NEW RESOURCES
Common Crawl: October 2026 Crawl Archive Now Available. “The crawl archive for October 2026 is now available. The data was crawled between October 5th and October 18th, and contains 2.16 billion web pages (or 371.19 TiB of uncompressed content). Page captures are from 41.4 million hosts or 34.3 million registered domains and include 830.1 million new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.”
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America: Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Launches Historic Joseph Freeman Collection. “The Joseph Freeman Collection spans over a century of racing, starting in the 1890s, and includes Indy cars, Sprint cars, Midgets, Formula 1, Sports Cars, Stock Cars, Motorcycles, Off-Road, Powerboats, Land Speed and other categories captured by nearly three dozen of the world’s finest motorsports photographers.”
NYU Center for Data Science: AskChem: A New Search Engine for Chemistry Research. “A chemist choosing how to make a molecule may need to compare reaction conditions and results scattered across dozens of papers. NYU Courant Computer Science PhD candidate Bing Yan and colleagues developed AskChem to make those individual findings searchable, with each result linked to evidence in its source paper.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Reuters: US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources say. “Well before the throttling this month of Ukraine’s military access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system, the Biden and Trump administrations had several times asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries, according to six former senior US officials familiar with the matter.”
DigitalTrends: Google Chrome’s new early warning system could help you spot scam sites. “Anyone who has used Google Chrome has probably seen the red warning screen when they click a suspicious link or try to visit a potentially dangerous website. Google is now beefing up this warning system by adding a new layer that will flag websites that seem fishy, even when Safe Browsing does not have enough confidence to classify them as outright dangerous.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Harvard Gazette: Should parents be wary of Silicon Valley’s influence in schools?. “…leading technologists and executives have been drawn to classrooms in recent decades as laboratories, market opportunities, and above all, problems waiting to be solved — whether with computers, software, or AI chatbots, according to Natasha Singer. Since 2013, Singer has watched those efforts closely as a New York Times tech reporter. She found them at best quixotic or naive and at worst insidious, threatening to deprive young Americans of their ability to think critically about some of the world’s largest companies.”
Variety: H3 Podcast Crew Cuts Ties With Ethan Klein After Hila Klein Says He Has Been Having an Affair. “The ‘H3 Podcast,’ the show co-hosted by Ethan and Hila Klein, is on indefinite hiatus after Hila said he has been having an affair for the last six months and that the couple has separated.”
NBC News: Manuel Otto, German video game creator, dies in apparent livestreamed suicide. “German video game designer and influencer Manuel Otto apparently died by suicide while he was livestreaming on Twitch, according to the streaming platform and his colleagues. He was 30.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ars Technica: Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo warning military personnel against using nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets, saying the wagers could give important clues to enemy countries.”
MS NOW: Former Florida congressional candidate faces felony charges over online threats. “Two days after Elijah Manley came in third place in the hotly contested August Democratic primary in Florida’s 20th Congressional District, he allegedly told two women on Facebook he would ‘make your life a living hell’ and ‘cut your fucking head off’ if they did not vote for [Angie] Nixon, according to an arrest affidavit reviewed by MS NOW.”
SwissInfo: Swiss former president tackles Nazi-era and colonial loot in museums. “A new Swiss commission, led by former president Simonetta Sommaruga, is now accepting claims for Nazi-looted art and colonial-era cultural property. It will review disputed cases and issue recommendations. Sommaruga spoke to Swissinfo about its mission and priorities.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Punch (Nigeria): Africa moves to establish raw materials database. “The Raw Materials Research and Development Council has said African countries are working towards establishing a continental database of raw materials to attract investment, improve access to information and promote research and value addition.” Good morning, Internet…
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