Russia says it is "ready in principle" to resume peace talks and US President Donald Trump says the world is "the closest we've been" to ending the war.

“More than half a million male mosquitoes carrying a parasite called wolbachia have been released in Barcelona. When these mate with females, the eggs won’t hatch, reducing the number of mosquitoes in the city and the risk of people getting mosquito-borne infections, such as dengue. The approach is already being used in Singapore, but this is the first large-scale release in Europe.” From New Scientist.
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“Quantum networks, systems that connect devices and allow them to exchange information encoded in the quantum states of particles, could enable more secure communications. To build these networks, physicists need to devise strategies that allow distant particles to share quantum states, preserving them long enough to perform calculations or enable communication between devices. Researchers at the University of Oxford recently realized a quantum network with four qubits (i.e., units of quantum information) encoded in trapped ions distributed between two locations linked by optical fibers. This network, outlined in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, relied on electrically charged atoms held in place...

“The world’s most accurate quantum computer has reportedly set a new record in quantum error correction, after achieving 99.9995 percent logical fidelity and an error rate 100 times lower than Google Quantum AI’s published result. Helios, Colorado-based Quantinuum’s 98-qubit trapped-ion commercial quantum computer, made just five errors per million logical operations in its latest tests. As per the company, the results bring quantum computers closer to everyday use. The Honeywell-powered computer’s error rate is currently 10 times lower than its previous record from September 2026. Additionally, it is 100 times lower than the best published result from competing hardware technologies, reported by...

“Colorado officials have tracked herds of elk, bears, pronghorn and even northern leopard frogs ambling across its new wildlife overpass. According to a newly released report, the overpass, which acts as a bridge over a busy stretch of interstate, has helped cut wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% since its completion 10 months ago. The overpass is the centerpiece of a larger system built by the state to assist wildlife crossing the highway, which also includes miles of 8-ft-tall fencing and five large wildlife underpasses.” From The Guardian.
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As the White House contemplates losing Congress, there has been an unusually early effort to find a Republican scapegoat.

“Chinese researchers from Tsinghua University and the Chinese PLA Medical School have developed Airscope, the world’s lightest wearable mini-brain monitor (mesoscope). It is a lightweight (1.0 g), wireless, miniaturized mesoscope designed to record brain activity in freely moving animals without the constraints of a tether. Compared to conventional microscopes, the Airscope offers a complete upgrade in neural imaging. This wireless device provides a broad 6-millimeter field of view across the cortex. As a result, researchers can simultaneously track more than 8,500 individual neurons in freely moving subjects… As the headset is so light, animals do not feel dragged down. In test habitats outfitted with...

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

“This means that any research that relies on the current sequence of pages needs to be revisited, since the manuscript is out of order.”

Actors Taye Diggs, Autumn Federici, Gary Entin, Troy Brookins, Edmund Entin and Eric Guilmette attend the world premiere of Microhouse Films and Lifetime's Reunion Island during the ALZA Festival. | Getty Images for Lifetime. It remains to be seen if people really want to watch vertical content on horizontal TV screens, but many filmmakers and creators were confident that their latest projects would play well at Alza - New York City's first microdrama film festival. Founded by former Tribeca Festival chief operating officer Pete Torres, Alza, which took place October 16th through 18th, was billed as a showcase for the "the creativity, innovation, and growing cultural impact of stories made for the vertical...

Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That's according to the company's third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta's income from operations would have been $22.89 billion without the settlement.
In August, Meta agreed to pay $17.1 billion to settle a massive nationwide lawsuit that claimed the company harmed children by making its social media platforms "addictive" by design. It will also only pay $5.3 billion of this amount if YouTube and TikTok implement stricter settings and safeguards for kids, which Meta also agreed to as par …
Read the full story at The Verge.

A new report says 'Penguin' showrunner Lauren LeFranc could sign on to produce the in-development series.

From Trump TV to a Shark Tank knockoff, the president’s latest entertainment ventures are a steep decline from his days on The Apprentice.

Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language, which underpins much of the internet, including any site built on WordPress. But it's far bigger than that. Some Dutch and Finnish government agencies took their sites down as a precaution. The NSA Cybersecurity account on X recommended that organizations take their systems offline if "an immediate update is not feasible," as did the UK's National Cyber Security Center. Even Pokémon Home and Pokémon C …
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L’épisode méditerranéen qui a balayé les Bouches-du-Rhône et la Corse, associé à des cumuls de pluie très importants, a provoqué d’importantes perturbations. Deux personnes ont trouvé la mort.

Time to focus on selling more Madden micro-transactions, probably.

