arXiv:2512.13638v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tile-based many-Processing Element (PE) accelerators can achieve competitive performance on General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM), but they are extremely hard to program, as their optimal software mapping is deeply coupled with hardware design which is…

India’s economic activity eased in December, a flash survey by HSBC Holdings Plc showed, as President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs continue to weigh on labor-intensive industries.

arXiv:2512.12465v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transition Matching (TM) is an emerging paradigm for generative modeling that generalizes diffusion and flow-matching models as well as continuous-state autoregressive models. TM, similar to previous paradigms, gradually transforms noise samples to da…

https://t.me/zheleznyakov_spaceera/7714Google translate:QuoteA complete replacement kit for the service cabin on Launch Pad 31 has arrived at Baikonur.▶️ Launch readiness – late winter 2026

There is no better place for cinephiles than New York. A film journalist brings us to raucous midnight screenings, gorgeous historic theatres, famous filmmaker Q&As and secret archives

Timing for fintech’s planned listing was a key aspect of ructions ahead of TS Anil’s surprise departure

QuoteDec 16 00:26Go for fuelingA readiness poll of the launch team by Launch Conductor Scott Barney, with concurrence of ULA Launch Director Don Malin, has approved cryogenic tanking operations to begin at the earliest opportunity once the c...

arXiv:2512.12050v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric Scott--Voge…

Such measures wouldn’t be necessary if Beijing ran anything like a normal, balanced economy

One of the biggest owners of European government bonds could trigger a bout of volatility — just as many market participants are away from their desks.

Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actor gives a skilful performance in the late playwright’s 1995 meditation on love and literary posterity, directed by Jonathan KentA fortnight after West End playhouses dimmed their lights in tribute to Sir Tom Stoppard, Hampstead theatre’s stage lights rise on a reviva…

arXiv:2512.12187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Rising animosity toward ideological opponents poses critical societal challenges. We introduce and test the Ideological Turing Test, a gamified framework requiring participants to adopt and defend opposing viewpoints, to reduce affective animosity and…

Thriller starring Ranveer Singh has raised eyebrows over its portrayal of tensions between the two countries.

Around 1,000 years ago, a major climate shift reshaped rainfall across the South Pacific, making western islands like Samoa and Tonga drier while eastern islands such as Tahiti became increasingly wet. New evidence from plant waxes preserved in island sediments shows this change coincided with the f…

Asian private equity firm Longreach Group is considering selling its majority stake in the hamburger chain Wendy’s First Kitchen in Japan, people familiar with the matter said.

arXiv:2512.11939v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transforming bi-dimensional sets of image pixels into mono-dimensional sequences with a Peano scan (PS) is an established technique enabling the use of hidden Markov chains (HMCs) for unsupervised image segmentation. Related Bayesian segmentation meth…

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Libya…

arXiv:2312.03916v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We introduce a family of identities that express general linear non-unitary evolution operators as a linear combination of unitary evolution operators, each solving a Hamiltonian simulation problem. This formulation can exponentially enhance…

arXiv:2512.01054v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Machine Unlearning is essential for large generative models (VAEs, DDPMs) to comply with the right to be forgotten and prevent undesired content generation without costly retraining. Existing approaches, such as Static-lambda SISS for diffusion mo…

arXiv:2512.13228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semi-supervised classification leverages both labeled and unlabeled data to improve predictive performance, but existing software support is fragmented across methods and modalities. We introduce ModSSC, an open source Python framework that unifies in…

arXiv:2512.13488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An increasing variety of AI accelerators is being considered for large-scale training. However, enabling large-scale training on early-life AI accelerators faces three core challenges: frequent system disruptions and undefined failure modes that under…

Attackers are using the vulnerability to deploy malware and crypto-mining software, compromising server resources and potentially intercepting wallet interactions on crypto platforms.

