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Yesterday — 8 October 2026Main stream

Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure

8 October 2026 at 23:18
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.

© Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency, via Associated Press

The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson in 2015. She left the faculty of Princeton University in the mid-1980s after she was denied tenure.

ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City

The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooting.

© David Dee Delgado/Reuters

Federal immigration agents shot a person in the Marble Hill neighborhood, according to two people familiar with the matter.

‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release

8 October 2026 at 21:53
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

Experts say the cataclysmic upheaval to the field will affect students the most, especially graduate students on the cusp of becoming a part of this intellectual community.

What Are the Remaining Millennium Prize Problems?

8 October 2026 at 21:53
OpenAI’s trove of new math results doesn’t fully solve any of these highly prestigious open questions, but it seems to make progress on some.

© Göttingen Library, Clay Mathematics Institute

A page from an 1859 manuscript in which Berhard Reimann formulated his famous hypothesis, one of the remaining Millennium Prize problems.

Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects

8 October 2026 at 21:53
A robot with the claude logo on its face.

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner's reports don't come with human review:

The outputs of this opt-in vulnerability scanner will be fully model-generated, without human review or triage. This will enable faster and more frequent scanning, but means that it is possible reports will be incorrect or invalid. Th …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Judge Extends Pause on Trump’s Ban Against CNN, MS NOW and Politico

8 October 2026 at 20:54
The judge overseeing the case said that the pause would extend until next week, and promised to decide whether to further extend it by Tuesday.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

President Trump departing the White House from the South Lawn on Monday.
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