Paris Saint-Germain ordered to pay superstar forward now at Real Madrid unpaid salary and bonuses.

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

SYDNEY — Hundreds remained on Bondi Beach long after after the sun had set Tuesday

Simu Liu is moving from the MCU to a very wacky White House. The on-screen superhero, best known for his starring role in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” will make his Broadway debut in “Oh, Mary!” He will play Mary Todd Lincoln’s teacher in the historical send-up, the show’s p…

Viruses and bacteria get a bad rap around the world, but now Flinders University experts are identifying the positive "upside" of powerful benefits that microbes have on human health.

arXiv:2512.13365v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a parallel random-search method for reducing additive complexity in fast matrix multiplication. The approach replaces expensive exact evaluation with fast heuristic scoring, including the new Greedy-Intersections strategy. The meth…

Police released new surveillance videos Monday of a person of interest in the deadly shooting at Brown University. The FBI is offering up to $50,000 for any information about the person in the videos.

He'll oversee flagship global marketing campaigns and lead global A&R efforts.

The March 12 charity concert will also include appearances by Alexa Ray Joel, Gavin DeGraw, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tanya Tucker, The War and Treaty, Joy Oladokun, and Bettye LaVette

In this edition of Entre Nous we meet an illustrator, interpreter, comic book author and historian of typography. He's put all of those things together in a series of delightful books that make perfect gifts for the holidays or just about any time. David Rault tells us about his new book that's out …

Paul Doyle had previous convictions for serious violence and was described as a ‘live wire’ by a Royal Marines colleagueThe sound was sickening: a thud, thud, thud as bodies bounced violently off the bumper. Inside Paul Doyle’s two-tonne vehicle, the scene was perhaps even more shocking.Dashcam foot…

Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year's holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they'll wish they could eat.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a "very workable" peace plan to end the war in Ukraine could be presented to Russia within days.

2025 was a banner year for conservation and community at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. Together with our community, partners, volunteers, and passionate staff, we continued to build a more...

Larian has confirmed that its upcoming role-playing game, Divinity, is indeed turn-based following speculation from the developer's fans.

Two students were killed and nine wounded as hunt for unknown suspect enters fourth day, amid growing frustrationThe FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the killer of two students in a mass shooting at Brown University as the manhunt for someone described by th…

The Trump administration’s new national security strategy has rightly drawn criticism for presuming to tell our European allies how to arrange their domestic affairs. Equally as baffling is its near silence on a genuine United States national security concern — bolstering our offensive and defensive…

Glencore Plc is strengthening its position in Peru with the purchase of a project near its existing mining operations, part of the company’s global copper expansion strategy.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in an interview published Tuesday that she was at first “aghast” at Elon Musk’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “I was initially aghast,” Wiles told author Chris Whipple in a story published in Vanity Fair. “Because I …

The ultimate goal of materials scientists is to design and create materials with precise structures and tailored properties. Predictive technologies have advanced significantly with the rise of AI, yet the delicate nature of chemistry, where even the smallest change can alter a material's behavior, …

Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. today announced support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore browser in its AgenticTrust service to ensure that artificial intelligence-powered agents built on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure are cryptographically signed and secure. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore …

Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic drama “Fallout” has returned for Season 2, and it’s even bigger and more explosive than the first. Inspired by the beloved video game, in Season 1, creators Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner followed naive vault dweller Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) as she left h…

The House is expected to vote on a GOP-led health care bill this week that would not extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, which expire Dec. 31. President Trump threw his support behind the bill in a news conference on Monday, saying people will get "better health care at a much lower cost." CBS New…

On December 16, the Paris labour court ruled on the long-running dispute between Kylian Mbappé and his former club, PSG. It ordered PSG to pay over 60 million euros to the player in unpaid wages and bonuses. Both sides were claiming astronomical sums from the other following their tumultuous split i…

Answers to each clue for the December 16, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Read the Monetary Policy Radar preview of the Bank of England’s meeting on Thursday

Former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed Monday she and former President Obama were set to see legendary director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner the day the couple was found dead.The big picture: The Reiners' death triggered mourning across Hollywood and far beyond. But President Trump used t…

Satellite images show the paramilitary force is burying and burning bodies, Yale University researchers say.

FUNDING FILMMAKERS Netflix has unveiled the return of its Documentary Talent Fund for a fourth year, offering five U.K. and Ireland-based filmmakers £30,000 ($40,000) each to create short documentaries exploring the theme of “Change.” “We are looking to work with creatives who may have some experien…

These devices and gadgets can elevate your standard laptop setup - and you won't have to spend a fortune.

