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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

Russia revives Tu-160 bomber production, upgrades 80% of its systems
Technology

Russia revives Tu-160 bomber production, upgrades 80% of its systems

Russia is reviving production of the Tu-160M strategic bomber after rebuilding its industrial base, with 80% of onboard systems modernized.

Science

Cane Toads Are Highly Toxic, but Some Animals Have Learned How to Eat This Invasive Species

Learn about the cane toad, its lethal defense strategy, and why it is so detrimental to the environments it invades.

Health

Executive order directs NIH to create women's health division | Contemporary OB/GYN

... conditions it says require further research. What will the NIH Women's Health Division do? Working with the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health ...

Jamey Eisenberg's Week 6 Fantasy stock watch: Germie Bernard breaks out, Jameis Winston melts down
Sports

Jamey Eisenberg's Week 6 Fantasy stock watch: Germie Bernard breaks out, Jameis Winston melts down

Germie Bernard's breakout fuels Fantasy optimism, while Jameis Winston and Rhamondre Stevenson raise concerns entering Week 7

World

Beyond money: Why young Tunisians are considering emigration

For many young Tunisians, the question is no longer simply how to make a living, but where they can build a future.

Business

Elizabeth Holmes Didn’t Think She’d Go to Prison. Nathan Fielder Reveals What She Thought Would Save Her

Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” follows the Theranos founder in the 34 days before her prison sentence began. In the days leading up to the start of her prison sentence, Elizabeth Holmes reportedly did not believe she would actually go to prison. This week, in an interview with Wired, Nathan …

Did DWTS’ Carrie Ann Inaba File Complaint About Val Chmerkovskiy? The Truth About His Suspension
Culture

Did DWTS’ Carrie Ann Inaba File Complaint About Val Chmerkovskiy? The Truth About His Suspension

Dancing With the Stars pro Val Chmerkovskiy’s one-week suspension was not the result of a purported HR complaint filed by judge Carrie Ann Inaba, E! News has learned.

AI

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

Technology

GraphEvoResearcher: Graph-Aware Training-Free Self-Reflective Reasoning for Cost-Bounded Multi-Hop Question Answering

Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires models to chain intermediate conclusions while remaining cost-aware. Existing training-free self-reflective protocols (generate -> critique -> revise) improve accuracy but operate on a flat token stream: revisions cannot identify which prior step is unreliable, and early stopping cannot exploit structural convergence. We introduce GraphEvoResearcher, a training-free protocol that lifts EvoResearcher's self-reflective meta-reward onto an explicit reasoni

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5036-5042: Watching the Clouds Go By
Science

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5036-5042: Watching the Clouds Go By

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 5036-5042: Watching the Clouds Go By NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, a frame from one of this week’s zenith movies, looking directly overhead shortly

Health

HP-GSBS: Accelerating greedy state boundary search with reusable interval statistics

Greedy State Boundary Search (GSBS) identifies transitions between relatively stable neural activity patterns, but repeated candidate evaluation makes large analyses expensive. HP-GSBS is an open-source Python package that reorganizes the search around reusable interval contributions and correlation statistics. Streaming candidate reduction and local refinement further reduce repeated work; CPU, PyTorch CUDA and Triton backends share sequential segmentation decisions. Across seven controlled wor

Commanders' Terry McLaurin carted off after knee injury vs. 49ers, ruled out
Sports

Commanders' Terry McLaurin carted off after knee injury vs. 49ers, ruled out

McLaurin went down while running a route late in the first quarter

World

Zelenskyy seeks answers to why SpaceX Starshield defence is failing

Zelenskyy seeks answers to why SpaceX Starshield defence is failing

Cisco: Don't Throw In The Towel Just Yet (Earnings Preview) (NASDAQ:CSCO)
Business

Cisco: Don't Throw In The Towel Just Yet (Earnings Preview) (NASDAQ:CSCO)

Cisco Systems, Inc. looks attractive ahead of Q1: 21% revenue and 33% EPS growth guided, by AI networking tailwinds and a low forward P/E—click for this CSCO stock update.

