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Members of Saudi Team Lynx in their green racing suits holding the flag of Saudi Arabia on the stage of the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore, October 2026, a photograph supplied by Ithra

Technology

For the First Time, Saudi Team Lynx Takes the Top Spot at the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore

Oct 17, 2026/3 min read

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Oct 18, 2026

Sports

Rays Beat the Guardians 7-3 to Level the ALCS at 2-2 With the Brewers Already Waiting in the World Series

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

Anthropic's Own Staff Data: Junior Technical Hires Fell From 27 to 9 Percent as Its AI Agents Outworked Humans

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

Windows 11's October Update Can Grey Out Smart App Control, and Microsoft Has No Fix Yet

Oct 18, 2026

Recipes

Beer-Battered Jalapeno Cheese Curds: The Wisconsin Bar Snack, Fried Properly at Home

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Technology

Hackers Are Running Autonomous Attack Scans on Other People's AI Accounts, Bitsight Finds

A criminal tool called MONST3R-AI is sold to attackers who plug in stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys, so the victim pays for every scan, according to Bitsight.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

A pair of black handcuffs lying on a white computer keyboard, an undated file photograph illustrative of cybercrime and not of the MONST3R-AI tool or its sellers

Technology

MapQuest Now Shows You Where the Licence Plate Cameras Are, and Drivers Are Switching It On

A new Surveillance Layer marks Flock and ten other makers' cameras on the road map using crowdsourced locations, as pushback against plate readers keeps growing across the US.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

A Flock Safety automatic licence plate recognition camera with a solar panel mounted on a pole along 5th Avenue in Kearney, Nebraska, photographed on 29 April 2025, a file photograph of the camera type and not of any location on MapQuest's map

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Lapid Says He Does Not Trust Netanyahu Not to Strike Iran Before Israel's 27 October Election

The opposition leader says no intelligence justifies an attack that would disrupt the vote, as two polls show neither bloc near the 61 seats needed and Eisenkot's new party leading Likud.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The front of the Knesset building in Jerusalem, seat of Israel's parliament, photographed on 3 July 2022, a file photograph and not from this week

Technology

Two American Open-Weight Models Landed in 24 Hours, and They Are Fighting Over Tokens and Licences

Reflection AI released Beam under Apache 2.0 while Meta shipped Muse Spark Open under a tighter licence, giving developers two Western rivals to China's open models with different trade-offs.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

An aerial view of Meta's Menlo Park campus, then the Facebook campus, a cluster of low office buildings and car parks beside salt ponds in California, photographed on 17 September 2019, a file photograph of Meta's base and not of the model launches

Latest Trends

Hormuz Ship Attacks Hit a Weekly Record as Iran Says a Supertanker Struck a Mine

Ten vessels were attacked in a week, the most since the war began in February, while a tanker was hit by a grenade off Saudi Arabia and Tehran claims a mine blast it has not proved.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

A large crude oil tanker with a tug alongside moving through coastal waters in the Solent, England, photographed on 11 June 2022, a file photograph illustrative of oil tankers and not of any vessel attacked near the Strait of Hormuz

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The east front of the US Capitol in Washington with its dome, photographed on 2 September 2013, a file photograph illustrative of Congress and not of this week's sanctions waiver

Latest Trends

Trump Waives New Russia Sanctions and Tariffs Two Days Before They Were Due, the Second Waiver in Two Weeks

Oct 18, 2026

The Strait of Canso at Port Hastings in Nova Scotia, with a causeway and green hills under a blue sky, photographed on 26 July 2022, a file photograph of the strait and not of the planned data centre site

Technology

Anthropic Signs a 20-Year Lease for Its First Canadian Data Centre at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia

Oct 18, 2026

A colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle in blue on a red background, published by the US Centers for Disease Control, a file image illustrative of Ebola viruses in general and not of Kenya's cases

Health

Kenya's Ebola Count Rises to Seven After Three Health Workers Who Treated the First Patient Test Positive

Oct 17, 2026

A generated illustration of a turkey, stuffing and cranberry sub cut in half on a wooden board, not a photograph of the Firehouse Subs sandwich

Recipes

A Thanksgiving Turkey Sub With Hot Stuffing, Cranberry and Gravy to Dip

Oct 17, 2026

The Baroque facade of the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, home of the Czech Senate, with a red tiled roof and rows of windows, photographed in October 2007, a file photograph and not from Saturday's vote

Latest Trends

Czech Senate Runoff Leaves Babiš's ANO Without a Single Seat as STAN and ODS Keep the Opposition in Charge

Oct 17, 2026

A view over the harbour and city of Ensenada, Baja California, with a cruise ship alongside the pier and mountains behind, photographed on 15 July 2006, a file photograph of the city and not of the case

Latest Trends

Three Men Sentenced to 158 Years Each in Mexico for the Murders of Two Australian Brothers and an American Surfer

Oct 17, 2026

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifting off against a blue sky with a plume of exhaust at its base, photographed on 7 May 2023 by NASA and Rocket Lab, a file photograph of the company's smaller Electron and not of the Neutron rocket

Technology

Rocket Lab Pushes Neutron's First Launch Into 2027 After Finding Voids in a Carbon-Fibre Dome

Oct 17, 2026

The Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt rising above neighbouring office buildings under a blue sky, photographed on 10 July 2019, a file photograph of the German bank's headquarters tower and not from this week

Business

ECB Clears UniCredit to Go Past 30 Percent of Commerzbank, Opening the Way to Control by Year-End

Oct 17, 2026

In Pictures

A scuba diver in a dark wetsuit rising through clear blue water with a column of bubbles above, photographed off Cozumel, Mexico, on 31 January 2016, a file photograph illustrative of diving and not of any case of the condition

Diving

Breathless and Coughing Pink Froth After a Dive: Immersion Pulmonary Edema Explained

Fluid can flood the lungs of a fit, healthy diver in cold or calm water alike. What immersion pulmonary edema is, who gets it and why mild symptoms should never be shrugged off.

Oct 17, 2026