Tootfinder

Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indivisible Santa Barbara
is turning its latest No Kings rally
to be a call for early voting,
hoping Saturday’s turnout will encourage people beyond the crowd
to cast ballots before the November 3 election.
The No Kings Vote Early event will run from noon-2 p.m.,
Saturday, October 17, at Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara Street.
A short rally begins at noon,
and the march leaves at 12:30 p.m.,
headed for De la Guerra Plaza.
Or…

'Vote Early' Rally Gathers on Saturday
Rally on October 17 starts at Alameda Park at noon and ends at De la Guerra Plaza at 2 p.m.

Cowboys Headlines: Overshown trending up; rookie could see bigger role over 8x-Pro Bowler https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/16/news-headlines-october-15-…

India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/indi

India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network | TechCrunch
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

This is obviously (to put it extremely mildly) a very disappointing event. However, it is NOT at all surprising. AI companies, and their leaders, have shown us time and time again that they are willing to do whatever it takes to further their own interests and desires. This is obviously much bigger than the mathematical community. The number of communities ruined and people displaced by the construction of data centers, the environmental tolls caused as a result of huge energy ex…

How to watch Bills vs. Raiders: TV channel and streaming options for October 18 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7697238/2026/10/16/bills-vs-raiders-stream-how-to-watch-oct-18/

Santa Barbara County, Calif. –
The National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a
Red Flag Warning for the Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains,
in effect from 3 AM to 6 PM PDT Friday, October 16, 2026,
due to east winds and critically low relative humidity associated with moderate to locally strong Santa Ana winds.
A Red Flag Warning indicates that critical fire weather conditions are occurring or will develop shortly.
The combination of stro…

Red Flag Warning Issued for Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains
The warning is in effect from 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, October 16, 2026, due to east winds and critically low relative humidity associated with moderate to locally strong Santa Ana winds.

On this day in space! Oct. 13, 1773: Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy before we ever knew it was a galaxy | Space
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/on-this-day-in-space-october-13-2026

_As the world is going to shit,_ your Hunt For Red October quote of the day:
`When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and noone would know anything about it until it was all over.`
#THFROQOTD

The JustWatch Group, known for its streaming guide, plans to launch an AVOD and TVOD service in October in 12 countries, including the US and Canada (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/justwatch-streaming-launches-avod-tvod-1237103975/

Streaming Guide JustWatch Launching Its Own AVOD-TVOD Service
The JustWatch Group, which is known for its streaming guide, is launching its own ad-supported and transactional service.

#SilentSunday
#RockyMountainNationalPark
Sunrise, from Trail Ridge Road.

"COP31: Can the EU turn climate ambition into delivery?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #COP31

COP31: Can the EU turn climate ambition into delivery?
The European Council has today (12 October) approved its main negotiating positions for the climate summit, which Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe argues is lacking a plan for "actual delivery".

Just in case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details of event and how to book.
Free!
https://

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Wordle 1,945 1/6 for 16 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle #WordPuzzle

Looking forward to speaking at @… again this October! #HappyMonday

Can't wait to watch season 3 of 'Helluva Boss' in October, ngl.
The trailer already confirms that I will take a lot of hits in the feels :')
I'm all here for it, though! ❤️‍🔥
#HelluvaBoss #Hellaverse

Brought to you by the #PartyOfLife. Maybe life for only certain colors?
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
https…

Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings

Brought to you by the #PartyOfLife. Maybe life for only certain colors?
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
https…

Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings

RE: #Cornell Jane Doe and I were raped on the same night: October 19, 2024, leading into October 20. We b…

www.maptap.gg October 15
99🔥 97🔥 86🎓 89🎉 92🏆
Final score: 911
1. x: 4,740 pts, 80 km, 44 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,701 pts, 92 km, 1 min, 9 sec, 3 steps
3. x: 4,985 pts, 4.6 km, 36 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 938 pts, 2,497 km, 41 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 878 pts, 2,595 km, 34 sec, 0 steps
Total: 16,242 pts, 5,268 km, 3 min, 44 sec, 3 steps
TimeGuessr #1233 — 42,332/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆6,527 · 📅 0y · 🌍 1813.6mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,862 · 📅 1y · 🌍 2.6mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,804 · 📅 1y …

