Nordea Bank Abp announced a new share buyback worth as much as €500 million ($587 million) as it seeks to increase payouts to investors.

arXiv:2512.12837v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI-powered greenwashing has emerged as an insidious challenge within corporate sustainability governance, exacerbating the opacity of environmental disclosures and subverting regulatory oversight. This study conducts a comparative legal analysis of cr…

arXiv:2506.23046v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Humans continuously infer the states, goals, and behaviors of others by perceiving their surroundings in dynamic, real-world social interactions. However, most Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks only evaluate static, text-based scenarios, which have …

QuoteDec 16 02:35ULA rocket factory tourOur journey to space begins in Decatur, Alabama at ULA's 2.2M square foot rocket factory. Long before the path to orbit, the missions start on the factory floor.

Liverpool great understood to be recovering wellClub thank hospital for giving ‘the best care possible’Ian Rush has been released from hospital having spent two days in intensive care last week with flu.The former Liverpool and Wales striker was admitted to the Countess of Chester hospital with brea…

France said on Monday the lumpy skin disease affecting cattle is under control in the country even as farmers continue a second week of protests against the government's handling of the virus by blocking highways with tractors and dumping manure. Lumpy skin disease is a virus spread by insects that …

Catherine E. Regan et al 2024 Planet. Sci. J. 5 130 A months-long dust storm raised the temperature of Mars’s atmosphere and increased the density of atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide, affecting the location of the induced magnetospheric boundary.
The post Effects of the 2007 Martian Global…

Climate change will shape everything about life in Australia—from the homes we live in and the food we grow to the risks of bushfires, floods, and heat waves. But what will that future look like? We can't know without climate models.

QuoteDec 16 02:16Today's launch comes as the Atlas V rocket marks 23 years in service. The launch system has demonstrated unmatched reliability since 2002, successfully launching scientific spacecraft to Mars on five different occasions, plus resear...

European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump

arXiv:2512.12132v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This article establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework demonstrating that SiLU (Sigmoid Linear Unit) activation networks achieve exponential approximation rates for smooth functions with explicit and improved complexity control compared to cla…

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…

QuoteDec 16 03:29T+plus 60 seconds. Atlas V is 9 miles in altitude and the main engine has throttled as programmed to minimize aerodynamic loads while the full complement of five side-mounted solid rocket boosters provides two-thirds of the launch p...

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:2512.12751v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Physics-aware driving world model is essential for drive planning, out-of-distribution data synthesis, and closed-loop evaluation. However, existing methods often rely on a single diffusion model to directly map driving actions to videos, which makes …

Reiner and Singer were found dead inside their Brentwood home on Saturday evening (Dec. 14).

arXiv:2512.11858v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion-based samplers -- Score Based Diffusions, Bridge Diffusions and Path Integral Diffusions -- match a target at terminal time, but the real leverage comes from choosing the schedule that governs the intermediate-time dynamics. We develop a pat…

arXiv:2512.13281v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have produced vivid content that are often indistinguishable from real videos, making AI-generated video detection an emerging societal challenge. Prior AIGC detection benchmarks mostly evaluate video without audio,…

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lun…

Despite logging record a trade surplus, economic data for November showed China's domestic woes are deepening.  Retail sales grew at their slowest pace in three years and investment slowed sharply, signalling Chinese people and businesses are becoming increasingly cautious. Plus, Roomba maker iRobot…

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arXiv:2512.12131v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The scale of transformer model pre-training is constrained by the increasing computation and communication cost. Low-rank bottleneck architectures offer a promising solution to significantly reduce the training time and memory footprint with minimum i…

José Antonio Kast was elected Chilean president on December 14, the first far-right leader in the country since the fall of Augusto Pinochet in 1990. An ultraconservative, the 59-year-old won 58% of the popular vote, with the moderate communist Jeannette Jara, supported by a broad leftist coalition,…

Twenty six people were killed at a beauty spot near Pahalgam in April after militants opened indiscriminate fire.

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under President Vladimir Putin, they have reintegrated into Russian society, acting as a supplementary police force and restoring their military status on the front lines in Ukraine…

Emma Chapman reviews Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity by James Riordon
The post Bring gravity back down to Earth: from giraffes and tree snakes to ‘squishy’ space–time appeared first on Physics World.