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 02:57 amOfficial launch success confirmation: With that fairing disintegration?Not likely.

arXiv:2512.13096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate adaptive minimal routing in 2D torus networks on chip NoCs under node fault conditions comparing a reinforcement learning RL based strategy to an adaptive routing baseline A torus topology is used for its low diameter high connectivity …

Chloe Fox shares the hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banksAs a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing river, even for drinking.The 68-year-old has a lo…

arXiv:2510.25130v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Lipschitz constant is a fundamental property in certified robustness, as smaller values imply robustness to adversarial examples when a model is confident in its prediction. However, identifying the worst-case adversarial examples is known to be a…

arXiv:2512.08334v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Rendering complex reflection of real-world scenes using 3D Gaussian splatting has been a quite promising solution for photorealistic novel view synthesis, but still faces bottlenecks especially in rendering speed and memory storage. This paper pro…

Lawyers for US President Donald Trump say the BBC caused him overwhelming reputational and financial harm.

Energy PE firm says its offer is superior to proposed fund-to-fund transfer that led to accusations of self-dealing

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Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump changing marijuana’s classification would be ill-advised. “I think rescheduling marijuana is wrong. The fact is, marijuana is a gateway drug. Most of the people who end up using hard substances start out on marijuana,” Lawler told h…

The Middle East’s Dubai oil benchmark is showing signs of worsening oversupply, adding to a slew of indicators pointing to a global glut.

QuoteDec 15 00:00 midnightAll systems remain "go" here at the Advanced Spaceflight Operations Center and at the launch pad as we count down to tonight's Atlas V launch at 3:28 a.m. EST (0828 UTC). The weather is favorable and we are working no issue...

QuoteWelcome to the Atlas V countdown!From the Advanced Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, this is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 2 hours and holding with 28 minutes remaining in this planned half...

arXiv:2512.10967v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare contexts remains largely unknown. In this study, we conduct the first systematic…

Chris Minns and Mal Lanyon questioned about police resources at Hanukah event and response time after Naveed Akram and father Sajid allegedly started shootingThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, and the commissioner, Mal Lanyon, have defended the police response to the Bondi beach terrorist att…

arXiv:2512.12017v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-active bridge (MAB) converters, the core of the state-of-the-art medium-voltage power electronic transformers, can flexibly connect multiple DC ports among distributed DC grids and loads, but suffer from hard switching under conventional single …

The relationship between the president’s son and Ms. Anderson had been the subject of tabloid speculation during his previous engagement to Kimberly Guilfoyle.

arXiv:2512.12325v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We prove that a classic sub-Gaussian mixture proposed by Robbins in a stochastic setting actually satisfies a path-wise (deterministic) regret bound. For every path in a natural ``Ville event'' $E_\alpha$, this regret till time $T$ is bounded by $\ln^…

Seinfeld credited Reiner with saving his legendary comedy sitcom from cancellation.
Jerry Seinfeld Honors Rob Reiner: “[He] Had the Biggest Influence on My Career”
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This is a guest post written by Briana Swifft, director of solutions marketing at Percona. Swift writes in full as follows… Developers build software to meet specific needs or goals, often by ...

A retired US vice admiral talks through the military equipment sent to the island in recent months, and what the build up could mean.

He said the people in the house were relatively new to the area and largely kept to themselves.

Sgt Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, and 29-year-old Sgt William Nathaniel Howard were remembered as dedicated soldiersThe two Iowa national guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria that the US military blamed on the Islamic State (IS) group were identified on Monday and remembered as dedicate…

Demands for oversight grow after inquiry calls sector an ‘unregulated free for all’ and families seek stronger safeguardsMinisters are expected to back calls to regulate England’s funeral industry for the first time, after a series of scandals over the handling of remains.Bereaved families have call…

arXiv:2501.08895v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The \emph{$r$-neighbourhood complexity} of a graph $G$ is the function counting, for a given integer $k$, the largest possible number, over all vertex-subsets $A$ of size $k$, of subsets of $A$ realized as the intersection between the $r$-neighbou…

Comments on the cost model by Dr. Phil Metzger: https://x.com/DrPhiltill/status/2000678045959774521QuoteSolid snapshot analysis but I think it omits the main point. The stated assumptions include, “No adjustments for permitting or regulatory delay....

QuoteDec 16 00:53Now 30 percent of the Centaur LOX tank has been filled. The liquid oxygen -- chilled to Minus-298 degrees F -- will be consumed during the launch by the Centaur's single RL10C-1-1 engine along with liquid hydrogen to be pumped into ...

arXiv:2401.14296v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In the age of digital music streaming, playlists on platforms like Spotify have become an integral part of individuals' musical experiences. People create and publicly share their own playlists to express their musical tastes, promote the discover…

Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway lineTen years ago, I walked the route of HS2, the 140-mile railway proposed to run from London to Birmingham, to discover what lay in its path.…

Palm oil fell below 4,000 ringgit a ton, touching its lowest level in three weeks, as it tracked weakness in soybean oil and faced pressure from dull exports out of Malaysia.

