Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led the team that wrote the software guiding Apollo’s astronauts to the moon and coined the term “software engineering,” died September 30 at 90. Then: Halloween candy prices have risen 71% since 2021 — a 100-piece bag that cost $9.91 in 2021 now costs $16.96 — driven by cocoa deficits, sugar prices, and tariffs, with 80% of Halloween shoppers expecting to pay more this year. And an IT professional named Anthony discovered his parents’ Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker had uploaded 1,008 gigabytes of data in 10 days and 9 hours — saturating their home Wi-Fi access point on its own. Most of the data apparently stayed on the local network. A reboot fixed it. Nobody knows what it was doing. Plus a passenger who stole an airport tug, the 844-pound alligator Snaggletooth, a woman who married 14 men to fund a gambling habit, and an STI that is becoming a drug-resistant superbug.
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