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SK Hynix says Solidigm suspends review of US IPO, citing market volatility
SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix said on Friday that it had suspended its review of a US initial public offering for its Solidigm subsidiary, citing financial market volatility and share price trends.
Musk wants to merge SpaceX and Tesla: Here's what to know
Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a merger of his two biggest companies.
A Robust Estimator for the Lyman-$α$ Forest 1D Power Spectrum at High Redshift
The Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) forest flux power spectrum $P(k)$ is sensitive to a range of astrophysical and cosmological effects, including the thermal state of and large-scale fluctuations in the intergalactic medium and the nature of dark matter. Measuring $P(k)$ becomes increasingly challenging at high redshift, where fewer quasar spectra are available and higher Ly$α$ optical depths result in lower transmitted flux. In addition, observational effects and missing data complicate standard Fourier-tra
'Always remember, cancer doesn't discriminate'
Harriet Tsadioti says contracting breast cancer was one of her biggest fears growing up.
Foreign money is reshaping the A-League. The benefits come with strings attached
Multi-club ownership is on the rise in Australia and around the world. But as the Manchester City case shows, belonging to a global football empire can come with risks beyond a single club’s control.
What role does the military play in Israeli schools?
For Israeli teenagers, military life ordinarily kicks off in school.
A jumping, punching, kung fu-trained robot that protects your house and family—what could go wrong?
A hooded man with a knife walks toward a woman sitting in her backyard. Before he reaches her, a humanoid robot steps between them and squares up. That’s the money shot in the one-minute video Unitree released on October 21 to introduce the H2-X, aka “Kung Fu Legend Guardian.” It’s a machine that, in the company’s words, offers “powerful performance to serve and guard you.” It’s a robot that a lot of people will want at home: the T-800 to their John
What channel is Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest Premier League match on? TV coverage, live stream and kick-off time
Check out how to watch Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, including TV channel, radio coverage and kick-off time.
SK Data Center Arm Plans to Fund $350B AI Buildout
Chung Suk-geun, CEO of SK Group's Data Center arm, SK Hyper, says the firm is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion infrastructure buildout, as AI demand heats up. He speaks exclusively with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg Tech Asia". (Source:
A Unified Framework for Image-to-3D Part Generation via Variable Granularity
Controllable 3D part generation is pivotal for digital asset creation, yet existing methods lack the flexibility to accommodate diverse user workflows requiring varying levels of control. In this paper, we introduce FlexPart, a unified image-to-3D part generation framework that supports variable-granularity geometric conditions within a single model. By seamlessly integrating heterogeneous inputs, ranging from sparse points to dense bounding boxes and masks, via gated adaptive modulation, FlexPa
Sound-Horizon-Agnostic Forecast for Constraints on $H_0$ and $Σm_ν$ from BAO, CMB Lensing, Supernovae and LSST-like Galaxy Lensing
We present a sound-horizon-agnostic forecast for constraints on the Hubble constant $H_0$ and the sum of the neutrino masses $Σm_ν$ from a combination of LSST-like galaxy weak lensing, Simons-Observatory-like CMB lensing, the completed DESI BAO program, and expanded supernova samples. Treating the sound horizon at baryon drag $r_d$ as a free parameter, the method provides a consistency test of $Λ$CDM without relying on the standard early-Universe calibration of $r_d$. The analysis incorporates r
'I thought I was dying but it was health anxiety'
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms.
Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd has a theory: NCAA is embracing eligibility chaos to leverage federal legislation
Arizona's coach offers a sharp perspective on why the NCAA is allowing eligibility battles to linger instead of leveling the playing field
Serbia’s snap election: What’s at stake and can students unseat Vucic?
A snap parliamentary vote on October 25 will determine whether a student-led group can loosen Vucic’s grip on power.
