Former Doctor Who star Paul McGann has addressed the recent spread of AI-generated images showing his apparent return alongside Billie Piper in the franchise's upcoming 2026 Christmas special.

As part of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy councils will receive a further £19m Good morning. The news will be dominated by two foreign stories today: the ongoing response to the Hanukah killings at Bondi beach, which we are covering on a live blog here, and the latest talks in …

The payment giant is seeking to guide fintechs and banks in navigating the crypto landscape

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to...

I am willing to walk if this doesn't happen.

arXiv:2510.08442v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to act based on high-dimensional image data where only a small fraction of the pixels is task-relevant. This forces agents to waste exploration and computational resources on irrelevant features…

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Gang leaders have found a new way to carry out attacks on rivals - using children they consider 'disposable'.

Latest strictures add to pressure as fintech seeks to resolve a dispute between its founders and investors

A toxic haze engulfed Delhi on Monday, affecting visibility on the road and delaying flights and trains.

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney's assets and to OpenAI's competition with Google.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.

arXiv:2512.11183v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current benchmarks that test LLMs on static, already-solved problems (e.g., math word problems) effectively demonstrated basic capability acquisition. The natural progression has been toward larger, more comprehensive and challenging collections of st…

Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine was prepared to drop its Nato aspirations, it would still require security guarantees from US and Europe Separately, the commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just confirmed that commission president Ursula von der Leyen will attend the Berlin talks t…

The service was cut off and then there were threats of losing the number of 60 yearsMy 84-year-old parents, who have significant disabilities, had their TalkTalk landline cut off without notice in August.We eventually had to sign a new contract to get the service restored and were assured that they …

Let us emphasize first and foremost the economic case for chiplet architecture in the automotive systems. The automotive industry faces an unprecedented challenge: integrating increasingly sophisticated electronic systems while maintaining cost competitiveness in mass production. Traditional monolit…

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Stats show continued progress away from landfill in Northern Ireland, but little movement in recycling rates
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President Trump's advisers are furious with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for starting an anti-abortion group to spur new action on the issue, which the White House views as a loser for Republicans in next year's midterms."Clearly, Senator Hawley and his political team learned nothing from the 2022 elect…

arXiv:2512.11792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reality is a dance between rigid constraints and deformable structures. For video models, that means generating motion that preserves fidelity as well as structure. Despite progress in diffusion models, producing realistic structure-preserving motion …

Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra talk about how they have helped their children understand his terminal cancer diagnosis.

arXiv:2512.11367v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing causes global economic losses of \$10-25 billion annually and undermines marine sustainability and governance. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides reliable maritime surveillance under all weathe…

Paul Sutter, Universe Today Let's say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don't worry...

arXiv:2512.11161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently been used to enhance index structures, giving rise to reinforcement learning-enhanced spatial indices (RLESIs) that aim to improve query efficiency during index construction. However, their practical benefits remain…

Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls

arXiv:2509.16716v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Algorithms for computing the classical Gaussian quadrature rules (Gauss--Jacobi, Gauss--Laguerre, and Gauss--Hermite) are presented, based on globally convergent fourth-order iterative methods combined with asymptotic approximations, which are app…

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When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls.  So when it came time to choose a speciality, Mill…

Inside the Polish shoe-shop chain’s complicated family ties and unresolved Russian legacy

James steered the Los Angeles Lakers to a narrow victory over the Phoenix Suns after blowing a 20-point lead.

Independent review into Dr Halima Begum’s conduct was prompted by at least 100 staff writing to trusteesOxfam GB’s chief executive has been forced out by the charity’s trustees after an investigation into her leadership found “serious issues”, according to reports.The independent review was reported…

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking application of AI: He began to perform with a lifelike depiction of his long-deceased musical partner, John Lennon.  Using recent advances in audio and…

It's unnerving how much of the global economy is dependent on $400 million lithography machines.

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation.

If your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick feels slow, don't replace it just yet. These quick tips can give it a serious speed boost.

Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne tread a delicate line between hard-hitting and empathetic in this profile of the Free Birth Society. Plus, an ode to The Gilmore GirlsA shocking Guardian investigation by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne into the Free Birth Society (FBS), a movement that made millions of dolla…

The Lionesses, Red Roses and European Ryder Cup team are shortlisted for Team of the Year at Sports Personality.

I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no otherIn 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do something more meaningful …

Tariffs, an AI boom, geopolitical divisions and a new administration ushered in a unique, unsettling year for consumers.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025.

arXiv:2512.11492v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Networked Predictive Control is widely used to mitigate the effect of delays and dropouts in Networked Control Systems, particularly when these exceed the sampling time. A key design choice of these methods is the delay bound, which determines the pre…

arXiv:2512.11799v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale video generation models have shown remarkable potential in modeling photorealistic appearance and lighting interactions in real-world scenes. However, a closed-loop framework that jointly understands intrinsic scene properties (e.g., albed…

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has described hearing gunshots during Sunday's terror attack at Bondi Beach as "terrifying".

Michael Irving, Science Alert Dementia is often associated with older people,...

Greg Ip, Wall St. Journal Whatever happened to the climate crisis?
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Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.

Quote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, it was not permitted to consider a landing on the Moon — as President Obama himself...

Donna Lu, The Guardian Little Foot, one of the world's most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our...

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…

Mark "Cassidy" Jenner had a five year relationship with an activist while married with children.

Quote from: Hadley Delta on Today at 12:47 amQuote from: hektor on 12/14/2025 10:48 pmAnd this was perfectly fine, since until the very final months of the Obama administration, ...

The latest death cross in November has so far marked a bottom of around $80,000, aligning with prior examples this cycle.

From winter wildfires in Los Angeles to the unchecked growth of data centers, here are the big climate stories we covered in 2025.

arXiv:2512.11395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the surge of pre-trained text-to-image flow matching models, text-based image editing performance has gained remarkable improvement, especially for \underline{simple editing} that only contains a single editing target. To satisfy the exploding ed…

Key scheduling, groups, venues and start times before AFCON, Africa's premier football tournament, starts in Morocco.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called the shooting that killed at least 15 people an 'act of evil'.

Thirty years on, Bosnia still lives with the legacy of ethnic cleansing, mass displacement and the Srebrenica genocide.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

The Welsh author vividly captures the solitude, hard labour, dramas and dangers of rural lifeIn these six stories of human frailty and responsibility, Welsh writer Cynan Jones explores the imperatives of love and the labour of making and sustaining lives. Each is told with a compelling immediacy and…

arXiv:2512.11057v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, particularly in resource-limited countries. Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging serves as an accessible and cost-effective diagnostic tool but requires expert interpretation, which is o…

arXiv:2512.11784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Softmax attention is a central component of transformer architectures, yet its nonlinear structure poses significant challenges for theoretical analysis. We develop a unified, measure-based framework for studying single-layer softmax attention under b…

City watchdog the FCA announces plans to help first-time buyers and self-employed get on the property ladderBusiness live – latest updatesHouse prices in the UK could grow by as much as 4% next year but getting on the property ladder may become slightly less difficult, according to forecasts from th…

“We're going to remain in the context of ongoing war.”

Children are being recruited by gangs in Sweden to carry out murders, move weapons, and set off grenades.

The Israeli government does not want to help Palestinians in need evacuate; it wants to expel us.

European Film Promotion has revealed the 10 emerging acting talents selected for the 29th edition of the European Shooting Stars, who will be presented to the film industry, the media and the public during the 76th Berlin Film Festival, running from Feb. 12-22. The program is designed to boost the i…

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.

arXiv:2512.11194v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While conventional…

Plus, the hunt for the gunman in a shooting at Brown University.

