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‘Daily Show’ Clowns Trump’s Startled Reaction to Planned Flyover: ‘Not a Good Omen’

"Now, President Xi knows all he has to do to rattle Trump is drop a book on the floor," host Desi Lydic jokes The post ‘Daily Show’ Clowns Trump’s Startled Reaction to Planned Flyover: ‘Not a Good…

  • Trump's startled reaction to B-1 bombers flyover mocked by Daily Show
  • Flyover intended as gesture of friendship, Trump visibly uncomfortable
  • Xi's visit significant as first state visit to US in over a decade

World

Rick Jackson’s Chances Boosted Against Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia Race

Republican Rick Jackson's lead comes despite the same polls showing support for Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff's re-election bid.

  • Rick Jackson leads recent polls with 47.6% support in Georgia gubernatorial race.
  • Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms follows with 45.7% support in same polls.
  • Jackson's victory would make him first Republican governor elected in Georgia since 1999.

AI

Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.

  • OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus cracked two unsolved Enigma messages
  • Models demonstrated cryptanalytic skills, solving problems that took humans months
  • Only seven Enigma messages remain unbroken, one with known plaintext but unbroken code

AI

Google is launching AI chips into space to see if they survive up there

MVP is not a data center. It is a small test platform carrying four of Google's tensor processing units, or TPUs. The chips provide roughly the computing capacity of a single data-center server. Solar panels will produce about one kilowatt of electricity, enough to operate the processors and handle short... Read Entire Article

Health & Medicine

COVID-19, flu shots available to high risk, priority groups starting Sept. 28

COVID-19 and flu vaccines will be available for high risk and priority groups in Ontario starting Sept. 28, launching the province’s fall immunization program.

  • COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccines available starting Sept. 28 in Ontario
  • High-risk groups prioritized: hospitalized patients, long-term care residents
  • Flu shots and RSV vaccinations accessible from Oct. 26 at various locations

Health & Medicine

Stroke Remodels Tumor Microenvironment to Promote Glioma Growth

A study in mouse and human models showed how stroke promotes glioma growth by remodeling the tumor microenvironment, with the emergence of a distinct population of tumor-associated astrocytes with reduced Ca 2+ activity, and enrichment of tumor-associated microglia and macrophages (TAMs).

  • Stroke remodels tumor microenvironment to promote glioma growth
  • Stroke induces remodeling of TME and distinct TAAs with reduced calcium activity
  • Restoring TAAs calcium signaling or depleting TAMs suppresses stroke-induced glioma
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