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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.
SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew members departed from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral at 11:10 am EDT (15:10 UTC) Thursday.
Non-Gaussian Parameter Bias: Formalism and Validation
We present a framework for propagating systematic data mismatches into parameter biases and posterior deformations beyond the Gaussian Fisher approximation. Using the Derivative Approximation for Likelihoods (DALI), we derive analytic expressions for the maximum a posteriori (MAP) point and posterior mean, including a semi-analytic response expansion in systematic amplitude. We validate the framework against direct numerical calculations and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling in a controll
Millions of parents trust Ms. Rachel. That trust comes with responsibility.
... health conditions, such as cystic fibrosis, rickets and immune disorders. Those children's suffering was real. Sharing their images without ...
Jalen Duren, Pistons reportedly agree to five-year, $200 million contract, ending monthslong stalemate
After a lengthy standoff in restricted free agency, Detroit and Duren finally struck a deal on Thursday
FAO official says he lost his job for criticising Israeli policies in Gaza
The FAO official said he was told his contract would not be renewed over an alleged breach of impartiality on Gaza.
UOB has the most to gain from stronger Singdollar rates: Macquarie
The bank is set to enjoy the biggest boost from improving Singdollar interest rates
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...
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,...
Counteranions reshape molecular packing to tune magnetism in copper complexes
Magnetic properties in molecular materials depend not only on the molecular components themselves but also on their solid-state organization. In charged π-electronic systems, electrostatic and dispersion forces can organize molecules into distinct ion-pairing structures.
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,
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.
Video evidence of Beau Lamarre-Condon and Jesse Baird
The court has released this video. Lamarre Condon is charged with murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Everything you need to know about Brazil’s tight presidential race
Voters will soon decide between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Shared Models, Selective Trading, and Order Flow
We study whether model diversity survives selection into trading. In synthetic markets with a fixed mixture of three language-model families, news presentation changes their representation among submitted orders. At the announcement round, Qwen's share of submitted orders shifts by 48 percentage points in the financing event, with little change in net order counts. In the workforce-reduction event, Mistral's share shifts by 40 percentage points while net counts reverse sign. Homogeneous populati
Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Boyfriend Ken Urker Dead at 33
Gypsy Rose Blanchard's former fiancé and current boyfriend Ken Urker—with whom she shares daughter Aurora Raina Urker, 21 months—died on his 33rd birthday on Oct. 1. His cause of death was not shared.
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.
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
Strongly mixed cosmological collider at unequal sound speeds
We derive the canonically normalized modes of a two-field inflationary system with arbitrary constant quadratic mixing and unequal sound speeds $c_\varphi$ and $c_σ$ for the curvature and isocurvature perturbations, respectively. A Laplace representation reduces the coupled dynamics to a second-order Heun equation and gives the exact late-time curvature power spectrum for arbitrary values of the mixing parameter and entropy mass. The sound-speed ratio $r_c=c_σ/c_\varphi$ controls the separation
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.
Where do Phillies go from here? Aging core falls short again, leaving questions about lineup, manager, more
The Phillies were eliminated from the playoffs on Thursday night, and their championship window keeps closing
US to send third aircraft carrier towards Iran: US official to Al Jazeera
Massive US military deployment to the Middle East includes 50,000 troops, F-35s and Marines to pressure Tehran.
LA Clippers team partners with Ululani's during Honolulu training camp
As the Los Angeles Clippers begin their training camp in Honolulu, Ululani's lands a partnership with the NBA franchise in their short time here.
Ynon Kreiz, as Co-CEO of Paramount, to Receive Pay Package Worth More Than $46.5 Million
Paramount revealed the pay package for Ynon Kreiz, who will lead Paramount-Warner Bros. as co-CEO alongside David Ellison.
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
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
For the first time: How satellites and AI are changing the fight against wildfires
ABC News’ Jaclyn Lee reports on how AI-powered cameras, satellites and drones are helping firefighters detect and fight wildfires faster, with …
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
LOOK: Aaron Rodgers' heated exchange with Mike McCarthy caught on camera during Steelers-Browns
The former Packers partners exchanged words during a difficult first half for Pittsburgh against its AFC North rival
Jalen Duren, Pistons agree to five-year, $200 million extension
After months of stall negotiations, Jalen Duren and the Detroit Pistons came to an agreement with a long-term deal late Thursday night.
India-US Trade Deal Talks Enter Final Stretch; Modi, Trump May Hold Another Call Soon
Greer said Modi and Trump had held a "constructive call yesterday morning" and that another conversation could follow soon.
RedBird Founder Says Majority of Paramount-WBD Merger Cost Savings Won’t Come From Jobs
“The notion that $6 billion of cost-related synergies means the firing of all these people is just completely antiquated," says Gerry Cardinale
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.
Texas clears full-scale underground nuclear waste disposal test
Texas approves a full-scale test of technology designed to bury spent nuclear fuel deep underground in boreholes
10 Things: Movie Night
2 Min Read 10 Things: Movie Night Join Us for Movie Night with NASA NASA’s mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration and scientific discovery. NASA+ documentaries allow you to come along for the ride. It’s free. It’s on demand. And no subscription is required.
