Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan will also get the honor from the Recording Academy

The man believed to be responsible for carrying out the Brown University shooting and killing an MIT professor was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire on Thursday, officials said. Tom Hanson reports.

Video producer Matt Fornwald takes us on a mind-bending journey through (mostly) every 2025 Hallmark holiday movie to discover the formula behind what draws so many people to Hallmark holiday movies every year.

arXiv:2512.15925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characters. Yet, computational models of reader response are limited, preventing nuanced analyses. To address t…

The US Justice Department begins the release of several hundred thousand documents Friday from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with more files to be published over coming weeks. The publication marks the clearest opportunity yet to shed light on a politically explosive…

The latest version of iPadOS feels more Mac-like with all the cool new multitasking features. Here's why you may not need a Mac if you're a multitasker.

Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

arXiv:2507.05859v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) enables immersive 3D experiences, but efficient compression of dynamic 3D representation remains a major challenge. Existing dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting methods couple reconstruction with optimization-dependent compres…

A devastating roof collapse in Gaza leaves one dead, six injured, and a family struggling for survival amid winter.

arXiv:2511.07503v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The increased availability of genetic data has transformed genomics research, but raised many privacy concerns regarding its handling due to its sensitive nature. This work explores the use of language models (LMs) for the generation of synthetic …

The president says he’s giving members of the military $1,776. It doesn’t make up for all the damage to the VA

The company is working on an image and video model and new text-based model, which aids with coding.

Ugandan law requires public servants to remain politically neutral and bars them from active politics.

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

arXiv:2510.15610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We revisit random search for stochastic optimization, where only noisy function evaluations are available. We show that the method works under weaker smoothness assumptions than previously considered, and that stronger assumptions enable imp…

This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law school or other higher education classroom.
The post International Humanitarian Law: Syllabus Supplements appeared first on Just Security.

The attacker, who threw smoke grenades inside a train station in Taiwan’s capital, later continued his rampage nearby and died in falling from a building.

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Officials say suspect, who died after falling from a building during police chase, carried out 'indiscriminate attacks'.

Police in Australia are investigating a trip made by the suspects of the Bondi Beach anti-Semitic terrorist attack to the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, just weeks before they shot and killed 15 people and wounded dozens more. The region has long grappled with Islamist militancy, but Presi…

The deal will gives Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, more code review and debugging capabilities

Using an executive order, he opened up research possibilities and eased taxes for businesses. But does it go far enough?

Apple TV’s sci-fi hit is nearing the end of its first season, but there’s still so much story to tell.

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Singer-songwriter and actress Teyana Taylor joins "CBS Mornings" to give an update on her whirlwind year, celebrating her first-ever Golden Globe nomination for her role in "One Battle After Another" and her return to music with fourth studio album "Escape Room," which earned her a Grammy nod for Be…

Pacific Investment Management Co. and Witkoff Group, the real estate developer founded by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, are in default on a $400 million-plus loan tied to a luxury apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, according to a notice filed with Los Angeles County.

The news that the EU will be loaning Ukraine €90 billion for the next two years is good news for the country, who is spends most of its tax revenue on defence to fight off the Russian invasion. Volodymyr Zelensky said the money will help the country invest in ramping up the production of innovative …

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have also released their official Christmas card and renamed their charity.

The Trump administration is planning to announce an overhaul to the childhood immunization schedule early next year, recommending fewer shots and aligning U.S. policy with that of Denmark. A source familiar with the matter told News Nation correspondent Libbey Dean that a new vaccination schedule to…

US consumer sentiment rose in December by less than expected, remaining depressed amid lingering affordability concerns.

Let's explore what's next for the year's surprise odd couple: Trump Media's merger with TAE Technologies, a company trying to commercialize fusion.Why it matters: The deal injects new cash into TAE as fusion — long more science fiction than energy reality — moves closer to commercial scale. The merg…

The suspect's spree began at Taipei's main metro station before he moved to another station nearby.

The Colorado River Compact was negotiated in 1922 to end the fighting over the river's use, and the current round of negotiations is just as important, as more than 40 million people rely on the river for water security, and the Upper Basin states have put forward serious measures to stabilize the r…

The White House is getting ready to announce more deals with drugmakers aimed at lowering drug prices.

All eyes were on Brussels as EU leaders met for a make-or-break summit  to find a way to lend billions of euros to Ukraine. But as Belgium pushed back against the use of frozen Russian assets, demanding guarantees against potential repercussions from Russia, the EU settled on another plan: a €90 bil…

Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it hard to breathe.

Your weekly roundup of promotions, hires and exits across music. This go-round? Big departures at Warner Classics and [PIAS], and a wave of promotions at UTA.

