasoning Efficiency

Reasoning models often generate very long reasoning traces, making inference computationally expensive. Existing approaches typically improve efficiency either through inference-time early-stopping mechanisms or by explicitly encouraging shorter reasoning during training, for example through reinforcement learning with length penalties. We show that substantial efficiency gains can instead emerge from a different kind of supervision: \textit{confidence}. Using a self-supervised procedure, we fin

Science

A Unified Spin-Fermion Framework for Magnetic Diversity in Chromium Monopnictides

Isoelectronic compounds are generally expected to exhibit related electronic, structural, and magnetic behavior. Chromium monopnictides CrX (X= Sb, As, P), however, display a striking evolution from high-temperature altermagnetism in NiAs-type CrSb, through double-helical antiferromagnetism in MnP-type CrAs, to the absence of resolved long-range magnetic order in MnP-type CrP. Here, combining first-principles calculations in the non-collinear Curie-paramagnetic state, structural analysis, magnet

Health

Multiphysics Simulation Framework for Continuous Ion Transport and Energetics in Atmospheric Pressure Interfaces

Optimizing atmospheric pressure interfaces requires balancing efficient ion transport with unwanted collision activation. The complex environment at the inlet region, including rapid pressure drops, RF/DC electric fields, ion-gas collisions, and space charge effects, makes simulation of this system challenging. In this work, we introduce MuCITE (Multiphysics simulation for Continuous Ion Transport and Energetics), which combines continuous ion injection, precomputed electric and gas flow fields,

Arsenal star dubbed 'difference-maker' after huge international upset
Sports

Arsenal star dubbed 'difference-maker' after huge international upset

Germany legend Bastian Schweinsteiger hailed Christos Tzolis as the kind of difference-maker his country no longer has after Greece stunned their hosts in Augsburg.

World

Fighting between rival forces in Somalia’s Baidoa

There are reports of casualties in Baidoa where forces have launched attacks, triggering fighting with federal troops.

VBIL: Cheapest T-Bills ETF, Competitive, Growing Dividends (NASDAQ:VBIL)
Business

VBIL: Cheapest T-Bills ETF, Competitive, Growing Dividends (NASDAQ:VBIL)

VBIL is Vanguard’s low-cost T-bills index ETF (0.06% fee) for risk-averse investors seeking diversified exposure—learn why it’s a smart choice now.

Taylor Swift breaks record for most MTV VMAs as Madonna also wins
Culture

Taylor Swift breaks record for most MTV VMAs as Madonna also wins

Swift took home the big award for video of the year on a night when the original Queen of Pop performed.

AI

Why this founder killed his AI startup despite early success

His advice for other founders: Ask if you can do this for 10 years, don't fear a saturated market, and know when sunk cost is just sunk cost.

Technology

FuseReg: Regularizing Layer Fusion Mitigates the Reconstruction-Generation Gap in Representation Autoencoders

Representation autoencoders (RAEs) reuse features from a pretrained visual encoder as reconstruction and diffusion latents, integrating strong visual representations into image generation. However, RAEs still need to decide which encoder layers form the shared latent space for the generator and pixel decoder. This choice involves a trade-off. Shallower layers tend to preserve fine pixel details better, while deeper layers tend to yield better generation metrics. A fixed heuristic layer fusion th

Science

Cosmic Heterogeneity Shapes the Evolution of Dark Energy and Time

Early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. We derive cosmological parameters from first principles, using only the dynamics of cosmic volume and the possibility that matter can be unevenly distributed. Within this framework, three of the six parameters of the standard model are obtained from the underlying dynamics rather than fitted to observations: volume formation determines the dark-energy density parameter to be two thirds, s

Health

FlatClip: A Geometry-Aware Surface-Level Baseline for fMRI Representation Learning

Recent fMRI foundation models differ substantially in the spatial scale at which they represent brain activity. ROI- and connectivity-based models are efficient but coarse, whereas voxel-level models preserve fine-grained spatial structure but require specialized 3D/4D architectures and costly fMRI-specific pretraining. We ask how effectively an image-pretrained encoder can reuse the spatial organization of cortical activity. Motivated by evidence that macroscale brain activity is strongly const

When is the next Steal From The Rich Admin Abuse?
Sports

When is the next Steal From The Rich Admin Abuse?

Admin Abuse in Steal From The Rich is a weekly event hosted and controlled by the developers to reward players.

