Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pondThe US has paused its promised multi-billion-pound investment into British tech over trade disagreements, marking a serious setback in US-UK relations.The £31bn “prosperity deal”, hailed by K…

arXiv:2512.03290v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful, mesh-free paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they notoriously struggle with stiff, multi-scale, and nonlinear systems due to the inherent spectr…

Chicago photographer Gonzalo Guzman loves to capture all facets of life in photos.

No more dead American soldiers overseas — that should be our mission and our mantra.

In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.

The words we use to describe gender-based violence (GBV), such as "victim," "survivor" and "person with lived experience," aren't neutral. These labels are powerful. They can affirm dignity or reinforce stigma. They can mobilize movements or obscure systemic issues.

A new study finds an increase in risk of binge drinking among 12th graders who use two or more cannabis products.

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Abstract: Mojo is an emerging programming language built on MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) and supports JIT (Just-in-Time) compilation. It enables transparent hardware-specific optimizations (e.g., for CPUs and GPUs), while allowing users to…

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." We've seen an absolute deluge of AI slop this year, from fake m…

Sheina Gutnick's dad came to Australia to escape persecution for his Jewish faith, and his murder in Bondi has left her feeling "betrayed by the government."

The brain has an ability to regain function after traumatic injury, even though it is often said that neurons cannot regenerate. This raises an important question: how does healing occur? In a new JNeurosci paper published today (December 15), Athanasios Alexandris and his team at Johns Hopkins Univ…

Cheaper than the best 256GB memory card deal during Black Friday.

Quote from: Vultur on Today at 04:15 pmThat makes sense; I'd just rather not see them moving up that ladder of risk.No risk, no frisk.Every single achievement they own right now is a result of risk taking...

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Dec 15https://twitter.com/AndySaunders_1/status/2000508028177768585QuoteAndy Saunders - Apollo Remastered@AndySaunders_1TODAY!60th ANNIVERSARY of the world's first rendezvous in space! 🚀Gemini VI-A and VIIHuman spaceFLIGHT? - Gemini is where i...

arXiv:2512.11755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Online product reviews contain rich but noisy signals that overwhelm users and hinder effective decision-making. Existing LLM-based summarizers remain generic and fail to account for individual preferences, limiting their practical utility. We propose…

Because co-founder Emmanuel de Buretel celebrates the label's 20th anniversary by looking back at its history of breaking acts using a boutique approach.

Gunmen killed at least 15 people Sunday during Australia's Bondi Beach Jewish community Hanukkah celebration. Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, joins CBS News with his reaction to the shooting.

Google says the reports lacked "helpful next steps."

Mali has restored control of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine to Barrick Mining Corp. and will return three tons of gold to the company after the two sides resolved a years-long dispute last month.

President Trump on Monday afternoon is scheduled to participate in a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation. The medal was established to recognize service members deployed to the U.S. international border with Mexico. Watch the presentation, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EST, in the player above.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Monday that the state has the right to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) despite President Trump’s executive order last week that seeks to institute a national AI standard by pushing back on state laws.  DeSantis, who has rolled out a “Citizen Bill of Rights…

Ethics rules generally prohibiting government workers from giving presents to their bosses or accepting gifts from non-governmental organizations are particularly relevant around the holidays.

As we celebrate Pride Month, we want to introduce you to an icon in Chicago's LGBTQ+ community and nightlife: Miss Foozie.

The Stephen King adaptation wrapped up its first season on HBO last night with plenty of mayhem and a few plot contortions.

Bryony Worthington says the media should not be pushing a western attitude to climate strategies to the detriment of African nations. Plus letters from Prof Hugh Hunt, Dr Portia Adade Williams and Angela Churie KallhaugeYour editorial (8 December) says that it is “hard to disagree” with calls to ban…

Visible light can be used to create electrodes from conductive plastics completely without hazardous chemicals. This is shown in a new study carried out by researchers at Linköping and Lund universities, Sweden. The electrodes can be created on different types of surfaces, which opens up a new type …

The Christmas hit has now spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on the songs tally.

If you've been waiting for AI promises to materialize, 2026 may be your year - and this unexpected element could be why.

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Abstract: Modern deep learning methods have achieved impressive results across tasks from disease classification, estimating continuous biomarkers, to generating realistic medical images. Most of these approaches are trained to model conditional distributio…

Chevron Corp, lowered the price of Venezuelan crude offered to US refiners after a tanker was seized by American forces in the Caribbean and as global prices drifted lower.

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Abstract: Model Predictive Path Integral control is a powerful sampling-based approach suitable for complex robotic tasks due to its flexibility in handling nonlinear dynamics and non-convex costs. However, its applicability in real-time, highfrequency robo…

Weak retail sales and spending-averse households are pushing China toward targeted stimulus — including offering digital-yuan incentives — but the results have been mixed.

