October 18, 2026
Archived RedScroll front page — 100 stories. Generated Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:24:29 GMT.
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- 01Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears
- 02The pianist who never played
- 03IceCube just won a Nobel prize. Protect astroparticle physics projects with the same potential
- 04Memory stays strong in old age when this brain enzyme is active
- 05APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P
WORLD
- Macron calls for calm in France and warns rioting must not escalate
BBC NewsWORLD
- What we know so far about deadly fire at Canadian military base
BBC NewsWORLD
- Oil facilities hit in deadly overnight attack on St Petersburg
BBC NewsWORLD
- Miami is No. 1 in AP Top 25 for 1st time since '02, No. 2 BYU's ranking best since '84 title season - AP News
Associated PressWORLD
- Trump says he will close historic DC golf course for 15 months of renovations - AP News
Associated PressWORLD
- Macron condemns "shocking" scenes of violence across France - Reuters
ReutersWORLD
- Ukraine and the U.S. are at odds over Starshield. Here's what to know
NPRWORLD
- France’s Macron vows to hold accountable those who ‘sought to bring down the Republic’ - AP News
Associated PressWORLD
- Albanian PM says protests pose threat to EU membership, not government - Reuters
ReutersWORLD
- US resumes intelligence-sharing with Ukraine after pause, Zelenskiy says - Reuters
ReutersWORLD
- Noah Adams, longtime host of NPR's All Things Considered, has died
NPRWORLD
- Pope Leo says he will gradually resume duties after cancer surgery
NPRWORLD
WAR
- US arms firm Anduril could make interceptors in Europe, executive says
Defense NewsWAR
- US Special Operations adopts new half-mask and goggles
Defense NewsWAR
- What is Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink?
Defense NewsWAR
- Satellite Images Show Extent of Trump Admin’s Tree-Felling at DC Golf Course
BellingcatWAR
- Second Chinese Submarine Drone Mothership Emerges
The War ZoneWAR
- Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: October 17, 2026
The War ZoneWAR
- F-22 Pilot Controls FQ-44 Fighter Drone From The Cockpit For The First Time
The War ZoneWAR
- Crash-and-burn: Inside Israel’s self-defeating defense against ‘NAZA,’ BBC's war crimes allegations - The Jerusalem Post
BBC ConflictWAR
- Fr Willie Doyle: Irish campaign to make 'WW1 hero priest' a saint - BBC
BBC ConflictWAR
- BBC hires former prisoner who defended Hamas to guide AI news - OpIndia
BBC ConflictWAR
- Pulling Ethiopia and Eritrea Back from War
International Crisis GroupWAR
- A Fateful Choice: Will This Election Change Israel?
International Crisis GroupWAR
AI
- Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity
DeepMind BlogAI
- Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection
DeepMind BlogAI
- Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
DeepMind BlogAI
- Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
Google AI BlogAI
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
MIT Technology Review AIAI
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review AIAI
- The Nordics and NVIDIA Show What’s Possible When a Region Commits to Advanced Computing
NVIDIA AI BlogAI
- NVIDIA Announces New Investments in the UK Startup Ecosystem
NVIDIA AI BlogAI
- How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base
OpenAI NewsAI
- Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with Codex
OpenAI NewsAI
- HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost
Hugging Face BlogAI
- Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
The Verge AIAI
- Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
The Verge AIAI
- Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
Hugging Face BlogAI
- Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
MarkTechPostAI
- Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
MarkTechPostAI
TECHNOLOGY
- The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
MIT Technology ReviewTECHNOLOGY
- This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
MIT Technology ReviewTECHNOLOGY
- The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power
MIT Technology ReviewTECHNOLOGY
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
Ars TechnicaTECHNOLOGY
- Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
Ars TechnicaTECHNOLOGY
- Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
Ars TechnicaTECHNOLOGY
- Mister Organ is one of the most unsettling documentaries I’ve ever seen
The VergeTECHNOLOGY
- A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot
The VergeTECHNOLOGY
- Video game ownership bill introduced in Congress
The VergeTECHNOLOGY
- Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
TechCrunchTECHNOLOGY
- Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
TechCrunchTECHNOLOGY
- TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act
TechCrunchTECHNOLOGY
BUSINESS
- When AI agents take matters into their own hands
The Economist BusinessBUSINESS
- AI neolabs are raising huge sums. Most have little to show for it
The Economist BusinessBUSINESS
- SpaceX’s Starlink expansion is a bold gamble on the future
The Economist BusinessBUSINESS
- What is the Budget and what could be in it?
