arXiv:2512.14549v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper combines autoregressive and masked-diffusion training objectives without any architectural modifications, resulting in flexible language models that outperform single-objective models. Autoregressive modeling has been a popular approach, pa…

James Craig waited hours for medical help after he broke his leg and hurt his hip in a fall.

On a frontline where Russia has made the most gains in recent weeks, drone pilots wonder how long they can keep up the fightIn a warm bunker, lined with wooden logs, it is Dmytro’s job to monitor and help the drone crews on the frontline. Perhaps a dozen video feeds come through to his screen on an …

arXiv:2512.13724v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Neurological diseases are the leading global cause of disability, yet most lack disease-modifying treatments. We present PROTON, a heterogeneous graph transformer that generates testable hypotheses across molecular, organoid, and clinical systems. T…

The European Parliament has approved an agreement with member states to narrow the scope of EU sustainability reporting and supply-chain due diligence rules.
The post MEPs back scaling back of EU sustainability reporting and due diligence rules appeared first on Circular Online.

arXiv:2506.23979v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Conducting supervised fine-tuning and preference fine-tuning on large language models (LLMs) requires high-quality datasets to improve their ability to follow instructions and align with human preferences and values. However, constructing such dat…

The November figure is down on the 3.6% recorded in the year to October.

Ellyn Lapointe, Gizmodo Last week, NASA revealed that it lost contact with a vital Martian probe that's...

As Jewish Australians began to bury their dead in Sydney, questions mounted about intelligence failures over the “Islamic State-inspired” terrorist attack.

arXiv:2512.14187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Task-based measures of image quality (IQ) are critical for evaluating medical imaging systems, which must account for randomness including anatomical variability. Stochastic object models (SOMs) provide a statistical description of such variability, b…

Two gunman opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney on Sunday, resulting in 15 dead and 40 injured

arXiv:2512.13848v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sequential recommendation models aim to learn from users evolving preferences. However, current state-of-the-art models suffer from an inherent popularity bias. This study developed a novel framework, BiCoRec, that adaptively accommodates users changi…

arXiv:2504.15610v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The current study describes a cost-effective method for adapting large language models (LLMs) for academic advising with study-abroad contexts in mind and for application in low-resource methods for acculturation. With the Mistral-7B-Instruct mode…

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The Himalayan kingdom plans to deploy part of its sovereign bitcoin holdings to fund long-term development through Gelephu Mindfulness City.

arXiv:2512.13701v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radio maps enable intelligent wireless applications by capturing the spatial distribution of channel characteristics. However, conventional construction methods demand extensive location-labeled data, which are costly and impractical in many real-worl…

Gil Gerard, best known for playing Buck Rogers, has died aged 82.

Tech and digital leaders have a vital role to play in making technology more usable and inclusive for sight-impaired people - boosting their employment and supporting the economy

Researchers at Duke University have created a new artificial intelligence framework designed to uncover straightforward, easy-to-understand rules that sit underneath some of the most complicated dynamics seen in nature and technology. The system is inspired by the way famous “dynamicists” – scientis…

Deal agreed for £570m to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledgeEurope live – latest updatesYoung people across the UK will be able to study or gain work experience through the EU’s Erasmus scheme for the first time since Brexit, after the government announced …

Lenovo makes great laptops, but with an extensive catalog of products, it's hard to find the right device. Here are the best Lenovo laptops I've tested.

arXiv:2512.13702v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Objective: To develop the AI Product Passport, a standards-based framework improving transparency, traceability, and compliance in healthcare AI via lifecycle-based documentation. Materials and Methods: The AI Product Passport was developed within the…

Data: Axios research; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/AxiosVoters swung left in every major election this year since President Trump's return to power in January.Why it matters: The off-cycle election results — combined with low approval ratings on Trump's handling of the economy — are red flags for Republican…

Luxembourg-based OQ Technology said Dec. 17 it has connected a commercial IoT chipset directly to one of its LEO satellites, using internally developed software based on 3GPP mobile standards.
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arXiv:2512.14560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Image retrieval-based cross-view geo-localization (IRCVGL) aims to match images captured from significantly different viewpoints, such as satellite and street-level images. Existing methods predominantly rely on learning robust global representations …

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arXiv:2512.13573v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The ability to perform multi-modal multi-hop reasoning by iteratively integrating information across various modalities and external knowledge is critical for addressing complex real-world challenges. However, existing Multi-modal Large Language M…

Top European officials including President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed Tuesday to set up an international body to decide on tens of billions of euros of eventual reparations to compensate Ukraine over Russia's invasion. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, signed by 35 countries, will asse…

The pop star also opted to enjoy a Long Island iced tea rather than share the inspiration behind "Manchild"

After seizing the strategic border town of Uvira, M23 rebels are now pushing further south along Lake Tanganyika.

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral in Australia of Rabbi Eli Schlanger.

“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

Employees at the Louvre Museum are set to vote on whether to extend a strike that shut the world’s most visited museum

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

Sabrina Carpenter has gone day drinking with Seth Meyers for a Christmas-themed edition of his regular alcohol-fuelled segment.

