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Phantom Blade Zero hands-on preview

Six hours with Phantom Blade Zero gave us a deep look at its combat, weapons, exploration, story, and PC performance ahead of release.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • theouterhaven.net
Physician Organizations Oppose Legislation That Gives Health Insurers Unilateral Control Over Out-of-Network Payments

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and American College of Radiology (ACR) today expressed strong opposition to the Lower Premiums, Faster Payments Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) that would eliminate the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process established under the No Surprises Act (NSA) and replace it with payment rates calculated by health insurance companies.

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Oct 8 • 7:55 PM EDT • Health • newswise.com
Rutgers Brain Health Institute Recruits World-Renowned Autism Expert

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute has recruited Sara Jane Webb as director of the Rutgers Center for Autism Research, Education and Services (RUCARES). Webb — a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle and is affiliated with the Center on Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute — succeeds inaugural director Wayne Fisher and will join Rutgers in April.

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Oct 8 • 7:50 PM EDT • Health • newswise.com
The midterm maps changed–so could Black political power

New congressional maps in nine states could reshape Black voters’ ability to elect preferred candidates, raising concerns about diluted political influence in s...

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Oct 8 • 6:15 PM EDT • Politics • afro.com
Southwest Airlines weighs Boeing 787 for long-haul international push, sources say

Southwest Airlines is leaning toward Boeing's 787 ​Dreamliner as its first widebody jet as it weighs launching long-haul international flights, according to three people familiar with the carrier's fleet ‌planning.

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Oct 8 • 6:08 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Trump bucks and the politics of mailing checks

The checks started going out last week, nearly one million of them, and mostly to battleground states. With a return address for the U.S. Treasury and a letter enclosed signed by President Donald Trump, these one-time checks for $500 were ostensibly government rebates for Obamacare enrollees who overpaid. In the accompanying letter, however, Trump attacks his predecessor and talks about his record in office on an important issue he’s not polling well on, which makes it seem more like the most expensive political mailer in U.S. history. The average piece of direct mail costs between 30 cents and $3, according to Mail Processing Associates, a print, mail, and fulfillment company. At $500 a pop plus roughly 50 cents each to issue the paper check, the cost of Trump’s healthcare mailer sent to more than 950,000 enrollees comes in at more than $475 million. Trump’s midterm healthcare message “For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare dot gov,” Trump wrote in the letter. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!” In the letter, Trump makes false and misleading claims about his administration’s record on healthcare costs, an issue Democrats have a 20 point advantage on over Republicans, according to a recent poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank. Trump touts his administration’s TrumpRX program, which he claims is “delivering massive discounts.” However, new research from KFF found that of a selection of drugs available on the TrumpRX platform, just five were the lowest price, while 13 were the highest price. Trump also falsely claims in the letter that he’s fighting to lower healthcare costs. In reality, average monthly premium payment costs for enrollees rose 58% under Trump while marketplace sign-ups declined 5%, per KFF. Under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, it’s estimated 10 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2034. You get a check and you get a check and you get a check Trump’s long promised cash outs to his fans, from his days as a casino operator and gameshow host to his presidency. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump administration made the unprecedented move to put Trump’s name on checks that went out under the CARES Act (notably the $500 refund checks this time around don’t feature Trump’s name). Ever since, Trump’s been chasing that high. In his second term, Trump’s promised more stimulus that never arrived, like refund checks from DOGE cuts and tariffs, while he said at his party’s convention last month that he’d give out $5,000 checks to everyone if Republicans win in November. In reality, DOGE overstated its cost cutting and Trump’s government actually now spends more than former President Joe Biden’s, while Trump’s tariffs actually grew the trade deficit. His proposal for $5,000 checks would add about $1.2 trillion to the national debt. The problem is there’s no money to give. These $500 checks — plus $90 Medicare rebate checks also going out as well as $250 deposited this week in some Trump Accounts for kids courtesy Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan — represent the closest Trump’s going to get to making good on his promise to deliver cash fast. And the checks seem especially targeted. Though the $500 checks went out to enrollees in one of 30 states that use the federal HealthCare dot gov marketplace, a Reuters review found 71% of the payments, or $339 million, went to enrollees in 13 states that have the most competitive elections for governor and U.S. Senate. Most Americans don’t buy it Could Trump bucks sway the election? An Economist-YouGov poll found 57% of U.S. adults doubt Trump will deliver on his promise for $5,000 checks, compared to 21% who do. “I’m waiting on my DOGE check and I’m still waiting on my tariff check,” one 2024 Trump voter who’s since turned on him told a recent focus group. “It felt like kind of trying to buy people’s votes, which honestly felt like in elementary when the class president was like, hey we’re going to take you to the water park if you vote for me. It’s like, I don’t think it works like that.” But for voters in swing states who got a check, it could still matter. One survey published in 2022 found receiving a physically personalized check in the mail during the pandemic was associated with a much greater self-reported likelihood of voting for Trump in 2020, and those gains mainly came from out partisans. The issue for Trump comes if these checks are mostly going to Obamacare enrollees whose premiums have gone up by more than just $500 since he took office and who view the money as something like a bribe before the election rather than an actual long-term solution to lowering household costs. Spending $500.50 per mailer would be absurd as a normal campaign expenditure, but since Trump’s checks and letter are a government rebate, his campaign and super PAC didn’t have to spend a dime and he got out his message regardless. If enough voters in key states are swayed by the one-time payment, it could prove to be the best $0 the Trump campaign spent. 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Oct 8 • 6:01 PM EDT • Politics • yellopolitics.com
US health secretary Kennedy launches new push on vaccine injuries

