When dementia patients act out: Can non-drug approaches ease their lives?

Train a Balance Bot With Reinforcement Learning - Make:

Teach a robot to balance, using reinforcement learning in simulation just like the big labs.

OpenSSL 4.1 brings DTLS 1.3 support, IKEV2 KDF, GREASE, and post-quantum optimizations

OpenSSL 4.1 introduces support for DTLS 1.3, RFC 8701 GREASE, and IKEV2 KDF, as well as post-quantum cryptography optimizations, performance boosts for x86_64 systems, and dropping legacy Windows...

AI framework cuts computing use by two-thirds while more than tripling success in virtual tasks

A research team led by professor Minhae Kwon of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering has developed two core next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that enable AI...

Keystone Breach Widens as Attacker Grabs Its Device Authentication Key

The hardware wallet maker will destroy 18,835 old devices and says it can't fully rule out fakes among units received after Oct. 20th.

SD Times Unveils Fall 2026 Supercast Series: Economics, Testing, and Security in the Age of AI

There are three questions we keep hearing from engineering leaders this year, whether directly, in conversations at conferences, or in the subtext of the pitches landing in our inbox. What is this...

A Merger Solves a Puzzling Paradox in Orion

Some of the Hubble Space Telescope's earliest observations were of the Orion Nebula. Those images showed proplyds, and subsequent observations uncovered a paradox centered on them. Given their rate...

Ear to the Ground 411: Run Silent, Run Deep - Organic Consumers

October 26, 2026 | Source: Land Stewardship Project The MPCA’s Justin Watkins sees nitrates leaking out of farm fields as an “invisible” problem that’s all too easily ignored. The solution is to...

50 years later, Amory Lovins' soft energy path meets electrification

Hurricane Belle was barreling toward New England in August 1976 when an editor from Foreign Affairs called. Physicist Amory Lovins took the call on a payphone in a shack in the Maine woods, where he...

Glowing 'cauldron' of new stars | Space photo of the day for Oct. 26, 2026

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a spectacular star-forming region glowing 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Here's the difference between a $5 and Apple's $129 USB-C cable

The difference can be startling. Is the price worth it though?

Scientists Built a Virtual ‘Torture Chamber’ for AI. What It Revealed Is Deeply Unsettling.

Researchers searched for a signal of pain inside large language models—and they may have actually found one.

Dubai launches agentic AI marketplace

Chamber AI Hub provides access to specialised artificial intelligence agents across seven areas to help the private sector transform its operating models

Scientists Thought This Venomous Primate Might Be Extinct. It Was Turning Up in People's Gardens

Missing from science for nearly 90 years, this unusual primate was hiding in plain sight.

Helldivers 3 isn’t in development because its biggest competitor would be Helldivers 2, Arrowhead...

“Making Helldivers 2 better every day makes way more sense than throwing away its momentum”…

LTC Price Prediction: First Target Reached as Bears Keep Litecoin Pinned Below Every Key Moving...

Litecoin traded at $56.26 on Binance spot on October 26, sitting below its SMA 7, SMA 20, SMA 50, EMA 12, and EMA 26 simultaneously, while a taker...

Think Architecture's fragmented House on a Slope overlooks Lake Zurich

A cluster of interconnected volumes in dark limestone and cedar gradually descend down a narrow and steeply sloping site overlooking Lake Zurich at House on a Slope by Swiss studio Think Architecture.