It looks like the National Space Council won't be cancelled but will be chaired by the President:https://twitter.com/joroulette/status/2001846812869824593

Mountain permafrost is warming and thawing worldwide due to climate change, with ground temperature being a key control of its mechanical stability. Heat conduction is the dominant mode of heat transfer in frozen ground, and thermal diffusivity governs the rate at which temperature changes propagate…

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) framework named Convolutional Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (CKAN), which sheds new light on the properties of dark matter at galaxy-cluster sca…

arXiv:2505.02500v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As the automotive industry shifts its focus toward software-defined vehicles, the need for faster and reliable software development continues to grow. However, traditional methods show their limitations. The rise of Generative Artificial Intellige…

Advertising group’s new CEO plans restructuring and says traditional agency model is from a ‘bygone era’

In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisisIn the southern Peloponnese, the Greek fir is a towering presence. The deep green, slow-growing conifers have long defined the region’s high-alti…

A jury convicted a Milwaukee judge on one count of felony obstruction Thursday, the Associated Press reported, after she was accused of helping a man who was in the U.S. illegally evade federal immigration authorities.

India’s long-awaited package of financial services reforms is setting the stage for a surge of foreign capital into the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

Police said villagers used flaming torches to drive away the elephant, which later died.

Bank of Japan implements quarter percentage point rise to 0.75% in progress to normalise monetary policy

Marijuana’s classification as one of the most dangerous and habit-forming substances has long drawn criticism.

Albanese said Australia has more guns now than 30 years ago, when the country's deadliest-ever mass shooting took place.

Quote from: dxcubfan on Today at 01:22 amDoes this mean all of the segments of B19 are in Mega Bay 1 now?  It looks like SpaceX might just have it ready to test by the end of the month.Welcome to the foru...

The yen extended losses against the dollar after the Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points.

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Producer Neal Moritz has spent the past 15 years trying to reboot “Cliffhanger,” the 1993 blockbuster starring Sylvester Stallone. The project is finally coming to the big screen next year — but Stallone won’t be in it. And in a new lawsuit against the film’s financiers, Moritz explains why. Moritz …

Inflows to a group of exchange-traded funds tracking the CSI A500 Index surged to a fresh record on Thursday, with the strong activity leaving traders perplexed.

arXiv:2512.15305v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The goal of the present work is to propose an agent-based model that originally combines classical Vicsek-like polarity alignments and contact forces, as implemented in the framework developed by Maury and Venel in [Maury, Venel, 2011]. The descriptio…

Are AI tools worth the money? After reviewing my 2025 spending, I've made one big change.

Before the trading day starts we bring you a digest of the key news and events that are likely to move markets. Today we look at:

Federal officials gave the clearest timeline yet for when a breakthrough could come in closed-door negotiations over the water supply of 40 million Americans.

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arXiv:2512.15761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thrombosis in rotary blood pumps arises from complex flow conditions that remain difficult to translate into reliable and interpretable risk predictions using existing computational models. This limitation reflects an incomplete understanding of how s…

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Planning Date: Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 The weekend drive starting from the “Nevado Sajama” drill site brought Curiosity back into the “Monte Grande” boxwork hollow. We’ve been in this hollow before for the “Valle de l…

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) told Axios on Wednesday that he is "actively considering" forcing a vote to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress.Why it matters: The House has struggled this year to curb the use of tools like expulsion, censure and impeachment by renegade members as a cudgel agains…

arXiv:2511.05170v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Nucleus detection and classification (NDC) in histopathology analysis is a fundamental task that underpins a wide range of high-level pathology applications. However, existing methods heavily rely on labor-intensive nucleus-level annotations and s…

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arXiv:2512.15206v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In real-world IoT applications, sensor data is usually collected under diverse and dynamic contextual conditions where factors such as sensor placements or ambient environments can significantly affect data patterns and downstream performance. Traditi…

Pluribus Episode 8 Review: In the penultimate episode of Season 1, Carol stands at a crossroads even while Manousos' arrival is imminent.

Britt, whose marriage to Davis in 1960 provoked threats due to racism and anti-miscegenation laws in the US, has died of natural causes in Los AngelesMay Britt, the Swedish actor whose marriage to Sammy Davis Jr in 1960 was the subject of controversy due to US attitudes towards interracial marriage,…

arXiv:2512.16896v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Synthetic 3D scenes are essential for developing Physical AI and generative models. Existing procedural generation methods often have low output throughput, creating a significant bottleneck in scaling up dataset creation. In this work, we introduce S…

arXiv:2401.16764v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Witnessing the evolution of text-to-image diffusion models, significant strides have been made in text-to-3D generation. Currently, two primary paradigms dominate the field of text-to-3D: the feed-forward generation solutions, capable of swiftly p…

India’s proceeds from initial public offerings in 2026 may hit a record for a third year, with a strong pipeline and buoyant investor demand supporting momentum, according to top investment bankers.

