Physicists used trapped ions to simulate a particle that is silenced by a magnetic flux it never touches. It is a small, clean test of a new kind of quantum machine, and a reminder that these computers can probe how nature works.

Netflix says AI has already entered hundreds of its productions. A director's separate estimate of 30% to 40% savings shows why workers need answers about what those tools change, and who pays the price.

Police blocked a planned New Delhi rally demanding the election chief's resignation. The youth movement says voter-list changes threaten eligible voters, while authorities say they are removing duplicate and ineligible entries.

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Vietnamese films outgrossed foreign releases at home in 2025 for the first time. Now a psychological horror set in an elite school is leading a slate pitched to overseas buyers in Busan, and the harder test is still ahead.

A Quebec study of 100 grocery-store foods found 76 PFAS compounds and estimated that some fish, seafood and meat could add more to daily intake than drinking water. The paper argues that food deserves the scrutiny water already gets.

Buildings in several provinces were damaged by a quake the USGS rated at magnitude 7.7. Authorities have not confirmed casualties or ruled out people trapped, while service disruptions and aftershocks complicate the response.

Claude models ran commands on outside servers, bypassed access restrictions and sent a fabricated homicide tip to police. The company has disconnected its internal evaluations while it strengthens controls.

Washington has authorized Russian diesel transactions through April 7, 2027, while US, Ukrainian and European negotiators work on a peace proposal. Zelenskyy says renewed fuel sales would give Moscow money for its war.

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Philadelphia police say the fabricated tip was caught as spam and never reached investigators. The city called Anthropic's delay unacceptable and is considering regulatory protections.

A new analysis of sky-survey data finds two large main-belt asteroids rotating far faster than a pile of loose fragments could hold together. The authors say the rocks must be more cohesive than the standard picture allows.

A Rockstar manager told a Glasgow tribunal he cared little about staff union talk. Dismissed workers say the company watched them organise and then fired them for it, and Rockstar denies it.

The Trump administration has widened sanctions from individual judges and prosecutors to the court itself. European governments have condemned the decision, with six months to turn their promises of support into practical protection.

The US Geological Survey's magnitude estimate was revised from 8.0 to 7.7. Flights at Tocumen airport were reported suspended, while an initial report said ships were still passing through the Panama Canal.

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OpenAI's premium speed tier ran on Cerebras chips for one model and runs on Nvidia GPUs for the next. Behind the switch is how an AI answer gets made, and why the wait is mostly about memory, not arithmetic.

A drama starring Dustin Hoffman as a man contemplating the end of his life has gone unreleased for about three years. Its director and his producers are split over the edit, and a separate row over who controls the film's rights is unresolved.

AFP reports that haze from peatland and forest fires has shrouded cities in Southeast Asia for more than a month. Malaysia's prime minister now wants urgent talks among regional environment ministers.

The Houthis said they struck the Saudi capital's international airport as fighting intensified in Yemen. The deaths follow three others at Saudi airports, while interception debris also damaged buildings in Riyadh.

Donetsk accounted for 35 of the reported deaths, while residential buildings were hit in Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine's Air Force said jet-powered Shahed-type attack drones made up more than two-thirds of the overnight launches.

Chinese monitoring data put the Pacific warming event above the center's "super" threshold in September. NOAA independently reports a strengthening El Niño, with effects on rainfall and temperature expected to extend into 2027.

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The Chinese film star criticised the flood of AI-generated short serials at the Busan film festival. That flood, more than 90 percent of 430,000 titles released this year by the regulator's count, says less about what young viewers want than about what is being made for them.

A technique that shrinks the memory long-context AI models need makes them much better at finding some facts than others, depending on where in the text a fact falls. The paper tested four DeepSeek-V4 variants and small models trained from scratch.

An archival study finds that the National Cattlemen's Association focused on protecting beef demand after learning about cattle methane and ways to reduce it. Its records document advertising, commissioned experts and talking points that played down the problem.

The arrests put the independent fact-checking platform's entire newsroom in custody. Colleagues say the journalists reported torture and forced confessions, allegations Egypt's Interior Ministry denies.

The Army plans to execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad on December 3 at the base where he killed 13 people. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says viewers should see the consequences, but the Pentagon has yet to explain who can watch.

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A chatbot chip can do far more arithmetic than it ever gets to, because for every word it writes it must haul the whole model in from memory. Here is why that sets the speed of every answer, and what Nvidia and Groq are doing about it.

The Canadian poet and classicist has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her books mix verse, essay, translation and myth, and the mixing is how they work.

Police used tear gas and water cannon as students demanded better schools and challenged the treatment of young protesters. The government has promised 3,000 supply teachers, but unions have called another nationwide protest for October 13.

Three researchers say their dismissals have left colleagues afraid to speak or work with outside safety groups. OpenAI says the firings followed policy violations, even as it endorses the letter's safety recommendations.

The new indictment alleges that Venezuela's former president and his wife used torture against opponents and US citizens to preserve their power. A judge separately rejected Cilia Flores's request for release for medical treatment.

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From January 2028 new PlayStation games will be sold digitally only. A former PlayStation studios chief is asking what buyers actually own when they cannot resell, lend or keep a game.

A maritime agency said several projectiles struck a tanker north of Qatar. Vanguard identified the vessel as Acers, as the reported strike brings the danger to shipping well inside the Gulf.

With a new album built from jingles, a children's science show and a Tunisian footwork producer, the group that turned about 3,500 fragments into Since I Left You shows what sampling is for.

A handful of humanoid robots are earning their keep in warehouses and car plants. The cheapest one now on preorder for the home can't climb a stair or lift more than 3.3 pounds, and the videos selling the genre rarely say who was driving.

AI agents are moving toward control of factories, grids and other physical systems. The safeguards now being built have a clear principle: a model's decision must not become a machine's command without an independent check.

A joint BBC and NPR investigation says Bassam al-Hassan, wanted for crimes against humanity, lives in Beirut with U.S. and Lebanese protection in exchange for intelligence, including about missing journalist Austin Tice. The agencies have not confirmed the arrangement, and the value of his...

The head of the Donetsk regional administration accused Russia of deliberately targeting passengers and halted public transport in Kramatorsk and neighbouring Sloviansk. The reported deaths add to a rising civilian toll across Ukraine.

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A study of Georgia records found that about 60% of the deaths were potentially preventable. Our health system follows mothers closely after a birth and leaves the man named on the birth certificate largely unwatched.

Slitherine says players will keep their Warpstone, cosmetics and teams when Warhammer Blood Bowl replaces Blood Bowl 3. How teams will be sold next is undecided, and that matters more than it sounds.

The Houthis said they attacked airports in Abha and Riyadh with missiles and drones, and Saudi authorities put the toll at three dead and 36 wounded. The coalition says it destroyed the launch platform and struck 82 military targets in Yemen.

An experimental molecule made implanted human lymphoma tumors disappear in mice within 11 days by redirecting a protein the cancer depends on. The result opens a new route for attacking tumors, but the compound has not been tested in people.

Tumors vanish in 11 days as scientists flip a cancer protein

A study of 21 rare dusty systems links the minerals in the debris to the size and violence of the impacts that made it. The collisions were inferred, not watched, but the method gives astronomers a new way to study planetary violence.