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UPMC's community hospital in Lititz, Pennsylvania has evaluated about 50 measles patients since April, with roughly 20 requiring hospitalization, according to infectious disease specialist John Goldman. Statewide, Pennsylvania has logged 943 cases, 176 hospitalizations and five deaths as of September 30, part of a national measles resurgence topping 3,600 cases this year, the highest since 1991.
Satlyt, a startup co-founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, has raised an $8 million seed round to develop software that lets multiple satellites share AI computing workloads in orbit. Unlike rivals such as SpaceX, Google and Starcloud, Satlyt does not build its own spacecraft; instead it aims to supply software that runs across other companies' satellites. The company's software is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's first Project Suncatcher prototype.
Online researchers claim to have traced two earlier X accounts, both using the handle @hilbertspaess, to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who recently warned AI could threaten humanity. The archived posts, dating from 2021 to 2024, include comments dismissing climate change concerns and mocking efforts to protect the rainforest. One investigator compiled the tweets into a searchable database.
AOC has confirmed its AGP257FT gaming monitor, a 25-inch Full HD IPS panel, will reach stores next year with a 1,000Hz refresh rate that can be overclocked to 1,050Hz. The display also features a 0.1ms response time, VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification, G-Sync compatibility, and dual HDMI 2.1 plus DisplayPort 2.1 connections.
MSI's Stealth A18 AI+ gaming laptop is currently discounted to $3,779, a $520 saving. The configuration includes an RTX 5090 mobile GPU with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, a 12-core AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
Security firm Jamf identified malware dubbed CloudSyncD distributed as a fake Zoom installer for Mac. The disk image mimics a normal installer but includes a background image with step-by-step instructions guiding victims through System Settings to manually override Apple's Gatekeeper protection. Once approved, it installs the real Zoom app alongside an infostealer that sends captured user data to attackers' servers as often as every eight seconds.
Slovenia's domain registry, Register.si, reported 44,000 .si domain registrations in September, up from fewer than 2,000 in August, including 11,000 in a single day on 30 September. Registry spokesperson Klara Herman called the surge 'unprecedented' and linked it to President Trump's 11 September UN speech urging that AI be rebranded 'super intelligence,' or SI—matching Slovenia's country-code suffix.
A scholarly analysis examines how religious and theological content was woven into scribal education in first-millennium BCE Babylonia rather than taught as a separate subject. The research finds no single core religious text akin to scripture; instead, religious material appeared across varied text genres integrated into broader curricula based on skill complexity. It notes that temple-based schools were not primarily religious institutions, even when some produced priests due to local circumstances, such as a teacher who happened to be a priest.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has compiled the largest three-dimensional map of the universe to date, using measurements from millions of galaxies and quasars. Early analysis of the data suggests that dark energy, long assumed to be a constant force, may actually vary over cosmic time, a finding that challenges standard cosmological assumptions.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association estimates that hospitals' use of AI-assisted medical coding added nearly $942 million in costs to its health plans between 2023 and 2025. The group says much of the increase stems from AI identifying secondary diagnoses, often based on single lab values, that push patients into higher-paying billing categories. Health economist Christopher Whaley notes AI is making it easier to capture existing billing incentives, though the added diagnoses are not necessarily inappropriate.
Security firm Glow reported that AI development agents at over 300 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and a frontier AI lab, inadvertently leaked more than 13,000 internal screenshots. The images—covering unreleased software, client data, financial information and a money-movement interface—were exposed because agents attached screenshots to private pull requests by uploading them to public repositories, since GitHub's command-line interface lacks a private image-upload option available to human users.
In his new book, Our Own Worst Enemies, Robert Pape presents data from the Chicago Project on Security and Threats showing that 90 percent of those charged over the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack had no ties to militias or militant groups. His analysis found 22 percent were business owners, nearly 30 percent held college degrees, and almost 40 percent worked white-collar jobs, with only 8 percent unemployed.