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7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open
In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect directly with experienced founders, investors, and startup leaders is almost here.
How Lao Gan Ma, China’s iconic chilli brand, got caught in an AI storm
Viral claims of AI-driven job cuts at the Guizhou-based firm have brought anxieties about automation into sharp focus.
Measuring the magnetization profiles of galaxy groups and clusters
Magnetic fields are vital in determining the physical conditions of baryons in massive halos. They are, however, notoriously difficult to observe. This impacts problems from our understanding of galaxy formation, to the observed deficit in the amplitude of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) power spectrum that affects cosmological inferences. Although Faraday rotation measures (RMs) offer a direct probe of magnetic fields, it weights magnetic fields by the free-electron density. Several probes of
Sufficiency Theorem and Closed-Form Posterior for a Windowed Change Point Detection Task
To function effectively in a changing world, agents must detect changes and act on them in a timely fashion. We study this in the context of a change point detection task in which clicks arrive from a Poisson process whose rate changes at an unknown time. An agent must declare the change within a detection window of fixed width or the trial ends in a miss. Here we prove a window sufficiency theorem, which states that the posterior probability of a change depends only on the clicks within the mos
Are Brighton a Premier League contender? Manchester City EFL Cup match will be biggest test yet
Sitting third in the Premier League with the division's best attack, the Seagulls have weathered key exits and injuries under Fabian Hurzeler to look like genuine top-four contenders
Pakistan’s Rauf sanctioned for conduct contrary to ‘spirit’ of cricket
One demerit point added to the Pakistan pacer Haris Rauf’s disciplinary record for conduct during ODI against England.
Airbnb’s next big bet: 1 million free nights a year for people in crisis
Susan Bailey still vividly remembers the first time she hosted a family in need of emergency housing. It was 2017, and she had just renovated a property near her home in Colorado with the idea of adding it to her growing portfolio of Airbnb rentals. One evening, she got a call out of the blue from someone at Airbnb Open Homes, as Airbnb’s program for housing people in crisis was then known. “It was eight o’clock on a Thursday night,” Bailey says. Airbnb asked if she would be willing to
Review: Goodboy Galaxy (Switch) – A Brilliant GBA Throwback That Loves Taking Your Toys Away
You can teach an old dog new tricks.Fans of Metroidvanias are used to the genre’s design conventions: obtain new abilities, and tantalisingly inaccessible areas of the map gradually open up. What sets Goodboy Galaxy apart is that, despite giving you upgrades, its design is ultimately far more intere
Trouble is brewing in AI paradise
The AI boom faces a reckoning as infrastructure stocks tumble and fears of rogue agents grow. But Anthropic has other plans.
China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
Subsea cable projects owned by US companies such as Google and Meta face some of the greatest risks from the threat of deep-sea sabotage in the Pacific Ocean, according to a new report.
I Asked ChatGPT Terra 6.1 To Do My Job For A Day. Here’s What Happened
Just hours ago, OpenAI released one of its newest models, ChatGPT’s Terra 6.1. Since I have a complimentary ChatGPT Pro subscription, I got to tinker with the latest Terra model upgrade hours before the announcement. When I first saw it appear in my model selector on ChatGPT Work, I naturally had …
EU alcohol industry defies Heineken’s warning on weight-loss drugs
Heineken urged pubs and bars to adapt to the rise of drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy
76ers vs. Pacers prediction, odds, time: 2026 NBA picks for Wednesday, Oct. 28 from proven model
SportsLine's model reveals its Indiana Pacers vs. Philadelphia 76ers best bets on Wednesday
Ballon d’Or win will help keep Kane at Bayern, says Germany’s Matthaus
Former World Cup winner Lothar Matthaus says relationship between Harry Kane and club Bayern Munich is 'perfect'.
