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One 30-Minute Finnish Sauna Session Mobilises White Blood Cells, Study Finds
A study of 51 adults published in Temperature on 28 October 2026 found a single Finnish sauna session temporarily raised circulating white blood cells, while most cytokines barely moved.
Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA/FTD VPN Flaw; CISA Sets a 1 Nov Deadline
Cisco confirmed active exploitation of a logic flaw in ASA and FTD SSL VPN tunnel groups that can reload affected devices; CISA added it to…
New Zealand Ends Unlimited Work Hours for New Research Master's Students
From 27 October 2026, Immigration New Zealand ends unlimited in-study work rights for new master's-by-research applicants, capping them at …
Lancet Countdown's 2026 Report Says Climate Harms to Health Are Outpacing the Response
The 2026 Lancet Countdown report, covering 54 indicators across more than 30 countries, calls for climate change to be formally recognised …
Google DeepMind Previews Genie 4, a World Model With Native Audio and Live Editing
Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model, previewed 27 October 2026, adds native audio and natural-language scene editing; TechCrunch reports …
Tasmania and Startup Proudly Human Launch an Audited "AI-Free" Degree Standard
The University of Tasmania and the startup Proudly Human have created an externally audited standard certifying that degrees were "personal…
Wasmtime Patches Two CVSS 9.9 Flaws That Could Let WebAssembly Code Escape Its Sandbox
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime's Cranelift compiler, patched by the Bytecode Alliance on 19 October 2026, could let a malicious WebAssembly…
Australia's Student Visa Grants to South Asia and Africa Collapse in September 2026, Home Affairs Data Show
Australian visa data for September 2026, reported by Times Higher Education, show grants to Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan down more than 90%…
ctDNA Clearance Before Surgery Tracks Outcomes in Phase 2 NeoCOAST-2 Lung Cancer Trial
Patients in the NeoCOAST-2 lung cancer trial whose blood tumour DNA cleared before surgery had far longer event-free survival than those wh…
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Framework Running Its 155-Trillion-Token-a-Day Cluster
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework that runs its production services, exposing kernels and scheduling code it pre…
US Employers Say AI Will Raise College-Degree Value, Gallup-Lumina Survey of 2,500 Finds
Gallup and the Lumina Foundation surveyed 2,500 US employers in August 2026: 48% expect AI to make college degrees more valuable, not less,…
Microsoft's AI Diagnostic System Beats Physicians 83% to 36% on Text-Only NEJM Case Benchmark
Microsoft's MAI-DxO scored 83.2% on text-only New England Journal of Medicine cases versus 36.1% for physicians, Science reported on 22 Oct…
Researcher Discloses 11 Unpatched Tailscale, headscale Flaws, Including an SSH Root-Access Path
On 25 October 2026, researcher Erica Windisch disclosed 11 unpatched Tailscale and headscale flaws, the most serious letting one approved d…
Spain Pledges €45m for Almost 2,000 Student Places as It Posts EU's Lowest Dorm Use
Spain's government will fund seven university residence projects with €45m, adding almost 2,000 places, as EUROSTUDENT 8 data analysed by F…
mRNA Melanoma Vaccine Plus Pembrolizumab Cuts Recurrence Risk 42% After Surgery
Merck and Moderna's Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial found that adding the personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran autogene to pembrolizumab cut tw…
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro Ships Open-Weight, With In-House Hacking Score Cut From 90.5% to 81.0%
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro launched open-weight on 23 October 2026 with a deliberate cut to cyber capability — verified only by an in-hous…
European Parliament Backs €47.39bn Erasmus+ Budget for 2028-2034, Above Commission's €40.8bn
On 22 October 2026 the European Parliament voted 454-34 to seek €47.39bn for Erasmus+ 2028-2034, above the Commission's €40.8bn proposal, w…
Westlake University's Pinal AI Designs Four Working Proteins From Text Prompts
Researchers at Westlake University report in Nature (21 October 2026) that their Pinal AI model designed four distinct proteins from natura…
AAIF Adds Four Open-Source Agent Projects, Reaching Ten Hosted Projects in a Year
The Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation added four donated projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba on 22 October 202…
OECD and European Commission Launch STEM Skills Report for Higher Education
The OECD and European Commission launched a report on advanced STEM skills in higher education in Dublin on 23 October 2026, as other 2026 …