Since Electronic Arts went private in a record buyout, layoffs, canceled games and Battlefield 6's launch have reshaped the company

As the smoke clears from its outrageous Roadster demo, Tesla reported Q3 earnings on Wednesday - and the cold reality is that revenue has flatlined.
Tesla said it earned $1.7 billion in net income on $28.0 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended in September 2026. Revenues were flat, while profits dropped 4 percent compared to the third quarter of 2025, when the company earned $1.4 billion in net income on $28.1 billion in revenue. Tesla's revenue came in above Wall Street expectations of $27.9 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Tesla's own company-compiled expectations predicted Q3 revenues of $28.3 billion. The earnings …
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A look at BioWare's most iconic games, from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect, and what made each a landmark in role-playing design

EA acquired these beloved game studios over three decades, then closed them, ending franchises that defined entire gaming eras

Mathematicians are weighing the breakthroughs against errors, verification concerns, and the future of mathematical research

Bose announced today it has acquired Skullcandy. Although the two companies are competitors in the consumer audio space, Skullcandy recently partnered with its new owner to bring several of Bose's audio technologies - including its head-tracking spatial audio and excellent active noise cancellation (ANC) - to products like the Skullcandy Crusher 1080 ANC headphones and Method 360 ANC earbuds.
Specific details about the deal weren't shared, but according to a news release, Bose plans to keep Skullcandy a separate brand that will become part of its premium consumer audio business. Skullcandy will remain based in Park City, Utah, where it was …
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By keeping Skullcandy in Park City, Utah, Bose is betting that skate cred and budget pricing will reach listeners it’s been missing.

The best diets for heart health, from Mediterranean and DASH to Portfolio and MIND, draw on decades of cardiovascular research

Test results have confirmed his diagnosis as a lung adenocarcinoma that was localised.

Measurements link fluctuating electron spins to superconductivity in an electron-doped copper-oxide material. A film with gradually changing composition helped reveal how the interaction weakened as superconductivity faded. The findings leave a missing ingredient needed to explain the higher transition temperatures of hole-doped cuprates. The interaction that slows electrons inside a copper-oxide material may also help them move without electrical resistance. High-field experiments have linked fluctuating magnetic moments to electron pairing in an electron-doped superconductor. The finding identifies a key mechanism while leaving the highest-temperature members of the copper-oxide family unexplained. An...

The Philips CD-i was not popular upon its launch in 1991, and is barely acknowledged today. In the opinion of [MattKC], it had a particularly poor selection of controllers, too, and it’s often hard to find used examples anyway. To rectify this situation, he whipped up an adapter to let him use Sega Genesis controllers instead.
The benefit of the Genesis controller is that it uses DB-9 connectors that are readily available, and it’s got a simple pinout that is compatible with the Atari joystick port, too. It makes interfacing the controllers supremely easy. Converting the controllers required using a Arduino Pro Micro to read the Genesis pad and translate it into something suitable for the CD-i.
On the Sega...

The 'Star Wars' star has a new take on 1960s classic 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' in development at Paramount+.

Russia's President Putin does not feel under pressure right now to end the war.

Petite histoire militante du groupe FTP à Marseille dans les années 1990. Deuxième partie. -
Repères / Solidarité antifasciste, Marseille, Ibrahim Ali, FTP-MOI

In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud.

This feature-packed security camera is the perfect way to keep an eye on your home and fam from afar.

If you’re going to nest, you might as well do it at a discount.

We don’t generally think of 3D printing and knitting in the same sentence. One uses threads and fine motor control, while the other requires great knowledge of pressing buttons and plastics. That said, they both entail stacking material over and over until a finished product emerges. So why not blend the two crafts together? [Joram de Haas] decided to work on just that in the form of FilaLoom.
2D, 3D, and even embedded mechanisms!
This isn’t the first time we have seen additional elements embedded into 3D printed parts here on Hackaday. However, this particular implementation has some extra features which allow the embedded structures to grow larger than most examples prior. Instead of placing any...

Locals describe the MP, who had to have both legs amputated, as a genuinely kind person who fought for the community.

Mercredi 21 octobre, les Éditions du Boréal ont annoncé qu’elles mettaient fin à leur relation professionnelle avec Thélyson Orélien. L’auteur canadien d’origine haïtienne de “C’était ça ou mourir” aurait bien utilisé l’intelligence artificielle dans l’écriture de son roman, selon l’enquête menée par l’éditeur canadien.

A bacterial molecule called gladiolin can push Candida albicans away from its invasive, tissue-damaging form and back toward a less harmful yeast state. The compound appears to do this partly by changing how the fungus uses glucose, a sugar it needs to keep growing in its invasive form. The work could guide new antifungal strategies, including ways to make existing drugs work better against dangerous fungal infections. Candida albicans can live quietly in the body, until it changes shape. In its round yeast form, it may remain relatively harmless. In its thread-like form, it can invade tissue, build biofilms and help drive dangerous infections. A study led by Monash University researchers, in collaboration...