First new treatments for sexually transmitted disease in decades approved by US Food and Drug Administration as number of cases worldwide surge to 82mThe first new treatments for gonorrhoea in decades could be a “huge turning point” in efforts to combat the rise of superbug strains of the bacteria, …

arXiv:2503.14505v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce MusicInfuser, an approach that aligns pre-trained text-to-video diffusion models to generate high-quality dance videos synchronized with specified music tracks. Rather than training a multimodal audio-video or audio-motion model from …

arXiv:2511.09791v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Exemplar-Free Continual Learning (EFCL) restricts the storage of previous task data and is highly susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. While pre-trained models (PTMs) are increasingly leveraged for EFCL, existing methods often overlook the inhe…

Quote from: clongton on 12/14/2025 12:54 pmCompletely agree. But why choose between the 2? I've always felt that a hybrid system would serve the effort pretty well. A standard engine that could be used to power many ...

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arXiv:2512.12550v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for reliable decision-making under uncertainty. This paper focuses on DRO with ambiguity sets defined via the Sinkhorn discrepancy: an entropy-regularized Wasserstein dist…

arXiv:2512.12989v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQCs) pose a structural threat to the global digital economy. Algorithms like Shor's factoring and Grover's search threaten to dismantle the public-key infrastructure (PKI) securing sovereign communicatio…

There are good reasons for family scion John Elkann to turn down Tether’s current offer

QuoteDec 16 00:23This is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 2 hours and holding, with five minutes remaining in the built-in hold. Launch Conductor Scott Barney is briefing console operators on procedures going forward in today's countdown and the prop...

Community mourns terror attack in Bondi beach, just months after two killed at site of event in Greater ManchesterDark rain clouds hung above Heaton Park synagogue in Greater Manchester on Monday evening as worshippers gathered for the second day of Hanukah. It was the nightly menorah candle lightin…

It will be much easier to heat up Mars than to cool down Venus.  Doesn't Venus have a much slower rotation than either Earth or Mars?  Both Earth and Mars has around a 24 hour day which is easier for humans to adjust.

QuoteDec 15 19:35We are entering the final five hours in our countdown to launch. All continues to progress well.A pre-launch test of the rocket's guidance system is now in progress. Also underway are checks of the GPS Metric Tracking system used t...

Australian police are investigating how the father and son planned the attack and whether they had links to terrorist groups, including Islamic State.

The Pentagon says it is "escalating" a probe into Sen. Mark Kelly, one of six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to "refuse illegal orders."

American gun lobbyists quickly hijacked the Sydney massacre for their own political purposes, as did anti-immigration activists – in a harbinger of what’s to come.

arXiv:2512.12671v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion and Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge models have established state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling but are often hampered by significant computational costs and complex training procedures. While continuous-time bridges promise faster sa…

arXiv:2512.13095v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: To combine the advantages of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), recent methods have integrated ''hints'' into post-training, which are prefix segments of complete reasoning trajectories, aiming for powerful knowledge expansi…

arXiv:2510.22980v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The growing adoption of spectrum-aware matrix-valued optimizers such as Muon and Shampoo in deep learning motivates a systematic study of their generalization properties and, in particular, when they might outperform competitive algorithms. We app…

arXiv:2505.11640v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Implicit neural representations (INRs) are a powerful paradigm for modeling data, offering a continuous alternative to discrete signal representations. Their ability to compactly encode complex signals has led to strong performance in many vision …

DOGE's short-term direction depends on holding above the $0.1290–$0.1280 zone, with $0.1300 as immediate resistance.

