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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 63 and a low of 39, with cloudy skies.
- A 16-year-old opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, killing 3 children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher. A community member followed the shooter inside and killed him, while a 7-year-old and a 54-year-old were hospitalized.
- Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after 5 days, following a rocky debut, questions about her legal credentials and skeptical interviews on Fox.
- Ukraine’s Starlink and government-controlled Starshield systems were slowed during a heavy Russian bombardment, limiting communications and military operations. Trump denied involvement, while Musk and Washington officials pointed fingers.
- Trump signed an order waiving sanctions on Russian fossil-fuel sales just days before they were due to take effect under a law he signed. Congress had designed the measure to increase pressure on Moscow.
- The cost of five-year insurance against CoreWeave defaulting jumped to nearly 1,100 basis points, or 11 percentage points, for every $100,000 of debt covered. Insuring $10 million of its bonds would have cost about $1.1 million a year.
- Tesla unveiled a rocket-assisted Roadster that briefly hovered, flipped and drove upside down, with production expected in 2028. The FAA says it doesn’t meet the definition of an aircraft, so airworthiness certification isn’t its problem.
- The Milwaukee Brewers swept the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, reversing last year’s 4-0 defeat and reaching their first World Series since 1982.
- The Justice Department sued California after sending officials a list of 20,000 people it suspected might be noncitizens who received mail ballots, and giving them 48 hours to investigate.
- Trump canceled plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted in the Fort Hood attack, though the execution itself remains planned.
- The Trump administration’s new global-health deals make aid more transactional. Uganda is set to receive $1.7 billion while giving the United States access to 9 health-data systems, and Rwanda could share data for 25 years while receiving aid for 5.
- Apple and Meta are working together to run Meta’s new 816-billion-parameter open-weight Muse Spark Open model on high-end Macs. It’s an oddly practical truce between longtime rivals: Meta gets distribution, Apple gets a powerful local-AI demonstration, and users can keep prompts off Meta’s servers.
- Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh declined to signal another rate hike at the October 27 and 28 meeting, and markets took the silence as good news.
- A New York Times and San Antonio Express-News investigation found about 4,800 Texas children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution in the 2024-25 school year, a third more than a decade earlier.
- Saudi Arabia says Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport killed 17 people and injured 333 this month, exposing the limits of expensive air defenses against cheap drones and missiles.
- Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was hospitalized after Israeli settlers attacked her and Palestinians during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. Witnesses and video described repeated assaults on journalists, while the Israeli military said it would investigate.
- Geothermal power is attracting Democrats, Republicans and technology companies because it offers renewable, around-the-clock electricity for data centers. Federal lease bids have risen sharply, including a record $1,207 an acre in Utah.
- AI companies are selling credits, tokens and vague multiples of usage instead of something customers can easily understand. Grok promises several times more of an unnamed quantity, Muse charges $20 for 500 million tokens a week, and even Lovable admits its credits are mysterious.
- Early research suggests GLP-1 medicines used for weight loss and diabetes may slow some processes associated with aging. Researchers don’t yet know whether the effect comes from the drugs or weight loss, or whether it applies to healthy people at ordinary weight.
- Aliko Dangote is extending the sale of refinery shares beyond Nigeria to Egypt, Botswana and Kenya, aiming to raise $1.6 billion. The offering has reportedly attracted subscriptions several times larger than its target.
- The WNBA says its 30th-anniversary regular season drew more than 90 million unique viewers, 3.8 million fans in arenas and 212 sellouts. Average attendance rose 21% from last year.
- An Israeli company called Discover-Tech reportedly used advertising infrastructure to deliver zero-click spyware, meaning a malicious ad could infect a device without a click. Its campaigns reached more than 120,000 digital properties and 442 million ad impressions, with targets including journalists and employees at NATO and Nvidia.
- AI agents are beginning to browse and buy on behalf of consumers. One cybersecurity company recorded a 100-fold increase in agentic traffic over 45 days, while sellers still carry the chargeback risk when agents use their checkout pages.
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