Gen Z’s mental health is declining—but baby boomers are only getting happier
A new Gallup poll shows a disturbing trend: Younger people are getting increasingly unhappy, and now less than half of Gen Z say they are actually “thriving,” with the biggest decline happening after 2019. Meanwhile, for baby boomers, it’s just the opposite (more on that below). A look at the numbers shows only 44% of 18- to 29-year-olds say they are “thriving” so far in 2026, which is on pace to be 20 percentage points lower than the high of 64% measured in 2010, accordi
Matilda celebrates 15 years as West End success story
The musical is seen by more than 12 million people worldwide after starting in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Researchers say hackers targeted PHP before flaws were known
Hackers attempted to exploit security vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language PHP several days before the flaws became public.
Odd radio circle J1555+2726: Observational evidence for shock re-acceleration of fossil plasma
Context. Odd radio circles (ORCs) are peculiar extragalactic sources recently discovered. They are characterised by one or more bright rings extending on scales of hundreds of kiloparsecs, and are filled with fainter emission. A massive elliptical galaxy lies at the centre of ORCs. While their formation mechanism is debated, a shock is plausibly involved. Aims. We aim to constrain the nature of ORC J1555+2726 (ORC4) through the analysis of its morphological and spectral properties. Methods. We u
World first personalised cancer vaccine stops disease returning in major trial
The scientists involved say the results could mark a turning point in cancer treatment, bringing personalised medicine a step closer.
HasanAbi responds to allegations of using N-word, threatens to sue Ted Cruz
Hasan Piker, better known as "HasanAbi," has responded to allegations of using the N-word. On October 21, 2026, a nine-second clip featuring HasanAbi went viral on X.
New electronics reach Iran, but prices soar as gov’t fees, US sanctions hit
Latest smartphones are finding their way into Iran despite sanctions and trade restrictions, but many can't afford them.
Madewell’s NYPL collection is a love letter to library nerds
Earlier this week, Madewell dropped an Instagram post featuring a woman drinking a glass of wine and wearing a baby tee emblazoned with the words “Book Girl.”As a book nerd, I was immediately intrigued. It turned out to be a collaboration with the New York Public Library. I hopped on the website 20 minutes after the drop went live and that shirt was already sold out. (Madewell did a limited restock the day after launch and plans a larger restock for preorder.) The tote bag and pin pa
What books had people turning pages and turning up the volume this year?
Thrillers, self-help books and Harry Potter were the big winners for readers from Libraries NI data.
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
MIT Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist discusses his research on the incorporation of randomness and irrationality into early AI models designed to mimic human creativity.
Nvidia boss criticises 'cheap' AI doomsday warnings
AI chip giant Nvidia's boss Jensen Huang said on Oct 22 that warnings that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity were "cheap" attempts to grab headlines.
Nearly 3,000 exploding stars challenge our understanding of the Universe
A massive analysis of 2,884 exploding stars has uncovered new evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the universe’s expansion, may change over time. The findings challenge a cornerstone of modern cosmology and could reshape our understanding of how the universe works.
Music Between Two Minds: Individual Signatures, Shared States, and the Emergence of Creative Interaction
Some of the most valued forms of human creativity arise between people-in conversation, collaboration, and improvised music-yet how two minds jointly regulate the flow of novelty in real time remains unknown. Here we examined the information dynamics of interpersonal improvisation using 986 professional jazz improvisations. Pitch-based fluctuations of uncertainty and surprise behaved as signatures of individual identity: the two partners differed within 90% of takes, performers were identifiable
SAA: Rinse, repeat, WTF? | The Citizen
Groundhog Day? SAA received a new R1 billion state guarantee despite earlier assurances of financial independence and profitability.
South Korea invites North for military talks over border
The proposal comes days after Pyongyang says it moved new military units into 'firing positions' along the border.
How to think in decades in a market obsessed with speed
This week, Inspired Capital is announcing Fund IV: $450 million in new capital to back early-stage founders. It’s a milestone I’m grateful for. Seven years into my own 25-year business plan, I have been reflecting on what carries a firm, or a company, that far. For me, the answer has always been a long-term mindset. From day one at Inspired, I have planned to be in it for the long haul. Knowing that what I want to accomplish can only happen in decades has shaped who we hire, who we partner wi
Gasps as Prince William makes surprise appearance on Graham Norton Show
The Prince of Wales was marking his Earthshot Prize, to which all of Norton's guests were linked.