I just updated the @… changelog with another large list of updates from the past few months.
https://notes.recollect.fyi/share/nz1oJucQ

📋 Changelog for Recollect Notes App – 10/13/2026
October 13, 2026 – Privacy hardening – General privacy hardening, which includes ensuring error reports don't include any note text, even when a save fails. Faster, more reliable saving – Changes save faster and more reliably while you're editing, especially in shared notes. October 12, 2026…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

How to watch Cowboys vs. Packers: TV channel and streaming options for October 18 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7697664/2026/10/16/cowboys-vs-packers-stream-how-to-watch-oct-18/

Lions will be without 2 O-line starters vs. Bills and DJ Reed could miss, too https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7601404/2026/09/16/detroit-lions-injury-update-blake-miller-dj-reed/

Bot wasn't that bot after all
"Data from Cloudflare, which monitors worldwide internet traffic, shows a marked decline in activity from bots associated with the Yandex network on 8 October and 11 October, corresponding to the dates of two of the strikes.
...
Some online commentators have mistaken the Cloudflare data to mean that the decline in bot activity has led to a major drop in disinformation on social media. But this is not what experts have noticed.
"…

Did Ukrainian strikes on Russian datacentres reduce online disinformation?
While some viral online graphs suggest less bot activity, Zelenskyy’s claims of improved social media discourse do not entirely pass muster

In Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors, a Final Investment Decision apparently isn't final.
February 2026: FID!
https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/final-investment-decision-taken-for-romanias-smrs
October: not really.

Final Investment Decision taken for Romanian SMR project
The shareholders of Romanian nuclear operator Nuclearelectrica have approved the Final Investment Decision for the small modular reactor project in Doicești.  ;

GÉANT Node enters production in the EOSC Federation 🎉
On 8 October, GÉANT was one of 13 Nodes that joined the operational EOSC EU Node as the Federation moved into production.
Shortly before, our CEO Lise Fuhr signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the EOSC Federation in Amsterdam, setting out how we will work with other Nodes to develop the Federation together.
🔗 Read more:

NPR acquires Hard Fork co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton's video-first show Machine Gods, debuting as a podcast from October and as a radio program in 2027 (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g-s1-143481/casey-newton-an…

RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/117427821054021103
Permalink:
https://onsman.com/we…

NEW PV
The Apothecary Diaries Season 3
Premieres 2 October 2026
#animenews

OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/openai-testing-safety-incidents-disclosure

OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents
The AI lab is now rolling out a new process to internally report safety issues.

On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/international-crisis/no-palantir-in-our-nhs/people-vs-palan…

Wordle 1,944 3/6 for 15 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 15
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 3rd, 4th & 5th wrong. (15 answers remain after guess.)
2. 3rd perfect. 5th wrong. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

Trump's October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-october-surprise-is-a-pivot-to-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/261015/p137#a261015p137

How to watch Cowboys vs. Packers: TV channel and streaming options for October 18 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7697664/2026/10/16/cowboys-vs-packers-stream-how-to-watch-oct-18/

Let's go
No Kings
Saturday October 17
https://bsky.app/profile/verbalprimate.com/post/3mxyrffyx4k2h

John Gilda (@verbalprimate.com)
Hey Foxy - vote in over whelming number. Vote early. #NoKings

From Translink
Bruno Mars becomes the first musical artist to lend his voice to a SkyTrain station announcement.
The special announcement will play at Stadium–Chinatown Station on five concert days, from October 14 to 21.
The collaboration with Warner Music Canada generates additional advertising revenue to help support transit service in Metro Vancouver.
SkyTrain customers are in for a surprise this week as global superstar Bruno Mars becomes the latest celebrity gue…

www.maptap.gg October 16
97🔥 92🏆 82🌟 92👑 97🔥
Final score: 920
1. x: 3,154 pts, 687 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,571 pts, 1,727 km, 3 min, 0 steps
3. x: 716 pts, 2,900 km, 40 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 3,866 pts, 384 km, 13 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 5,000 pts, 48 m, 1 min, 23 sec, 0 steps
Total: 14,307 pts, 5,698 km, 5 min, 40 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1234 — 39,563/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆5,927 · 📅 16y · 🌍 2.0mi
2️⃣ 🏆7,725 · 📅 2y · 🌍 714.6mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,997 · 📅 0…

