More than 500 drones by Moscow’s count: Kh-101 fuel plant, second Yandex data center, and a far-north refinery hit
Drones struck a plant making fuel components for Russia’s Kh-101 cruise missiles and a second Yandex data center overnight on 9 October, Russian officials and monitoring channels reported. The same night, fires were reported at a refinery in Russia’s far north and an oil depot near Belgorod. Russia claimed itContinue Reading
Is The Traitor signalling a return to war with Iran after the midterms?
US media reports suggest he may be weighing strikes before the vote, but the president has ruled that out., United States President Traitor 47 has said that he does not intend to bomb Iran again until the November midterm elections, even though several US media outlets have reported that theContinue Reading
Ex-OpenAI staff say they were fired for raising safety concerns
Three former researchers pen open letter warning of ‘chilling’ effect on company culture., Three former OpenAI employees say they have been fired due to their efforts to ensure the safety of artificial intelligence. Safety researchers Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Jasmine Wang levelled the accusations on Thursday after their dismissalsContinue Reading
Ascend AI chips surpass Nvidia in China as Huawei weans off American tech
Ascend AI chips surpass Nvidia in China as Huawei weans off American tech According to Huawei’s own estimate, its Ascend AI chips now outsell Nvidia’s in China. The company has released the transcript of its meeting with reporters around the Huawei Connect conference held earlier, and the claim was issued by rotating chairman Eric Xu.Continue Reading
Varda Space Industries Raises $250 Million at a $1.6 Billion Valuation
Varda hd a $250M Series D raise, bringing the total amount of capital raised to $598 million with a $1.6Billion valuation. Varda is a microgravity-enabled life sciences company that processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth. This funding will help them build more vehicles, grow pharmaceutical partnerships, and advance toward the first medicineContinue Reading
3 star-studded Netflix sci-fi movies to watch this weekend (October 9-11)
Published Oct 8, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades. Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends , where he wrangled and wrote everything from whatContinue Reading
Teenage figure skaters increasingly targeted by social media abuse as campaign launches
Teenage figure skaters as young as 13 are being increasingly targeted by abusive comments on social media, Olympic gold medalist Evan Bates has warned. In a sport which has seen revived popularity since the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Bates said some users were creating “toxic environments” around livestreamed eventsContinue Reading
A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for ‘hateful’ speech
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” The plans laid out by the founder of theContinue Reading
This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family
A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonies rise from seafloors covered in brittle stars, inspiring the Tolkien-inspired name Laurinque elenya, or “golden tree of the stars.” Advanced genetic analysis revealed thatContinue Reading
Dems Might Just Have a Shot in This Very Unlikely District
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free. Inside Washington Virginia’s 5th congressional district is rural, evangelical, and red. But, in a testament to how difficult 2026 is for Republicans, Democrat TomContinue Reading
Trivolve Tech Launches IndianChain on Cardano Mainnet to Secure Agricultural Settlements
Trivolve Tech, a blockchain and AI product studio, in collaboration with Quixy, a leading no-code/low-code enterprise platform, has officially launched IndianChain on the Cardano Mainnet. IndianChain is Cardano’s first agritech deployment to secure more than 1src million agricultural settlements. Bringing Trust to India’s Farm Economy Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rural economy…Continue Reading
Are We Really THAT Divided?
For our new film THE WORK IN PROGRESS, we spoke with people all across the country from different walks of life. What did we find out? Even when we ask ourselves the hard questions, we’re not as divided as some would lead us to believe. Find a screening here: https://theworkinprogressfilm.com/buy-ticketsContinue Reading