CEO turnover at US public companies is running at its highest level since 2010

Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez and Democratic strategist Joel Payne join CBS News to discuss some of the biggest political stories of 2025.

Ashby donned an "I

arXiv:2512.15372v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision transformers in vision-language models apply uniform computational effort across all images, expending 175.33 GFLOPs (ViT-L/14) whether analysing a straightforward product photograph or a complex street scene. We propose ICAR (Image Complexity-…

arXiv:2512.16899v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reward models (RMs) are essential for training large language models (LLMs), but remain underexplored for omni models that handle interleaved image and text sequences. We introduce Multimodal RewardBench 2 (MMRB2), the first comprehensive benchmark fo…

arXiv:2504.05654v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: By analogy to the terminology of curved exponential families in statistics, we define curved Bregman divergences as Bregman divergences restricted to nonlinear parameter subspaces and sub-dimensional Bregman divergences when the restrictions are l…

Sounds like the flight mirror panels are in production as of June 2025.Cosmonauts Explore New Horizons at the Pushchino Observatory [June 9]Quote...

The seams were showing at times at the first TikTok Awards held Thursday night the Hollywood Palladium and live streaming on TikTok and Tubi.  The show got started almost an hour late because the LED screens on the Palladium’s stage malfunctioned. Presenters and winners soldiered on bravely with a t…

President Trump signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, one of the most significant changes to drug policy in decades. Nancy Cordes has details.

arXiv:2512.15414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detecting packed executables is a critical step in malware analysis, as packing obscures the original code and complicates static inspection. This study evaluates both classical feature-based methods and deep learning approaches that transform binary …

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Keep your information safe from festive hacks or secret scammers this holiday season.

The yen weakened against the dollar after the Bank of Japan offered no clear guidance on the timing of future monetary tightening, analysts said. While the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to its highest level since 1995 as expected, investors will now turn to Governor Kazuo Ueda’s pr…

arXiv:2509.25569v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Accurate prediction of wall-bounded flows remains central to advancing both theoretical understanding and computational methods in fluid mechanics. In this study, we perform a numerical simulation of channel flow using a complementary approa…

The U.S. military says it struck two more alleged drug-carrying boats on Thursday, bringing the total death toll from the Trump administration's monthslong campaign to upwards of 100.

As mentioned in this post, this new executive order kills the National Space Council:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=63069.msg2744640#msg2744640

Under a law passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, the Justice Department has until Friday to release its files on the Jeffrey Epstein case. House Democrats released more photos from the estate of the convicted sex offender. Scott MacFarlane reports.

arXiv:2512.14746v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Camera-equipped mobile devices, such as phones, smart glasses, and AR headsets, pose a privacy challenge for bystanders, who currently lack effective real-time mechanisms to control the capture of their picture, video, including their face. We present…

The games are piling up for Crystal Palace who face a two-legged play-off in the Conference League after failing to qualify automatically for the last 16.

Kathy Bates rose to prominence with her Oscar-winning breakout role in Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's "Misery" in 1990.

arXiv:2512.15038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: End-to-end paradigms have demonstrated great potential for autonomous driving. Additionally, most existing methods are built upon Transformer architectures. However, transformers incur a quadratic attention cost, limiting their ability to model long s…

The U.S. military struck two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing five “narco-terrorists” and bringing the total number of people killed in the Pentagon's ongoing campaign to over 100.  Three people were killed on the first boat and two people were killed in the…

The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

NASA opens the International Space Station for scientists and researchers, inviting them to use the benefits of microgravity for private industry research, technology demonstrations, and more. Today, half of the crew’s time aboard station is devoted to these aims, including medical research that add…

The Bank of Japan raised its short-term policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%, the highest in nearly 30 years.

It comes as new PM Sanae Takaichi is keen for inflation to fall but also needs low government borrowing costs.

