Indonesia’s main airport suspends operations after volcanic eruption

The blast produced a fountain of lava and could be heard up to 700km away.

How Prince Harry and Meghan's return to Britain is setting off 'shockwaves'

B.C. drought forces volunteers to rescue salmon from drying streams

As drought dries B.C. streams, volunteers are moving stranded salmon and other fish to deeper water. But scientists warn rescue efforts are becoming harder to sustain as waterways shrink and extreme heat intensifies.

'It cannot happen': Why Quebec fans and actors fought to save their own version of The Simpsons

When the beloved Quebec version of the iconic American animated series was cancelled last year, fans rallied to bring it back, not simply because they loved the show, but because they saw Les Simpson as a reflection of what it means to be Québécois.

Etsy seller's 'bruh' T-shirts were removed over a trademark complaint. He says it's trademark squatting

An Etsy seller says the online retailer removed his listings for T-shirts with the word "bruh" after the person who holds a Canadian trademark for it complained. One legal expert worries that the costly nature of trademark disputes makes it difficult to challenge such cases.

‘One Day, for No Particular Reason, I Decided to Wear a Tie’

A Brooklyn butcher’s gift, a Bronx high school student’s advice and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

13 Hours, 5 Boroughs, Lots of Boats: Cruising New York City by Ferry

We spent a day bouncing around the city on the expanded NYC Ferry system making stops at beaches, festivals, beloved bars and more for just $15.

See What New York City’s Murals Tell Us About 9/11, 25 Years Later

They commanded us to never forget, even as they faded over time. Or was that the point all along?

AI Training Filter Reports Higher Math and Code Scores

An arXiv preprint reports higher math and code benchmark averages for a reward-aligned trajectory filter, with total training time close to standard on-policy distillation.

AI Infers a Simulated Universe’s History From Today’s Matter

A three-dimensional neural network inferred averaged cosmological quantities from present-day simulated matter maps, including parameters linked to curvature and backreaction. Its predictions tracked

OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch

Emily Forlini / Fortune: OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch OpenAI has chang

AI controller keeps GSM8K accuracy near full budget with far less reasoning

A preprint presents AERA, a controller that estimates whether more reasoning may help and reports near-baseline GSM8K accuracy with sharply lower generation use.

To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City'

Rockstar Games and the mayor of Miami-Dade county are discussing a joint marketing campaign transforming parts of the county to look like areas from Grand Theft Auto 6, reports the blog Rock Paper Shotgun: The proposed publicity event would include "an immersive arrival experience" at Miami International Airport. with signs for Vice City and planes coated in GTA 6 livery, together with branded Metromover skytrains and specially designed manhole covers... [I]t proposes a dockyard visual installa...

AI framework recovers C from binaries, but behavior still slips

A test-suite-free framework built around an AI model produced C candidates that often compiled and matched held-out input-output checks, but the benchmark also exposed false acceptances and weaker res

AI training method reports gains on harder mathematics problems

A method called DA3PO was reported to outperform GRPO, DAPO and GSPO on mathematical reasoning benchmarks, though the tests covered only two Qwen3 base models and did not report uncertainty estimates.

AI agents that adapt teamwork report higher reasoning scores

A preprint describes an AI system that retrieves evidence before choosing how its agents collaborate. It reports higher scores across seven reasoning benchmarks, but the evidence comes from in-silico

Michigan Wolverines fend off shocking upset bid from Western Michigan in early season thriller

We just passed the 19th anniversary of Michigan's shocking upset loss to Appalachian State that opened their 2007 season.Well, we came about as close as you can to another major Michigan upset to kick off this year.The Wolverines got their slate underway on Saturday night at Michigan Stadium by welcoming the Western Michigan Broncos.THE 2007 MOUNTAINEERS REMAIN COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S GREATEST 'WHAT-IF' STORY NEARLY TWO DECADES LATERAs is often the case in these Week 1 matchups, Michigan came into th...

Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed

Retrieval quality in an AI search product is bounded by two things: how good the embedding model is, and how cheaply you can run it across an index. This week, Perplexity Engineering team published Fa

The Real Elites Vs. The Ruling Elites

The Real Elites Vs. The Ruling Elites Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn't matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn't matter if there is a written constitution or not. All political institutions - and certainly every sovereign state - are run by a group of elites who control the means of coercion.The myth of "rule by the people" is precisely that: a myth. But t...

