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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.
APOD: 2026 October 2 – The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 2 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The Complete Sharpless Catalog: 313 Nebulas Explanation: What does it take to image hundreds of nebulas? Today’s image contains the entire Sharpless Catalog of H II Regions, totaling 313 objects. Zoom in and explore!
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.
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
Russia tries to freeze Ukraine as it suffers record casualties and retreats
Moscow has suffered further losses of occupied territory, but is using new drones to beat Ukraine's defences.
Why some people will get an extra paycheck in October
October brings us leaf peeping, pumpkin spice, and a Halloween that includes something extra—and we’re not talking about candy. Let’s just say this spooky month comes with more treat than trick as far as your bank account is concerned. But it all depends on how frequently you are paid. Each calendar year, there are roughly four months that include five Fridays. If you get paid every other Friday, or biweekly—which is most Americans—you could get an “extra” paycheck
Watch: Celebrity Traitors series two kicks off with a wild curveball
The BBC's Noor Nanji on the gameshow's new twist and a traitor's shocking admission.
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.
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
9 'slash' commands to get better answers from ChatGPT — number 7 is my personal favorite
Save time with easy-to-remember commands
Paris wants to tax sugar but to spare its croissants
Supermarket cakes would face the levy but not traditional bakeries
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
Election debate cancelled in Brazil, bomb scare outside Supreme Court
Brazilian president and opposition candidate snub the final debate ahead of the presidential election.
Shropshire HGV training firm 'riding out' diesel price rises
Fuel prices have been steadily rising since the US-Iran war began in February.
Venom Frontman Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant Has Died, Aged 63
“For more than four decades, Conrad’s voice, bass and vision were at the heart of VENOM."
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.
Watch Google’s James Manyika on AI Regulation - Bloomberg
Google executive James Manyika tells Mishal Husain that AI’s risks are real, but neither companies nor governments should be left to manage them alone.
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 …
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-
007 First Light: Jungle Heist Operations walkthrough
With the Extended Operations DLC launch, you can pursue the Jungle Heist Operations in 007 First Light. In this, you return to the Emperor Villa in Vietnam, which was part of Time To Die (Chapter 14).
US delivers F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan as island eyes threat from China
Amid threats from China, Taipai is growing concerned about the Trump administration's commitment to arming the island.
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.
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.
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.
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
Video. Latest news bulletin | October 2nd, 2026 – Morning
Video. Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 2nd, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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
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'
How the fighting in Ethiopia spread beyond Tigray, in maps and charts
Old rivalries, territorial disputes and new alliances are reshaping the conflict in Ethiopia’s north.
Publishers finally have AI buyers for their content yet zero say in the price
In the early days of generative AI, it seemed as if the labs were so heads-down building large language models that they didn’t think much about the raw material they were using. After all, big data sets like Common Crawl already existed, and trawling the open web was how search engines had worked for decades. Chatbots were arguably just a variation on that idea. Who knew that their method for sourcing information would get so controversial? It turns out, everybody. In a brief made
Bill Nighy wins best host at British Podcast Awards
The actor has become an agony uncle in what award organisers called an "irresistibly endearing series".
S.F. House candidates spar over their housing records, AI regulation in Chronicle-KQED debate
Both candidates vying to represent San Francisco in Congress called for a renewed focus on eradicating sexual misconduct in politics in the wake of …
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 $z \mapsto z^α$, $α\in \mathbb{C}$
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.
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.
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
Lawyers for US inmate who survived lethal injections demand release
Christa Pike is in critical condition after two failed attempts to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyer says.
Over 9,000 new firms launch in Cyprus as business creation outpaces closures
Cyprus recorded 9,152 new enterprises in 2024, while 5,566 businesses closed, according to Eurostat data showing that new business creation outpaced enterprise deaths on the island during the year. The figures gave Cyprus an enterprise birth rate of 9.70 per cent, compared with a provisional enterpr
‘Landman’ Season 3 promotes four stars to series regulars as production finally begins
Four ‘Landman’ supporting stars join the main cast as Tommy Norris builds his own family-run oil company
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.
Bitget `not expecting to recover a lot' from $388 million hack, CEO tells CNBC
Bitget has frozen a tiny fraction of the $387.5 million stolen in last week’s hack, and restored much of its protection fund.
Consulting might not be dying in the age of AI
Accenture reported surprising revenue growth as it helps clients implement AI. It looks like AI chatbots that can answer questions by synthesizing …
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
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
Indian police detain politicians at protests over election chief
Police in New Delhi have detained opposition politicians and demonstrators during protests.
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...
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.
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.
Rains Swamp the Gandak River
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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 ...
Aakash Chopra makes massive prediction on Virat Kohli's final century tally amid IND vs WI 2026 ODIs
Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra made a bold prediction of ace batter Virat Kohli's final century tally in international cricket amid the ongoing ODI series against the West Indies (via the ESPN Cri
‘They are crying’: Refugees in Malaysia in fear amid Myanmar deportation
Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
Phillips Edison expands Northwestern Mutual JV, raises 2026 acquisitions guidance
Phillips Edison expands Northwestern Mutual JV, raises 2026 acquisitions guidance
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.
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.
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
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,
'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.
F1 Bahrain GP in Malaysia: Verstappen pips Russell to top FP1
The championship-leading Mercedes outfit may have brought many car upgrades to Sepang, but it was Red Bull who went quickest in opening practice
Asian Games 2026: Taiwan’s gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting wins gold medal
Lin bags her second Asian Games gold medal, three years on from her success in Hangzhou in the 57kg class.
I’m an AI founder. Here’s the career advice I give my kids
I have the unusual experience of spending my working life building and scaling artificial intelligence while going home to two teenagers trying to imagine their place in the future it’s creating. They’re just starting to figure out what they want their lives to look like, and their questions are shaped by a world changing by the day. Those questions are also way more practical than you’d imagine. Is university worth it? Will a particular career still exist? Do I need to learn to code? Bein
Meghan releases pricey Christmas advent calendar inspired by her Californian mansion
The As Ever calendar will reveal 24 handcrafted chocolates in a keepsake design inspired by the duchess’ home in Montecito.