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Crawley admits England ‘staring down the barrel’ but vows ‘we’ll never give up‘

Batter accepts ‘uphill battle’ to keep Ashes series aliveCrawley backs Ollie Pope after dismissal for 17 in AdelaideZak Crawley has promised England will still be hunting for victory on the fifth day of the third Test in Adelaide, despite slipping to 207 for six in pursuit of a record fourth-innings…

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Israeli troops kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs

Attack brings total numbers of Palestinians killed by Israel to 400 since October ceasefire took effectIsrael Defense Forces killed five Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday, hospital officials have said. The attack brings the nu…

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Cosmopolitan Christmas: Stosie Madi’s French-African-Lebanese Christmas lunch – recipes

A cross-cultural jamboree of a festive meal, mixing Middle Eastern, west African and French cuisine: peppered smoked mackerel pies, crab gratin, slow-cooked lamb, jewelled rice, and a rum and pineapple cake to round things offI was born in west Africa, and brought up between there, France and the UK…

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The Social Responsibility Stack: A Control-Theoretic Architecture for Governing Socio-Technical AI

arXiv:2512.16873v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed in domains that shape human behaviour, institutional decision-making, and societal outcomes. Existing responsible AI and governance efforts provide important normative principles but often lack…

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NSW premier announces new laws banning hate speech and symbols in wake of Bondi beach terror attack

NSW parliament will be recalled on Monday and Tuesday to consider legislation responding to the Bondi terrorist attackGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNSW will outlaw the display of terrorist symbols, such as those of Islamic State and Hamas, and ban hate speech, including …

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Boosting t-SNE Efficiency for Sequencing Data: Insights from Kernel Selection

arXiv:2512.15900v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Dimensionality reduction techniques are essential for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional biological sequencing data. t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) is widely used for this purpose, traditionally employing the Gaussian kern…

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Can Transformers overcome the lack of data in the simulation of history-dependent flows?

arXiv:2512.16305v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: It is well known that the lack of information about certain variables necessary for the description of a dynamical system leads to the introduction of historical dependence (lack of Markovian character of the model) and noise. Traditionally, scienti…

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The Emergence of Chunking Structures with Hierarchical RNN

arXiv:2309.04919v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In Natural Language Processing (NLP), predicting linguistic structures, such as parsing and chunking, has mostly relied on manual annotations of syntactic structures. This paper introduces an unsupervised approach to chunking, a syntactic task tha…

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Gemini AI Yielding Sloppy Code For Ubuntu Development With New Helper Script

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper scrip…

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DVGT: Driving Visual Geometry Transformer

arXiv:2512.16919v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving. However, there still lacks a driving-targeted dense geometry perception model that can adapt to different scenarios and camera configurations. To bri…

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Two-Step Data Augmentation for Masked Face Detection and Recognition: Turning Fake Masks to Real

arXiv:2512.15774v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Data scarcity and distribution shift pose major challenges for masked face detection and recognition. We propose a two-step generative data augmentation framework that combines rule-based mask warping with unpaired image-to-image translation using GAN…

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Online Bandits with (Biased) Offline Data: Adaptive Learning under Distribution Mismatch

arXiv:2405.02594v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Traditional online learning models are typically initialized from scratch. By contrast, contemporary real-world applications often have access to historical datasets that can potentially enhanced the online learning processes. We study how offline…

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What it takes to decorate the world’s tallest Christmas tree

Trimming a 147-foot redwood in northern England to win a Guinness World Record needed a cherry picker, 1,320 multicolored bulbs and precautions for high winds.

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Slovak researchers predict PV inverter output without weather sensors

Researchers in Slovakia have demonstrated a machine-learning framework that predicts PV inverter output and detects anomalies using only electrical and temporal data, achieving 100% accuracy in classifying inverter output states under static operating conditions at a solar installation.

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Gated KalmaNet: A Fading Memory Layer Through Test-Time Ridge Regression

arXiv:2511.21016v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As efficient alternatives to softmax Attention, linear State-Space Models (SSMs) achieve constant memory and linear compute, but maintain only a lossy, fading summary of the past, often leading to inferior performance in recall-oriented tasks. We …

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Information theory and discriminative sampling for model discovery

arXiv:2512.16000v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fisher information and Shannon entropy are fundamental tools for understanding and analyzing dynamical systems from complementary perspectives. They can characterize unknown parameters by quantifying the information contained in variables, or measure …

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Pakistani court sentences former PM Imran Khan and wife to 17 years in graft case

A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, sentencing them to 17 years in prison

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From Frames to Clips: Training-free Adaptive Key Clip Selection for Long-Form Video Understanding

arXiv:2510.02262v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video Large Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on various vision-language tasks, yet their practical use is limited by the massive number of visual tokens produced from raw video frames, which quickly exhausts the model's cont…

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Justice Department releases trove of Epstein files hours before deadline

The Justice Department has unveiled four groups of records from the Jeffrey Epstein files, the first documents to come to light under a new law signed by President Trump compelling their release. Scott MacFarlane reports.

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Alchemist: Unlocking Efficiency in Text-to-Image Model Training via Meta-Gradient Data Selection

arXiv:2512.16905v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models, such as Imagen, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX, have led to remarkable improvements in visual quality. However, their performance is fundamentally limited by the quality of training data. Web-crawl…