Crypto lawyer Irina Heaver said the ruling reinforces limits on exchange liability and rejects claims tied to speculative future gains following BSV’s delisting

Companies are suing to lock down the billions of dollars they might be owed if the Supreme Court rules against President Trump's tariffs. Why it matters: Implementing the sprawling levies at the center of Trump's economic agenda looks simple relative to the chaos of trying to undo it.This is one of …

arXiv:2512.11443v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For any symmetric discrete memoryless channel with input and output alphabet of size $q$, where $q$ is a prime power, we prove that there exist error-correcting codes approaching channel capacity encodable by arithmetic circuits (with weighted additio…

arXiv:2512.11067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Traditional DBMSs execute user- or application-provided SQL queries over relational data with strong semantic guarantees and advanced query optimization, but writing complex SQL is hard and focuses only on structured tables. Contemporary multimodal sy…

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Abstract: Implementation bugs threaten the soundness of algorithmic software verifiers. Generating correctness certificates for correct programs allows for efficient independent validation of verification results, and thus helps to reveal such bugs. Automat…

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Tories accuse Vince of ‘morally repugnant statement’ after he says Israeli government is partly responsible for rising antisemitismWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attackThe green entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince has faced condemnation for saying the Israeli government is partly re…

The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two outer most planets, might be more rocky and less icy than previously thought.

As a Pop!_OS veteran, I've not been this excited about a release since I first started using System76's in-house distribution.

NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be up to 3.5 miles in size.

The singer, who has a long history of legal problems, is facing new criminal charges for allegedly destroying hookahs and assaulting a man.

Economists want to see whether the combined report shows a sharp deterioration in an already fragile labor market — or whether the job market appeared to stabilize.

After the latest in a series of deadly attacks on the global Jewish community, Jews are angry. And we have good reason to beDave Rich is director of policy at the Community Security TrustHeaton Park, Boulder, Washington DC – and now Bondi beach. Add the murders of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE and Ziv …

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Between The Game Awards and showcases like Day of the Devs, Wholesome Snack, Latin American Games and Women-Led Games, there’s been a ton of video game news over the last week (I need Control Resonant ASAP, please and thank yo…

The FBI and police are asking anyone who may have more video evidence or tips relating to the deadly shooting at Brown University. A person of interest was released Sunday night. CBS News law enforcement contributor Rodney Harrison has more.

Inside the hardcore band’s radical reimagining of big-stage touring, community energy, and what it means to stay true at scale.

As artificial intelligence moves from experiments to everyday use, companies are realizing that making it work at scale within an enterprise AI partner ecosystem is harder than building an isolated demo. Practical concerns like cost and reliability are now shaping how organizations deploy AI systems…

T-Mobile is giving away free Samsung Galaxy S25 phones if you switch to the T-Mobile Essentials promo plan this holiday season.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Otis Kane and GENA.

There used to be this thing called “flipping back a few pages.”

The narrowing spread between yields on STRD and the 10-year U.S. Treasury could signal boosted demand for the preferred stock.

As of Dec. 15, you can get the Sony Inzone M9 II 27-inch 4K gaming monitor for $698, down from $949.99, at Amazon.

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Abstract: We explore the node classification task in the context of graph domain adaptation, which uses both source and target graph structures along with source labels to enhance the generalization capabilities of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on target gra…

This will be the sixth and final launch of the year for United Launch Alliance. Teams are targeting liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:49 a.m. EST (0849 UTC).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved waivers for six states to restrict the purchase of junk food and sweetened beverages with SNAP benefits, in an effort to promote healthier eating habits and reduce the chronic disease epidemic.

The White House sent a stern private message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressing that the killing of a top Hamas military commander over the weekend constituted a violation of the ceasefire agreement brokered by President Trump, two U.S. officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The a…

Wondering if your debt load is too high? Here's how to gauge it — and what else you should keep in mind right now.

Smaller hospitality businesses are angry at unexpected increase in business rates

Scientists have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism could transform our understanding of pain and lead to better treatments.

The U.S. thwarted an alleged terror plot in California by members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far-left anti-government group, authorities said. The members were allegedly planning to carry out the bomb attacks across Southern California on New Year's Eve. CBS News justice reporter Jake …

arXiv:2502.03090v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is essential for the reliable application of computational models in engineering and science. Among surrogate modeling techniques, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is particularly valuable for its non-paramet…

arXiv:2512.11168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the problem of learning an unknown, possibly nonlinear operator between separable Hilbert spaces from supervised data. Inputs are drawn from a prescribed probability measure on the input space, and outputs are (possibly noisy) evaluations …

The Leapfrog Group said more organizations received the Top Hospital award this year due to improvements in some patient safety metrics.

Siemens and nVent have entered into a collaboration aimed at developing a liquid cooling and power reference architecture specifically engineered to support hyperscale AI workloads. As AI applications continue to expand in scale, intensity, and geographic distribution, data center infrastructure mus…

https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2000620135393136807QuoteEasternShoreSpaceflight@EShoreSpacefltRocket Lab Electron launch update for Wallops Island, Virginia: STP-S30 (DiskSat). A few days ago, NAV warnings were posted, and today the TFRs...

