World
- Ukraine says Starlink still restricted after Trump says limits lifted — BBC World
- Five Israelis wounded and two suspected Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank shooting — BBC World
- Cyprus police open investigation into financial affairs of Roman Abramovich — BBC World
- Hundreds of flights cancelled as Typhoon Champi shuts Taiwan — BBC World
- South Korea invites North for military talks over border — Al Jazeera
- New electronics reach Iran, but prices soar as gov’t fees, US sanctions hit — Al Jazeera
- Serbia’s snap election: What’s at stake and can students unseat Vucic? — Al Jazeera
Issues remain with the network used by the Ukrainian military, sources say, after repeated denials of a deliberate slowdown.
The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions in the West Bank and four days before Israel's general election.
Questions about the integrity of some of Abramovich's professional advisers, were raised earlier this month.
One person has died after being swept away by waves in Taiwan's Liuqiu island, authorities say.
The proposal comes days after Pyongyang says it moved new military units into 'firing positions' along the border.
Latest smartphones are finding their way into Iran despite sanctions and trade restrictions, but many can't afford them.
A snap parliamentary vote on October 25 will determine whether a student-led group can loosen Vucic’s grip on power.
Technology
- Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you — Hacker News · 462 points
- Docker is weird — Hacker News · 525 points
- How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? — Hacker News · 101 points
- The Rise and Fall of Jev — Hacker News · 19 points
- The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) — Hacker News · 192 points
- The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions — Hacker News · 77 points
- Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access — Ars Technica
- Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% — Ars Technica
Science
- Just 3% of the world's glaciers account for over half of glacier ice loss — Phys.org
- Taiwan shuts down as Typhoon Champi approaches — Phys.org
- Europe's killer heat this summer claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths — Phys.org
- Cambridge scientists create a $10 chip that could put a medical lab on your wrist — ScienceDaily
- Birds are more afraid of women than men. Scientists have no idea why — ScienceDaily
- See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images — Quanta
- AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? — Quanta
Glaciers ending in lakes, oceans or ice shelves make up 3.2% of the world's glaciers, but lost 134 billion metric tons (148 billion tons) of ice each year between 2000 and 2019, accounting for more than half of all…
Most shops and schools were shut across Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Champi neared the island, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes ahead of the powerful storm.
Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found.
Cambridge researchers have created a groundbreaking $10 optical sensor that delivers the precision of laboratory equipment in a device small enough for wearable technology. It identified foods, plastics, and medicines…
Scientists have uncovered a strange pattern in urban bird behavior: Across five European countries and 37 species, birds consistently fled sooner when approached by women than men. Researchers have no clear explanation…
Winning entries in the 2026 Nikon Small World competitions reveal the hidden interactions that govern everyday life. The post See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images first appeared on Quanta…
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared…
Ideas & Culture
- Traction! — Aeon
- Bhutan: the last place — Aeon
- Thom Jones: Ten Years Gone or, The Pugilist at Rest (in Peace) — 3 Quarks Daily
- How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? — 3 Quarks Daily
Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon
What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
by Sean Murphy i. Here’s the thing about clean-up hitters: they strike out a lot. Then again, consider some of baseball’s most prodigious home run champions: Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, and Babe Ruth, the top three, had…
by Scott Samuelson The other day I got unaccountably angry listening to an old playlist on my laptop. I was chopping vegetables, simmering a sauce, and nostalgically grooving to some rare soul songs that I’d assembled…
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