World in a Pulse
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Want to try Ubuntu’s AI dictation feature? Here’s how
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA. Ubunt
Archaeological 'breakthrough' could confirm origins of Paris
An ancient wall discovered in central Paris was hailed as a "major breakthrough" on Wednesday, as the archaeological find may have settled a long-standing debate about the location of the city's original settlement.
More REM sleep linked to lower risk of 83 diseases
A large study tracking more than 95,000 people suggests that how you sleep may be linked to your risk of developing dozens of diseases. People who spent more time in REM sleep had lower risks of 83 conditions, including dementia, heart failure, and Parkinson’s disease, while more deep sleep was asso
Looking for #womenshealth information on Instagram? 4 out of 10 posts are ads
If you’re looking for #womenshealth on Instagram, a new study shows you’d better be prepared for lots of adverts dressed up as health advice.
Anthony Joshua's torture training
Boxing's biggest battle of the year is expected to take place at Cardiff's Principality Stadium in early December, after a venue war that saw it move from Madison Square Garden.
Russian attacks kill eight people across Ukraine as US steps up diplomacy
US and Russia engage in urgent talks to reduce war's impact on global energy during UN General Assembly.
The Twist Ending Of ‘Resident Evil,’ Explained
Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ sees Bryan (Austin Abrams) suffer a tragic fate after getting scared off by the looming responsibility of fatherhood.
Will.i.am backs campaign for Sir Tom Jones to return to The Voice
Sir Tom Jones, 86, has appeared as an on-off coach on the ITV show since 2012.
The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
In the book “How AI Sees the City,” MIT researchers examine implications of using visual AI to study urban life. Across cities, more images means more data, more insight — and more concerns about privacy and fairness.
Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro and Pad 9 announced
The latest tablets were unveiled alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro lineup. Alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, which were unveiled in China, the company...
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Cries for GeV Heavy Neutral Leptons
The ordinary and dark matter in the Universe may share a common origin in the framework of a minimal extension of the Standard Model by three right-handed neutrinos. A pair of such heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) can give masses to neutrinos, generate the baryon asymmetry at the electroweak scale and produce a large lepton asymmetry at the QCD scale, which is then resonantly transformed into an abundance of the third state that acts as sterile neutrino dark matter. The minimality of this setup, kno
NHS staff investigated over access to dead teenager's medical records
Oliver McGowan, who died in 2016, may have had his medical records accessed inappropriately after his death by NHS staff in Bristol.
Gregg Popovich marries ex-wife of his former longtime Spurs assistant coach
Popovich and Mike Budenholzer coached together in San Antonio for nearly two decades and won four NBA titles
How an OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s Medicare and what that means
Incident highlights growing concerns about AI's impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts.
Mets’ Bo Bichette Offers 3-Word Response On Blue Jays Teammates After Disastrous Breakup
The Toronto Blue Jays former franchise shortstop sent a clear message about his former team after joining the New York Mets.
Harry Potter play producer says cost of living made two-part show 'impossible'
The London production, which has been running for 10 years, will reopen next month as a one-part show.
Why AI won't fix Britain's supply chains
Businesses hoping AI will solve their supply chain problems risk wasting their investment unless they first fix weaknesses in their data, skills and management, according to new research published in the Benchmarking: An International Journal.
AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
Social media is really strange these days: Increasingly, our feeds are starting to look uncanny, as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. And for the professionals who are tasked with making content, whether it is social media managers or creators, it has been a head-spinning time of change. I
GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to nutritional deficiencies in nearly 1 in 6 children
Children taking GLP-1 medications (such as Victoza, Saxenda, Trulicity, and Ozempic) for weight loss, prediabetes, or type 2 diabetes may face an overlooked risk: nutritional deficiencies. A new study found that nearly 1 in 6 young patients developed a diagnosed deficiency within a year of starting
AI-Driven Neural Surrogates for In Silico Design of Cognitive-Affective Neuromodulation Targets
In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or an overly salient memory. Motivated by control theory, we develop an AI-driven neural-surrogate framework that proposes candidate representational changes and tests their predicted perceptual effects from snapshots of stimulus-evoked fMRI activity, without physical stimulation. The framework combines fMRI decoding, deep generative modeling, and cons
Gordon admits England can't match Spain's style as star defends Tuchel
Tuchel received widespread criticism, particularly over his comments that keeping the ball is not within England's 'DNA', amid complaints about his negative tactics.