California pizza joint allegedly used as meth distribution hub as illegal immigrant charged

A California pizza shop allegedly had far more than pies on the menu, with a man accused of using the Round Table Pizza restaurant to sell massive quantities of meth.Kawal Preet Singh, a 50-year-old Indian national living illegally in the United States, was indicted Thursday on federal drug and firearm charges after authorities allegedly uncovered more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine, three guns and over $10,000 in cash.Federal prosecutors say Singh operated the Round Table Pizza restaurant in...

‘The flood is coming’: How a Nepal principal saved 900 students

Rajendra Dawadi saved 900 students before a flood destroyed their school.

Gun found in Alps lake could be key to 14-year-old murder of British family

Police are testing a pistol found in Lake Annecy for links to the 2012 murders.

Video AI Keeps Nearly All Benchmark Performance With Fewer Tokens

A new arXiv preprint reports that a coding-inspired system kept average benchmark performance close to the uncompressed setup while using 25% of the visual-token budget on Qwen3-VL-8B.

Flow-matching shortcuts aid training but miss exact likelihoods

A theoretical and synthetic analysis finds that conditional flow matching can replace endpoint likelihood calculations only when specific residual errors cancel. In on-policy training, the shortcut ma

Hegseth's Polygraphs Return To Pentagon In 'Major Leak Hunt' Over Iran War

Hegseth's Polygraphs Return To Pentagon In 'Major Leak Hunt' Over Iran War The polygraphs have returned to the Pentagon, after the Trump administration has been furious over what the president calls 'leaks' by US officials to the press, particularly regarding alleged diminished munitions stocks and missile shortages. The New York Times reports Saturday that Pentagon investigators have questioned roughly 50 personnel on the Joint Staff whether they had disclosed classified informati...

AI method flags answers that may outrun their evidence

Twin Worlds compares answers before and after controlled entity substitutions, using inconsistent changes as a reason to withhold an answer.

China Expands Online Content Controls, Putting More Pressure On Creators

China Expands Online Content Controls, Putting More Pressure On Creators Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, China's new rules governing companies that produce and distribute content for social media took effect on Sept. 1, potentially exposing both independent content creators and the accounts they manage to penalties for violations. Men play games on computers in an internet bar in Beijing on Dec. 16, 2015. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The regulations require comp...

Kennedy Center ceiling partially collapses as Trump-led board pushes for 2-year closure

The Kennedy Center shared photos on Saturday that showed a partial ceiling collapse that happened during a rainstorm in the main hallway of the over 50-year-old performing arts building.Roma Daravi, vice president of public relations for the Kennedy Center, said the collapse underscored the need to close the building for renovations."Another example of the urgent need to close for renovation and revitalization, as our Chairman President [Donald] Trump has championed," Daravi said in a statement ...

LISA Simulations Find Large Waveform Shifts From Scalar Hair

A theoretical study finds that modeled scalar hair can produce large gravitational-wave phase shifts and mismatches with Kerr templates, while its LISA parameter forecasts remain conditional on an inc

Active colloid chains can look balanced while still dissipating

A theoretical preprint reports zero orientational entropy production for fixed-geometry autophoretic chains while full-system entropy production remains finite, with longer chains and evolving geometr

Oregon rallies from slow start, thwarts Boise State's upset bid in season opener

No. 2 Oregon survived a scare in its first game of the 2026 college football season Saturday. Despite entering the opener as heavy favorites over unranked Boise State, the Ducks found themselves tied 27-27 in the fourth quarter.But the Ducks ultimately held off a resilient Broncos team when wide receiver Dakorien Moore hauled in a 62-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Dante Moore, putting Oregon ahead for good.Oregon held on to win 34-27 and extend its home winning streak against nonconference...

Brain MRI Review Finds Safety Checks Rarely Test Small Lesions

A systematic review finds that most deep-learning brain MRI reconstruction studies did not compare image-fidelity scores with radiologist assessments on the same data, leaving key safety questions una

New Images Reveal China's Stealth Drone At Secretive "Area 51" Base

New Images Reveal China's Stealth Drone At Secretive "Area 51" Base Aviation researcher Andreas Rupprecht posted footage on LinkedIn that appears to show China’s next-generation high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drone, an aircraft he estimates is “comparable in size to the US Air Force’s B-21 Raider.” Rupprecht wrote on LinkedIn that the WZ-X drone was spotted at a secretive air base in China’s Xinjiang region, known to some as China’s version of Area 51: ...

