arXiv:2512.11819v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Weather forecasting is not only a predictive task but an interpretive scientific process requiring explanation, contextualization, and hypothesis generation. This paper introduces AI-Meteorologist, an explainable LLM-agent framework that converts raw …

In a recent study, Dr. Yuchen Tan and colleagues examined the response of the North China Plain settlement of Jiahu to the abrupt climatic 8.2 ka event. They found that Jiahu not only survived but also demonstrated remarkable resilience to the climate event, indicating that describing the event as s…

arXiv:2512.12676v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We propose a robust and scalable variational Bayes (VB) framework designed to effectively handle contamination and outliers in dataset. Our approach partitions the data into $m$ disjoint subsets and formulates a joint optimization problem based on r…

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is leading the push for the Trump administration to follow through with releasing documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The pressure campaign comes after President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law l…

The hit competition show wraps up Season 28 tonight with a star-studded live finale. Here's how to stream it online

Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental company that won top consumer pitch at Disrupt this year.

arXiv:2504.05958v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose a real-time hybrid controller scheme to detect and mitigate False-Data Injection (FDI) attacks on Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). Our method uses sensor redundancy to create equivalent controller realizations, each driven by…

arXiv:2508.08783v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Animal pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with growing importance in ecological monitoring, behavioral analysis, and intelligent livestock management. Compared to human pose estimation, animal pose estimation is more challen…

arXiv:2512.12773v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the recent development and integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in transportation systems of the modern world, the emphasis on customizing user interfaces to optimize the overall user experience has been growing expediently. Therefore, unders…

Duo delivers folk magic with the help of Trey Anastasio and Jack Antonoff at the latter's benefit concert

arXiv:2505.04050v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 3D terrain models are essential in fields such as video game development and film production. Since surface color often correlates with terrain geometry, capturing this relationship is crucial to achieving realism. However, most existing methods g…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Tuesday labeled President Trump’s comments about the death of Rob Reiner “inexplicable.” A day after Reiner and his wife were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home, Trump posted on social media that the actor and director died “due to the anger he caused ot…

Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say their clients’ health is ‘rapidly deteriorating’Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers are likely to die without David Lammy’s intervention, lawyers representing the prisoners have said as they criticised the justice secretary fo…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon would not publicly release the much-discussed video showing a deadly second strike on an alleged drug boat off Venezuela on Sept. 2. Why it matters: Some Democrats and legal experts have described the strike on two survivors who were clin…

President Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles contradicted his claims about former President Clinton's ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a new interview. The big picture: The president has repeatedly tried to deflect attention from his own ties to Epstein by spotlighting Clinton's relationship with the conv…

arXiv:2511.13102v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent research in Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation (CAPE) has adopted fixed textual keypoint description as semantic prior for two-stage pose matching frameworks. While this paradigm enhances robustness and flexibility by disentangling the depen…

arXiv:2512.12619v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. In contrast to the conventional end-fed PASS, signals are fed from the center input ports and propagate towards both sides of the waveguide. By doing so, spatial-mult…

In Rob’s hands, “Stand by Me,” my most autobiographical novel, rang true.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed.  Officially named PSR J2322-2650b, this Jupiter-mass object appears to have an exotic helium-and…

Richards reportedly felt unable to "commit" to a rigorous four-month touring schedule across the UK and Europe.
The Rolling Stones Scrap Planned 2026 Tour as Keith Richards Faces Health Challenges: Report
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"Hatred is about scapegoating.

New research challenges the previous identification of a famous fossil dubbed "Little Foot."

News of Ahmed al-Ahmed’s selfless act quickly reached al-Nayrab, where locals say it proves religion or birthplace no barrier to heroismA man who risked his life to wrestle a gun from a shooter in the Bondi beach terror attack on Sunday has become a hero in his home town in Syria.Video of Ahmed al-A…

The footprints date back some 210 million years and show traces of toes and claws.

