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Hamilton, who led the MIT Instrumentation Lab teams that wrote the Apollo guidance software, died Sept. 30 at 90. MIT's obituary credits her with helping establish software engineering as its own discipline; she went on to found companies and received the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Swedish Academy cited her "bold and inventive oeuvre" in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. The Toronto-born poet, classicist and translator — best known for the verse novel Autobiography of Red — was reached in Iceland, where she has held citizenship since 2022.
A proposed DHS rule would make schools pay $70,000 for each international student's initial Optional Practical Training application and $30,000 per renewal. OPT lets graduates work in their field for a year, or up to three for some STEM majors; DHS calls it a "pipeline for cheap foreign labor," and a 60-day comment period is open.
The CFTC ended 2025 with 21% fewer staff than its 10-year average and brought nearly 80% fewer enforcement actions, per NPR — just as it is tasked with writing rules for crypto and prediction markets where hundreds of billions trade weekly. Former enforcement lawyers say crypto cases were shut down and the attorneys who brought them pushed out; the agency says it remains committed to market integrity.