Crumbl cookies store closures: List of shuttered locations grows in 2026 as viral chain faces headwinds
It’s hard to think of a more viral dessert chain in the past several years than Crumbl. The cookie shop, known for its rotating menu and massive, pricey, calorie-packed cookies, has seen major success (and expansion), thanks in part to its presence on TikTok. The brand has built a huge fanbase since its founding in 2017. But as Fast Company previously reported, 2026 has been hard on Crumbl, with plunging sales, cost-conscious consumers staying away as their discretionary spending dollars dry
Russell Brand says allegations had devastating impact on him
The entertainer begins giving evidence at his trial on charges including rape at Southwark Crown Court.
Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability
Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Jaeger, while navigating the engineering tr
Apple’s iPhone Duo Fault Isn’t Terminal to Foldable Foray
The first-generation foldable has succumbed to a first-generation sort of defect
Weighing dark matter particles with gravitational waves
It is commonly assumed that the mass of dark matter particles cannot be determined from their gravitational effects when dark matter behaves as collisionless matter. Here we show that extreme-mass-ratio inspirals observable by millihertz gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) could measure the mass of ultralight dark matter particles in sufficiently dense dark matter spikes. The separation of scales between the two black holes allows ultralight dar
In Japan, body dysmorphic disorder can drive repeated surgery, daily distress
A woman in her 30s who sees cosmetic surgery as casually as a trip to the hairdresser is among patients highlighting the difficulty of identifying body dysmorphic disorder…
Genshin Impact K.K leak teases character design
K.K. is one of the oldest mysterious characters in Genshin Impact, and their potential character design has finally been leaked.
Victims of Jordan’s air strikes in Syria
Jordan’s air strikes in southern Syria killed at least seven people, including three children. Here are their stories.
The unexpected mistakes that cost executives their next big role
If you dropped an executive from 2016 into today’s job market, they would hardly recognize it. In just a decade, artificial intelligence has transformed how leaders are sourced and assessed. Simultaneously, demand for proven leadership is so strong that some retired CEOs are being called back into the workforce. These factors have changed the executive search landscape so much that it makes how candidates position themselves throughout the search process critical in getting the opportuniti
Jack Antonoff to Ed Sheeran: "We all live in a world where billionaires are constantly telling us what to do – so stand the fuck up”
Jack Antonoff has called out Ed Sheeran for the way he handled he handled the controversy around his ‘Loop Tour’ – urging the singer to “stand the fuck up” against billionaires telling him what to do.
AI Cybersecurity Startup Upwind Raises at $3.8 Billion Value
Upwind Security, a San Francisco-based startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications, has secured $400 million in fresh financing that values the company at $3.8 billion.
Honeycomb-Surfels: Compact Hexagonal Primitives for Efficient Scene Rendering and Reconstruction
Novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction have advanced rapidly with radiance fields and splatting, yet their memory and computational demands limit their use in resource-constrained settings. We introduce Hexels: novel planar hexagonal surface elements with a first-order spatial color field for efficient 3D scene and 2D image representation. Hexels exploit locally planar regions with smoothly varying appearance using fewer, larger primitives. Their hexagonal support provides an area- and bound
110 Chinese humanoid robots dance in sync to set Guinness World Record
China sets a Guinness World Records title as 110 AGIBOT humanoid robots perform synchronized dance routines.
A unified coarse-grained neural network potential for the dynamics of biomolecular complexes
The behavior of biomolecular complexes is governed by chemically specific interactions and often involves rare events that atomistic molecular dynamics struggle to capture within accessible timescales. Here we introduce AMARO v2.0, a coarse-grained neural network potential that retains all heavy atoms and treats solvent implicitly. Hydrogen-aware bead types and total-charge conditioning provide a shared representation for proteins, drug-like molecules, and their complexes, including ternary prot
NFL Week 8 picks, best bets: Commanders handle disadvantaged Eagles, Jaguars rout Colts
Tyler Sullivan picks every game on the Week 8 schedule, including five locks against the spread
Real Madrid apologise to Chinese people for Mbappe’s Mao ‘dictator’ remark
Mocking Mao Zedong is taboo in China, which is a lucrative market for players and teams such as Kylian Mbappe's Real.
