Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data—could speed that process along.

A look at the highest-grossing Thanksgiving movies released over the holiday weekend, ranked by worldwide box office totals

Data center construction has carried much of America’s recent growth. Even a plateau in AI building would idle crews and saddle banks with losses

The planned execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad would be the first military execution in more than 60 years.

Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.

Some memes are too hot to handle.

Ning Xu's winning entry to Nikon Instruments' Small World in Motion competition was ineligible due to AI, a spokesperson for the contest told Gizmodo.

« La partie russe a réaffirmé sa volonté de fournir du pétrole et des produits pétroliers aux marchés américain et mondial », a déclaré le Kremlin après un appel téléphonique entre les deux dirigeants, confirmant l’annonce faite peu auparavant par Donald Trump.

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

Jonathan, an estimated 194-year-old giant tortoise, retains unusually orderly DNA regulation in pathways linked to cellular maintenance. Genome and epigenome comparisons offer clues to extreme longevity, including mitochondrial function and DNA repair. The small observational study does not establish what caused his long life or demonstrate a treatment for human aging. Some of the genetic machinery inside the world’s oldest known living land animal looks surprisingly youthful. Jonathan, a giant tortoise estimated to be 194, retains unusually orderly molecular patterns around genes involved in maintaining cells. A comparative study led by the nonprofit Kallel Foundation, with collaborators including...

A look at U.S. cities with the steepest long-term population losses tracked by the Census Bureau over recent decades

These 10 fastest-growing U.S. cities lead recent Census Bureau estimates, from Texas suburbs to Nashville's edge and the N.C. coast

The happiest countries in the world, per Gallup's World Happiness Report data, and the six factors that explain why

An earlier incarnation of the new show from 'Stargate' veteran Martin Gero was tabled back in June.

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch.
Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino in May after he dropped out of the state's Senate presidential race. As reported by the Columbus Dispatch, Byrnes sent a nude image of Shrek alongside the message: "Good to see you finally made your humiliation public, Young Mussolini! THE PATRIOTS CAUCUS sends its regards!!!!!!!!!!"
Cirino filed a pol …
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Tsunami warnings are issued for neighbouring countries as videos of destruction circulate online.

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the deluge was a deep-seated anxiety over what it all means - and what comes next. For all their different reactions, researchers agreed that simply understanding what OpenAI had released could take years, let alone figuring out where the mathematicians themselves fit in the fi …
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“Fewer homes in Mexico were left without food due to lack of money © 2026 Imagen – Excélsior. Todos los derechos reservados. El contenido de este sitio y de la edición impresa está protegido por la Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor. Prohibida la reproducción total o parcial sin autorización previa y por escrito. El material de terceros conserva sus propios derechos. Of the country’s 39.7 million inhabited dwellings, only 6.5 per cent of them had the case that they were once without access to food in the past three months due to a lack of money or resources, according to the Inegi’s 2025 Intercensal Survey. This proportion of households was lower than that observed in 2020, when 9.2% of households...

“In 2023, average income before transfers and taxes rose for households at the bottom of the income distribution and fell for those at the top. Income increased by 5 percent among households in the lowest quintile (or fifth) of the distribution from 2022 to 2023. (All measures of income in this report have been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation.) By contrast, income decreased by 9 percent among households in the top 1 percent. That decrease was largely due to a reduction in realized capital gains. Average income from other sources, on net, remained relatively unchanged among households in the top 1 percent.” From Congressional Budget Office.
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“The international community has reached an important global milestone, with 10.01 per cent of the ocean now officially designated within protected and conserved areas. Whilst this represents considerable progress, an area approximately the size of the Indian Ocean still needs to be designated by 2030 if international ambitions for ocean protection are to be achieved. In 2024, current records show that 8.6 per cent of ocean and coastal areas globally were within documented protected and conserved areas. Over the past two years the world has protected about 5 million square kilometres of ocean, an area bigger than the European Union.” From UNEP-WCMC.
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Selon les rapports préliminaires, le tremblement de terre a été ressenti dans tout le Panama. Les autorités ont appelé la population au calme.

