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For part I, click here. Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould The Fever King by Victoria Lee Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa Bonus: Coming in 2026, check out You Pierce My Soul byContinue Reading

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Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on children. The company is facing several lawsuits over child safety, including by the mother of a teenager who says the company’s chatbots pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Character Technologies,Continue Reading

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NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. The tech company posted a note to its Azure status page that its teams areContinue Reading

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Police in the Tanzanian capital have declared a curfew in Dar es Salaam amid election-day protests., NewsFeed Police in the Tanzanian capital have declared a curfew in Dar es Salaam amid election-day protests. Demonstrators burned a police station and tore down banners for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who is expectedContinue Reading

Spacewalking Russian cosmonauts install experiments on the International Space Station

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov (in the spacesuit with red stripes) and Alexey Zubritsky (in blue stripes) work outside the Nauka module during a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Image credit: NASA) Two Russian cosmonauts completed their second spacewalk together, installing experiments and performing maintenance on the exterior of theContinue Reading

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of private Griffin moon lander delayed to 2026

Astrobotic Technology’s Griffin lander concept for NASA’s Lunar CATALYST project. (Image credit: Astrobotic Technology Inc.) SpaceX’s next mission to the moon, and the next launch of its triple-booster Falcon Heavy rocket, has slipped to no earlier than July 2026. Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lunar lander, carrying NASA and commercial payloads that include rovers from Astrobotic and AstrolabContinue Reading

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Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ released in October and if you’re running Ubuntu 25.04, you can — short delay now over — upgrade directly, no need to download an ISO and do a clean install. As long as you’re up-to-date and connected to the internet, upgrading is straightforward. Upgrading soon isContinue Reading

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Just four Global North countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Norway, are overwhelmingly responsible for blocking global progress on phasing out oil and gas production, according to new analysis from Oil Change International titled Planet Wreckers: Global North Countries Fueling the Fire Since the Paris Agreement. While the restContinue Reading