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arXiv:2512.11183v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current benchmarks that test LLMs on static, already-solved problems (e.g., math word problems) effectively demonstrated basic capability acquisition. The natural progression has been toward larger, more comprehensive and challenging collections of st…

A toxic haze engulfed Delhi on Monday, affecting visibility on the road and delaying flights and trains.

Let us emphasize first and foremost the economic case for chiplet architecture in the automotive systems. The automotive industry faces an unprecedented challenge: integrating increasingly sophisticated electronic systems while maintaining cost competitiveness in mass production. Traditional monolit…

Stats show continued progress away from landfill in Northern Ireland, but little movement in recycling rates
The post Northern Ireland recycling rate stagnates as Energy from Waste expands, Daera figures show appeared first on Circular Online.

arXiv:2512.11792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reality is a dance between rigid constraints and deformable structures. For video models, that means generating motion that preserves fidelity as well as structure. Despite progress in diffusion models, producing realistic structure-preserving motion …

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 05:44 amQuote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 01:10 amLaunch "probably" delayed per rumors, but the one "official" sign of t...

arXiv:2512.11367v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing causes global economic losses of \$10-25 billion annually and undermines marine sustainability and governance. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides reliable maritime surveillance under all weathe…

arXiv:2509.16716v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Algorithms for computing the classical Gaussian quadrature rules (Gauss--Jacobi, Gauss--Laguerre, and Gauss--Hermite) are presented, based on globally convergent fourth-order iterative methods combined with asymptotic approximations, which are app…

Inside the Polish shoe-shop chain’s complicated family ties and unresolved Russian legacy

James steered the Los Angeles Lakers to a narrow victory over the Phoenix Suns after blowing a 20-point lead.

Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne tread a delicate line between hard-hitting and empathetic in this profile of the Free Birth Society. Plus, an ode to The Gilmore GirlsA shocking Guardian investigation by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne into the Free Birth Society (FBS), a movement that made millions of dolla…

The Lionesses, Red Roses and European Ryder Cup team are shortlisted for Team of the Year at Sports Personality.

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.

arXiv:2512.11395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the surge of pre-trained text-to-image flow matching models, text-based image editing performance has gained remarkable improvement, especially for \underline{simple editing} that only contains a single editing target. To satisfy the exploding ed…

From winter wildfires in Los Angeles to the unchecked growth of data centers, here are the big climate stories we covered in 2025.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the shooting that killed at least 15 people an 'act of evil'.

Thirty years on, Bosnia still lives with the legacy of ethnic cleansing, mass displacement and the Srebrenica genocide.

arXiv:2512.11682v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Therapeutic decision-making in clinical medicine constitutes a high-stakes domain in which AI guidance interacts with complex interactions among patient characteristics, disease processes, and pharmacological agents. Tasks such as drug recommendation,…

The Welsh author vividly captures the solitude, hard labour, dramas and dangers of rural lifeIn these six stories of human frailty and responsibility, Welsh writer Cynan Jones explores the imperatives of love and the labour of making and sustaining lives. Each is told with a compelling immediacy and…

arXiv:2507.23242v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Optimizing queries for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems poses a significant challenge, particularly across diverse modal indices. We introduce RL-QR, a novel annotation-free reinforcement learning framework for query rewriting that eli…

arXiv:2512.11057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, particularly in resource-limited countries. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging serves as an accessible and cost-effective diagnostic tool but requires expert interpretation, which is o…

City watchdog the FCA announces plans to help first-time buyers and self-employed get on the property ladderBusiness live – latest updatesHouse prices in the UK could grow by as much as 4% next year but getting on the property ladder may become slightly less difficult, according to forecasts from th…

Actors, directors and politicians voice their sadness after bodies of Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner were found by authoritiesNews: Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner found dead at home in apparent homicideGallery: Rob Reiner – a life in picturesHollywood is in shock after the sudden death …

Dartmoor, Devon: In these treacherous conditions for the moorland walker, one false move and a wary wader will burst into the airDays of torrential rain have yet to drain from this broad ridge at the westernmost edge of Dartmoor. The wide path to the top of Gibbet Hill, with views of Wheal Betsy, th…

A person of interest who had been detained overnight in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University is being released, officials said Sunday night.

arXiv:2512.11194v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While conventional…

North Darfur capital fell to Rapid Support Forces yet remains a political and spiritual city that cannot be overlooked.

arXiv:2512.11345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Equivariant diffusion policies (EDPs) combine the generative expressivity of diffusion models with the strong generalization and sample efficiency afforded by geometric symmetries. While steering these policies with reinforcement learning (RL) offers …

arXiv:2512.11798v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Particulate, a feed-forward approach that, given a single static 3D mesh of an everyday object, directly infers all attributes of the underlying articulated structure, including its 3D parts, kinematic structure, and motion constraints. At …

‘Released under investigation’ leads to uncertainty and distress for both victim and accused, say campaignersHundreds of suspected rapists in England and Wales are spending years released under investigation, under a system that the government has been urged to scrap as it “doesn’t serve anyone’s in…