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming useful tools of scientific discovery

The crypto industry is ever-growing and ever-changing. It would be difficult to summarize it in 50 names. Here are a few final individuals and entities we wanted to make note of this year.

A new twist on bromine-based flow batteries could make large-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and far longer-lasting. Bromine-based flow batteries store and release energy through a chemical reaction involving bromide ions and elemental bromine. This approach offers several advantages, including…

Manufacturer backed by planemaker Embraer aims for commercial service by end of 2027

Man known as ‘John’ expected to be eligible for $50,000 reward from FBI for providing details on the suspectThe authorities dealing with the mass shooting at Brown University hailed on Friday a member of the public who came forward with information that helped crack the case and lead to the suspect.…

"The Thinking Machine" was just crowned the FT and Schroders business book of the year because Witt got deep inside the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

5G telematics and ThingSpace IoT management services enable autonomous vehicle technology operating model and manage massive amounts of data generated from its driverless trucks

The aggressive crackdown of I.C.E. raids have turned the average American street into a battlefield.

The Justice Department expects to release "several hundred thousand" records from the Epstein files today, a top official said. Follow live updates here.

The release of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s Christmas card this week provided momentary relief from the horror“I don’t like the ‘nepo baby’ term,” said Kate Winslet in an interview with BBC News last week to promote her directorial debut, Goodbye June – the Christmas movie written by her 21-y…

“I am 55 and my former spouse is 67.”

The family of former President John F. Kennedy is reacting after a board vote to change the name of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to also honor President Trump. CBS News' Nancy Cordes reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted to the European Union's massive loan to fund Ukraine's war against Russia. Haley Ott reports.

LG will allow users to delete shortcuts for Microsoft Copilot that popped up on their smart TVs.

Clave Especial talks about new music for 2026 with Fuerza Regida and shares why they enjoy working with JOP. Alex from Clave Especial: For 2026 we have a lot of new music planned. We don’t have a title yet, but there are good tracks coming, good songs and I know that my people are going […]

In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providersWhen the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columb…

arXiv:2512.16251v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce the \textit{Consensus-Bottleneck Asset Pricing Model} (CB-APM), a partially interpretable neural network that replicates the reasoning processes of sell-side analysts by capturing how dispersed investor beliefs are compressed into asset…

Michael Crawford reacts to the "mind-blowing" moment of being named a 2025 Kennedy Center Honoree and reflects on his iconic performance as the original "Phantom of the Opera." He tells Anthony Mason why he has always felt most at home on stage.

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced a new partnership with artificial intelligence code editor company Cursor Inc. to bring secure, just-in-time secrets to Cursor. The partnership has started with the deployment of a Hooks Script that gives developers a secure, …

arXiv:2512.16175v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding the magnetic field environment around Mars and its response to upstream solar wind conditions provide key insights into the processes driving atmospheric ion escape. To date, global models of Martian induced magnetosphere have been exc…

John F. Bentivegna, the chief master sergeant of the Space Force, joined CBS News as the branch celebrates its sixth birthday.

arXiv:2512.16247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: One of many impediments to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to large-scale real-world graph data is the challenge of centralized training, which requires aggregating data from different organizations, raising privacy concerns. Federated graph lea…

Deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche says thousands more will be unveiled in ‘next couple of weeks’

Photos, data and videos show increasing military pressure on Nicolás Maduro after US president refuses to rule out war

arXiv:2512.16447v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models promise to transform the way research is conducted, potentially offering unprecedented opportunities to augment scholarly workflows. However, effectively integrating AI into research re…

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, December 19: A new batch of Epstein files includes photos of famous men, chat screenshots and "Lolita" quotes written on a woman's body. Next, Kristin Cabot, the HR boss caught on the Coldplay kiss cam, speaks out in an exclusive interview. Finally, we bring you some Christmas…

At his annual press conference on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the ball was in Kyiv and its allies' court to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin chief also said he was certain that Moscow would take more cities and towns in eastern Ukraine before the end of the year.

On December 19, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelinsky both gave addresses. In the morning, the Russian president spoke during his annual press conference, broadcast on television. He once again blamed the Ukrainian authorities for the war that has been raging for four years. A few hours later, it w…

arXiv:2512.16707v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We formalize two independent computational limitations that constrain algorithmic intelligence: formal incompleteness and dynamical unpredictability. The former limits the deductive power of consistent reasoning systems while the later bounds long-ter…

arXiv:2512.15743v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a framework for generating physically realizable assembly instructions from natural language descriptions. Unlike unconstrained text-to-3D approaches, our method operates within a discrete parts vocabulary, enforcing geometric validity, con…

The fast-fashion giant welcomed the judgement and said its priority remains protecting French consumers.