Equinor accused of ‘extensive and long-term pollution’ caused by years of inadequate maintenanceNorway’s national oil company, Equinor, is facing a £53m penalty for oil spills and gas leaks at the oil-rich Scandinavian state’s only refinery, which officials said were the result of years of inadequat…

arXiv:2512.12083v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The superior representation capability of pre-trained vision foundation models (VFMs) has been harnessed for enhancing latent diffusion models (LDMs). These approaches inject the rich semantics from high-dimensional VFM representations (e.g., DINOv3) …

Instagram is making the jump from mobile devices to the living-room TV for the first time — a bid to ratchet up viewing of short-form Reels, by taking videos to the biggest screen in the house. The Meta-owned social platform on Tuesday launched a pilot of Instagram for TV, an app designed to display…

The country musician now has five singles certified RIAA Diamond or higher.

arXiv:2512.12834v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Procedural Music Generation (PMG) is an emerging field that algorithmically creates music content for video games. By leveraging techniques from simple rule-based approaches to advanced machine learning algorithms, PMG has the potential to significant…

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Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers.

Bitcoin miners who pivoted business plans to high-performance computing benefitted greatly this year, but have seen sharp declines of late.

The Trump administration argued in a Monday filing that construction on the president's massive ballroom project must continue due to "security concerns."Why it matters: The president often invokes national security as a core motivator and justification for his sweeping policy changes, from immigrat…

A first-of-its-kind national study finds that vehicle-to-home charging can turn electric cars into grid-smart assets, reducing both energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

The São Paulo auction will record every document involved in the process on blockchain, making it a public, traceable, tamper-evident record.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a proposal to end his country's nearly four-year war with Russia are "very workable" and could be finalized within days, but he warns key issues remain. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more details.

arXiv:2512.09196v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: High-performance GPU kernel optimization remains a critical yet labor-intensive task in modern machine learning workloads. Although Triton, a domain-specific language for GPU programming, enables developers to write efficient kernels with concise …

arXiv:2512.12039v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The density of states of a self-adjoint operator generalizes the eigenvalue distribution of a Hermitian matrix. We prove convergence of the density of states for a tight-binding model with a slowly-varying periodic potential to the density of states o…

Sudan has topped the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row

West Texas Intermediate oil fell below $55 a barrel for the first time since February 2021, the latest sign that crude supplies are outpacing demand as the market braces for a large surplus.

US-listed biotechnology and pharmaceutical company share sales are staging a late-year revival, as mergers and acquisitions in the industry boost valuations and stoke additional demand.

arXiv:2512.12129v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative models are a popular choice for adult-to-adult voice conversion (VC) because of their efficient way of modelling unlabelled data. To this point their usefulness in producing children speech and in particular adult to child VC has not been i…

Farmers were once again protesting across south-west France on December 16, following the slaughter of a herd of more than 200 cows last week after a case of nodular dermitis - or lumpy skin disease - was discovered in just one animal. It comes as tensions are particularly high between the French ag…

Chloé Zhao, Nia DaCosta and Geeta Gandbhir have been added to the list of honorees for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser. Dubbed “Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford,” this year’s fundraiser will pay homage to the actor and filmmaker who founded the …

The song enters at No. 99, sparked by a viral TikTok trend.

Sajid Akram had "limited" contact with his family in Hyderabad since moving to Australia 27 years ago, a police official said.

Both the October and November job creation numbers, released Tuesday by the Labor Department, came in late because of the 43-day government shutdown.

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus.

Lululemon Athletica Inc. announced Chief Executive Officer Calvin McDonald would be stepping down following the release of last week's quarterly earnings, as it looks to reignite innovation and stave off pressure from newer competitors. Burt Flickinger, the Managing Director of Strategic Resource Gr…

arXiv:2412.03439v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Internal features from large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have recently been established as powerful semantic descriptors for a wide range of downstream tasks. Works that use these features generally need to add noise to images before passin…

The group and late legend’s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” tops Adult Contemporary.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released last month's jobs report on Tuesday, which showed that 64,000 jobs were added in November after losing 105,000 in October. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent breaks down how unemployment data could impact the Fed's next interest rate decision

Stephanie Valentine glamzilla opens up about inspiration, beauty, and why community, not virality, is at the heart of her content.

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post-apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil to waterways.

A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem with fire.

Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing prompt-based editing to the world of sound with a new model called SAM Audio that can segment individual sounds from complex audio recordings. The new model, available today through Meta’s Segment Anything Playground, has the potential to transform audio editing into …

Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. After nearly 20 years at the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the surface with its HiRISE camera. Short for High Resolut…

arXiv:2512.12880v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Parameter sharing in recursive transformers reduces model size but collapses layer-wise expressivity. We propose Mixture of LoRAs (MoL), a lightweight conditional-computation mechanism that inserts Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) experts inside a shared fe…

Younger households will need Social Security more than ever

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to brief members of Congress on new boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela. Caitlin Huey-Burns has more details.

