For a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, processes are needed that can efficiently capture CO2 and convert it into valuable products. Formic acid, or more specifically its salt, formate, is considered a promising candidate as it can be produced from CO₂ using renewable electricity. It is also easy to transp…

Escalating pollution and contamination of water and soil are emerging as serious threats to plant growth and its overall health. Plants are exposed to environmental pollutants for extended periods and exhibit changes in their color, texture, and internal structure in response.

Label is the latest instance of Trump using militarised language to justify US operations against drug smuggling.

arXiv:2512.11318v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we investigate the application of optimisation techniques in the deconvolution of mineral fractionation data obtained from a mathematical model for the operation of a fluidised bed with a set of inclined parallel channels mounted above. …

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017.

Researchers at Touro University Nevada have discovered that tiny particles in the blood, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a major player in how a group of hormones are shuttled through the body. Physical exercise can stimulate this process.

FIL dropped to $1.24 as the technical breakdown accelerated on heavy volume, 380% above average.

arXiv:2512.11167v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reproducibility remains a cornerstone of scientific progress, yet complex multimodal models often lack transparent implementation details and accessible training infrastructure. In this work, we present a detailed reproduction and critical analysis of…

Plus, Wesley Snipe's Blade gets the Marvel Legends action figure he's long deserved.

The guitarist enlisted Stone Temple Pilots, MJ Lenderman, Daniel Donato, Maggie Rose, and more onstage in Asheville, North Carolina, a year after the region was flooded

Providence police have released new video of a "person of interest" in Saturday's deadly Brown University shooting. CBS News' Anna Schecter has more.

Four people are facing conspiracy charges after they were apprehended while planning to test explosives in the desert.

Global transaction values have risen around 40% to about $4.5 trillion this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show, the second highest on record.

A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant measurements and environmental data. By training models on seven years of high-resolution lysimeter data, the researchers demonstrate strong performance across tomatoes, wheat, and barle…

arXiv:2506.01004v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present MoCA-Video, a training-free framework for semantic mixing in videos. Operating in the latent space of a frozen video diffusion model, MoCA-Video utilizes class-agnostic segmentation with diagonal denoising scheduler to localize and trac…

arXiv:2512.11335v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ultrasound image segmentation is pivotal for clinical diagnosis, yet challenged by speckle noise and imaging artifacts. Recently, DINOv3 has shown remarkable promise in medical image segmentation with its powerful representation capabilities. However,…

Ukrainian leaders said Monday they appreciated White House efforts to reach a deal even as significant gaps appeared to remain between the sides.

Startup valuation, likely to go public at $800bn, will bolster Musk’s wealth to an estimated $677bn, according to ForbesElon Musk on Monday became the first person ever worth $600bn, according to Forbes. The news comes on the heels of reports that his SpaceX startup was likely to go public at a valu…

President Trump said Monday his administration is “considering” reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, days after The Washington Post reported he is expected to sign an executive order telling agencies to pursue reclassification soon.  Such a move would continue efforts begun by the Biden…

A software update is thought to have created a problem with some variable speed cameras, meaning motorists were incorrectly penalisedThousands of speeding fines could be cancelled after a “technical issue” triggered some speed cameras in England to incorrectly penalise motorists.National Highways ha…

Quote from: Vultur on Today at 07:55 pmBlocking out the sun won't terraform Venus. You need to add ocean quantities of water and do something with all the excess CO2.Maybe some icy bodies from the Trojans,...

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Meta revealed that Disney+ was coming to its Quest headsets earlier this year during its Connect event. Now, the streaming app and its vast catalog are finally available to Meta's VR users in the United States.Meta recently overhauled the Quest's entertainment experience with a new Horizon TV hub th…

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Riverside's year-end review is amusing, but it represents a creative culture that's increasingly entwined with AI.

China’s new economic model is putting the future of Asia’s Gen-Z at risk.

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which resulted in the discovery of planetary-mass and stellar companions of two ultracool dwarf stars. The new finding was presented in a paper published December 4 on the pre-print s…

After three days, the Brown University shooter remains at large. Talia Levine, a senior at Brown University, joins "The Takeout," to share what she experienced during Saturday's shooting.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says the agency has no plans to put a black box warning on Covid-19 vaccines. He says a recommendation was made, but it won't be adopted since the vaccines have changed since they first came out. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Sou…

During Bloomberg's annual flagship ETF event, Bloomberg's Katie Greifeld speaks with Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s global CIO of fixed-income, and Steve Laipply, global co-head of iShares fixed income ETFs. (Source: Bloomberg)

arXiv:2510.21368v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Estimating reaction rates and chemical stability is fundamental, yet efficient methods for large-scale simulations remain out of reach despite advances in modeling and exascale computing. Direct simulation is limited by short timescales; mac…

Seaport Research’s negative view of Nvidia’s stock hasn’t panned out thus far, but analyst Jay Goldberg is emphasizing the recommendation as he looks to 2026.

When SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. starts trading this week, one of Japan’s wealthiest women will likely get a ¥10 billion ($64 million) windfall.

Wednesday’s update could debut tokenized assets, onchain AI agents and global Base features as crypto exchange Coinbase aims to redefine its business model.

Luke Tennie, Travis Van Winkle, Meta Golding and Christopher Thornton have joined the cast of “The Pitt” Season 2. Tennie (“Shrinking,” “Abbott Elementary”) will play Dr. Crus Henderson, a fourth-year resident who works the night shift at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Van Winkle (“You,” “Fub…

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.

The former Duke of York – a former naval helicopter pilot who flew in the Falklands conflict – had his honorary military rank removed over his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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arXiv:2512.11319v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-definition (HD) maps are evolving from pre-annotated to real-time construction to better support autonomous driving in diverse scenarios. However, this process is hindered by low-quality input data caused by onboard sensors limited capability and…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a first-of-its-kind mRNA system that switches on therapeutic genes preferentially inside targeted cells—an advance demonstrated in studies in mice that could lay the groundwork for safer, more precise treatments for cancer and…

Canada’s WSP Global Inc. reached a deal to buy a US engineering firm from funds controlled by Warburg Pincus LLC with the financial backing of its largest shareholder.

Crypto-related stocks suffered far deeper declines as bitcoin slumped well below its recent trading range.

In an era where we often have to twiddle our thumbs for three years before a new season of a TV show we enjoy returns to our screens, the second season of Fallout has had a relatively short turnaround. It's set to hit Prime Video 20 months after the first batch of episodes. As it turns out, the seas…

In March, the musician was sued for $100 million by the brand Lost International, which claims her Mayhem designs rip off one of its logos

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The holidays are nearly here and if you’re a bit behind on your gift shopping, you’re not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year that’s been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well-deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need t…

arXiv:2512.11200v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current AI code generation systems suffer from significant latency bottlenecks due to CPU-GPU data transfers during compilation, execution, and testing phases. We establish theoretical foundations for three complementary approaches to GPU-native compi…

arXiv:2505.16134v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit position bias systematically underweighting information based on its location in the context but how this bias varies across languages and models remains unclear. We conduct a multilingual study across five typ…

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker Holy Grail for decades.

arXiv:2512.11564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text entry in Virtual Reality (VR) is challenging, even when accounting for the use of controllers. Prior work has tackled this challenge head-on, improving the efficiency of input methods. These techniques have the advantage of allowing for relativel…

Hedge fund manager plans to build $8bn gambling complex next to Mets baseball stadium in Queens

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Abstract: Cross-domain HVAC energy prediction is essential for scalable building energy management, particularly because collecting extensive labeled data for every new building is both costly and impractical. Yet, this task remains highly challenging due t…

B. Riley Financial Inc. said it filed its overdue second-quarter report with US regulators, bringing the firm closer to satisfying demands from Nasdaq that will keep the stock from being delisted. The shares gained more than 20% in extended trading.

These chaotic calendars actually make great presents for the pickiest person on your list this holiday season

SpaceX's launches page hasn't shown it yet, but per FAA ATC and Celestrak, it looks like this launch has slipped to December 17 at 7:10-11:10 a...

Hunter Biden was on Monday disbarred in Connecticut after facing complaints about his convictions on gun and tax charges, over which his father, former President Biden, later pardoned him. The former president's son consented to being disbarred and admitted to attorney misconduct as part of an agree…

The NIN mastermind offers insight into the "drummer swap" with Foo Fighters.
Trent Reznor on What Really Went Down with Josh Freese’s Return to Nine Inch Nails
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Chai Discovery Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to accelerate drug development, today announced that it has closed a $130 million funding round led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst. The two investment firms were joined by more than a half dozen other backers. The consortium included Op…

Attorneys who eventually quit tell LA Times they were pushed to conclude university system had violated lawAttorneys with the US Department of Justice have reportedly said they felt pressured to accuse the University of California of discriminating against Jewish students and faculty, at the urging …

Mirelo AI GmbH, a Germany-based developer of audio generation models, today announced that it has raised $41 million in funding. Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led the seed investment. They were joined by Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. Mirelo’s flagship AI model, Mirelo SFX 1.5, is des…

In the wake of an incredible run at The Game Awards last week, during which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking nine awards and announced a free DLC out right now, a whole lot of people are purchasing and/or downloading the game to see what all the fuss is about.