M23 rebels have announced they will withdraw from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo

arXiv:2512.13210v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For a finite collection of connected graphs $\mathcal{F}$, the $\mathcal{F}$-MINOR-DELETION problem consists in, given a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell$, deciding whether $G$ contains a vertex set of size at most $\ell$ whose removal results in an $\m…

Police said Paul Doyle, 54, used his vehicle ‘as a weapon’ in a moment of rage at a victory parade in the city on 25 MayA former Royal Marine has been jailed for more than 21 years for mowing down dozens of Liverpool football fans in a “truly shocking” act that “defies ordinary understanding”.Paul D…

Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world.

arXiv:2509.09810v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Autoformalization has emerged as a term referring to the automation of formalization - specifically, the formalization of mathematics using interactive theorem provers (proof assistants). Its rapid development has been driven by progress in deep l…

Donald Trump is about to get the green light from the Supreme Court to proceed with his MAGA plan to dismantle the administrative state.

James Cameron's new film, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang, is in theaters December 19.

Paul Doyle struck more than 130 people when he plowed his car through fans leaving a jubilant victory parade for Liverpool F.C.

Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.

These WIRED-tested two-wheelers will help you scoot scoot scoot around town.

Despite President Trump's claims of an "A+++++" economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significant challenges that need to be addressed.

The war in Ukraine has pushed defence issues to the top of the agenda in Germany, where the federal government has confirmed that a military call-up will return as early as next year. All young men born from 2008 onwards will have to register and undergo medical exams, starting in 2027. To begin wit…

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Ketchup maker says current CEO will not have a management role when the group splits in two next year

After months of negotiations, Howard Stern said he’s staying with SiriusXM, where his show has aired since 2006, for another three years. Stern announced that he had reached a deal renewal with the satellite-radio broadcaster on “The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday. “I’m happy to announce that I figured …

arXiv:2512.12713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Control policies in deep reinforcement learning are often implemented with fixed-capacity multilayer perceptrons trained by backpropagation, which lack structural plasticity and depend on global error signals. This paper introduces the Self-Motivated …

Thailand and Cambodia have had disputes over land going back generations, Al Jazeera's Victoria Gatenby breaks it down.

S&P 500 stocks may be expensive relative to their historical averages, but many are cheaper than they were at the start of the quarter.

arXiv:2405.07293v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Effective monitoring of unusual transportation behaviors, such as wrong-way cycling (i.e., riding a bicycle or e-bike against designated traffic flow), is crucial for optimizing law enforcement deployment and traffic planning. However, accurately …

Norris was handed a life sentence in 2012 for murdering the teenager in a racist 1993 attack.

Perfection is a hard, a soft, a blue, a sheep and a goat’s, say our panel of experts, but three to four generous wedges will do the trickWhat should I serve on my Christmas cheeseboard?David, via emailIt will come as no surprise that Mathew Carver, founder of Pick & Cheese, The Cheese Barge and Rind…

Nintendo recorded more than 30 minutes of extra conversations featuring Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's chatty companion characters that don't currently appear in the game.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said BTC is likely to hit all-time highs next year, with lower volatility and weaker equity correlations reshaping how institutions view the asset.

Picture a budget meeting at a government agency or a boardroom in a multinational firm. A generative AI system has drafted a cash-flow projection, summarized a 200-page policy report, and suggested a pricing tweak or benefits change. The prose looks polished, the charts look clean — but a faulty cal…

arXiv:2511.00623v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Data centers play an increasingly critical role in societal digitalization, yet their rapidly growing energy demand poses significant challenges for sustainable operation. To enhance the energy efficiency of geographically distributed data centers…

arXiv:2512.13019v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Instructional video generation is an emerging task that aims to synthesize coherent demonstrations of procedural activities from textual descriptions. Such capability has broad implications for content creation, education, and human-AI interaction, ye…

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Launched in November, Sentinel-6B will track ocean height with ultraprecision to advance marine forecasting, national security, and more. Sentinel-6B, a joint mission by NASA and its U.S. and European partners to survey 90% of the world’s oceans for the benefit of communities and commerce, has start…

Subscription boxes are the rare gift that keeps its charm long after the wrapping paper is gone. You make the choice once, but the surprises keep landing on their doorstep for months after that. For anyone who loves the buzz of a delivery, these are gifts that extend the season well past December. E…

Crypto is on a path to inclusion in retirement plans — if it can get past company plan sponsors

The FDA has proposed adding bemotrizinol to the list of approved active ingredients for sunscreens.

A study reveals an increasing number of practices and clinicians transitioning to concierge and direct primary care models in a move that cuts medical billing's administrative burden.

Ford sees a way to profit from the AI boom by playing more into energy storage. The move has worked well for Tesla.

Dash cam footage has emerged of Boris and Sofia Gurman trying to disarm one of the suspected attackers. The couple was killed, but their bravery was lauded by Australians.

Seth Meyers lamented that on a "really dark day," Trump's ugly comments were "even worse that I could have imagined."

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford will testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Tuesday morning on the state of air travel. The hearing comes less than a month after the record-long government shutdown ended. During the 43-day lapse in fund…

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in a new interview said that she and President Trump had a "loose agreement" to move on from "score settling" after the first 90 days of his second term, but acknowledged that his attacks against his opponents may "look like retribution" in some cases. Wiles' c…

arXiv:2512.11869v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular 3D lane detection remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlusion, and temporal instability across frames. Anchor-based approaches such as Anchor3DLane have demonstrated strong performance by regressing continuous 3D lane curves from m…

The data intelligence company has just raised more than $4 billion in a Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation — up 34% from the $100 billion valuation that it achieved just three months ago.

