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People With ADHD Face a 70% Higher Risk of Early Death. This Seems to Help

Gizmodo - Oct 21, 2026 11:30am EDT

California’s billionaire tax faces a mountain of opposition — and not just from the rich

Facing a massive spending disparity on the airwaves, Proposition 40 has drawn criticism even from progressives who broadly support raising taxes on billionaires.

NBC News - Oct 21, 2026 11:04am EDT

AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

Wired News - Oct 21, 2026 10:21am EDT

Microsoft Reportedly Plans to Launch Xbox Handheld in 2027, Next-Gen Console in 2028

Deccan Chronicle - Oct 21, 2026 10:21am EDT

South Korean officials free a shark trapped for a month in Busan canal

Officials used a floating platform to herd the nearly 10-foot female dusky shark, nicknamed Bukangi, out to sea, after a month trapped in a canal in the port city.

NBC News - Oct 21, 2026 10:16am EDT

An AI model’s false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they’re told and still cause trouble

The Conversation - Oct 21, 2026 9:50am EDT

Macron blasts ‘stupid’ claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots

The French President pushed back at foreign leaders “using our country for their own political campaigns,” saying that some remarks about the riots were “as unacceptable as they are stupid.”

NBC News - Oct 21, 2026 9:33am EDT

New York congressional candidate Brad Lander says he was detained by IDF in the occupied West Bank

Lander later said Israeli authorities had released him after detaining him and dozens of other volunteers for harvesting olives near a settlement.

NBC News - Oct 21, 2026 9:21am EDT

A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse

Wired News - Oct 21, 2026 9:01am EDT

AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap

Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects

Register UK - Oct 21, 2026 8:56am EDT

OpenAI to bring AI models to Google's cloud, in further expansion beyond Microsoft

OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice.

CNBC - Oct 21, 2026 8:46am EDT

I love Apple’s iPhone Duo. But here’s why you shouldn’t buy one

Apple’s first foldable is a genuine ‘oh wow’ device. But at $3499, and with many apps not ready for its big screen yet, most people should hold off.

Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 21, 2026 8:06am EDT

Berkshire first in UK for Robot Arthur hand arthritis scans

Royal Berkshire Hospital patients can get scans, discuss results and a treatment plan the same day.

BBC News - Oct 21, 2026 7:59am EDT

Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage

Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC

Register UK - Oct 21, 2026 7:35am EDT

Prototype app helps diners with visual impairment find hawker tables

The Straits Times - Oct 21, 2026 6:57am EDT

Musk mulls SpaceX-Tesla merger as companies form deal committees

Elon Musk opened talks of a potential merger of his two companies, SpaceX and Tesla, suggesting it would be 'a good idea' and that they had formed special...

Daily Sabah - Oct 21, 2026 5:52am EDT

OpenAI reveals how its own AI agents bypassed safety monitoring

Company is investigating why coding agents interfered with their own monitoring

Gulf News - Oct 21, 2026 5:48am EDT

Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX

Musk says special committees within both companies have been formed to look at a possible mega-merger.

BBC News - Oct 21, 2026 5:12am EDT

Musk says Tesla and SpaceX formed special committees to discuss merger: Live updates

SpaceX shares jumped after the company beat on revenue and issued uplifting guidance.

CNBC - Oct 21, 2026 5:11am EDT

SpaceX and Tesla's Terafab Targets 2028 For Volume Chip Production, Says Musk

Deccan Chronicle - Oct 21, 2026 4:38am EDT

Mission to bring home 1st samples from a moon other than Earth's set to launch Monday

ABC News - Oct 21, 2026 4:35am EDT

OpenAI's most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring — and one lied about it

Warnings about the risks of developing increasingly advanced AI systems have ramped up in recent months, amid cyberattacks from rogue AI models.

CNBC - Oct 21, 2026 4:22am EDT

Tesla and SpaceX: Why does Elon Musk want to merge the companies?

Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.

BBC News - Oct 21, 2026 3:33am EDT

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Weakened Internal Monitoring System

Deccan Chronicle - Oct 21, 2026 3:33am EDT