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arXiv:2512.14617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many practical decision-making problems involve tasks whose success depends on the entire system history, rather than on achieving a state with desired properties. Markovian Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches are not suitable for such tasks, while…

Tech giant plans to roll out new AgeKey technology across multiple countries next year

A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light. Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have developed a new way to visualize boron nitride layers that are just one atom th…

Audit finds on average adults wait twice as long as children for assessment and more than 10 times as long to be treatedAdults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Au…

arXiv:2312.04960v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a fundamental architecture and serve as the backbone of modern vision-language models. Despite their impressive performance, ViTs exhibit notable vulnerability to evasion attacks, necessitating the develo…

Ivanhoe Atlantic project would supply iron ore to America and allies but faces opposition in west Africa — and Washington

arXiv:2509.23800v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Modern generative AI models like diffusion and flow matching can sample from rich data distributions, but many downstream tasks - such as experimental design or creative content generation - require a higher level of control than unconstrain…

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe’s silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

Owned and run by the Cassegrain family, Longchamp is flying high after being embraced by Gen Z

MetaX Integrated Circuits surged as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut as investors bet on national champions that could emerge as viable local competitors to Nvidia. The company manufactures graphics processing units, a rapidly growing industry as more consumers and businesses adopt AI services. (S…

Scrub screencaps from JAXA webcast.  I saw no ignition.

arXiv:2501.15693v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The performance of AI models on safety benchmarks does not indicate their real-world performance after deployment. This opaqueness of AI models impedes existing regulatory frameworks constituted on benchmark performance, leaving them incapable of …

Bonds have risen sharply to the highest level since 2019 as the Trump administration increases pressure on Maduro

Bundestag asked to sign off on multibillion contracts, including a €21bn order for soldiers’ protective equipment

arXiv:2508.11849v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce LocoMamba, a vision-driven cross-modal DRL framework built on selective state-space models, specifically leveraging Mamba, that achieves near-linear-time sequence modeling, effectively captures long-range dependencies, and enables eff…

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.

How to watch FIFA Intercontinental Cup for free. Live stream PSG vs. Flamengo in the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final for free.

arXiv:2512.13580v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Simulation of fermionic Hamiltonians with gate-based quantum computers requires the selection of an encoding from fermionic operators to quantum gates, the most widely used being the Jordan-Wigner transform. Many alternative encodings exist, with qu…

The actor died on Tuesday following a battle with cancer

Exact T-0 will be 05:01:58 UTC per the webcast.

Hate preachers and potential terrorists could be targeted and deported by officials pursuing their tax and immigration records under a new approach to tackling extremism.

arXiv:2503.06109v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Daily operations in large campuses depend on how efficiently people \emph{move} through space and time. In this sense, course timetables are more than administrative schedules: they act as mobility policies that orchestrate thousands of trajectori…

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Warner Bros will reportedly advise its shareholders to vote against the offer as early as Wednesday.

Revealing details too small and too fast to study otherwise.

Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe’s silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

arXiv:2512.13559v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Verifying rumors on social media is critical for mitigating the spread of false information. The stances of conversation replies often provide important cues to determine a rumor's veracity. However, existing models struggle to jointly capture semanti…

arXiv:2512.13047v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: File systems are critical OS components that require constant evolution to support new hardware and emerging application needs. However, the traditional paradigm of developing features, fixing bugs, and maintaining the system incurs significant overhe…

India’s rupee strengthened the most in seven months versus the dollar after the central bank sold dollars aggressively to support the currency.

The $0.1310–$0.1315 zone is now a resistance area, with further downside likely if volume remains high on declines.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that "the dam is breaking” on President Trump’s influence over the Republican Party. “I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn one of President Trump's exe…

A New York intellectual and onetime liberal stalwart, his Commentary magazine became his platform as his political and social view turned sharply rightward.

The Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions

arXiv:2505.18101v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Online Continual Learning (OCL) involves sequentially arriving data and is particularly challenged by catastrophic forgetting, which significantly impairs model performance. To address this issue, we introduce a novel framework, Online Dynamic Exp…

arXiv:2502.07040v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we introduce high-order Basis-Update & Galerkin (BUG) integrators based on explicit Runge-Kutta methods for large-scale matrix differential equations. These dynamical low-rank integrators extend the BUG integrator to arbitrary explic…

She plans to take them to the US to see her family at Christmas

An international team of researchers co-led by Professor Christine Stauber in the Georgia State University School of Public Health is empowering residents of low-income communities to improve sanitation in their neighborhoods through an innovative mobile app.

