Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an electrochemical reaction manifold that promotes efficient nitrogen atom insertion into saturated carbocycles to access either functionalized quinolines or N-alkylated saturated N heterocycles, both of which are privileged …

A team of researchers at UNIST, in collaboration with the University of Cologne and Purdue University, has unveiled a rapid, sustainable method to create complex nanomaterials containing up to 30 different metals in just one minute at room temperature.

A large-scale model study now shows how the global food system can contribute to the fight against global warming. It identifies 23 levers, calculates their effectiveness and concludes: a decisive transformation of this sector alone, without the indispensable energy transition, can limit the global …

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular senescence—a state where cells stop dividing but remain metabolically active. The study, published in Molecular Cell, sheds light on the process of transcribing DNA into RNA, a …

arXiv:2512.12793v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper presents Vision-Language Global Localization (VLG-Loc), a novel global localization method that uses human-readable labeled footprint maps containing only names and areas of distinctive visual landmarks in an environment. While humans n…

Five years ago Intel began introducing "workload hints" used for thermal and power purposes with their SoCs and in turn on the software-side being enabled with their INT340X kernel driver on Linux systems. That Intel workload hint coverage was added to the Linux kernel in late 2020 and then a big ad…

Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang talked to io9 about Varang and Quaritch's intimate scene, in theaters now.

arXiv:2512.16755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant progress in explicit instruction-based navigation; however, their ability to interpret implicit human needs (e.g., "I am thirsty") in dynamic urban environments remains underexplored. This paper intr…

arXiv:2504.11900v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Stories are a fundamental aspect of human experience. Engaging deeply with stories and spotting plot holes -- inconsistencies in a storyline that break the internal logic or rules of a story's world -- requires nuanced reasoning skills, including …

A holding company of Altice International obtained funds from Elliott Investment Management to refinance more than €500 million ($586 million) of debt, as part of a broader effort by Patrick Drahi’s telecommunications conglomerate to sort out its pile of liabilities, people familiar with the matter …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday boasted of Russian military advances in Ukraine and ruled out any compromises with Kyiv ahead of meetings with U.S. officials in Miami this weekend aimed at agreeing to terms to end Moscow’s nearly four-year war.  Putin was speaking at his annual, end-of-ye…

OpenAI updated its guidelines for how its AI models should behave with users under 18, and published new AI literacy resources for teens and parents. Still, questions remain about how well policies translate into practice.

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who’s poised to become the No. 2 Senate Democrat after the midterms, called for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to release its autopsy report of the 2024 election. “I believe the DNC should release the report because 1) that’s what they said they were going to d…

The divisive festive vegetable is cheaper now than in 2019 as farmers lament collapse in consumption

Also, the case for another banner year for emerging-market stocks and how six young traders each made a killing

arXiv:2512.16913v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this work, we present a panoramic metric depth foundation model that generalizes across diverse scene distances. We explore a data-in-the-loop paradigm from the view of both data construction and framework design. We collect a large-scale dataset b…

arXiv:2512.16269v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a numerical framework for reconstructing the potential in two dimensional semilinear elliptic PDEs with power type nonlinearities from the nonlinear Dirichlet to Neumann map. By applying higher order linearization method, we compute the F…

Video producer Matt Fornwald takes us on a mind-bending journey through (mostly) every 2025 Hallmark holiday movie to discover the formula behind what draws so many people to Hallmark holiday movies every year.

arXiv:2512.15925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characters. Yet, computational models of reader response are limited, preventing nuanced analyses. To address t…

The US Justice Department begins the release of several hundred thousand documents Friday from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with more files to be published over coming weeks. The publication marks the clearest opportunity yet to shed light on a politically explosive…

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

It's the the band's second No. 1 album of the year.

India unveils DHRUV64, its first homegrown 64-bit dual-core processor, targeting embedded and industrial systems.
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arXiv:2512.16233v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We address network structure learning from zero-inflated count data by casting each node as a zero-inflated generalized linear model and optimizing a smooth, score-based objective under a directed acyclic graph constraint. Our Zero-Inflated Continuo…

arXiv:2512.16262v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world agentic tasks, unlike synchronous Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), often involve non-blocking actions with variable latencies, creating a fundamental \textit{Temporal Gap} between action initiation and completion. Existing environment-side…

The rap king is also set to bring out some surprise guests during the Netflix special

Publisher says it will not produce any new books by successful children’s author

Fed rate cuts have helped cut home equity loan costs. Here's how much a $90,000 home equity loan costs monthly now.

Thousands of people were without power in Colorado early Friday, and forecasters said some of the most extreme conditions were expected later in the day.

