Companies that engage in aggressive tax avoidance may be saving money in the short term, but they are paying a hidden price in the eyes of investors. According to a new study by the University of Portsmouth, tax transparency is rewarded in capital markets while secrecy raises the cost of finance.

arXiv:2512.14367v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Complete perception of the environment and its correct interpretation is crucial for autonomous vehicles. Object perception is the main component of automotive surround sensing. Various metrics already exist for the evaluation of object perception. Ho…

Nicolás Maduro's administration is calling President Trump's blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela a "grotesque threat." CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more.

Her film “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.

Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.

The world’s best-performing stock is turning into a cautionary tale for investors chasing outsized returns from the artificial-intelligence boom.

arXiv:2506.01626v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Probabilistic separation logic offers an approach to reasoning about imperative probabilistic programs in which a separating conjunction is used as a mechanism for expressing independence properties. Crucial to the effectiveness of the formalism i…

The star was the top artist on the platform in 2025

The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.

Sounds like all near-term Cape F9 launches will be from SLC-40.https://twitter.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/2001424468141297900?s=20 [Dec. 17]QuoteCongrats to the entire @SpaceX...

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Andrew Szczurowski, Portal Innovations’ John Flavin, Wedbush Securities’ Matt Bryson, C…

The England and Wales Cricket Board will meet with the game's governing body in an attempt to review and raise standards of the decision review system.

The Ecovacs Deebot T80 robot vacuum is on sale at Amazon for $499.99, down from the list price of $999.99. That's a 50% discount.

I have a dangerous relationship with digital storefronts, and this week did nothing to improve it.

Save 83 percent on FileJump’s 2TB cloud storage lifetime subscription, now $79.97 (reg. $467) through Dec. 21.

His announcement comes after US President Donald Trump said he "wants to go back to his show".

Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital, Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbor Mongolia.

Most spaceships are kept at Roswell, but the original Mothership currently lives in the Smithsonian.

The special features interviews with Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry O'Connell and Mandy Patinkin.

The OnePlus 15R has launched with specs that outpace its closest competitors - and more expensive rivals.

We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries

arXiv:2512.14424v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The advancement to 6G calls for waveforms that transcend static robustness to achieve intelligent adaptability. Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), despite its strength in doubly-dispersive channels, has been confined by chirp parameters op…

arXiv:2506.24121v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dynamic 3D (4D) content generation, particularly text-to-4D, remains a challenging and under-explored problem due to its inherent spatiotemporal complexity. Existing text-to-4D methods typically avoid direct mesh generation due to inherent topolog…

President Trump participated in a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday, honoring two members of the Iowa National Guard and an interpreter who were killed in Syria last weekend. CBS News correspondent Lana Zak has more from Iowa City.

Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leaderThe US Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become Donald Trump’s Nasa administrator. The confirmation makes an advocate of Mars missions and an all…

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s national address has to focus on affordability as Americans grapple with rising prices. “Look, I'm sure he's going to highlight the work that the administration and Congress have done throughout the course of this year. But the focus has …

Just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday, while 73 percent disapprove. That approval rating marks a new low since Quinnipiac began asking the question in 2009, surpassing the 19 percent of voters who appr…

The United States admitted fault for a January midair collision that killed 67 people in a Wednesday filing that said it breached its “duty of care” for passengers. An American Airlines flight and Army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport earlier this year.  The commerc…

The iPhone 17 may look exactly like its predecessor, but it incorporates some of last year's Pro features that go a long way.

A student has settled a sexual harassment case against her former employer JD Sports Fashion PLC for £65,000.

Benjamin Netanyahu had no right to claim Australia “poured fuel on the antisemitic fire” that caused the Bondi massacre, writes Israel’s former prime minister.

Waymo LLC is reportedly in talks to raise a funding round that could more than double its valuation to $110 billion. CNBC late Tuesday cited sources as saying that the autonomous vehicle maker is seeking at least $15 billion in new financing. The investment is expected to be led by Alphabet Inc., Wa…

For many Americans, the weekly grocery run has become a financial stress test. Food prices have skyrocketed 25% in the last five years. Now, some shoppers are resorting to other means. Kelly O'Grady reports.