US ​Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week launched an agency-wide effort to study and document ‌any health problems reported after vaccination, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday.

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Oct 8 • 5:58 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com
US health secretary Kennedy launches new push on vaccine injuries

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. this week launched an agency-wide effort to study and document any health problems reported after vaccination, the Department ‌of Health and...

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Oct 8 • 5:58 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Despair over future fuels political anxiety for Michigan college students

Many young people feel uncertain about their paths and pessimistic about American government. Their anxiety is fueling restlessness in national politics that has contributed to the rise of outsider candidates.

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Oct 8 • 5:57 PM EDT • Politics • bridgemi.com
Tech Giants Contribute $2.4 Billion in AI Resources to White House Science Mission

The White House announced Thursday (Oct. 8) that 11 companies have committed a total of $2.4 billion in artificial intelligence, which the administration

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Oct 8 • 5:52 PM EDT • Science • pymnts.com
Health Secretary Kennedy touts an initiative to study vaccine safety

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has established a new clinic at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries. It's part of a larger administration effort on vaccine safety.

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Oct 8 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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OpenAI's annualized revenue $20 billion less than previously signaled, FT reports

OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $20 billion less than has been previously signaled, the Financial Times reported ​on Thursday, citing financial documents shared with investors.

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Oct 8 • 5:12 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
CME expands sports derivatives push with baseball futures

Derivatives exchange CME said on Thursday it would launch the world's ​first baseball futures.

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Oct 8 • 4:29 PM EDT • Sports • reuters.com
US Supreme Court won't speed up Democratic challenge to FCC political ad policy, for now

Siding with Republicans, the US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Federal Communications Commission to avoid for now a judicially imposed deadline in a Democratic ​challenge to the agency's new political advertising policy.

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Oct 8 • 3:56 PM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
US Supreme Court Won't Speed up Democratic Challenge to FCC Political Ad Policy, for Now

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Siding with Republicans, the US Supreme Court on Thursday ⁠allowed ⁠the Federal Communications Commission to avoid for now ⁠a judicially imposed deadline in a Democratic challenge to the agency's new political advertising policy. With November midterm ...

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Oct 8 • 3:56 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
DOE Announces Science Applications For Quantum Computing

The DoE released eight applications to guide the development and evaluation of fault-tolerant quantum computers for scientific use..

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Oct 8 • 3:24 PM EDT • Science • thequantuminsider.com
Tribal Nations Urge Supreme Court to Halt Prediction Market Sports Betting

A broad coalition of Tribal Nations and Tribal organizations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case involving prediction market company Kalshi and determine whether its sports-event contracts constitute sports betting subject to federal, state and Tribal gaming laws. In an amicus brief filed in Flaherty v. KalshiEX, the Tribal coalition argues […]

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Oct 8 • 3:19 PM EDT • Sports • nativenewsonline.net
A Yale physicist — and IceCube member — salutes this year’s Nobel Prize winner

