A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to stop threatening state and local election workers. The command, filed October 30, bars the departments from demanding that registered voters be dropped from the rolls or that their ballots be set aside solely because the departments allege a voter is ineligible. It runs until 5:00 p.m. on November 16.1
NASA asked companies on October 29 what it would take to service the Hubble Space Telescope while it is still in orbit. A request for information is a formal ask for what firms can do. It is not a contract, and it does not hire anyone.1
OpenAI published an addendum on October 30 for GPT-Rosalind-6, a model it offers to approved researchers for biology, drug discovery, and medicine. A system card is the company's public account of what a model is for, how the company says it tested the model, and what limits it says it put on who can use it. This addendum is that account for this release.1
A new cyclone, Murasu, formed over the Bay of Bengal early Sunday and is forecast to come ashore in India's Andhra Pradesh on Monday afternoon, ET, barely a week after Cyclone Arnab struck the same state. India's weather department warns that a storm surge, seawater pushed onto land by a storm's winds, could flood low-lying coastal land, along with gusts up to 120 km/h, about 75 mph, and extremely heavy rain in places.13