Several member states of the international tribunal, including the UK, say they "strongly disagree" with the sanctions.

“In 1999, when Kosovo’s refugees began returning home, they found a country devastated by war. More than 800,000 people had been displaced, and the landscape was scarred by landmines and unexploded cluster munitions. For families returning home, the war may have ended, but the danger remained. Today, Kosovo is a very different country. After 27 years of work, HALO is celebrating the conclusion of its humanitarian mine clearance in Kosovo. The program’s operational work will come to an end in September 2026, with responsibility for any residual hazards handed back to Kosovo’s national mine action authorities.” From The HALO Trust.
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“Rwanda increasingly relies on digital tools to improve monitoring for pregnant women and manage high-risk pregnancies. At the opening of the fifth Africa HealthTech Summit on Wednesday, September 30, Minister of State for Health Yvan Butera said these systems had contributed to a 30% decline in maternal mortality over the past two years. The strategy relies partly on digitizing the work of community health workers. More than 54,000 workers use smartphones to record information collected from households and monitor patients. The data allow health workers to identify some high-risk pregnancies more quickly and refer patients to appropriate health facilities or specialists.” From We Are Tech.
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He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six.

Cet étudiant administrait un groupe en ligne spécialisé dans l’ultraviolence et la sextorsion. Son procès est le premier en France concernant cette mouvance, venue des Etats-Unis, qualifiée d’« extrémisme violent nihiliste ».

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad.
The Pentagon has said the execution will be livestreamed, suggesting it'll appear on an online platform beyond the FCC's jurisdiction. But it's common for broadcast TV networks to air live video of government events, and Carr's agency does have a say over what happens on public airwaves.
"My understanding is it's not on broadcast TV, so I don't think there's a role for the FCC one way or the other," Carr said in a CNBC interview today. "But I trust …
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The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions.

Fossil-based models suggest Platecarpus and Tylosaurus could launch faster lunges for their body size than Mosasaurus and Plotosaurus. A scaled model of a particularly large Tylosaurus reached an estimated 15 mph after one tail stroke under selected conditions. The findings support different hunting strategies, but reconstructed muscles and simplified swimming mechanics leave exact speeds uncertain. A single sweep of its tail could have sent a giant Tylosaurus lunging forward at roughly 15 miles per hour. That modeled burst offers a glimpse of how an enormous marine reptile might have closed the gap on prey. The estimate comes from a Rutgers University-led biomechanical study published in Current Biology....

The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the respiratory condition PCD." Nikon said last week that it was reviewing the video following skepticism online about its authenticity. In a comment on LinkedIn, Dr. Xu admitted to using AI for the video: "An unsupervised neural-network method was subsequently used for AI-assisted post-processing to distinguish and...

Google shared a closeup of its upcoming fitness tracker. | Image: Google It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26."
A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has surfaced over the past couple of weeks. So far, details shared by Dealabs and Android Headlines suggest that the upcoming device could feature a 1.34-inch always-on OLED touchscreen, built-in GPS, and several other sensors, including an accelerometer, barometer, altimeter, and gyroscope. It may also come with optical sensors for measuring heart rate and blood...

Pete Hegseth, le secrétaire américain à la défense, a annoncé que le responsable de l’attaque terroriste sur la base de Fort Hood au Texas en 2009 sera fusillé par des soldats le 3 décembre, à 13 h 30 précises, soit l’heure à laquelle il avait ouvert le feu en 2009.

Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad.

A measure to tax the ultra-wealthy in California is a bellwether progressive issue. Why are so many Democrats skeptical?

Après deux jours de négociations à Pékin, le commissaire européen au Commerce, Maros Sefcovic, a annoncé que la Chine avait accepté de réduire ses exportations de véhicules hybrides et électriques vers le Vieux Continent. Une pause bienvenue dans l’escalade commerciale de ces derniers mois, commente la presse internationale.