Yale physicist Reina Maruyama was part of the construction and commissioning team for the IceCube experiment, whose principal investigator, Francis Halzen, won the 2026 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Oct 8 • 3:08 PM EDT • Science • news.yale.edu
No More Missed Zygarde Cells! 5 Big Quality of Life Changes Are Coming to Pokémon GO

Scopely has announced a series of gameplay and quality-of-life updates that will be coming to Pokémon GO! They shared that they are intending to ‘make your adventures as fun, intuitive, and accessible as possible’, so let’s see what will be changing. Zygarde Cells discovered on a Route will now be received as a reward when […]

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Oct 8 • 2:57 PM EDT • Technology • pokemongohub.net
Trump awards science, technology medals

Speak at the New Golden Age Summit at the Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., President Trump awarded Elon Musk, NVIDIA president and CEO Jensen Huang, CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell and more with the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

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Oct 8 • 2:31 PM EDT • Science • fox9.com
Trump gives Elon Musk the National Medal of Science at tech summit

Trump presented the prestigious award to Musk and three other tech moguls at the Institute of Peace on Thursday.

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Oct 8 • 2:26 PM EDT • Science • ms.now
Computer Science Instructor Has Students on (and in) the Right Course

The final projects in Anurag Tiwari’s upper-level AI course at the College of Charleston turn student-built AI tools into hiring assets.

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Oct 8 • 2:22 PM EDT • Science • today.charleston.edu
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

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Oct 8 • 2:18 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
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For the Record: The Sun Belt has unfinished business, a championship reunion, and 39 letters of trouble

Week 6 brings an old Louisiana rivalry back to life and sends an unbeaten team into unfriendly territory.

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Oct 8 • 1:58 PM EDT • Business • underdogdynasty.com
Latest 'Grand Theft Auto VI' Leak Features 25 Minutes of Gameplay and Jason's Concealed Weapon

Spicy!

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Oct 8 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
The Milky Way is one galaxy — but it used to be thousands, new simulations reveal

A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.

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Oct 8 • 1:40 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Fall Sports Update: Women’s Volleyball Swept By Nebraska

Women’s Hockey (2-2) The women’s hockey team got back on track with 5-3 and 4-1 wins over Robert Morris to open conference play. Robert Morris scored two goals in the first minute of Game 1 before the Lions found their legs. Five different Nittany Lions scored the five goals, including freshman Sofia Ismael scoring her […]

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Oct 8 • 1:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The big unanswered question about Russia's 'plague' death

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what made officials think these were needed at all?

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Oct 8 • 1:18 PM EDT • Health • newscientist.com
Harkin Institute introduces digital accessibility initiative

The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Drake University has launched Inclusion by Design, a collaboration with Value Inclusion Inc. and Clear Vision LLC aimed at helping municipalities and other organizations improve digital accessibility. The initiative offers accessibility audits, user testing by people with disabilities, strategic planning, staff training and vendor management…

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Oct 8 • 1:03 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Federal Policy Changes Could Mean a Loss of Health Insurance for as Many as 3.4 Million Young Adults

Two Urban Institute reports find that recent Medicaid and health insurance policy changes could leave up to 3.4 million young adults uninsured by 2028.…

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Oct 8 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • aecf.org
Two Point Museum's Cutest Collaboration Is Now Available, And It's Free

Little Kitty, Big Museum

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Oct 8 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Arts and Entertainment Agenda, Oct. 9 to 15

Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival at TACAW, Oct. 9 Branching out on her own, Colorado-based Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at The Arts Campus at Willits, 400 Robinson...

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Oct 8 • 12:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • aspentimes.com
How political upheaval and the pandemic shaped UK mental health

Major societal events such as the Brexit referendum and COVID-19 lockdowns have contributed to a lasting deterioration in mental health in the U.K., a study led by University College London (UCL) researchers ...

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Oct 8 • 12:40 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com
ChatGPT for Teens Failed to Alert Parents During Mental Health Crises

OpenAI disputes the findings.

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Oct 8 • 12:30 PM EDT • Health • extremetech.com
DOE Announces Science Applications for Quantum Computing

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the release of Quantum Genesis Priority Applications (QGPAs), a set of eight key scientific utility problems that will guide the Quantum Genesis’s goal of developing fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers. This effort directly supports the goals outlined in President Trump’s Executive Order Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation and builds on the recommendations made in the Blueprint for DOE Quantum Supercom

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Oct 8 • 12:25 PM EDT • Science • newswise.com
Zambia signs US health deal after disputes over data-sharing

The US will provide $1.5bn (£1.1bn) under the deal that was negotiated after Trump cut USAID funding.

