Good Morning. Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO, most men 50 to 69 should now get a PSA test every two years, and a space telescope mapped a billion objects. Plus, home sales at a 16-year low, a child’s 15,000-year-old fingerprint, and the coconut crab theory of Amelia Earhart.
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Huang Steps Down
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO Thursday, effective immediately, ending his run atop the chipmaker he co-founded in 1993. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO while the board weighs inside and outside candidates.
It came four days after Huang admitted an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence suspects is a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies. A second affair, with an executive who reported to him, surfaced Wednesday. The board also named its first-ever chairman.
Shares fell about 4% Thursday, and earnings land Nov. 17. The big question: who replaces the face of the AI boom. See how the scandal unfolded, day by day.
The PSA Shift
The American Cancer Society now recommends a PSA blood test every two years for average-risk men ages 50 to 69. It’s the group’s first prostate screening update since 2010, which stopped short of a direct recommendation.
Black men and men with a strong family history should start at 45 and test every year. About 333,830 men will be diagnosed this year. A high reading now means a repeat test or an MRI before any biopsy.
At 70, the advice is to talk it over with a doctor, and most men can stop at 75. Men with a family history can raise it at their next physical.
A Billion Objects
Europe’s Euclid space telescope released its first big batch of data Thursday: the light of more than a billion objects, across a patch of sky as big as 9,500 full moons. It covers about 13 months of observing.
The haul includes over 900 million galaxies, more than 60 million quasars (the blazing cores of distant galaxies) and about 15,000 cosmic lenses, galaxies that bend light like a magnifying glass. Zoom into the new sky mosaics.
It’s still only about 14% of the sky Euclid will survey. A fuller release in mid-2027 adds the measurements meant to map dark matter. Watch the first look (w/video).
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Ben Franklin’s 13-Week Chart
Ben Franklin kept a little book with a chart: 13 virtues down the side, the days of the week across, and a spot for every fault. Each virtue got one week of strict attention, so a full pass took 13 weeks, and he could run four a year.
His list started at 12. He added Humility after a Quaker friend told him people found him proud, then admitted that even if he beat it, he “should probably be proud of my humility.”
His verdict: he was “so much fuller of faults than I had imagined,” but watched them shrink. For Friday the 13th, pick one virtue and give it one week.
Train for the 4 Things You’ll Want to Do at 80
Most workout plans aim at next summer. Try aiming at 80 instead. You don’t need a personalized program, a fitness tracker or a longevity clinic. You just need a list of what you still want to be able to do:
Get off the floor without using your hands.
Carry your own bag through the airport.
Pick up a grandkid.
Open your own pickle jar.
Work backwards from there, and next week’s workout picks itself.
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*Stock prices as of Thursday’s close. Bitcoin as of 5:10 a.m. ET; change is over the past 24 hours.
▲ Home sales fell to their slowest pace since August 2010, down 8.8% from a year ago
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▲ Cisco revenue jumped 24% to $18.5 billion, its fastest growth in more than 15 years
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▲ Kraft Heinz is betting on high-protein Jell-O pudding and cheesy ramen to revive sagging sales
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THE OTHER 99%
▲ A Brooklyn apartment building collapsed into a construction site next door, killing eight, including two children
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▲ Putin and U.S. envoys agreed to keep talking, and he’ll take it up with Trump at APEC
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▲ Two “forever chemicals” were tied to up to 93% higher rates of one aggressive breast cancer type
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▲ Stone Age children helped adults shape clay figurines 15,000 years ago, their fingerprints show
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▲ GTA VI unlocks Nov. 19, and its preload already needs up to 212 GB of space
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