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…
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-…
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.
Why it’s important to have well-funded programs for open source infrastructure: “In 2024, PHP underwent its first external security audit in years. The PHP Foundation secured funding from the @… to organize this audit through OSTIF, and it was carried out by Quarkslab. While fixing one of the issues Quarkslab reported, a PHP core developer contracted by t…
How Michael Mayer went from a forgotten man to Raiders breakout star https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7716073/2026/10/23/michael-mayer-raiders-breakout-brock-bowers/
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/amazon-trump-midterms…
Given that cherries are extremely perishable, a picked cherry loses quality by the hour.
Vision-based dynamic class segmentation enables shipping
first-class cherries with dark color, perfect stems, and high firmness,
and airfreighting them to China or Vietnam, where consumers pay $15-$25 per pound for a high-status gift.
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…