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Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet
Oct 21, 2026

Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet

The tool, which is not yet widely available, will compete with OpenAI’s dots and Meta’s Muse. It is built for work and not personal errands.


Meta Earnings Show Increased A.I. Spending, Even as Cash Pressures Grow
Oct 21, 2026

Meta Earnings Show Increased A.I. Spending, Even as Cash Pressures Grow

The spending has hurt the Silicon Valley giant’s cash flow, which turned negative. Meta said it would issue a new class of stock to help it raise more money.


Why is a peat fire so bad? BBC is in Indonesia to find out
Oct 21, 2026

Why is a peat fire so bad? BBC is in Indonesia to find out

The BBC's Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, to explain what peat is and why Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade.


Carney appoints astronaut Jeremy Hansen to advise government on new space strategy
Oct 21, 2026

Carney appoints astronaut Jeremy Hansen to advise government on new space strategy

Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed Jeremy Hansen as a special adviser on space — just as the United States takes note of Canada's efforts to shift its space partnerships toward Europe.


Cyclone Josephine forms near US East Coast as nine states are warned of storm's impact
Oct 21, 2026

Cyclone Josephine forms near US East Coast as nine states are warned of storm's impact

Hurricane trackers announced that Cyclone Josephine has formed off the US East Coast. Forecasts show nine states could see storm impacts for days.


Delhi Creator Calls Tripura Youth 'Chinese', Mocks His Looks In Viral Video; Rijiju Vows Action
Oct 21, 2026

Delhi Creator Calls Tripura Youth 'Chinese', Mocks His Looks In Viral Video; Rijiju Vows Action

In the video, recorded in Delhi, Shokeen allegedly makes derogatory remarks about the youth’s physical features and regional identity after he says he is from Tripura.


CERT-In Advisory, MeitY Probe And Global Revocations: The eMudhra Security Story Explained
Oct 21, 2026

CERT-In Advisory, MeitY Probe And Global Revocations: The eMudhra Security Story Explained

8 intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates issued under eMudhra's global web-security banner were allegedly compromised due to cryptographic weaknesses in private keys


Elon Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla Are Exploring a Merger
Oct 21, 2026

Elon Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla Are Exploring a Merger

A deal would consolidate Elon Musk’s holdings in rockets, cars and artificial intelligence into a company worth well over $3 trillion.


French bond yields hit 24-year high after unrest
Oct 21, 2026

French bond yields hit 24-year high after unrest

French bond yields have topped 5%, their highest level since 2002, after widespread protests and violence over the weekend. It's a sign that investors are losing confidence in France's finances, as the government grapples with budget and debt problems. Also in the show - chipmaker Nvidia says it's invested $10 billion in European tech firms to boost the 'AI economy,' and the UK approves a controversial natural gas field as PM Andy Burnham faces pressure over energy costs.


New lab to become centre for investigating uplands
Oct 21, 2026

New lab to become centre for investigating uplands

The research facility in Penrith will also help train the next generation of environmental scientists.


C.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles Test
Oct 21, 2026

C.D.C. Ignored Request From States to Validate a New Measles Test

The agency replied two months later, saying it had “competing priorities,” officials from a coalition of Western states said.


Tiger Shroff Firing Case: Shooters Also Conducted Recce Of Ranbir Kapoor's Bandra Home
Oct 21, 2026

Tiger Shroff Firing Case: Shooters Also Conducted Recce Of Ranbir Kapoor's Bandra Home

Mumbai Crime Branch told a court that the firing at Shroff’s car was allegedly carried out at the behest of Anil Pandit, an alleged associate of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.


Pieces of Halley's Comet behind chilling doomsday panic to blaze across America's skies in hours
Oct 21, 2026

Pieces of Halley's Comet behind chilling doomsday panic to blaze across America's skies in hours

Pieces of Halley's Comet are set to blaze across the skies tonight, but the famous comet has a dark history of fueling chilling doomsday fears.


Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
Oct 21, 2026

Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued

The vulnerabilities with PHP, a programming language widely used across the internet, have been described as the most significant ever found by AI.


Websites go dark worldwide after critical flaws are exposed, leaving up to 70% of sites open to attack
Oct 21, 2026

Websites go dark worldwide after critical flaws are exposed, leaving up to 70% of sites open to attack

An urgent warning has been issued to millions after a software used by more than half of the world's websites was found to have critical flaws that could let hackers take over servers.


Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times
Oct 21, 2026

Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.


Ladakh Administration Dissolves Kargil Hill Council Amid Reorganisation, A Day After CEC & 9 Councillors Resign
Oct 21, 2026

Ladakh Administration Dissolves Kargil Hill Council Amid Reorganisation, A Day After CEC & 9 Councillors Resign

Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) Mohammad Jaffer Akhoon, three Executive Councillors and six other councillors resigned amid a prolonged political tussle


Pupils who designed a badge sent to space meet NASA astronaut
Oct 21, 2026

Pupils who designed a badge sent to space meet NASA astronaut

Frank Rubio is set to be in the crew for the Artemis III mission and previously spent a year in space.


Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Votes as Midterm Fight Heats Up
Oct 21, 2026

Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Votes as Midterm Fight Heats Up

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies.


OpenAI president urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes regulation
Oct 21, 2026

OpenAI president urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes regulation

OpenAI's safety practices have been in the spotlight in recent months, after the company said a swarm of its AI agents escaped containment and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face. OpenAI President Greg Brockman was among the group of six tech executives who later signed US President Donald Trump's voluntary AI safety agreement on behalf of their companies, agreeing to work with "independent auditors" and to ensure their AI tools do not "hack or access technical systems in unintended ways."


Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case
Oct 21, 2026

Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case

Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine issued by state court Judge Francis Mathew is among the largest verdicts issued in US legal history. The award comes after a jury in Santa Fe determined that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection over 43 million times based on widely viewed deceptive statements made by the company and its top...


Andhra Poll Panel Halts Election Process Across 100 Urban Local Bodies Following SC Directive
Oct 21, 2026

Andhra Poll Panel Halts Election Process Across 100 Urban Local Bodies Following SC Directive

In an official order, the commission said the decision was taken in view of the Supreme Court’s October 21 directions.


America Mints a New National Park, Elevating an Arizonan ‘Sky Island’
Oct 21, 2026

America Mints a New National Park, Elevating an Arizonan ‘Sky Island’

After years of bipartisan effort, the former Chiricahua National Monument, in southeast Arizona, has become the United States’ 64th national park.


Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks
Oct 21, 2026

Europe's financial regulators query Google over cloud outage that hit banks

The European Banking Authority said that it has been in contact with Google Cloud to obtain further information on the incident, understand its implications and assess its potential impact on financial entities in the EU, a spokesperson for the watchdog told Reuters.


Nvidia's Huang hails Europe's AI potential, flanked by robot ducks
Oct 21, 2026

Nvidia's Huang hails Europe's AI potential, flanked by robot ducks

In a demonstration of Europe's AI creativity, Huang shared the stage with tiny duck-shaped, AI-trained robots developed by French startup Pollen Robotics in collaboration with Hugging Face, asking them to perform somersaults.


Tornado alerts issued as millions brace for days of severe storms in nine US states: 'Take cover now!'
Oct 21, 2026

Tornado alerts issued as millions brace for days of severe storms in nine US states: 'Take cover now!'

Extreme storms are sweeping across severe states, bringing the threat of flooding and deadly tornadoes to millions.


Critical GitLab Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Could Allow Unauthenticated RCE Across 12 Years of Releases
Oct 21, 2026

Critical GitLab Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Could Allow Unauthenticated RCE Across 12 Years of Releases

GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the software going back to 7.0, released in 2014. The fix matters even for administrators who patched nine days earlier: the October 12 update covered only versions 19.2 and later, and the new fixed versions sit one patch above it, so an


Nasdaq climbs over 1% as SpaceX, Super Micro boost AI sentiment
Oct 21, 2026

Nasdaq climbs over 1% as SpaceX, Super Micro boost AI sentiment

USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 5):US STOCKS-Nasdaq climbs over 1% as SpaceX, Super Micro boost AI sentiment


For College Students Who Take Notes On A Tablet Through Eight Lectures A Day
Oct 21, 2026

For College Students Who Take Notes On A Tablet Through Eight Lectures A Day

Four tablets with a pen in the box from Lenovo and Samsung for college students who take notes through long days of lectures.


Fuel leak which killed fish in River Taff stopped
Oct 21, 2026

Fuel leak which killed fish in River Taff stopped

GE Aerospace previously confirmed fuel got into the river while repair work took place nearby.


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