Bitcoin was once considered too volatile, too unregulated, and too fringe for the kinds of financial instruments that respectable Wall Street firms package up and sell to wealthy clients. No longer.

The food waste startup founded by Nest alumnus Matt Rogers also received an investment from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund.

Advocacy group urges sanctions on Israel after Canadian delegation, including six lawmakers, turned back to Jordan.

Get a look at what's coming in this week's 'Mighty Nein' episode 'Belonging,' and the animated debut of a beloved character.

The zombie-decapitating sim Dead Island 3 is still being developed, according to financial documents from Dambuster Studios that were published on X and reported on by Video Games Chronicle. These documents suggest a 2028 release date, so that's something to look forward to.
Dambuster Studios' finan…

Picture yourself strolling through Christmas markets, sipping mulled wine. Would you want to spend more time exploring the city or waiting for a taxi in the cold?

arXiv:2506.06837v3 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI subfields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind et al. (2021) introduced a process for coalition formation that seeks m…

arXiv:2512.12432v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The paper demonstrates that invariant foliations are accurate, data-efficient and practical tools for data-driven modelling of physical systems. Invariant foliations can be fitted to data that either fill the phase space or cluster about an invarian…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there will not be an amendment vote on extending expiring ObamaCare enhanced subsidies as part of a House Republican health care bill this week, in a move that is infuriating moderate Republicans who had been pushing to go on the record about the subsidies. Johnson …

House Democratic leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as the battle to address rising health care premiums persists on Capitol Hill. Affordable Care Act subsidies, or enhanced tax credits that keep insurance costs lower for struggling Americans, are set to expire at the end of the month…

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live.

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and director at LME Global, joins "CBS News 24/7 Mornings" to discuss his new book "The Digital Delusion," where he examines the impact of increased reliance on computers in classrooms. Horvath also talks about his recent article in The Free Press, a Paramo…

Audiences will be treated to everything from special guests to K-pop performances all in the comfort of their own homes.

A DoorDash delivery person in Kentucky was accused of pepper spraying a customer's food, causing the customer to get sick.

“There is no doubt that the Western world needs Europe to be more successful,” Citadel founder Ken Griffin said during in an interview at a conference in Paris Tuesday. Griffin spoke about the importance of a “strong and prosperous Europe,” with Bloomberg’s Dani Burger. (Source: Bloomberg)

While “Wicked: For Good” has understandably taken up the lion’s share of attention in the Oscar race, there’s another movie musical adapted from a Broadway show that has been largely overlooked. Bill Condon, screenwriter of “Chicago” and director of “Dreamgirls” and “Beauty and the Beast” returns to…

The banking regulator began its formal rulemaking process to set up the procedures by which depository institutions can start stablecoin subsidiaries.

arXiv:2512.12939v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce the Continuous Edit Distance (CED), a geodesic and elastic distance for time-varying persistence diagrams (TVPDs). The CED extends edit-distance ideas to TVPDs by combining local substitution costs with penalized deletions/insertions, con…

This is the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT's twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.

Halima Begum's solicitors say she was "forced to resign" due to the charity's conduct towards her.

Jewish groups in the United States are urging their counterparts to increase security precautions after a recent attack during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. At least 15 people were killed and dozens were injured in the violent event overseas. “We need to ask these hard …

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Just in time for Christmas, a little calf has arrived at a German zoo and gone viral. But is he cuter than Moo Deng?Name: Panya the pygmy hippo.Age: About three weeks. Continue reading...

The government has launched a consultation on how the BBC should be funded in the future.

US says the World Trade Organization is sliding towards irrelevance

This is how I continue to work on my iPad when Wi-Fi, power, and the best travel plans fall apart.

The traditional CIO career path often involves a computer science degree and IT experience. Yet, many CIOs emerge from business backgrounds, including supply chain and marketing.

Dating app CMB's Dating Realness Report identifies daters' desires and challenges this year.

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, revealing rare views of Earth and the Moon in ultraviolet light. Taken on Nov. 17 — still months before the mission’s science phase begins — these “first light” images confirm the spacecraft is healthy while hinting at…

Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers...

The U.S. economy stumbled at the end of the year, new surveys showed, as rising prices tied to tariffs reduced customer demand and spurred businesses to further tighten the reins on hiring.

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