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Abstract: Relational databases (RDBs) are widely regarded as the gold standard for storing structured information. Consequently, predictive tasks leveraging this data format hold significant application promise. Recently, Relational Deep Learning (RDL) has …

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Abstract: Efficient and reliable detection of generated images is critical for the responsible deployment of generative models. Existing approaches primarily focus on improving detection accuracy and robustness under various image transformations and advers…

President Trump's national security trade actions are delivering real results, as evidenced by increased investment in the U.S., new jobs, and stronger local economies, due to tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Arguably the poster-boy for Bazball, England’s vice-captain is in dire need of an innings of substance in Adelaide“They were shocking shots. I’ll admit that every day of the week. Especially the one in Perth. It was nearly a bouncer and I’ve tried to drive it. It was just bad batting. The one in Bri…

arXiv:2512.11507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Abutment design is a critical step in dental implant restoration. However, manual design involves tedious measurement and fitting, and research on automating this process with AI is limited, due to the unavailability of large annotated datasets. Altho…

arXiv:2512.11223v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The testing phase is an essential part of software development, but manually creating test cases can be time-consuming. Consequently, there is a growing need for more efficient testing methods. To reduce the burden on developers, various automated tes…

arXiv:2512.10987v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In recent years, the landscape of federated learning has witnessed significant advancements, particularly in decentralized methodologies. This research paper presents a comprehensive comparison of Centralized Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) with…

Congress should be commended for passing this key authorization bill before the end of the calendar year. The bill makes our military stronger and sends a strong signal that more money is needed to modernize and rebuild the war stocks of our military.
The post 2026 Defense Policy Bill Again Shows C…

President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress for posting that director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed due to "Trump Derangement Syndrome."Why it matters: It's a rare break between the president and his party in Congress, some members …

I test out nifty tech gadgets all year long. Here are my favorite products that make perfect stocking stuffers for the holiday season.

Guan Heng, who filmed at sites in China of alleged rights violations against Muslim group, detained by ICE in AugustA Chinese man who left his country after filming at sites of alleged human rights violations against Uyghurs now faces the risk of removal from the United States, according to his lawy…

arXiv:2512.11110v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models are widely used across domains, yet there are concerns about their factual reliability and biases. Factual knowledge probing offers a systematic means to evaluate these aspects. Most existing benchmarks focus on single-entity fac…

arXiv:2512.11122v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study examines how public perception influences the implementation and adoption of cybersecurity frameworks in South Africa. Using the PRISMA methodology, a systematic literature review was conducted across reputable scholarly databases, yielding…

Inside malaria parasites, tiny iron crystals spin like rockets, revealing a hidden weakness scientists may be able to exploit. Inside every cell of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum sits a small compartment packed with microscopic iron crystals. While the parasite is alive, these cr…

Statement comes as regional body says no evidence of fraud in November vote that Trump-backed candidate Asfura leads.

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arXiv:2512.11350v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Road traffic accidents represent a leading cause of mortality globally, with incidence rates rising due to increasing population, urbanization, and motorization. Rising accident rates raise concerns about traffic surveillance effectiveness. Traditiona…

The president attributed the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife to “Trump derangement syndrome.” There was no indication that the couple’s political beliefs were linked to their deaths.

Quote from: sanman on 12/11/2025 02:48 pm"Bridging the Swarm" - seems like a straightforward descriptive title - but where's the pun?"Bringing the storm" would probably be the relevant homophone.

Rival companies both gearing up for £5bn sales

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/2000633655501197538QuoteNational Air and Space Museum@airandspace·The original 6️⃣ 7️⃣60 years ago today, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford launched on the Gemini VI mission to rendezvous with Gemini VII (whic...

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Abstract: We introduce HBLLM, a wavelet-enhanced high-fidelity $1$-bit post-training quantization method for Large Language Models (LLMs). By leveraging Haar wavelet transforms to enhance expressive capacity through frequency decomposition, HBLLM significan…

Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 NAICS Codes: NASA seeks industry-led architecture concept development, concept refinement studies, and risk-reduction activities that address Moon to Mars Architecture gaps through the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-3 (NextSTEP-3). NASA plans to release…

arXiv:2512.11725v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper continues the study of a new variant of graph coloring with a connectivity constraint recently introduced by Hsieh et al. [COCOON 2024]. A path in a vertex-colored graph is called conflict-free if there is a color that appears exactly once …

Google has revealed that its “dark web report” feature will be discontinued starting February 16, 2026. Launched initially about a year and a half ago, this tool aimed to help users monitor their personal information on the dark web For some users, the dark web report seemed like a valuable tool, sc…

Quote from: zubenelgenubi on Today at 06:09 pmQuote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 03:29 pmDelayed to December 17 per SpaceX's mission page.Booster recovery weather ri...

As a Pop!_OS veteran, I've not been this excited about a release since I first started using System76's in-house distribution.

The latest meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner wrapped in Berlin on Monday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has the latest details.

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that there are as many as two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. At first glance, these galaxies might appear to be randomly scatte…

If passed, the bill would see the ex-president and others receive shorter sentences for coup-related crimes.

Germany says Americans will provide security guarantees as Kyiv and Washington admit differences on territorial issues

Volume surged 86% above average during resistance rejection, though late-session breakout signals potential reversal from bearish structure.