Reseller says $470,000 worth of Nvidia RTX 5090s went missing at São Paulo airporthttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xbck9c/reseller_says_470000_worth_of_nvidia_rtx_5090s
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Third US aircraft carrier, 10k troops head to Middle Easthttps://www.iranintl.com/en/202610207766
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145205/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-robo-puffin
Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can plunge into the sea, swim underwater, and leap back into the air to fly away. And now engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have…
A cleaner path to rare earth metalshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145300/a-cleaner-path-to-rare-earth-metals
Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from—Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing and metal fabrication hub. Even as a child, he realized it was problematic to breathe that air. “I’m motivated because I’ve seen what metal-making does,” says Villalón, who majored…
A champion for brain injury patientshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145297/a-champion-for-brain-injury-patients
Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people with brain injuries for support and socializing. “That group was a great way to learn about the human experience of what people go through when they experience a brain injury,” she says. And it laid…
Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far awayhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145294/nebraska-native-explores-galaxies-far-far-away
Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is learning how the wider universe works by studying galaxy clusters. Donahue discovered her passion for physics in that library at age 12 and started her path into astronomy thanks…
A good TA: pricelesshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145291/a-good-ta-priceless
These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980. One is my very first exam at MIT, and getting 49 out of 100 was a soul-crushing experience. I can still picture the TA, Leszek Pawlowicz, PhD ’87, returning my paper. He had a big smile on…
Taking a swing at a pickleball startuphttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145287/taking-a-swing-at-a-pickleball-startup
In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at, watching my friends get murdered, and thinking that if I don’t leave, I will die,” says Anderson, who was…
Robotic therapy for stroke patientshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145282/robotic-therapy-for-stroke-patients
Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care they need. A new approach tries to solve that problem by combining artificial intelligence and human therapy. Johannes Lachner, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor…
A reason to eat carbshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145279/a-reason-to-eat-carbs
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect against colon cancer. But a new study suggests that such a ketogenic diet may also increase the risk of cancer in the small intestine. This type of diet forces the body to burn fatty acids instead…
Melt it, spin it, use it againhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145276/melt-it-spin-it-use-it-again
The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down on that textile waste with a new type of yarn. The thermoplastic yarn mimics the properties of conventional elastic yarns, which typically combine spandex with polyester or nylon. Those…
Here’s the teahttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145274/heres-the-tea
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. Descendants of the Boston blacksmith Thomas Wells had donated the label in 1987, saying it had been recovered after colonial protesters threw tea into…
Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moonhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1147360/astrolab-upcoming-rover-llms-on-the-moon
Large language models are set to go lunar. A computer capable of running AI software is one of the payloads aboard Astrolab’s FLIP lunar rover, which is slated to head to Earth’s celestial companion as early as November 2026. The 480-kilogram FLIP rover, short for “FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform,” is the first in a series…
Show HN: Modula-9, a Wirth-family language designed for auditing AI-written codehttps://www.modula9.net
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Can a humanitarian crisis in Gaza be averted?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/10/20/can-a-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza-be-averted
The World Food Programme says it is forced to cut aid for thousands in the enclave.
JERUSALEM DAILY: Half a million Palestinians lose food aidhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/20/jerusalem-daily-half-a-million-palestinians-lose-food-aid
Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in Gaza as funding shortages threaten food aid for half a million people
Ben-Gvir mocks Gaza destruction in AI-generated videohttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/20/ben-gvir-mocks-gaza-destruction-in-ai-generated-video
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted an AI-generated video mocking the devastation in Gaza.
Close Identity Gaps in Software Development Before Unleashing AIhttps://www.darkreading.com/application-security/close-identity-gaps-sdlc-before-ai
Artificial Intelligence is complicating security in the software development lifecycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibility, and reduced testing costs offer CISOs a way ahead.
Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?https://www.theguardian.com/puzzles/crossword-blog/2026/oct/20/could-this-be-a-deep-blue-moment-for-the-cryptic-crossword
A computer program has finally oudone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Plus, more from around the puzzleverse • Don’t get Cluesletter, our weekly puzzles newsletter, delivered to your inbox? Sign up here When the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, it was an early victory for artificial intelligence over the human mind, and the culmination of decades of attempts. Almost 30 years later, a computer program has finally outdone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Earlier this month, a model called Darmok solved the final puzzle of the Times’s annual cryp…
The new economics of enterprise AIhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1146937/the-new-economics-of-enterprise-ai
Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…
Show HN: LongTerMemory, AI-RAG Study tool helping people to study everythinghttps://longtermemory.com
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Airflow AI Provider 1.0: Agents, Sandboxes, Human Approval and Smarter Retrieshttps://airflow.apache.org/blog/common-ai-provider-1.0
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Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacherhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/oct/21/labor-coalition-poised-to-take-reckless-gamble-on-ai-joint-select-committee
Australian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s major political parties are edging towards rare consensus. Labor and the Coalition increasingly want to take a major bet on artificial intelligence. Yet, just as the parties are coming together, the Australian community is running the other way. Last year, only 30% of Australians believed the benefits of AI outweighed the risks. In 2026, community trust in AI appears to be falling even further. Contin…
Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directiveshttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xapaw7/linus_torvalds_posts_his_first_aiassisted_patch
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Nasdaq climbs as chip and AI-linked stocks bounce back By Reuters - Investing.comhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirwFBVV95cUxNZzgtdy1SRlJ3eUF5LVlieWk3T0V3OW1CeEVKbW14akZwN2lJSldKSWxMZXJyZE9kaklmSk1pZnRxblB3dmM2ZUhJeDNvYmVRcjYzTnFxOGtLdm9Rb3VQd3JCem1Rb2d3RUkxaU1yRHZjcFIyQXR2S01qbGVkcElEalE3RU5yNWZHQVdvNTM5QlE0clQyR2Q5aV80UkVSYkd4R01uWVZONFI0MU9Ba25R
Nasdaq climbs as chip and AI-linked stocks bounce back By Reuters Investing.com
One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991https://matthorn.io/posts/2026-10-18-33-thomas-street
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