Football games. Cozy sweaters. And pumpkin spice everything. Fall has its perks, but there can be drawbacks, too. Fall (from the 16th-century English phrase “the fall of the leaf”) is when leaves drop, temperatures plummet and daylight hours dwindle. With less time in the sun and more time spent indoors, your body, mind and mood
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At Black Hat 2026, researchers Aviyam Ivgi and Hedi Ingber showed one structural flaw running through three of the largest agent stacks: AWS Bedrock AgentCore with the Strands SDK, Google’s Agent Development Kit, and Vercel’s AI SDK harness. They named that flaw CoreBreak. AWS patched CVE-2026-18830 (CVSS 8.6), Google patched CVE-2026-18236 (CVSS 9.3, critical), and Vercel patched
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For most small business owners, tax season does not start in April. It’s year-round, and doesn’t begin until the last weeks of December, when the window closes on many of the moves that shape what they will owe. That window matters more than many owners realize. In the 2026 Small Business Tax Confidence Report from 1-800Accountant, a
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The prevalence of plastics isn’t new. Since World War II, mass-produced plastics have increasingly littered sidewalks, oceans, and more across the globe. However, in more recent years, scientists have also started researching the effects these plastics have on human bodies, not just the planet. We now know many plastics persist in the environment, where they break down into
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New federal per diem rates for work travel took effect Oct. 1, 2026, and some cities stretch them a long way. In Aurora, Colorado, 96% of hotel rates shown in Engine searches fit under the new lodging cap. In Arlington, Texas, the cap covers a 4-star hotel. Per diem is the daily amount the federal
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Rising costs at the supermarket, the gas pump, and the doctor’s office are forcing many Americans to rethink their spending. This economic reality is delaying or jeopardizing important plans, especially big-ticket purchases and projects. Indeed, in the latest SoFi survey, 85% of respondents assert their daily lives are more expensive now than five years ago.
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Mid-October 2026 saw the global trading landscape focus heavily on technical compliance and long-term litigation management, reports Freight Right, a freight forwarder and licensed customs broker based in Los Angeles. U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched Phase 3 of its automated CAPE portal to process remaining back-duty refunds from struck-down tariffs, even as the U.S,
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Every October, Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) gives beneficiaries a six-week window between Oct. 15 through Dec. 7 to reconsider their coverage. Most years, that’s a matter of choice: People can shop around if they want to. But this year, in a growing number of states, it isn’t optional. Their current plan may simply no
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CNN, POOL, NASDAQ, X , @STARLINK, SPACEX, POLICE OF CHERNIHIV, STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE, @ZELENSKYYUA, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY VIA YOUTUBE, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY By Lauren Kent, Anna Chernova, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in a massive missile attack overnight into Thursday, hours after President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin
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By T.M. Brown, CNN (CNN) — On October 6, the Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza won the Caine Prize for African Writing, for the short story “The Blue Fighter.” Less than a week later, The Atlantic published a piece declaring that the story’s narrator “has all the personality of a chatbot.” “The AI detector Pangram flags
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