How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters

39 U.S. congressional candidates "reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle," writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures. This means the campaigns "are using the technology to court voters despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect elections from the technology's risks." Two [candidates] said explicitly in filings that they had used the subscription for advertising, even though the company's policies prohibit candidates from using their...

Machete-wielding MS-13 gangster wanted for murder walks free after Biden-appointed judge releases him: DHS

An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder is out of federal custody in California after a federal judge ordered his immediate release, igniting fury from the Trump administration.U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez, 35, aka "the witch," after finding that immigration officials held him for five months without giving him a bond hearing or determining whether he posed a danger to the public or a flight risk.Department of Homela...

Linear AI model points to critical behavior at a learning threshold

A theoretical analysis of linear in-context learning finds a split between finite average error and a divergent fluctuation signal at the model’s critical sample complexity.

US Sanctions Turkish Bank Over Alleged IRGC Transfers In Latest Action

US Sanctions Turkish Bank Over Alleged IRGC Transfers In Latest Action Via The Cradle The US Treasury announced sanctions on Friday on a Turkey-based bank and two of its subsidiaries, accusing them of moving tens of millions of dollars on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and facilitating Tehran's movement of funds across the international banking system.  “"Financial institutions continue to find out the hard way that we are serious about Operat...

Trump-linked MAGA Inc pours $10M into Ken Paxton's Texas Senate race against James Talarico

MAGA, Inc., the super PAC linked to President Donald Trump, has made its first major midterm buy with $10 million in ad spending to support Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his Senate race, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission.Paxton and Democrat state Rep. James Talarico are locked in a tight race in which polls continually show the two candidates neck and neck.The $10 million will go toward digital and TV ads across the state.FOX NEWS POLL: GOP DIVISION...

Tennessee Volunteers fans pay incredible tribute to Dolly Parton during season opener

The death of country music, movie, theme park and, frankly, all-around icon Dolly Parton hit a lot of people hard.That includes folks in her home state of Tennessee, a place she was virtually synonymous with.On Saturday, the Tennessee Volunteers football team opened its 2026 season, and the entire Neyland Stadium crowd paid tribute to the late legend.PEYTON MANNING PAYS TRIBUTE TO DOLLY PARTON: 'TENNESSEE WON'T BE THE SAME WITHOUT HER!'It was announced ahead of the game that one of the tributes ...

The 10-Year Treasury Yield over 5%? Some Thoughts

The economy did fine with a 10-year yield of 5-8%, including in the 1990s, amid a tight labor market and lots of economic growth.

AI model scores higher at finding camouflaged copper-tube defects

CF-YOLO, a YOLOv11-based detector built to refine context and fine detail, scored higher than YOLOv11n on CTDD but delivered mixed results on external NEU-DET data.

RISC-V FFT Tests Show juFFTe Gains, While Zen 5 Leads

Benchmark tests on three RVV 1.0 RISC-V CPU configurations found that juFFTe's gains varied by hardware, with a reported threefold average speedup on the SG2044 multi-core comparison, while AMD Zen 5

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers hopes to be 'supporting my pregnant wife' by next year after final NFL season

Next Sunday will mark the beginning of what could be Aaron Rodgers’ final NFL season. The four-time league MVP signed a one-year contract during the offseason to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers.Rodgers’ potential retirement has been widely discussed, and more details emerged this week about what his life could look like beyond football.Starting a family appears to be among the 42-year-old quarterback’s priorities whenever he does decide to step away from the game. Rodgers told SiriusXM that he...

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals

Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg: As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals AI could tran

DHS Seeks Faster Dismissal Of Some Asylum Claims

DHS Seeks Faster Dismissal Of Some Asylum Claims Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to move quickly to dismiss more asylum cases found legally insufficient. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Feb. 17, 2026.(Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) (The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on "If an asylu...