SK Data Center Arm in Talks to Fund $350 Billion AI Buildout
SK Hyper Co. is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion data center buildout, joining a global rush to roll out AI infrastructure despite concerns about future demand.
Reading, Writing, Sharing, and Interacting with the World through Video
Video foundation models have advanced rapidly in understanding and generating visual sequences, while video world models seek to capture the underlying dynamics of the world they depict. Despite their different objectives, both concern the relationship between video observations and an evolving world. This survey adopts world modeling as a unifying lens for examining these developments. Viewing an observed video as a partial, lossy, and temporally ordered projection of a latent temporal world, w
3D propeller molecules create a rare quantum lattice with edge states
A triptycene-based molecular lattice combines honeycomb and Kagome patterns to produce unusual electronic states along its edges.
Chicago doctors urge vaccinations as flu season gets an early start
Doctors in the Chicago area are urging people to get their flu shot now as cases start to ramp up, with flu season starting earlier than expected.
Rare NFL penalty: Bears become first team in 16 years to get flagged for illegal forward handoff
The failed trick play against the Patriots sent viewers scrambling to learn about one of the most obscure rules in the NFL rulebook
Pulaku: The two faces of Nigeria’s vigilantes
Allegations of torture and abuse shadow a Fulani-led vigilante group despite its role in clamping down on kidnappers.
Causal inference in staggered adoption panels: The correct comparison set depends on your intervention
A powerful data structure for causal inference is staggered adoption: many units are observed over many time periods, during which some units adopt an irreversible treatment at various time points while others remain untreated. Popular methods that apply in this setting include difference in difference, fixed effects, matching, and synthetic control. All of these methods compare the future outcomes of treatment adopters and non-adopters to answer the question: for units who adopt treatment, what
‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Peter Berg’s Powerful True WWII Story Takes Four Star Players From The Glory Of The Football Field To The Hell Of The Battlefield – AFI Fest
A review of 'The Mosquito Bowl' from director Peter Berg with true story focused on four college football stars who enlist in marines during WWII
Steep bill for AI buildout punishes Meta, other tech favorites
NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The tab for the next round of the AI buildout came due on Thursday.
Sensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy Success
Robotic foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, which motivates cheap offline proxies for model capability. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) suggests that as representations improve, different modalities such as vision and language converge toward a shared statistical model of reality. We ask whether motion trajectories form another such modality: as embodied models become more capable, should their sensory representations converge toward the st
Olivia Rodrigo just showed creatives how to deal with false design allegations in style
Accused of using AI, the pop star’s team responded with something better than denial.
Behavioral Mapping of Hierarchical Dynamical Models Accelerates Bayesian Parameter Inference
Bayesian parameter inference for complex nonlinear dynamical models is often limited by the cost of repeated model simulation. We present a behavioral mapping framework that uses the inferred posterior of a higher-level model to accelerate inference of a lower-level model without requiring state or parameter correspondence between them. Building on approximate simulation relations for hierarchically related models, we define the notion of behavioral compatibility and quantify the behavioral supp
Harry Kane explains why Ballon d'Or wait is 'very stressful' for his family ahead of 2026 award ceremony
Harry Kane says he would like to know the result of the 2026 Ballon d'Or before Monday’s ceremony in London, describing the wait as 'very stressful' for his family.
Israeli military kills two in gun battle in occupied West Bank
Israel’s PM is preparing to order a shutdown in the occupied West Bank lockdown after a shooting near Hebron.
