arXiv:2511.04201v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce the concept of compact quantitative equational theory. A quantitative equational theory is defined to be compact if all its consequences are derivable by means of finite proofs. We prove that the theory of interpolative barycentric (a…

Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian Linux. This comes down to being similar in nature to Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that are popular with Ubuntu Linux...

Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein are attached to direct an adaptation of the sci-fi novel, 'The Traveler.'

Harry and Megan Tooze were found dead with gunshot wounds at their farm more than 30 years ago.

The Prime Minister said Roman Abramovich should make good on his pledge that money from the sale of Chelsea FC would go to benefit Ukrainians

The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set to launch atop a SpaceX rocket next year.

India’s securities market regulator has halved the fee paid by domestic mutual funds to brokerages, while also slashing the basic expense costs in one of the most sweeping revamp of rules governing the asset management industry.

US Attorney’s Office for Southern District of New York alleges ‘massive fraud scheme’ at collapsed subprime car lender

The financial picture around drilling is moving against the Trump administration’s hopes

Mashable's headphones expert weighs in on who should invest in the AirPods Max in 2025 and beyond.

Initial participants in the new Apple Manufacturing Academy tell WIRED that the tech giant’s surprising frankness and hands-on support are already benefiting their bottom lines.

arXiv:2512.14331v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world robots must operate under evolving dynamics caused by changing operating conditions, external disturbances, and unmodeled effects. These may appear as gradual drifts, transient fluctuations, or abrupt shifts, demanding real-time adaptation …

Recent strength in Europe’s fuel markets is starting to fade, eroding oil refiners’ margins and taking away a supportive factor for crude prices as the year draws to a close.

Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump World rallies around Susie Wiles ▪ Jack Smith heads to Capitol Hill ▪ Hegseth rebuffs calls to release video ▪ Trump expands travel ban President Trump will leverage the bully pulpit Wednesday in a speech to the…

Officials escalate dispute with Washington by accusing foreign nationals processing asylum applications of working illegally

arXiv:2512.14510v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a fundamental-lemma-free data-driven predictive control (DDPC) scheme for synthesizing model predictive control (MPC)-like policies directly from input-output data. Unlike the well-known DeePC approach and other DDPC methods that rely on Wi…

arXiv:2512.13996v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures effectively scale model capacity by activating only a subset of experts for each input token. However, the standard Top-k routing strategy imposes a uniform sparsity pattern that ignores the varying diffic…

Ben & Jerry's is launching Ice Cream Bars. More than 150 Scoop Shops are handing out free Cookie Dough bars on Dec. 17.

arXiv:2510.24252v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Traces form a coarse notion of semantic equivalence between states of a process, and have been studied coalgebraically for various types of system. We instantiate the finitary coalgebraic trace semantics framework of Hasuo et al. for controller-ve…

I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle.

The lawyer, Alan Jackson, has represented the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and the actor Kevin Spacey.

Jenna Padgett says fostering a sense of belonging can help boost physics
The post Want a strong future for physics? Here’s why we must focus on students from under-represented groups appeared first on Physics World.

Warner Bros. Discovery's board told its shareholders that Paramount Skydance's offer "provides inadequate value" for the business.

arXiv:2512.14070v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: JavaScript's widespread adoption has made it an attractive target for malicious attackers who employ sophisticated obfuscation techniques to conceal harmful code. Current deobfuscation tools suffer from critical limitations that severely restrict thei…

arXiv:2512.13892v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reliable estimation of feature contributions in machine learning models is essential for trust, transparency and regulatory compliance, especially when models are proprietary or otherwise operate as black boxes. While permutation-based methods are a…

arXiv:2512.07901v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Von Neumann founded both game theory and the theory of self-reproducing automata, but the two programs never merged. This paper provides the synthesis. The Theory of Strategic Evolution analyzes strategic replicators: entities that optimize under …

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European real estate companies have been buying back junior bonds like never before, seeking to get their balance sheets in order after a tumultuous few years.

arXiv:2512.14190v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper motivates the use of random-bridges -- stochastic processes conditioned to take target distributions at fixed timepoints -- in the realm of generative modelling. Herein, random-bridges can act as stochastic transports between two probabilit…

As of Dec. 17, the JBL Tune Buds are still at their lowest-ever price of $39.95 at Amazon. This is 60% off their list price of $99.95.

ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini's Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI's advantages. Then, Apple v. Epic rolls on.