See what we loved (and what surprised us) this year.

arXiv:2512.14236v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The growing demand for immersive 3D content calls for automated monocular-to-stereo video conversion. We present Elastic3D, a controllable, direct end-to-end method for upgrading a conventional video to a binocular one. Our approach, based on (conditi…

Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegationsNigel Farage has been told to apologise for his alleged teenage racism by 26 school contemporaries who have written an open letter telling of their “dismay and anger” at his response in…

Paris' Louvre remained closed on Wednesday morning as staff held talks on extending a strike over pay and working conditions after a high-profile jewel heist and recent infrastructure failures exposed security lapses and the museum's deteriorating state.

Quote from: Proponent on 12/16/2025 04:35 pmMaybe the misconception arises in part, because in exchange for supplying the ESM, ESA was released from ISS resupply commitments (actually a clever move on NASA's p...

Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, was shot multiple times at his home, and no details about a suspect or motive have been releasedThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is grieving after the “shocking” shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to offici…

Plus: which European champions were top at Christmas, players giving each other presents and other festive triviaMail us with your questions and answers“Just reading a book about Christmas No 1s,” begins Paul Savage. “The section about Wham!’s Last Christmas says Andrew Ridgeley was watching footbal…

arXiv:2512.14576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This tutorial (https://tum-nlp.github.io/low-resource-tutorial) is designed for NLP practitioners, researchers, and developers working with multilingual and low-resource languages who seek to create more equitable and socially impactful language techn…

A new report out today from information assurance firm NCC Group PLC finds that global ransomware activity plateaued in November even as attackers continued to refine their tactics and collaboration models. The findings come from the NCC Group November 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. It found…

arXiv:2512.14241v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for various applications. Graph Generative Models (GGMs) h…

A 90th minute goal by Marcus Rashford ensured defending champions Barcelona held off Copa del Rey minnows Guadalajara.

arXiv:2512.13921v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-hybrid architectures are poised to take over language modeling due to better quality and performance. We introduce a hierarchical decomposition framework for linear recurrences that allows us to develop algorithms aligned with GPU memory hierarc…

arXiv:2512.14596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The convergence behavior of classical iterative solvers for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) is often highly sensitive to the domain and specific discretization of PDEs. Previously, we introduced hybrid solvers by combining the classic…

arXiv:2511.18049v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds defined by randomly sampled point clouds is a challenging problem in scientific computing and has broad applications in various fields. In this paper, we develop a two-step generalized rad…

Ticket prices have increased astronomically on the resale market. FIFA will allow each country to decide how to allocate the cheaper tickets to “loyal” fans.

This is the latest in a string of killings that have rocked the crime-ridden country in recent years.

Australian and Filipino authorities are investigating a recent trip to the southern Philippines by a father and son accused of gunning down 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

arXiv:2512.14083v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The practical deployment of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems is fundamentally challenged by significant performance degradation in real-world environments, characterized by unpredictable acoustic noise and visual interference. This dis…

arXiv:2512.14442v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Affordance prediction, which identifies interaction regions on objects based on language instructions, is critical for embodied AI. Prevailing end-to-end models couple high-level reasoning and low-level grounding into a single monolithic pipeline and …

Taiwanese actor Chang Chen has been elected chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, taking over from cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who completes his four-year tenure. The position carries a two-year term with the possibility of one re-election. Lee, who assumed the …

Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey says he thought he edged the ball when he was given not out on review during day one of the third Ashes Test.

arXiv:2512.14309v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has become a powerful paradigm for representation learning without manual annotations. However, most existing frameworks focus on global alignment and struggle to capture the hierarchical, multi-scale lesion patterns cha…

Fans of English novelist Jane Austen have been celebrating the anniversary of her birth 250 years ago.

England battle hard to stay in the Ashes as Alex Carey’s century leads Australia to 326-8 on the first day of the third Test.

The Salvation Army Trading Company has suspended the collection of donated textiles from household waste and recycling centres, citing rising donation volumes, increasing costs and wider economic pressures affecting the used clothing sector. The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) has suspended …

In a year when the Göteborg Film Festival will highlight the importance of truth, it will give its international Honorary Dragon Award to a director who has been doing that all her long, storied and multi-prized career: Poland’s Agnieszka Holland.  One of European cinema’s greats, Holland will prese…

University College London has been awarded more than £44,000 through the National Cup Recycling Scheme’s Beyond the Bin fund to investigate why paper cups continue to be missed by mainstream recycling systems. University College London (UCL) has been named the winner of the National Cup Recycling Sc…

Record-Breaking Cosmic Burst Caused by Stellar-Mass Black Hole Shredding Its CompanionQuoteUsing data gathered by a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered AT 2024wpp, the most luminous fast blue optical trans...

arXiv:2512.14061v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent diffusion-based one-step methods have shown remarkable progress in the field of image super-resolution, yet they remain constrained by three critical limitations: (1) inferior fidelity performance caused by the information loss from compression…

arXiv:2512.13726v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unlike traditional recommendation tasks, finite user time budgets introduce a critical resource constraint, requiring the recommender system to balance item relevance and evaluation cost. For example, in a mobile shopping interface, users interact wit…

arXiv:2512.14541v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Cloud quantum platforms give users access to many backends with different qubit technologies, coupling layouts, and noise levels. The execution of a circuit, however, depends on internal allocation and routing policies that are not observable to the…

Alex Carey frustrates England as he scores 106, his third career Test century, and his first against England, to help Australia recover from 94-4 to 307-7 on day one of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.

