Apple updates iPad mini with OLED display, A20 Pro chip, and IP67 protection
The new iPad mini has an 8.5-inch OLED display and an A20 Pro chip. Preorders open on October 28, and sales begin November 6; the Wi-Fi model starts at $699.
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Jono: One Character and a One-Minute Turn for Each Player
In the free platformer Jono, players take turns controlling one shared character while everyone else watches and chats together.
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A bot checked a fake server with four NVIDIA H100s 38 times
In its first 12.5 hours, a Cowrie SSH honeypot recorded 1,846 connections from 126 addresses. One bot returned 38 times.
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A laboratory experiment reveals a mechanism for coronal heating
The Rayleigh–Taylor instability helped form antiparallel magnetic fields and trigger reconnection, heating electrons to 70.8 ± 6.5 eV.
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Vascular cells prepared for bioprinting on the ISS
Samples of vascular cells were treated with bioink and placed in a freezer for storage. The source does not say that printing has already taken place.
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Failure of London’s Ambulance Dispatch System
On 26 October 1992, the London Ambulance Service began using the LASCAD system. Its introduction led to delays, and the system later failed.
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Humpback whales off Australia approach adult size by age seven
Measurements of 865 whales showed that they are about 10.9 metres long by age five and reach 90% of adult length by age six or seven.
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On This Day: Taylor Swift Released Speak Now
On October 25, 2010, Taylor Swift released her third studio album. She wrote all the songs on the standard edition herself.
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Candidate for a Giant Exomoon Found in the CD-35 2722 System
Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a massive body orbiting a brown dwarf. If confirmed, it could be the first detected moon beyond the Solar System.
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VirusTotal: Some Malicious AI Skills Hide Instructions
Of 6,637 malicious skills for AI agents, 90 concealed instructions using blank lines, HTML comments, or invisible Unicode characters.
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AI Agent on a Virtual Island Invented Its Own Games
In an experiment, copies of Claude Opus 4.7 spent 30 hours at a time on a virtual island. One version of Eko came up with basketball and a game resembling…
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MAI-DxO made the correct diagnosis in 83% of complex cases in a simulation
In a Microsoft study published in Science on October 22, the system scored 83% on complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine. General practitioners and internists scored 36%.
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