Accelerator could be used to generate an intense beam of neutrinos
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Palestinian officials condemn the actions as part of a ‘systematic policy of displacement’.

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I traveled with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Oppo Find X8 Ultra, but only one earned a permanent spot in my travel bag.

arXiv:2512.16978v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-form multimodal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-range reasoning. Existing benchmarks emphasize either temporal length or multimodal richness, but rarely both and while some incorporate…

arXiv:2512.17409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Analyzing machine learning model performance stratified by patient and recording properties is becoming the accepted norm and often yields crucial insights about important model failure modes. Performing such analyses in a statistically rigorous manne…

arXiv:2511.22046v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Due to the limited permissions for upgrading dualside (i.e., server-side and client-side) loss tolerance schemes from the perspective of CDN vendors in a multi-supplier market, modern large-scale live streaming services are still using the automat…

arXiv:2501.06935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Let $D=(V(D),A(D))$ be a digraph with at least one directed cycle. A set $F$ of arcs is a feedback arc set (FAS) if $D-F$ has no directed cycle. The FAS decomposition number ${\rm fasd}(D)$ of $D$ is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint F…

Exclusive: Executives at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver awarded pay rises and bonuses after sale to private firm – as hundreds of jobs may be offshoredA pair of City & Guilds executives have each been awarded million-pound bonuses and sizeable salary increases after the skills charity’s busines…

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Italian replaces Rehanne Skinner at east London club‘I want to build a team that is aggressive with the ball’Rita Guarino​ has declared herself “really excited” about the project at West Ham after being confirmed as the club’s new head coach on Monday.Guarino has signed a contract until 2027 with We…

Prof Alice Sullivan claims university failed to protect her right to freedom of expression after protest at eventA UK university faces the prospect of legal action over claims it failed to protect an academic’s right to freedom of expression who was invited to give a lecture on sex and gender.Prof A…

Identical twins Nick and Nathan Roberts prioritize kindness and civility, and say ‘we never argue about politics’A pair of identical Indiana twins whose life on opposite ends of the US’s political divide recently propelled them to internet virality say it has been key for them to prioritize kindness…

A spectacular bicycle kick earned royal approval for Ayoub El Kaabi as host Morocco opened the 35th Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Comoros on Sunday. Morocco Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who greeted the players before kickoff, and home fans had endured a frustrating game as island nation C…

Muslim co-workers accused the garment factory worker of blasphemy and dragged him into the street, where an angry mob murdered him.

A Republican and a Democrat who have led calls for transparency accuse the justice department of failing to meet legal obligations.

arXiv:2506.22376v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Inference-time scaling has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing approaches often rely on heuristic strategies for parallel sampling, lacking a principled foundat…

arXiv:2512.17043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) has traditionally focused on entity-centric queries that return a single answer entity. However, real-world queries are often relational, seeking to understand how entities are associated. In this work, we int…

A similar pattern to the 1970’s may be on the cards, says this former commodity trader

NVIDIA engineer Igor Stoppa presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) earlier this month around using Linux in safety-critical environments like automobiles and the current shortcomings of the upstream Linux kernel and the challenges on achieving Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certi…

Samsung phones are packed with smart features, but many people overlook them. Here are a few that make a big impact.

Harmful genetic mutations in sperm become much more common as men grow older, and new research shows this is not simply due to random DNA damage over time. Instead, some of these mutations appear to be actively favored during sperm production. Mapping Age-Related Genetic Changes in Sperm In a major …

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Obrela’s Mark Morland says AI is accelerating detection, but regional context and human expertise remain essential as threats across the Gulf become more sophisticated and specific to sectors

Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive dataUK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of it…

Hamstrung by lawsuits, the state can’t officially keep its goal to ban new gas-powered car sales by 2035. But it’s going to keep trying.

Denmark says it will summon the U.S. ambassador after President Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has often expressed interest in.

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arXiv:2507.23358v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as general-purpose knowledge sources, but they rely on parametric knowledge, limiting explainability and trustworthiness. In task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, this separation is explicit, using an e…

arXiv:2512.17058v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We prove the last remaining implication allowing to claim the equivalence of the following conditions for a complete separable metric space $X$:
(1) The $k$-nearest neighbour classifier is (weakly) universally consistent in $X$, (2) The strong Lebes…

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A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment was adopted. The finding appeared to undercut the president’s claims on birthright citizenship.

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a push from the Trump administration.

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Thirty years ago, the newfangled method of paying for New York City’s buses and subways seemed like cutting-edge technology. Now, its days are numbered.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and matter, researchers have built simulations that closely match real astronomical observations. These…

President Trump is eyeing a takeover of the Washington, D.C., public golf system, but local golf officials and elected leaders are vowing not to cede control of the city’s affordable courses. The administration earlier this fall sent a notice of default to the National Links Trust, the local publi…

Senate Democrats are raising the threat of another government shutdown in late January as tensions with President Trump escalate over a series of recent maneuvers by the White House that Democrats say need a forceful response from Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats walked away from a potential deal to f…

Ukraine is rapidly deploying low-cost interceptor drones to counter Russia’s evolving aerial attacks on cities and power infrastructure

arXiv:2512.17899v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imitation learning (IL) enables autonomous behavior by learning from expert demonstrations. While more sample-efficient than comparative alternatives like reinforcement learning, IL is sensitive to compounding errors induced by distribution shifts. Th…

arXiv:2409.16107v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Due to developments in quantum computing, classical asymmetric cryptography is at risk of being breached. Consequently, new Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) primitives using lattices are studied. Another point of scrutiny is the resilience of these…

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A Russian general ⁠was killed by a car bomb in southern Moscow on Monday, Russian investigators said, adding that they suspected Ukrainian special services could have been behind the attack.

