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From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat

A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

Rubio Urges Europe to Awaken From ‘Slumber’ and Uphold Western Dominance

In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’

Texas Plans Execution After Botched Lethal Injection in Tennessee

Jamaal Howard’s lawyers are seeking information about the lethal injection drug, the same medication used in Tennessee’s failed attempt last week.

Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

Chris Mason: Tories united behind Badenoch - but party still needs to win over voters

Kemi Badenoch has the support of her party but the Tories still trail Labour and Reform in opinion polls.

Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

Lathe: AI Workspace for Hardware Design

Article URL: https://www.lathelab.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499

Man took his own life after 'sextortion' blackmail involving AI-generated woman

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/outstr

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Training Numerical Intelligence via Auto-Diagnosis and Skill Discovery

arXiv:2610.03872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of generating scientific code, but generating code is not the same as improving the algorithms behind it. F

REACT: Physically and Chemically Consistent Reconstruction of Marine Active Tracers

arXiv:2610.03888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing global sea surface pH from sparse observations is critical for monitoring ocean acidification and understanding marine carbon cycling. T

Proxy Confidence: Auditing Black-Box LLM Agents with a Surrogate's Log-Probabilities

arXiv:2610.03894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deployed LLM agent emits tool calls, queries, and code that can be silently wrong -- by the time the error surfaces, the action has run. Frontier cha

TEMPEST: Temporal Embeddings for Scalable Driver Identification via Angular Margin Learning

arXiv:2610.06855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable driver identification requires embedding models that maintain discriminative performance as fleet size grows, yet existing triplet-loss formul

When Does External Guidance Help LLM Reasoning? A Bias-Variance Theory of Guidance-Augmented GRPO

arXiv:2610.06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become the dominant paradigm for eliciting multi-step reasoning in large language models, and

Neutrosophic Ensemble Classification for Uncertainty-Aware Bearing Fault Detection: Evidence from Laboratory and Variable-Speed Industrial Benchmarks

arXiv:2610.06880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning classifiers for bearing fault detection produce scalar confidence scores that conflate confident errors with genuinely ambiguous predi

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

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How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity

At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”

27 Best Prime Day Deals on Phone Accessories (2026)

Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more.

Best Prime Day Vacuum Deals: Save Big On a Dyson (2026)

I’ve compared cordless sticks, watched robot vacuums chase stains, and cleaned plenty of car crumbs. These discounts get my recommendation.

罗马：永恒之城，永恒于世

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基于 Vaultwarden 和 Keyguard 的自托管密码管理实践

密码管理服务的数据，当然要掌握在自己手里。查看全文

十个案例助你轻松上手 iOS 27 通知自动化

iOS 27 通知自动化改变了通知的处理方式，快捷指令也迎来了不少的新玩法。查看全文

科技爱好者周刊（第 413 期）：再见了，React Native

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。（[通知] 下周五开始的中秋和十一假期，周刊休息。）

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科技爱好者周刊（第 412 期）：禁止 issue，只用 PR

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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科技爱好者周刊（第 411 期）：OpenClaw 2.0 是一个缩影

这里记录每周值得分享的科技内容，周五发布。

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📰 V2EX

Fed officials see another hike coming, but no sign as to when, minutes show

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released minutes from its Sept. 15-16 policy meeting.

Microsoft to sell $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra containing Nvidia AI chip

The new device shows Microsoft remains committed to making its own PCs even though it's not one of the top device makers.

Supertanker chartered from Gulf Coast to China for $76 million, 10 times higher than pre-war level

Shipping costs have exploded as the war in the Persian Gulf has led to a shortage of available tankers.

Albertsons: Pharmacy And Fuel Look Great, But The Company Has A Grocery Problem

ACWI: Global Diversification Does Not Eliminate U.S. Valuation Risk

Neogen Corporation (NEOG) Analyst/Investor Day Transcript

Stocks Sharply Off Lows As Treasury Yields Slash Gains; Apple, Micron Eye Buy Points

The stock market finishes sharply off its lows Wednesday as Treasury yields slash their gains. Apple and Micron near buy points.

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Dow Jones Futures: Stocks Pare Losses As Yields Back Off; Samsung, Micron, Taiwan Semi, Sandisk In Focus

The stock market cut losses as Treasury yields slashed gains. Samsung and Taiwan Semi news will be key for Micron, Sandisk and more.

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IBD Live Q&A Summary, Stock Lists, Transcript For Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026

Welcome to IBD Live! This list of FAQs and useful links will speed your learning curve. The Ready List contains top stocks that meet our fundamental and technical screening criteria...

📰 The Economist

Mellow's most viral sleep products are on sale for Prime Day, and I found where you can get the best price

Mellow is on sale for Prime Day. Here's how to save an extra 20% on its viral products, including the CloudAlign Pillow and MarshMellow Comforter.

What Amazon's customer profiles got right — and hilariously wrong — about us

Amazon's "About You" shows customers what it infers from their shopping activity. We asked Business Insider staff to check theirs.

Michael Stuhlbarg had no idea what 'Digger' was about when he filmed the movie

Michael Stuhlbarg recounts his career working with greats like Daniel Day-Lewis and the moment he shared with Tom Cruise on their new movie, "Digger."

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Fleur Capital Corporation

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Fleur Capital Corporation

为迎接 iPhone Duo，iOS 开发者需要对应用做出哪些调整

MCP 终于无状态了，但状态并没有消失，只是被“甩”给了应用

用 Harness 工程打造 SRE 可控的生产环境｜QCon上海

腾讯四次出手短剧皆未果，微信“绿泡泡”这次能成吗？

未来绿泡泡能否承载腾讯给它的使命，还需要时间来验证。

可灵上市，快手如何自洽

可灵的“去宿华化”。

谁在捧杀Utopai X？

把一个后训练模型吹成原生独立AI模型，是一场巨大的公关灾难。

Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy

Who chooses what AI gets to do?

Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?

Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics

Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?

AI Weekly Issue #535: AI got too expensive, so companies are moving to cheaper models

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are now

AI Weekly Issue #534: Universities cannot grade their way out of AI

This week, campus IT leaders voted AI their top priority for the first time, Cambridge refused Turnitin's new terms over AI training on student work, Dartmouth opened an investigation into its own pro

AI Weekly Issue #533: Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly pri

Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users

The developer of Hermes agent raised a $90 million Series B.

Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.

EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.