AI growth drives chip demand, but memory shortages and supply chain woes threaten progress.
The post AI’s Booming Demand Meets a Semiconductor Reality Check appeared first on EE Times.

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using advanced single-cell genetic analysis found that regular kimchi consumption strengthens immune defenses while preventing harmful overreactions. Researchers observed improved activi…

New NOTAMs showing this slipping into 2026, NET January 5 (thanks to https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/1pou20i/new_notams_for_pslvc62_eosn1_launch_h...

MIAMI (AP) — FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185. FIFA said Tuesday that $60 tickets will be made available for every game at the tournament in North...

Finn Wolfhard teased the final four episodes of "Stranger Things" on "The Tonight Show", using a one-word clue for each.

arXiv:2512.14491v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transformer-based multi-modal intelligent systems often suffer from high computational and energy costs due to dense self-attention, limiting their scalability under resource constraints. This paper presents SMMT, a sparse multi-modal transformer arch…

US President Donald Trump has ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

Governor Kathy Hochul maintains a 19-point lead over her Republican challengers in a hypothetical 2026 election matchup, according to a Siena College poll, while New Yorkers expressed optimism about the state's direction and supported proposals to tax the wealthy to fund social services.

President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers going into and leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Caracas as the US builds up its military presence in the region.

Venezuela said in its statement that its ambassador to the United Nations would immediately denounce what …

Fossil fuel demand has kept growing amid the rise of low-carbon technology

"There are probably enough concerns about the health of the labor market to justify an insurance rate cut by the Federal Reserve next year," UBS's Paul Donovan said.

London house prices fell for a sixth consecutive month in October, according to official data, the longest downturn since the financial crisis.

Dispute with clerical staff over below-inflation pay rise comes as NHS resident doctors start BMA-backed strikeThe British Medical Association is facing a strike over pay by its own clerical staff, prompting calls of hypocrisy as resident NHS doctors in England launch five days of strike action with…

arXiv:2512.13970v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Marine obstacle detection demands robust segmentation under challenging conditions, such as sun glitter, fog, and rapidly changing wave patterns. These factors degrade image quality, while the scarcity and structural repetition of marine datasets limi…

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging for the stations.

A giant iMac would also cost a fortune.

Looking for the best holiday flight deals? Google's 2025 airfare data reveals the smartest times to book, and why.

Which noise-canceling earbuds should you buy? The answer may come down to more than just your device ecosystem.

The U.S. State Department said Clan del Golfo is a "violent and powerful criminal organization" that uses cocaine trafficking to fund violent activities.

arXiv:2509.08745v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The extended-domain method is a strategy for applying spectral methods to complex geometries. Its stability is complicated by the ill-conditioning of the Fourier extension frame. This paper provides a rigorous analysis of the method's pre-asymptot…

Decision will pave the way for Netflix to proceed with buyout of film and TV groupWarner Bros Discovery is poised to tell shareholders to reject Paramount’s $108bn (£81bn) hostile bid, according to reports, clearing the way for Netflix to proceed with its buyout of the Hollywood film and TV group.Th…

The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the Western Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba.

Anna Edwards, Lizzy Burden and Skyler Montgomery Koning break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." For up to the minute market intelligence and insight, click MLIV . (Source: Bloomberg)

The yuan has rise to its highest in over two months against the dollar.

A new report lays out Apple's iPhone plans in great detail.

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Bitcoin slipped overnight, dragging the broader crypto market lower as traders remained cautious with few external cues to provide direction.

A person close to the family provided a detailed account of what occurred in the Reiner house after a massage therapist received no response at the gate.

Plus, the subway stop that’s also a museum.

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Auction house adapts as older collectors die and younger generations show less early interest in fine art

arXiv:2410.07553v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The rapid advances of multimodal agents built on large foundation models have largely overlooked their potential for language-based communication between agents in collaborative tasks. This oversight presents a critical gap in understanding their …

Did your favorite make the cut? Mashable's entertainment team runs down the best movies released in 2025.

From AI to Labubus, 2026 could be a year of reckoning.

Fuelled by social media and a rare visit by Japan’s elite wrestlers, growing numbers of Britons are taking part in the centuries-old sportIt is a centuries-old Japanese tradition, steeped in ceremony, with roots deep in the ancient faith of Shintoism … and it also happens to be super popular on TikT…

How to watch college football for free. Live stream Boise State vs. Washington in 2025 without cable.

