World
- How Arab parties could hold critical balance of power in Israeli election — BBC World
- Celebrity shark guided out of South Korea canal refuses to swim out to sea — BBC World
- Two killed in attack on airport in eastern Saudi Arabia, authorities say — BBC World
- Police investigate Married at First Sight Australia after 'inappropriate' allegations — BBC World
- Trump praises man who punched protester at rally in South Carolina — Al Jazeera
- US ambassador to Turkiye: Rethinking US role in the Middle East — Al Jazeera
- Is Neha Bora, India’s new red star, Modi’s real Gen Z threat? — Al Jazeera
Disaffection has often driven down turnout among Arab Israelis, but there is a strong push to get rid of the right-wing governing coalition.
Bukangi the shark became an unlikely sensation after it was spotted in a canal in Busan weeks ago.
It is the latest in a series of attacks by the Houthi movement which have targeted airports and other sites in the kingdom.
New South Wales Police say inquiries took place "following a report of inappropriate content being shared".
US President Donald Trump praised a man who punched a protester at a midterm election rally held in South Carolina.
Tom Barrack says Washington's relationship with the Middle East needs to change from one of control to one of support.
Firebrand student leader has become face of the youth protest movement taking on Modi's Hindu majoritarian government.
Technology
- CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority — Hacker News · 127 points
- Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms — Hacker News · 43 points
- WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal — Hacker News · 241 points
- [The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]](https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf) — Hacker News · 213 points
- Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM — Hacker News · 36 points
- Security Disclosure — Hacker News · 478 points
- FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about — Ars Technica
- Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought — Ars Technica
Science
- Sapphire-grown semiconductor film sets bandgap record — Phys.org
- Algae-powered soft robot arm uses light to grasp and lift small objects — Phys.org
- India capital steps up air pollution controls ahead of winter — Phys.org
- A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and unleashed a 330-foot tsunami — ScienceDaily
- Just 4 minutes a day can dramatically improve strength after 65 — ScienceDaily
- See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images — Quanta
- AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? — Quanta
Semiconductors with wider bandgaps could pave the way for smaller, more efficient electronics that can handle far higher voltages, but the wider this gap becomes, the harder it is to control how well a material conducts…
Tiny underwater algae sway gently in the current. All of a sudden, a light shines on them and they form robotlike arms that start to pick up small rocks and put them in floating baskets. Sounds like science fiction, but…
India began annual measures on Thursday to tackle toxic air pollution in New Delhi, a megacity of 30 million people regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals.
A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, buried 700 meters below the seabed, was created when a 160-meter-wide asteroid struck Earth…
A new Penn State study suggests that just four minutes of daily strength training can significantly improve mobility and physical function in older adults. After 12 weeks, participants showed meaningful gains in…
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
- Bhutan: the last place — Aeon
- Other people — Aeon
- The Dream of Collectivism: Unpacking the Fantasy — 3 Quarks Daily
- The Melancholia of Psychedelia — 3 Quarks Daily
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
Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon
by Thomas Fernandes It’s easy, inevitable some might say, to want something and aim for it. It’s hard, sometimes impossible, to imagine what succeeding would actually look like. Drawing out those…
by Anton Cebalo I have been digging through many 1960s psychedelic and acid rock collections that I never knew existed. The Pebbles series alone has 28 volumes of songs from obscure, local bands based in small towns…
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