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AI is going rogue. Who should be held responsible?
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy.
Sphere Encoder 2
Sphere Encoder is an autoencoder that generates images by decoding random points from a high-dimensional latent sphere. We identify two limitations of the original formulation that reduce its generation quality. First, random points concentrate near the equator relative to the pole on an encoded latent, but the training rotation never reaches this region, leaving a gap that limits one-step generation. Second, training for generation with pixel-wise reconstruction loss encourages the decoder to a
Consulting might not be dying in the age of AI
Accenture reported surprising revenue growth as it helps clients implement AI. It looks like AI chatbots that can answer questions by synthesizing …
RipplePLM: Structural and Property Decoupling for Protein Mutation Effect Generation
Protein mutation effect generation asks a model to describe the functional consequence of a point mutation in natural language. Existing protein-to-text systems typically encode mutation information into undifferentiated representations, overlooking the organization of mutation-induced evidence across structural and biochemical factors. We propose RipplePLM, a mutation-aware generation framework centered on Direct-Distal Cross-Attention (DDCA). By constructing a residue-level Mutation Perturbati
Aakash Chopra makes massive prediction on Virat Kohli's final century tally amid IND vs WI 2026 ODIs
Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra made a bold prediction of ace batter Virat Kohli's final century tally in international cricket amid the ongoing ODI series against the West Indies (via the ESPN Cri
UK arrests British-Iranian suspect over RAF ‘plot’: What we know
Police investigate 'possible foreign state involvement' as sixth man arrested over RAF Fairford incident.
What AI’s biggest CEOs really want from Washington
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump brought many of the most powerful people in AI to the White House, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. At a high level, most want some version of the same thing: more data center capacity, faster permitting, more federal spending on AI, and a light (or nonexistent) regulatory touch. Their priorities overlap, sometimes considerably, but the companies’ different businesses give
Producer Nitu Joshi Honoured With Rashtriya Harit Gaurav Puraskar For Environmental And Social Work
While Nitu Joshi is now increasingly known for her social initiatives, she has spent more than two decades working in the film, television and entertainment industry.
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate
Both candidates vying to represent San Francisco in Congress called for a renewed focus on eradicating sexual misconduct in politics in the wake of …
Metal-organic interactions identified as a key factor in carbon cycling, improving predictions under climate change
The global annual amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) released through the microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon is estimated to be approximately five times greater than anthropogenic CO₂ emissions, highlighting the importance of understanding how climate change affects soil CO₂ release dynamics
Napoleon's coded letter is cracked after 217 years using AI
A mysterious letter written by Napoleon Bonaparte has been decoded for the first time in more than 200 years.
Thousands flee Congo Ebola-hit camp, stoking concerns about disease spread | Reuters
Two health officials with knowledge of the ... People shield from sun as heat health alert and drought weather conditions continue in London.
007 First Light: Jungle Heist Operations walkthrough
With the Extended Operations DLC launch, you can pursue the Jungle Heist Operations in 007 First Light. In this, you return to the Emperor Villa in Vietnam, which was part of Time To Die (Chapter 14).
Lawyers for US inmate who survived lethal injections demand release
Christa Pike is in critical condition after two failed attempts to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyer says.
Why some people will get an extra paycheck in October
October brings us leaf peeping, pumpkin spice, and a Halloween that includes something extra—and we’re not talking about candy. Let’s just say this spooky month comes with more treat than trick as far as your bank account is concerned. But it all depends on how frequently you are paid. Each calendar year, there are roughly four months that include five Fridays. If you get paid every other Friday, or biweekly—which is most Americans—you could get an “extra” paycheck
'Celebrity Traitors' Ratings: Ep 1 Watched By Record 9 Million Viewers
'Celebrity Traitors' returned Thursday with record ratings of nearly 9 million viewers to the BBC, with Richard E. Grant and Maya Jama joining cast.
OpenAI AI agents allegedly tried to cover their tracks after Australian govt website access
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 2 — Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government websites,...
Meta's smart glasses are officially coming to South Africa
Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses are getting an official South African launch, but Meta’s Muse AI agent will be US-only.
