San Jose swaps the heat for 70-degree sunshine this weekend, with a breezy Sunday and patchy Tuesday fog on tap. The coast is a different matter: the National Weather Service warns of 16-foot waves, sneaker waves and strong rip currents through Monday.

— via Hoodline, Tony Ng

A bar argument in Decatur ended with a driver plowing into three people in the parking lot early Saturday, police say. She didn't flee, and now faces aggravated assault charges, but what started the fight inside remains a mystery.

— via Hoodline, Bella Cruz

Murray Hill built a career on being showbiz's happiest guy, but his new memoir reveals a 2014 psych ward stay followed years of drinking that left him, in his words, with "no pilot light." The "Somebody Somberewhere" star says he hasn't had a drink since.

— via NY Post, Nicki Gostin

Bill Maher mocked Zohran Mamdani's Oct. 7 statement for pivoting to accusations against Israel, even reviving the mayor's old rap name to needle him. A Democratic strategist says the backlash might actually be the point.

— via NY Post, Fox News

Half of singles over 40 say they lose interest the moment they walk into a date's messy home, often within minutes. Dirty bathrooms, exes' photos and security cameras pointed at the bed top the list of instant dealbreakers.

— via NY Post, Andrea Palladino

A new ranking of 35 aurora sites just named Maligne Lake in Jasper the world's best spot to catch 2026's rare pink Northern Lights. Its odds are only "medium," though: a Yellowknife lake nearby has better chances of lighting up rose.

— via Daily Hive Vancouver, Natalia Buia

Apple quietly struck a deal to hire staff from Huxe and license its tech, days after the personalized-audio startup announced it was shutting down entirely. No word yet on which employees are joining or what Apple plans to build with the tech.

— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha

A festivalgoer paid $562 to get his car back from a dirt lot with no signage: and the paperwork naming the authorizing company turned out to be fake, the company says. Several other Aftershock drivers describe the identical ordeal with J&B Towing.

— via Hoodline, Elisa Nguyen

Satya Nadella says AI should never be trusted as a black box: every model action needs tamper-proof, human-readable records and a built-in kill switch. The Microsoft CEO's weekend post follows a wave of AI companies admitting they've lost control of their own models.

— via TechCrunch, Anthony Ha

Shane Gillis cursed live on "SNL" mid-sketch, broke character to shout "Oh no," then apologized during the goodnights. The network scrubbed the F-bomb from online reruns, but live viewers caught it all, including his earlier monologue jokes that drew audible groans.

— via NY Post, Nicholas McEntyre

San Jose stays sunny and dry through Monday, with highs near 66-68, before a warmup hits later in the week. But the coast tells a different story: forecasters warn of 13 to 16-foot waves, sneaker waves and rip currents along the shoreline.

— via Hoodline, Tony Ng

Sex Pistols frontman Frank Carter stopped a Denver show mid-set to berate and eject a man who wandered into the band's women-only mosh pit, telling him to "just f–king leave." Carter doubled down on Instagram the next day, and even got an apology from the man's father.

— via NY Post, asilversteinnyp

New Jersey's new e-bike law now requires licenses, registration and insurance for even the slowest models, after three deadly crashes pushed lawmakers to act. Sales have plunged up to 90% at some shops and at least a dozen have closed, while immigrant riders and people without driver's licenses say they're being pushed off their bikes entirely.

— via WHYY, David Matthau

Gremlin's new Foresight AI hunts for weaknesses in live services, proposes fixes, then reruns the original test to prove they worked, drawing on a decade of fault-injection data rather than an LLM trained on customer systems. It won't run a test or apply a change without human approval.

— via InfoQ, Matt Saunders

Singapore hasn't had a real mosquito problem since the 1960s, when breeding households dropped from 48 percent to under one percent. The fix was toxic fog that wiped out butterflies and bats along with the bugs, and the city is still paying for it.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, Eric Feigenbaum

Letting language models edit their own context, rather than relying on fixed summarization or retrieval rules, pushed accuracy up 11.4% while cutting compute 21.5% on one benchmark. Reinforcement learning drove even bigger gains, but researchers warn the models can still delete information they later need.

— via InfoQ, Sergio De Simone

Texting replaces apps: AI agents you reach like a regular contact now manage calendars, email, travel and family logistics. One, Instinct, just raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, with rivals like Caddy, Comma, Fambot and Folk racing for the same inbox.

— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal

Singapore hasn't had a real mosquito problem since the 1960s, when breeding households dropped from 48 percent to under one percent. The fix was toxic fog that wiped out butterflies and bats along with the bugs, and the city is still paying for it.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, Eric Feigenbaum