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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

arXiv:2512.12465v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transition Matching (TM) is an emerging paradigm for generative modeling that generalizes diffusion and flow-matching models as well as continuous-state autoregressive models. TM, similar to previous paradigms, gradually transforms noise samples to da…

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

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

QuoteDec 15 00:00 midnightAll systems remain "go" here at the Advanced Spaceflight Operations Center and at the launch pad as we count down to tonight's Atlas V launch at 3:28 a.m. EST (0828 UTC). The weather is favorable and we are working no issue...

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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

Lawyers for US President Donald Trump say the BBC caused him overwhelming reputational and financial harm.

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:2512.12050v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric Scott--Voge…

Such measures wouldn’t be necessary if Beijing ran anything like a normal, balanced economy

One of the biggest owners of European government bonds could trigger a bout of volatility — just as many market participants are away from their desks.

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 02:57 amOfficial launch success confirmation: With that fairing disintegration?Not likely.

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump changing marijuana’s classification would be ill-advised. “I think rescheduling marijuana is wrong. The fact is, marijuana is a gateway drug. Most of the people who end up using hard substances start out on marijuana,” Lawler told h…

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Seinfeld credited Reiner with saving his legendary comedy sitcom from cancellation.
Jerry Seinfeld Honors Rob Reiner: “[He] Had the Biggest Influence on My Career”
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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…

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.

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

arXiv:2512.10967v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare contexts remains largely unknown. In this study, we conduct the first systematic…

Community mourns terror attack in Bondi beach, just months after two killed at site of event in Greater ManchesterDark rain clouds hung above Heaton Park synagogue in Greater Manchester on Monday evening as worshippers gathered for the second day of Hanukah. It was the nightly menorah candle lightin…

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

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: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…

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…

It seems reasonable to guess there's still a lunar architecture design cabal that wants Orion loitering in LLO with a full load of prop for TEI. Perhaps they envision slapping BOLE 'Black Knights' onto a core with 5xRS-25 engines, and rejiggering the s...

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.

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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.

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

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:2512.12187v1 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: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…

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…

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:2512.11939v1 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: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…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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:2512.08334v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Rendering complex reflection of real-world scenes using 3D Gaussian splatting has been a quite promising solution for photorealistic novel view synthesis, but still faces bottlenecks especially in rendering speed and memory storage. This paper pro…

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 …

Energy PE firm says its offer is superior to proposed fund-to-fund transfer that led to accusations of self-dealing

arXiv:2512.11473v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and inefficient computati…

The Middle East’s Dubai oil benchmark is showing signs of worsening oversupply, adding to a slew of indicators pointing to a global glut.

Australian police are investigating how the father and son planned the attack and whether they had links to terrorist groups, including Islamic State.

Chris Minns and Mal Lanyon questioned about police resources at Hanukah event and response time after Naveed Akram and father Sajid allegedly started shootingThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, and the commissioner, Mal Lanyon, have defended the police response to the Bondi beach terrorist att…

QuoteWelcome to the Atlas V countdown!From the Advanced Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, this is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 2 hours and holding with 28 minutes remaining in this planned half...

arXiv:2505.11640v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Implicit neural representations (INRs) are a powerful paradigm for modeling data, offering a continuous alternative to discrete signal representations. Their ability to compactly encode complex signals has led to strong performance in many vision …

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater rivers alongside dinosaurs and crocodiles. A massive tooth found in North Dakota, analyzed using chemical isotope techniques, reveals that some mosasaurs adapted to river sys…

arXiv:2512.11322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We derive a few extended versions of the Kraft inequality for lossy compression, which pave the way to the derivation of several refinements and extensions of the well known Shannon lower bound in a variety of instances of rate-distortion coding. Thes…

The Pentagon says it is "escalating" a probe into Sen. Mark Kelly, one of six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to "refuse illegal orders."

arXiv:2510.22980v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The growing adoption of spectrum-aware matrix-valued optimizers such as Muon and Shampoo in deep learning motivates a systematic study of their generalization properties and, in particular, when they might outperform competitive algorithms. We app…

American gun lobbyists quickly hijacked the Sydney massacre for their own political purposes, as did anti-immigration activists – in a harbinger of what’s to come.

The Pentagon said Monday it is "escalating" a "preliminary review" into "serious allegations of misconduct" leveled against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a retired naval officer, after he clashed with President Trump.The big picture: A Pentagon spokesperson said in an emailed statement that Kelly now f…

Crowds of people have left flowers and candles as a tribute to the 15 people who were killed in the attack in Sydney.

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals shape landscapes on land. As they graze and tear apart seaweed and seagrass, they limit algae and can…

Police investigating claims Sajid and Naveed Akram received ‘training’ overseas before Sunday’s attackThe father and son duo allegedly behind the Bondi attacked appear to have been inspired by Islamic State, the Australian prime minister says, as police confirmed they were investigating why the pair…

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.

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...

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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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…

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…

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

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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…

arXiv:2512.12411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent work from Anthropic claims that frontier models can sometimes detect and name injected "concepts" represented as activation directions. We test the robustness of these claims. First, we reproduce Anthropic's multi-turn "emergent introspection" …

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.

arXiv:2512.11918v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper examines financial management challenges faced by organizations operating under remote and hybrid work models. It investigates how these flexible arrangements influence budgeting, reporting, and financial transparency in distributed teams. U…

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.…

Israeli forces continue raids across occupied West Bank as Gaza reels from Israeli attacks and aftermath of a storm.

Triggered by sudden torrential rains, the flash flood killed at least 37 people in the coastal city of Safi.