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Zacharia hosted widely panned first briefing on Tuesday and faced scrutiny after admitting she didn’t pass bar examDonald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired on Friday, just …
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Ariana Baio (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Portmore Estate near Peebles, featuring a Category A-listed baronial mansion, 3,460 acres, cottages and a farm, is on the market for over £15m.
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10/16/26
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A ‘family’ of criminals attempt to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in pulpy and forgettable thrillerIn the last half-decade Stanley Tucci has been a source of near-inexhaustible on- screen …
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Owen Myers (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Manchester United head coach produced a masterclass in dialling down emotion before a tricky trip to LeedsMichael Carrick returned his most impressive performance precisely when required as he took …
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Jamie Jackson (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Donald Trump’s White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning out of the role after five days, following criticism of her first briefing.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped fifteen CVEs affecting Active Directory Federation Services. Two arrived as direct spoofing vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-108131 (CVSS 7.5, Important, …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The 24-Hour Shift On October 15, 2026, three major open-weight models shipped within hours of each other. StepFun’s Step-5 BF16 landed after a same-day slip. Meta’s Muse Spark Open arrived with a …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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The portal at agent.livingsocial.com is functional, transparent, and deliberately limited. As of October 16, 2026, the system provides access to 56,256 live US offers through a REST API, an MCP …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.
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Via BBC News - Technology
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10/16/26
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On October 15, 2026, Perplexity released its execution sandbox to the public. The SPACE repository — Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution, written in Rust — carries an Apache 2.0 …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Stripe’s President Says Agentic Commerce Went ‘Vertical’ in September. He Has Not Shown the Numbers.
“It only as of September basically started going vertical.” That is how Stripe president John Collison described the company’s agentic commerce activity during an October 12 episode of the …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Humza Yousaf says Palestinians’ right to exist is ignored as SNP MP Lara Bird attacks Ed Miliband and the UK Government over its Gaza response in Aberdeen.
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/16/26
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Beijing warns against ‘discriminatory’ step after France drops opposition to British role in Made in Europe packageNo 10 has left the door open to imposing tariffs on Chinese-made electric …
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Rowena Mason, Lisa O’Carroll and Jasper Jolly (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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A $6.3 billion all-cash price tag, representing a 52% premium over pre-rumor stock levels, tells a specific story about how the market values agent governance. When Proofpoint announced its …
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Dana Ellison (via Forkast)
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10/16/26
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Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White HouseEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has …
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Andrew Rothin Kyiv (via Guardian)
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10/16/26
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Durga Puja celebrations began across India as pandals illuminated with elaborate decorations and thematic displays opened to devotees on the sixth day of Shardiya Navratri. Jamshedpur witnessed grand …
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Via IB Times
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10/16/26
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Imran Khan's lawyers have claimed that the actor was merely passing through Nana Chowk and did not participate in the anti-CEC protest at Mumbai's August Kranti Maidan on October 10. His legal team …
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Via IB Times
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10/16/26
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Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's Ranabaali reviews and ratings have been disabled on BookMyShow. The order restrained X Corp, YouTube, Google India, BookMyShow, IMDb, Facebook India, Meta …
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10/16/26
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Ladakh has created Sankoo as its eighth district by reorganising parts of Kargil, fulfilling a long-standing demand for decentralised governance in Suru Valley. The administration has also …
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Via IB Times
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10/16/26
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Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam stars Rajkummar Rao as the public prosecutor who played a key role in the prosecution of Ajmal Kasab. Wamiqa Gabbi, Jaideep Ahlawat and Sikandar Kher also …
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10/16/26
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