MINIMUM WAGE - Official Trailer (2026)
October 26th on @Netflix
#tv

Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology

Paramount, California AG Rob Bonta, and the WGA schedule a two-day meeting for settlement discussions about the WBD deal, starting October 14 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Date: Paramount, California AG and Writers Guild Agree on Meeting for Settlement Talks
The Oct. 14 talks will be the first time the two sides formally sit down to discuss a resolution to the case.

www.maptap.gg October 12
100🎯 100🎯 95🏅 98🔥 96🏅
Final score: 972

Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/…

@… Larkspur in Marin County, California, already had ALPR at its boundary for the same purpose in October 2015, long before Flock was founded. The city police would be alerted if a car from outside hadn't left by sunset, the implicit assumption being they would be burglars, not tourists.
The only difference is that Flock networks and aggregates this beyond…

How to watch Cowboys vs. Packers: TV channel and streaming options for October 18 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7697664/2026/10/16/cowboys-vs-packers-stream-how-to-watch-oct-18/

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

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In case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details and booking details.
Free!
https://degrow…

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

The Receipt Democracy Must Not Give You
William Wade Dudley wrote a letter in October 1888. He was treasurer of the Republican National Committee, and he spent that autumn worried about Indiana, where the presidential race would turn on voters of no settled loyalty, men the campaigns called floaters....
https://…

It's snuck up on me (thanks for the nudge @… ) but tonight's our October #Libre / #FOSS catchup! If you want to be part of Aotearoa NZ's open …

Bulletin D 147
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1
From the 29 October 2026, 0h UTC until further notice, the value of DUT1 to be disseminated with the time signals will be
DUT1 = -0.1 s
Bulletin D 148 may be issued in february 2027

In October 2016, I was asked to help build Neuralink. I said no. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/in-october-2016-i-was-asked-to-help "Why BCIs Fail series: looking beyond the season finale", by TK Kozai;

🇺🇸 In October 2016, I Was Asked to Help Build Neuralink. I Said No.
Why BCIs Fail Series: Looking Beyond the Season Finale

Patriots to Honor Adam Vinatieri During Halftime Ceremony on Sunday, October 11 Against Raiders https://www.patriots.com/news/patriots-to-honor-adam-vinatieri-during-halftime-ceremony-on-sunday-october-11-against-raiders

Jio Platforms seeks to raise up to $3.2B in India's largest IPO, which would value it at as much as $108.3B; the offering opens October 21 and closes October 23 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/mukesh-ambanis-jio-f…

In honour of the world going to shit, I will now post a _The Hunt For Red October_ quote of the day, starting with
`This business will get out of control, and we will be lucky to live through it.`
#THFROQOTD

Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: all the news that's fit to print, and then some.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and kick a billionaire in the nuts: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-octob…

Ukraine Update October 6
2026–1750 vs 137, More Refineries, Calm Coffee at a French Cafe

The Symfony Meetup Mannheim is just around the corner, taking place on October 22nd! 🎉
Join us for another special-themed PHP meetup in Mannheim, this time in collaboration with our friends from @… and @… …

Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-bela-bajaria-leaving-layoffs-1236…

Netflix's Bela Bajaria Leaving After 10 Years Amid Layoffs
In a major executive shakeup, Bela Bajaria is out at Netflix after 10 years as the streamer's chief content officer.

FRI-YAY, October 16th, 2026
@ 5428 San Pablo Ave
Oakland
‡ Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (Stillupsteypa)
‡ Earnst Karel
‡ Tanuki Spider Cat
Doors: 7:30pm / Show: 8pm
$10-15 NOTAFLOF

Oh, wie seltsam:
> But looking at the average number of likes his [Musks] posts have been receiving does raise eyebrows. Throughout October, his posts garnered an average of between 17,000 and 81,000 likes per day — until the past two days, the averages slid to a dismal 11,000 and 8,000, respectively.

Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers Linked to Bot Farms
Could Ukraine's destruction of Russian data centers really be impacting Elon Musk's engagement on his own platform?