It seems reasonable to guess there's still a lunar architecture design cabal that wants Orion loitering in LLO with a full load of prop for TEI. Perhaps they envision slapping BOLE 'Black Knights' onto a core with 5xRS-25 engines, and rejiggering the s...

arXiv:2512.11473v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and inefficient computati…

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater rivers alongside dinosaurs and crocodiles. A massive tooth found in North Dakota, analyzed using chemical isotope techniques, reveals that some mosasaurs adapted to river sys…

A landmark effort toward fighting wildfires on a global scale took another step forward after a new resolution was passed at the seventh United Nations Environmental Assembly conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The resolution, drafted and led by India, received wide support from participating nations and …

arXiv:2512.11322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We derive a few extended versions of the Kraft inequality for lossy compression, which pave the way to the derivation of several refinements and extensions of the well known Shannon lower bound in a variety of instances of rate-distortion coding. Thes…

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals shape landscapes on land. As they graze and tear apart seaweed and seagrass, they limit algae and can…

Tonight's launch is set to lift off at the start of a 29-minute window, from 3:28 a.m. to 3:57 a.m. ET.

arXiv:2511.07299v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video anomaly understanding (VAU) aims to provide detailed interpretation and semantic comprehension of anomalous events within videos, addressing limitations of traditional methods that focus solely on detecting and localizing anomalies. However,…

Youth Endowment Fund survey finds a quarter of 13- to 17-year-olds are enticed or scared into committing crimesOne in nine teenagers have been approached by criminals to sell, move or store drugs, weapons or money, research reveals.More than a quarter of those approached accepted the offer, represen…

QuoteThe missionUnited Launch Alliance today will launch the next grouping of operational satellites for Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper.Amazon Leo is built around an initial constellation of more than 3,000 advanced low Earth orbit sa...

arXiv:2512.11258v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-intent spoken language understanding (SLU) involves two tasks: multiple intent detection and slot filling, which jointly handle utterances containing more than one intent. Owing to this characteristic, which closely reflects real-world applicati…

Police investigating claims Sajid and Naveed Akram received ‘training’ overseas before Sunday’s attackThe father and son duo allegedly behind the Bondi attacked appear to have been inspired by Islamic State, the Australian prime minister says, as police confirmed they were investigating why the pair…

A hoard of Venezuelan crude on tankers at sea will provide a cushion for Chinese refiners — the biggest buyers — should the US escalate hostilities against the OPEC producer and disrupt exports.

arXiv:2409.10257v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In recent years, variational quantum algorithms have garnered significant attention as a candidate approach for near-term quantum advantage using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. In this article we introduce kernel descent, a…

arXiv:2510.20268v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a challenging task that detects anomalous frames in continuous surveillance videos. Most previous work utilizes the spatio-temporal correlation of visual features to distinguish whether there are abnormalities in v…

arXiv:2512.13376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic polyp segmentation is crucial for improving the clinical identification of colorectal cancer (CRC). While Deep Learning (DL) techniques have been extensively researched for this problem, current methods frequently struggle with generalizatio…

arXiv:2505.00567v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The information bottleneck channel, also known as oblivious relaying, is a two-hop channel where a transmitter sends messages to a remote receiver via an intermediate relay node. A codeword sent by the transmitter passes through a discrete memoryl…

The Pentagon said Monday it is "escalating" a "preliminary review" into "serious allegations of misconduct" leveled against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a retired naval officer, after he clashed with President Trump.The big picture: A Pentagon spokesperson said in an emailed statement that Kelly now f…

https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/2000766463867805850QuoteRocket Lab@RocketLabSafely aborting a launch after engine ignition is an advanced capability - not all rockets can do this. During today's count one of Electron's thousands of sensors no...

Crowds of people have left flowers and candles as a tribute to the 15 people who were killed in the attack in Sydney.

Trump appeals to Chinese leader Xi Jinping after Jimmy Lai convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law.

One co-founder called it a "blatant power grab" designed to strip the board of its independence.

Cities around the world are facing more frequent and intense bouts of extreme heat, leading...
The post Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat appeared first on Carbon Brief.

In films like “A Few Good Men,” the director’s ideas of honor and morality were stated as plainly as could be.

Test your knowledge of the deep connections between physics, big data and AI
The post How well do you know AI? Try our interactive quiz to find out appeared first on Physics World.

Shop the best Pokémon Christmas deals for 2025, from Pokémon TCG chase cards and sealed products to Nintendo Switch games and Squishmallows. Perfect gifts for every type of trainer.

Huge amounts appear to have been raised for seriously ill children who never received the money.

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