Google adds native Markdown support to Docs and Drive
Files with .md and .markdown extensions can now be opened, edited, and commented on directly in Docs, while in Drive you can view the rendered version with tables and clickable…
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IceCube Creator Francis Halzen Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
On 6 October 2026, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for creating the IceCube neutrino observatory and for the discovery of…
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OpenAI published 722 mathematical manuscripts from its internal model on GitHub
A collection of 722 manuscripts in 372 topic families is open on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license. Some proofs are formalized in Lean; in the rest, the company acknowledges that…
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Niels Bohr: the creator of the atomic model was born on 7 October 1885
Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen on 7 October 1885. In 1913 he combined Rutherford's model of the atom with Planck's quantum ideas, explained the Balmer formula, and in 1922…
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Indie developer released a game where two smartphones steal charge from each other
Power Struggle connects two Android smartphones with a USB-C cable: whoever taps the screen faster gets the charge, while the opponent's battery drains. The author published the game on GitHub.
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Oklahoma judge rules warrantless Flock camera search violated the Constitution
Federal Judge Sara Hill of Tulsa ruled that a license plate check in the Flock Safety database without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment, and barred the use of the…
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Meta is developing CRAM: RAM compression for Linux
Meta engineers presented CRAM for Linux at the Linux Plumbers Conference. The hardware-accelerated compression preserves byte-level access to memory and is close to DRAM in speed.
Read the newsAlexa+ gets stuck on ‘la-la-la’: Amazon admits glitch
Amazon's Alexa+ assistant gets stuck for some users, repeating 'la-la-la' for minutes. Amazon confirmed the bug and is already rolling out a fix, but did not disclose the cause.
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A used Ryzen 7 5800X3D kept a buyer out of Valorant over someone else’s ban
A German gamer bought a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D and couldn't launch Valorant: back in August the Vanguard anti-cheat had banned the processor for the previous owner's cheating.
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NASA Assembled a Calendar of the October Sky: Draconids, Orionids and the Hunter’s Moon
NASA's selection includes a lunar occultation of Jupiter, two meteor showers and a full Moon. The Draconids peak on the night of October 8–9, the Orionids peak on October 21,…
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Nearly 60 Billion Rubles for Internet Filtering in the Draft Budget
The draft budget for 2027-2029 allocates almost 60 billion rubles for the system that filters and blocks internet resources, up from 32 billion two years earlier; the Ministry of Digital…
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On this day: the first planet around a Sun-like star
On 6 October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of a planet around the star 51 Pegasi. It is the first known planet around a Sun-like star…
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