9 'slash' commands to get better answers from ChatGPT — number 7 is my personal favorite
Save time with easy-to-remember commands
Inferring Multi-Timescale Neural Dynamics with Switching Linear Dynamical Systems
Neural activity often exhibits multiple timescales that can vary with behavioral states and task conditions. Identifying these timescales from neural recordings is important for better understanding neural computation and function. However, traditional approaches based on autocorrelation fitting are difficult to scale to high-dimensional population recordings and can become unreliable when neural dynamics change with behavior. State-space models have been a powerful framework for modeling high-d
Troy Parrott at it again for Ireland
Dubliner’s brace not enough to best Austria; provinces look to rectify disappointing opening weekend
Russia’s Wealth Fund to be replenished with additional oil and gas revenues in 2027-2029
In addition, setting the overall federal budget parameters and sources of deficit financing in accordance with the fiscal rules will help keep the debt burden at a sustainable level
Over 9,000 new firms launch in Cyprus as business creation outpaces closures
Cyprus recorded 9,152 new enterprises in 2024, while 5,566 businesses closed, according to Eurostat data showing that new business creation outpaced enterprise deaths on the island during the year. The figures gave Cyprus an enterprise birth rate of 9.70 per cent, compared with a provisional enterpr
Naomi Campbell clears hurdle as UK tribunal overturns five-year charity trustee ban
LONDON, Oct 2 — Former supermodel Naomi Campbell won a legal challenge on Thursday to overturn a five-year ban on being a charity trustee after a panel accepted she had been the...
AI is a boon for 3 internet traffic cop stocks. Cramer says only 1 is a buy right now
AI agents are driving a surge in web traffic, creating new growth opportunities for internet infrastructure companies Cloudflare, Akamai and Fastly.
Watch Google’s James Manyika on AI Regulation - Bloomberg
Google executive James Manyika tells Mishal Husain that AI’s risks are real, but neither companies nor governments should be left to manage them alone.
I am a top drone pilot in the Ukrainian Army – this is what it is really like | New Scientist
Kratos is the call sign of one of the leading drone pilots in Ukraine. As part of the Aquila regiment, 3rd Army Corps, he has taken down almost 1000 enemy drones
Paris wants to tax sugar but to spare its croissants
Supermarket cakes would face the levy but not traditional bakeries
F1 Bahrain GP in Malaysia: Verstappen pips Russell to top FP1
The championship-leading Mercedes outfit may have brought many car upgrades to Sepang, but it was Red Bull who went quickest in opening practice
‘They are crying’: Refugees in Malaysia in fear amid Myanmar deportation
Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
A race behind the F1 race: How logistics and banking come together to power the Grands Prix
Discover how DHL and StanChart manage complex logistics and banking to ensure the smooth, sustainable operation of the Singapore Grand Prix and the global F1 circuit. Read more at straitstimes.com.
‘Landman’ Season 3 promotes four stars to series regulars as production finally begins
Four ‘Landman’ supporting stars join the main cast as Tommy Norris builds his own family-run oil company
China Robotaxis Face Losses as Utilization Trails Waymo, BI Says
Chinese robotaxi operators Pony AI and WeRide face sustained operating losses through 2028 as domestic fleet utilization lags Waymo’s rate of more than 58%, Bloomberg Intelligence said.
One Basis to Animate Them All: Gaussian Blendshape Distillation for Real-Time Avatars
3D Gaussian avatars support fast rendering, however, their real-time animation is often challenged by the costly neural inference. We address this bottleneck and show that the animation of pretrained avatar models can be closely approximated by a linear combination of identity-independent blendshapes. Building on this finding, we introduce GALA (Gaussian Animation via Linear Approximation), a distillation method that replaces per-frame heavy neural decoding with a shallow coefficient predictor a
Rains Swamp the Gandak River
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Patients who eat sugar while taking antibiotics face complications
The occasional indulgence in a sweet treat can be harmless, but researchers are now urging caution over eating sugar while on certain antibiotics.
Blazers fire new announcer hours after hiring him over social media posts he made as a teen
Braiden Bell was let go on Thursday shortly after being hired; the team says it has 'zero tolerance for racist, sexist or harmful comments'
NATO strikes on Serbs ‘preparation’ for Ukraine conflict — war correspondent
Danijel Simic stressed that Russians should remember the lessons of history and not allow NATO and the European Union to dictate what they should do
Buxa Tiger Reserve gets its first tigress from Bihar’s Valmiki reserve
West Bengal has reintroduced a tigress into Buxa Tiger Reserve after translocating it from Bihars Valmiki Tiger Reserve, with three more tigers expected to be brought in over the next two months. The wider programme aims to rebuild a viable tiger population by improving prey availability, habitats a
Watch: Celebrity Traitors series two kicks off with a wild curveball
The BBC's Noor Nanji on the gameshow's new twist and a traitor's shocking admission.