"London’s Oxford Street gets fully pedestrianized this month: here’s what that means"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London

London’s Oxford Street gets fully pedestrianized this month: here’s what that means | The Optimist Daily
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced Oxford Street will go traffic-free on October 26, closing nearly a kilometer of the West End to all vehicles.

Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-bela-bajaria-leaving-layoffs-1236…

Netflix's Bela Bajaria Leaving After 10 Years Amid Layoffs
In a major executive shakeup, Bela Bajaria is out at Netflix after 10 years as the streamer's chief content officer.

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

A judge threatens to sanction Trump for failing to sit for a deposition in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC; the next hearing is set by October 22 (Erik Larson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

#footpathFriday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Ute Trail, Never Summer Range. October 2015

Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-ne

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

The IMF lifts its 2026 global GDP growth forecast to 3.1%, up from 3% in July, citing an AI boom that offsets Middle East war disruptions and high energy costs (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/imf-world-bank-annual-meetings-october-b…

Global economy to slow less than expected in 2026 as AI boom offsets war hit: IMF
The IMF raised its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1%, as AI investment helped offset the war’s energy shock.

Wordle 1,943 4/6 for 14 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 161
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 11
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 2nd wrong. (161 answers remain after guess.)
2. 3rd & 5th wrong. (11 answers remain after guess.)
3. 1st & 4th perfect. (1 answer remains after guess.)
4. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)

Netanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims
The Israeli PM says allegation that UAE president alerted him more than a week before major offensive is ‘absolute lie’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep

Netanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims
Israeli PM says allegation that UAE president alerted him more than a week before major offensive is ‘absolute lie’

This Week in Sports Trivia: Oct. 8, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7668285/2026/10/08/this-week-in-sports-trivia-october-8-2026/

#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark #sunrise
October 2015

www.maptap.gg October 14
100🎯 100🎯 99🔥 82🌟 99🔥
Final score: 941
1. x: 4,254 pts, 241 km, 54 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,920 pts, 1,428 km, 19 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 3,517 pts, 525 km, 35 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 947 pts, 2,482 km, 29 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,492 pts, 160 km, 51 sec, 0 steps
Total: 15,130 pts, 4,836 km, 3 min, 9 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1232 — 40,001/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,392 · 📅 7y · 🌍 1248ft
2️⃣ 🏆5,943 · 📅 19y · 🌍 1.5mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,909 · 📅 1y · …

Apple announces a special event, "Welcome home", for October 13 at 9AM ET in New York City (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/08/apple-announces-special-event-for-october-13-welcome-home/

Apple announces special event for October 13: ‘Welcome home’ - 9to5Mac
Today Apple announced a special event happening next Tuesday, October 13 with the tagline ‘Welcome home.” Here‘s what to expect.

Nearly full now:
Degrowth UK Gathering.
Sheffield, Saturday, 17 October, to consider how to build the #degrowth movement here.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/08/03/degr

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

CNN says it will expand its All Access streaming service on October 20 to Canada for CA$7.99/month and the UK for £4.99/month, with 2027 plans for other markets (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/cnn-all-access-…

CNN Expands All Access Streaming to UK and Canada
CNN will launch its All Access streaming service in the UK and Canada on Oct. 20, expanding its subscription business under new owner Skydance.

Cowboys Headlines: More players out with illness; roster moves; can Pettine fix defense? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/13/news-headlines…

October sports watch guide: World Series, WNBA Finals, NBA and 'A Bears Love Story' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7642236/2026/10/01/what-to-watch-sports-october-nfl-nba/

Wordle 1,942 3/6 for 13 October, 2026 #LeftWordle
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 3
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 5th perfect. 3rd & 4th wrong. (3 answers remain after guess.)
2. 3rd perfect. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

Sources: Australian data center provider Firmus is seeking to raise up to $5B in an IPO at the end of October, in one of the largest-ever IPOs in Australia (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Santa Barbara County
An Extreme Heat Warning will be in effect from Friday morning, October 2nd through Thursday, October 8th with dangerously hot conditions expected and temperatures up to 85 at the coast and 100 in the mountains and Cuyama Valley.
A Heat Advisory is in effect from October 3 at 10:00am until 8:00 p.m. October 4th with temperatures up to 103 expected.

