~Bitcoin News of the Day

• A class-action suit led by Paul Williams-Israel filed in a New York federal court on Oct. 7 claimed IREN’s Childress, Texas, facility was framed as an HPC-ready data center when it wasn’t, and its computing capacity was significantly overstated. The suit claimed the misleading information came from a June 2023 IREN statement announcing an expansion of its Childress site and a “revitalization” of its HPC strategy.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• U.S. consumer prices rose slightly more than expected in September, but the annual increase in inflation was the smallest in more than 3-1/2 years, potentially keeping the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates again next month.

~Politics_and_Law

• Social Security recipients will see their monthly payments inch up by only 2.5% next year, as the steady decline in inflation puts a damper on the program’s annual cost-of-living-adjustment, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday.

~Stacker_Sports News

• Rafael Nadal has confirmed that he will retire from professional tennis after the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga, Spain this November.
• “The reality is that it has been some difficult years, these last two especially. I don’t think I have been able to play without limitations,” the 38-year-old said in a video released Thursday, October 10.

~Tech & ~Science

• An idiosyncratic billionaire takes to the stage (with, perhaps, a humanoid robot by his side?) to unveil a futuristic technology that he promises will transform the world — a vision alternately celebrated, mocked and feared. It’s a scene straight out of Hollywood. And that’s exactly where it’s going to happen tonight — on a Warner Brothers studio in Burbank, California.

~History with Mystery

• Perhaps what the First World War released above all was a spirit of ephemerality. Perhaps it was the notion of artistic durability that then began its long, slow death, leaving in its wake ‘a heap of broken images’ (Eliot, 1922) that flashed forward into the transience of performance and conceptual art: Jean Benoît’s The Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade (1959), Vito Acconci’s Seedbed (1972), Banksy’s pre-programmed shredding (2018) of Girl with Balloon....

~Entertainment World

• Lawyers for Combs, in a bid to get a hearing on the issue filed Wednesday, seek a court order that would keep a potential jury from considering such evidence, including hotel surveillance footage of him violently assaulting the singer Cassie, or the dismissal of all charges if it’s proven that the government was the source of the leak. The video published by CNN was part of a seven-month campaign initiated by prosecutors and federal law enforcement agents to “raise public hostility against Mr. Combs in advance of trial,” they claim.

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