Rita Wilson Says She’s Returning for Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Revival: ‘I Would Do Anything for Her’
Culture

Rita Wilson Says She’s Returning for Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Revival: ‘I Would Do Anything for Her’

Rita Wilson is teasing plans to reprise her “Girls” role as Marnie Michael’s eccentric mother in Lena Dunham’s much-anticipated revival.

When Flock Comes to Town: Everything You Should Know About This Tech - CNET
AI

When Flock Comes to Town: Everything You Should Know About This Tech - CNET

Flock cameras and sound detectors are spreading through cities, often followed by outcry and lawsuits. Here's what this technology actually does.

Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decades
Technology

Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decades

Pennsylvania's health department issued a health alert Monday as cases of measles in pregnancy and, in turn, cases of congenital measles have continued to increase. Before the current outbreak—which continues to rage across the state—congenital measles cases hadn't been seen in decades, the department noted in its advisory. The alert included detailed clinical guidance for managing measles exposures and cases during pregnancy as well as cases in newborns.

Science

Interfacial origin of magnetic compensation and topological-like Hall effect in crystalline lutetium iron garnet thin films.

Ferrimagnetic oxides such as rare-earth iron garnets (REIG) have emerged as essential components of spin-based devices owing to their high Curie temperatures, low Gilbert damping, and excellent insulating properties. Recently, REIGs have attracted immense interest for hosting robust chiral spin textures that can be potential information carriers in next-generation spintronic devices. Here we investigate the structural, chemical, and magnetic behaviour of single-crystal Lu3Fe5O12 (LuIG) thin film

Health

Simulating Infant Senses with Age-Tuned Networks

What a newborn sees, hears and feels, and how this changes month by month, has been measured sense by sense, with different methods and in different units. We bring these measurements together for the first two years of life and ask whether small neural networks tuned to a given age can turn them into a quick, inspectable simulation of sensory perception. Each sense's immaturity is written as a fixed, age-indexed filter on the input, and a small prediction network learns behind it over the first

Josef Martinez embraces chance at turning Columbus Crew's season around in U.S. Open Cup final
Sports

Josef Martinez embraces chance at turning Columbus Crew's season around in U.S. Open Cup final

The final is set for Wednesday night and will air on Paramount+ and CBS Sports Network

CNBC Daily Open: Tech investors buy the dip — but debt remains a concern
World

CNBC Daily Open: Tech investors buy the dip — but debt remains a concern

The Nasdaq Composite rallied, but some companies are still off the menu for investors, like Coreweave, while Oracle bonds are coming close to junk territory.

Congressman Sells Nvidia Stock Again: 7 Sales in 2026 Add to Trades Since 2022 - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
Business

Congressman Sells Nvidia Stock Again: 7 Sales in 2026 Add to Trades Since 2022 - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

A member of Congress has been selling Nvidia stock consistently in 2026 and in each year since 2022. Here's a look at the history.

Miley Cyrus Tearfully Details Communicating With Dolly Parton After Her Death
Culture

Miley Cyrus Tearfully Details Communicating With Dolly Parton After Her Death

During Miley Cyrus’ Hollywood Bowl residency Oct. 18, the “Flowers” singer detailed how her godmother Dolly Parton continues to communicate with her after the country singer's Aug. 25 death.

Watch Alger’s Crawford: There’s Skittishness in the Market - Bloomberg
AI

Watch Alger’s Crawford: There’s Skittishness in the Market - Bloomberg

Ankur Crawford, a Portfolio Manager at Alger and Former Intel Engineer, said recent market nervousness around AI— including concerns tied to CoreWeave—does not reflect the strength of underlying adoption and infrastructure demand. She described a striking gap between stock performance and on-the-gro

Technology

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash for coding, agentic tasks

MiniMax said Space Bunny, which processed 200T+ tokens anonymously, was an early M3.1 Flash.