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story As Pentagon escalates Kelly investigation, Senate GOP grows uneasy Senate Republicans are growing increasingly uneasy with the Pentagon’s investigation into Sen. Mark Ke…

At this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025), imec, a research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies, presents the first successful wafer-scale fabrication of solid-state nanopores using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Solid-state nanopores are em…

The Nov. 22-23 festival in Los Angeles incorporated a flurry of clean power initiatives.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has placed a hold on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to serve as head of the Coast Guard after the service backtracked on keeping swastikas and nooses labeled as hate symbols, instead moving forward by listing the images as “potentially divisive.” The new Coast Guard wo…

While the terrorist group is weakened compared with a decade ago, it now wields propaganda as its most potent tool to inspire deadly attacks.

In 2025, the integration of artificial intelligence into the U.S. economy and people's everyday lives grew to historic levels. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent joins to recap how the transformative technology expanded over the past year, and what we can expect in 20…

arXiv:2410.16362v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the optimizatio…

As global trade tensions ease, Asia’s policy reforms and domestic economic fundamentals will play a bigger role in investment decisions next year, money managers and analysts said.

The House will vote early in January on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies after four Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports.

DoorDash Inc. on Wednesday said it had joined forces with OpenAI to allow people to shop for groceries in ChatGPT and check out on the delivery platform itself, as artificial intelligence becomes a bigger competitive front for online shopping.

arXiv:2512.13636v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) paradigms in autonomous driving primarily rely on Imitation Learning (IL), which introduces inherent challenges such as distribution shift and causal confusion. Online Reinforcement Learning offers a promising …

James Trafford is up against one of the best in the world in Gianluigi Donnarumma, but should he stick it out as number two at Manchester City?

The return of top predators to one of South America’s most remote regions has led to unexpected interactions between species.

Gold steadied near a record high, as investors tracked mounting tensions in Venezuela and waited for US inflation data.

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.

The New York Times followed the money, and pulled together a comprehensive report on the notorious pedophile's early career in finance

There may be an iMac Pro with the M5 chip coming to Apple users soon, if leaked documents are to be believed.

Bellmont: ‘This is great for all Swiss people’ James Wade cruises past Ryusei AzemotoThe five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld was left stunned after falling to a straight sets defeat by Switzerland’s Stefan Bellmont in their first-round clash at Alexandra Palace.Bellmont produced the perfo…

https://twitter.com/Gwynne_Shotwell/status/2001426423156806100QuoteGwynne Shotwell@Gwynne_ShotwellWe hit our target (we changed it mid-year) and still aren’t done yet!  Congrats to all that work on the GOAT (rocket 🚀) program 😊

arXiv:2512.14096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for high-quality image generation, yet their computational expense remains substantial due to iterative denoising. Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances generation quality and cont…

Scientists have found a way to trap and break down “forever chemicals” instead of just moving them elsewhere. Researchers at Rice University, working with international collaborators, have created a new environmentally friendly method that can quickly capture and break down toxic “forever chemicals”…

Looks like it 167https://twitter.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/2001424468141297900QuoteKiko Dontchev@TurkeyBeaverCongrats to the entire @SpaceX team for achieving 165 launches🚀 ! While we originally set out for 170, we actually revised the manifest to...

The yuan’s recent strength is doing little to boost Chinese stocks as mounting concerns over economic weakness and rising valuations sap sentiment toward equities.

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ransom. The hack of PornHub was first revealed by the adult video website on Dec. 12, which it describe…

arXiv:2410.13597v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Molecular optimization (MO) is a crucial stage in drug discovery in which task-oriented generated molecules are optimized to meet practical industrial requirements. Existing mainstream MO approaches primarily utilize external property predictors t…

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YouTube will stop submitting its data to the U.S. Billboard charts next month due to a dispute over how streams are counted, according to an announcement Wednesday from the streamer’s global head of music Lyor Cohen. At the center of the issue is the methodology Billboard counts paid/subscription ve…

President Trump confirmed on Wednesday that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino "wants to go back" to hosting his talk show. CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane has the details.

Nick Reiner made his first court appearance on Wednesday since being arrested for the killings of his parents, Rob and Michele. CBS News correspondent Adam Yamaguchi has more.

The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls which will be unveiled on Thursday.

The order is set to impact around 700 workers at four agencies.