Most of Russia’s billions in frozen assets are in Belgium, which fears bearing the brunt of Russian lawsuits — and worse.

The partnership will focus on Tokenet, Digital Prime's institutional lending network, and introduce new features like regulated stablecoin collateral.

Relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, accused of three offences from 2022 to 2024The Duke of Marlborough, formerly known as Jamie Blandford, has been charged with intentional strangulation.Charles James Spencer-Churchill, a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princ…

arXiv:2512.14228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Georeferencing text documents has typically relied on either gazetteer-based methods to assign geographic coordinates to place names, or on language modelling approaches that associate textual terms with geographic locations. However, many location de…

arXiv:2512.13767v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as unmanned aerial vehicles are vulnerable to slow degradation that develops without causing immediate or obvious failures. Small sensor biases or timing irregularities can accumulate over time, gradually reducing sta…

arXiv:2504.15956v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We prove that with linear transformations, both (i) two-layer self-attention and (ii) one-layer self-attention followed by a softmax function are universal approximators for continuous sequence-to-sequence functions on compact domains. Our main te…

The future of M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te and indeed the M3GAN cinematic universe is in doubt after Universal pulled the movie from its release calendar.

arXiv:2512.14273v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Grounded video question answering (GVQA) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos and generate accurate answers to a given question; however, large video-language models (LVLMs) exhibit limited temporal awareness. Although existing approa…

Experts have discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints in northern Italy's Stelvio National Park.

Singapore has reported a rise in rogue tankers carrying sanctioned cargo through its shipping lanes.

arXiv:2510.10767v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is increasingly used to fine-tune diffusion models, but a key challenge arises from the mismatch between stochastic samplers used during training and deterministic samplers used during inference. I…

arXiv:2512.14376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: WebAssembly (Wasm) has risen as a widely used technology to distribute computing workloads on different platforms. The platform independence offered through Wasm makes it an attractive solution for many different applications that can run on disparate…

Latest Liverpool alumnus to join Saudi Pro League will not have to worry about a lack of funds at Al-QadsiahThe path from Liverpool to the east of Saudi Arabia is becoming increasingly well-worn, but Brendan Rodgers has a bigger job on his hands than Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderso…

The platform offers full legal ownership, with shares issued and recorded onchain, and provides real shareholder rights and self-custody.

Play 'Tone Colors,' the Billboard daily crossword for Tuesday (Dec. 16, 2025).

A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. “We were their friends, and we will miss them forever.”

The claim was made as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s dismissal of Paramount’s hostile takeover offer.

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.

Clip-in fringes are easy to use and trying one first could save tears and regretsThat quote about the definition of insanity being the repetition of the same behaviours with the expectation of a different result is often wrongly attributed to Einstein. Whoever it really was, I’m certain it was someo…

Germany’s energy consumption stagnated or even slightly declined this year as Europe’s largest economy struggles to emerge from a prolonged slump, according to research group AG Energiebilanzen.

A tanker seized by the US is believed to be part of a "ghost fleet" used by Venezuela to evade oil sanctions.

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia 15 years ago, after Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself triggering unrest.

Some areas of the renowned museum were not accessible to the public on Wednesday due to the strike.

arXiv:2410.14591v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We revisit the mean field parametrization of shallow neural networks, using signed measures on unbounded parameter spaces and duality pairings that take into account the regularity and growth of activation functions. This setting directly le…

arXiv:2512.14069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference with modern Large Language Models (LLMs) is expensive and slow, and speculative sampling has emerged as an effective solution to this problem, however, the number of the calls to the draft model for generating candidate tokens in speculative…

Ahmed al Ahmed, the Syrian-Australian father who wrestled a shotgun from one of the gunmen attacking a Jewish gathering, is facing a long road to recovery.

It could become the leading streaming service by next year.

Mayor Adams took notable steps toward improving reading instruction in New York. But families and advocates say many students with dyslexia are still struggling.

The X Plus Storm 10 laptop excels at handling demanding tasks and runs Linux smoothly.

arXiv:2307.03034v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this paper, we consider a general observation model for restless multi-armed bandit problems. The operation of the player is based on the past observation history that is limited (partial) and error-prone due to resource constraints or en…

Find the best free earbuds deal at Amazon. Save 52% on the Sony WH-1000XM5 bundle at Amazon.

Answers to each clue for the December 17, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.