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Oct 8 • 12:24 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Zambia signs US health aid deal after disputes over data-sharing

The US will provide $1.5bn (£1.1bn) under the deal that was negotiated after Trump cut USAID funding.

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Oct 8 • 12:24 PM EDT • Health • bbc.com
Big Ten has '18 strong members,' no expansion talks, commish says

Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said the conference has had "absolutely no discussions taking place around expansion, and there haven't been for quite some time."

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Oct 8 • 12:21 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
How do we remember history through 'The Minutes'? Civic comedy tackles small town politics

“The Minutes” hides a misremembered town secret within the records of a typical town council meeting.

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Oct 8 • 12:09 PM EDT • Politics • spokesman.com
Jakob Poeltl’s Health May Define the Toronto Raptors Season

The Toronto Raptors need Jakob Poeltl healthy. His interior defense, physicality and rim protection could determine how far this team goes this season.

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Oct 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • si.com
New Permanent Alchemy Exhibit in Philadelphia Reveals How Art and Chemistry Intertwine

Philadelphia has quietly been sitting on what the Science History Institute says may be the finest collection of alchemical fine art in the world. Now, for the first time, visitors can see that collection in a permanent exhibition. Fire and Gold: The Art of Alchemy, 1450–1850 is the Science History Institute’s first permanent display devoted […]

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Oct 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • philadelphia.today
'Dude! No way!' Mission teams jump for joy over Artemis II science results

996 new images, 814 GB of observations and 521 minutes of never-before-heard crew audio.

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Oct 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • space.com
Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

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Oct 8 • 11:50 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Missouri Jury Awards $10 Million In Marijuana Business Ownership Dispute

“We are here trying to get back the business that they stole from us.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent A St. Louis jury awarded $10 million Tuesday to three plaintiffs in a sprawling ownership battle over six Missouri cannabis licenses involving more than 20 businesses and individuals. Over a week of testimony, jurors heard about […]

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Oct 8 • 11:50 AM EDT • Business • marijuanamoment.net
Purdue's College of Veterinary Medicine and One Health Innovation District expansion aims to strengthen workforce pipeline

The dean of Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine says the development of the One Health Research Institute could help address the industry’s labor shortage. Dr. Bret Marsh says the effort is part of a larger statewide push to increase workforce retention. “It’ll be attractive to students, faculty, and staff,” he says. “We’re looking at the potential for […]

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Oct 8 • 11:50 AM EDT • Health • brownfieldagnews.com
AI pricing lawsuit against McDonald's raises new antitrust questions

A federal antitrust lawsuit against McDonald's this week claims the fast-food giant is using AI-powered tools to fix menu prices, marking the latest case to allege companies are relying on ​new technologies to collude and harm consumers.

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Oct 8 • 11:42 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Supreme Court asked to weigh political ad rates

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a lower court dispute over television advertising rates paid by political candidates and joint fundraising committees weeks before the midterm elections. The application asked the justices to set aside a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th […]

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Oct 8 • 11:40 AM EDT • Politics • rollcall.com
The ripple effect: Why one business event rarely stays in one department

A single sanctions alert can move through compliance, legal, tax, and risk within hours. See why financial institutions and insurers need one trusted evidence base to keep up.

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Oct 8 • 11:10 AM EDT • Business • legal.thomsonreuters.com
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UnitedHealthcare launches webpage to address questions surrounding Lee Health coverage dispute

UnitedHealthcare says Lee Health gave no warning before leaving its commercial network, and has launched a webpage to answer patient questions.

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Oct 8 • 11:10 AM EDT • Health • gulfcoastnewsnow.com
Google Cloud introduces Gemini agent for work as AI race heats up

Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work ​that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content ‌and write code.

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Oct 8 • 11:08 AM EDT • Technology • reuters.com
Department of War Executes White House Strategy for a New Golden Age o

The War Department announced a series of initiatives to advance President Donald J. Trump's vision for a New Golden Age of American science.

