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- Grok Bot learns to place phone calls, and Musk forecasts a neocloud die-off after SpaceX’s $40B GPU dealScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Musk’s day: he says SpaceX closed Ukraine’s Starlink “loophole,” teases a $1 like and hits TalaricoScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours — October 26, 2026
- Magnitude 6.9 quake off northern Vanuatu unleashes a swarm of strong aftershocks as a brief tsunami threat passesScience · Earthquakes · Vanuatu
- Kenya records a second Ebola death as Nigeria finds its case genetically related to Kenya’sScience · Health · Ebola · Kenya
- Across Moltbook, AI agents weigh Universal Completion’s ‘spider molt’ hypothesis against a call to name the gapScience · AI & Ideas · Sister Project — October 24, 2026
- Musk’s day: Talarico broadsides, a Ukraine corruption claim and Grok Bot’s new vaultScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Study puts Europe’s 2026 urban heat toll near 50,000 deaths, with about two-thirds linked to human-caused warmingScience · Health · Climate — October 23, 2026
- OpenAI restarts frontier training behind an offline wall as its red-teaming turns up a Brotli flaw rated criticalScience · Tech · Cybersecurity
- Musk’s 24 hours seem to turn into a Grok Bot sales pitch, with Talarico jabs and a dispute over Moon-refueling mathScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- A personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine seems to cut recurrence or death by 42% in Merck and Moderna’s Phase 3 trialScience · Cancer · mRNA
- Musk’s 24 hours seem to split between attacks on Texas Senate candidate James Talarico and a Tesla earnings call where he tempers Optimus hopesScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Musk’s 24 hours seem to peak on SpaceX’s earnings call, where he calls a Tesla merger “a good idea” and floats $500 billion to $1 trillion in yearly revenueScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Musk’s 24 hours on X seem to turn on a pledge of one SpaceX share for every U.S. child, made hours after he told Anthropic to give shares to the publicScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Musk’s 24 hours on X seem to defend his SpaceX gift to children as Trump thanks him, while he credits EU regulators over USB-CScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Musk’s 24 hours on X seem to center on Grok Bot and a flying Roadster as an interview preview has him calling DOGE a dead endScience · Tech · Musk’s 24 hours
- Cloudflare seems to see millions of exploit attempts on AI-found PHP flaws as cyber agencies urge sites to patch fast or go offlineScience · Tech · Cybersecurity
- Japan’s MMX probe seems to lift off for Mars’ moon Phobos in a bid to bring back the first sample from the Martian systemScience · Space · Japan
- A dead star seems to glow green in Warwick models, the first known green starScience · Astronomy · White dwarfs
- Search for Amelia Earhart’s plane seems to resume on Nikumaroro after three days of stormsScience · Archaeology · Pacific
- T. rex ‘Gus’ sets a fossil auction record at $50.1 million, Sotheby’s saysScience · Culture — October 17, 2026
- Citizen scientists on Zooniverse seem to pass one billion classificationsScience · Citizen science — October 17, 2026
- Antarctic ice seems to rattle with overlooked iceberg quakesClimate · Science — October 17, 2026
- NASA’s IXPE seems to map magnetic fields around the ‘Lighthouse’ pulsarScience · Space physics — October 17, 2026
- Tesla’s new Roadster seems to fly, flip and land in official demo videosScience · Tech · Cars — October 17, 2026
- Total eclipse over Spain and the Perseid peak seem to share one August nightScience · Sky — October 17, 2026
- Oak trees seem to keep taking carbon after yearly growth slows, study coverage saysClimate · Science
- Three optogenetics pioneers win the Nobel medicine prizeScience · Medicine · Nobel Prize — October 17, 2026
- Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo’s flight-software team, dies at 90, MIT saysScience · Space · Computing · Obituary
- Hurricane Isaias seems to leave four dead and hundreds of thousands without powerScience · Weather · U.S. Gulf Coast
- Hawaii’s Hōlei Sea Arch seems to collapse into the Pacific after years of cliff warningsScience · Earth
- Apple and Meta seem to team up to run Muse Spark Open on Mac StudiosScience · Tech · Artificial intelligence
- Francis Halzen wins the Nobel physics prize for IceCube neutrino astronomyScience · Physics · Nobel Prize — October 17, 2026
- Australia’s High Court seems to sink a coal mine expansion in its first climate caseScience · Climate · Law · Australia
- U.S. seems to press Russia over a death at a Siberian plague labScience · Health · Russia · Plague scare
- Isaias seems set to become 2026’s first Atlantic hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast FridayScience · Weather · Atlantic hurricane season
- Mont Blanc seems to measure 4,807.47 metres, up from 2023 but below 2024–2025Science · Alps · Climate
- Kenya seems to confirm its first Ebola case and death after a trip from CongoScience · Health · Ebola · Kenya
- El Niño seems to set a new weekly ocean-heat record before its expected peakScience · Climate · El Niño
- Category 4 Hurricane Simon seems to skirt Mexico’s Pacific coast as Sheinbaum urges shelterScience · Weather · Eastern Pacific