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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 29 (PTI) As the Election Commission of India gears up to implement SIR of voter lists in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said the Cabinet has decided to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the steps to oppose the initiative. Vijayan, at a press conference here, said the decision of the EC to “hastily” implement the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was a matter of concern. He said that the Kerala Legislative Assembly had unanimously passed a resolution pointing out the dangers of this move, which poses a challenge to the very democratic process of our country,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Times of London has apologized for running an article that falsely claimed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had criticized current Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. The British newspaper said it was duped by someone impersonating the ex-politician.In a statement, the newspaper said it retracted the story containing the bogus de Blasio quotes after learning that “our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor.”The article, published just a week ahead of the closely-watched mayoral election, quickly drew attention online Tuesday evening, as de Blasio had…

TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not currently in use. Paul argues that such a system could be prohibitively expensive.Hassan Hemida at the University of Birmingham says Paul’s water-cooling technology is a “good idea,” though it remains to be seen how much heat it could really remove from a real-life, busy Tube station full of people.Certain railways…

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Matthew Gray Gubler is a talented actor with a wide range, but there’s one character who’s going to follow him for the rest of his life. Gubler played young genius Dr. Spencer Reid in CBS’s “Criminal Minds,” sticking around for all 15 seasons of the original series. Spencer is a major part of all the best “Criminal Minds” episodes, and he’s been a fan favorite since the show’s premiere. When “Criminal Minds: Evolution” brought the show back in 2022, fans were ecstatic about the possibility of seeing…

One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel’s pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaica’s Kingston airport completely ravaged by the storm. But neither of these events happened, it’s just AI-generated misinformation circulating on social media as the storm churned across the Caribbean this week.These videos and others have racked up millions of views on social media platforms, including X, TikTok and Instagram.Some of the clips appear to be spliced together or based on footage of old disasters. Others appear to be created entirely…

Introduction AlphaTON Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: ATON), a micro-cap digital asset treasury company with a laser focus on The Open Network (TON) blockchain and the Telegram ecosystem, is carving out a niche at the intersection of crypto infrastructure and artificial intelligence. On October 29, 2025, AlphaTON announced a strategic investment in high-performance GPU infrastructure to power Cocoon, Telegram’s newly unveiled Confidential Compute Open Network—a decentralized AI inference platform set to launch in November. This move, involving substantial deployment of GPUs and data centers, not only bolsters AlphaTON’s TON token reserves but also positions it as an early infrastructure provider in a…

Extropic, a startup developing an exotic new kind of computer chip that handles probabilistic bits, has produced its first working hardware along with proof that more advanced systems can tackle useful tasks in artificial intelligence and scientific research.The startup’s chips work in a fundamentally different way than chips from Nvidia, AMD, and others, and they promise to be thousands of times more energy-efficient when scaled up. With AI companies pouring billions of dollars into building data centers, a completely new approach could offer a far less costly alternative to vast arrays of conventional chips.Extropic calls its processors thermodynamic sampling units,…

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday extended its earlier order against harassing Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and other top officials in the name of the investigation into the alleged death by suicide of an employee of the ride-hailing platform. Aggarwal and Subrat Kumar Dash, head of vehicle homologations and regulations at Ola Electric, were booked under section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on October 6, days after Bengaluru resident K Aravind, who had been employed at the company since 2022, allegedly died by suicide on September 28. Ola then approached the court to quash the criminal…

Introduction ProPetro Holding Corp. (NYSE: PUMP), a Midland, Texas-based oilfield services provider specializing in hydraulic fracturing and complementary operations in the Permian Basin, continues to execute its strategic pivot amid a challenging 2025 commodity environment. On October 29, 2025, the company reported third-quarter revenue of $294 million—exceeding consensus estimates of $273.68 million—while adjusted EBITDA came in at $35 million, down 29% sequentially due to persistent pricing pressure and lower fleet utilization. Despite these near-term headwinds, ProPetro highlighted meaningful progress in its PROPWR segment, including a long-term 60-megawatt power supply contract with a Midwest hyperscaler data center announced just two days…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, officials said Wednesday, as the Rio police’s deadliest operation ever drew criticism of excessive force.The new toll of 115 suspects and four policemen killed was an increase over what authorities originally said were 60 suspects dead in Tuesday’s raid by about 2,500 police and soldiers in the favelas of Penha and Complexo de Alemao. Felipe Curi, Rio state police secretary, told a news conference that bodies of additional suspects were found in a…