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Oct 8 • 10:40 AM EDT • Science • war.gov
Florida woman charged in $330K fraud case targeting Hanover business’ bank account

A 41-year-old Florida woman is facing felony charges in “an elaborate computer fraud scheme” that left a Hanover County business out $330,000.

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Oct 8 • 10:24 AM EDT • Business • wric.com
MARVEL Cosmic Invasion DLC ‘The Siege of Castle Doom’ launches November 10

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion paid downloadable content “The Siege of Castle Doom” will launch on November 10, publisher Dotemu and developer Tribute Games announced.

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Oct 8 • 9:24 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Trump makes last-minute pitch in San Antonio after upending the GOP map

President Donald Trump rallied supporters in San Antonio as Republicans work to shore up several competitive races across Texas, including Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate bid and Carlos De La Cruz's campaign in the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District.

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Oct 8 • 9:01 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
RWJBarnabas, Hackensack Meridian Health cited by Becker’s for oncology programs

RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers Cancer Institute and Hackensack Meridian Health have been named to Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Oct 8 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • roi-nj.com
Spanish politicians trade blame after death of octogenarian at heart of housing protests

Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalised for severe anxiety and exhaustion since her dramatic eviction on September ​23.

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Oct 8 • 8:19 AM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
Spanish politicians trade blame after death of octogenarian at heart of housing protests

MADRID, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Spanish politicians traded blame on Thursday after the death of an 87-year-old woman who was evicted from her Madrid home exacerbated heated debates over housing ahead of an

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Open science is compatible with research security, says Canada’s chief science advisor

Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor. More than a decade ago, EU policymakers were promoting open science, open innovation and open collaboration across the world. It was a political movement that aimed to make scientific research, data, software, publications and methodologies transparent, accessible and reusable for everyone.But that rhetoric has changed over the past few years. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and Donald Trump came back to power in 2025, international partnerships have become more pragmatic. Countries are trying to implement protectionist policies and governments are increasingly worried about technology espionage. According to Nemer, science can remain open if the sector can come up with improved security protocols that would protect research data from undue manipulation by foreign actors. “If anybody can fiddle with the with the data, then [open science] is actually quite dangerous and quite useless,” she told Science|Business. Universities and research institutions are increasingly vulnerable to attempted espionage and other types of foreign interference. In September, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence service MI5 issued a security warning against collaborations with the China General Technology Research Institute. And earlier this year, Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security was criticised by federal research minister Dorothee Bär, who told a parliamentary hearing that “existing rules and systems” at the institute “were not suitable” for preventing leaks to China. According to Nemer, universities and research institutions should perhaps follow the example of the private sector, as companies have been able to safeguard their research while still publishing results. “I think that there is a level of research security hygiene that researchers and institutions need to just adopt,” she said. “You don't have to tell Sanofi or IBM how to safeguard their research, which they end up publishing anyway.”While certain areas of research will not be open for collaboration with certain partners, in other areas cooperation is necessary even with researchers based in adversarial countries. “I stress this because politics change,” she said. “Science and politics don't make for good fellows, and whether we like it or not, politics will influence certain things.”Researchers will play an important role in “protecting the integrity of science,” said Nemer. “I think that it's time that there's a commitment to a certain scientific compact, so that citizens don't think that science is actually an open door for espionage and for anti-nationalism.”New partnershipsNemer spoke with Science|Business on the margins of the Hamburg Science Summit on September 17, the day when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for increased cooperation with the EU, including in science and technology. Canada is looking to strengthen ties with partners in other corners of the world, after the Trump administration threatened to put tariffs on Canadian goods and services and even openly suggested Canada could become the 51st state. In parallel, the US government has indicated it wants to retreat from international science projects, including US collaboration with Europe’s CERN particle accelerator and other big science labs.Related articlesThe stats we need to better understand R&DCanada looks to deepen research and education links with the EUCan researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas?Nemer said the US is still a science “powerhouse,” but Canada and Europe will have to work closely together on global challenges. “It’s important for both [sides], but I think it's also important for the rest of the world, because the cut in funding for development, in health, in regions like Africa and other places, have dramatic effects.” The Trump administration is also planning a review of the Nelson memo, a Biden-era document that mandated that results of federally funded research would be openly available. With that idea being called into question, Nemer said it could be “very disruptive” to scientific collaborations and could jeopardise research on climate change, the Arctic and global health. “When your collaborator suddenly tells you I'm not going to share the data with you as a researcher, if this happens, I think it's very worrisome,” she said. “I'm certainly hoping that a lot of the Canadian institutions, funders, researchers, have started looking at joining forces on databases and using more European research infrastructures,” Nemer added.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
Concern after Europeans endorse US science agenda