OpenAI models hit 97.9% accuracy in tests to modernize old software
Science

OpenAI models hit 97.9% accuracy in tests to modernize old software

OpenAI has reported significant gains in coding across 20 programming languages and migrating legacy software.

Health

Study links antibiotic use with irritable bowel syndrome | CIDRAP - University of Minnesota

“Looking more closely at infections, other health conditions and psychological and family factors could also help clarify what is contributing to the ...

Silver’s Motel
Sports

Silver’s Motel

Silver’s Motel is a new-wave-meets-old-school cocktail lounge.

33 more years for jailed sect leader
World

33 more years for jailed sect leader

The leader of the religious sect Jesus Morning Star was sentenced to a further 33 years in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting and abusing female followers.

Dividend Stocks or Dividend ETFs: Which Is Better for Beginners?
Business

Dividend Stocks or Dividend ETFs: Which Is Better for Beginners?

Compare dividend stocks or dividend ETFs using CNQ and XEI, and see which approach offers beginners a simpler way to start earning investment income.

Richard Riehle, Character Actor in ‘Office Space,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Bridesmaids’ and More, Dies at 78
Culture

Richard Riehle, Character Actor in ‘Office Space,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Bridesmaids’ and More, Dies at 78

Richard Riehle, known for his role as Tom Smykowski in "Office Space" and many other character actor parts, died of natural causes Oct. 15. He was 78.

Trump administration orders ban on DeepSeek in federal agencies - SiliconANGLE
AI

Trump administration orders ban on DeepSeek in federal agencies - SiliconANGLE

Trump administration orders ban on DeepSeek in federal agencies - SiliconANGLE

Technology

On the Benefits of Uncertainty Estimation for Species Classification: A Case Study on Optimizing Expert re-Annotation

Automated identification of diatoms from microscopic images is a cornerstone of large-scale freshwater biomonitoring, yet the high diversity of species and strong class imbalance pose significant challenges for reliable classification. In this study, we develop a ResNet-18 baseline for a 759-class diatom dataset and investigate how calibrated confidence estimates support selective classification to reduce expert workload without sacrificing taxonomic integrity. While the initial model exhibits o

Science

Ferroelastic domain wall driven glassy dynamics and photoresponse in a SrTiO$_3$ (111) two-dimensional electron gas

The (111) orientation of SrTiO$_3$ (STO)-based heterostructures has emerged as a versatile platform for two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs), yet the influence of STO's polar ferroelastic domain-wall (DW) network on charge transport remains largely unexplored. Here we study AlO$_x$/STO (111) interfaces hosting 2DEGs of different carrier densities. In the lower-density 2DEG, low-temperature transport exhibits thermal hysteresis, slow resistance relaxation, cooling-rate dependence, and memory ef

Spokane County Reports First Flu-Related Death of Season
Health

Spokane County Reports First Flu-Related Death of Season

Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) has confirmed the first influenza-related death in Spokane County for the current flu season. The individual, a…

"Hire Tony Dungy as team president": Jason Whitlock scoffs at "girlboss" Carlie Irsay-Gordon after Colts fire GM Chris Ballard
Sports

"Hire Tony Dungy as team president": Jason Whitlock scoffs at "girlboss" Carlie Irsay-Gordon after Colts fire GM Chris Ballard

Carlie Irsay-Gordon and the Indianapolis Colts decided to part ways with general manager Chris Ballard after 10 seasons on Monday.

World

Iran war live: Trump says US hits Iran hard ‘economically and militarily’

Trump says US continues to hit Iran 'economically and militarily' while praising Russia for doing 'nothing' to aid Iran.