Une manifestante arrêtée pour avoir bloqué un robot Uber et dénoncé l'automatisation des emplois.

Alléluia ! Tu peux enfin faire une chose qui t’était jusqu’ici impossible.

Mercredi 21 octobre, l’exécutif européen a annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête visant le site de réservation d’hébergements Booking.com. La Commission souhaite notamment vérifier que ce dernier prenne des mesures suffisantes contre la fraude et les escroqueries en ligne.

Ce menuisier de 34 ans vit dans un hameau d’activistes écologistes et anarchistes structuré autour de quelques familles. Son père a été condamné, en avril, pour avoir déclenché une série d’incendies en 2020 et 2021 afin de protester contre la 5G et les compteurs Linky.

« Meloni, quatre années au pouvoir » (3/6). En devenant présidente du conseil en 2022, la dirigeante d’extrême droite a porté aux cimes politiques son « monde minoritaire », composé de personnalités fidèles qu’elle côtoie depuis son adolescence militante, dans un mélange des genres parfois embarrassant.

À Gaza comme en Cisjordanie, les habitants suivent de près la campagne électorale en Israël, surveillent les sondages et s’adonnent parfois au jeu des pronostics. Sans grande illusion sur l’issue du scrutin ni sur l’évolution de la politique israélienne à leur égard.

Quelques jours après les débordements en marge de la mobilisation du 17 octobre, plusieurs médias internationaux s’interrogent sur le rôle qu’auraient pu jouer des puissances étrangères via les réseaux sociaux pour “attiser la flamme des émeutes”. La France mais aussi l’Italie auraient été visées. La Russie ne serait pas la seule puissance à l’origine de ces manœuvres, dont l’influence, toutefois, ne doit pas être surestimée.

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Les éditions du Boréal disent avoir rassemblé l’ensemble des versions de travail du roman et commandé une analyse externe approfondie, qui a révélé « des traces de balises d’IA dans les métadonnées ».

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A philosophical paper argues that generative AI loosens the link between sophisticated artworks and the training traditionally needed to create them. Its framework places value on changes in makers, audiences, and cultures, alongside finished creative work. Multisensory projects illustrate the approach, but their effects on participants were not measured. A polished image can now appear without the years of drawing practice once needed to produce something comparable. That changes a familiar assumption about art: an impressive result no longer necessarily signals the personal development behind it. A philosophical paper argues that this separation makes the experiences surrounding creativity more important to...

Retrouvez sur notre carte les mesures de restriction annoncées partout en France par les préfectures et les mairies après les violences des 17 et 18 octobre.

Broadcast radio isn’t as popular as it once was, its popularity suffering in turn due to technologies like MP3 players and music streaming services. If you don’t fancy either of those, you might like to listen to some internet radio stations, using a rig like the one [CodersCafeTech] built.
It’s a simple desktop radio set, but instead of tuning in to AM or FM broadcast bands, it has an antenna for 2.4 GHz instead. That’s because inside this radio is an ESP32-S3 development board, which is equipped with onboard WiFi hardware that lets it connect to the internet. It’s hooked up to a 1.3-inch OLED display over I2C, which acts as a user interface in concert with a rotary encoder. Sound is handled with a...

Docteure en littératures comparées, DoctriZ fait de la vulgarisation scientifique et de l’éducation populaire sur Twitch. Elle fait également partie du comité littéraire des Utopiales, le festival international de science-fiction de Nantes, dont la thématique de l’édition 2026 est « Perspectives ». Dans cette tribune, elle invite à se réapproprier les imaginaires de la science-fiction pour briser les illusions des discours néolibéraux et ainsi, ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives sur les luttes en cours pour les services publics.

Ce mercredi 21 octobre 2026, une importante panne perturbe le réseau mobile d'Orange et de sa marque low cost Sosh.

Prises à partie par le premier ministre sortant Benyamin Nétanyahou et ses alliés, marginalisées par l’opposition, deux listes arabes en lice mobilisent leurs électeurs. Elles pourraient détenir l’une des clés du scrutin en devenant incontournables pour la formation d’une coalition.

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Musique IA, faux comptes et royalties détournées : 18 mois de prison pour un fraudeur.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

LibreOffice et OpenOffice : des tableurs piégés exécutent du code Java. Correctifs et protections à connaître.

Claude a envoyé une fausse piste à la police de Philadelphie pendant un test interne mené par Anthropic.