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Google DeepMind's Hurricane Forecast Model Provides a Whole Extra Day of Warning
WeatherNext Cyclones is pushing the boundaries of what forecasting can achieve.
'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
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
Sir Andrew Dilnot, who proposed reforms 15 years ago, says the cost of such a scheme would be "very substantial".
GdS: Baresi's mural outside Casa Milan vandalised - Milan working to find those responsible
This morning, disgraceful news has emerged that the mural in honour of the late, great Franco Baresi has been vandalised.
Ethiopia accuses Sudan, Egypt of backing Tigray rebels as fighting rages
Sudan army denies backing Tigray fighters, says rival paramilitary RSF receiving support from within Ethiopia.
The 5 Biggest Stories Heading Into The 2026-27 NBA Season
With most NBA teams set to begin training camp on Tuesday, brush up on the five biggest stories heading into the 2026-27 season.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Bears vs. Eagles predictions, odds, time: Week 3 'Monday Night Football' picks from proven model
The SportsLine projection model has revealed its Philadelphia Eagles vs. Chicago Bears picks for NFL Week 3 on Monday, Sept. 28 at Soldier Field in Chicago
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
Convenience or discovery: Which mission will your store serve?
As AI reshapes how consumers browse, shop, and buy, retailers must choose a mission for every location—and commit to it.
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
As agents like Meta’s Muse mature, their appeal rings a familiar note
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
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
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,
Surfer’s heart-stopping close encounter with shark
A NSW surfer has had a heart-stopping close encounter with a shark.
Israeli football fans chant military slogans after defeat to Ireland
Israeli football fans chant military slogans after defeat to Ireland
Streamsong’s New Bone Valley Course Stands Apart From Golf Neighbors
Streamsong's new Bone Valley course designed by David McLay Kidd opens with smaller greens, a fossil-inspired name and a strategic test that rewards precision over power.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Terror police probe UK plot
Terror police are probing links to the Iranian regime, after five men were arrested near an RAF base in the UK.
Al Jazeera reports from near front line in Ethiopia’s Afar region
Al Jazeera reports from Ethiopia’s Afar region, where fighting has spread amid efforts to oust PM Abiy Ahmed.
Tigers, Astros Legend Justin Verlander Sends ‘Real Shot’ Kate Upton Message During Farewell Tour
The Houston Astros’ World Series champion offered a romantic response about his wife shortly before his retirement from the Detroit Tigers.
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
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.
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.
'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.
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 ...
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.
Palestinians denounce Israeli minister Ben-Gvir’s threats against prisoner
Footage of national security minister taunting Hassan Salama in his cell draws sharp condemnation from Palestinians.
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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
Gates warned on 'Meet the Press' that if no one does anything, AI could "drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths."
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.
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.
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
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.
Indian university suspends classes amid violent protests over alleged rape
Lovely University suspends classes for 10 days due to campus unrest over rape allegations denied by officials.
Phillies Boss Sends Roster ‘Leadership’ Message Amid Brutal Late-Season Collapse
Philadelphia Phillies executive Dave Dombrowski sent a personnel message with veteran stars like Bryce Harper and Trea Turner struggling.
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
A test of AI models has found that a handful will choose actions that harm the user if it makes their pain go away.
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.
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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.
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
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
Go inside Matilde, downtown Tampa's new Mexican steakhouse
Next Level Brands is bringing the sophisticated vibes of Boulon and Union New American to Tampa's urban core.
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
Tech giant Anthropic will skip Thursday’s Senate hearing on rogue AI agents but send US and Australian executives to parliament next week.
Galaxy S26’s stable One UI 9 rollout is expanding in the US, with an official changelog at last
Samsung is expanding the stable One UI 9 rollout for the Galaxy S26 series in the US, with the full official changelog now available.
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
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.
2026 WNBA playoffs bracket, schedule: Lynx on the brink of elimination Tuesday night after Game 1 upset
The playoffs officially opened on Sunday, when all four of the best-of-three first-round series tip off
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
Meet Joe Strada, Florida HVAC Mogul Set To Become The Richest Member Of Congress
Joe Strada built a $534 million-a-year home-services company by solving a problem few contractors could. Now he may become the richest member of Congress.
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.