Headlines for October 1, 2026
Tennessee Halts Executions as Condemned Prisoner Christa Pike Survives Lethal Injections, Hegseth Announces “AutoWarCom” to Oversee Autonomous Drones and Robots, Judge Orders Pentagon to Provide Rationale for Lethal Boat Strikes, Passengers and Crew Say Pilot Tried to Crash Airliner Bound for Israel, Palestinians Hold Mass Funeral in Gaza for 105Continue Reading
Democratic Ads Misleadingly Connect Susan Collins to Epstein
In the Maine Senate race, ads from a Democratic super PAC misleadingly claim Republican Sen. Susan Collins cast a vote to “cover up the Epstein files” and received “$3 million to her super PAC” from “Jeffrey Epstein’s business partner.” Collins supported an Epstein-files disclosure bill in November that required theContinue Reading
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Digital Climate
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internetContinue Reading
‘Fight for humanity’: Avoiding a climate catastrophe means acting now
Record heat waves, deadly flooding and extreme weather reflect an ever-warming planet poised to soon breach safe temperature limits, according to a UN report released on Tuesday, but doubling down on climate action now could avoid a climate catastrophe.Continue Reading
Everything you need to know about Brazil’s tight presidential race
Voters will soon decide between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro., NewsFeed Voters will decide between incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro in a too-close-to call election this Sunday. If neither wins anContinue Reading
The price Europe pays for keeping AI under control
The European Union (EU) has introduced some of the world’s strictest Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws., NewsFeed The European Union (EU) has introduced some of the world’s strictest Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws, with firms facing huge fines for breaches. But the US is putting pressure on the Europeans to scale backContinue Reading
EV expert Rustam Kocher on the European EV charging scene, bad charging apps, good charging apps, and more
The public EV charging industry has matured greatly over the past years. During the first wave of public charging rollouts, many assumed that the best application was as a loss-leader for retail stores and other businesses, and lots of free Level 2 chargers were installed at shopping centers and suchContinue Reading
Qnovo pilots Battery Genome application to assess EV batteries for EU battery passports
Battery software provider Qnovo is piloting a new application built on its Battery Genome that is designed to assess the condition and value of the EV batteries automakers put on the road. Two batteries of the same age and mileage can age very differently depending on driving profiles, environmental conditionsContinue Reading
RFK Jr. Wrong on Medicare, Medicaid During Senate Confirmation Hearing
This is a MedPage Today story. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday revealed a concerning lack of knowledge about the major health programs he’d oversee, should he be confirmed as HHS secretary. On several occasions during the 3.5-hour hearing, Kennedy seemed to conflate Medicare,Continue Reading
High-Dose Vitamin D Linked to Better Cognition in Older Adults with Memory Problems and Poor Sleep
A small new study by Emory University scientists suggests that people with mild cognitive impairment and disturbed sleep — two hallmarks of early dementia — who take high daily doses of vitamin D may perform better on a standard cognitive test. The post High-Dose Vitamin D Linked to Better CognitionContinue Reading
Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL
Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. …Read MoreContinue Reading
Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps
Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows). …Read MoreContinue Reading
NASA And Boeing’s Starliner Is Going Back To Space Soon With One Big Change
Dima_zel/Getty Images It’s been more than two years since Boeing’s Starliner last took a trip to space, and NASA is finally ready to talk about when the spacecraft will again escape Earth’s clutches. According to the latest update from the agency and Boeing, the next flight for Starliner could happen as early as December 2026Continue Reading