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The payment giant is seeking to guide fintechs and banks in navigating the crypto landscape

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to...

arXiv:2510.08442v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to act based on high-dimensional image data where only a small fraction of the pixels is task-relevant. This forces agents to waste exploration and computational resources on irrelevant features…

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney's assets and to OpenAI's competition with Google.

Latest strictures add to pressure as fintech seeks to resolve a dispute between its founders and investors

Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine was prepared to drop its Nato aspirations, it would still require security guarantees from US and Europe Separately, the commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just confirmed that commission president Ursula von der Leyen will attend the Berlin talks t…

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The service was cut off and then there were threats of losing the number of 60 yearsMy 84-year-old parents, who have significant disabilities, had their TalkTalk landline cut off without notice in August.We eventually had to sign a new contract to get the service restored and were assured that they …

Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra talk about how they have helped their children understand his terminal cancer diagnosis.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.

President Trump's advisers are furious with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for starting an anti-abortion group to spur new action on the issue, which the White House views as a loser for Republicans in next year's midterms."Clearly, Senator Hawley and his political team learned nothing from the 2022 elect…

Paul Sutter, Universe Today Let's say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don't worry...

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls

arXiv:2512.11161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently been used to enhance index structures, giving rise to reinforcement learning-enhanced spatial indices (RLESIs) that aim to improve query efficiency during index construction. However, their practical benefits remain…

As part of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy councils will receive a further £19m Good morning. The news will be dominated by two foreign stories today: the ongoing response to the Hanukah killings at Bondi beach, which we are covering on a live blog here, and the latest talks in …

Independent review into Dr Halima Begum’s conduct was prompted by at least 100 staff writing to trusteesOxfam GB’s chief executive has been forced out by the charity’s trustees after an investigation into her leadership found “serious issues”, according to reports.The independent review was reported…

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls.  So when it came time to choose a speciality, Mill…

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…

On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking application of AI: He began to perform with a lifelike depiction of his long-deceased musical partner, John Lennon.  Using recent advances in audio and…

NASA ISS EVAs stats:

If your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick feels slow, don't replace it just yet. These quick tips can give it a serious speed boost.

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

arXiv:2507.04678v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Spatiotemporal image generation is a highly meaningful task, which can generate future scenes conditioned on given observations. However, existing change generation methods can only handle event-driven changes (e.g., new buildings) and fail to mod…

arXiv:2512.11784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Softmax attention is a central component of transformer architectures, yet its nonlinear structure poses significant challenges for theoretical analysis. We develop a unified, measure-based framework for studying single-layer softmax attention under b…

arXiv:2512.09014v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Real-time adjustments to task difficulty during flight training are crucial for optimizing performance and managing pilot workload. This study evaluated the functionality of a pre-trained brain-computer interface (BCI) that adapts training difficu…

arXiv:2507.02925v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present a modular framework powered by large language models (LLMs) that automates and streamlines key tasks across the early-stage computational drug discovery pipeline. By combining LLM reasoning with domain-specific tools, the framework perf…

A Holocaust survivor, a 10-year-old and a Chabad rabbi were among the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday.

The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease.

As the calendar turns, that may be one of the most meaningful resolutions we can make: not simply to improve ourselves, but to steward what was given to us well and to pass it on, intact enough to matter, and open enough to endure.
The post A Song, a Father, and the Quiet Work of Passing Things On a…

Interstellar Arc is an immersive sci-fi experience that uses recent advances in headset tech to break new ground in virtual reality. And it all happens inside an empty-looking room in Las Vegas.

At a convention for the channel’s randiest fans, I discovered the true meaning of Christmas.

Many are asking why more wasn't done to prevent the shootings after a spate of antisemitism-related offences.

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative mixed into fentanyl, has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities.

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain. Scientists working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found the clearest evidence so far that a rocky planet beyond our solar system has an atmosphere. Data from the…

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Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Dec. 15, 2025.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Dec. 15.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...

Congress must work to stop the president from leading us further into a South American quagmireDonald Trump seems determined to have a military confrontation with Venezuela. He has deployed a massive military arsenal in and around the Caribbean Sea and taken a series of provocative actions off the V…

arXiv:2507.20560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus …

Hollywood is paying tribute to director Rob Reiner after he and his wife Michele were found dead at their home in LA on Sunday.

Synthetic fabrics, particularly from fast fashion retailers, can be treated with a range of hazardous chemicals which can cause an allergic reaction. If you think this is happened to you, we’d like to hear from youHave you suffered any personal health repercussions you suspect may have been caused b…

Crypto prices are little changed, with bitcoin steady after dropping back from last week’s post-Fed high while altcoins continue to underperform amid risk-off sentiment.