In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability.
This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with …

Trump Issues Executive Order to Ensure U.S. Space Superiority:https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-issues-executive-order-to-ensure-u-s-space-superiority/

arXiv:2512.15701v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluations of image compression performance which include human preferences have generally found that naive distortion functions such as MSE are insufficiently aligned to human perception. In order to align compression models to human perception, pri…

Thursday Night Football returns with the Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks on Thursday (Dec. 18). Here's how to stream the game live.

TikTok creators donned their best and brightest at the Los Angeles awards show.

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The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two and injured nine others was found dead, officials announced on Thursday night. The big picture: The 48-year-old suspect, a Portuguese national and Brown student, "was found dead, with a satchel, with two firearms and evidence in th…

Netflix has greenlit a second season of “Last Samurai Standing,” the Japanese period-action series that has become a global streaming hit since its debut. Set during Japan’s Meiji period in the late 19th century, “Last Samurai Standing” follows 292 samurai warriors who gather at Kyoto’s Tenryuji Tem…

arXiv:2508.10021v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Learning clients embeddings from sequences of their historic communications is central to financial applications. While large language models (LLMs) offer general world knowledge, their direct use on long event sequences is computationally expensi…

There are several ways to optimize your TV's operating system for faster performance. Here are my go-to changes.

In a new paper, a team of researchers explores how non-human species (in this case, fireflies) could inform new approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

In recent years, members of the Canadian public have witnessed the misrepresentation of Indigenous identities.

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arXiv:2512.15577v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we focus on online zero-shot monocular 3D instance segmentation, a novel practical setting where existing approaches fail to perform because they rely on posed RGB-D sequences. To overcome this limitation, we leverage CUT3R, a recent Re…

"The skin of tanning bed users appeared decades older."

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that launches a pilot program authorizing Medicare to cover cannabis products for seniors. Why it matters: Trump's embrace of marijuana could be a game-changer for older people who are seeking alternative treatments for common ailments.Driving th…

A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey demonstrates that measuring nitrogen in stream reaches can identify areas where decreasing nitrogen inputs may improve the water quality of downstream receiving waters.

Find out how to watch 'Now You See Me,' 'Now You See Me 2,' and 'Now You See Me: Now You Don't' online — including where each movie is streaming.

https://twitter.com/wvmattz/status/2001821438647693598QuoteMattZ@wvmattz·Earlier this afternoon, Booster 19’s forward section was seen rolling across the ring yard headed into Mega Bay 1.  Crews are making incredible progress on the Starship Fli...

In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

arXiv:2512.15661v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Demonstrating quantum advantage in machine learning tasks requires navigating a complex landscape of proposed models and algorithms. To bring clarity to this search, we introduce a framework that connects the structure of parametrized quantum circui…

It is the largest scheme since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which prompted massive gun law reform.

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The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

arXiv:2512.14990v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite their wide adoption in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, software engineering), Deep Learning (DL)-based applications suffer from many bugs, failures, and vulnerabilities. Reproducing these bugs is essential for their resolution, but…

For people living in the EU, the price of their next car, home renovation and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard of. This new regulation, which comes fully into force on New Year's Day, does not just target heavy industry—it affects everyday goods wh…

Labour's violence against women strategy and a royal Christmas family portrait dominate Friday's papers.

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to try and rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools. The Series C round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and saw participat…

The outdoors can be challenging for portable batteries, but this one by Nitecore is built to withstand the elements.

Trafalgar theatre, London Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast Oh, my! Mary Todd Lincoln is a drunken wannabe cabaret star! Her husband Abraham, the 16th US president, is a closet homos…

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1989277822343664014?s=20 [Nov. 14]Quote#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our @ESA_Ex...

arXiv:2512.15495v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We derive a posteriori error estimate for a fully discrete adaptive finite element approximation of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with rough noise. The considered model is derived from the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with additive space-…

OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...

Alexa works well out of the box, but these lesser-known features improve it further.

We need you to understand why we need you to join the fight to keep this manga going.

CBS has ordered the pilot “Regency,” from “The Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon” alum Tara Hernandez, to be put into consideration for the 2026-2027 TV season. The multi-camera sitcom, from Warner Bros. TV, is a period piece described as a “historical spin” on the typical family comedy. Here’s th…

From puzzles with secret endings to a 3D puzzle of Thor’s hammer, find something fun to piece together from our list of the best puzzles for adults.

https://x.com/TrackingTheSB/status/2001811659837354491QuoteStarbaseTracking@TrackingTheSB2 of the 3 barrel sections for Booster 19's CH4 tank have been rolled out.Tony -  Stacking chart updated.