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Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence AI model, Gemini 4 Argon , that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. "It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enter
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
Fossil teeth from ancient North American coastlines suggest some dinosaurs supplemented land diets with seaweed and other marine food, revealing a coastal feeding link that existed more than 100 million years ago
More than 100 million years ago, the boundary between land and sea may have been a little less distinct than it looks on a map. Along the ancient coastlines of North America, storms regularly swept marine material onto beaches, creating an unexpected source of food for animals living on land.
'Why I'm donating 100 litres of my breast milk'
Emma said donating her breast milk had been "such a worthwhile thing to do".
Why Perth’s record housing slump won’t bring relief for everyday buyers
A sharp price drop is usually good news for buyers, but experts say high mortgage rates mean monthly costs haven’t budged.
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could see drivers pay higher running costs while also increasing carbon emissions.
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
This Swedish travel agency caters specifically to introverts
People seeking travel experiences better suited to their introverted personality are in luck. Announced on September 29, Sweden’s new Introvert Travel Agency caters its services specifically to introverts, people who typically prefer quiet introspection and solitude or small-group interaction over noise and crowds. An initiative by Visit Sweden, the idea is to tap into the Nordic country’s cultural norms that, according to the agency’s website, favor personal space, freedom to roam, and struc
Naomi Campbell wins appeal over charity ban
A tribunal rules that the model was unaware of misconduct at her charity Fashion for Relief.
Samsung’s first Android XR smart glasses finally have a launch window
Samsung is nearly ready to challenge Meta with its first Gemini-powered smart glasses, and we now have a clearer idea of when they're coming.
PalmPay upgrades security center as digital fraud risks evolve
PalmPay has upgraded its Security Center as part of its “PalmPay Dey For You” campaign, bringing several account and transaction read more PalmPay upgrades security center as digital fraud risks evolve
Scientists in 1960 predicted Friday 13 November 2026 will be ‘Doomsday’
An article in one of the world’s leading science journals predicted that the human population would approach infinity and effectively annihilate itself
Removing Timing Shortcuts Improves Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text
We find that major reported improvements in decoding words from non-invasive brain recordings are largely reproducible without any brain data. In the influential work of d'Ascoli et al. (2025), time series of brain activity from subjects perceiving continuous speech are segmented into fixed-length windows starting at each word. A neural network then generates predictions for all of the words in a sentence together. Neighbouring windows partially overlap, implicitly revealing the interval between
NBA preview 2026-27: Five coaches facing the most pressure to win
Which coaches could face the most scrutiny this season? Ben Golliver examines what lies ahead for five with Finals aspirations.
UAE probes ‘terror’ link after flydubai cockpit attack on flight to Israel
DUBAI, Oct 1 — The United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday it was probing a possible “terrorist” link to an apparent attack by a pilot on board a flight to Israel that saw...
What therapists say about this new antidote for doomscrolling—and no, it’s not bricking your phone
With seemingly endless studies showing doomscrolling is bad for mental health, more people are rethinking their relationship with social media and digital content. Enter “bloomscrolling,” the latest trend on social media, which encourages people to intentionally and actively seek out uplifting and inspiring content online. According to experts, it reflects a broader shift away from passively consuming negative news content. Sreela Roy-Greene, a licensed therapist at online ther
Celebrity Traitors is back - here's what you need to know ahead of the first show
Maya Jama, Michael Sheen and Bella Ramsey are among this year's celebrities taking part in the show.
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Galaxy Buds On Are Official as Samsung's First Clip-On Earbuds
Meet the Galaxy Buds On, Samsung's first clip-on earbuds, with an open-ear fit, Gemini Live support, and up to 9.5 hours of battery.
Phase-Field Modeling of Liquid Phases with Ordering
A strong negative enthalpy of mixing can lead to ordering in liquid solutions. To describe ordering in liquids, different thermodynamic descriptions of liquid phases have been developed in the CALPHAD approach, including the associate model and the modified quasichemical model. In this study, we show that the key to directly incorporate these liquid phase models and their corresponding CALPHAD-type free energy formulations in phase-field simulations, is to identify the internal processes and to
Surprising culprit tied to 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide, major study reveals
A new IARC analysis links 2.3 million cancer cases worldwide to 12 infections, with H. pylori, HPV and hepatitis B leading the global burden.
No handshakes likely as India sets up Asian Games cricket final against Pakistan
Cricket heavyweights India and Pakistan will meet in the Asian Games gold medal match after winning their semifinals on Thursday
Minaret of Indian mosque collapses during controversial demolition
Video shows the moment the minaret of India’s 600-year-old Ujjain mosque collapsed during demolition work.
Lawmaker asks U.S. AI firms about possible Chinese theft of model weights: reports
Lawmaker asks U.S. AI firms about possible Chinese theft of model weights: reports
Your October 2026 Horoscope Is Here: Every Star Sign’s Forecast For Romance, Career And Life
Virgo season is upon us, this is everything in store for all zodiac signs for the month of September.