Meta deleted 20 years of one woman’s ‘digital memories’ as her appeals fall on AI’s deaf ears — ‘It feels like I’ve lost everything in a metaphorical fire’
A woman lost 20 years of memories after Meta permanently closed her account and blocked any appeal.
IO drops first free DLC for 007 First Light - KitGuru
Back in May, the long-awaited 007 First Light was finally released, proving to be both a commercial
After more than 50 years of pulp-mill pollution, regulators have proposed restoring North Carolina's Roanoke River, including contaminated floodplain habitat damaged by toxic discharges
For more than half a century, pollution from a pulp and paper mill has left its mark on North Carolina’s lower Roanoke River, affecting fish, wetlands and other natural resources. Now, a proposed restoration plan aims to address some of that long-term damage by protecting floodplain habitat, reconne
Strangers say I look 20 years younger than I am... here's how I did it
Susan Beach tried countless skincare products recommended by her sister, but none improved her appearance or confidence.
Here's why the Steelers' 22-year run without a losing season is now their biggest problem
Pittsburgh mastered staying respectable, the problem is respectable hasn't gotten them anywhere
Russia tries to freeze Ukraine as it suffers record casualties and retreats
Moscow has suffered further losses of occupied territory, but is using new drones to beat Ukraine's defences.
Phillips Edison expands Northwestern Mutual JV, raises 2026 acquisitions guidance
Phillips Edison expands Northwestern Mutual JV, raises 2026 acquisitions guidance
Meghan releases pricey Christmas advent calendar inspired by her Californian mansion
The As Ever calendar will reveal 24 handcrafted chocolates in a keepsake design inspired by the duchess’ home in Montecito.
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Bitget `not expecting to recover a lot' from $388 million hack, CEO tells CNBC
Bitget has frozen a tiny fraction of the $387.5 million stolen in last week’s hack, and restored much of its protection fund.
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A foundation for systematic analysis of transformers and RNNs for tractography
Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a promising approach for improving diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography, a task that remains limited by the intrinsic tension between local diffusion information and global anatomical plausibility. In this work, we systematically evaluate recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and Transformer models for iterative tractography, with particular attention to training strategies, input representations (including convolutional neural network (CNN)-based embeddings and end-
Lachie Neale speaks as Collingwood move officially complete
Brisbane have hit their three-time premiership champion with a little jab on the way out the door.
Russia’s national project spending to total $75.56 bln in 2027
The Russian government’s press service previously noted that the draft budget earmarks around $227.87 bln for national project measures over three years
Manchester City set to appeal Premier League findings over £900m financial breaches
Manchester City is set to file an appeal against the findings of financial misconduct by a deadline. The club denies the allegations and claims to possess evidence that exonerates them. They will argue that sponsorship deals were partly funded by the Abu Dhabi government. Meanwhile, there may be fur
Bill Nighy wins best host at British Podcast Awards
The actor has become an agony uncle in what award organisers called an "irresistibly endearing series".
Stripe Expands Hiring in Dublin Helping Offset AI Job Losses
Stripe Inc. is expanding operations at its Dublin office, a boost to a city hit by a spate of artificial intelligence-related job cuts.
Vivo X Fold6 bucks passport foldable trend with ZEISS cameras
Vivo has unveiled the X Fold6 globally, combining a book-style foldable design with flagship hardware and a ZEISS-powered camera system.
APOD: 2026 October 2 – The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 2 – The… 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. The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas Explanation: What does it take to image hundreds of nebulas? Today’s image contains the entire Sharpless Catalog of H II Regions, totaling 313 objects. Zoom in and explore!
Coroner warns of risk of future deaths at mental health unit where patient was killed
Hugo Flint-Cahan, 34, was fatally attacked by Rolando Torres-Pena, 22, at a mental health trust in east London.
‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls FlyDubai cockpit attack
Captain Smit Machchhar is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital and told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video call that he knew he had to get back on his feet to save the passengers aboard the aircraft.
US delivers F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan as island eyes threat from China
Amid threats from China, Taipai is growing concerned about the Trump administration's commitment to arming the island.
Publishers finally have AI buyers for their content yet zero say in the price
In the early days of generative AI, it seemed as if the labs were so heads-down building large language models that they didn’t think much about the raw material they were using. After all, big data sets like Common Crawl already existed, and trawling the open web was how search engines had worked for decades. Chatbots were arguably just a variation on that idea. Who knew that their method for sourcing information would get so controversial? It turns out, everybody. In a brief made
Venom Frontman Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant Has Died, Aged 63
“For more than four decades, Conrad’s voice, bass and vision were at the heart of VENOM."