Health Alert During Extreme Heat Warning

www.maptap.gg October 13
100🎯 80✨ 96🔥 100🎯 100🎯
Final score: 972
1.x: 2,714 pts, 912 km, 2 min, 54 sec, 1 step
2. x: 4,689 pts, 96 km, 33 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 3,368 pts, 590 km, 2 min, 21 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 1,853 pts, 1,481 km, 1 min, 20 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 75 pts, 6,256 km, 45 sec, 0 steps
Total: 12,699 pts, 9,334 km, 7 min, 53 sec, 1 step
TimeGuessr #1231 — 37,910/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆4,961 · 📅 26y · 🌍 3863ft
2️⃣ 🏆6,582 · 📅 9y · 🌍 259.9mi
…

#ThrowBackThursday #RockyMountainNationalPark
An elk 3-way. October is the height of the elk rut season and these three bachelors are testing each other’s strength and fortitude. October 2014

Riyadh-based BNPL company Tabby raised a $233M Series F led by Blue Pool Capital at a $6.5B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2025 after a share sale (Federico Maccioni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

A judge orders Paramount and California AG Rob Bonta to schedule two days of settlement talks at the end of October for the Paramount-WBD antitrust case (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Paramount Settlement Talks With California Moving Forward
The two sides will sit down to discuss a deal resolving the case at the end of October.

The Growing Connection Between Football Fans and Sports Betting https://insidethestar.com/the-growing-connection-between-football-fans-and-sports-betting

CNN plans to launch a digital subscription in the UK and Canada, for £4.99 and CA$7.99 per month, on October 20, as it seeks $1B in subscription revenue by 2030 (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e190204-ebe8-48d7-936e-72835fc49742

Sources: Anthropic investors expect it to float at a $2T valuation after an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae791072fcfa

Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter’s ownership group for $12 billion
Less than a year after Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the Lakers for a record-breaking sum,
L.A.’s iconic NBA franchise is now being sold to Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger for at least $12 billion,
-- $2 billion more than the reported number when Walter bought the team in October from the Buss family.
Joshua Kushner is the founder of venture capital firm Thrive Capital and younge…

Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter for $12.5 billion
Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger were eyeing an NBA expansion team bid in Las Vegas but pivoted to buying the Lakers from Mark Walter, who bought a controlling interest in the team last year.

Buccaneers at Dallas Headlines Thursday Night Football https://insidethestar.com/buccaneers-at-dallas-headlines-thursday-night-football

Apple unveils the $149 HomePod mini 2, with an S10 chip, "Sound Glow" interactive lighting, and Siri AI via a future update, in five colors, shipping October 30 (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-announces-the-next-gener…

Apple announces the next generation of HomePod mini with support for Siri AI, beautiful new colors, and rich sound
Apple today announced HomePod mini 2, featuring Siri AI, gorgeous new colors, and enhanced audio experiences.

Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-selects-nasdaq-for-ipo-amid-ai-risk-concerns-2026-9

Anthropic selects Nasdaq for IPO amid AI risk concerns
Anthropic is eyeing a $2 trillion IPO in October amid AI safety concerns.

An investigation published by The Globe and Mail on October 3 reports that
Republican political organizers from Michigan travelled to Alberta and met with figures involved in the province’s independence movement,
bringing with them campaign technology originally developed to mobilize conservative voters in the United States.

Leaked messages from Benjamin Netanyahu's aide show close coordination between his campaign and a top Israeli media figure ahead of the October 27 elections (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/11/2026/hack-reveals-netanyahu-campai…

Hack reveals Netanyahu campaign’s media ties
The latest breach comes from the Whatsapp account of Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich.

Reporters say Indian police detained ~36 journalists from the Indian Express and other outlets for hours while covering youth protests on October 10 and 11 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/reporters-ac…

Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2283270/google-br

Google Expands Automatic Activity Tracking And Brings Health Guardian To The Fitbit Air
The company announced new health features for its wearables along with a new band for the Fitbit Air.

Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Apple is planning a second launch this month, scheduled on or around October 27, to introduce its first touch-screen MacBook, a new iPad mini, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/su

Microsoft finally confirms Surface Laptop Ultra pricing and release date, along with world's first breakaway USB-C port
Surface Laptop Ultra is available to order today, with shipments expected to begin on October 16.

GSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20