Kevin Costner and ABC are delivering a second dose of holiday tidings with a repeat airing of the actor’s new Christmas special. “Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas” originally premiered on Dec. 9 on ABC, though it was interrupted in some parts of the country by coverage of President Trump’…

Despite calls from some data protection campaigners, the UK's agreement to allow data movement with European Economic Area countries is extended until 2031

A new stem cell–based therapy challenges traditional pain treatment by using pain-sensing neurons to reduce inflammation and protect joints. Newly released preclinical data describes an unconventional strategy for managing chronic pain while helping preserve joint tissue. The findings focus on SN101…

Campaigners decry plan to reduce requirement for improved standards from 100% down to 40% of new homesGovernment plans to make huge cuts to targets for accessible new-build homes in England have been labelled a “monumental reversal” by campaigners, who say disabled people have been left feeling “bet…

US stocks climbed Friday morning as traders grappled with a record options expiration and assessed gains by tech firms including Oracle Corp., which is leading a group to buy TikTok.

Popular YouTube channels Screen Culture and KH Studio were shut down for repeatedly posting AI-generated movie trailers that misled viewers.

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The attacker, who threw smoke grenades inside a train station in Taiwan’s capital, later continued his rampage nearby and died in falling from a building.

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Officials say suspect, who died after falling from a building during police chase, carried out 'indiscriminate attacks'.

DOT has support in the $1.72-$1.74 zone.

arXiv:2512.15738v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Financial market prediction is a challenging application of machine learning, where even small improvements in directional accuracy can yield substantial value. Most models struggle to exceed 55--57\% accuracy due to high noise, non-stationarity, and …

Police in Australia are investigating a trip made by the suspects of the Bondi Beach anti-Semitic terrorist attack to the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, just weeks before they shot and killed 15 people and wounded dozens more. The region has long grappled with Islamist militancy, but Presi…

Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting the president’s financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration holds sway.

Using an executive order, he opened up research possibilities and eased taxes for businesses. But does it go far enough?

The deal will gives Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, more code review and debugging capabilities

Apple TV’s sci-fi hit is nearing the end of its first season, but there’s still so much story to tell.

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Singer-songwriter and actress Teyana Taylor joins "CBS Mornings" to give an update on her whirlwind year, celebrating her first-ever Golden Globe nomination for her role in "One Battle After Another" and her return to music with fourth studio album "Escape Room," which earned her a Grammy nod for Be…

Pacific Investment Management Co. and Witkoff Group, the real estate developer founded by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, are in default on a $400 million-plus loan tied to a luxury apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, according to a notice filed with Los Angeles County.

The news that the EU will be loaning Ukraine €90 billion for the next two years is good news for the country, who is spends most of its tax revenue on defence to fight off the Russian invasion. Volodymyr Zelensky said the money will help the country invest in ramping up the production of innovative …

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have also released their official Christmas card and renamed their charity.

The Trump administration is planning to announce an overhaul to the childhood immunization schedule early next year, recommending fewer shots and aligning U.S. policy with that of Denmark. A source familiar with the matter told News Nation correspondent Libbey Dean that a new vaccination schedule to…

Let's explore what's next for the year's surprise odd couple: Trump Media's merger with TAE Technologies, a company trying to commercialize fusion.Why it matters: The deal injects new cash into TAE as fusion — long more science fiction than energy reality — moves closer to commercial scale. The merg…

The suspect's spree began at Taipei's main metro station before he moved to another station nearby.

A new twist on bromine-based flow batteries could make large-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and far longer-lasting. Bromine-based flow batteries store and release energy through a chemical reaction involving bromide ions and elemental bromine. This approach offers several advantages, including…

Ukraine's Security Service says it struck a Russian "shadow fleet" tanker in neutral waters in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, according to a security official.

Exclusive: federal document reveals children arriving as undocumented immigrants being threatened with detentionBorder officials are pressuring unaccompanied children who arrive in the US as undocumented immigrants to quickly agree to return to their countries of origin, even if they express fear fo…

Score the Breville Barista Express for just $499.95, down from $699.95, at Amazon. That's a 20% discount or a $200 price cut.

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The award show will be hosted by Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves and will air live on CBS.

Raízen SA, Brazil’s struggling sugar and ethanol company, is stepping up efforts to shore up its balance sheet, with shareholder talks gaining urgency after the company’s dollar bonds tumbled.

Cuts will be used to reduce fees charged to public companies and broker-dealers

Several members of Congress criticized the department’s No. 2, Todd Blanche, after he said more documents would be coming weeks late.

arXiv:2512.16175v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding the magnetic field environment around Mars and its response to upstream solar wind conditions provide key insights into the processes driving atmospheric ion escape. To date, global models of Martian induced magnetosphere have been exc…

Crude oil sales from the world’s biggest exporter, Saudi Arabia, are set to surge as 2026 begins, with customers from the US to Asia all set to receive more supply amid growing concerns over an oil glut.

Monitor says almost one in eight people face food shortages as flooding and cold exacerbate humanitarian emergencyThe famine in Gaza has ended as a result of increased humanitarian aid deliveries into the territory, the UN said on Friday, though it warned that levels of hunger and the humanitarian s…

John F. Bentivegna, the chief master sergeant of the Space Force, joined CBS News as the branch celebrates its sixth birthday.