Iran: Several Ballistic Missiles Fired At US Aircraft Carrier, Navy Destroyer

Iran: Several Ballistic Missiles Fired At US Aircraft Carrier, Navy Destroyer Summary: Iran says it has attacked 3 'US-linked' along with 3 American ships in the Hormuz Strait State media released footage of foreign vessels under attack in "response" to US aggression CENTCOM Confirms Iranian Tankers Hit Near Kharg Island Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit By Missiles Near Kharg Island *  *  * Iran Unleashes Large Drone Swarm Attacks on Several Ships Iran state media is releasing fo...

Simple color forecast beat trained models on unseen copper

A tiny two-recording test found that a parameter-free color extrapolator beat copying the last frame and every trained comparator on held-out copper in both directions. The air-to-chamber advantage wa

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s: Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prom

COSCO Denies US Claims Its Container Ships Serve As Beijing's Global Spy Network

COSCO Denies US Claims Its Container Ships Serve As Beijing's Global Spy Network China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected a report published last week alleging that the company had concealed advanced surveillance equipment aboard its cargo ships to monitor US military communications near the coastlines of target nations, including the US. Reuters quoted COSCO on Friday as calling the allegations "totally unfounded" and false. What Reuters reported on Tuesday: The offi...

Argentina threatens to sanction oil projects around Falklands

Argentina will investigate 45 entities linked to Falklands oil projects.

AI agents score higher with verifier-guided training, preprint reports

VICT uses a task's terminal verifier to trace credit through long action sequences instead of using it only as a final pass-or-fail signal. In ALFWorld and WebShop tests, it beat GRPO and achieved hig

Fan runs onto field at Houston Cougars game, gets absolutely trucked by police officer

The college football season, in all its glory, is upon us, and it feels like it couldn’t have come soon enough for all of us.In fact, a lunatic in Houston couldn't wait more than one game before sprinting onto the field.Unfortunately for him but fortunately for the rest of us he was absolutely demolished by a police officer who was at the top of his game.HERE'S WHY, EVEN WITH ALL ITS PROBLEMS, COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS STILL BETTER THAN THE NFLThe No. 23 Cougars opened their season with one of the tou...

Audio AI Study Finds Different Embeddings Suit Different Tasks

The results point to a trade-off: the transformation embedding was more useful for distance-based comparisons, while the processed-audio embedding was more useful for recovering chain and parameter in

Dr Phil says Lindsay Clancy mistrial a 'teachable moment' on postpartum psychosis: 'There was a failure here'

Dr. Phil McGraw on Saturday weighed in on the Lindsay Clancy trial, one day after the judge declared a mistrial when the jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the killings of her three children.The defense team of the mother who admitted to strangling her three children to death in 2023 claims the 36-year-old was suffering from postpartum psychosis and wasn’t in control of her actions when she killed her children.McGraw told Fox News anchor Aishah Hasnie on "Fox News Live" Saturday ...

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several 'US-Linked' Ships In Hormuz Strait

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several 'US-Linked' Ships In Hormuz Strait Summary: Iran says it has attacked 3 'US-linked' along with 3 American ships in the Hormuz Strait State media released footage of foreign vessels under attack in "response" to US aggression CENTCOM Confirms Iranian Tankers Hit Near Kharg Island Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit By Missiles Near Kharg Island *  *  * Iran Unleashes Large Drone Swarm Attacks on Several Ships Iran state media is...

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

New theorem links wave energy to boundary data on general domains

A mathematical preprint derives a boundary observability estimate for critically singular wave equations on general domains. The theorem depends on convexity and a sufficiently long observation time,

"Experiencing A Psychotic Episode...": First 'Clancy Copycat?' Mom Hangs 2-Year-Old Son

"Experiencing A Psychotic Episode...": First 'Clancy Copycat?' Mom Hangs 2-Year-Old Son Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois. Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ." Witnesses said she h...

In-N-Out's popular burger style started with a customer request decades ago

In-N-Out Burger is known for its simple menu, with basic burgers, fries and shakes. Yet by 2005, the fast-food chain was listing some of its most popular off-menu orders on a "Not-So-Secret Menu" online.Among the most famous off-menu offerings is the Animal Style burger, which the company website says is a "burger of your choice with hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, a mustard-cooked beef patty; add pickle, extra spread, with grilled onions."AMERICA'S FAVORITE FAST-FOOD CHAIN NAMED: MCDONALD'S WINS H...

FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is now on Bluesky, they announced this week. But "We can't advocate that you sign up for a Bluesky account like we do with Mastodon or PeerTube since signing up for Bluesky means loading the registration page's nonfree JavaScript..." While federated, Bluesky is generally not considered part of the "fediverse" network of social media services like Mastodon and PeerTube, as it uses its own AT protocol rather than ActivityPub... Hosting your own Bluesky "Personal...

Rare sighting of endangered gray wolf in Lake County brings hope of California comeback

Wildlife officials say that people spotted the wolf in late August, and a biologist confirmed the animal has been in the California area.

Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2026?

The Steam Deck is a solid gaming handheld, but after the arrival of several competitors and higher prices, is it still worth picking one up?

AI Engineering Agents Rechecked More Often With Explicit Guidance

Across 120 slots per condition, first post-edit re-verification appeared in 78.3% of cadence-guided slots and 26.7% of cadence-omitted slots. The same descriptive comparison showed fewer cadence viola

AI Models Score High on Easy Finance Questions, Then Stumble on Hard Ones

A new preprint benchmarks language models on questions aligned with CFA Levels I to III and FRM Parts I to II. Leading systems exceeded 97% on Easy items but fell sharply on Hard cases, while the gate

I Test Rode the Volkswagen-Licensed ‘World’s Safest E-Bike’ in Berlin

It costs several thousand dollars, and it’s a fun ride—even without a battery.

LAPD busts massive street takeover in South Bay, impounding more than 100 cars

A Los Angeles police spokeswoman said she had limited information, but on-scene camera operators recorded a street full of cars and dozens of people sitting on curbs, awaiting citations.

How to find your MacBook's diagnostic menu

Apple Diagnostics is a hidden menu you hopefully won't need to access often. When your Mac gets into hardware trouble, it helps find what's wrong.

AI-guided FPGA task mapping reports speed gains in two workloads

An arXiv preprint reports an LLM-assisted workflow for assigning application tasks to a processor or FPGA, with reported speedups up to 92.53 times and repeated partition choices in the tested configu

Gizmodo’s Best of IFA 2026 Awards: See the Winners

This is the tech that most impressed us at IFA 2026 in Berlin.

AI model reaches 97% accuracy identifying Bangladeshi mango varieties

EfficientNetB0 correctly classified 97.36% of 303 held-out mango images, with eight errors, in a study that also deployed the model through a public web app. The result is an initial within-dataset be

Pulse-train estimator cuts memory use and speeds up period searches

A redesigned estimator separates measurement-dependent and grid-dependent work, cutting reported runtime and memory demands while retaining similar simulated error performance.

B.C. man lost for 5 nights in mountains near Squamish shares survival story

Somehow, the Miami Hurricanes have done it again with yet another Heisman-level quarterback

I remember it like it was yesterday.January 13, 2024. I was at a friend's birthday party with a group of fans representing each of the "Big 3" Florida schools (Miami, Florida, and Florida State).Being a Gator fan, I was relishing in joining my fellow Florida fanatics and Seminole supporters mocking the Miami contingent that they had whiffed on all their quarterback targets in the transfer portal.ACC SUPREMACY: IS IT REALLY THE MIAMI HURRICANES VERSUS THE FIELD FOR THE 2026 SEASON?As we laughed a...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI's fifth Most Wanted Fraudster captured after alleged SNAP scam suspect arrested in India

FIRST ON FOX: The FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters initiative notched its fifth arrest in just three months after authorities in India arrested Manjit Singh Bedi Friday, and the bureau is working to return the alleged SNAP benefits fraud suspect to the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.The FBI worked with Indian authorities to secure Bedi's arrest and is actively working to return him to the U.S. to face charges, according to the bureau. Bedi's arrest is the fifth through the FBI's Most Wa...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI's fifth 'Most Wanted Fraudster' captured after alleged SNAP scam suspect arrested in India

FIRST ON FOX: The FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters initiative notched its fifth arrest in just three months after authorities in India arrested Manjit Singh Bedi on Friday, with the bureau now working to return the alleged SNAP benefits fraud suspect to the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.The FBI worked with Indian authorities to secure Bedi's arrest and is actively working to return him to the U.S. to face charges, according to the bureau. Bedi's arrest marks the fifth under the FBI's M...