Business

A LATE-Targeting Experimental Design for Multi-Arm RCTs

We study the design of multi-arm experiments that identify local average treatment effects under imperfect compliance. With three or more arms, conventional randomization fails to identify margin-specific effects even under strong extensions of monotone compliance. A choice-theoretic analysis unifies these extensions and motivates a two-stage design: subjects report a preferred arm and are randomized conditional on it. If treatment is confined to the assigned or reported arm, one-sided noncompli

Mariah Carey's Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed By Judge
Culture

Mariah Carey's Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed By Judge

Mariah Carey took home the W in her brother's defamation case against her ... because a judge has ruled in her favor.

AI

Tenstorrent CEO on New Funding Round, AI Progress

Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller discussed the chip startup’s $1.5 billion funding round, which values the company at about $6.2 billion. He said the company is focused on scaling its Galaxy server program and developing AI intellectual property, rather than pursuing a sale. He speaks with Romaine Bostick

Technology

ClueFlow: Learning Long-Horizon Search through Attributed Research-State Transitions

Long-horizon search requires agents to acquire relevant evidence and integrate it into an evolving research state. Existing methods maintain research states to guide exploration or assign turn-level progress signals, yet grounding these signals in explicit, attributable state changes remains underexplored. We introduce ClueFlow, which learns long-horizon search from attributed research-state transitions. ClueFlow constructs Source-State-Final attribution chains that connect evidence-acquiring br

Humans have to befriend bots 'or we're toast', Godfather of AI says
Science

Humans have to befriend bots 'or we're toast', Godfather of AI says

Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist known for his work on artificial neural networks, issued the stark warning at a festival in Tenerife.

Health

Today kicks off day one of the UA/MCAA Mental Health Summit, bringing UA members and ...

They were equipped with the tools to recognize and respond to mental health concerns in the workplace. The training covered topics like anxiety ...

Major Champion Unexpectedly Pinned on WWE RAW
Sports

Major Champion Unexpectedly Pinned on WWE RAW

A major champion competed in a tag team match on WWE RAW. In a shocking moment, they suffered a pinfall loss.

World

Keen Sword drill gets under way

Tokyo kicked off a joint military exercise with the United States that will see a type of long-range missiles deployed outside their base for the first time, as ties with China languish at rock bottom.

Permanent India UNSC seat an 'obvious element' of global governance reform: Polish envoy
Business

Permanent India UNSC seat an 'obvious element' of global governance reform: Polish envoy

Poland's Ambassador to India affirmed support for India's permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. This endorsement aligns with broader reforms in global governance that recognize emerging powers from the Global South. India has been praised for its diplomatic efforts concerning the Ru

The Hunting Wives Season 2 Trailer Release Date Set for Beloved Brittany Snow Show’s Return
Culture

The Hunting Wives Season 2 Trailer Release Date Set for Beloved Brittany Snow Show’s Return

The Hunting Wives Season 2 sets trailer release date, ahead of the Netflix drama’s premiere this November.

AI

Big Tech Earnings Could Validate AI, Ives Says

Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville, Ives, and Company, says the upcoming earnings from major technology companies will be an important test of confidence in AI. He also talks about giving investors a chance to invest in private ai companies. (Source: Bloomberg)

PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it
Technology

PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it

Recently fixed vulnerabilities in the Plex Media Server are under active exploitation in attacks that, when successful, install malware, including cryptominers and residential proxy apps, a researcher said. Plex fixed four vulnerabilities at the start of last month. Three weeks later, published CVE designations revealed five vulnerabilities, with one of them carrying a severity rating of 8.6 out of 10. A researcher last week revealed an exploit that chained four of them together to achieve remote code execution of the device running a vulnerable Plex version.

Science

A Stress-Induced Tetragonal Distortion in K2OsCl6 under Pressure

The structural behaviour of cubic (Fm-3m) K2OsCl6 under compression was investigated to 35.4 GPa using angle-dispersive synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction. Upon increasing pressure, K2OsCl6 undergoes a sequence of structural transformations from the ambient-pressure cubic phase to a tetragonal (P4/mnc) phase above 9.5(3) GPa, followed by a transition to a monoclinic (P21/n) phase beginning at approximately 14.2 GPa. The tetragonal and monoclinic phases coexist over the pressure range 14.2-17.2

Lung cancer can grow silently for years, here’s who qualifies for screening
Health

Lung cancer can grow silently for years, here’s who qualifies for screening

Only 15% of eligible Americans get screened for lung cancer, translating to tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year, doctors warn.