Explore SiC module innovations and converter designs unveiled at PCIM India.
The post SiC Modules, Converter Designs Come into Focus at PCIM India Debut appeared first on EE Times.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that a father and son who opened fire at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach appeared to be driven by Islamic State group ideology. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration, in what authorities called a…

arXiv:2512.12395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating articulated assets is crucial for robotics, digital twins, and embodied intelligence. Existing generative models often rely on single-view inputs representing closed states, resulting in ambiguous or unrealistic kinematic structures due to …

Cooper Flagg, 18, becomes the youngest player in NBA history to score at least 40 points in a game.

A French court on Monday sentenced ex-rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in jail after finding him guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003.

QuoteDec 16 03:02The fuel fill sequence is beginning. This procedure releases RP-1 kerosene fuel into the RD-180 main engine in preparation for ignition.

arXiv:2512.11811v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Crowdsourced street-view imagery from social media provides valuable real-time visual evidence of urban flooding and other crisis events, yet it often lacks reliable geographic metadata for emergency response. Existing Visual Place Recognition (VPR) m…

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

Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, receiving the prestigious cultural honor at a ceremony held at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris. French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati presented the award, recognizing…

arXiv:2506.00227v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video diffusion techniques have advanced significantly in recent years; however, they struggle to generate realistic imagery of car crashes due to the scarcity of accident events in most driving datasets. Improving traffic safety requires realisti…

Private credit groups, hedge funds and other institutions account for more than half of global financial assets

Unemployment rises slightly as job vacancies flatline in a "subdued labour market"

arXiv:2407.13882v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Hutchins' Pure Subtype Systems (PSS) offer a unified framework for types and terms, promising significant advancements in language design for features like dependent types and higher-order subtyping. However, the theory has been hampered by a crit…

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off northern Japan that officials said had caused an increased risk of another major quake

arXiv:2512.12790v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural Video Compression has emerged in recent years, with condition-based frameworks outperforming traditional codecs. However, most existing methods rely solely on the previous frame's features to predict temporal context, leading to two critical is…

The judges convicted Lai of colluding with foreigners to boost the pro-democracy movement. Donald Trump’s name is mentioned 195 times in their verdict.

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support. Researchers say this gap leaves deaf victim-survivors without meaningful access to safety and advocacy.

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump

arXiv:2011.10690v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study dynamic pricing of a product with an unknown demand distribution over a finite horizon. Departing from the standard no-regret learning environment in which prices can be adjusted at any time, we restrict price changes to predetermined poi…

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:2512.13333v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As quantum computing advances toward practical deployment, it threatens a wide range of classical cryptographic mechanisms, including digital signatures, key exchange protocols, public-key encryption, and certain hash-based constructions that underpin…

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he would announce new members of his cabinet at 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

The attacks brought the number killed since the Trump administration began the strikes on suspected drug smugglers to at least 95.

QuoteDec 16 01:42Filling of the first stage liquid oxygen tank has been completed. Topping mode is now underway.

Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue A campaign fronted by popstars including Elton John and Dua Lipa to protect artists’ works from being mined to train AI models without consent has received a boost after almost every respondent t…

Chancellor’s claim to be helping trade met with disbelief in England and Wales amid soaring staff costs, energy bills and other overheadsEmma Harrison has begun to wonder how her business will survive in recent weeks. The managing director of the Three Hills pub in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, is strugg…

QuoteDec 16 01:44Centaur's liquid hydrogen tank is 50 percent full. The cryogenic propellant will be consumed with liquid oxygen by the stage's Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1-1 engine.