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
The view from the Vatican
How popular fiction has depicted the Pope.
Row between Ukraine, South Korea mounts over North Korean POWs
South Korea’s President accused Ukraine of undermining him by disclosing POW transfer deal
Identifying Panel Conditioning with Refreshment Samples: Sharp Bounds and Design Assumptions
Refreshment samples are the standard remedy for panel attrition, and the identification results behind them maintain that participation does not change measurement. We characterize what a refreshment sample identifies about panel conditioning, modelled as a deterministic monotone map at reinterview, when attrition is unrestricted. A candidate map is consistent with the data if and only if the retention-scaled distribution of the stayers' implied latent outcomes is setwise dominated by the refres
Eddie Murphy to Star in Peacock Drama Series ‘The Chairman’ From ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner
Eddie Murphy is attached to star in 'The Chairman,' a drama series in development at Peacock from 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner.
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.
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.
Half of Europe was hit by extreme heat stress this summer, data shows
Europe endured a summer of searing heat in 2026, with more than half the continent exposed to dangerous temperatures that posed a serious risk to human health, a new study shows.
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-
Browns DT Mason Graham leaves game with knee injury
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Mason Graham has been ruled out for the remainder of Thursday night's home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of a knee injury.
South Korea warns 'further measures' if Ukraine refuses public apology
SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday (Oct 2) Seoul would take "further measures" if Ukraine refuses to publicly apologise over what he called its unilateral disclosure of
DAVA Investor Notice: Shareholder Rights Law Firm Robbins LLP Reminds Investors of the Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Endava plc
/PRNewswire/ -- Shareholder rights law firm Robbins LLP reminds investors that a class action was filed on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or...
'Musk' Director Alex Gibney Calls Elon A "Bullsh*tter'
'Musk' Director Alex Gibney calls Elon a "bullsh*tter," rebuts claim his new documentary defames X, SpaceX, Tesla chief.
Oura partners with Xella Health to combine your smart ring data with AI-powered biomarker testing for a fuller picture of women’s health
Oura spots the changes, Xella tries to explain why
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
Thin-capping layer epitaxial quantum dots for near-field quantum photonics
Epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are widely recognised as one of the best quantum light sources, given their good stability, brightness, quantum efficiency and coherence. To reach such properties, QDs are protected from potentially detrimental surface states by a relatively thick capping layer, typically exceeding 50nm. This prevents the implementation of near-field effects, like plasmonic-based ones, that can dramatically increase the light-matter interaction, since the control of the spontaneous e
'Remarkable' targeted new fat jab can help users shed pounds in months
A new weight loss jab that directly targets fat cells could help melt away stubborn belly fat and reduce dangerous hidden fat, a study has found.
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
Indian artist takes ‘deleted voter’ song to Cockroach protest
An Indian artist tells Al Jazeera the Modi government changed his voting status. Now he’ll join 'Cockroach' protests.
South Korea, Japan stocks slide as Asian shares fall, bonds in focus after rally
MSCI’s Asia Pacific equities gauge slips 0.4% after Wall Street benchmarks eked out a modest gain Read more at The Business Times.
GTA 6 Finally Gets a Rating from the ESRB Daily Fix
In today's Daily Fix:The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (or the ESRB to you laymen), has finally slapped the M for Mature rating on Grand Theft Auto 6. Based on that extended gameplay look on Netflix, GTA 6 will be hitting all the hallmarks of an M-rated game: violence, sexual content, alcohol
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.
Moore, Escher, Penrose: A Conformal Golden Braid
I don't think I have ever done anything as peculiar in my life. Among other things, it shows a young man looking with interest at a print on the wall of an exhibition that features himself. How can this be? Perhaps I am not far removed from Einstein's curved universe.'' So wrote M.C. Escher about his 1956 lithograph Print Gallery. Nearly half a century later, a mathematical analysis related its geometry to an untwisted source image through a conformal power map $z \mapsto z^α$, $α\in \mathbb{C}$
New weapon seekers track targets at hypersonic speeds without GPS
OKSI unveils intelligent seekers that can track targets without GPS, laser designation, or RF links, including during hypersonic flight.
The Surprising Fall Superfood Dietitians Always Add to Their Cart
Dietitians share the nutrient-dense autumn staples to add to your shopping list.
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'
The view from the Vatican
How popular fiction has depicted the Pope.
Pragmatic DML with AI-Learned Representations
Text, images, and other rich covariates are increasingly compressed into AI-learned representations and then used as controls in causal analysis. We study when this approach is valid and develop a practical framework for causal inference with learned representations. For a broad class of estimands, an imperfect representation distorts the target causal parameter by the product of two representation errors: one in the outcome regression and one in the balancing weight (or Riesz representer). This
Eddie Murphy Moves Into Scripted TV With ‘The Chairman’ For Peacock
The Chairman, a drama series from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, is in the works at Peacock.