NCDC Reports 268 Lassa Fever Deaths
Nigeria recorded 268 Lassa fever deaths in 2026, with a case fatality rate of 23.6%, up from 18.6% in the same period in 2025, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…
Don’t fall for this – how to protect yourself from AI scams
AI scams are escalating, with $20 billion in losses reported in 2025, as fraudsters use deepfakes, voice cloning, and AI-generated emails to exploit victims, according to multiple…
Family Farmstead Dairy Recalls Raw Mild Cheddar Cheese Due to Potential E. coli Contamination
Family Farmstead Dairy has recalled a single lot of its raw mild cheddar cheese after testing identified two strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.
Total Chess Unveils Unified Rating System
The Total Chess World Championship Tour unveiled a unified rating system on 14 October, combining classical, rapid, and blitz ratings into a single Elo-based measure to assess…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB model on October 15, 2026
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB model on October 15, 2026, designed to run local agentic tasks on RTX/DGX Spark hardware, with a 256K context window and 84…
Halloween Candy Prices Rise 8.1% in 2026
Halloween candy prices climbed 8.1% in 2026, with chocolate packages surging 15.5% to an average of $5.67 per package, according to NBC News.
GCC Foreign Ministers Condemn Iran Attacks And Urge UN Resolution Compliance
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers condemned Iran’s continued missile and drone attacks on GCC nations and Jordan on Sunday, urging an immediate cessation and strict…
Apple’s Minions cuts Mac GPU wait times from over 10 hours to minutes
Apple’s Minions system uses idle Apple Silicon Mac GPUs to create a virtual cloud for AI inference, cutting job wait times from over 10 hours to minutes, according to internal…
Kerala Issues Yellow Alert As Heavy Rainfall Intensifies Across State on October 19, 2026
Kerala is bracing for continued heavy rainfall with a yellow alert in effect for seven districts today, October 19, 2026, as the northeast monsoon intensifies, according to…
Brazil overhauls customer-service regulations with new decree
Eighty per cent of calls answered within 20 seconds. Human support guaranteed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
“Tinubu Launches 2027 APC Campaign Council"
President Bola Tinubu’s APC party launched its 2027 campaign council on October 15, 2026, with plans to visit 12 states, while regional tensions and political metaphors like…
Model returns to VS weeks after giving birth
Barbara Palvin returned to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18, 2026, just six weeks after giving birth to her baby girl with husband Dylan Sprouse.