For many families at Christmas, the one time of year when everyone finally ends up in the same room, suggesting a game is often the best strategic move for a fun evening. At its best, this sparks an hour of genuine connection. At its worst, it revives old rivalries faster than you can say "draw four…

The onset of sudden cold spells can threaten plant survival, especially during early growth phases. But how do plants detect low temperatures fast enough to initiate life-saving changes? Researchers at Chonnam National University have identified a hidden molecular "off-switch" that quickly reprogram…

Marcona almonds from Spain, walnuts, dark chocolate, Agen prunes from France and a few decades of love go into this sumptuous, boozy frangipane tartA recipe box was rifled through, but, alas, much like shopping for a present last minute, nothing leapt to the fore. Out of the corner of an eye I spied…

Member states kick off two years of haggling over spending priorities amid growing doubts about the bloc’s relevance

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The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural History Museum were able to sequence high quality DNA from her skeletal remains.

Many investors are asking themselves if we are living in an AI bubble; others have gone beyond that and are simply asking themselves, until when? Yet the bubble keeps growing, fueled by that perilous sentiment of "fear of missing out." History and recent experience show us that financial bubbles are…

European leaders gathering to decide on using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine for the next two years.

Angola secured $753 million in financing to speed up development of the Lobito rail corridor, ending months of delays tied to talks over government guarantees.

England's Ashes hopes are vanishing after they are overwhelmed by Australia amid more Snicko controversy on the second day of the third Test.

Players' distrust of 'Snicko' grows as controversy continues with the dismissal of Jamie Smith in the Adelaide Ashes Test.

arXiv:2504.13460v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However, existing few-…

US president is unlikely to oust long-ruling Caracas strongman without military muscle, experts say

arXiv:2507.23600v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Signal unmixing analysis decomposes data into basic patterns and is widely applied in chemical and biological research. Multivariate curve resolution (MCR), a branch of signal unmixing, separates mixed signals into components (base patterns) and t…

arXiv:2507.18885v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Neural Theorem Proving (NTP) employs LLMs to automate formal proofs in proof assistants. While LLMs have achieved relatively remarkable success in informal reasoning tasks using natural languages, the transition to mechanized formal theorem provin…

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arXiv:2512.14930v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: High-content screening microscopy generates large amounts of live-cell imaging data, yet its potential remains constrained by the inability to determine when and where to image most effectively. Optimally balancing acquisition time, computational ca…

Sony Music Taiwan has boarded India-Taiwan co-production “Demon Hunters” as global music distributor, marking a significant commercial partnership as the action-fantasy feature prepares for its international rollout. The film is directed by Chen Mei-Juin (“The Gangster’s Daughter”) and produced by L…

Neighbors said a pall had fallen over the wealthy Los Angeles area where Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death.

arXiv:2501.03840v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in archaeology have increased significantly in recent years, and these now span all subfields, geographical regions, and time periods. The prevalence and success of these applications have …

EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen

https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2001539989545291881QuoteEasternShoreSpaceflight@EShoreSpacefltIt was an amazing launch tonight. I still have some 4K slow-motion video from my phone to go through, but here’s what I’ve got so far. Way to g...

Thanks to RL and its support staff at Wallops, and the NSF crew providing us with video coverage from Wallops as well. This is the first time that we have live coverage from Wallops.For myself and the NSF webcast staff, it has been a pleasure to provi...

arXiv:2512.14980v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models struggle to produce samples that respect constraints, a common requirement in scientific applications. Recent approaches have introduced regularization terms in the loss or guidance methods during sampling to enforce such constraints,…

Entry-level direct drive at a decent price, but without the upgrade path of its core rival.

arXiv:2512.15595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs, with massive t…

arXiv:2509.04143v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Trust is often thought to increase cooperation. However, game-theoretic models often fail to distinguish between cooperative behaviour and trust. This makes it difficult to measure trust and determine its effect in different social dilemmas. We ad…

That's the 20th launch of the year for RL.RL is now signing off

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

A federal court filing says the Army crew piloting a Black Hawk helicopter could have avoided the nighttime accident in January if it had been able to see and avoid a commercial jet.

Back leverage, an increasingly popular form of financing, is raising concerns that creditor protections are being eroded

arXiv:2512.15003v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and endangerment…

New attack brings death toll to nearly 100 from US strikes on vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean.

