In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump also declared the government of President Nicolás Maduro a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

arXiv:2512.00696v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping computational and network biology by enabling new approaches to decode cellular communication networks. We introduce Hierarchical Molecular Language Models (HMLMs), a novel framework that models cell…

The STP-S30 mission will test flat, disk-shaped smallsat design for sustained operations in very low orbit
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arXiv:2512.11926v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D object detection is essential in autonomous driving, providing vital information about moving objects and obstacles. Detecting objects in distant regions with only a few LiDAR points is still a challenge, and numerous strategies have been developed…

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to the moon. Launches involve brutal shaking and astonishingly loud noises, and testing in these faciliti…

The order comes a week after the US military seized an oil tanker off Venezuela's coast.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities in the world. Researchers use it to study dark and distant regions of the universe in order to better understand how stars, planets, galaxies and life itself are formed…

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arXiv:2512.13381v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Unlearning (FUL) focuses on client data and computing power to offer a privacy-preserving solution. However, high computational demands, complex incentive mechanisms, and disparities in client-side computing power often lead to long times an…

arXiv:2201.05355v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Numerical methods for developing port-Hamiltonian representations of general linear time-invariant systems are studied. The approach extends previous port-Hamiltonian characterizations to include the general non-minimal case and the case whe…

In Argentina, the return of pumas brought top predators back to the landscape — much to penguins’ dismay.

arXiv:2310.00177v5 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems, but only …

KIK Custom Products Inc. received a $150 million rescue loan from new lenders, including Oaktree Capital Management to help the cleaning-products company bridge a potential liquidity shortfall, according to people familiar with the situation.

President Trump on Tuesday called for a "total and complete blockade" on all sanctioned oil tankers that enter or depart Venezuela, as the administration heaps pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

CBS News national security contributor Samantha Vinograd breaks down the current state of ISIS following the deadly attack on an Australian Hanukkah celebration.

During a simulation in which Anthropic's AI, Claude, was told it was running a vending machine, it decided it was being scammed, "panicked" and tried to contact the FBI's Cyber Crimes Division.

“At the very least, you helped Mr. Perry stay on the road to his tragic ending by continuing to feed his addiction,” the judge told former doctor Mark Chavez

Before jetting off to Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams held an unusual news conference that included a time capsule, a new theme song and a defense of his one-term tenure.

The US actor is tipped for an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of table tennis star Marty Mauser.

It comes a week after the US seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and as the Trump administration increases pressure on the country's government.

Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...

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Former prisoner Mutassim Abdulsatir gave Margaret Brennan a tour of the notorious prison where Syrians were tortured, beaten, and killed during the reign of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

President Trump will participate in a Hanukkah celebration at the White House Tuesday evening. The event comes as Jewish groups in the U.S. have urged their counterparts to increase security precautions after an attack during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, over the weeke…

Mohamed Salah's Liverpool row felt like "humiliation" for Egyptian fans, who are rallying behind their star man before the Africa Cup of Nations begins.

President Trump defended White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Tuesday in the wake of a shockingly candid interview Wiles did with Vanity Fair. CBS News White House reporter Olivia Rinaldi has more.

arXiv:2512.12474v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Olympic Taekwondo has faced challenges in spectator engagement due to static, defensive gameplay and contentious scoring. Current Protector and Scoring Systems (PSS) rely on impact sensors and simplistic logic, encouraging safe strategies that diminis…

Ariane 6 for Galileo (launch animation)

Public spending watchdog calls for ‘underlying issues’ at DVSA to be tackled in bid to cut backlog

A large wager on Hong Kong and China real estate is backfiring on one of Singapore’s top banks, which is facing up to mounting troubles in the region’s deteriorating property markets.

Usman Khawaja, who was left out after losing his place after experiencing back spasms in the first Test, replaces Steve Smith in the Australia XI in Adelaide.

Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly att…

arXiv:2512.12583v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prompt injection attacks can compromise the security and stability of critical systems, from infrastructure to large web applications. This work curates and augments a prompt injection dataset based on the HackAPrompt Playground Submissions corpus and…

arXiv:2512.12549v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a supervised contrastive learning framework for video representation learning that leverages temporally global context. We introduce a video to image aggregation strategy that spatially arranges multiple frames from each video into a single…

Financial markets are often seen as chaotic and unpredictable. Every day, traders around the world buy shares and sell assets in a whirlwind of activity. It looks like a system of total randomness—but is it really?

