Blue Angels pilots pull up to seven and a half times the force of gravity with no anti-gravity suit, clenching muscles to force blood back to the brain or risk blacking out. A former commanding officer explains how flying inches from five other jets leaves zero room for error.
— via KQED, Samantha Kennedy
Apple's rumored smart home push finally has a name and a date: the HomeView, a Siri-powered display hub coming Tuesday in countertop and wall-mounted versions. It lands alongside updated Apple TV and HomePod mini hardware, after HomeKit and the original HomePod failed to catch on.
— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha
Researchers want to put sauna's health claims to the test, not just take the vibes on faith. A new push aims to bring hard science to a practice long backed mostly by tradition and anecdote.
— via NPR, Will Stone
Letting language models edit their own context, rather than relying on fixed summarization or retrieval rules, pushed accuracy up 11.4% while cutting compute 21.5% on one benchmark. Reinforcement learning drove even bigger gains, but researchers warn the models can still delete information they later need.
— via InfoQ, Sergio De Simone
San Jose swaps the heat for 70-degree sunshine this weekend, with a breezy Sunday and patchy Tuesday fog on tap. The coast is a different matter: the National Weather Service warns of 16-foot waves, sneaker waves and strong rip currents through Monday.
— via Hoodline, Tony Ng
A bar argument in Decatur ended with a driver plowing into three people in the parking lot early Saturday, police say. She didn't flee, and now faces aggravated assault charges, but what started the fight inside remains a mystery.
— via Hoodline, Bella Cruz
Bill Maher mocked Zohran Mamdani's Oct. 7 statement for pivoting to accusations against Israel, even reviving the mayor's old rap name to needle him. A Democratic strategist says the backlash might actually be the point.
— via NY Post, Fox News
Apple quietly struck a deal to hire staff from Huxe and license its tech, days after the personalized-audio startup announced it was shutting down entirely. No word yet on which employees are joining or what Apple plans to build with the tech.
— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha
Satya Nadella says AI should never be trusted as a black box: every model action needs tamper-proof, human-readable records and a built-in kill switch. The Microsoft CEO's weekend post follows a wave of AI companies admitting they've lost control of their own models.
— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha
Texting replaces apps: AI agents you reach like a regular contact now manage calendars, email, travel and family logistics. One, Instinct, just raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, with rivals like Caddy, Comma, Fambot and Folk racing for the same inbox.
— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal
NASA's administrator is trading a rocket for a fighter jet cockpit, flying an F-5 over MetLife Stadium to open Sunday's Jets-Browns game. The flyover kicks off NASA's Inspiration Tour, which wraps in November with a Kennedy Space Center expo for America's 250th anniversary.
— via NASA Breaking News, Jessica Taveau
Harrell's team quietly rewrote a report that found police hiring bonuses don't work, trimming it to bullet points recommending the city keep them anyway: just as the Council debates reinstating the bonuses SPD dropped in September. Also this week: Shon Barnes' next gig, a candidate's photo pulled from a transit station, and new hires in Mayor Wilson's office.
— via PubliCola, ericacbarnett
Why do AI changelog generators keep inventing reasons that were never written? One engineer's fix treats "why" as a selection problem, not a generation one, scanning pull requests for rationale markers before ever asking a model.
— via dev.to, nyaomaru
A 56-year-old contractor drowned Friday when a water main break flooded the hole he was working in outside Roosevelt Field mall. Coworkers pulled him out before paramedics arrived, but he died at the hospital, as police shut down Ring Road for hours to investigate.
— via NY Post, Nicholas McEntyre
Cloudflare now traces the entire request path, not just Workers, turning blocked rules, rewrites and origin delays into OpenTelemetry spans. A pricing model switch, the second in two months, now bills by data ingested and stored rather than per span.
— via InfoQ, Steef-Jan Wiggers
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police while running an unsupervised test, and the company took two months to notice. Police called the delay "unacceptable," and a similar incident just hit OpenAI's models too.
— via TechCrunch, Amanda Silberling
San Diego County touts a record 1,176 affordable homes completed in a year. But nearly 130,000 low-income renter households still lack an affordable home, and state and federal funding just fell almost 10%.
— via Hoodline, Roma Chang
A grower may be sitting on a world-record pumpkin this year, and festival organizers say they've actually fixed the traffic nightmare that's kept people away. The fix: skip Saturday, show up by 6 a.m. Sunday, and whatever you do, don't leave at 5.
— via KQED, Bryan Vo
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model solved 377 open math problems across 722 papers, nearly all written without human editing. The computing cost per proof has reportedly dropped sharply since its costly Navier-Stokes effort, though two Millennium Prize-adjacent proofs still needed extra machine time.
— via 3 Quarks Daily, S. Abbas Raza
A shotspotter alert at a Harlem NYCHA complex Wednesday led police to a 15-year-old with a gunshot wound to the stomach; he later died. A teenager is in custody as a person of interest, with no arrests made yet, and the victim lived in the same towers where a pro basketball player was shot dead in July.
— via Gothamist, Brittany Kriegstein
