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Some on DOJ's 20,000 "likely" noncitizen list in Calif. appear to be U.S.-bornhttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/20/nx-s1-6009873/california-doj-voter-rolls-noncitizens

Election officials in Los Angeles County say their preliminary analysis of the federal government's list of 20,000 "likely" noncitizens registered to vote in California shows the list is "unreliable."

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Show HN: Gemma 4 26B at 100 tok/s on a Mac, using the Neural Engine and 2GB RAMhttps://github.com/zw5/ane-fieldfare

After checking out Turbo Fieldfare (a very interesting project that streamed experts from SSD on Apple Silicon Macs to run Gemma 4 26B with very little RAM usage), I tried to make this project much faster and succeeded! This project gets up to 100+ tokens/s inference on Gemma 4 26B (Turbo Fieldfare runs at 20-30 on similar hardware) and doesn't have insanely slow prefill times due to the ANE helping (I had to reverse engineer Apple's APIs to get this working). I also implemented speculative decoding, and while Turbo steered away from using mmap, this repo utilizes it so the OS file cache serv…

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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.Β  The thermoplastic yarn mimics the properties of conventional elastic yarns, which typically combine spandex with polyester or nylon. Those…

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Nigeria confirms an Ebola case in Abuja as a woman arriving from Uganda tests positivehttps://www.npr.org/2026/10/20/g-s1-148975/nigeria-confirms-ebola-case

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

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Vanessa Kerry is the new WHO envoy for health resilience. What's on her to-do list?https://www.npr.org/2026/10/20/g-s1-147952/vanessa-kerry-resilience-world-health-organization

A respected figure in the world of global health, Dr. Kerry takes on a new responsibility. She says it's challenging but not "daunting."

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