Combined with softer than expected October data, this morning's numbers point to at least a modestly weaker jobs market as the economy heads into the end of the year.

Fornax the Furnace appears as a few dim stars to the unaided eye but harbors galaxies from one orbiting the Milky Way to some at the edge of the universe.
The post Fornax the Furnace: A dim constellation with galaxies galore first appeared on EarthSky.

Some firefighter gear is manufactured with chemicals called brominated flame retardants that could pose a risk to firefighter health, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

French farmers are protesting the systematic cull of cattle as herds face the spread of nodular dermatitis, or lumpy skin disease. The disease is classified as a category-A disease by the EU's animal health law, which implies that if one cow gets stick, the entire herd must be killed. FRANCE 24's So…

Firms aim to link air and ground platforms using visual positioning technology
The post Vantor partners with Niantic Spatial on GPS-free navigation for defense market appeared first on SpaceNews.

Police in city of Pacific told residents to evacuate just hours after evacuation order had been lifted in nearby suburbsResidents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in …

arXiv:2512.12611v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology is crucial for next-generation underwater networks. However, covering multiple users and targets and balancing sensing and communication performance in complex underwater acoustic (UWA) environmen…

Quote from: John Kerslake on Today at 08:53 amIncreasin the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen increase the thrust in some rocket engins.Increasin the ratop of hydrogen to oxygen increas the specific impulse.Tr...

arXiv:2512.12031v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the exact recovery threshold subject to preserving the privacy of connections in $h$-uniform hypergraphs. Privacy is characterized by the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-hyperedge differential privacy (DP), an extension of the notion of $(\eps…

arXiv:2209.15635v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Traditional vertical federated learning schema suffers from two main issues: 1) restricted applicable scope to overlapped samples and 2) high system challenge of real-time federated serving, which limits its application to advertising systems. To …

On Monday night, the US military said it attacked three more boats believed to have been smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing eight peopleUS military says eight killed in strikes on three boats in eastern PacificUS congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned that Donald Trump’s repeated per…

Germany international not part of Hammers’ plansWard-Prowse and Guilherme could also be offloadedMilan are preparing a loan deal for Niclas Füllkrug, who is available after a disastrous spell at West Ham. The Germany striker has toiled since moving to the London Stadium for £27.5m in the summer of 2…

arXiv:2512.09321v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Prompt injection attacks aim to contaminate the input data of an LLM to mislead it into completing an attacker-chosen task instead of the intended task. In many applications and agents, the input data originates from multiple sources, with each so…

arXiv:2512.12563v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks are increasingly vital for the low-altitude economy, enabling wireless coverage in high-mobility and hard-to-reach environments. However, providing reliable connectivity to sparsely distributed aerial users in dynamic th…

Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribesUK politics live – latest updatesAn independent review into the impact of foreign financial influence and interference in domestic politics from Russia and other ho…

Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that she and former President Barack Obama were longtime friends of the couple and called them “decent, courageous” people.

The Guardian's Jonathan Liew visits the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace to explore how the game went from the working men's clubs to the world stage, what the next 10 years looks like, and how it continues to have a ever-developing cultural impact around the world Continue reading...

A man who ran towards a gunman during the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia is a Middle Eastern refugee.

Medline Inc.’s long-delayed initial public offering is on track to raise the most of any listing this year, as investors keen on the medical supply company’s business model look past its rocky path back to the public markets.

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how scientists identify drug targets for complex conditions.

iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal…

arXiv:2503.11250v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Sequential design of real and computer experiments via Gaussian Process (GP) models has proven useful for parsimonious, goal-oriented data acquisition purposes. In this work, we focus on acquisition strategies for a GP model that needs to be…

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arXiv:2507.14839v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: With rapid advancements in quantum computing, it is widely believed that there will be quantum hardware capable of compromising classical cryptography and hence, the internet and the current information security infrastructure in the coming …

Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a more nuanced and contextual approach.

ETF inflows can remain positive even during market drawdowns because they reflect allocation decisions rather than near-term trading signals, one trader said.

The US House member says president’s rhetoric about her and Somali Americans could have dangerous consequencesUS congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous conseque…

Agentic exposure management startup Dux Technologies Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $9 million in funding to grow its U.S. go-to-market organization and accelerate development of its platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation a…

Puccini’s opera returns to Covent Garden in a vivid staging that, although 40 years old, still feels fresh and fun. David Levene had exclusive access to rehearsals to witness the severed heads, the sumptuous costumes – and the executioner going greenAndrei Șerban’s staging, with dazzling designs by …

DTEK boss Maxim Timchenko says the intensity of Russian strikes is so frequent there is no time to recover.

Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…