Germany’s biggest research funder has said it is “concerned” after Berlin, plus several other European countries, endorsed a controversial US-led science policy statement. On October 4, the White House announced that 16 countries, including Germany, the UK, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, Japan and South Korea had backed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science.The document, agreed on the margins of the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, which gathers science ministers from across the world, appears uncontroversial at first sight. It’s a one-page statement, without any concrete measures, that touches on reducing administrative burden on scientists, experimenting with new funding models and the use of “super intelligence” in science, the Trump administration’s preferred term for artificial intelligence. However, what’s controversial is that much of the language in the Kyoto Vision reflects Science: A New Golden Age, a major policy document released by the White House in July.That document attracted criticism for deriding universities as “legacy institutions” and suggesting money be diverted to new research labs. In a speech in Kyoto on October 4, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy and the report’s author, said that the US was seeking to “diversify the ways that we support research to meet our best scientists where and when they do their best work.” The worry is that the Trump administration may be using genuine dysfunctions in academia as a pretext to defund and disempower universities, which US vice president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy.” Many in Europe also want more experimentation and reform of how science is organised and funded, and agree with criticisms of academia made by Science: A New Golden Age. But some also fear that if the US pushes for reform partially in bad faith, it could politicise and undermine the whole agenda. Washington is currently trying to change federal funding rules so that political appointees can block and cancel scientific grants. It has cut grants mid-project on topics related to diversity and other politically forbidden areas. And last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create campus “viewpoint diversity.” “Particularly concerned”Because of this wider US political context, the Kyoto Vision’s otherwise innocuous sounding statement that “we encourage experimentation with new institutional models for science that provide varying levels of autonomy, resources and direction” has caused consternation in Europe, particularly from some of Germany’s biggest science organisations. A spokesperson for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the country’s biggest funder, said that it would “closely monitor whether the current US administration uses the Kyoto Vision to restructure research funding to the detriment of research institutions such as universities and their autonomy.” The DFG was “particularly concerned” with the statement’s references to Science: A New Golden Age, they continued. A spokesperson for the German Rectors’ Conference, which represents the country’s universities, said that the reference to “new institutional models” raises “questions on the underlying understanding of academic freedom and autonomy.” Research funding must “guided first and foremost by scientific not political principles,” they went on. Dampen criticismEuropean endorsement of the Kyoto Vision might dampen domestic criticism of the Trump administration’s science policy, some in the US fear, by suggesting international support. “What we saw from Germany, Japan, the UK and other countries, is an impulse that the administration has exploited with our own science reform movement, a belief they can use dialogue to make things better,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science. “In practice, the administration has done the opposite.” Not a binding statementThere’s been so much concern in Germany that the country’s federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space put out a statement defending its endorsement of the Kyoto Vision, which it has posted on its website. Related articlesIs metascience being co-opted?European researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationThe US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know The ministry said that it “should be regarded as a basis for discussion and does not constitute a binding statement.” Backing the statement gives Germany the chance to raise “issues and concerns” with the US during upcoming talks on science and technology scheduled for November. “Although these intentions appear, in principle, to be worthy of support, they will be scrutinised and examined more closely as the process continues,” the statement continues. Super intelligence?A ministry spokesperson confirmed to Science|Business that Germany had broadly endorsed the Kyoto Vision.However, they said Berlin had not agreed to final changes in the statement to refer to AI as super intelligence. In September, facing protests against data centres and polling that suggests US citizens are far more concerned than excited by the technology, Trump issued an executive order that attempts to rebrand AI as super intelligence, following polling on social media.The name change is to “reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the order says. EU askedThe UK and Italian science ministries did not respond to a request for comment on their endorsement of the Kyoto Vision. Although most EU countries did not endorse the statement, it’s not clear which states the US asked. The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy did not return a request for comment. A European Commission official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said that the US had approached the EU, but too late for the EU to quiz all its member states on whether Brussels should endorse the statement.