Danish foreign minister ‘deeply angered’ by move to send special envoy to territory Trump has threatened to annexDenmark has said it will summon the US ambassador after Donald Trump announced he had appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex.“I…

In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors from around the world have celebrated countless holidays more than 250 miles above Earth while traveling 17,500 miles per hour. Crews have marked Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanuk…

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Five pieces of wood in a silver-and-gold container at a basilica in Rome may be the remains of the manger Jesus was laid on when he was born.

arXiv:2512.16969v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite advances in scientific AI, a coherent framework for Scientific General Intelligence (SGI)-the ability to autonomously conceive, investigate, and reason across scientific domains-remains lacking. We present an operational SGI definition grounde…

arXiv:2512.17299v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Continual learning on edge platforms remains challenging because recurrent networks depend on energy-intensive training procedures and frequent data movement that are impractical for embedded deployments. This work introduces M2RU, a mixed-signal arch…

Even with modern medicine, infections caused by bacteria and viruses remain a leading cause of death worldwide. Scientists are now exploring whether diet may play a role in shaping the body’s response to these threats. A research team led by Ina Bergheim from the Department of Nutritional Sciences a…

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The Rugby Football League gives a new Salford team Championship membership for 2026, three weeks after the old club was wound up.

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Intel today released libva 2.23 as the newest feature release for this Video Acceleration API "VA-API" reference library implementation. Most significant with libva 2.23 is adding AV1 Profile 2 support...

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the United Arab Emirates to celebrate Christmas with the French troops stationed there. Macron also held meetings with the Emirati president - as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral ties - and provide stability for the Middle East. The UAE is a major purcha…

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Australia legend Glenn McGrath says England must change their mentality towards Ashes tours in order to win series down under.

CISA is a headless organization at war with itself over a failed lie detector test, Politico says.

Friends Tarryn Allarakhia and Haji Mnoga will step out together in Morocco having shared a path in the English lower leaguesLike all good things, Tarryn Allarakhia and Haji Mnoga’s friendship began at a National League match between Wealdstone and Aldershot in 2023 when they were opponents. Since th…

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Recent research suggests that AI chatbots are not merely passive sources of election information; they can actively shape voter attitudes in measurable and durable ways.
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Margin long positions continue to climb, signaling strong conviction despite bitcoin’s weakness.

A Malaysian court has rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the rest of his graft sentence under house arrest

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arXiv:2512.08554v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this article, we give two extended space formulations, respectively, for the induced tree and path polytopes of chordal graphs with vertex and edge variables.
These formulations are obtained by proving that the induced tree and path extended …

arXiv:2512.17017v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Working with abstract information often relies on static, symbolic representations that constrain exploration. We introduce Explorable Ideas, a framework that externalizes abstract concepts into explorable environments where physical navigation coordi…

Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to doA document among the tranche of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files casts fresh light on psychological tricks that his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell deployed in her effort to lure v…

arXiv:2510.16882v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a commonly used technique to adapt large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. In practice, SFT on a full dataset is computationally expensive and sometimes suffers from overfitting or bias amplification. This…

arXiv:2510.08461v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce a refinement-based Christoffel sampling (RCS) algorithm for least squares approximation in the span of a given, generally non-orthogonal set of functions $\Phi_n = \{\phi_1, \dots, \phi_n\}$. A standard sampling strategy for this prob…

arXiv:2505.14886v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Winning competitive debates requires sophisticated reasoning and argument skills. There are unique challenges in the competitive debate: (1) The time constraints force debaters to make strategic choices about which points to pursue rather than cov…

arXiv:2512.17276v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine learning approaches for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis face a fundamental challenges. Clinical assessments are expensive and invasive, leaving ground truth labels available for only a fraction of neuroimaging datasets. We introduce Multi v…

A Russian general was killed in Moscow on Monday when an explosive device detonated underneath his car.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi, the OASIS survey tracked subtle stellar wobbles to pinpoint where unseen worlds were lurk…

Pakistan's military says Saudi Arabia has awarded its highest national honor to Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his visit to Riyadh, underscoring deepening ties between the two countries, including cooperation on defens...

Thailand’s foreign minister says Thailand and Cambodia will resume talks to work toward a more durable ceasefire along their border

In a breakthrough that defies nature, Northwestern University and Stanford University synthetic biologists have created a new artificial metabolism that transforms waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful biological building blocks.

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Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered an issue with its second stage late Sunday resulting in the loss of the Michibiki 5 (QZS-5) navigation satellite.
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I'm starting to worry that I'm not worried enough about the AI bubble.

Bollywood’s top stars are driving production costs sky-high with private trailers, personal chefs, and massive entourages, insiders say. The hefty fees are hiking up production costs and straining the Indian film industry's already fragile finances.

The world’s democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals.

arXiv:2504.17287v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In API testing, deriving logical constraints on API response bodies to be used as oracles is crucial for generating test cases and performing automated testing of RESTful APIs. However, existing approaches are restricted to dynamic analysis, in wh…

arXiv:2512.17532v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models struggle to maintain reliable performance under extreme real-world visual degradations, which impede their practical robustness. Existing robust MLLMs predominantly rely on implicit training/adaptation that focuses sol…

arXiv:2512.17386v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deterministic auctions are attractive in practice due to their transparency, simplicity, and ease of implementation, motivating a sharp understanding of when they match randomized designs. We study deterministic implementation in single-item auctions …