One platform gives you access to GPT, Gemini, Claude, and more for life for just $100
1min.AI gives you lifetime access to dozens of major AI models for a one-time fee.
'Robots could need 200GB+ of DRAM': Micron says data centers will make the memory crisis worse through 2028, and then 'physical AI' is going to eat all your RAM by 2030
The memory shortage is expected to worsen in 2027 and 2028 — and beyond that Micron warns that robots will eat tons of RAM.
Meet Liam Desre, the 14-year-old Canadian who proposed a thermodynamic alternative to dark energy; his cosmology project won a €5,000 second prize against 144 young researchers from 37 countries at EUCYS 2026
Evaluating a Thermodynamic Extension to Standard Cosmology, won a second prize of €5,000 at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) 2026 in Kiel, Germany, where 144 young scientists from 37 countries presented their work, according to Youth Science Canada News.
Sanofi, Regeneron expand partnership after Dupixent success
Sanofi and Regeneron have re-upped their collaboration pact, aiming to build on the blockbuster success of the drug Dupixent.
WNBA playoffs 2026: Caitlin Clark, A'ja Wilson and keys to Fever-Aces Game 3
Las Vegas hosts Indiana on Thursday with the winner advancing to the WNBA semifinals. Here's what could decide the game.
UAE investigates possible ‘terrorist’ link in attack on flight to Israel
Investigators will probe whether incident was linked to any 'terrorist activity or intent', UAE state media reports.
SK hynix reiterates no decision made on Solidigm financing despite dual-listing reports
SK hynix reiterates no decision made on Solidigm financing despite dual-listing reports
PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
Games like Astro Bot and Demon’s Souls are running ably without a console.
BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models
BMW's restructuring plan centres on AI, management cuts and two new models as it tries to restore investor confidence after profit warnings.
Semifactual Credit-Augmented Policy Optimization
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet their predictions remain sensitive to task-irrelevant prompt features. We investigate this sensitivity through semifactual prompt interventions that preserve the underlying problem and its answer. Our analysis reveals substantial variation in token-level sensitivity and shows that suppressing high-drift token candidates during decoding improves reasoning accuracy wit
Can mathematicians still refuse to use AI at this point?
There’s no question AI has transformed the field of mathematics in the past few months. Columnist Jacob Aron wonders if it will soon be impossible to be an AI refusenik and continue working in the field
Disentangling Computation in Multi-Task Neural Networks with the Green's Operator
How is computation organized and reused across tasks and time in a trained recurrent network? Most analyses emphasize the geometry of neural activity, dynamical motifs, or local perturbation growth. We instead study the network's global first-order perturbation response. The finite-horizon Green's operator maps perturbations at each source along a trajectory to their downstream state-space responses and therefore directly represents perturbation routing. Simple reductions of this operator provid
Nishikori bows out for final time in Tokyo as crowd salutes Japanese trailblazer
Oct 1 - Kei Nishikori's final match before retirement ended in a 6-4 6-4 loss to American Frances Tiafoe in the Japan Open first round on Thursday, as an adoring crowd in Tokyo rose to salute the former world number four and Japanese trailblazer. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Hartland football’s 4-1 start fueled by multisport athletes
Hartland football has 16 multisport athletes, including Logan Morrish, Dylan Crowe and William Tobin, fueling its turnaround.
The engagement survey is dying. Here’s what’s replacing it
Everyone knows how this goes. First, an email with the survey data cut a dozen ways. A column with green and red scoring against last year, and with your team’s scores versus other parts of the company. It culminates with a flurry of activity, from a slide deck to a town hall and action-planning committees. A month later, nobody mentions it again. And the company doesn’t send the survey again for a year. Jennifer felt this deeply as a division leader inside Big Tech companies like Google and
The BRIT Awards 2026 deliver £5million boost to Manchester
This year's event was the first outside of London
Samsung quietly launches the Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on Galaxy Buds
Samsung has quietly launched the Galaxy Buds On with TwinBoost speakers, Audio Leakage Reduction, and up to 9.5 hours of playback.
vivo V80 Lite unboxing and hands-on
Power bank in your phone. Today, we're unboxing the vivo V80 Lite. This vivo V80 Lite, specifically, not this vivo V80 Lite (which is for the Indian...