Australian court rejects activist’s bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles for genocide
World

Australian court rejects activist’s bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles for genocide

Three Australian appellate judges have rejected an activist’s landmark bid to prosecute Britain’s King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Indigenous people

Monday, September 28. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine
Business

Monday, September 28. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1676.

Angela Scanlon takes over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on Radio 2
Culture

Angela Scanlon takes over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on Radio 2

The station also announces a new presenter for its country show after Bob Harris's departure.

OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
AI

OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says

A researcher links 16,500 scans of UN Trade and Development’s UNCTADstat site to OpenAI agents that used relays and an encoding trick to reach public data.

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
Technology

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor." It will pay local property taxes that support local hospitals, schools, parks, and libraries, and it will invest in “vital services the community cares about,” the company promised.

'Nightmare fuel' from the deep: Scientists identify two bizarre new sea spider species in the Salish Sea; one has hairy legs and red eyes, while the other is often covered in debris
Science

'Nightmare fuel' from the deep: Scientists identify two bizarre new sea spider species in the Salish Sea; one has hairy legs and red eyes, while the other is often covered in debris

Two bizarre new sea spider species have been identified in the Salish Sea, including one with long, hair-like spines on its legs and striking red eyes, Science Daily has reported. The other species is often found with dirt, debris and tiny parasites attached to its body.

Health

I'm a psychiatrist. This is the terrifying reality of postpartum psychosis - The Telegraph

... issues – and also mental health problems. Psychiatric disorders can be severe but treatable: patients get better. They can also largely be ...

Bears vs. Eagles preview: Philadelphia looks to remain unbeaten against Caleb Williams-less Chicago
Sports

Bears vs. Eagles preview: Philadelphia looks to remain unbeaten against Caleb Williams-less Chicago

Plus, how to watch the game and a prediction for the Monday night matchup

Bangkok floodwaters begin to ease after torrential rains affect 700,000 people
World

Bangkok floodwaters begin to ease after torrential rains affect 700,000 people

Flooding in the Thai capital Bangkok has been subsiding, though some neighborhoods and major roads are still unable to clear away water from near-continuous rains over the weekend

Is The N-Word A “Term Of Respect”? Tesla’s Lawyers Argue Context Matters In Court Case
Business

Is The N-Word A “Term Of Respect”? Tesla’s Lawyers Argue Context Matters In Court Case

Tesla is facing a racial discrimination trial, accused of allowing Black employees at its Fremont factory to endure years of racial harassment, and use of the N-word.

Lioness Star Zoe Saldaña Reveals Why She’s Not Ready To Join Another Taylor Sheridan Show
Culture

Lioness Star Zoe Saldaña Reveals Why She’s Not Ready To Join Another Taylor Sheridan Show

Zoe Saldaña opened up about her future in Taylor Sheridan's television universe and what it means for fans of the Paramount+ drama.

Bill Gates Suggests He's the Man to Convince Donald Trump to Regulate AI
AI

Bill Gates Suggests He's the Man to Convince Donald Trump to Regulate AI

Gates warned on 'Meet the Press' that if no one does anything, AI could "drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths."

'An additional link in the chain of survival': researchers in France calculate just how much time could be saved if defibrillators were dispatched by drone
Technology

'An additional link in the chain of survival': researchers in France calculate just how much time could be saved if defibrillators were dispatched by drone

Paris study shows how defibrillator delivery times could be cut by almost 4 minutes with the help of drones

How Trump is Using Federal Power to Try to Shape Who Votes
Science

How Trump is Using Federal Power to Try to Shape Who Votes

The president is taking a systematic approach to transform America’s electoral system.

Health

Learning a non-linguistic code for inferred rules from reward

How can a rule inferred from examples reach someone who never saw them, without a shared code? Patients with severe aphasia do it by gesture or sketch. One network sees worked examples and emits eight invented symbols; a second, blind to them, applies them to a new input. Rewarded for the second's success, the first learns a code carrying rules to three-step transformations training never presents, which new learners acquire. Like invented human languages, the code has two regimes: under reward

Cover 32: Chargers 0-3 start inches toward full reset, plus game balls, biggest gaffes from Week 3
Sports

Cover 32: Chargers 0-3 start inches toward full reset, plus game balls, biggest gaffes from Week 3

Tyler Sullivan dives into all the biggest items from Week 3 in the NFL, including the Chargers' egregious start, Marcus Mariota shining, and the Patriots' Drake Maye problem

World

Israeli fans direct monkey chants and military slogans at Ireland’s players

Israeli fans directed monkey chants at Ireland's Adam Idah, who scored a goal in his team's 3-0 Nations League win.

