Step aboard a Canadian Navy patrol ship and a Coast Guard science vessel for free this Saturday at North Van Shipyards. Just leave the sandals at home: open-toe shoes aren't allowed on the tours.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Felony assault in New York City has jumped 44% since Tish James took office, subway assaults 59%. A grieving Bronx mother says the AG cares more about the spotlight than the crime wave, and she's backing challenger Saritha Komatireddy instead.

— via NY Post, Post Editorial Board

Meta's answer to "pervert glasses" criticism: a $349 audio-only pair with no camera at all. They weigh 43 grams, run 12 hours on a charge, and come in 23 color and lens combinations, alongside a fresh camera-equipped Gen 3 lineup.

— via TechCrunch, Sarah Perez

Meta's new VR Glasses weigh five times less than the Quest 3 and claim a first: IMAX Enhanced certification. A magnesium alloy build, 5K micro-OLED lenses and a pocketable battery puck arrive next spring for $1,299.99, with Disney+ 3D movies following in November.

— via TechCrunch, Lucas Ropek

VTA says a new 230,000-square-foot health center by Bascom Station was already open Wednesday. Mercury News reports it isn't slated to open until September 28, and it's unclear which date is right, so check with Santa Clara Valley Healthcare before heading over.

— via Hoodline, Tony Ng

David Suzuki says he was "wilfully blind" about Mark Carney, admitting he never even read the prime minister's policy reversals on carbon pricing, EVs and oil emissions caps. At 90, the environmentalist says a friend's warning about "a banker's agenda" proved right.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Zoox pulled its Atlanta test cars off the road after safety drivers reported vomiting and other symptoms from mystery gas exposure, with one contractor saying he was sent right back out in another vehicle. OSHA says up to 40 workers may have been affected; the company disputes that number and has since closed its inquiry.

— via TechCrunch, Sean O'Kane

YouTube is turning Shorts into TV, complete with seasons, episodes and custom thumbnails, rolling out to Partner Program creators now. The move plants YouTube squarely in the microdrama boom already luring TikTok, ReelShort and Hollywood names like James Franco.

— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal

New 2026 heart guidelines push doctors to treat high cholesterol earlier and harder, adding tests like lipoprotein A, ApoB and coronary calcium scans that older standards skipped. A new online calculator, PREVENT-ASCVD, factors in BMI, blood pressure and kidney function to estimate individual risk over 10 and 30 years.

— via The Conversation — Science, William Cornwell, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz

A looted 18th-century Ethiopian gospel, seized from Emperor Tewodros's fortress in 1868, went on sale in Abu Dhabi with a €250,000 price tag far above what such manuscripts usually fetch. Ethiopian heritage officials are now demanding its unconditional withdrawal and return.

— via The Conversation — History, Jacopo Gnisci, Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, UCL

Cloudflare rewrote how its 1.1.1.1 resolver stores DNS cache entries and shaved per-entry memory from 953 to 420 bytes, freeing roughly 100 TB fleetwide. Five changes to Rust's data structures also cut lookup latency by 19% and boosted insertion throughput 43%.

— via InfoQ, Leela Kumili

Officers handed modeling clay to sculpt a lesson balked at the exercise, exposing a discomfort with ambiguity that a growing chorus of Army leaders says is throttling real innovation. The problem isn't a shortage of ideas but a bottleneck in testing, sharing and scaling them fast enough to matter.

— via Small Wars Journal, Howard C. Romans III

Vietnam's top leader makes his first-ever visit to Ottawa Thursday, and the numbers show why Canada needs him more than he needs Canada: over $20 billion in trade, with Canadian exports lagging far behind Vietnamese imports. Both countries are now angling to upgrade a 2017 pact into a full strategic partnership.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Employers largely welcome Bill C-39, but one railway and airline group says Ottawa didn't go far enough: it wants the labour minister able to block strikes before they start, not just end them after. Unions call the bill an attack on workers' rights.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

B.C.'s wildfire season burned a quarter of its usual area but destroyed more than 500 homes and structures, the worst on record for property loss. In Faulder, where 110 homes vanished in one night, residents like Joel Patan are left sifting foundations and fighting insurers.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Carney tells the New York Times he studied the odds of U.S.-led military action against Canada, but won't say what that review found. Plus: 70% of Canadians back EU associate membership, Quebec's leaders clash over a sovereignty referendum, and B.C. wildfire survivors describe rebuilding from ash.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Sixty percent of Canadians now call AI a menace, up from 46% in 2023, and 51% want development slowed down. Yet 59% used it last month anyway, mostly for writing, translating and images, while fears about deepfakes, job losses and bank fraud keep climbing.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Decades after quitting ballet, a writer returns to the barre in her kitchen, tennis shoes on, no mirror in sight. The steps come back instantly; her knees, loudly, remind her how long she's been away.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, Azra Raza

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei took their AI safety pitch straight to the UN security council, framing the technology as either a new renaissance or a new industrial upheaval. Their appearance follows warnings from Anthropic's own researchers this month that AI could destroy humanity within a decade.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, S. Abbas Raza

NYU Langone's Manhattan campus just became the first health system ever to rank No. 1 among comprehensive academic medical centers for five straight years, beating out more than 120 institutions. Its outpatient network and Brooklyn and Long Island hospitals also picked up top marks in Vizient's latest quality study.

— via NY Post, McKenzie Beard

John Rustad, who led B.C.'s Conservatives to near-victory in 2024, is out as a candidate entirely. Meanwhile the party is already plotting a constitutional workaround to keep interim leader Lorne Doerkson in place if he wins on Oct. 24, despite rules barring it.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

For the first time, Chicagoans will elect all 21 seats on the school board that runs CPS, its 305,000 students and 600-plus schools. Forty-six candidates are running, one already dropped out mid-race, and early voting starts Oct. 1.

— via Block Club Chicago, Block Club Chicago Staff, Chalkbeat Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, and WBEZ

Loved a modern locked-room thriller? Someone's built a matchmaking guide pairing five buzzy contemporary mysteries with the specific Agatha Christie novels that scratch the same itch.

— via Book Riot, Community

An emergency manager summarizing hurricane filings and a kid generating cartoon fistfights get the same spot in line for AI compute. The fix, borrowed from wartime supply law: a "strategic token reserve" that lets critical uses jump the queue when demand spikes.

— via Small Wars Journal, Terence Check