arXiv:2507.07524v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The class PLS (Polynomial Local Search) captures the complexity of finding a solution that is locally optimal and has proven to be an important concept in the theory of local search. It has been shown that local search versions of various combinat…

Alberta Investment Management Corp. appointed Ray Gilmour as permanent chief executive officer, more than a year after he took the role on an interim basis when the government of the Canadian province fired his predecessor and the board.

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…

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…

Need a last-minute stocking stuffer? We found 15+ discounted gift cards with digital delivery: Uber, Ulta, and a ton of restaurants.

President Trump reaffirmed this week that his administration may reclassify marijuana.

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Boy was arrested on Monday evening after officers were called to property in Weston-super-MareA teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a nine-year-old girl in Weston-super-Mare, police have said.Officers were called by paramedics to a property in the North Somerset t…

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

Randy Fine and Tommy Tuberville, US legislators, face backlash for Islamophobic calls to deport MuslimsDemocrats are condemning two Republican members of Congress who said, in the wake of the mass shooting in Australia, that the US should ban Muslims from the country and kick out those who already l…

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Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.

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

James Talarico, a Texas state representative and devout Christian, has gained attention for using his faith to advance liberal policies and has now announced his candidacy for the 2026 U.S. Senate race.

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: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:2512.11875v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This article examines how authoritarian regimes construct state narratives about politically consequential events. Building on the narrative policy framework and existing research on authoritarian propaganda, we propose two dimensions that shape narra…

Backed by U.S. Treasuries, USDM1 marks a new model for digital public finance and universal basic income in underserved regions.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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…

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.

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) …

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…

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…

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

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

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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.

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…

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…

arXiv:2512.12770v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Continued pretraining extends a language model's capabilities by further exposing it to additional data, often tailored to a specific linguistic or domain context. This strategy has emerged as an efficient alternative to full retraining when adapting …

The United States and Trinidad say U.S. Marines installed a radar in Tobago to combat drugs — but this war materiel isn’t designed for operations based at sea or on land.

Paul Feig directs this tortured adaptation of Freida McFadden's trashy novel.

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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 …

GenAI adoption varies across U.S. hospitals, with factors such as predictive AI use, EHR vendor and type of hospital impacting adoption rates, per a new survey.

The introduction of artificial intelligence promises much, but the industry must prevent it from becoming a hacker’s paradise

Another day, another Reform UK press conference: this time the deputy leader’s turn to apologise for his Send remarksCall it a Christmas miracle. For this was the day when Richard Tice sent in his application to become a fully paid-up member of Woke. The day the Reform deputy leader tried to break f…

The next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is slated to explore vast cosmic voids to uncover the hidden forces shaping the universe.

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a powerful light burst appears. That early flash acts like a timestamped signature of the effect. The met…

After its latest purchase, the company now holds 5,098 bitcoin worth nearly $450 million

David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love and restitution.” DuVernay will…

Quote from: Galacic01 on Today at 09:45 amI think NS5 and Karman Line will fly which hasn't flown since June (NS-33)I am not sure what you are trying to say here. RSS Karman Line and Tail 5 were separated...

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

arXiv:2512.13000v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feminist HCI has been rapidly developing in East Asian contexts in recent years. The region's unique cultural and political backgrounds have contributed valuable, situated knowledge, revealing topics such as localized digital feminism practices, or wo…

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!

The long-awaited Rainbow Six Mobile comes out on February 23 for iOS and Android devices. This is a global release and follows years of testing and some significant delays.
This is basically a smartphone version of the popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. It was "developed exclusively" for mo…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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…

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…

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

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

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

Younger households will need Social Security more than ever

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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 …

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: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…

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

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

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 …

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.

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:2512.12939v1 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…

“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)

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

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

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…

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 …

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

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