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Water's Edge brings Truman Lowe's sculpture to Washington
The Ho-Chunk artist's retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian rewards attention to space, materials and water as a source of form.
October 12, 2026 · 4 min read
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Technology
How IceCube turns Antarctic ice into a neutrino observatory
NASA's October 11 feature revisited the installation of a detector string. The surrounding ice acts as part of the instrument.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min read
The Edit
John Heinz Refuge: trail hours and a first birding walk near Philadelphia
Trails at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge are open daily from sunrise to sundown. The visitor center keeps a shorter Wednesday-through-Sunday schedule.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min read
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From the Louvre brings 26 Islamic art objects to Washington
The National Museum of Asian Art's Islamic-art exhibition is a manageable place to look closely at materials, workmanship and the journeys objects take.
October 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Culture
The Moon's far side is not its permanently dark side
NASA's October 10 image feature showed a hemisphere Earthbound observers cannot normally see. Its rough surface also makes an immediate comparison with the near side possible.
October 10, 2026 · 4 min read
AI
Codex adds composer predictions in beta; Tab accepts a draft without sending it
The October 9 beta added suggested follow-up messages for eligible Pro users. Accepting one places it in the composer, where it can still be edited.
October 9, 2026 · 2 min read
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The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze: a 45-minute trail in Croton-on-Hudson
The Hudson Valley pumpkin trail is a timed outdoor outing. Match the ticket to the evening you want and leave room for the trip from the station.
October 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Technology
Anthropic's cyber program puts open-source maintainers in the loop
The October 8 launch offered security scans and proposed patches for participating projects. A reported vulnerability still needs a maintainer's decision.
October 8, 2026 · 2 min read
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LibreOffice 26.8.1 vs. 26.2.6: fixes, stability and the November cutoff
The October download choice is between a newer feature branch and a mature branch with a November 30 support deadline. Match the build to the work and maintenance you need.
October 8, 2026 · 3 min read
AI
How to check an interactive ChatGPT answer after the GPT-6 update
The October 7 rollout introduced answers that can contain charts, controls, and small interactive tools. The Chat update did not change every OpenAI product in the same way.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
The Edit
Use Zotero to organize sources and build a bibliography
The free reference manager organizes books, papers and web pages for projects that need a bibliography. Its October maintenance update addresses full-text and PDF problems.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min read
AI
ChatGPT adds audio uploads, with a transcript still needing review
Paid subscriptions and workspaces gain recorded-audio input for transcripts, summaries and questions, with a 512MB file limit and format restrictions.
October 6, 2026 · 2 min read