World
- Turnout highest since 1981 as Israelis vote in pivotal election — BBC World
- Lula's comeback in Brazil dents Trump's ambitions for Latin America — BBC World
- Truce begins in Ukraine city where residents ate weeds to survive — BBC World
- Jordan carries out deadly strike in Syria in retaliation for church attack — BBC World
- Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literature — Al Jazeera
- Media groups challenge India’s privacy law at top court — Al Jazeera
- Families of victims killed in Jordanian strike deny links to church attack — Al Jazeera
Many fear neither of the leading political blocs will win enough seats for a majority - meaning weeks or months of political wrangling may lie ahead.
The Trump-Lula relationship may have thawed, but several issues could reignite tensions between the two leaders.
The ceasefire in Oleshky, secured by US First Lady Melania Trump, is meant to allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians.
The attack on a village in Syria killed five people, including women and children, Syrian health officials said.
US Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. has said that Arabs don’t produce science, literature, or win Nobel prizes.
News organisations are challenging the law, arguing it could hamper investigative journalism and endanger sources.
Jordan said it targeted ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Syria, but relatives of those killed deny any link to last week’s church
Technology
- Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking — Hacker News · 43 points
- Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics — Hacker News · 942 points
- The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI — Hacker News · 171 points
- AI is ruining haunted houses — Hacker News · 36 points
- [The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]](https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf) — Hacker News · 645 points
- I will no longer upload to NEW — Hacker News · 58 points
- Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce — Ars Technica
- Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out — Ars Technica
Science
- El Niño watch: The impacts around the world this week — Phys.org
- India orders evacuations as Cyclone Arnab looms — Phys.org
- Gasping for air: Borneo residents struggle as island burns — Phys.org
- Exercise doesn't just strengthen your heart. It rewires it — ScienceDaily
- A simple liquid can stop cavities without drilling, major study confirms — ScienceDaily
- How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle — Quanta
- Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering — Quanta
The effects of El Niño are being felt globally, ranging from floods in Argentina to deadly fires in Peru and drought in French Guiana, and prompting a U.N. call for speedy action to face an unprecedented "wrecking ball"…
Indian authorities ordered nearly 100,000 people to evacuate homes in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha ahead of a severe cyclone the national weather office expects to make landfall by Wednesday.
Sudarsono shuddered as he inhaled from an oxygen tank while being evacuated from his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, yellow, acrid wildfire smoke billowing all around.
Regular exercise does more than strengthen the heart. New research reveals that it actually reshapes the nerves controlling how the heart functions, and the changes are surprisingly different on the left and right sides…
A simple liquid painted onto teeth in seconds can stop cavities without drilling, injections, or anesthesia, according to a major clinical trial involving young children. The inexpensive treatment could spare thousands…
A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering…
Ideas & Culture
- Love with nowhere to go — Aeon
- Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti — Aeon
- Day Two — 3 Quarks Daily
- The Filmmaker Who Defended Reality — 3 Quarks Daily
Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves - by Derek van Zoonen Read on Aeon
A very modern conception of womanhood: in the Jazz Age paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, women were bold, free and stylish - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
by Tim Sommers This is true. Or as true as I could manage. It is a continuation, as you might guess, of Day One. It follows the aftermath of a near-fatal car accident that led me back to philosophy. Hannibal Buress…
by Jim Hanas Like a lot of people, I’ve spent the last week thinking about a filmmaker who, having refined the technical and philosophical aspects of his mature style, took a big swing with a controversial,…
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