Federal officials charged four suspects who they allege were planning to bomb multiple sites across southern CaliforniaFederal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two US companies on New Year’s Eve in Southern California after arresting members of an extremist a…

arXiv:2512.11504v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In this paper we relate the location of the complex zeros of the reliability polynomial to parameters at which a certain family of rational functions derived from the reliability polynomial exhibits chaotic behaviour. We use this connection to prove…

Sir Richard Knighton says more families will know what "sacrifice for our nation means" as the threat from Russia worsens.

arXiv:2512.11298v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are critical components in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs). Their potential exposure to external world makes them susceptible to cyber-attacks. Existing detection methods against controller logic attacks use eit…

The Sprout CEO said it “reflects a decade of persistent work with the FDA to fundamentally change how women’s sexual health is understood and prioritized.”

Legislation from Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., prioritizes waste reduction when it comes to the roughly $1 billion that VA spends annually on software assets.

European leaders say they and US are committed to working together to provide 'robust security guarantees' for Ukraine.

Famed actor, writer, director and political advocate Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were killed in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday. Peter Debruge, chief film critic for Variety, joins "The Takeout" to discuss Reiner's legacy.

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T-90 min to launch.

The Shenzhou-21 crew on board China's orbiting space station completed its first extravehicular activities on Tuesday, Dec. 9th, during which they validated the new EVA spacesuits.

arXiv:2410.23834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This review explores anomaly localization in medical images using denoising diffusion models. After providing a brief methodological background of these models, including their application to image reconstruction and their conditioning using…

It was not immediately clear what charges Nick Reiner would face. A police statement said he was being held without bail.

arXiv:2512.11779v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Evaluating conditional coverage remains one of the most persistent challenges in assessing the reliability of predictive systems. Although conformal methods can give guarantees on marginal coverage, no method can guarantee to produce sets with corre…

Meta is now worth more than Broadcom once again.

"They were fired for taking a private recording of me without my consent and sending it off to ex-employees," the "Truth Hurts" singer said.

Residents paid steep entrance fees to live in a continuing care retirement community, believing their families could one day recoup much of the money. Kelly O'Grady reports on the impact after the facility went bankrupt.

Nuclear waste continues to be a bottleneck in the widespread use of nuclear energy, so doctoral student Dauren Sarsenbayev is developing models to address the problem.

The word of the year is "Slop," according to the people at Merriam-Webster who decide what words mean.

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It's also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, a…

“We haven’t prioritized theatrical in the past because that wasn’t our business,” the co-CEOs wrote. “When this deal closes, we will be in that business.”

The agency sent letters to leaders at the companies, saying they continued to sell ByHeart infant formula for days or weeks after the recall.

The pop star said she was "grateful for this victory," while a lawyer for the plaintiffs noted many of the allegations remain intact, "including false imprisonment and harassment"

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The K-pop singer's bag charm of choice is currently on sale at Amazon.

*Stares intently*

The next presidential election may seem a long way off, but current frictions within Trump’s coalition suggest the jockeying to succeed Trump is well under way

Known as a popular Hollywood director, Rob Reiner also had a lengthy record of political and civic activism, especially in California.

On this day in 1960, the third and last Atlas-Able took off from LC-14 at Cape Canaveral. The Able adapter apparently produced in-flight vibration sufficient enough to induce loads into the forward section of the Atlas LOX tank, causing its rupture at ...

"Everything we've ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong."

arXiv:2506.16666v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this paper, we systematize research on auditing Differential Privacy (DP) techniques, aiming to identify key insights and open challenges. First, we introduce a comprehensive framework for reviewing work in the field and establish three cross-c…

Announcement spares British exporters from threat of tariff increases

Outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Sunday said he hasn’t taken a 2028 presidential run “off the table,” but suggested the public shouldn’t hold their breath for it, either. “I haven't taken anything off the table ... but I wouldn't put a lot of money on that,” Murphy said during an intervie…

arXiv:2511.20838v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dissipativity is an input-output (IO) characterization of nonlinear systems that enables compositional robust control through Vidyasagar's Network Dissipativity Theorem (VDNT). However, determining the dissipativity of a system is an involved and,…

The Detroit automaker is refocusing on hybrids and pouring money into battery-energy storage.

Government says arrangement will bring in extra £400m on top of more than £15bn of existing annual trade with KoreaThe UK has signed a new trade deal with South Korea designed to increase exports of cars, Scottish salmon and Guinness canned in Britain.Keir Starmer described the deal, which replaces …

Alan M. Garber was appointed after his predecessor resigned under pressure. He has been in the role as Harvard fended off challenges from the Trump administration.

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus, offering an unprecedented window into medieval diets and expanding the toolkit available to archaeologists for reconstructing ancient foodways.

Changes aim to build reserves and quell investor concern about President Javier Milei’s economic policy