The move followed multiple failed attempts to sustain momentum above recent resistance, leaving XRP vulnerable once support levels were tested again.

arXiv:2512.13631v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Quasi-periodic trajectories with two or more incommensurate frequencies are ubiquitous in nonlinear dynamics, yet the classical Fourier-based time-spectral method is tied to strictly periodic responses. We introduce a torus time-spectral method that l…

arXiv:2511.03909v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) and Euler characteristic function (ECF) have proven to be useful tools in a variety of applications. However, current methods for computing these functions are either not optimized for speed or do…

I'm not sure it needs a context, he was replying to this post:Quoteyou have generational runs, and then you have civilizational runselon, the man of the millenniumWhich ...

It's warming significantly faster than the global average.

Industry minister says government will be ‘responsive’ to carmakers as they shift away from petrol engines

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

Costa Rica’s legislature on Monday rejected a second request to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity, blocking an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make the leader face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in ...

China is selling large volumes of soybeans from its state reserves, as it steps up purchases from the US to fulfill an apparent agreement between the two countries in late October.

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the authorities say.

arXiv:2512.03005v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for AI for good applications. As LLMs increasingly mediate online communication, their potential to foster empathy and constructive dialogue becomes an important fr…

BYD, Chery and other Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Britain, where tariffs are low and buyers are open to new brands.

arXiv:2512.14420v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across a broad range of multimodal tasks. However, robust image caption evaluation using LVLMs remains challenging, particularly under domain-shift scenarios. To address this issue…

How to ensure any gifting you do this Christmas does the most good

New characterization of the material's surface reveals how an atom-level rearrangement aids the formation of ice crystals and promotes precipitation
The post Scientists explain why ‘seeding’ clouds with silver iodide is so efficient appeared first on Physics World.

Each has pros and cons.

arXiv:2512.13255v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce B\'ezierFlow, a lightweight training approach for few-step generation with pretrained diffusion and flow models. B\'ezierFlow achieves a 2-3x performance improvement for sampling with $\leq$ 10 NFEs while requiring only 15 minutes of trai…

Sixty years ago, half a million Indonesians were killed in anti-Communist purges. On Bali, resorts and clubs were built atop mass graves.

The video game derived thriller series should be terrifying, but it’s often side-splitting. Its second outing adds excellent guest spots from Justin Theroux, Kumail Nanjiani and Macaulay CulkinThe west doesn’t get much wilder than in Fallout. The show takes place 200 years into a post-nuclear apocal…

Investors including Accel and Iconiq are also pressing for greater board representation for shareholders

President’s affordability measures undercut cattle producers in favour of consumers

Deal could push AI start-up’s valuation above $500bn and involve it using the cloud giant’s chips

arXiv:2512.13171v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study within-host HIV dynamics using a three--component nonlinear ordinary differential equation model for healthy CD4$^{+}$ T cells, infected CD4$^{+}$ T cells, and free virus. In addition to the baseline model without treatment, we consider two t…

arXiv:2512.13157v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Intrinsic Image Fusion, a method that reconstructs high-quality physically based materials from multi-view images. Material reconstruction is highly underconstrained and typically relies on analysis-by-synthesis, which requires expensive …

Launch has occurred and all events up to SECO-1 are nominal.

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Gar O’Rourke joins the likes of Frederick Wiseman with an immersive observational documentary that takes a sensitive look at a community attempting to relax under conditions of growing unease. Though O’Rourke is an Irish filmmaker, working with majority Irish funding, his chosen location is Ukraine,…

"Fallout 2" is full of game details. From Pip-Boys to power armor, the Prime Video series is a fan's Wasteland. Here's a guide.

arXiv:2407.15226v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this work, we propose a method for tracking multiple extended targets or unresolvable group targets in a clutter environment. Firstly, based on the Random Matrix Model (RMM), the joint state of the target is modeled as the Gamma Gaussian …

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth
The post Plasma bursts from young stars could shed light on the early life of the Sun appeared first on Physics World.

In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn’t excessively offensive and was an objective record of a ‘public event of historical and political significance’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian classification review board has overturned a decision to block Au…

Quote from: sanman on Today at 01:26 amDifficult with metallic asteroid, but a lot of these carbonaceous asteroids are just large gravel piles that have coalesced and barely hold together. That might make them easi...

Iron ore futures ticked up for a second day, even as data signaled weakness in China’s steel demand.