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arXiv:2512.12500v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating healthcare, from physician assistants to consumer applications. Since AI algorithm's opacity challenges human interaction, explainable AI (XAI) addresses this by providing AI decision-making insi…

arXiv:2512.08772v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Terpene synthases (TPS) are a key family of enzymes responsible for generating the diverse terpene scaffolds that underpin many natural products, including front-line anticancer drugs such as Taxol. However, de novo TPS design through directed evo…

Roberts, who murdered three police officers in Shepherd’s Bush and served 48 years in prison, was released in 2014Harry Roberts, the triple police killer whose 1966 murders shocked Britain and triggered one of the country’s largest manhunts, has reportedly died aged 89.Roberts died in hospital last …

Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, documents and the web. Called CC, the new tool is built on Google’s Gemini AI models and is being p…

arXiv:2512.12578v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Noise in quantum hardware is the primary obstacle to realizing the transformative potential of quantum computing. Quantum error mitigation (QEM) offers a promising pathway to enhance computational accuracy on near-term devices, yet existing methods …

Overnight, a levee was breached on the White River in Pacific, Washington, after days of heavy rain and flooding in the region. Carter Evans reports.

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arXiv:2512.12498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Few-shot image classification remains difficult under limited supervision and visual domain shift. Recent cache-based adaptation approaches (e.g., Tip-Adapter) address this challenge to some extent by learning lightweight residual adapters over frozen…

IBM Corp.’s Red Hat unit today announced that it has acquired Chatterbox Labs Inc., a low-profile developer of artificial intelligence security tools, for an undisclosed amount. Over the past two years, Red Hat has adapted several of its core products to run AI workloads. Its flagship Linux distribu…

The Trump administration will recruit 1,000 artificial intelligence experts in the coming months through a new program aimed at modernizing the federal workforce. The effort, called US Tech Force, aims to hire early career technologists into roles across the government — one of the administration’s …

The term "culture" has a bad reputation in archaeological research—and for good reason. In the early 20th century, the German archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna argued that archaeological cultures were to be equated with racially and ethnically distinct peoples.

Fitch highlights liquidity risks for central securities depository if EU plan for a loan to Ukraine goes ahead

An essay mill owner says he's made millions, while an ex-lecturer says he quit due to rife cheating.

A global effort to better understand moisture-laden rivers in the sky, like those currently battering the West Coast, will take flight in January.

First 16x cluster of Bureau 1440 Rassvet-3:Quote from: Salo on 06/20/2025 06:47 pmhttps://tass.ru/kosmos/24297491Google translate:QuotePETERSBURG, June 20. /TASS/. It is planned to launch 16 satellites o...

FY27 could put this on Transporter-18, -19, or -20 while CY27 would remove -18 but add -21. I'd guess it ends up on either -19 or -20.

arXiv:2512.13083v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In Dataset Condensation, the goal is to synthesize a small dataset that replicates the training utility of a large original dataset. Existing condensation methods synthesize datasets with significant redundancy, so there is a dire need to reduce redun…

Automated Content Recognition brings "mass surveillance" to homes, lawsuits say.

It took about three years, but now Mexico’s largest oil-processing plant is finally running at close to full tilt. That’s sending refining in the nation to the highest in more than a decade.

Matt Witheiler, Wellington Management Head of Late-Stage Growth, says he doesn’t expect a return to pre-2021 levels until another market bubble forms, which he believes is still a decade or more away. He tells Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on “The Close” that IPO activity is seeing a steady, gr…

The artist had been found guilty of attempted murder and racketeering charges

arXiv:2405.13199v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The emergence of tau PET imaging over the last decade has enabled Alzheimer's disease (AD) researchers to examine tau pathology in vivo and more effectively characterize the disease trajectories of AD. Current tau PET analysis methods, howev…

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Alger’s Ankur Crawford, ADP Research’s Nela Richardson, Goldman Sachs’ Lizzie Dove, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Chad Tredwa…

The University of North Carolina system's proposal to require faculty to post syllabi publicly has triggered fierce opposition from some professors; faculty who now insist that transparency itself threatens academic freedom. They are wrong. And their reaction helps explain why public confidence cont…

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is grappling with a controversy of her own making after she made a number of startling admissions in a series of interviews with Vanity Fair. In an article published Tuesday that drew on 11 interviews with Wiles over the past year, the chief of staff offered bl…

arXiv:2509.16856v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Service Function Chains (SFCs) enable programmatic control of the functions and services in a computer network. By leveraging Software Defined Networking to control the links between virtualised network functions, SFCs provide a scalable approach …

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Four ways to keep the magic without the meltdowns and create stress-free festive fun for children.

Affinity Partners, the fund tied to President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, has backed out of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Axios has confirmed. Why it matters: The news comes ahead of an expected announcement from the Warner Bros. board that it plans to reject Paramount's latest $…

President Trump on Tuesday ordered a "total and complete blockade" on all sanctioned oil tankers entering or departing Venezuela.