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Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as 'terrorism' after evidence of ISIL influence found.

arXiv:2512.12760v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid acceleration of scientific publishing has created substantial challenges for researchers attempting to discover, contextualize, and interpret relevant literature. Traditional keyword-based search systems provide limited semantic understandin…

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:2512.13106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in training large reasoning models (LRMs) by leveraging answer-verifiable signals to guide policy optimization, which, however, suffers from high annotation costs. To alleviate…

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: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…

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…

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:2507.05622v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concern…

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

arXiv:2512.11846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are characterized by their capacity of processing graph-structured data. However, due to the sparsity of labels under semi-supervised learning, they have been found to exhibit biased performance on specific nodes. This kin…

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…

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:2512.01054v2 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…

QuoteDec 16 03:29T+plus 1 minute, 35 seconds. We have solid rocket booster burnout as Atlas V accelerates over 3,000 mph. Jettison will occur once aerodynamic conditions are met a few seconds from now.

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…

QuoteDec 16 03:29SRB separationT+plus 1 minute, 50 seconds. Solid rocket booster jettison is confirmed at an altitude of 30 miles. The GEM 63 motors have successfully separated from the Atlas V first stage, having completed their job.The five GEM ...

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…

We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about su…

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…

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

Partnership between the British Beauty Council and MYGroup aims to capture cosmetic packaging not handled by kerbside collections.
The post UK beauty brands invited to join nationwide take-back scheme for hard-to-recycle packaging appeared first on Circular Online.

North Somerset Council and Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm are aiming to repurpose up to 4,000 Christmas trees this winter, expanding a long-running partnership designed to reduce seasonal waste and support environmental and community initiatives. Thousands of Christmas trees are set to be given a second life i…

Despite a 'concerning decline' in citation impact, there were, however, benefits to increasing remote interactions
The post Remote work expands collaboration networks but reduces research impact, study suggests appeared first on Physics World.

In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with the frontman of British band The Spitfires, Billy Sullivan, as well as French musician Gaspard Royant. The Spitfires are back after having split up three years ago. The indie rock, nu-mod band are celebrating their musical rena…

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

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 …

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out • Mia Mottley is the prime minister of BarbadosThe timing is brutal. Just as the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate agreement …

Videos show celebrations after Jordan qualified for football’s Arab Cup final for the first time.

Astrobites reports on a study that uses JWST to investigate how warm, star-forming molecular gas is blown away by active galactic nuclei.
The post Blowing Away Star Formation with Warm Molecular Gas appeared first on AAS Nova.

European leaders meeting in Berlin on Monday agreed that Ukraine required robust security guarantees, including a European-led "multinational force" with US support, before making any decisions on potential territorial concessions to Russia. A statement issued by 10 European leaders said security gu…

QuoteDec 16 02:49This is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 4 minutes and holding, with 35 minutes remaining in this programmed hour-long hold.The launch team is not working any significant issues in the countdown that would preclude an on-time liftof...

QuoteDec 16 02:43The Atlas V, designated AV-111, is a two-stage rocket that incorporates five GEM 63 solid rocket boosters, features a single RL10C-1-1 engine on the Centaur upper stage and encapsulates the spacecraft in a 5.4-meter-diameter (17.7-f...

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A new method for modeling turbulent magnetic fields — important for everything from accretion disks to the solar wind — yields realistic fields while also keeping computational costs low.
The post Tailor-Made Turbulence for All Your Modeling Needs appeared first on AAS Nova.

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Lisa Nandy will have to assess deal after formal request from Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI Business live – latest updatesThe culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, is to consider whether to trigger an investigation into the £500m takeover of the Telegraph titles by the owner of the Daily Mail, after she fo…

arXiv:2504.04371v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Traditional Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification is carried out by finding the max-margin classifier for the training data that divides the mar-gin space into two equal sub-spaces. This study demonstrates limitations of performing Support V…

arXiv:2512.12774v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As generative models become increasingly capable of producing high-fidelity visual content, the demand for efficient, interpretable, and editable image representations has grown substantially. Recent advances in 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) have emerg…

Junichi Hanzawa, the next chief executive officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., will take the reins of Japan’s largest bank as it rakes in record profits. His challenge will be sustaining that growth beyond the windfall of rising interest rates.

The debut will enable instant swaps between SGD and USD on Solana, facilitating digital forex trading.

Exclusive: David Dinsmore to advise ministers as they step up efforts to combat far-right rhetoric onlineKeir Starmer’s Whitehall communications chief will address the cabinet on overhauling the government’s media strategy on Tuesday as ministers increasingly try to combat far-right rhetoric online.…