The simple joy of a social network most people forgot about years ago
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. If you owned a smartphone a decade and an half ago and were into cool new apps, there’s a more-than-decent chance you tried one called Foursquare. The best known of a then-new breed of location-based social networks, it let you check into places you visited in the physical world, and see where your friends were checking in. One Foursquare fan quoted in an October 2009 New York Times article by Jenna Wortham called the ability to fi
Final James Bond screen tests to take place this weekend, reports say
Callum Turner and Jack Lowden "appear to be in the mix" of actors doing screen tests for the role.
Red Hat opens Asia Pacific AI hub in Singapore
The center supports Singapore’s National AI Strategy, which aims to scale deployment in the public and private sectors.
Why This AI Startup Is Taking a Different Path From Wonderful · TechNode
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. For businesses adopting AI, the question is no longer simply which model to use. It
Scientists May Have Identified the World's First Corporate Psychopath
One shipwreck, two leaders, and a horrifying lesson about the abuse of power.
Indonesian wildfires threaten world’s oldest cave paintings in Sulawesi
While Sumatra and Borneo are the worst affected, fires have also spread to Sulawesi, where limestone caves house art as old as 67,000 years.
Joaquin Buckley says his next fight will be his last after grandmother urged him to retire
Joaquin Buckley says he will retire after one more fight, a plan he reached after a phone call in which his grandmother asked him to stop competing.
Ultra-Orthodox conscription debate ignites Israel’s election battleground
Israel's election heats up over ultra-Orthodox conscription debate, reflecting deep societal and political divides.
Beyond city pairs: Higher-order information in urban growth across borders
We apply higher-order information measures to urban growth across borders and spatial units. We analyse 8,808 functional urban areas using gridded GDP estimates allocated from national accounts. Negative estimated O-information occurs in 29.93% of cross-border triplets and 2.00% of domestic triplets. This fifteen-fold contrast falls to fourfold at comparable dependence strength and persists under data-quality restrictions. Target-specific decompositions show how information overlaps or combines
Smita Jayakar Says Rhea Chakraborty Asked Her To Help Sushant Singh Rajput During Depression Treatment
In a recent interview, Smita Jayakar revealed that Rhea Chakraborty, her co-star in Sonali Cable, had reached out to her for help when Sushant Singh Rajput was in the hospital.
Dell-backed Israeli AI security startup Mave raises $34m
The funding includes a US$28 million series A led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Lumir Growth Partners.
The Race to Reinvent the Everyday Ride · TechNode
Editor's note: A 2026 QYResearch report ranks LEQI's Megawheels brand fourth among manufacturers in the global two-wheeled self-balancing
A 250-Million-Year-Old Habit May Explain How Crocodiles Outlasted the Dinosaurs
It was their preference for warmer climates.
Dynamics of random recurrent neural networks: colored noise and sublinear activations
We study the dynamics of recurrent neural networks with random couplings, sublinear odd activation functions, and temporally correlated noise. Using large N methods, we determine stationary correlations and distinguish the loss of local linear stability from the onset of chaos, characterized by a positive largest Lyapunov exponent. These thresholds delimit an intermediate regime in which local instability coexists with asymptotic stability under a common noise history. Their separation depends o
Kotak impressed by India's fearless batting approach
India's batting coach praised the fearless approach of Samson and Sharma, while backing the teenage opener to develop without the pressure of unrealistic expectations
NBA’s Irving praises Al-Shaair’s ‘selfless act’ after Hind Rajab fine paid
Kyrie Irving explains paying fine and praises Azeez Al-Shaair for continuously honouring slain Palestinian children.
Intraday Forecasting Ability and Liquidity Provision of Institutional Traders
This study uses a high-frequency dataset from a stock exchange to examine how forecasting ability and liquidity provision relate to institutional traders' proprietary intraday profitability. We discover persistent forecasting abilities among traders. Specifically, we demonstrate that hypothetical flow-following strategies based on the execution flows of these skillful traders yield annualized Sharpe ratios ranging from 16 to 63 across various trading frequencies. We match buy and sell executions
US actor Tom Skerritt, star of Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Alien, dies aged 93
The moustachioed star of several 20th Century hit films died on Wednesday of natural causes, his family says.