Newark City Councilmember Eve Marie Little said she was punched from behind while discussing park updates with constituents at a Newark park on Oct. 25. Rosario Lopez of Fremont was arrested Oct. 29 and charged with felony battery causing serious bodily injury; police have not stated a motive.

Six Flags Entertainment announced that California’s Great America in Santa Clara will shut down after one final season, with its last operating day set for Sept. 6, 2027. The park opened in 1976 and its land was sold to Prologis in 2022, leaving the company leasing the site.

This tutorial walks Python beginners through installing the Thonny IDE and using its editor, shell, icons, debugger, variables view and package manager. It demonstrates writing, saving, running and debugging code, including handling syntax errors and installing a third-party package.

This APOD entry describes the De Gerlache-Kocher massif, a roughly 4-kilometer-high formation near the Moon's south pole. The region's shadowed craters may hold water ice, and the massif has been considered a possible landing site for future crewed Artemis missions.

A Science Advances study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and IIASA reports that at high temperatures soil moisture, pressure and heat begin reinforcing one another, pushing extreme heat waves about 10% hotter than they would otherwise be. The authors caution that current climate models may understate future heat wave risk.

Researchers used AlphaFold-Multimer to screen more than 630,000 possible pairings among about 1,100 human mitochondrial proteins, cataloging 2,895 likely interactions, over half unreported. Follow-up experiments in yeast and human cells confirmed several predictions, and the team released the data through MitoMatch.

Discord is rebuilding its desktop app in Rust using the GPUI framework, replacing Electron. A demo showed the new client loading its friends list before the old app, and Task Manager listed 290.2MB of RAM while two accounts were signed in.

Researchers identified a previously unseen North Atlantic right whale calf off Anticosti Island, Quebec, swimming with its mother, Silt, raising the latest birthing season’s count to 24. The New England Aquarium says that is the most productive season since 2009 for a population of about 380 whales.

A Pakistani astronaut will fly aboard China's Shenzhou 24 and become the first foreign national to visit the country's space station, Chinese state media reported. The China Manned Space Agency said the astronaut would carry out a short on-orbit flight and return on Shenzhou 23, without giving a launch date.

Meteorologists say the polar vortex is already weakening in early November, which they describe as the earliest stratospheric disruption on record, with a November sudden stratospheric warming seen only three times since the 1950s. They warn this raises the chance of cold outbreaks over the Northern Hemisphere, while possible roles for El Niño and climate change remain uncertain.

Using five decades of University of Alberta Breton Plots data, researchers found that liming legume forages improved forage growth and left more nitrogen available to cereal crops that followed. They also reported that alfalfa can acidify soil, and recommend managing pH across entire rotations with repeated layered soil testing.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has found two previously unknown Milky Way satellites, Aquarius IV and Rubin-GC1, using preview images covering only about 7% of the sky. Astronomers say the full 10-year survey could reveal many more faint satellites and aid studies of galaxy formation and dark matter.

Aarhus University-led researchers examined paleoecological records from the Miocene through the pre-industrial era and conclude that Europe's landscapes were mainly shifting mosaics of trees, open areas and meadows, not continuous closed forest. They argue dense reforestation may conflict with species adapted to mixed habitats and grazing.

The Golden State Valkyries' WNBA championship parade in San Francisco helped at least two Bay Area transit agencies set post-pandemic single-day ridership records on Wednesday. Muni reported just over 600,000 trips, while BART said it provided more than 260,000.

Long-running U.S. research associates regular caffeinated coffee with lower dementia risk, with the strongest link at two to three cups daily. Higher consumers had 141 yearly dementia cases per 100,000 versus 330 among people who rarely or never drank caffeinated coffee, though the study does not prove causation.

British soldier Barton-Kennedy was court-martialed after ignoring an order to remove his SIM card; he reported being blackmailed over nude photos obtained from his phone and initially agreed to pay 100 British pounds. He pleaded guilty, and his sentence appeal was denied in August 2026.

The article outlines agent memory as knowledge Claude retains between sessions, using memory notes and a process called dreaming to reorganize or correct stored information. It reports CL-Bench and Pokémon Red evaluations comparing how different Claude models saved, tested and revised their notes.

Researchers describe two undocumented macOS daemons, knowledgeconstructiond and intelligenceplatformd, that build an on-device knowledge graph from Contacts, Photos, Calendar, Messages and other signals. Their macOS 26.6.2 analysis covers the graph's SQLite stores and an open-source dashboard for inspecting it.

Grab adopted a layered defense across its mobile release lifecycle to handle rising volumes of AI-assisted code changes. The approach combines pre-merge linting and internal early-access builds with staged rollouts, feature flags, and real-time crash monitoring.

Check Point Research reported a way to bypass ChatGPT's Lockdown Mode, an optional setting meant to block prompt injection from leaking data, using the HTML preview's popup windows; in the ChatGPT Classic desktop app no click was needed. OpenAI fixed the flaw on September 18, and Check Point retested and confirmed the technique no longer works.

Three Republican House committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on 18 November about his contacts with a former Megaspeed executive and how Nvidia guards against spies. Neither person has been charged.