Often dubbed "Russia's Google", the tech firm admits customers may experience disruption to digital services due to the attacks.

L’affaire d’un viol en réunion, dont sont accusés sept étudiants d’une fraternité de l’université Cornell, ravive les inquiétudes sur la culture même de ces organisations exclusivement masculines. Explications en vidéo.

La question des emplois du temps arrive en tête, devant Parcoursup et l’interdiction des téléphones portables, d’après une synthèse nationale des premières dizaines de milliers de contributions postées sur la plateforme ouverte par le gouvernement.

Le public pourra assister à la mise à mort par peloton d’exécution du tueur de Fort Hood, a annoncé le Pentagone, jeudi 8 octobre. De quoi susciter l’indignation des Nations unies et de la presse internationale.

This week, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met a few minutes later than usual, and somehow defeated a buzz together with the power of will before settling into the news, rifling through the Mailbag, and otherwise creating the attached podcast.
So, the news. Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to not only remove Alexa’s aux port on future models, but also disable the input on extant ones. Is this really bad news? Maybe just because it seems like taking a choice away for the sake of exerting power over the people.
Anyway. In Hackaday news, the Retrocomputing Contest is currently on fire, and runs through 10AM PDT on Tuesday, October 27th. That means you have about 2.5 weeks left.
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The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence.

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction-of-justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

Webb and Spitzer spectra reveal two broad mineral groups among 21 extreme debris disks, offering clues to planetary collisions. Eight disks are silica-rich, consistent with impacts energetic enough to vaporize substantial amounts of rock. The collision sizes and causes remain interpretations, and only three sampled systems are older than 300 million years. Rock vaporized in a planetary collision can leave a chemical signature long after the impact itself disappears from view. Around other stars, tiny grains of that material are helping astronomers distinguish possible planet-building crashes from less energetic encounters. An observational analysis led by Kate Su of the Space Science Institute in Boulder,...

Quatre grands brasseurs nippons, dont les géants Asahi et Sapporo, sont soupçonnés par les autorités de s’être entendus sur les prix de leurs produits. Une pratique susceptible de constituer une violation de la loi antitrust. Des perquisitions ont été menées à leurs sièges, mercredi 7 octobre.

Mechanical and prone to failure, switches can seem quaint these days. Plus, everyone is used to having touch screens on their phones and other devices. So why not use touch sensors on your next project? [Tarantula3] has details on using the TP223 instead of ordinary switches.
These inexpensive modules work through plastic, glass, or wood, opening up many interesting possibilities for building a front panel. Of course, the thicker the surface above the module, the less sensitive the switch is, but that’s not always a bad thing. In particular, you may want to reduce sensitivity anyway. Thicker panels, reducing the size of the touch pad, or adding an external capacitor can reduce the sensor’s range.
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La mort d’une employée d’un institut spécialisé dans les agents pathogènes, en Russie, suscite des inquiétudes partout dans le monde. Certains supposent que la bactérie provoquant la peste est à l’origine de ce décès, et des rumeurs circulant sur les réseaux entretiennent la crainte d’une épidémie.

Une série de manifestations pro-tibétaines à l’occasion de la visite de Xi Jinping aux États-Unis et lors de la fête nationale chinoise du 1er octobre montrent que la cause tibétaine est toujours vivante malgré la sinisation forcée orchestrée par le Parti communiste chinois.

A movement born in the Paris banlieues has mobilized young people against diminished school conditions and accumulating problems at home and beyond.

Taille des classes, nombre d’enseignants, lourdeur des emplois du temps… Voici ce que disent les statistiques publiques sur les principales revendications du mouvement lycéen.

Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.

A theoretical study predicts five-dimensional primordial black holes within a model containing a hidden extra spatial dimension. Some modeled black holes could survive for a time comparable to the universe’s age, potentially linking them to dark matter and neutrinos. Primordial black holes and the extra dimension remain unconfirmed, and the observed neutrino does not establish either idea. A black hole born in the early universe might survive billions of years longer if gravity had an extra direction to spread into. That possibility anchors a theoretical study connecting hypothetical primordial black holes with a hidden dimension of space. The paper, “Primordial black holes are five dimensional,” appears...