BBC BusinessBUSINESS
- Turning the tides: Could hidden sea power energise our coastal towns?
BBC BusinessBUSINESS
- 'I took a chance on the whisky industry and I haven't looked back'
BBC BusinessBUSINESS
- Traders Grow Wary of Copper Bull Market With No Sign of Tariffs
Bloomberg MarketsBUSINESS
- Bond Market’s Big Short Bet Gets Wakeup Call as AI Trade Wobbles
Bloomberg MarketsBUSINESS
- CPI Test Set to Make or Break New Zealand Dollar’s Losing Run
Bloomberg MarketsBUSINESS
- Software’s new consolidator gets big vote of confidence from Berkshire
CNBC FinanceBUSINESS
- 'Dead money’ for a decade: Why this hedge fund approach may deliver an advantage over bonds
CNBC FinanceBUSINESS
- Here's who Netflix just brought in to run content — and what it means for the streamer
CNBC BusinessBUSINESS
- U.S. presses China on Mastercard, Citigroup market access in bilateral Bangkok talks, official says
CNBC FinanceBUSINESS
- KFC to switch to Coca-Cola beverages in U.S. restaurants for the first time in decades
CNBC BusinessBUSINESS
SCIENCE
- APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P
NASASCIENCE
- NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director
NASASCIENCE
- Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
NASASCIENCE
- I Am Artemis: Allison Mjoen
NASASCIENCE
- Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears
NatureSCIENCE
- The pianist who never played
NatureSCIENCE
- IceCube just won a Nobel prize. Protect astroparticle physics projects with the same potential
NatureSCIENCE
- Memory stays strong in old age when this brain enzyme is active
NatureSCIENCE
- Scientists discover a natural compound that could protect the brain from too much salt
ScienceDailySCIENCE
- Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
ScienceDailySCIENCE
- Eating blueberries every day may have a surprising effect on your mood
ScienceDailySCIENCE
- Scientists link a strange sugar in red meat to a 63% higher diabetes risk
ScienceDailySCIENCE
CRYPTO
- The White House's crypto chief departs: State of Crypto
CoinDeskCRYPTO
- Wall Street freaked out Friday. VIX and bitcoin say the fear may fade Monday.
CoinDeskCRYPTO
- Latvia eyes crypto tax payments in 2027 as parliament overhauls crypto taxation
CoinDeskCRYPTO
- Stablecoin supply stalls, but payments jump 45% as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe connect crypto to cash
CoinDeskCRYPTO
- MapQuest Now Shows Drivers Where Flock Cameras Are Watching
DecryptCRYPTO
- Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red
DecryptCRYPTO
- Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
DecryptCRYPTO
- Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Pours Millions More Into Defeating Sherrod Brown
DecryptCRYPTO
- Here’s what happened in crypto today
CointelegraphCRYPTO
- Most Americans polled oppose betting on elections: Reuters
CointelegraphCRYPTO
- Cysic crypto bridge halted after unauthorized mint of 10M CYS
CointelegraphCRYPTO
- Chinese suspect in $75M international crime network arrested in Bangkok
CointelegraphCRYPTO
CULTURE
- See Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Grohl Perform at Silverlake Conservatory’s 25th Anniversary Show
Rolling StoneCULTURE
- How to Watch ‘Snapped: Killer Moms’ Online Without Cable
Rolling StoneCULTURE
- Cindy Crawford, Kaia Gerber Pay Tribute to Presley Gerber: ‘Til We Meet Again Our Sweet Boy’
Rolling StoneCULTURE
- Kenia Os Knew Latin Pop Would Go Global
Rolling StoneCULTURE
- New Steam Game is Basically Kiki’s Delivery Service in Video Game Form
PolygonCULTURE
- CBS's Definitive '80s Action Thriller Series Is Officially Free to Watch on Streaming
PolygonCULTURE
- 36 Years Later, Robert De Niro's Greatest Gangster Movie Quote Is Still One of a Kind
PolygonCULTURE
- Silent Hill Remake Studio Wants to Make Physical Games 'for as Long as Possible'
IGNCULTURE
- Street Fighter Tops the Box Office With $51 Million Opening Weekend Amid Lackluster Reviews
IGNCULTURE
- The Best Deals Today: The Adventures of Elliot, Pikmin 4, Mouse: P.I. For Hire, and More
IGNCULTURE