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Members of Franz Ferdinand, Del Amitri and more call for pause to schedule shake-up aimed at foregrounding ‘mainstream, easy-listening tracks’Musicians including Eddi Reader, Nadine Shah, Hamish Hawk and members of Franz Ferninand, Del Amitri, Idlewild and more have voiced disapproval at planned cha…

arXiv:2512.14557v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Causal inference plays a crucial role in scientific research across multiple disciplines. Estimating causal effects, particularly the average treatment effect (ATE), from observational data has garnered significant attention. However, computing the AT…

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French farmers are driving opposition to the massive transatlantic Mercosur trade deal. EU lawmakers voted on December 16 to advance the deal by adding new safeguards to, but delay is still expected due to protests. FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian tells us more.

arXiv:2507.00629v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Understanding the generalization abilities of neural networks for simple input-output distributions is crucial to account for their learning performance on real datasets. The classical teacher-student setting, where a network is trained from…

Quote from: Coastal Ron on Today at 05:18 amQuote from: mikelepage on Today at 04:59 amSo... rotating space stations full of server racks for AI? Must admit that wasn't on my ...

US President Donald Trump's administration has warned that it could impose fees or restrictions on European service providers, escalating a transatlantic dispute over what Washington describes as discriminatory EU actions targeting US companies.

Emmanuel Macron is in Marseille a month after the assassination of the brother of a young anti-drugs activist, a suspected intimidation tactic. In 2021, the French president had pledged significant resources to help France's second largest city modernise and curb the drug crime afflicting it. Now, h…

Google has entered India's growing co-branded credit card market by partnering with Axis Bank.

Aylin Woodward, WSJ Scientists have extracted RNA from an ancient woolly mammoth that gives new insight into the extinct beasts—and might one day boost moonshot...

arXiv:2512.14699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The core challenge for streaming video generation is maintaining the content consistency in long context, which poses high requirement for the memory design. Most existing solutions maintain the memory by compressing historical frames with predefined …

Australian authorities on Wednesday charged a suspect in the Bondi Beach shooting with 59 offenses, including terrorism and murder

In 2025, the list of metals became a top priority under Trump. But what even are they?

I've extensively tested the best sports watches that track metrics for sleep, recovery, and guidance for further training -- no coach required.

South African authorities say a center processing applications for the United States refugee program was raided by immigration and law enforcement officers and seven Kenyan nationals were arrested for working there illegally

End of era of loose monetary policy exposed how poor Britain had become after the financial crisis

The President is allegedly leveraging the pause to push for looser food and online safety regulations in the UK

On 17 December, two Galileo satellites lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This marked the 14th launch for Europe’s Galileo constellation, reinforcing Europe’s satellite navigation capabilities, resilience and autonomy.

A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the DOJ said.

The woman accused of helping her husband sell human body parts online​ has pleaded guilty to some of the charges against her.

Teenager charged over death of girl in Weston-super-Mare on Monday, says Avon and Somerset policeA 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe in Weston-super-Mare, Avon and Somerset police said.More details soon … Continue reading...

The announcement by Trump comes less than a week after the U.S. seized an oil tanker in waters near Venezuela.

arXiv:2506.16494v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Electrocardiograms (ECGs) provide direct, non-invasive measurements of heart activity and are well-established tools for detecting and monitoring cardiovascular disease. However, manual ECG analysis can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Machi…

arXiv:2512.14050v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce SELECT (Scene tExt Label Errors deteCTion), a novel approach that leverages multi-modal training to detect label errors in real-world scene text datasets. Utilizing an image-text encoder and a character-level tokenizer, SELECT addresses t…

arXiv:2512.14540v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In computational pathology, weak supervision has become the standard for deep learning due to the gigapixel scale of WSIs and the scarcity of pixel-level annotations, with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) established as the principal framework for sli…

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arXiv:2512.14656v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce WaveSim, a multi-scale similarity metric for the evaluation of spatial fields in weather and climate applications. WaveSim exploits wavelet transforms to decompose input fields into scale-specific wavelet coefficients. The metric is bui…

AI has come to Libby, a beloved app for readers. AI-narrated audiobooks are everywhere on the app, but there's an easy way to avoid them. Here's how to spot AI audiobooks on Libby.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., unconstrained by Congress, is pressing ahead in his mission to reshape health care.

“We ask auto and steel workers to compete with the world, yet we treat research funding as something that must be protected from it,” an economist writes.

The European Union has proposed changes to a 2023 law that effectively banned the sale of new internal combustion engine cars from 2035. Instead of cutting CO2 emissions by 100% from 2021 levels, carmakers would be required to reduce them by 90%, meaning a small-scale production of petrol or hybrid…