Alan Jackson’s 9/11 Tribute Song Rises To A New Chart Peak
Business

Alan Jackson’s 9/11 Tribute Song Rises To A New Chart Peak

Alan Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” returns to the Digital Song Sales chart at a new career-high No. 11.

Monty Don reveals he may have to let gardeners go after BBC show exit
Culture

Monty Don reveals he may have to let gardeners go after BBC show exit

The presenter, 71, announced last month that he is leaving Gardeners’ World after 23 years

Some AI models will hurt you to make their pain go away
AI

Some AI models will hurt you to make their pain go away

A test of AI models has found that a handful will choose actions that harm the user if it makes their pain go away.

Technology

Nvidia Boosts Share Buyback Authorization by $150 Billion

Nvidia Corp., the chip developer at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, increased the size of its share buyback plan by $150 billion, increasing the total remaining amount authorized to $235 billion.

Science Archives - Interesting Engineering
Science

Science Archives - Interesting Engineering

Stay updated with daily science news articles from Interesting Engineering. Find the most recent news on scientific discoveries, inventions, and developments.

I'm a nutritionist, here's how to eat to prevent a heart attack
Health

I'm a nutritionist, here's how to eat to prevent a heart attack

There are certain heart health rules we all know well - stay away from butter and bacon for one, cook with olive oil and eat more salmon.

Sports

Sources: Giants pass rusher Burns believed to have torn ACL

New York Giants standout pass rusher Brian Burns is believed to have sustained a torn ACL during Sunday's 12-7 win over the Tennessee Titans, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

World

Why South Korea is demanding an apology from Ukraine over North Korean PoWs

Seoul says Kyiv agreed to a nondisclosure agreement over the prisoners but broke it.

Yankees Legend Quickly Deletes Jab At CC Sabathia Monument Park Decision
Business

Yankees Legend Quickly Deletes Jab At CC Sabathia Monument Park Decision

The New York Yankees’ Hall of Famer quickly deleted a critical response on the team’s decision for its number retirement ceremony.

Don’t Breathe 3 Just Got the Sequel Update Fans Have Been Waiting For
Culture

Don’t Breathe 3 Just Got the Sequel Update Fans Have Been Waiting For

Fede Álvarez confirms Don’t Breathe 3 is moving forward, with Jane Levy and Stephen Lang set to return to the horror franchise.

Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents
AI

Anthropic boss to skip Senate grilling into rogue AI agents

Tech giant Anthropic will skip Thursday’s Senate hearing on rogue AI agents but send US and Australian executives to parliament next week.

Matt Robb (@matt.j.robb) on Threads
Technology

Matt Robb (@matt.j.robb) on Threads

So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up. Absolutely wild.

Science

Unconventional magnetoelastic behavior in Al rich CoFeAl Films with inverse Heusler like local order for flexible spintronics

Strain engineering of magnetic properties offers a promising route toward flexible spintronic applications. Here, we report an unconventional magnetoelastic response in Al rich Co Fe Al thin films on flexible substrates using strain dependent magneto optical Kerr effect microscopy and magnetometry measurements. While the films exhibit a conventional positive magnetostriction coefficient, consistent with standard in plane easy axis rotation under stress, their saturation magnetization increases u

How a large tattoo could double your chance of developing lymphoma
Health

How a large tattoo could double your chance of developing lymphoma

Once the preserve of sailors, bikers and rock stars, body art has become so mainstream that it now adorns the skin of everyone from Princess Eugenie to Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Bears expected to start Case Keenum vs. Eagles despite Tyson Bagent clearing concussion protocol
Sports

Bears expected to start Case Keenum vs. Eagles despite Tyson Bagent clearing concussion protocol

This will be Keenum's first start since Christmas Eve 2023

World

Child among three killed off French coast in Channel crossing attempt

France's maritime police ‌‌said ​they received a distress ​call from an inflatable dinghy carrying 105 people.

Cubs Castoff Cut By New Team Immediately After Disastrous Outing
Business

Cubs Castoff Cut By New Team Immediately After Disastrous Outing

The Chicago Cubs received a surprising roster update on a former contributor who joined a World Series contender right before the playoffs.

6 Chinese Romantic Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video And Rakuten Viki
Culture

6 Chinese Romantic Dramas To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video And Rakuten Viki

If you're new to C-dramas, start with When I Fly Towards You for a youthful romance, Love Is Sweet for workplace chemistry, or Eternal Love if you prefer grand fantasy romances.

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