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Webb Caught a Probable Supernova From the Early Universe Only Days After It Exploded

A survey that revisits one patch of sky every two months saw a new light appear in a galaxy about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, hotter and brighter than local examples.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The Chandra X-ray image of Tycho's supernova remnant, a glowing multicoloured sphere against black space, dated 29 April 2003, a file photograph illustrative of a supernova remnant and not of the distant object AT 2026abck

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Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

Mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope during cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, photographed on 13 July 2010, a file photograph of the telescope's optics and not of WASP-17b or this week's data

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A Hole in a 75,000-Year-Old Shoulder Blade Points to a Wooden Spear, and Perhaps to Neanderthal Care

Cambridge-led researchers say a 15mm hole in a Neanderthal shoulder blade from Shanidar Cave was made by a thrust spear, possibly the earliest such attack known, with signs of earlier care.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The rock outcrop and cave mouth of Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, seen from the hillside, photographed on 28 November 2020, a file photograph of the site and not of the excavation or the bone

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

A report from inside the AI lab says its agents now work six times the hours of the people directing them, and the company hires fewer beginners, with caveats it spells out itself.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

An outdoor breakout terrace with tables and planting at an office building on Main Street in the South of Market district of San Francisco, photographed on 12 December 2018, a file photograph of a tech-district office and not of Anthropic

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

If you switched the malware-blocking feature off and then installed KB5127648, you may be unable to turn it back on. Microsoft has confirmed the bug and published a workaround.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

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Anthropic Says Claude Solved a 25-Year Mystery Over the NIST Elliptic Curve Seeds in Under 30 Minutes

The numbers behind the curves that secure much of the internet were never explained. Anthropic's red team says an AI traced them to a 1990s random generator, and that no backdoor is implied.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

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San Francisco Signs a 45-Day Pause on New Data Centres While the City Works Out What It Has

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed Supervisor Shamann Walton's moratorium on his deadline day, giving planners time to study energy, water and community effects in a city unsure how many it hosts.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

The front of San Francisco City Hall, with its dome above the colonnaded facade and flags in front, photographed on 26 September 2013, a file photograph of the seat of city government and not of this week's signing

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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

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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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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

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

EverWind will build a 95-megawatt first phase on an existing industrial site, scaling to 420 megawatts by 2028, in a C$10 billion plan that has already drawn political questions.

Oct 18, 2026/2 min read

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