Founded by Stanley Cup champ Mark Strait, NORQAIN watches merge Swiss craftsmanship with athletic styling

Nothing's already-affordable wireless earbuds are just $59, and the brand's other noise-canceling earbuds are also discounted

arXiv:2512.05115v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in illumination control extend image-based methods to video, yet still facing a trade-off between lighting fidelity and temporal consistency. Moving beyond relighting, a key step toward generative modeling of real-world scenes is t…

Inside the cockpit of a NOAA Gulfstream IV during an atmospheric river mission in February 2025. Image credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego.Atmospheric rivers may be associated with wet winter storms on the West Coast of North America, but these ribbons of water vapor in the sky are a global phenomenon.…

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages ref…

The National Audit Office said there was a backlog of 1.1 million tests since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mark Chavez was sentenced to eight months of home confinement and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service for conspiracy to distribute ketamine.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not hold a vote on a bill extending Obamacare subsidies this week. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler joined CBS News with his reaction.

Netflix is aiming to bolster awareness of its new “Best Guess Live” mobile game, by giving away a total of $1 million over the course of next week. The daily jackpot, which normally stands at $15,000, will be bumped up to $50,000 on Monday, then escalate throughout the week until contestants will pl…

A Space Force official hints at the possible stealthy nature of Mozhayets-6.https://breakingdefense.com/2025/12/china-russia-experiment-with-stealthy-satellites-space-force-official-says/QuoteChina, Russia experiment with stealthy satellites, Sp...

Vice President JD Vance pleaded with everybody to just hang in there a little longer, saying the economy would improve.

Democrat Gary Clemons is projected to win a special election to a fill a Kentucky state Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ. Clemons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1693 and an Army veteran, beat back challenges from Republican Calvin Leach, an Army veteran and former state Senate ca…

arXiv:2512.11940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Software containers are widely adopted for developing and deploying software applications. Despite their popularity, major security concerns arise during container development and deployment. Software Engineering (SE) research literature reveals a lac…

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the massive media conglomerate that owns HBO, CNN and a number of other top brands in news and entertainment, is preparing to advise its top shareholders to reject a bid from Paramount to buy the company and back a planned deal with Netflix instead. The decision, which …

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a letter on Tuesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) requiring him to conduct recertifications for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in four counties. “As part of the recertification process, ensure SNAP households in Hennepin, Rams…

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to ‘use full power of the state’ to curb rise in targeted attacks using websitesConvicted sex offenders will be forced to notify police with the details of any dating app and social media accounts or face up to five years in jail, under plans announced by Shabana Mah…

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said that Tuesday’s classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms that the Trump administration has no legal or national security justification for the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific…

US federal and state officials are lining up with the oil industry to support a plan by Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan Inc. to deliver gasoline to California via what could become the world’s largest fuel pipeline. Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier spoke with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld about the p…

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is paying $15 million to settle a lawsuit claiming researchers authored papers with manipulated data

Affinity now believes the dynamics ​of an investment have changed since it became involved in the process in October, a representative for the firm said.

We took a hair-raising trip around a track in the final four-door GT version of Jaguar's polarizing relaunch concept car. Is just might be good enough to end the British brand's abysmal run of luck.

The Oscar nominee and star NFL quarterback began dating in May 2023.

arXiv:2512.12511v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Resiliency is the ability of a system to quickly recover from a violation (recoverability) and avoid future violations for as long as possible (durability). In the spatial setting, recoverability and durability (now known as persistency) are measured …

President Trump on Tuesday more than doubled the list of countries subject to his travel ban or to heavy restrictions, bringing the total number of nations affected to 39.

President Trump designated Venezuela a "foreign terrorist organization" Tuesday and formally ordered a blockade of all U.S. sanctioned oil tankers servicing the country.Why it matters: Trump's newest escalation, which he says is backed by a giant U.S. armada, exerts unprecedented pressure on Venezue…

One attack this past spring illustrates what investigators describe as Russia's strategy: On Palm Sunday, Russian missile strikes killed 35 civilians.

The judge called the rapper a “man of promise” but said a lengthy prison sentence was necessary for four separate shootings.

In a banner year for share sales in Asia, one bank has pulled far ahead of the rest: Morgan Stanley.

Digantara Industries, an Indian space situational awareness company, has raised $50 million as it expands into the United States and pursues opportunities in missile defense.
The post Digantara raises $50 million to expand from space surveillance to missile defense appeared first on SpaceNews.

SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. will start trading in Tokyo on Wednesday after raising ¥322 billion ($2.1 billion) in Japan’s second-biggest initial public offering of the year.

Winter cold 'becomes lethal' as Israel restricts entry of tents, blankets and other shelter supplies to ravaged enclave.

arXiv:2504.11604v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly powers sensitive applications in domains such as healthcare and finance, relying on both linear operations (e.g., matrix multiplications in large language models) and non-linear operations (e.g., sorting i…