The artificial intelligence money scramble continues all the way into the end of the year, as OpenAI may raise $10 billion from Amazon, perhaps part of as much as $100 billion from a range of investors, at a valuation of $750 billion. And Databricks is doing a $4 billion Series L round — first time …

The Kennedy Center began updating its signage on Friday, a day after the institution’s board voted to update the name to include President Trump. One image showed a sign outside the building including part of Trump’s name. Images shared online showed a blue tarp draped over the front of the building…

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, the suspected gunman in the recent Brown University and MIT shootings, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday night. Authorities told reporters that Neves Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident at Brown University on Saturday…

We need young people to gain experience that makes the world of work intelligible and builds skills and confidence

When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

It is a blunt admission that Canada has run out of room to hide a systemic failure that has long undermined both its national defense and its value as an ally.

arXiv:2512.15767v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Simulating complex unsteady physical phenomena relies on detailed mathematical models, simulated for instance by using the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, these models often exhibit discrepancies from the reality due to unmodeled effects or simp…

Russia's leader said during a four-hour TV marathon that claims that an attack on Europe was planned were "nonsense".

Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire storage facility after five-day manhuntInvestigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the pri…

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim condemns the "sense of entitlement" at the club and says players should use criticism as fuel to prove him wrong.

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …

The man suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Brown University was found dead, officials said on Thursday. 

The Portuguese national is also suspected of having killed an MIT professor three days before the Brown University attack. Authorities said both men had previously attended the same u…

The accidental bite happened as they were running lines before filming the climactic scene.
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The Yunobo Legend of Zelda amiibo and the Donkey Kong and Pauline amiibo have both hit their lowest prices yet at Amazon. Grab the former for $8 and the latter for $20.

The United States is poised on December 19 to pry open one of its most closely guarded case files, as President Donald Trump's administration prepares to release a long-suppressed cache of records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is anticipated that the documents will include subst…

Taken together, the Yale Youth Poll does not depict a generation defined by ideological extremism or cultural obsession. It depicts a generation navigating scarcity, instability, and institutional drift. Young Americans are not asking politics to perfect society. They are asking it to function.
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arXiv:2508.09358v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Designing effective user interfaces (UIs) for virtual reality (VR) is essential to enhance user immersion, usability, comfort, and accessibility in virtual environments. Despite the growing adoption of VR across domains, there is a noticeable lack…

Anyone looking for a new job in the past year knows first-hand how challenging the job market is. From getting rejected by a company’s ATS (applicant tracking system) to getting ghosted by recruiters after the initial screening call, job seekers with years of experience are still struggling to secur…

If bipartisan agreements like the GENIUS Act can be immediately reopened whenever an incumbent industry dislikes their competitive implications, legislative compromise becomes impossible, argues Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger.

The recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is this year's Long Term Support version. As such it's sure to a see a lot of enterprise and hyperscaler uptake in being the annual LTS kernel version. While Linux 6.12 LTS will be maintained at least through the end of next year, upgrading to Linux 6.18 LTS c…

French cement-giant Lafarge is on trial, accused of having paid millions of euros to terrorist organisations operating in Syria between 2012 and 2014, including the Islamic State group. The goal was to keep the group's activities running, allowing trucks to move and employees to come into work. The …

The cruise operator’s earnings report spotlighted strong pricing and bookings trends.

Costume designer Marylin Fitoussi says Italy understands the show’s wardrobe is ‘about breaking rules and having fun’Netflix’s famously frothy romcom Emily in Paris has long divided critics and Parisians alike, but as it returns for its fifth season it seems to have won a presidential seal of approv…

People of Silverdale report rattling and shaking as 2.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in probable aftershockA village in Lancashire has been hit by a “radiator rattling” earthquake for the second time in little over two weeks.Residents of Silverdale, a small coastal village located five miles south o…

arXiv:2512.16624v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational resources a…

Over the past decade, Nvidia’s stock has rarely been so inexpensive relative to the broader chip sector.

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We present a suite of algorithmic techniques for handling substitution tilings by treating a tile's hierarchy of supertiles in a purely combinatorial fashion using finite state automata. The resulting techniques are very convenient for practical generation of patches of tilings such as hats…

A storm system that has swept from coast to coast has caused massive damage in several states. Rob Marciano has more.

Streaming devices, such as Fire TV Sticks and Chromecasts, collect personal data for various purposes. If that makes you uneasy, here's how to regain some control.

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

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