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  • P30M water impounding project completed in Kalinga –DA 

    P30M water impounding project completed in Kalinga –DA 

    The Department of Agriculture (DA) said that it has completed a P30 million small water impounding project in Tabuk City, Kalinga, which could help supply irrigation to farmers amid the ongoing El Niño phenomenon.

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  • Korean actor Park Bo Gum, certified hairdresser na

    Korean actor Park Bo Gum, certified hairdresser na

    Kung sa Pilipinas ‘yun tiyak na iintrigahin na kaagad si Park Bo Gum na isang certified hairdresser na.

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  • One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda Reveals New Plan For Manga Ending

    One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda Reveals New Plan For Manga Ending

    Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is a legendary shonen manga that has been running in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump for almost 30 years now. One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump on July 18, 1997, in the 34th issue of the magazine for that year. Since then, it has consistently been one of the best manga in the magazine and has now become its strongest pillar in the modern era.

    That said, One Piece is edging closer to its conclusion with each new release. Currently, Eiichiro Oda’s story is in its Final Saga, and now, with the upcoming release of chapter 1198 on November 8, 2026, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 50, it has officially been confirmed that the series’ ending is being pushed back by Eiichiro Oda even further due to the new release schedule of the manga.

    Eiichiro Oda Confirms Series Extension As New Break Announced After Chapter 1198

    Image created by the author Rei Penber using official assets.

    One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda first announced the beginning of the end of the series with the Final Saga, which the Straw Hat Pirates embarked upon following the conclusion of the Wano Country arc. One Piece chapter 1058, released on August 29, 2022, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump issue 39, marked the beginning of the Final Saga and thus the beginning of the end for the series as well. Four years have passed since then, and One Piece is nowhere close to its conclusion. While Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has ended the Egghead arc, the Elbaf arc is still currently in its climax and is now facing significant interruptions due to frequent hiatuses by the author of the series.

    One Piece received its latest chapter, 1197, on November 1, 2026, as part of the 49th edition of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine for the year. Currently, fans are awaiting the release of chapter 1198, which is set to be released on November 8, 2026, in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump issue 50. However, as has been confirmed officially, One Piece is headed for another break after the release of chapter 1198.

    Over the last three months, Eiichiro Oda has been consistently taking breaks after every two chapters, which comes as a massive surprise to the fans. Previously, Oda used to take a break after the release of every three chapters, which meant that every month fans used to get three chapters at the very least. Now Eiichiro Oda is releasing significantly fewer chapters, and this has now become his new publication schedule for the manga. With One Piece chapter 1198 set to be released on November 8, 2026, the series will not get any new chapter in the following week on November 15. Instead, One Piece chapter 1199 will be released officially on November 22, 2026.

    One Piece’s New Break Schedule Confirms The Manga Won’t End Anytime Soon

    Image created by the author Rei Penber using official One Piece assets.

    With the climax of the Elbaf arc, it has now officially been confirmed that One Piece has a new publication and break schedule directly from the author, Eiichiro Oda. This new break schedule has officially delayed the ending of One Piece significantly and pushed it back by many years. On the surface, it might not look like a big deal to the fans, but when looking at how many chapter releases Oda drops a year, this difference becomes significant.

    When it comes to the average year, Eiichiro Oda delivers anywhere between 35 and 38 chapters based on his latest manga production schedule, which he has stuck to since the climax of the Wano Country arc. Based on this new production schedule by Eiichiro Oda, which officially kickstarted at the climax of the Elbaf arc, Oda will drop fewer than 25 chapters in a year. This means that each year, fans will now get around 12 to 15 fewer chapters, slowing down the series significantly.

    Over a period of 5 years, One Piece will have around 60 fewer published chapters, which could account for an entire arc of the series and thus take more years to cover. For instance, if Oda had projected to end One Piece by 2030 at his previous rate, the new schedule adds years to the life of the manga, effectively delaying the ending even further. But this is something that fans aren’t particularly worried about either, as it gives them more One Piece content.

    Why Oda’s One Piece Will Slow Down Further With Time

    Image created by the author Rei Penber using official One Piece assets.

    As things stand, One Piece is in the climax of the Elbaf arc. Based on the current progression of the story, this arc isn’t ending before 10 to 15 more chapters. Based on the current pace of the story, One Piece’s Elbaf arc will end sometime in spring to summer of 2027, and the series will then head deeper into the final saga. It is also quite clear that, at this rate, One Piece is not going to end the story anytime soon. Whereas Oda previously wanted to end the story by 2025, we are already way beyond that mark, and the series will most definitely continue for at least a decade longer, if not more, based on how many breaks Oda is taking.

    The reason behind these breaks has never been explained to us, but it comes down to two main reasons. The first reason is Oda’s deteriorating health, which is a natural consequence of writing manga for almost 30 years. This is also something that fans should accept and respect. A biweekly release schedule of One Piece only serves to help Oda get even better. The second reason is Oda’s involvement with a multitude of side projects. Oda is constantly working together with Netflix on the One Piece live-action project.

    Image created by the author Rei Penber using official assets.







    On top of that, he has now started working together with Toei Animation for new movie projects, such as Film God Valley and Film Baad. With Oda’s side project involvement increasing even further, he has less time for the manga and for himself. As such, One Piece is experiencing a lot of hiatuses this year, which is most certainly going to continue into next year as well. In fact, in a couple of years, it is entirely possible that One Piece will instead receive just a single chapter release a month. This would slow down the story even more significantly and see the ending pushed back indefinitely. For now, we are still enjoying biweekly releases for the Elbaf arc, and hopefully, Eiichiro Oda will update us further on the current production rate of the manga soon.

    All chapters of One Piece by creator Eiichiro Oda are available to read via Manga Plus and Viz Media.

