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News Digest
Tennessee Halts Executions After Christa Pike Survives Lethal Injection Attempt; Hegseth Announces 20% Cut to US Generals and Admirals
Tennessee halts executions after death-row prisoner Christa Gail Pike, condemned for a 1995 murder, survived administration of two doses of a lethal drug; a death penalty expert called the failure unprecedented, and lawyers say Pike was taken by ambulance and is being treated in…
Today's Digests
AI Digest
OpenAI Opens Codex to Open Models and ChatGPT to MCP Plugins
OpenAI's core surfaces opened to outsiders, with open models like GLM-5.3 Flash and Kimi K3 reportedly running natively in Codex under existing OpenAI commits, while ChatGPT gained the ability to build, host, and distribute MCP servers and plugins. Elsewhere, @ajassy announced DuckDB inside Aurora PostgreSQL for single queries across live and S3 data, and open-weight releases kept stacking up, led by Ant Ling's Ling-3.1-flash tease.
Local News Digest
Robbinsdale Area Schools seeks higher-than-normal tax levy — Golden Valley-area residents could face multiple increases
The biggest story for our area today is the Robbinsdale Area Schools tax question. The district is pursuing a higher-than-normal levy tied to a major referendum ask, and KSTP notes some west metro homeowners could see...
Reality TV Digest
Mauricio for Mayor? Umansky Eyes L.A.'s Top Job While RHONY Erupts Over Carolyn Bessette
Mauricio Umansky may be adding "politician" to a résumé that already includes real estate mogul and reality star. Speaking on a morning show, he said he's seriously considering an independent run for mayor of Los Ange...
Pop Culture Digest
Dakota Johnson Just Made "Zombie BBLs" Go Viral And I Was Not Emotionally Prepared For This Information
Jim Carrey is a married man again — TMZ reports he quietly tied the knot with girlfriend Min Ah in a small, private L.A. ceremony. Sia sold a 50% stake in her catalog for $180…
Finance Digest
The "Hollow Tree" Market: Bond Yields at Multi-Decade Highs as the Fed's New Hiking Cycle Bites
No index fireworks — and that's the point. A Goldman Sachs pro flagged Tuesday as "one of the more disturbing days of late," citing troubling features beneath placid index levels even as the market stalls, per MarketW...
Gaming Digest
Toss a Cart to Your Witcher — The Witcher 3's Free Remaster Is Here, and It's Already Dividing Players
Spooky season is officially upon us: **Pokémon Pokopia** has announced a limited-time Halloween in-game event headlined by Pumpkaboo — "Pumpkaboo, I see you," as Nintendo Life put it. The Switch 2 release calendar kee...
MTG Digest
Reality Fracture Is Here — $3,000 Serialized Pulls, $50 Commanders, and Jace Absolutely Everywhere
Reality Fracture is live. Release-day content is stacked: Draftsim ranks all 26 mythics, EDHREC surveys the set's best artifacts and lands, and MTGGoldfish built five…
F1 Digest
Russell Closes In on 'Spooked' Antonelli as F1 Returns to Sepang
Qualifying is still days away, but the first grid penalty of the weekend is already inked in: [Lindblad will start from the back](https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/lindblad-to-take-grid-penalty-for-bahrain-gp/1086053...