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We’re sharing this article early to provide faster access to peer-reviewed, accepted research. It is citable and carries a permanent DOI. This version is subject to further edits and will be replaced automatically by the final Version of Record. All legal disclaimers apply. AbstractRoad traffic accidents claim roughly 1.35 million lives each year, with delayed hazard perception rather than mechanical failure implicated in most collisions. Dashcam-based accident anticipation offers a low-cost complement to sensor-heavy ADAS, yet controlled comparisons across architectures remain rare. We present DashGuard, which trains and evaluates six spatio-temporal models a 3D CNN, CNN+LSTM, CNN+Transformer, and three two-stream variants (lightweight CNN, ResNet-18, and Transformer) on the Car Crash Dataset (1500 crash and 2000 normal videos) under a consistent, leak-free protocol. A video-level 70/15/15 split prevents clip-level contamination; four-level soft labels encode temporal distance to the accident frame; and a two-clip temporal consistency gate substantially cuts false-positive alerts.

Here’s your NYT Strands hint for today, plus the spangram and all of today’s Strands answers for puzzle No. 959 on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. Today’s Strands theme was tricky. It helps to be a runner. Read on for all the answers.

A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.

Huawei’s next budget phone, the Enjoy 100 Pro, just leaked with a battery above 8,000mAh, a Kirin 8-series chip and four new colors, according to well-known Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station. The Enjoy line is how Huawei sells phones to millions of price-conscious buyers in China, and this leak shows that huge batteries have become a budget feature, while screens may be where costs get cut. Here’s what the leak says, what we think it means, and what to expect before launch.