Former Pentagon AI chief warns Flock cameras could create 'China-like surveillance state' in the US

Former Pentagon AI Policy Director Mark Beall warned that expanding artificial intelligence surveillance tools, like Flock cameras, could turn American communities into a "China-like surveillance state" unless guardrails are enforced.Speaking on "Saturday in America," Beall argued that while this technology can have vital law enforcement benefits, clear rules and judicial oversight are necessary to protect the rights of Americans at home."We have to be careful that we don't go too far to the oth...

Citadel Eyes US Shale As Oil Trading Moves Closer To The Wellhead

Citadel Eyes US Shale As Oil Trading Moves Closer To The Wellhead Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Citadel is shopping for U.S. oil production assets, including a previous bid for WildFire Energy before Magnolia Oil and Gas agreed to buy the Eagle Ford producer for $4.06 billion. Reuters reported Friday that the hedge fund and commodities trader has held talks with several private-equity owners of oil-weighted exploration and production companies in recent weeks. W...

OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue

Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose.

New York City Supports Push to Reopen Columbia Pathway to the Public

Community members and students sued the school last year to reopen the gates, which were closed during protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Iran war: US strikes three Iranian oil tankers after missiles target Navy ships

Iran has threatened retaliation after the US struck three oil tankers.

Bunnie Xo reveals shocking physical toll of divorce from Jelly Roll

Bunnie Xo revealed the physical toll heartbreak has taken on her as she navigates her divorce from Jelly Roll."There were moments where my team had to pick me up off the floor and get me IVs because I wasn't eating," Bunnie said during an appearance on "Open Book with Jenna Bush Hager.""I was eating baby food to get by, you know," she admitted. "I lost 20 pounds because of heartbreak.'"JELLY ROLL FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM WIFE BUNNIE XO AFTER ALMOST A DECADE OF MARRIAGEJelly Roll filed for divorce ...

Robin Morgan, Voice of Radical Feminism, Dies at 85

She edited the landmark 1970 anthology “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” led Ms. magazine and helped build the institutions of the modern feminist movement.

Christie Brinkley shares how she keeps her three adult children coming home

Christie Brinkley never really had to face an empty nest.The actress and supermodel stars opposite Steve Guttenberg in "American Summer," a feel-good tribute to simpler times and family connections. The 72-year-old told Fox News Digital that those themes aren't just on-screen they're values she's embraced in her own life, creating a home her three adult children can still return to.The movie, which hit theaters Sept. 4, follows Guttenberg's character as he looks back on a formative childhood sum...

The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History

"There are now more seniors in the world than young children," reports the International Business Times, citing a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau report. And it warns that "The share of the population aged 65 and over is projected to nearly double, from 10.5 percent (about 1 in 10 people) in 2025 to 19.6 percent (about 1 in 5 people) by 2060." The world is expected to add another 2 billion people from 2025 to 2060, increasing global population from around 8 billion to around 10 billion.....

Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life

TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher on one Windows PC for $29.97 (reg. $219.99). If you've somehow survived this long without needing AI inside your spreadsheets (in that case, congratulations), Microsoft Office Professional 2021 still has plenty to offer. Read the rest The post Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

North Carolina Dem Senate candidate added former Bloods gang member to criminal justice task force: report

Roy Cooper, the former Democrat governor of North Carolina now running for Senate, added an ex-member of the notorious Bloods gang to a "Racial Equity in Criminal Justice" task force in 2020.In the wake of George Floyd's 2020 death, Cooper created the task force via executive order, The Washington Free Beacon reported.Cooper, who tapped then state attorney general turned current Gov. Josh Stein to lead the task force, stocked the panel with a mix of state officials and community activists, inclu...

Married at First Sight UK star Holly Ditchfield’s premature twin sons die

The twins were born at 23 weeks and spent nine days in neonatal care.

DeepSeek's 160,000 Huawei Order Is A Real Threat To Nvidia In 2027

DeepSeek's 160,000 Huawei Order Is A Real Threat To Nvidia In 2027 Roughly 350 kilometers northwest of Beijing, in the city of Ulanqab, DeepSeek is constructing a data center measured in gigawatts. Running at full capacity, the site would draw enough power to supply 750,000 homes. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that DeepSeek intends to fill a portion of this massive footprint with at least 160,000 of Huawei's newest AI processors, the Ascend 950DT. Once operational, it will stand as ...