The Philippines denied claims it is an ISIS hotspot, with no confirmed report that the Bondi shooters received any form of training in the country.

Change marks an abrupt end to 30 years of established medical guidance and follows vote earlier this monthThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all US newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.The agency’s move follows a vote from…

Martin Short, Albert Brooks, and Alan Zweibel also signed the letter praising the couple's as "a special force together-dynamic, unselfish and inspiring"

Adelaide reflects a nation’s state of slow-motion shock after Sydney shootings leave the country irrevocably changedThe third Ashes Test in Adelaide will not be the first to take place in the shadow of modern-day acts of terror. The 2005 series in England began two weeks after the 7 July London bomb…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed full support for Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, praising his administration’s performance after a year defined by a deadly fire, a financial turnaround and the conviction of the city’s top national security target.

Given the extensive discussions remaining with various other facilities beyond the two launch pads, RGV Aerophotography is initiating a new series dedicated to these additional facilities.Beyond the Pad EP 1

Update: Link for alternative live coverage site:Here is a consolidated post of available video links for this launch:SpaceX's direct live broadcast onWebsite:  https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-13 Twitter:  https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZoZzj...

arXiv:2510.09995v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Lens flare occurs when shooting towards strong light sources, significantly degrading the visual quality of images. Due to the difficulty in capturing flare-corrupted and flare-free image pairs in the real world, existing datasets are typically sy…

Dressed in a white/silver colorway to fit into your all-white build.

HBO Max's official trailer for 'The Pitt' Season 2 shows Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) working a July 4 emergency room shift.

Copper gained as investors await the US inflation data that could impact the Federal Reserve’s stance on further rate cuts.

About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed on the cave floor. And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees would use the bones' empty tooth sockets as nests.

The Falcon 9 rocket launching the Starlink 15-13 mission will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is for 7:22 a.m. PST (10:22 a.m. EST / 1522 UTC).

Vice-president urges patience on affordability after Trump veers off script on cost of living crisis

arXiv:2411.11274v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A conforming partition of a rectilinear n-gon P (possibly with holes) is a partition of P into rectangles without using Steiner points (i.e., all corners of all rectangles must lie on the boundary of P). The stabbing number of such a partition is …

South Korean super-app Toss has brought in investors including Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte and investment firms Baillie Gifford, Wellington, and WCM, people familiar with the matter said.

Jolie, whose mother died from cancer at the age of 56, underwent a preventative double mastectomy in 2013

Matin Durrani talks to four leaders from quantum science and technology about where the field is going next
The post From building a workforce to boosting research and education – future quantum leaders have their say appeared first on Physics World.

arXiv:2512.10427v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Neural scaling laws and double-descent phenomena suggest that deep-network training obeys a simple macroscopic structure despite highly nonlinear optimization dynamics. We derive such structure directly from gradient descent in function space. For…

arXiv:2512.11851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Whether attention key value (KV) states computed for one prompt for a small LLM can be reused to accelerate inference on a new similar prompt, giving an increase to the space to its context memory using an approach called token recycling. Using a stan…

Prosecutors said that Mr. Reiner killed his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, using a knife. He has not yet entered a plea.

Giuffre’s family calls the success of her posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, ‘bittersweet’ after her death in AprilA posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold 1m copies worldwide in just the two months after its release.Publisher Alfred A Kn…

Quote from: Vultur on 12/16/2025 11:32 pmQuote from: crandles57 on 12/16/2025 11:01 pmNot sure I would trust it, but FWIW, grok came up with 78 million tons for metallic asteroid t...

A new AI model is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to anticipate human actions by interpreting visual and contextual cues in real time. Rather than simply reacting to movement, the system reasons about what people are likely to do next. Researchers from the Texas A&M University College of Engi…

The US will restrict entry of people from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria as well as holders of Palestinian Authority passports.

The long-term health and environmental sustainability of some of Alaska’s most pristine landscapes and intact ecosystems, including the Teshekpuk Lake wetlands complex and the Arctic National...

New launch opportunities, new launch time.https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/Supplemental GP Element SetsCurrent as of 2025 Dec 17 03:22:19 UTC (Day 351)QuoteStarlink G15-13 Pre-Launch    Derived from a pre-launch Starlink-G15-13...

arXiv:2510.04564v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Conventional representation learning methods learn a universal representation that primarily captures dominant semantics, which may not always align with customized downstream tasks. For instance, in animal habitat analysis, researchers prioritize…