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AI in Health Care Moves Toward More Autonomous Roles

Federal health agencies are testing AI applications that move into patient care typically handled by physicians. And recent research suggests people may place more trust in conversational AI, while false claims attributed to authoritative sources can increase willingness to share them.

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Business Briefs: Oct. 9, 2026

Bank collecting donations to support veterans SHELBURNE FALLS — Greenfield Cooperative Bank invites the community to its Shelburne Falls branch to contribute to a household essentials collection drive supporting veterans through Project New Hope Inc. The drive is offered in partnership with the Northeast Chapter of American Daughters of Conservation and the Massachusetts Bowhunters Association. […]

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Google Cloud Gives Business Focus to Modernization

Google Cloud is simplifying enterprise modernization with an AI-driven, end-to-end approach that can shrink complex business-case processes from weeks to minutes.

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Zambia says it is negotiating US minerals deal after 'decoupling' from health pact

Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals deal with the US government ​after "decoupling" it from a separate health ‌funding agreement it signed on Thursday, its foreign minister said.

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Zambia says it is negotiating US minerals deal after 'decoupling' from health pact

LUSAKA, Oct 8 () - Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals deal with the ‌US government after "decoupling" it from a ‌separate health funding agreement it signed on Thursday, its ​foreign minister s...

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PepsiCo to cut costs as weak N.America business hurts annual core profit forecast

Oct 8 (Reuters) - PepsiCo said on Thursday it would pursue additional cost cuts after lowering its annual core profit forecast due to sluggish demand for its snacks and beverages

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PepsiCo to cut costs as weak N.America business hurts core profit forecast

Oct 8 (Reuters) - PepsiCo cut its annual core profit forecast on Thursday and said it would pursue additional cost cuts, warning that efforts to revive growth and profitability in its crucial North American business were taking longer than expected.

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PepsiCo cuts annual core profit forecast as higher costs hurt margins

PepsiCo cut its annual core profit forecast on Thursday, ​as inflation-weary consumers pared ‌spending on its snacks and beverages, particularly in North America, while ​higher input costs continued to ​pressure margins.

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Cuteness Is Political

Conservatives are attracted to baby-like cuteness due to its association with purity, write Chethana Achar and Carolyn Wells Keller.

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France's Credit Agricole to expand in Germany with retail business

The French lender Credit ​Agricole on Wednesday laid out ‌plans to expand in Germany with some services for ​ordinary consumers by the ​end of October, the ⁠latest such push into ​Europe's largest economy by a ​big foreign bank.

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What tensions? Uniqlo is back in fashion in China despite Beijing-Tokyo dispute

The Japanese clothing brand saw its China sales recover over the past year despite ongoing political tensions and China’s consumer slowdown.

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Cybersecurity firm, also North Augusta Small Business of the Year, marks 25 years in the CSRA

Founder Russell Wyatt started PC Techware in 2001, fixing home computers across Augusta. Today, the company serves businesses throughout the CSRA as an all-commercial cybersecurity and IT provider.

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AI use lifts participation in WorldQuant contest

Hedge fund WorldQuant said on Wednesday registrations for this year's flagship global quant research contest have almost ​doubled from a year earlier, as increased adoption ‌of AI has helped more university students build trading models.

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The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What it Takes to Keep AI Under Control

AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative

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China has nominated health official Song Li as WHO head

China has nominated health ​official Song Li ‌as a candidate to lead the World ​Health Organization, China's ​Foreign Ministry said on ⁠Thursday, confirming ​a Reuters exclusive that said ​Song was put forward to succeed the incumbent ​director general, ​Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Singapore Grand Prix entertainment may be curbed if haze worsens, FIA says

There might be "some restrictions" on outdoor activity such as entertainment during this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix, ​but not on the race, if the haze currently blanketing ‌the city-state worsens, the motor sports governing body said on Thursday.

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Motor racing-Singapore Grand Prix entertainment may be curbed if haze worsens, FIA says

By Xinghui Kok SINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - There might be some restrictions on outdoor activity such as entertainment during this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix but not on the race, if ​the haze blanketing the country worsens, the motorsport governing...

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Bollywood actor Nana Patekar dies at 75

MUMBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Nana Patekar, a veteran Indian actor known for his fiery performances in Bollywood films and theatre, died on Thursday aged 75, local media reported.