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  • OpenAI Hears Voters’ Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them

    OpenAI Hears Voters’ Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them

    The “blue tsunami” that swept over the midterm elections made it clear that voters are sick of tech billionaires meddling in politics, opposed to data center construction, and deeply suspicious of the AI industry.

    But OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar apparently didn’t get that memo. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, she vowed that OpenAI would keep pouring money into data center construction so it can please its corporate customers — voters be damned.

    “When I think about the midterms, I need to keep thinking about how do we keep investing to meet that customer demand,” Friar told CNBC’s Sara Eisen in the interview. “It starts early with having built relationships with all of the hyperscalers, and it will continue to mean that we raise capital.”

    While Eisen is focused on “customer demand,” she should probably start paying attention to what voters are asking for. Across 41 local ballot measures on restricting AI data centers, voters supported all but one, Ballotpedia data showed. 56 percent of Americans considered AI and data centers a crucial or major factor in how they voted, according to NBC News exit polls.

    Meanwhile, Democratic challengers flipped seats in multiple states while campaigning against the data center buildout. Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will become the first Democrat to lead the state in over three decades after promising voters to impose a moratorium on new data centers.

    But all that is moot to OpenAI’s Friar — since, in her eyes, people want AI.

    “The demand for AI is real,” Friar said in the interview. “I don’t think anyone’s arguing with that, or if they are, I think it’s a losing argument.”

    In all, she doesn’t believe that the election drastically changes anything for the company. To her, it seems, the backlash to AI is more or less a messaging problem.

    “If the midterm means more focus on data centers and communities, we’re going to keep doing the work to get into those communities and to build trust with them,” Friar said. 

    She put it in more transactional terms elsewhere in the interview: “We are going to keep building out those relationships with communities so we can get the compute we need.”

    If Friar’s intentions are to portray the company as unphased, it’s coming a little too late. In the wake of the elections, OpenAI moved swiftly to announce “new commitments to the communities” where it’s building data centers, which included a promise to no longer use non-disclosure agreements while discussing data center construction with government officials. 

    CEO Sam Altman, meanwhile, showed his poker face still needed improvement by immediately tweeting that “people should always be in control of the future.”

    More on AI: Voters Supported Every Single Anti-Data Center Proposal in America, Except One

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  • Security Researcher Max Justicz Finds Remote Android Takeover With AI in One Afternoon — BigGo Finance

    Security Researcher Max Justicz Finds Remote Android Takeover With AI in One Afternoon — BigGo Finance

    Max Justicz bought a brand-new, fully patched Android phone, pointed the same AI models he’d used on server software at it, and within hours found a way to take it over remotely — sending a malicious message over the cell network to seize control of the device. That finding, and a separate remote root code-execution bug in the package manager behind every Debian and Ubuntu machine, are the strongest evidence yet that the hardest part of security research — finding the flaw — has been radically democratized, according to Justicz, speaking on the MTS podcast.

    “The worst of the worst finding where I could send a malicious message just over cell networks to an Android phone and take it over,” he said, describing the Android result. He is not a full-time security researcher; he has a day job and does bug bounties on the side. That’s precisely his point: what took him “dicking around one afternoon” would, until recently, have demanded expertise built over years.

    The package manager is the most dangerous place to find a bug

    The APT bug came first. Justicz had audited package-manager code by hand years earlier, which gave him the intuition to aim GPT-5.6 at it. After a couple of hours, the model returned a flaw that, by his account, affects all Ubuntu and Debian machines: a man-in-the-middle on the network can force those machines to install arbitrary software as root. “If you compromise the package manager, you compromise everything,” he said.

    He reported the bug in September 2026. The fix and its rollout took five or six weeks — a delay he attributes to people, not engineering, since maintainers were partly on vacation during the window. In his view, a patch could have been written and shipped the same day.

    The more telling signal, he argues, is what the speed of the find says about coverage. “The fact that I was able to find this app bug as quickly as I was kind of indicates to me that no one’s even bothered to aim an AI model at this code,” he said. That gap extends well beyond Linux: he points to radio firmware on an aircraft that decodes signals from other planes as an example of software where the first person to point a model at the code will find whatever is there.

    A patch is not a fix when it takes six weeks

    The episode’s practical through-line is a widening gap between how fast AI can find flaws and how fast humans can fix them. Discovery now runs in hours; patching still runs on human schedules, vacations included.

    Bug Reported Patch status Time to patch
    APT (Debian/Ubuntu package manager) September 2026 Rolled out 5-6 weeks
    Android remote takeover over cellular During the interview period Still rolling out Ongoing at interview time

    For ordinary users, Justicz has little comfort to offer. “I think ordinary users are in a pretty bad spot right now,” he said, and the main lever is using fewer services. His pre-AI advice still holds: stick with major smartphone brands likely to be patched quickly, use major operating systems, and keep everything up to date. He called the current situation “a little bit feudal.”

    His skill advantage is a leading indicator, not a moat

    Justicz refuses to cast himself as an elite. He says he is not one of the world’s best hackers but has had some bug-bounty success, and he has seen a massive uplift from the models. His only edge is taste — knowing which targets are worth aiming a model at — and he expects that edge to evaporate fast.

    “I’ve seen just a massive uplift in what I can do because of these models. And I think that marginal difference due to my skills is just going to quickly diminish to the point where if you’re completely unskilled, you’ll be able to do the same thing,” he said. “I have a little bit of taste in being able to aim the models at things that I think are worth looking at, but what kind of moat is that? I don’t think that’s going to last very long.”

    He describes himself as a canary in the coal mine. A couple of months before the interview, the most skilled hackers were the ones getting extra results from AI; at the time of the interview it was people like him; soon it will be ordinary computer users. He is “pretty confident” of that progression.