Ahmed al Ahmed disarmed one of the shooters in deadly Sydney attack

Company behind autonomous vacuum cleaner to be taken over by its Chinese supplier

Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the ageWhen William Golding submitted Lord of the Flies to Faber in 1953 it had already been rejected at least seven times, maybe as many as 20. Charles Monteith could tell from the…

Researchers discovered that tanning beds cause widespread, mutation-laden DNA damage across almost all skin, explaining the sharply increased melanoma risk. Single-cell genomic analysis revealed dangerous mutations even in sun-protected regions. Survivors’ stories underscore how early tanning habits…

Investigators have concluded that South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted for over a year to impose martial law to eliminate rivals and monopolize power

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arXiv:2512.10970v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper investigate…

arXiv:2512.11399v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are able to process increasingly longer videos. Yet, important visual information is easily lost throughout the entire context and missed by VLMs. Also, it is important to design tools that enable cost-effective analysis …

arXiv:2512.08055v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Link-analysis algorithms, such as PageRank, are instrumental in understanding the structural dynamics of networks by evaluating the importance of individual vertices based on their connectivity. Recently, with the rising importance of responsible …

BBC News Australia correspondent Katy Watson visited the house in the Sydney suburb of Bonnyrigg.

Revolution is still being sought three decades after the landmark ruling with a Dutch lawyer calling for a collective bargaining agreement for playersOn 15 December 1995, judges at the European court of justice (CJEU) took two minutes to bring an end to a legal process that had lasted five years. Th…

arXiv:2512.11251v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-series data is critical across many scientific and industrial domains, including environmental analysis, agriculture, transportation, and finance. However, mining insights from this data typically requires deep domain expertise, a process that is…

Advanced seismic imaging techniques could improve earthquake early warning models and aid the development of next-generation geothermal power
The post Scientists obtain detailed maps of earthquake-triggering high-pressure subsurface fluids appeared first on Physics World.

New launch timeBackup Launch Opportunity #12   Launch: 2025-12-15 05:25:10 UTC.  12:25 AM ETDeploy: 2025-12-15 06:30:12.400 UTC.Launch window: 2025-12-15 05:25:10 UTC to 2025-12-15 05:29:09 UTC.T-54 min

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, David Ingles and Yvonne Man give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: B…

Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel

Indonesia’s exports of tin recovered in November, in a sign that concerns are easing over supply disruptions caused by the country’s crackdown on illegal mining.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2000457567194292500Quote from: innospace🔴 LIVE | Watch SPACEWARD, HANBIT-Nano’s first commercial mission, as it unfolds in real time! From the countdown to launch, be part of the journey to space. 🌌🔹Launch: December 1...

arXiv:2512.11393v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Humans can intuitively parallelise complex activities, but can a model learn this from observing a single person? Given one egocentric video, we introduce the N-Body Problem: how N individuals, can hypothetically perform the same set of tasks observed…

Resolution Foundation report comes in week when data is expected to show October unemployment riseYoung people are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs downturn, according to a report, before official figures this week that are expected to show the UK unemployment rate rising to 5.1%.The Resolution F…

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 01:10 amLaunch "probably" delayed per rumors, but the one "official" sign of the launch date - the one NOTAM for fairing drop zone - is currently still active for the 17...

American entertainment giant Rob Reiner spoke with Lesley Stahl this past October about the bold choices he made to launch his directing career—a career that would go on to include American cultural touchstones including "A Few Good Men" and "When Harry Met Sally," among many others. Reiner and his …

The experimental composer brought electronic sound and radical ideas into the psych-rock genre

arXiv:2512.11279v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a unified mathematical framework for rate-distortion theory, lattice quantization, and modern error-correcting codes by emphasizing their variational and convex-analytic structure. First, we establish a Gibbs-type variational formulation of…

He wrote poems named after Kylie songs and named his collection of erotic fiction after her indie album. He even loved the B-sides. So what did the avant garde writer find so inspiring about the mini Melbourne marvel? Kevin Killian was obsessed with stars. Not in a metaphysical sense, like the grand…

arXiv:2512.11580v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Safe Bayesian optimization (BO) with Gaussian processes is an effective tool for tuning control policies in safety-critical real-world systems, specifically due to its sample efficiency and safety guarantees. However, most safe BO algorithms assume …

arXiv:2502.18581v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Best-of-N selection is a key technique for improving the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) through increased test-time computation. Current state-of-the-art methods often employ computationally intensive reward models for respo…

arXiv:2503.17670v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Trust plays a critical role in visual data communication and decision-making, yet existing visualization research employs varied trust measures, making it challenging to compare and synthesize findings across studies. In this work, we first took a…

arXiv:2512.11470v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While effective post-training integrates Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), the optimal mechanism for utilizing expert trajectories remains unresolved. We propose the Plasticity-Ceiling Framework to theoretically ground this…

The Gujarati town accounts for nearly 98 percent of India’s total and about a third of the global ship recycling volume.

arXiv:2512.11727v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in video analytics address real-time data drift by continuously retraining specialized, lightweight DNN models for individual cameras. However, the current practice of retraining a separate model for each camera suffers from high compu…

arXiv:2512.11791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurately quantifying vitiligo extent in routine clinical photographs is crucial for longitudinal monitoring of treatment response. We propose a trustworthy, frequency-aware segmentation framework built on three synergistic pillars: (1) a data-effici…

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the plastids remain vital. Asexual reproduction appears to have evolved repeatedly, helping the plants su…

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite t…

The products have attracted fresh capital every trading day since launch, lifting cumulative net inflows to about $975 million.