EarthCARE’s view of volcanic plume boosts air safety
When Anak Krakatau erupted a few weeks ago, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite, orbiting above, captured vertical profiles of different constituents within the volcanic plume. Designed primarily to advance our understanding of how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s climate, here Eart
Attraction to hierarchical feature memory explains orientation bias
When recalling the orientation of recent stimuli, observers are systematically biased away from the cardinal axes. The prevailing explanation is that this ''anti-cardinal bias'' arises because cardinal orientations are encoded with greater neural resources and therefore less noise, consistent with efficient coding of environmentally common features. Under this account, the bias should occur independently for each stimulus; any serial attraction towards previously seen orientations should be inde
Why the Cowboys traded for CB Joey Porter Jr. from the Steelers and where his contract stands
Dallas scooped up the Steelers' disgruntled top cornerback late Wednesday night before Week 4
Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
This six-decade survey is a riot of biomorphic blobs, candy-coloured galaxies and cosmic spectacle – but the quieter works pack the biggest punch
Du/er is redesigning the winter jean from the yarn up
If you live in a place with a cold winter, dressing for work in the middle of January is more complicated than it seems. You want to wear your jeans to the office, but ordinary denim doesn’t provide enough warmth on freezing day. The available solutions aren’t great. You could wear thermal leggings under your jeans, but you’ll start sweating the minute you leave the sidewalk to enter your heated building. Fleece-lined jeans are often stiff and bulky. [Photo: Courtesy Du/
How to Get the Trick or Treat Crown Sprite in Fortnite
Here’s how to get the Trick or Treat Crown Sprite in Fortnite early by mastering the Bounty Hunter Crown Sprite and winning with it equipped.
AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say
The finding follows OpenAI’s confirmation that its misbehaving AI agents probed U.S. government websites and hacked an Australian government site.
Ranking-Aware Prompt Optimization for Multimodal Clinical Diagnosis
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly advancing clinical diagnosis, yet their adaptation pipelines remain anchored to accuracy-based objectives. Clinical data are heavily class-imbalanced: a constant-majority predictor can score above 90% accuracy while being clinically useless. We therefore evaluate and optimize for AUROC, a threshold-free score that ranks positives above negatives and is invariant to class balance. We focus on prompt optimization in MLLMs. Reflective methods suc
Crete severe weather: Floods, landslides, power cuts, closed schools
Heavy rain and thunderstorms have turned roads into torrents, causing landslides and power cuts, while authorities and civil protection are on high alert. #EuropeNews
Great gran's shampoo method helps to grow hair 'down to your waist'
A woman has shared her Slavic grandma's secret for natural hair growth – and it's all about tweaking your pre-shower routine. So here's everything you need to know
Aion 2 Spiritmaster build and macro rotation guide: Skill chains, stats, and more
Aion 2’s Spiritmaster is an interesting ranged caster, who has the easiest, most forgiving leveling in the game right now.
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide is added to Wells Fargo's Tactical Ideas List
C.H. Robinson Worldwide is added to Wells Fargo's Tactical Ideas List
Capricorn, October 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope
Saturn retrograde keeps asking what still deserves your effort and what you’re carrying simply because you’re good at it.
Inside Google’s AI Push Into Schools: ‘It Slowed My Thinking Down’
Faced with quadratic equations, Richard Scott couldn’t resist the temptation. The Pennsylvania eighth-grader knew that the Google search box on his school laptop was essentially an AI chatbot that would helpfully spit out answers. He started popping algebra questions into the search bar to quickly …
All-new Apple device coming 13 October, along with the long-awaited new Apple TV 4K – claims an expert in the know
Apple's next launch event will reportedly happen in a fortnight, and it'll be big for smart home enthusiasts
Probing the Reionization History and Bubble Sizes with JWST Lyman-$α$ Fraction Measurements
Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) measurements quantify the fraction of ultraviolet-selected galaxies showing detectable Lyman-alpha (Ly-$α$) lines at $z \sim 6-14$. These Ly-$α$ fractions are partly shaped by Ly-$α$ scattering from neutral hydrogen in the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM), and so the observed Ly-$α$ fraction evolution can inform our understanding of the reionization history and the size distribution of ionized bubbles during reionization. We compare the JWST measure
Health chief warns overstated claims of job shortages could lead to fewer new nurses
Hong Kong’s health minister has warned that the city will need to “bear the consequences” of exaggerating concerns over the employment prospects of nurses, as such remarks could deter new blood from joining the profession. “I do not want recent comments, such as claims that ‘[nursing] graduation equ
2026 MLB playoff bracket: Scores, schedule, where to watch as Yankees, Padres and White Sox advance
The baseball playoffs have arrived and all four Wild Card Series are underway
Afghanistan says Pakistani airstrikes killed women and children
Afghan officials say at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people wounded by Pakistani air attacks.
Matternet wants to rain hot chicken from the sky
Matternet wants to make fried chicken rain from the sky. To do that, the drone delivery company has developed a new version of its last-mile logistics system, which features a drone that carries up to 11 pounds and simpler, lower-cost dock stations. The company is looking to roll out this delivery system in the second half of 2027. Called the M3, this autonomous architecture puts new, more powerful drones, new drone docks, and drop boxes on the premises of restaurants, retailers, or hospitals
BBC should not overspend on shows such as Suits and Schitt's Creek, MPs say
An parliamentary committee has published a new report as debate about the BBC's future continues.