Yemeni forces say they repel Houthi attacks in Taiz as fighting rages
Government forces say dozens of Houthis killed in southwestern governorate during battles for strategic highlands.
Boeing Lands 100 737 MAX Order From Airline At World’s Top Hub
Turkish Airlines has finalized its largest-ever Boeing single-aisle order, confirming 100 737 MAX jets with options for 50 more.
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe season 2: Release date speculation and latest news
The Big Bang Theory spin-off will return.
China's AI chip blitz arms Xi with a message for Trump: 'You can't choke us off'
A run of new chips and AI models from national champions gives Chinese President Xi Jinping a confidence boost, as the U.S. summit gets underway.
On the Diffusibility of High-Dimensional Latents
Representation Autoencoders (RAEs) enable diffusion models to operate in the feature spaces of pretrained visual encoders. However, many off-the-shelf encoders are not optimized for faithful reconstruction, discarding fine-grained visual details. As expected, finetuning these encoders for image reconstruction recovers such details. However, perhaps counterintuitively, this procedure reduces the effective dimensionality of the resulting representation, and the altered geometry has downstream effe
As the coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job market - AOL
It's a difficult job market for new graduates, especially in fields like software development where artificial intelligence is shouldering more of the work
OpenAI's breach of Australian health department website prompts rebuke from Albanese
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is extremely concerned about OpenAI's security breach of a government website, which the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal
MMA debuts at Asian Games, but is it fighting a losing battle for recognition?
Athletes compete in open space across six weight classes in Japan, with different rules and enhanced safety features such as shin pads.
Netanyahu takes UN stage with one eye on Israel’s election
As criticism of Israel intensifies, Israeli PM Netanyahu heads to the UN with his own political future in focus.
Trump Dismisses Report On Talks To Add His Name To Ford’s Theatre—Where Lincoln Was Assassinated
The president dismissed the report, calling it a “ridiculous lie,” and saying he wouldn’t want his name attached to such a “tragic place” where Lincoln was assassinated.
The chef turned award-winning author unfazed by 'second book syndrome'
Louise Kennedy, the author of Trespasses, says everyone "should give anything they fancy a lash".
Claude, Gemini & GPT are all included in this $99.99 lifetime AI toolbox
Get lifetime access to 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan for $99.99, with GPT, Claude, Gemini, and tools for writing, images, PDFs, audio, and video.
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party leads in provisional election results
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election, according to provisional results announced by the Interior Ministry early Thursday. Meanwhile, the governing National Assembly of Independents suffered major
'Jeans and a nice top' are BACK! Gen Z goes crazy for Y2K look
Data from Fleek, a global AI-powered resale marketplace, has revealed how demand for vintage denim and tops has soared.
NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip steps back from public life for serious health concerns - WRAL
Darrell Waltrip, a Hall of Fame NASCAR driver and longtime Fox Sports broadcaster, has stepped away from public life due to a progressive brain ...
Rumor Killer: WWE Not Letting Drew McIntyre Get Back On TV
Drew McIntyre is currently on a lengthy WWE hiatus, sparking crazy fan theories regarding his absence.
‘Partial satisfaction’: Sri Lankans hail 2019 bombings ruling with a caveat
As 15 men are given long prison terms, a father who lost teen daughter wants to know if it was a political conspiracy.
A Diesel Export Ban Could Lower Diesel Prices But Raise Other Costs
How a U.S. diesel export ban could lower domestic diesel prices while raising food costs, pressuring refiners, and potentially tightening gasoline and jet fuel supplies.
Federal judge delays ruling on White House media ban
During a roughly 45-minute hearing, a lawyer for CNN, Politico and MS NOW disputed Trump administration arguments that the ban was over national security concerns.
AI glasses: The lens technology bringing AI into your line of sight
AI glasses are moving beyond simple displays. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer visits South Korean startup LetinAR to explore its PinTILT lens technology, designed to put AI and digital information directly in your line of sight.
Oppo starts blind Find X10 series pre-orders in the UK with tons of freebies
There's also a significant discount for the phones themselves. Oppo unveiled the Find X10, Find X10 E, and Find X10 Pro Max in China yesterday. While the...
Meta unveils no-camera smart glasses, VR spectacles with 5K displays
Meta has unveiled lightweight VR glasses with 5K displays, hand controls and a separate computing puck for processing and power.