Apollo theatre, LondonMischief Theatre return to the am-dram battlefield, turning the Victorian tale into a blizzard of bruised egos and expertly timed farceIn the interval, I hear a newcomer to Mischief Theatre’s enduring “goes wrong” concept ask if these comic symphonies of am-dram mishaps ever ge…

Who’s that daring young farmyard animal on the flying trapeze? The creatures of Mossy Bottom have been put on stage by ‘edgy’ circus stars Circa – but the burlesque shearing had to go‘It’s a family drama,” says Yaron Lifschitz. “It’s kind of a minor key, gently comic version of the Oresteian trilogy…

HP's EliteBook 8 G1i (16-inch) is a power-efficient multitasker with a generous selection of I/O. Here's my buying advice in 2025.

Korea Zinc to build processing plant in Tennessee with government investment

Artificial intelligence has already learned to read, write and reason. In 2026, it’s learning to look, listen and respond in real time. The next frontier for human–computer interaction is visual. ...

Martin O'Neill says he would "happily have stayed on" as Celtic manager after his interim spell ended with seven wins out of eight games.

Phantom Blade Zero is a PlayStation 5 console exclusive for 12 months.

My daughter deserves better.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Dec. 15, 2025.

Answers to each clue for the December 15, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

A large short placed during off-hours sent EdgeX’s XYZ100 perpetual down nearly 4%, exposing risks in equity-index perps when traditional markets are closed.

Republicans are staring down a major health care challenge as Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are set to expire at the end of the month. With a two-week recess beginning Dec. 22, they only have this week to get the issue resolved. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is aiming to bring a partisan GOP he…

It's unnerving how much of the global economy is dependent on $400 million lithography machines.

“No phone calls, no holiday cards, no explanation, no anything.”

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation.

Advocates fear damage to labor protections if the Supreme Court upholds the president’s move to control federal agency staffing.

Tariffs, an AI boom, geopolitical divisions and a new administration ushered in a unique, unsettling year for consumers.

I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no otherIn 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do something more meaningful …

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…

arXiv:2512.11799v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale video generation models have shown remarkable potential in modeling photorealistic appearance and lighting interactions in real-world scenes. However, a closed-loop framework that jointly understands intrinsic scene properties (e.g., albed…

The number of artists living in the city has declined after growing sharply between 2004 and 2019. Almost 50 arts venues have closed in the past five years.

José Antonio Kast, who was elected president on Sunday, is the latest conservative to rise to power promising strict law and order measures.

Across the arts, these 10 performers took a leap of faith this year and stuck the landing in a big way.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has described hearing gunshots during Sunday's terror attack at Bondi Beach as "terrifying".

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Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast has won a run-off election to become Chile’s 38th president.

High-level talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine gain momentum as two countries exchange drone attacks.

Mark "Cassidy" Jenner had a five year relationship with an activist while married with children.

arXiv:2512.11492v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Networked Predictive Control is widely used to mitigate the effect of delays and dropouts in Networked Control Systems, particularly when these exceed the sampling time. A key design choice of these methods is the delay bound, which determines the pre…

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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…

Michael Irving, Science Alert Dementia is often associated with older people,...

arXiv:2512.11510v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Integrating event cameras with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) promises general scene understanding in challenging visual conditions, yet requires navigating a trade-off between preserving the unique advantages of event data and ensuring comp…

Greg Ip, Wall St. Journal Whatever happened to the climate crisis?
In 2021 Bill Gates was...

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Abstract: Segmentation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced grounded visual understanding, yet they remain prone to pixel-grounding hallucinations, producing masks for incorrect objects or for objects that are entirely absent. Existing …

Donna Lu, The Guardian Little Foot, one of the world's most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our...

Quote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, it was not permitted to consider a landing on the Moon — as President Obama himself...

Stats show continued progress away from landfill in Northern Ireland, but little movement in recycling rates
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Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of poorly designed code that saps their attention and sets software projects up for serious long term-maintenance problems. The problem is right now, it’s not easy…

Quote from: Hadley Delta on Today at 12:47 amQuote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, ...

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 …

The latest death cross in November has so far marked a bottom of around $80,000, aligning with prior examples this cycle.

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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

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…

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

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

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A Nintendo Switch 2 version of indie horror hit Phasmophobia is due out in 2026.

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…

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation changed during 2025

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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…

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