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times Microsoft was

Marching band tuba player unleashes punches on man at college football game without missing a beat

The college football season is underway, and that means teams are dusting off the cobwebs and getting back into the swing of things.And speaking of the "swing of things," we got some wild swinging courtesy of a tuba player for the Texas Southern Tigers marching band when he got in a tussle with a fan.But like a pro, he didn't miss a single beat.COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S FIRST FULL SATURDAY IS HERE AND IT'S A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA AT ITS BESTThe Tigers were on the road in Prairie View, Texas, taking on...

Video AI Cuts Video-Localization Time 79-Fold in Benchmark Tests

The fixed-round PTD model reported sharp speed gains and higher scores across several video benchmarks, while leaving disjoint events and multiple matching targets largely unexplored.

Your daily coffee habit could be taking a toll on your bones, new study suggests

If you’re a woman who regularly reaches for coffee throughout the day, you may want to think twice about that next cup or consider switching to tea.Researchers at Flinders University reported in a study published in the journal Nutrients that high coffee consumption may be associated with lower bone mineral density (BMD) in older, postmenopausal women.COFFEE MAY HAVE POWERFUL EFFECT ON LIVER HEALTH, MAJOR STUDY SUGGESTSThe scientists analyzed coffee and tea consumption among 9,704 women age 65 a...

OFDM waveform linked to better OOK detection, but leakage remains

A simulated waveform was associated with better OOK detection in the reported tests, but its effect on existing OFDM data varied with channel complexity and signal shape.

With Its War On Prediction Markets, The Gaming Lobby Plays A Bad Hand

With Its War On Prediction Markets, The Gaming Lobby Plays A Bad Hand Authored by Dean Heller via RealClearMarkets, There's a saying in Vegas, the house always wins. I represented Nevada in Congress for more than a decade and I can attest to the truth behind that phrase. But what I learned is that it's rarely a fair fight. The gaming industry works to stack the odds against competition, whether it's at the tables, in courtrooms, or in the halls of Congress. It was never a fair f...

Father of Patrick Mahomes asks court to attend son's games amid probation for driving while intoxicated

Patrick Mahomes Sr., who is on probation after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated, filed a motion to try to see his son, Patrick Mahomes, play this season.Mahomes Sr. filed the motion Friday in the 7th District Court in Tyler, Texas, according to FOX10. He requested permission to leave the state for seven of his son’s games in Kansas City, Missouri; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Cincinnati, Ohio, according to FOX10.In the motion, Mahomes Sr. acknowledges that to leave the state, he must submi...

Fighter jet crashes at air show, killing 2 pilots with thousands of spectators watching

A day at the air show turned fatal on Saturday when a Greek air force jet crashed north of Athens as thousands of spectators watched.Both pilots were killed in the crash at Tanagra air force base but no civilians were hurt.The twin-seat Phantom F4 jet flew into the ground during a low-altitude maneuver just meters above the ground.EIGHT BELIEVED DEAD AFTER B-52 CRASHES SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF FROM EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE"The sense of grief is widespread, and our thoughts are with the families of th...

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Jessie James Decker shows off toned bikini body after monthslong fitness transformation

Jessie James Decker is flaunting her fitness transformation.While the country singer has always been in shape, she took to social media this week to share a variety of photos and videos of her new, more toned look, including before and after bikini photos."This past week in the Hamptons, a woman complimented my arms and said, 'Gosh, I could probably never have arms like yours,'" Decker wrote. "I looked at her and said, 'Girl, I didn’t have these arms in April!'"HILARIA BALDWIN FLAUNTS FIT FIGURE...

Jessie James Decker shows off toned bikini body after months-long fitness transformation

Jessie James Decker is flaunting her fitness transformation.While the country singer has always been in shape, she took to social media this week to share a variety of photos and videos of her new, more toned look – including before and after bikini photos."This past week in the Hamptons, a woman complimented my arms and said, 'Gosh, I could probably never have arms like yours,'" Decker wrote. "I looked at her and said, 'Girl, I didn’t have these arms in April!'"HILARIA BALDWIN FLAUNTS FIT FIGUR...