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Oct 24 starts the 2026 Japan Series. Game 1 is assigned to the Central League representative's home stadium. A listed game is not necessarily one that will be played. The first team to win four games takes the title, so Game 5 or any later game could be unnecessary. Bad weather or other factors can also change a scheduled date. The article sets out the home assignment by game number: Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 at the Central League representative's home stadium, and Games 3, 4 and 5 at the Pacific League representative's. For ticket planning or broadcast viewing, the game number tells you which side's home venue to check, even if a date moves. Game 7 is scheduled for November 1 if needed. If you are planning around the 2026 series, compare the game number with any revised date. Read the article for the schedule and home assignments.

This post contains Toss Shopping ShareLink affiliate links, for which a commission is earned. Bulk buyers see a 4.6/5 softener score. The Cotton Candy 4-pack contains 10L in four 2.5L bottles. The total volume and bottle count appear alongside the pack price. As of 2026-10-04, the pack costs 4,620 KRW, or 1,155 KRW per bottle. The price per bottle shows each bottle’s share of the pack total without needing to divide the price by four. The marketplace rating is 4.6/5 from 1,006 reviews. The article lists the score, quantity and price in one place to help assess the purchase. It also explains how the four bottles total the stated 10L. This pack suits shoppers buying household fabric softener in a multipack. Read the article for its contents, unit price and marketplace rating.

Devs, Jev's SDK infers answer types. In TypeScript, the answer type follows the question definition, giving code a typed result rather than free-form text. Confidence needs a separate look. It summarizes the probability distribution, not the accuracy rate. To judge how well automated decisions work, teams need results measured on their own data. Choice selects a category, Score evaluates on a scale, and Noul asks for the probability that something is true. The article explains how to connect each question type to code, so developers can handle its result in the intended branch. For teams building Korean-language services, that check means measuring both the automated processing rate and the rate of incorrect decisions on their own data. Read the article for Jev's branching design and the limits to verify.

1803: historians trace Balmis at sea. The Balmis Expedition left A Coruña, Spain, on November 30. Vaccinating children in succession kept the smallpox vaccine viable during the long voyage. Official correspondence from 1804 records uncertainty about departure and disagreements over food and lodging arrangements. It also raises issues about the children's care. Keeping a vaccine viable during transport is a separate question from how the children were treated. The article explains why training local medical workers and establishing vaccination boards mattered after the voyage: both were measures intended to keep vaccinations going. That separates the task of crossing an ocean with a viable vaccine from the task of maintaining a local vaccination system. For medical history researchers assessing the expedition, the account also keeps vaccine distribution distinct from the eradication of smallpox in 1980. Read the article for the documented chronology and those distinctions.

API teams assess Claude Opus 5.5 costs. Input and output rates are 20% lower than Opus 5, but actual spend depends on tokens and caching. Anthropic's 40% reduction in task costs is based on its evaluation, not a fixed saving for each workload. Published rates are a starting point for a budget; token usage and cache use shape the bill you pay. Standard pricing is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. Cache reads are $0.20 per million tokens, 60% lower than Opus 5. For a performance reference, Anthropic reports a Terminal-Bench 4.0 score of 66.4%, up from 52.3%. The roughly 85% reduction in attempts to bypass boundaries comes from a specific safety evaluation, not a claim about every deployment. If migrating an existing API, check the model name and inference and tool-calling settings. Read the comparison to weigh the reported results against your workload.

Renters see a 1,188,000-home goal. The public housing target spans 2026 to 2030, with 917,000 units in the Seoul metropolitan area. It is a supply target, not a count of homes people have moved into. The 1,188,000-unit target includes construction starts, purchase agreements and contracts. Reading it as the number of homes ready to occupy would give applicants the wrong basis for a housing decision. Universal public rental housing is being pursued to extend eligibility to the middle class. Figures of 180% to 200% of standard median income and rents at 70% to 80% of market rates were not confirmed move-in criteria at the time of the announcement. Income and asset caps and rents still need confirmation. Renters considering these projects can read the article to separate the supply goal from confirmed eligibility. Later policy announcements and each project's application notice are where to check the rules, rents and application dates.