How do four modern LLMs do at recreating a simple Windows gaming classic?

Ash Pournouri claims Avicii’s heirs have breached a contract by falsely suggesting that he drove the star to suicide.

arXiv:2512.16908v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the problem of identifying objects that have been added, removed, or moved between a pair of captures (images or videos) of the same scene at different times. Detecting such changes is important for many applications, such as robotic ti…

Score the Elegoo Centauri Carbon for just $299.99 (save $80). This high-speed, enclosed 3D printer is perfect for beginners and arrives by Christmas.

The Affordable Care Act has become a government-regulated, government-funded system that has increased premiums, narrowed networks, and added to the national debt, while benefiting insurance giants, and Republicans must pursue bold legislative action to build an alternative system.

arXiv:2507.15251v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in Automated Program Repair (APR). Test inputs, being crucial for reasoning the root cause of failures, are always included in the prompt for LLM-based APR. Unfortunately, LLMs struggle to re…

Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts sayThe non-profit group that Robert F Kennedy Jr built into a giant of the anti-vaccine movement is defending its old boss even as t…

Man, 27, from northern Taiwan reported to have fallen to his death in police chase after rampage through capitalAt least four people have died in a rare mass stabbing incident in central Taipei after an attacker used smoke grenades to cause chaos as he went on a violent rampage through Taiwan’s capi…

arXiv:2503.08453v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The new class of alternating-conjugate splitting methods is presented and analyzed. They are obtained by concatenating a given composition involving complex coefficients with the same composition but with the complex conjugate coefficients. We sho…

As of Dec. 19, get the LG 65-inch B5 Series AI OLED 4K TV at Amazon for $896.99. That saves you $100, and is the TV's lowest price ever. Shop now and get it before Christmas.

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Coders and engineers in Gaza’s tech sector are fighting to finish projects and keep clients.

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim hits out at 'entitlement' at Old Trafford as culture change remains priority.

With a gorgeous OLED screen and powerful hardware, the Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition is a high-performance device that many should consider.

arXiv:2504.16112v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The attention layer, a core component of Transformer-based LLMs, brings out inefficiencies in current GPU systems due to its low operational intensity and the substantial memory requirements of KV caches. We propose a High-bandwidth Processing Uni…

arXiv:2503.17299v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Offline multi-objective optimization aims to identify Pareto-optimal solutions given a dataset of designs and their objective values. In this work, we propose a preference-guided diffusion model that generates Pareto-optimal designs by leveraging …

Anointing a new Santa; a child refugee’s tale; a dangerous journey across frozen wastes; a YA roadtrip romance and moreThe Great Christmas Tree Race by Naomi Jones, illustrated by James Jones, Ladybird, £7.99Star always goes on top of the Christmas tree – until new decoration Sparkle kicks off a rac…

Researchers demonstrated that newly developed molecules designed to block an immune checkpoint can trigger a powerful immune response against tumors. Scientists at MIT and Stanford University have introduced a new method for activating the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, offering…

arXiv:2512.16247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: One of many impediments to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to large-scale real-world graph data is the challenge of centralized training, which requires aggregating data from different organizations, raising privacy concerns. Federated graph lea…

A new viral video shows a Waymo driving straight into oncoming traffic in Austin.

Tottenham manager Thomas Frank says he "feels supported" despite their recent run of poor results and has no doubts the Spurs players are "with me or going in the same direction."

During his annual year-end news conference, which lasted four and a half hours on Friday, President Vladimir Putin highlighted that Russian forces were making progress on the battlefield in Ukraine and expressed confidence that the Kremlin would accomplish its military objectives if Kyiv refuses to …

Investigators are piecing together a detailed timeline of Claudio Neves Valente's actions before, during and after the Brown and MIT shootings.

Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and if there is any chance at all that he is suffering from dementia, it’s everyone’s business.

arXiv:2106.12905v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Background: Early forecasts of dengue are an important tool for disease mitigation. Neural networks are powerful predictive models that have made contributions to many areas of public health. In this study, we reviewed the application of neural ne…

LG has announced a series of new speakers and soundbars, all of which support the brand's new Sound Suite and Dolby Atmos Flex tech.

It’s down to 12 teams in this year’s College Football Playoff. Here’s how to stream every game online

Will Arnett and director Bradley Cooper turn a sad-dad-turned-stand-up story into a totally unexpected, left-field triumph

Deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche says thousands more will be unveiled in ‘next couple of weeks’

arXiv:2512.16419v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The use of Large Language Models (LLM) by providers of cybersecurity and digital infrastructures of all kinds is an ongoing development. It is suggested and on an experimental basis used to write the code for the systems, and potentially fed with sens…

Bitcoin bulls are putting up a fight on Friday to break this week's choppy action that has capped all advances at around $90,000.

The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.

An offshore fund is buying about $6 billion of Colombian local bonds on Friday through a direct negotiation with the government.