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Top science & technology news, October 11, 2026
- SMITH unifies tool creation and use for LLM agents
The new SMITH methodology unifies tool generation and invocation training within a single policy, employing three independent reward axes to correct errors in schema, code, and outcome. Testing was conducted on a 4 billion parameter Qwen3 model.
- Full game functionality ported to C++
Community members RektInator and Future built an accurate C++ recreation of the game using 500 billion tokens over three months.
- React Compiler makes context selectors cheap
React Compiler enables optimized rendering by selecting only components whose values changed, avoiding unnecessary re-renders of all context consumers.
- Software makes sound feel farther and lighter
The author created a PipeWire-based utility using HRTF to alter sound direction perception, making music feel less 'in the ears'.
- Dawn Myers launches new hair product line
Dawn Myers developed a device to simplify detangling and styling curly hair, reducing the styling time from an hour to minutes. The solution emerged from observing the lack of tools for textured hair in the beauty hardware market.
- UDS identifies recoverable knowledge layers across 150 unlearned models
Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Research, and KAIST introduced the Unlearning Depth Score (UDS) to quantify unlearning depth. Benchmark results across 150 models indicate that large probability drops identify layers lacking target knowledge.
- New model predicts genetic variant effects on the brain
The Seal framework analyzed 26 brain regions and 30 cell types with spatiotemporal resolution to link genetic variants to transcriptional regulators. In the Simons Simplex Collection autism cohort, researchers identified shared and distinct regulatory mechanisms aligning with clinical trajectories across six neuropsychiatric conditions.
- Arena allocators outperform malloc
The article presents arena allocators as a versatile and performant alternative to malloc for reducing memory leak risks in C programming.
- Model Jev 1.13 achieved 45% top-1 accuracy on the Semigran vignette set
The study validated the calibration of Jev 1.13 probabilities on clinical datasets, revealing a significant accuracy gap compared to frontier language models. Jev's expected calibration error was 0.03, while Claude Opus 5.5 recorded 0.18.
- Researchers identified 147 risk variants
Researchers analyzed data from 1,138 adults in Kuwait and Qatar and identified 147 genetic variants associated with obesity.
- ChromE-seq shows 3D genome architecture
A multimodal atlas of ~400,000 fetal haematopoietic cells reveals that trisomy 21 disproportionately disrupts B-lineage architecture, causing a progressive loss of chromatin connectivity that impedes B-cell development.
- Snowplow clears driveway until dawn
New research identifies fat infiltration in muscle tissue as a biomarker of aging, driven by reduced cardiolipin levels and mitochondrial dysfunction.
- Linear model underperforms at cross-area inpainting
Researchers introduced a linear variant of the NeuroPaint autoencoder to align neural dynamics across different recording sessions. While the model achieved strong predictive performance on recorded areas, it was less accurate than nonlinear models at inpainting activity in unrecorded regions.
- LillyDirect offers Mounjaro via telehealth
Platforms like LillyDirect allow direct access to drugs like Mounjaro, shifting power from doctors to commercial interests.
- Warner Bros. Discovery sells all assets for $111 billion
Paramount secured the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery assets for $111 billion, outbidding Netflix in a late February move.
- Blade Runner 2099 explores the end of the human species
The series is set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, where replicants have overthrown humanity. Co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer join showrunner Silka Luisa for the reveal.
- DNA analysis shows Scandinavian farmers wiped out hunter-gatherers
DNA analysis confirms that the arrival of farmers led to the complete disappearance of the local population in a short time. The study, published in Nature, is based on DNA analysis of skeletons and teeth from prehistoric people in Denmark.
- Output compression reduces realized cost by 1.4–2.4x
The CAVEWOMAN protocol demonstrates that output compression reduces realized cost by 1.4–3x, while input compression creates a strict lose-lose scenario.
- Microsoft CEO calls for an emergency brake on AI
Microsoft CEO called for building transparent systems with tamper-proof evidence and containing AI models from the start.
- NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress climate will warm in 1988
Released documents show an ExxonMobil employee warned in 1988 about potential negative impacts if a global consensus on greenhouse gas mitigation emerged, weeks before the UN established the IPCC.