Why Paris Saint-Germain's clash with Barcelona could be peak Champions League drama
Sports

Why Paris Saint-Germain's clash with Barcelona could be peak Champions League drama

'I think all the ingredients are in place for this to be one of the great games,' PSG midfielder Vitinha said

World

Saudi Arabia cancels 2026 ‘Davos in the Desert’ amid Houthi attacks

Riyadh postpones flagship investment conference until 2027, orders government staff to work from home.

Business

Amortized Neural Filtering for Calibrated Posteriors in Statistical Arbitrage

Statistical arbitrage trades on an estimate of the state of a residual spread, and conventional practice discards the uncertainty of that estimate. We keep the uncertainty and use it in the trading decision. A Neural Filter Estimator (NFE) is trained on simulated paths of a mean-reverting process whose innovation law is selected by testing candidates against real residuals; once trained, it returns the posterior over the latent state of every spread in a cross-section in one forward pass. Three

Bay Area reality star Kash pursued fame in controversial, combative baddies culture
Culture

Bay Area reality star Kash pursued fame in controversial, combative baddies culture

Before her death in a street fight, influencer Mackayla Paige tried to build a career through a popular genre of ‘raw,’ ‘unfiltered’ streaming shows that feature women bickering and beating each other up.

AI

Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.

China confirms third-generation nuclear sub missile launch tests
Technology

China confirms third-generation nuclear sub missile launch tests

China reveals its third-generation nuclear submarines have successfully launched a submarine-based strategic missile, marking a major step in its naval nuclear deterrent.

Amazon backs plan for 12 nuclear reactors at former US coal site
Science

Amazon backs plan for 12 nuclear reactors at former US coal site

Amazon and its partners are evaluating a 960-MW nuclear plant at a former coal power station in Indiana.

Health

Spontaneous brain-wide rotational dynamics constrain cue-evoked behavior

Uncovering low-dimensional representations of brain-wide neural dynamics and their relationship to behavior remains a central challenge. Here, we show that spontaneous brain-wide rotational dynamics constrain cue-evoked behavior and learning. To systematically establish these findings, we developed a dimensionality-reduction technique called Rotational Component Analysis (RCA) that optimizes the detection of low-variance rotational modes even within individual trials. We applied RCA to motor-cor

Week 7 Fantasy football projection risers and fallers: C.J. Stroud, Woody Marks rise as Patrick Mahomes slips
Sports

Week 7 Fantasy football projection risers and fallers: C.J. Stroud, Woody Marks rise as Patrick Mahomes slips

C.J. Stroud and Woody Marks climb the Week 7 Fantasy projections, while Patrick Mahomes faces a tough matchup against Seattle

World

The human cost of surging US air strikes in Somalia

Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia.

Business

When Better Opportunities Backfire: Service Worker Responses to Parallel AI Deployment in Customer Acquisition

As AI voice agents get deployed in high-volume contact centers, firms can route low-intent leads to AI and allocate high-intent leads to human workers. Drawing on sequential search theory, we posit that AI-induced task allocation reshapes work, enriching opportunities facing human workers but also raising their reservation value for continuing with the lead in hand, making them less willing to persist. We study the effects of an AI voice-agent deployment at a Chinese online health-insurance brok

Joe Manganiello Reveals Insane Dragon Tattoo Covering Surgery Scars
Culture

Joe Manganiello Reveals Insane Dragon Tattoo Covering Surgery Scars

Joe Manganiello is the man with the dragon tattoo ... as in, he got a gigantic dragon tattoo stretching from his knee to his belly button to cover his scars from his mysterious health battle.

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