In a largely suspense-free election, the District gets a democratic socialist mayor and says au revoir to foie gras.

The artist in the video is elfin, mischievous. Even at nearly 80, she is taller than many of the assistants who join her, chopping lettuce at a long counter. Her index finger is bandaged, perhaps from an earlier chopping incident.

Jumping spiders in the genus Portia are sometimes called "eight-legged cats" for their large, almost feline eyes. Just like a cat, Portia spiders rely on their eyes to find, track, stalk, chase, and jump on their prey. While other spiders trap food in their webs, Portia spiders hunt insects and even other spiders and their eggs. (The spiders' unusual intelligence inspired Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel Children of Time, in which Portia spiders evolve and develop civilization on another planet.) So perhaps it is unsurprising that when fringed jumping spiders, or Portia fimbriata, take time to rest, they resemble cats, too. The spiders, whose bodies are around the size of Cheerios, first search for a safe spot. Then they spin a silken hammock, and groom themselves, cleaning every leg. Then they settle, become motionless, and droop. Their legs curl and occasionally twitch. And they even have little eye movements. Now a group of scientists has proven that these spiders do not just rest, but actually fall asleep. The spiders even experience a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement, or REM, which is the stage of sleep in which we have our most vivid dreams. Their research was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years – and humans were among their prey.

Back-to-back October storms pushed rivers across southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico to record or near-record flows, forcing evacuations and prompting Governor Jared Polis to seek federal disaster aid. On October 13 the U.S. Drought Monitor showed every acre of Archuleta County in drought. Two weeks later it showed none of it. In between, the San Juan Mountains took two storms that between them put the Piedra River, the Mancos River and a half-dozen Arizona rivers at or near the highest flows anyone has measured, sent more water into Lake Powell in a single October than in any October but one since Glen Canyon Dam closed, and left two states asking the president for disaster declarations and a third declaring its own emergency. The last of the rain fell Monday morning. By Tuesday morning, Election Day, the sky over the whole region was clear, the rivers were falling, and the accounting had begun.

The Crown Prosecution Service has charged George Madgwick with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape.

An ambulance driver in Ohio abandoned a patient they were taking to hospital after getting lost and decided to call an Uber and go home. The bizarre incident played out in Cleveland last week when the patient was being transported to the Cleveland Clinic with chest pain. According to the local broadcaster WKRC: “The ambulance driver got lost, told her he was done driving for the day, and called an Uber.” The driver worked for a private ambulance company Lynx EMS, and not for Cleveland Emergency Medical Services.

Posted for sale in a dark and lawless corner of the digital world are detailed psychiatric evaluations, sexually transmitted infection diagnoses and addiction treatment regimens. These, according to the self-proclaimed hacker selling them, are the stolen medical records of tens of thousands of people who have been incarcerated in Massachusetts’ capital city.

WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.

Nobody likes Windows. This cannot continue. We must come together and annihilate it. I hate to say it, but the way forward is Linux

Video shows ICE agents detaining a man in North Hollywood, and then pointing a handgun directly in the face of an apparently unarmed bystander during a tense encounter.

Mahmoud’s book No Land to Stand On is a devastating and essential story of his time in ICE detention, his childhood in Syria, and his experience as a negotiator at Columbia. In typical Mahmoud fashion, he insists that there are people far braver than him, who have made more sacrifices than him. He wants you to know the stories of the men he was detained with. They too were separated from their families and held without any charge. In his writing, Mahmoud turns every moment into an opportunity to advocate for others. With honesty and lyricism, he takes on the daunting task of drawing out the connections between struggles—the movement for Palestinian liberation, the fight for the immigrant’s rights, and the battle to protect free speech—turning the seemingly separate issues into one: the struggle for a society in which people hold the power. He takes inspiration from black and Palestinian writers, listing Edward Said, Angela Davis, Mahmoud Darwish, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mourid Barghouti, and Susan Abulhawa as some of his influences. While writing this book, he told me, he was reading Mohammed el-Kurd’s Perfect Victims and began each day reading James Baldwin. On Oct. 15, I spoke to Mahmoud over Zoom about our time at Columbia, the role of higher education in laying the groundwork for attacks on free speech, and the importance of community movement building, among many other things. Four days later, his legal team submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court. Until the court makes a decision, he cannot be deported or detained and can remain in the United States with his wife and son.

Mexico City unveiled a giant, 33-meter Catrina figure in the Zócalo this week, part of its Day of the Dead "mega-ofrenda."

As Russia’s war in Ukraine reshapes this Arctic frontier, Sámi communities struggle to sustain cross-border traditions.

Given that we’re all being filmed and filming ourselves all the time, how can it be exploitative to put someone on camera? The two movies this fall directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime and You Can See Everything (which he co-directed with Nathan Fielder), explore voluntary surveillance and the ethics of non-fiction. Together, they share an interest in the violence and vulnerability of seeing and being seen in a sickly recursive popular culture.

Charco Broiler has the least expensive T-bones and strips I’ve seen in town. With value this good, how much does technical quality even matter?

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

CSIRO scientists have identified an underwater mountain off Tasmania where a threatened deep-sea eel species gathers annually.

The Kroger-Giant Eagle deal could come with lots of data.

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.