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A viral reel promises free government land, an LLC construction loan with no money down, write-offs and a tax-free sale. Checked claim by claim against the land banks, the CFPB and the IRS, the pitch describes a programme that does not exist.
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Stanford has posted the core lectures of CS329A, Self-Improving AI Agents (Autumn 2025), free on YouTube: nine lectures, roughly ten hours, covering test-time compute, verification, planning and how agents learn from feedback. It is genuinely open, and genuinely not a credential. Who it is for, who it is not for, and what watching it can and cannot do for a career.
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Dutch universities recruited 129,764 international students for 2025-26, into a student-housing market short of 21,500 rooms. The sales pitch, the universities own warnings, the VU housing fee the courts ruled impermissible twice, and the CPB money maths, in one account.
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The Netherlands ranks near the top of the world for working life and quality of life, and near the bottom for making friends. What the InterNations surveys, NIDI loneliness research and CBS travel figures say about expat loneliness in the Netherlands — and who manages to belong.
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Zwarte Piet was not banned — he was replaced, one institution at a time. How Dutch schools, the Sinterklaasjournaal, shops, platforms and libraries swapped blackface for the Roetveegpiet, the Sooty Pete the Netherlands now grows up with, and where the old Piet still walks.
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A Republican House Judiciary staff report says New York City's five district attorneys shaped charges and plea bargains to spare noncitizen defendants from deportation. The documents are real; the gravest claims are not yet proven. At a gun-safety press conference, the officials asked about it offered a smile, a shrug — and one denial.
The poland constitutional tribunal crisis explained after a judge suspended the court's president on 30 October 2026: police at the building, three detentions, and President Nawrocki turning his flight home to call crisis talks.
Hurricane Melissa recovery one year later: 136 people are still in shelters in Jamaica, half of assessed households have received repair grants, and modular homes are only now going up in Westmoreland.
Is Hear the Dead worth reading? Yes, for readers who want a paranormal mystery rather than jump-scare horror: a 66-year-old punk photographer hears her dead friends and reopens a decades-old case.
The Phius passive house design competition 2026 named The Faircliff — 125 permanently affordable homes in Washington, D.C. — its Best Overall Project, as passive standards move from pilot houses into affordable, senior and social housing.
The norton museum mimi plumb and gertrude abercrombie pairing opens 31 October 2026 in West Palm Beach: 107 photographs spanning 1971-2025 beside some 70 dreamlike paintings, both on view through March 2027.
Is Exit Party worth reading? Yes, with patience: Mandel's A Side/B Side parallel-world novel rewards readers who stay with its slow, doubled opening.
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