Sree Chaguturu, CVS Health Executive Vice President and President of Health Care Delivery, says the fee for service model is broken and that value based care is critical to the future of health care. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)

The internet giant expressed its frustration with the way subscription-supported streams are still weighted more than ad-supported streams

NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the science side, we hope that NASA will continue its in-depth exploration of the Earth, solar system an…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says defence "must be the first priority of any government".

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is permitting dozens of asset managers including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Fidelity and State Street to offer multi-share class funds.

From cases and screen protectors to controllers and chargers, here’s everything you need for your brand-new Switch 2.

Brennan Lee Mulligan takes us to a sun-scorched post-apocalyptic adventure in this trailer for the next season of "Dimension 20," entitled "Gladlands."

President Trump's speech Wednesday night will look back on his first year and ahead to the next three.

Hartmut Issel of UBS Wealth Management shares his outlook for 2026 in an interview on Bloomberg Television. He says "mixing things a bit, that's probably a good strategy for equity investors right now." (Source: Bloomberg)

arXiv:2512.14474v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with complex multi-step planning tasks, showing high rates of constraint violations and inconsistent solutions. Existing strategies such as Chain-of-Thought and ReAct rely on implicit state tracking and lack…

More than 32% of shareholder votes oppose executive pay report at heated Sydney AGM, after a year when bank was fined $240m by the financial regulatorANZ shareholders delivered a “second strike” against the bank’s executive pay plans at a heated annual general meeting on Thursday, amid simmering ang…

Recent measles cases are mainly impacting unvaccinated children, with the most recent outbreak in South Carolina. Skyler Henry has the latest.

From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase birthsChina is set to impose a value-added tax (VAT) on condoms and other contraceptives for the first time in three decades, as the country tries to boost its birthra…

arXiv:2512.14012v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural language. In…

Neighbourly tensions often rise during the festive season. Here's how to deal with fallouts without a row.

Shares of Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. fell the most in over a year, amid concerns that its $2.3 billion deal for a majority stake in East African Breweries Ltd. was overpriced and may postpone the Japanese company’s share buyback.

NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader:https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-finally-and-we-really-do-mean-it-this-time-has-a-full-time-leader/https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/2001450139009814766

A measles outbreak in South Carolina is worsening with 138 cases reported in the state. CBS News' Skyler Henry and Dr. Céline Gounder have more.

Four House Republicans have defied Speaker Mike Johnson by signing onto a Democratic-led discharge petition to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports.

Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850Next year will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels, meteorologists project, as fossil fuel pollution continues to bake the Earth and fuel extreme weather.The UK M…

Scientists have warned H5N1 bird flu could make a dangerous leap to humans, triggering a global health crisis.

arXiv:2512.14361v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real world systems evolve in continuous-time according to their underlying causal relationships, yet their dynamics are often unknown. Existing approaches to learning such dynamics typically either discretize time -- leading to poor performance on irr…

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arXiv:2506.23204v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: There exist two main approaches for non-intrusive implementations of approximate balanced truncation within the Loewner framework: the quadrature-based method [1] and the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI)-based method [2]. Both approaches rely …

A federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that sought to require members of Congress to submit requests a week before visiting ICE detention facilities.

For more than three and a half years, officials said, the men used the Johnson Houses as “an open drug market” to sell crack cocaine and fentanyl.

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Lewis Miley "can be as good as anyone in his position, whichever position he plays", says Newcastle boss Eddie Howe after the teenage midfielder becomes a match-winning right-back against Fulham.

The White House is standing by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles after Vanity Fair published a piece that included many candid and critical remarks from a series of interviews. Its author, Chris Whipple, joins "The Takeout" to discuss what the story tells us about President Trump's second term.

It's not always possible to be home for the holidays, but a children's hospital found a way to bring the next best thing to its youngest patients. Karen Hua reports from Houston.

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President Trump on Wednesday evening is expected to give an address to the nation from the White House. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then. It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” the president wrote Tuesday on Truth Social, giving few details. The address comes as.…

Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United remain in the hunt for Women's Champions League glory - but how are they set for the knockout stages?

Oil extended gains after bouncing off a four-and-a-half-year low, as investors weighed geopolitical risks from Venezuela to Russia against a still-bearish supply outlook.