Senators to question FDA nominee about her views on abortion pill and vaccines
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration will face questions from Senate lawmakers considering her nomination
Debbie Beard and Amanda Thorpe lost their husbands - this is their story
Debbie Beard and Amanda Thorpe speak to the BBC's Simon Jack at the launch of a new suicide prevention toolkit.
To the victor belong Venezuela’s spoils: Delcy Rodriguez’s UNGA about-face
Seven years after warning against US regime change, Venezuela’s interim president thanked the man who delivered it.
In 2018, NASA satellite images of penguin guano sent researchers to Antarctica's Danger Islands, where they found more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins
A breakthrough study reveals that NASA satellite images led to the discovery of over 1.5 million Adélie penguins in Antarctica's Danger Islands, highlighting the importance of wildlife conservation efforts amid changing climates.
Former Disney child star Jonathan Taylor Thomas arrested after ‘kicking deputy’
Authorities claimed the actor ‘appeared intoxicated.'
Meta launches smart glasses designed by K-Pop star LISA
"Every pair of Meta Glasses by LISA comes with an exclusive, collectible charm inspired by LISA’s own beloved pets," says Meta about the new LISA-designed collection of its smartglasses.
StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains
Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to augment human capabilities, yet progress at the frontier has focused primarily on advancing model capabilities. We introduce StudentBench, a suite of AI teaching evaluations and a public platform that enables large-scale data collection with over 175,000 student-AI messages to study whether large language models (LLMs) produce learning gains equivalent to human tutoring. Using StudentBench, we measured learning gains on Quantitative
OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government healthcare website
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, about the hack while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New YorkSelcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Australia’s national health website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent. It was able to access non-public files and is the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defences of a government portal. Full details of the hack haven’t yet been revealed.
Penguin data reanalyzed via Computational Taxonomy
We employ Computational Taxonomy (CT) to reanalyze the penguin data set penguins_lter by validating and addressing two biological issues: Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) and mate-selection criteria. Via Scientific Data Analysis (SDA) computing, CT constructs a Taxonomic Hierarchy by splitting Species first and then Sex, without involving Island, to achieve less complexity. This Taxonomic Hierarchy validates SSD as a branch comparison: (Species, Sex = Male)-vs-(Species, Sex = Female), upon which SDA
Comic inspires unlikely kabaddi dreams for Japan’s Asian Games amateurs
The nation's players have been inspired by a manga called Burning Kabaddi, says team captain. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine sent two North Korean POWs to South Korea
The president criticised North Korea for using citizens like 'currency' to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Russia’s War Has Left Ukrainian Soccer Damaged And Displaced
As Ukraine’s senior men’s national soccer team prepares for another campaign away from home, Russia’s ongoing war continues to damage Ukrainian soccer infrastructure.
Taylor Lautner and wife Taylor Lautner welcome baby and guess the name
It had to be!
Meta Connect 2026: All The Major Announcements From Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Meta VR Glasses to Muse
Meta announced several new products and software updates at its Connect 2026 event. The announcements span its AI-powered glasses and virtual reality ecosystem.
Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification
Our results show that contrastive learning outperforms a classification-based approach to authorship verification under the tested settings. We identify loss function, batch size, training duration, pre-trained model, input context length, and random text span data augmentation as important factors of model performance. Based on these considerations, we develop a ModernBERT Bi-Encoder model that achieves 98.4% accuracy on the PAN21 authorship verification task.
Aerial maps reveal successful woodland expansion in Scotland's Cairngorms
A University of Cambridge–led team has used aerial surveys across a huge swath of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland to create detailed 3D maps that show the beginnings of large-scale recovery of native woodland.
In vitro devices get less attention in EU reform
Only a fraction of MEPs' amendments address in vitro diagnostics
GRAND FINAL TEAMS: Heartbreak as Freo make final call
Brennan Cox or Oscar McDonald? The biggest selection question ahead of this year’s AFL grand final has been answered as Fremantle and Brisbane’s final teams were named. SEE THE FULL TEAMS.
‘Source of anxiety’: Pakistan cracks down before march to free Imran Khan
The government has blocked highways to the capital and set up container barriers in preparation for the PTI protest.
Justin Gaethje Just Changed His Tune On The UFC's No. 1 Lightweight Contender
Arman Tsarukyan knocked out Mauricio Ruffy at UFC 331 and says he is next for Justin Gaethje's lightweight title. Dana White says he has flipped the script.
Teen rocker Nene Royal becomes first Thai to win America's Got Talent
Her heavy metal performance trumped nine other finalists, including magicians and even a robot crew.