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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. AbstractAiming at the problems that the abnormal state of high-speed liquid packaging production lines is difficult to identify in time, the computing power of edge controller is limited, and the energy consumption regulation and condition monitoring are separated from each other, a multimodal lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) system embedded in Tech-Long production controller is constructed; this realizes the collaborative optimization of abnormal operation window identification and energy consumption of the whole line. First, this study collects vibration, acoustic, and thermal signals from the bottle blowing, filling, and packaging sections; it also constructs cross-sectional anomaly characterization through time synchronization, feature-level alignment, and hierarchical fusion.

By scaling existing models for integrated mental health care, Canada can improve patient outcomes while driving economic growth. Canada needs a national primary care strategy so that all federal, provincial, and territorial governments are on the same page and not running their own separate experiments when it comes to mental health services, write doctors Lesley Lutes and Sabrina Wong. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

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.

You once played Basil Fawlty in an amateur student production of Fawlty Towers at Queen’s College in Melbourne. How amateur was your Basil Fawlty moustache? It was terrible. It was real but it was definitely coloured in – I still have holes in my beard. I’d also shaved my head, so if you look at the early promo posters, you can clearly see I’m wearing a wig. Our theatre was closed so we had to perform in a circus tent in the middle of winter, on an oval in the university grounds, which was all very Fawlty Towers. I’ve always loved comedy. I didn’t really do anything serious until drama school. I always thought there might be a good spin-off with Sauron and Celebrimbor as an odd-couple situation. You play Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Tolkien wrote that Sauron “represents as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible”. What do you consider wholly evil? A complete disregard for the feelings and wellbeing of other people, to put it simply. It’s the intention, I think. I have horrible flashbacks to playing Aussie rules when I was about 17. I thought people were being quite evil to me at the time.