South Africa’s new lower inflation target is giving the rand fresh momentum, with policymakers and analysts agreeing it could curb a long-term track record of weakness.

arXiv:2512.15433v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Face recognition systems store face templates for efficient matching. Once leaked, these templates pose a threat: inverting them can yield photorealistic surrogates that compromise privacy and enable impersonation. Although existing research has achie…

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European Union leaders are gathering for a summit aimed at agreeing on a massive loan to cover Ukraine’s military and other financial needs for the next two years

A model-independent approach reduces uncertainty in hadronic light-by-light scattering, strengthening Standard Model tests
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arXiv:2410.14839v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We study the dynamic pricing problem faced by a broker seeking to learn prices for a large number of credit market securities, such as corporate bonds, government bonds, loans, and other credit-related securities. A major challenge in pricin…

arXiv:2512.15353v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent evidence shows that the versification of prompts constitutes a highly effective adversarial mechanism against aligned LLMs. The study 'Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in large language models' demonstrates that…

Huge US arms package for Taiwan includes HIMARS rocket systems, howitzer artillery, antitank missiles, and drones.

California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

arXiv:2511.01140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Medical imaging often operates under limited labeled data, especially in rare disease and low resource clinical environments. Existing multimodal and meta learning approaches improve performance in these settings but lack a theoretical expla…

Confusion reigns on day two of the third Ashes Test with England's Jamie Smith at the centre of the controversy after he's given not out after review, only to be given out moments later in a separate delivery, due to a contentious use of the Snicko technology.

The attack on Wednesday brings the total number killed to at least 99 since the Trump administration began bombing boats suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

T-9hr 13minI'll plan to cover this flight if I wake up in time.

Sydney’s devastated Jewish community gathered for the funeral of “Matilda Bee,” an ebullient, smiling 10-year-old girl.

Patrick Lawler previously featured in a BBC undercover investigation into far-right views.

arXiv:2512.11295v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The integrity of many contemporary AI systems is compromised by the misuse of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) models to obscure systems that remain heavily dependent on human labor. We define this structural dependency as Human-Instead-of-AI (HISOAI), an…

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts as part of a nationwide scheme.The big picture: Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen human remains, which prosecuto…

New measures target antisemitism and extremism in wake of assault authorities said was inspired by Isis

Standard General’s Soo Kim is considering purchasing or investing in WBD’s television networks

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Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury.

Last deployment completed, (4 of 4).  Mission successful.

arXiv:2512.14932v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this work, we propose a method to efficiently find the regularization parameter for low-rank MMSE filters based on a Kronecker-product representation. We show that the regularization parameter is surprisingly linked to the problem of rank selection…

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man gives global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)

In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native—bighorn sheep.

U.S. inflation data for November, expected to show a 3.1% increase in CPI, could influence Federal Reserve interest rate decisions.

deployment sucessful (2 out of 4)

A proposal from a cross-party group of politicians could break the deadlock with the country’s biggest bank

arXiv:2512.15481v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semantic communication addresses the limitations of the Shannon paradigm by focusing on transmitting meaning rather than exact representations, thereby reducing unnecessary resource consumption. This is particularly beneficial for video, which dominat…

Imagine a grain field in Western Jutland, winter wheat standing tall and golden. Now picture it being plowed up and replaced with clover grass: one of the crops intended to drive the green transition in Danish agriculture.

The move may reassure China hawks who are uncertain about the president’s commitment to the self-governing democracy.

Earth system models offer insight into how climate change will affect communities. But residents of those communities are rarely consulted on the design and deployment of these models, which can lead to the models being misused in local decision-making. To bridge this divide, Cheng et al. collaborat…

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arXiv:2511.02503v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The automation of workflows in advanced microscopy is a key goal where foundation models like Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great potential. However, adapting these general-purpose models for specialized scientific …

Trump avoids addressing rising Venezuela tensions, fuelling speculation over military intentions and oil interests.

US President Donald Trump gave an address at the White House on Wednesday, attempting to cast his first year back in office as a success, deflecting concerns about the cost of living and offering few new policy details as he looked ahead to the 2026 midterm elections.

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John Harris, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look back at the biggest political moments of 2025, and discuss what 2026 might bring Continue reading...

