Microsoft Teams to get AI protection against phishing and fraud
Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analyzing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and files, the tool will be able to identify suspicious behavior in the messages themselves, Microsoft said. The featureContinue Reading
Apple’s triple-whammy week begins with iPad mini
Apple watchers predicted something like this: The company is ending October with a triple-whammy of new products, starting with its newly introduced iPad mini with OLED display. The rest of the week is expected to feature new Macs, specifically an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac and Apple’s first touchscreen MacBookContinue Reading
At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network
Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and venture capital. And this year, the mix included a strong, cross-campusContinue Reading
With tighter checks for flesh-eating screwworm, a border crossing reopens
Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again, Read MoreContinue Reading
Chabria: California votes. The Traitor’s Justice Department panics
Lawyers for the Justice Department managed to get a three-judge panel to convene a rare emergency hearing on Sunday., Read MoreContinue Reading
WATCH: RFK Jr. visits Michigan to promote nutrition pledges
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The Terms We Must Set
On October 15, a Vietnamese state-owned tanker, the PVT Azura, departed St. Petersburg with 109,000 barrels of Russian diesel. It is due at Norfolk on November 2, at a facility that the shipping journal gCaptain reports serves the American military, a detail no official has confirmed. It will be theContinue Reading
We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race
Over the last century, modern medicine achieved a historic feat. We increased the human lifespan by 33%. But at the same time, we completely failed to defend our brain healthspan. Today, a silent gap of 15 to 30 years exists between the time our bodies survive and the time ourContinue Reading
Sixteen Ukrainian doctors who work near fighting went through three Western trauma programs in one week. American surgeons led drills
Ukraine has held its first international course in military surgery and resuscitation, under instructors from the American College of Surgeons and other Western trauma bodies, the Defense Ministry says. “Tryzub”, or Trident, has been conducted for front-line surgeons and anesthesiologists. The week-long drills put 16 doctors, eight surgeons, and eightContinue Reading
For the third time this year, Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s rocket-fuel rubber plant in Samara Oblast. This time they reach the raw-material shop feeding it
Ukrainian drones damaged a process pipeline, two butyl-rubber units, and a rectification (distillation) unit at Russia’s Tolyattikauchuk petrochemical plant on 24 October, Ukraine’s General Staff said on 26 October. The damage hits the production chain of solid rocket fuel for tactical and ballistic missiles, it added. The strike was partContinue Reading
Voting in Hell
We must have no illusions about the fact that voting alone will not solve all of our problems. But it is one of the many tools in our toolbox for creating change., Read MoreContinue Reading
Microsoft offers 27% of global workforce voluntary buyouts
“Today, we’re introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations.”, “Today, we’re introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Anthropic files for potentially the biggest IPO ever as CEO warns of risk to humanity from AI
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a WallContinue Reading












