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This past weekend was absolute chaos.Four AP top 10 teams lost, which marked the second time this season that four top 10 teams have lost in the same week. The last year that there were two instances of four or more AP top 10 teams losing in the same week within the first eight weeks of the season was 2007— a whopping 18 years ago. With that in mind, here’s my top 10 entering Week 9.It may have well been a 7-on-7 passing scrimmage in Madison on Saturday. Julian Sayin continues to grow and the defense continues to dominate, although it will…
Fourteen-hundred federal workers who oversee America’s nuclear arsenal are no longer on the job. The employees were furloughed because of the government shutdown, which is now the third longest in U.S. history. Nikole Killion has the latest.
Video Details Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, Kevin Wildes and Greg Jennings react to the New England Patriots’ win over the Tennessee Titans, including whether they are officially the best team in the AFC East. 21 MINS AGO・first things first・5:02
APPS AND BANKS AMONG THOSE HITWhile Reddit and Roblox had largely stabilised, other apps like Snapchat, PayPal’s Venmo, and Duolingo, were still reporting issues. Amazon’s own platforms, including its shopping website, Prime Video, and Alexa, were also hit, though some improvement was noted later in the day.Gaming and financial platforms were also affected, including Fortnite, Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, and trading apps Coinbase and Robinhood, all of which attributed disruptions to AWS. Uber rival Lyft also experienced downtime in the United States.In Britain, Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Vodafone, BT, and the UK tax and payments authority HMRC were…
Ohio State (7-0) might look even better than it did when it won the national championship last season. But, according to FOX Sports college football analyst Robert Griffin III, there’s another team that should be considered superior to the top-ranked Buckeyes in 2025. “I believe Indiana’s the best team in the country,” Griffin said on Monday’s “The Herd.”Indiana, who moved up to No. 2 in the most recent AP Poll, is also off to a 7-0 start. The Hoosiers’ highlight victory came in Week 7, when it defeated previously third-ranked Oregon, 30-20, in Eugene in a win that many analysts called…
WASHINGTON :The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened a preliminary investigation into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety laws around a stopped school bus.The probe of the Alphabet unit is the latest scrutiny of self-driving systems by regulators reviewing how driverless technologies interact with pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.NHTSA opened the investigation after a recent media report aired video of an incident in Georgia in which a Waymo did not remain stationary when approaching a school bus with its red lights flashing…
It starts with a podcast on your commute. A Netflix binge after dinner. A YouTube rabbit hole before bed. For many, true crime has become a go-to way to unwind. But psychologists say that comfort might be masking something deeper. The genre’s popularity raises questions about how we process trauma, fear, and justice. The Rise of True Crime Culture True crime has gone mainstream. Once a niche genre, it now streams alongside rom-coms and dramas, drawing millions with every release. Each new series sparks online buzz, Reddit threads, and amateur investigations. Viewers dig into case files, map timelines, and debate…
NEW YORK :Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Monday recommended investors vote down plans for AI company CoreWeave to buy infrastructure company Core Scientific in what was billed as a $9 billion deal.Investors will vote on October 30. ISS wrote that Core Scientific has achieved considerable success as a standalone company and could continue going it alone.CoreWeave, which offers cloud infrastructure for artificial-intelligence capabilities, proposed to acquire Core Scientific, which offers computing power, in an all-stock deal with an implied value of $20.40 when it was announced in early July.Soon after, investor Two Seas Capital said it would vote…
Former President Joe Biden has completed a round of radiation therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer — an encouraging sign of progress — but one that does not signal the end of his treatment.A Biden spokeswoman confirmed to CBS News Monday that the former president, who turns 83 next month, finished several weeks of radiation therapy treatment Monday at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia. His office first announced Oct. 11 that the former president had been undergoing radiation treatment for prostate cancer for several weeks. “He rang the bell today,” Biden spokeswoman Kelly Scully said.Ashley Biden, the…
TWO-TRACK AI ECOSYSTEMFor Nvidia and other global firms, the key takeaway is that access to China’s market is now far less certain than before. Companies must prepare for the possibility that AI systems will diverge, with one path aligned to US standards and another built around Chinese technology.China has many of the ingredients needed to sustain the divergence. One recent analysis counted more than 950,000 AI papers from Chinese researchers, compared with about 1.36 million from the US. China now has a larger pool of AI scientists, more than 105,000 compared with around 94,000 in the US. That makes hedging essential: A company…