Weeks after jewel heist, world’s most visited museum in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesTrade unions at the crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris will begin a strike on Monday to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and to protest against a rise in ticket prices for…

Researchers hoped they had finally found a way to get gene therapies past the blood-brain barrier. Then the first patient died.

My patient was brain-dead, but the ICU machines made him look alive.

Josh Tongue comes in for Gus Atkinson for Adelaide TestBrook rues ‘shocking shots’ in Perth and BrisbaneEngland have made one change to their line-up for the third Ashes Test, with Josh Tongue coming in as a like-for-like replacement for Gus Atkinson in the bowling attack.Seamer Atkinson failed to t…

Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.

The lab has spurred major solar, wind, and storage breakthroughs. Its new remit is a "broader vision" for energy research.

Bondi pavilion becomes centre of mourning with chaplains and mental health volunteers handing out tissuesBondi beach shooting live updatesFull reportVictims named so farThousands of Australians’ abandoned belongings were strewn across Bondi beach as the sun rose on Monday, left behind just 10 hours …

arXiv:2307.02146v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite progress in melody-to-lyric generation, a substantial singability gap remains between machine-generated lyrics and those written by human lyricists. In this work, we aim to narrow this gap by jointly learning both wording and formatting fo…

arXiv:2512.04859v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study how modern database systems can leverage the Linux io_uring interface for efficient, low-overhead I/O. io_uring is an asynchronous system call batching interface that unifies storage and network operations, addressing limitations of exist…

Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and author of “The Emperor of All Maladies,” asks: What if we change what a tumor can eat?

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The director’s family said that he and his wife, Michele, had died on Sunday. The police said they had found two bodies at the Reiner home in Los Angeles.

arXiv:2512.11169v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Combinatorial sequential decision making problems are typically modeled as mixed integer linear programs (MILPs) and solved via branch and bound (B&B) algorithms. The inherent difficulty of modeling MILPs that accurately represent stochastic real worl…

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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial. He faces a possible life sentence.

arXiv:2512.11526v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time series forecasting predicts future values from past data. In real-world settings, some anomalous events have lasting effects and influence the forecast, while others are short-lived and should be ignored. Standard forecasting models fail to make …

arXiv:2512.11464v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal learning has rapidly advanced visual understanding, largely via multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that use powerful LLMs as cognitive cores. In visual generation, however, these powerful core models are typically reduced to global te…

The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn billion pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

The Bake Off judge shares her favourite culinary spots across the capital

arXiv:2512.11445v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present an extension of the Combination Lemma of [GSS89] that expresses the complexity of one or several faces in the overlay of many arrangements, as a function of the number of arrangements, the number of faces, and the complexities of these face…

Singer, 85, says disease has ‘gone at the moment’ and hopes to join forces with King Charles to raise awarenessCliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer for the past year. The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had “gone at the moment” and backed calls for a national screeni…

Chief rabbi says "fact that today every public Jewish gathering must be weighed for risk is a sign of something deeply wrong".

England overlook spinner Shoaib Bashir for the crucial third Ashes Test against Australia in Adelaide.

A festive musical blends fairytale optimism with lush orchestration and Sound of Music sweetness – even if this often overwhelms a thin storylineReported to be the first Thai musical in 50 years, The Christmas Dream is directed by Englishman Paul Spurrier, and is an intriguing blend of new and old: …

We speak to industry experts about how to ensure a software developer self-service portal is fit for purpose

Bianca Dittrich of the Perimeter Institute is our podcast guest
The post Quantum gravity: we explore spin foams and other potential solutions to this enduring challenge appeared first on Physics World.

Members of Sydney’s Jewish community, and many other Australians, gathered at the site of a mass shooting on Bondi Beach to offer condolences and ask questions.

arXiv:2512.11274v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current video generation models perform well at single-shot synthesis but struggle with multi-shot videos, facing critical challenges in maintaining character and background consistency across shots and flexibly generating videos of arbitrary length a…

A quiet, months-long battle between a Republican congressman and Bill and Hillary Clinton could come to a head this week.

arXiv:2512.11079v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: What is your messaging data used for? While many users do not often think about the information companies can gather based off of their messaging platform of choice, it is nonetheless important to consider as society increasingly relies on short-form …

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Sale of stake in Safaricom and M-Pesa, global pioneer of mobile money, will go towards new infrastructure fund