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Microsoft director Emma Walmsley will not seek re-election, altering key board committees

Emma Walmsley told Microsoft she won't seek re-election at the Dec. 8 meeting, a move that will change the composition of its compensation and governance committees. ...Read more

$MSFT, $HPQ, #microsoft, #emma_walmsley, #hp, #board, #corporategovernance

EU's Top Court Rejects Nord Stream 2 AG Appeal, Upholds 2019 Gas-Pipeline Rules

Court of Justice dismisses Nord Stream 2 AG's final appeal, confirming EU gas-market rules apply to pipelines linking member states with non-EU countries. ...Read more

#nordstream2, #eu, #energy, #law

FCA to Launch Quantum Experimentation Group in 2027 to Test Anti-Money-Laundering Tools

The UK's FCA will form a Quantum Experimentation Group in early 2027 to test quantum machine learning on synthetic data for detecting money laundering and fraud. ...Read more

#quantumcomputing, #financialregulation, #antimoneylaundering, #fraud

Harry Kane signs two-year contract extension with Bayern Munich through 2029

England captain Harry Kane has agreed a two-year Bayern Munich extension to June 30, 2029, ending speculation after his Ballon d'Or win. ...Read more

#harrykane, #bayernmunich, #football, #ballondor

Apple-affiliated researchers publish HALO preprint claiming 91% zero-shot success transferring simulated humanoid skills to real homes

An Apple-affiliated team released HALO — code, videos and a preprint — claiming 91% success for a humanoid system trained in simulation and tested in real homes. ...Read more

#robotics, #apple, #ai, #sim2real

Bob Dylan Meets Pope Leo XIV in Brief Private Audience at the Vatican

Bob Dylan, 85, briefly met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Nov. 4; the pair exchanged gifts after the pope earlier quoted Dylan’s anti-nuclear lyrics. ...Read more

#bobdylan, #pope, #vatican, #music

Preprint Reports Crystallographic Evidence for BC8 Carbon Near 1 Terapascal

An unreviewed preprint reports single-crystal X-ray diffraction evidence for BC8 — a dense post-diamond carbon phase formed near 1 TPa; confirmation pending. ...Read more

#carbon, #highpressure, #materials, #physics

Preprint: JWST and Keck stellar motions measure M87’s black hole at 5.38 billion suns

A new arXiv preprint combining JWST and Keck stellar kinematics finds M87’s black hole mass at 5.38 billion Suns, overlapping EHT constraints. ...Read more

#astronomy, #blackhole, #jwst, #eht

Mariners hire Jason Kanzler as manager, a first-time skipper focused on player development

Seattle hired Jason Kanzler on Nov. 3 as its new manager — a 36-year-old first-time skipper with a development-focused background. ...Read more

#seattlemariners, #mlb, #baseball, #manager

NASA shifts first crewed Artemis lunar landing to Artemis IV in 2028; Artemis III becomes 2027 Earth-orbit test

NASA redefines the Artemis sequence: Artemis III will be a 2027 Earth-orbit docking test; the first crewed lunar landing is now targeted for Artemis IV in 2028. ...Read more

#nasa, #artemis, #spaceflight, #moon

Civil-rights groups ask Ninth Circuit to bar 'tower-dump' warrants in test of reverse-location searches

ACLU and EFF urged the Ninth Circuit to declare tower-dump warrants unconstitutional or sharply limit their use in a criminal case tied to two murders. ...Read more

#civilliberties, #fourthamendment, #towerdump, #privacy, #geofence

Child in Lewis County Dies in Measles-Associated Case, New York's First in Over 30 Years

A child in Lewis County, New York, died in a measles-associated case — New York’s first in over 30 years amid a widening 2026 outbreak. ...Read more

#measles, #vaccination, #publichealth, #newyork

NOAA: Late‑October Event Set Record High Tides at Four California Gauges, Raising Flood Risk

NOAA says a late‑October mix of high tides, El Niño Kelvin waves and a marine heatwave produced record-high water at four California tide gauges. ...Read more

#california, #tides, #noaa, #elnino, #coastalflooding

New computer-assisted Four-Color proof promises near-linear planar-graph coloring

A team unveils a new computer-assisted proof of the Four-Color Theorem and a near-linear O(n log n) algorithm to color planar graphs; paper heads to FOCS. ...Read more

#four-color-theorem, #planar-graphs, #algorithms, #mathematics

AI-guided choice boosts perovskite solar-cell performance in authors’ lab tests, preprint shows

A preprint reports an evidence-grounded LLM, OpenPerov, selected a perovskite contact that outperformed the human-preferred alternative in the authors’ lab on efficiency and stability. ...Read more

#perovskite, #solarcells, #ai, #materials