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Editorial: Dave McCormick dreams of strengthening science, but Trump is researchers’ worst nightmare

In a recently published op-ed extolling the lifesaving virtues of federally funded research at institutions such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sen. Dave McCormick called for doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health.

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US grants Aurora exemption for self-driving trucks safety feature

The U.S. Transportation Department said late ​Wednesday it approved a five-year ‌exemption for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from ​rules that require ​drivers to place warning devices ⁠around a stopped truck.

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Oil rises as Middle East supply concerns persist amid shipping attacks

Oil prices rose on Thursday on persistent worries about supply from the key Middle East producing region amid an increase in attacks on shipping in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

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Amazon makes fresh job cuts, mainly in retail division

Amazon confirmed on Wednesday it had cut what it said were a small number of jobs, primarily ​in its Stores unit which oversees the main e-commerce website.

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

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The Macklin Celebrini injury reports do not add up

The Sharks refuted a TSN report about the origins of Celebrini's injury.

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By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Actor Andrew Scott says the biographical drama "Elsinore", which opened the 2026 London Film Festival on Wednesday, is an ode to living

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Award-winning Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh detained by US immigration authorities

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An award-winning filmmaker whose work has explored conflict in his native Kashmir has been detained by US immigration officials after legally coming

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UMC, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center trade statements in OB-GYN doctor dispute

University Medical Center and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are exchanging public statements about OB-GYN services following the recent departure of two doctors.

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Baptist Health Breaks Ground on New Home of Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute and Announces $75 Million Total Gift to Neuroscience Research and Care - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report

Stephen Blumenthal, Board Chair, Baptist Health Foundation ,Alex Villoch, Chief Executive Officer, Baptist Health Foundation ,Michael McDermott, M.D., System Chief Executive of Baptist Health Brain & Spine Care, Chief Medical […]

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Samsung Q3 profit jumps nearly nine-fold as AI memory boom lifts chip earnings

Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter ​operating profit from a year earlier, beating analysts' estimates as booming demand ‌for artificial intelligence chips drove strong memory earnings.

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Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Vermont’s ‘slopaganda’ problem

After a successful challenge of Vermont's AI political media law, computer-generated election satire continues to make waves.

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Trump to Give Musk Top US Science Medal

President Donald Trump will present close ally Elon Musk and other tech bosses with the top US scientific award at a ceremony on Thursday, the White House said. Google co-founder Sergei Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su will also receive the National Medal of Science at the "Science: A New Golden Age" summit. Computer mogul Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will get the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the top award in its field.

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EPA grant supports nature-based solutions and sediment science for North Bay marsh

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month announced that it selected the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Association of Bay Area Governments as awardees of a $13.9 million grant to restore and enhance some 1,500 acres of tidal wetland habitat known as Strip Marsh East along the State Route 37 corridor in Solano County.

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure - Global Strategic Business Report: Capitalize on 23.3% CAGR to US$92.7 Billion by 2032 as Dell, Nutanix, Cisco, HPE, and Huawei Disrupt Enterprise IT

Boost IT ROI with HCI: consolidate compute, storage and networking, automate operations, scale by adding nodes, and optimize hybrid-cloud and edge workloads.Dub

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Wolfspeed secures $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment from US defense department

Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Wednesday it has received a conditional loan commitment ​for up to $1.5 billion from the ‌US Department of Defense to expand domestic production of silicon carbide materials and power devices, ​sending its shares surging 27% in ​extended trading.

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Oct 7 • 4:55 PM EDT • Technology • news.mit.edu
Joe Manganiello Reveals Health Battle That Almost Killed Him & Contributed to Sofía Vergara Divorce

True Blood star Joe Manganiello will soon release his memoir, which reveals the actor's major health crisis The post Joe Manganiello Reveals Health Battle That Almost Killed Him & Contributed to Sofía...

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Oct 7 • 4:26 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
Mayor Woodfin responds after wife's business subpoenaed in Birmingham data center lawsuit

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is pushing back after his wife and her real-estate company were named in a discovery dispute tied to a lawsuit over a proposed

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Oct 7 • 4:24 PM EDT • Business • abc3340.com
Kennedy offers federal support to New York over measles outbreak

New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, and he ​offered federal support as the state responds to a ‌measles outbreak, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday.

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Oct 7 • 4:18 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com