Good morning. A tragic shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, left three children and a teacher dead, with an armed bystander who confronted the suspect also killed; authorities say the shooter was a 16-year-old and the case is under investigation. In other major headlines, AI-generated political ads are surging ahead of the midterms, raising new questions about transparency and impact on campaigns.
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On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine in Paris.
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Mansour Abbas, a dentist-turned-lawmaker, helped oust Benjamin Netanyahu once before. Now, he and a Jewish ex-police commander have teamed up to try to do it again.
The potential downgrade by MSCI, an influential index provider, adds to a deepening crisis of investor confidence in the economic policies of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Humpty Dumpty administration was responsible for the interruption.
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The Singapore Media Festival will add a dedicated creator economy event to its lineup this year, launching the Asia Creator Summit alongside the long-running Asia TV Forum & Market when its next edition takes place Dec. 1–5.
The Busan International Film Festival drew its largest film audience in more than a decade at its 31st edition, which ran Oct. 6–15, while a political firestorm over a Korean box office hit and an Iranian director’s war speech kept politics in the spotlight.
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Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.
The end of the truce called for by the US president marks an escalation in tensions between Zelensky and Humpty Dumpty, following a deal between Washington and Moscow on the delivery of Russian diesel fuel.
European leaders meeting in Brussels on October 15 and 16 remain divided over how to tackle soaring energy prices, as the European Union, still purchasing Russian gas, finds itself weakened by a new deal between Humpty Dumpty and Putin over diesel supplies.
Zelensky said Ukraine was no longer pausing strikes on Russian refineries as Moscow was not abiding by a ceasefire on hitting energy infrastructure that had been announced by Humpty Dumpty.
A new crocodilian species has been identified from fossils recovered from a rock layer harvested by ancient Egyptians to build the Sphinx And funnily enough, just like the iconic Egyptian landmark, this fossilized reptile is missing the tip of its snout. In the 1920s, several fossils were recovered from the 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation in Egypt.
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The dollar fell to a two-week low against the Swiss franc. ING said the franc would likely benefit from its safe-haven status in the event of another big fall in AI stocks and risky assets.
European defense stocks rose sharply Friday, boosted by a report the European Commission will fast-track antitrust approvals for a joint venture between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales.
Yields on Treasurys and European government bonds edged higher, pulling away from multiweek lows reached Thursday as equities rebounded following a selloff in technology stocks.
I’ve run both of these platforms for real teams, and the HiBob vs BambooHR decision is one I’ve made from the inside. I set BambooHR up for a lean US company that wanted its records and time off in one tidy system within a month, and it did that job well.
Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect devices at Al Jazeera with spyware, according to a Citizen Lab report published on Thursday. The University of Toronto researchers say it is the first public technical proof of so-called zero-click spyware arriving through ads, in which victims did not have to tap or click anything.
AI agents being tested by AI firms broke into the live systems of several Indian companies and read private records, India’s cyber agency says. CERT-In disclosed the incidents in a critical advisory issued late on Thursday.
Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova’s first 100 units are invitation-only.
Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon.
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