Hailed as a visionary, the Yorkshireman will be remembered for his sculptured silhouettes and theatricality.

arXiv:2509.10353v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper introduces a Data-Fused Model Predictive Control (DFMPC) framework that combines physics-based models with data-driven representations of unknown dynamics. Leveraging Willems' Fundamental Lemma and an artificial equilibrium formulation,…

President Trump announced Wednesday night that all members of the military will receive a $1,776 "warrior dividend," while touting his tariffs and economic policies more broadly.Why it matters: The president's move signals an attempt to connect with working-class families as the administration tackl…

The maverick British designer helped shape the style of David Bowie, Roxy Music, Duran Duran, and more recently, Queen Camilla.

Deaths and damage to ship reported in attack in Rostov-on-Don; Zelenskyy to reportedly push EU plan to use frozen Russian assets. What we know on day 1,394Ukrainian forces have struck a tanker in a southern Russian port and caused deaths, the regional governor said early on Thursday. The strike in t…

President Trump delivered an address to the nation on Wednesday night intended to mark the close of his first year back in power. Trump appeared before the cameras in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room with his poll ratings at a mediocre ebb, and the issue of affordability in particular ser…

arXiv:2511.17874v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: LLM applications (i.e., LLM apps) leverage the powerful capabilities of LLMs to provide users with customized services, revolutionizing traditional application development. While the increasing prevalence of LLM-powered applications provides users…

T+40 min now passing South Africa and entering the southern Indian Ocean.  Tracking stations in South Africa and Mauritius are monitoring the LV

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arXiv:2512.15707v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Active Speaker Detection (ASD) aims to identify who is currently speaking in each frame of a video. Most state-of-the-art approaches rely on late fusion to combine visual and audio features, but late fusion often fails to capture fine-grained cross-mo…

For the first time, a study analyzes and compares the intensity and expansion of the phenomenon of gentrification (replacement of a population of lower socioeconomic status by another with higher purchasing power) in Spain over a period of 10 years.

US President Donald Trump said the Gaza truce brought peace to the Middle East “for the first time in 3,000 years."

arXiv:2512.14715v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hard-to-detect hardware bit flips, from either malicious circuitry or bugs, have already been shown to make transformers vulnerable in non-generative tasks. This work, for the first time, investigates how low-level, bitwise perturbations (fault inject…

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?Welcome to the final Thursday news quiz of the year – a small festive tradition involving the news, a handful of jokes, and the knowledge that somewhere there are 1,057 pedants limbering up to f…

The Associated Press has documented 145 incidents in what Western officials say is a campaign of disruption across Europe masterminded by Russia since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Visiting US, prime minister calls for urgent move to second phase as winter storms worsen humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

arXiv:2509.24502v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Knowledge editing aims to efficiently correct factual errors in Language Models (LMs). The popular locate-then-edit approach modifies an MLP layer by finding an optimal mapping between its input vector (key) and output vector (value) that leads to…

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

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arXiv:2512.15515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data, addressing privacy concerns in cloud computing. However, the high computational cost of HE operations, particularly matrix multiplication (MM), remains a major barrier to its pr…

arXiv:2512.15317v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In a previous paper we have introduced a new class of radial basis functions that are powerful means to approximate functions by quasi-interpolation. In this article we extend the results to create new ways of approximating functions by prewavelets th…

arXiv:2512.14935v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cloud Security Operations Center (SOC) enable cloud governance, risk and compliance by providing insights visibility and control. Cloud SOC triages high-volume, heterogeneous telemetry from elastic, short-lived resources while staying within tight bud…

XRP's price chart paints a bearish picture, but a softer-than-expected U.S. inflation could spark a rebound.

Danish Khan, business head of streaming platform SonyLIV and production unit Studio NXT, will depart Sony Pictures Networks India at the end of March 2026 after a decade in his current tenure with the company. Khan will remain in his role through March 31 to ensure business continuity, SPNI revealed…

From Hannah Hampton to Lando Norris, our experts give their view on why each nominee is a worthy winnerNo sporting event in 2025 gripped England quite like the Lionesses’ Euros success and that euphoria would not have happened without Hannah Hampton’s saves. Long before Hampton dived the correct way…

At the just-opened Cypsèle, Polish chef Marcin Król draws on his global experience to bring contemporary twists to haute cuisine — in an unlikely part of the capital

arXiv:2512.15143v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Learning is a machine learning setting that reduces direct data exposure, improving the privacy guarantees of machine learning models. Yet, the exchange of model updates between the participants and the aggregator can still leak sensitive in…

arXiv:2512.15713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In recent multimodal research, the diffusion paradigm has emerged as a promising alternative to the autoregressive paradigm (AR), owing to its unique decoding advantages. However, due to the capability limitations of the base diffusion language model,…