Taiwan's United Microelectronics Sees Trouble Brewing in Budget Smartphones, but Says Its Exposure Is Limited
Why It's Moving, Tech, Movers, News, Earnings
Ex-TLC Star Karen Derrico's Ex Claims She's Hanging with Man Who Inappropriately Touched Their Daughter
Former TLC star Deon Derrico claims his ex-wife, Karen Derrico, is hanging out with a man who crossed the line ... allegedly touching one of their daughters inappropriately, TMZ has learned.
PHP’s AI-found flaws expose a bigger gap: Who guards AI agents?
AI found PHP’s decade-old flaws in two days. But patching at that speed means letting AI act on its own, and nobody’s guarding what it can touch.
ThinkWorld: World Imagination Reinforces Chain-of-Dynamics Reasoning
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress in robotic manipulation, but their generalization remains constrained by the diversity and coverage of action-labeled robot demonstrations. Human videos provide much broader behavioral and environmental experience, while learning from them faces a fundamental trade-off between scalable data and explicit action grounding. We introduce ThinkWorld, a VLA learning framework that grounds action reasoning in world dynamics and strength
BNP Paribas downplays French debt exposure as profit beats forecasts
The French multinational bank BNP Paribas beat profit forecasts in the third quarter as revenue from equities trading surged 50%, and announced a €1.3 billion share buyback while playing down its exposure to French debt.
Are you an organ donor? Here are some rule changes you may want to know
Transplant teams can talk to families about organ donation before they've decided whether to continue life-sustaining medical care for loved ones. Until now, that has been forbidden.
Kennesaw State vs. MTSU prediction, odds, time: Week 9 Wednesday college football picks from proven model
SportsLine's model revealed its best bets for Wednesday's Conference USA college football matchup of the Kennesaw State vs. Middle Tennessee
Cyclone leaves trail of destruction in India as thousands evacuated
Cyclone Arnab has left a trail of destruction along India’s eastern coast.
National Chocolate Day 2026: Freebies and deals to satisfy your sweet tooth
Chocolate might not be able to solve all of the world’s problems, but it certainly improves them, even if the effects are just temporary. Since today (Wednesday October 28, 2026) is National Chocolate Day, it is the perfect excuse to indulge in a sweet treat or two. This selfless act will stimulate the economy and spread joy. Before all that, let’s learn a thing or two about cacao. Then we will dive into the deals. A brief history of chocolate The ancient Olmec, Maya, and Aztec peo
Fair City on Thursday: 'It's not going to work out well'
DI Buckley has a warning for his undercover colleague Síofra in Thursday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
Hate setting up eSIMs? Gemini might soon do it for you (APK teardown)
We've spotted a new connector for Gemini that help you set up a new eSIM, convert a physical SIM to an eSIM, transfer profiles, and more.
WebMCP: Stop scraping the web, start calling it (W3C TPAC developer meetup, Dublin)
Back to WebMCP, this time for the W3C developer meetup alongside TPAC in Dublin. Fitting, since WebMCP is being standardized at the W3C. Agentic browsing today works despite websites, not with them: agents scrape the DOM, guess where to click, and break when the UI changes. In this short talk, I arg
Amphibians Aren't Supposed to Live in the Ocean. 237 Million Years Ago, This Armored Creature Did
A bizarre prehistoric predator may have solved an evolutionary problem that still defeats amphibians.