arXiv:2507.04678v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Spatiotemporal image generation is a highly meaningful task, which can generate future scenes conditioned on given observations. However, existing change generation methods can only handle event-driven changes (e.g., new buildings) and fail to mod…

arXiv:2512.11345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Equivariant diffusion policies (EDPs) combine the generative expressivity of diffusion models with the strong generalization and sample efficiency afforded by geometric symmetries. While steering these policies with reinforcement learning (RL) offers …

arXiv:2507.20560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus …

arXiv:2512.09014v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Real-time adjustments to task difficulty during flight training are crucial for optimizing performance and managing pilot workload. This study evaluated the functionality of a pre-trained brain-computer interface (BCI) that adapts training difficu…

arXiv:2507.02925v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present a modular framework powered by large language models (LLMs) that automates and streamlines key tasks across the early-stage computational drug discovery pipeline. By combining LLM reasoning with domain-specific tools, the framework perf…

Hollywood is paying tribute to director Rob Reiner after he and his wife Michele were found dead at their home in LA on Sunday.

Company behind autonomous vacuum cleaner to be taken over by its Chinese supplier

‘Released under investigation’ leads to uncertainty and distress for both victim and accused, say campaignersHundreds of suspected rapists in England and Wales are spending years released under investigation, under a system that the government has been urged to scrap as it “doesn’t serve anyone’s in…

Synthetic fabrics, particularly from fast fashion retailers, can be treated with a range of hazardous chemicals which can cause an allergic reaction. If you think this is happened to you, we’d like to hear from youHave you suffered any personal health repercussions you suspect may have been caused b…

Crypto prices are little changed, with bitcoin steady after dropping back from last week’s post-Fed high while altcoins continue to underperform amid risk-off sentiment.

Ahmed al Ahmed disarmed one of the shooters in deadly Sydney attack

Congress must work to stop the president from leading us further into a South American quagmireDonald Trump seems determined to have a military confrontation with Venezuela. He has deployed a massive military arsenal in and around the Caribbean Sea and taken a series of provocative actions off the V…

Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the ageWhen William Golding submitted Lord of the Flies to Faber in 1953 it had already been rejected at least seven times, maybe as many as 20. Charles Monteith could tell from the…

Researchers discovered that tanning beds cause widespread, mutation-laden DNA damage across almost all skin, explaining the sharply increased melanoma risk. Single-cell genomic analysis revealed dangerous mutations even in sun-protected regions. Survivors’ stories underscore how early tanning habits…

Investigators have concluded that South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted for over a year to impose martial law to eliminate rivals and monopolize power

Apollo theatre, LondonMischief Theatre return to the am-dram battlefield, turning the Victorian tale into a blizzard of bruised egos and expertly timed farceIn the interval, I hear a newcomer to Mischief Theatre’s enduring “goes wrong” concept ask if these comic symphonies of am-dram mishaps ever ge…

Who’s that daring young farmyard animal on the flying trapeze? The creatures of Mossy Bottom have been put on stage by ‘edgy’ circus stars Circa – but the burlesque shearing had to go‘It’s a family drama,” says Yaron Lifschitz. “It’s kind of a minor key, gently comic version of the Oresteian trilogy…

A Holocaust survivor, a 10-year-old and a Chabad rabbi were among the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah event at Australia's Bondi Beach on Sunday.

The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease.

As the calendar turns, that may be one of the most meaningful resolutions we can make: not simply to improve ourselves, but to steward what was given to us well and to pass it on, intact enough to matter, and open enough to endure.
The post A Song, a Father, and the Quiet Work of Passing Things On a…

HP's EliteBook 8 G1i (16-inch) is a power-efficient multitasker with a generous selection of I/O. Here's my buying advice in 2025.

arXiv:2512.10970v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper investigate…

Korea Zinc to build processing plant in Tennessee with government investment

Artificial intelligence has already learned to read, write and reason. In 2026, it’s learning to look, listen and respond in real time. The next frontier for human–computer interaction is visual. ...

Interstellar Arc is an immersive sci-fi experience that uses recent advances in headset tech to break new ground in virtual reality. And it all happens inside an empty-looking room in Las Vegas.

At a convention for the channel’s randiest fans, I discovered the true meaning of Christmas.

Many are asking why more wasn't done to prevent the shootings after a spate of antisemitism-related offences.