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I spent last weekend trying to figure out why my smart vacuum kept bumping into the same chair leg, and it occurred to me that we are all just one firmware update away from our appliances deciding to …
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Mila Cohen (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Mastercard has finally stopped pretending that stablecoins are a peripheral experiment. On October 15, 2026, the company launched its Global Money Platform, a move that looks less like a product …
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Nolan Pratt (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Interior minister says ‘the Republic will not yield’ to France’s worst protests in yearsMore than 1,800 people have been arrested in France over protests on Saturday, the country’s interior …
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Harry Taylor (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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An appeal has been launched to trace a man, James Booth, missing from Falkirk who has not been seen for two weeks
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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The shift from blocking to building Financial institutions are currently caught in a high-stakes standoff with autonomous software. Major firms like Schwab and JPMorgan have responded to the …
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Priya Nair (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Fewer than 11% of small merchants are ready for AI shopping agents. Agentic orders across Forter’s network have quadrupled since August. Automated fraud has doubled in two months. On October 13, …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Anthropic is currently attempting to justify a $2 trillion valuation target while reconciling a 2025 performance that saw a net loss of $42 billion on just $4.6 billion in revenue. This stark …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Staines’s finest nailed the zeitgeist of the late 90s and early 00s, and now he’s back – but how does he fit into 2026? He discusses the backlash against his return, his worst ever interviewee …
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Rich Pelley (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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The Republican state attorney general appears uniquely ill-chosen as a candidate – but he is a political survivor who could yet frustrate Democratic dreamsDepending how you look at the situation, …
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J Oliver Conroy (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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Style of emceeing based on high-octane, ad-libbed vocals has flourished thanks to its unique way of captivating crowdsFor the 2015 freshmen cohort of the history degree programme at the University of …
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Eromo Egbejule in Lagos (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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They’re healthy, versatile, sustainable and available. Yet pea consumption in the UK is at a 50-year low. Here are the curries, dips, pasta dishes and even cakes that could turn all that …
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Tim Dowling (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories“William Shakespeare was a black woman.” In 1985, Maya …
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Kaitlyn McNab (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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Threat actors weaponized a vendor-managed credential in ConnectWise Cloud Backup to authenticate across 173 Microsoft 365 tenants on October 15, 2026. The credential lived in ConnectWise’s own …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/18/26
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Japanese space agency leading five-year mission to Phobos, one of ‘most important unclimbed mountains in the solar system’Japan is to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring …
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Associated Press (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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The singer-songwriter gets a lift from U2 and likes to reminisce to Bette Midler, but which cheesy Euro banger does she secretly like?The first song I fell in love with
When I was five or …
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Rich Pelley (via Guardian)
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10/18/26
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An 'area of interest' has been identified in the search for two missing men and their boat, which failed to arrive in Lewis on Tuesday night
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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In a wide-ranging interview with The Herald, Dr Ali Afshar, managing director of AMA (New Town) Limited, outlined his vision for the venue.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Amid claims of US meddling, oil-rich Alberta will vote on whether to hold a binding referendum on leaving Canada. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what’s at stake
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Campaigners are outraged at the SNP’s stewardship of the sea. Our Writer at Large hears from them, and their fishing lobby opponents who have just hired an SNP minister as CEO
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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Seven years after the BBC Scotland channel launched with big ambitions, its audience is shrinking and its future is in doubt. I spent an evening watching it to find out what has gone wrong.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/18/26
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