Every route counts, but some count more: a max-plus view of the C. elegans brain
Brains do not simply add up every signal they receive: they select which routes dominate. Yet connectomes are usually analyzed with tools that sum over all paths and place neural states in Euclidean spaces, blurring the feedback circuits that may sustain internal states. Here we treat neural signaling as routing instead of diffusion and describe it with max-plus algebra, in which signals accumulate along a path and the strongest route prevails. We propose a model in which the functional connecto
One year later, regrading the 10 biggest deals from the 2025 NFL trade deadline
From the Colts' disastrous gamble on Sauce Gardner to the Eagles' productive Jaelan Phillips rental, here is how last year's biggest deals have aged
Tens of thousands flee Ethiopia fighting into neighbouring Kenya
Tens of thousands of people have crossed into Kenya, fleeing fighting between regional forces in Ethiopia’s Moyale town.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Criticizes Pentagon’s 90-Day FORTRESS Plan
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Pentagon’s FORTRESS plan requiring US military bases to sustain operations independently for 90 days.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s Stranded mission had me hooked for hours, yet left me wanting more
For years, Call of Duty’s campaign mode has used big, scripted set pieces to tell the overarching story amid all the adrenaline-pumping action. The 2023 Modern Warfare 3 tried to shake up the established formula by introducing a handful of short open combat missions, and I genuinely liked the idea,
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
An EVM-Cosmos Bridge for Atomic, Semantic-Preserving Transfer of Environmental Tokens
Transferring semantically typed tokens between heterogeneous blockchains (e.g. EVM and Cosmos ecosystems) raises two problems: semantic mixing, the loss of a token's domainspecific meaning in transit (e.g., CO2 removals issued under different methodologies), and atomicity despite divergent consensus and timing assumptions. We propose a bridge that addresses both. A deterministic indicator identity derived from cryptographic commitments, mirrored in class registries on both chains and checked at
Military Archives - Interesting Engineering
Stay informed about the latest advancements in military technology, defense strategies, and global conflicts. Explore the intersection of technology and the military world.
Lilly says ‘triple-G’ drug beats Novo’s Ozempic in diabetes study
Data add to expectations that the drug will be one of Lilly’s greatest growth drivers.
Thunder vs. Mavericks NBA picks: Will short-handed Oklahoma City fall from ranks of unbeatens Wednesday?
The unbeaten Thunder are very short-handed tonight in Dallas
Israel’s election: The battle between change and anti-Palestinian sentiment
With both blocs short of a majority, parties face a choice: to break the taboo on Arab allies or return to the polls.
DG Stock Declines Pre-Market as Dollar General Rejects FTC Allegations - Dollar General (NYSE:DG)
Dollar General denied systematically overcharging shoppers after the FTC and 20 states sued, citing 29,265 complaints and seeking penalties.
Celebrity Traitors' Joe Lycett's tribute to viral TikTok nan
Anne Hughes found fame after being hoisted into the air after getting caught in shop shutters.
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Clear out your iPhone storage with this $29.99 lifetime deal
Cleaner Kit finds duplicate photos and shrinks bulky videos on your iPhone for a one-time $29.99.
Improving cosmological distance measurements at high redshift using Lyman-Alpha forest BAO reconstruction
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measures baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the Lyman-$α$ (Lyman-alpha) forest and provides a robust probe of the expansion history in the matter-dominated era. Yet, non-linear structure formation broadens and shifts the BAO peak. To undo these effects, we extend standard Zel'dovich reconstruction, routinely applied to galaxy surveys, to the Lyman-alpha forest. We validate our methodology on large-volume idealized Lyman-alpha forest mocks painte
Rethinking longevity beyond a longer lifespan - Mass General Brigham
... health and metabolic health. “We look at those four domains and ask, 'What if we could see those diseases coming and stop them?'” he said. “And ...
Knicks vs. Bulls odds, prediction, time: 2026 NBA picks for Wednesday, Oct. 28 by proven model
SportsLine's model reveals its New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls best bets on Wednesday night
Photos: Spain high-speed train crash kills 30
Health Minister Monica Garcia says emergency workers are focusing on rescuing survivors.
Memory chip stocks are back on the rise today: What’s driving the upswing for Micron, Sandisk, and SK Hynix?
Memory chip stocks have had a particularly bad run as of late, but today might mark the beginning of a turnaround. Shares of SK Hynix Inc. closed 10.89% up on Wednesday following better-than-expected third-quarter results, including over 100 trillion won in sales for the first time. The South Korean company reported 104.62 trillion won ($78.13 billion) in revenue, beating Wall Street’s expected 98.34 trillion won, according to consensus estimates cited by CNBC. It signified a 328% in
Neil Young again sues Trump campaign for playing Rockin' in the Free World at rally
The Canadian-American musician sued Trump in 2020 over unauthorised use of song at a political event.