Just-in-time, or JIT, compilation could be considered a fundamental backbone of modern computing.  JIT compilation turns scripting languages like JavaScript or intermediary binary forms like Web Assembly into native code on the fly, giving web apps, and things that are web apps under the covers like Electron-based tools, near native speed.  A new paper explores leveraging JIT systems to revive Spectre-v2 attacks against processors.
Most modern processors gain performance by using a trick called “speculative execution”.  The processor guesses the likely result of a compare, and begins executing some of the next instructions before the results are actually known.  If the processor guessed right, things...

Ventoy , je vous en ai déjà parlé à de multiples reprises et vous connaissez ça mieux que moi ! C'est cet outil open source qui transforme une clé USB en clé bootable sur laquelle vous glissez vos ISO comme de simples fichiers, sans avoir à reformater à chaque fois. Et ça c'est super pratique puisque comme ça, au démarrage de votre ordi, vous avez un menu qui vous laisse choisir sur quoi démarrer... Windows 10 ? Windows 11 ? Un Linux ? Mais il lui manquait tout de même quelque chose ! Pouvoir lancer SteamOS !
Et c'est chose faite depuis aujourd'hui puisque Ventoy vient de se voir ajouter du support, encore expérimental certes, des images de récupération de SteamOS, c'est à dire celles que...

Series.ly was once one of Spain’s best-known pirate link sites. The original operation dropped its piracy links in late 2014. In 2021, the domain was bought at auction by a new team, which says it isn’t part of the original one.
The new Series.ly, which requires a login to access, became pretty popular on its own, with nearly two million monthly visits, and nearly 90% of its traffic coming from Spain.
That popularity didn’t go unnoticed by rightsholders, which haven’t given up on shutting it down yet. In May, film and TV producers’ group EGEDA filed a complaint with the Second Section of Spain’s Intellectual Property Commission, which falls under the Ministry of Culture, aiming to shut the site...

A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans. Genetic branching predates the opening of an inland route through North America’s ice sheets, supporting an earlier entry. Sparse ancient DNA leaves earlier arrivals unresolved, and genetic estimates do not directly establish where population splits occurred. The oldest human genome yet sampled from the Americas dates to about 12,800 years ago. Yet the population history reconstructed from that DNA reaches thousands of years further back, offering clues to migrations that left few surviving traces. A genome can preserve clues to older ancestors without recording the location of their...

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for the software for the Apollo program. The code she was responsible for ran the lunar lander, and brought multiple missions successfully to the surface of Luna and back to orbital rendezvous. We regret to inform you that she passed on September 30th of 2026, aged 90 years.
Hamilton, with the code that put men on the moon.
If you call yourself a software engineer, you have her to thank. Hamilton didn’t just help define the field through her efforts, she literally coined the term while at NASA in an effort to get “mere” programming taken more seriously. Suffice to say, that ambition...

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Des retraites à l’Ukraine, en passant par la crise des carburants, les cinq prétendants du pôle social-démocrate ne sont pas toujours d’accord entre eux. Les Décodeurs font le point sur leurs convergences et leurs désaccords.

Par Olivier Becht, député du Haut-Rhin, ancien ministre.Exposé présenté au déjeuner-débat de la Société de géographie, au Sénat, le 2 octobre 2026. Monsieur le Président,Monsieur le Secrétaire général,Mesdames, Messieurs,
Je veux dire ma gratitude d’être reçu par la plus ancienne société de géographie du monde, fondée en 1821. Et de l’être ici, au Sénat, dans la maison qui représente les 34 875 communes de France, et qui vient d’être renouvelée par leurs grands électeurs.
Je ne suis pas géographe.
Je suis un élu de terrain depuis 25 ans : conseiller municipal, maire, vice-président d’un conseil départemental, président délégué d’une agglomération. Et j’ai passé...