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Millions of Americans under dangerous freeze warning TODAY as temperatures plunge to 22 F

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Insiders confirm what everyone suspects about Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... the private apology... and how any future friendship hangs on one humiliating condition Outrage as Baltimore's Dem mayor spends $164k of taxpayer cash on ultra-luxurious new SUV I have no sympathy for them - but this disturbing new trend isn't the answer: JANA HOCKING Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox Millions of Americans are facing a dangerous freeze warning on Tuesday as temperatures drop below freezing across multiple states. Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 22 to 30 F are expected in parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho . The National Weather Service (NWS) issued the warning for tonight into Wednesday morning, ending between 8 and 10am local time, depending on the state and county .


That was close! Huge asteroid comes within 300 miles of hitting Earth - and NASA only noticed AFTER the close encounter

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Insiders confirm what everyone suspects about Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... the private apology... and how any future friendship hangs on one humiliating condition Outrage as Baltimore's Dem mayor spends $164k of taxpayer cash on ultra-luxurious new SUV I have no sympathy for them - but this disturbing new trend isn't the answer: JANA HOCKING Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Trump stuns CNN reporter as he muses about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: 'I haven't heard that name in so long' Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox A huge asteroid came within 300 miles of hitting Earth, and scientists only noticed after it had already skimmed past the planet. The 9.8-foot (three metre) space rock, dubbed 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica in the early hours of October 1. Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the rock came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of the International Space Station . However, space agencies only realised the near-miss had occurred when the asteroid was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey a few hours later.


More holidaymakers using AI to plan trips

BBC News

More holidaymakers are turning to AI when planning or booking their trips, according to travel association ABTA. The body found that 8% of travellers were using AI - up from 4% last year - with younger holidaymakers more likely to use the technology when planning their trips. However, AI still lagged a long way behind more established methods - such as general internet searches and asking family and friends. Overall, the number of people taking a holiday continued a recent trend of climbing back towards pre-pandemic levels, ABTA said. The travel body described the increase in customers using AI as both a challenge and an opportunity.


People who don't like animals are more likely to have dark personality traits, study finds

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Insiders confirm what everyone suspects about Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... the private apology... and how any future friendship hangs on one humiliating condition Outrage as Baltimore's Dem mayor spends $164k of taxpayer cash on ultra-luxurious new SUV I have no sympathy for them - but this disturbing new trend isn't the answer: JANA HOCKING Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Trump stuns CNN reporter as he muses about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: 'I haven't heard that name in so long' Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox People who don't like animals are more likely to have dark personality traits, study finds On-screen psychopaths such as Patrick Bateman in'American Psycho' and Villanelle in ' Killing Eve ' are often depicted hurting animals. Now, a study suggests this character flaw is not just the stuff of fiction. Scientists in Serbia have found a link between psychopathy and the belief that animals aren't as worthy as humans.


MrBeast says AI advance is scary for YouTube creators

BBC News

MrBeast: AI means it's'scary times' for YouTube creators The world's biggest YouTuber, MrBeast, says the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is scary for the millions of creators currently making content for a living. AI tools that can create fully-formed videos from simple text prompts by users have made rapid advances in recent years. On social media, MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, asked what would happen to people like him when AI videos are just as good as normal videos. Fears about the impact AI will have on the jobs market are widespread - but particularly acute in the creative industries. In the film and video game industries, there has been extensive industrial action over the use of AI.


Artificial Armageddon? AI can now be used to design brand-new VIRUSES - sparking fears it could come up with a catastrophic bioweapon

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Clash of the White House titans: Two of Trump's most powerful lieutenants go to WAR with each other - after vicious leak sent shockwaves The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Brazilian fashion influencer Junior Dutra dies at age 31 after alleged'fox eyes' procedure complications I've seen AI try to ESCAPE labs. The apocalypse is already here... and our children will be the first victims Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' Investigators reveal there is'no evidence' of arson after horror blaze destroyed South Carolina judge's beachfront home Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? It sounds like the start of a sci-fi film, but scientists have shown that AI can design brand-new infectious viruses the first time. Experts at Stanford University in California used'Evo' - an AI tool that creates genomes from scratch. Amazingly, the tool was able to create viruses that are able to infect and kill specific bacteria.


Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

The Guardian

The personal information of users of the video game chat platform has been compromised. The personal information of users of the video game chat platform has been compromised. Video game chat platform tells users that driver's licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider Video game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information - including identity documents of those required to prove their age - were compromised. The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord's third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of "a limited number of users" who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. The data compromised may have included usernames, email, billing information, the last four digits of credit card numbers, IP addresses and messages with customer support.


Robin Williams' daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: 'stop doing this to him'

The Guardian

Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: 'You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings' Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. "Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday . "Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening.


ResCP: Reservoir Conformal Prediction for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Conformal prediction offers a powerful framework for building distribution-free prediction intervals for exchangeable data. Existing methods that extend conformal prediction to sequential data rely on fitting a relatively complex model to capture temporal dependencies. However, these methods can fail if the sample size is small and often require expensive retraining when the underlying data distribution changes. To overcome these limitations, we propose Reservoir Conformal Prediction (ResCP), a novel training-free conformal prediction method for time series. Our approach leverages the efficiency and representation learning capabilities of reservoir computing to dynamically reweight conformity scores. In particular, we compute similarity scores among reservoir states and use them to adaptively reweight the observed residuals at each step. With this approach, ResCP enables us to account for local temporal dynamics when modeling the error distribution without compromising computational scalability. We prove that, under reasonable assumptions, ResCP achieves asymptotic conditional coverage, and we empirically demonstrate its effectiveness across diverse forecasting tasks.


Score-based generative emulation of impact-relevant Earth system model outputs

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Policy targets evolve faster than the Couple Model Intercomparison Project cycles, complicating adaptation and mitigation planning that must often contend with outdated projections. Climate model output emulators address this gap by offering inexpensive surrogates that can rapidly explore alternative futures while staying close to Earth System Model (ESM) behavior. We focus on emulators designed to provide inputs to impact models. Using monthly ESM fields of near-surface temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and wind speed, we show that deep generative models have the potential to model jointly the distribution of variables relevant for impacts. The specific model we propose uses score-based diffusion on a spherical mesh and runs on a single mid-range graphical processing unit. We introduce a thorough suite of diagnostics to compare emulator outputs with their parent ESMs, including their probability densities, cross-variable correlations, time of emergence, or tail behavior. We evaluate performance across three distinct ESMs in both pre-industrial and forced regimes. The results show that the emulator produces distributions that closely match the ESM outputs and captures key forced responses. They also reveal important failure cases, notably for variables with a strong regime shift in the seasonal cycle. Although not a perfect match to the ESM, the inaccuracies of the emulator are small relative to the scale of internal variability in ESM projections. We therefore argue that it shows potential to be useful in supporting impact assessment. We discuss priorities for future development toward daily resolution, finer spatial scales, and bias-aware training. Code is made available at https://github.com/shahineb/climemu.