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Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generati…

Canva releases its first image generation model | TechCrunch
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

Saints vs. Steelers: Aaron Rodgers, Tyler Shough to duel in first-ever game in Paris

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-vs-saints-how-to-watch-odds-preview-predictio…

It's kind of crazy that both GPT and Claude really love to manipulate files by writing Python scripts that do text search-and-replace. First of all, why isn't this a dedicated tool? Second, the generated scripts usually don't check that the search-and-replace was successful. Are they just good enough at regurgitating text that they never make mistakes? What if the file was modified in the mean time?

If you get a spare 30 mins or so, you should have a listen to the Ibrahim Alfa Jnr mixtape in the middle third of this edition of Late Junction. Quick, before it disappears from Sounds. Start from about 30 mins in, to hear his intro first.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00309lp

The American Entertainment Alliance calls for a rule modeled on the old "fin-syn" law protecting creators' ownership of shows, along with a tax credit (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/american-entertainment-…

Agencies and Producers Back U.S. Tax Incentive as 'First Step'
A coalition of talent agencies and independent producers said Thursday that it supports the U.S. film incentive bill as a 'first step.

I was at an apolitical event honoring people finishing their academic degrees in the health sector recently, and the last speech, sort of as if it was added as an after thought, tried to give a political message, which received immense applause, but just wasn't a message to me.
The speaker said “we need to be loud against all organizations that are against humanitarian principles”. My first thought was: Wow, we can't even name the dangerous ideology anymore, yet alone the organization…

Health authorities in France reported the first-ever recorded human infection and death associated with the Shamonda virus.
The patient passed away in a hospice in Lyon and was reportedly already suffering from a serious underlying illness.

France's agricultural and health departments have stated that they do not see a health risk to the general population at this stage, as the virus is not considered highly transmissible to or between humans.

SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/sk-da…

Paris, Battened Down Against Riots, Offers Lonely Welcome to Visitors https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/world/europe/paris-riots-tourism.html

Packers activate RB Josh Jacobs from exempt list ahead of Sunday's game vs. Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-activate-rb-josh-jacobs-from-exempt-list-ahead-of-sunday-s-game-vs-lions