Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pondThe US has paused its promised multi-billion-pound investment into British tech over trade disagreements, marking a serious setback in US-UK relations.The £31bn “prosperity deal”, hailed by K…

Providence police have released new video of a "person of interest" in Saturday's deadly Brown University shooting. CBS News' Anna Schecter has more.

Chicago photographer Gonzalo Guzman loves to capture all facets of life in photos.

Meta revealed that Disney+ was coming to its Quest headsets earlier this year during its Connect event. Now, the streaming app and its vast catalog are finally available to Meta's VR users in the United States.Meta recently overhauled the Quest's entertainment experience with a new Horizon TV hub th…

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which resulted in the discovery of planetary-mass and stellar companions of two ultracool dwarf stars. The new finding was presented in a paper published December 4 on the pre-print s…

China’s new economic model is putting the future of Asia’s Gen-Z at risk.

arXiv:2510.21368v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Estimating reaction rates and chemical stability is fundamental, yet efficient methods for large-scale simulations remain out of reach despite advances in modeling and exascale computing. Direct simulation is limited by short timescales; mac…

Wednesday’s update could debut tokenized assets, onchain AI agents and global Base features as crypto exchange Coinbase aims to redefine its business model.

Seaport Research’s negative view of Nvidia’s stock hasn’t panned out thus far, but analyst Jay Goldberg is emphasizing the recommendation as he looks to 2026.

The movie starts streaming at HBO Max on Dec. 19.

Spain’s grid operator, Red Eléctrica, proudly declared that electricity demand across the country’s peninsular system was met entirely by renewable energy sources for the first time on a weekday, on 16 April 2025.Just 12 days later, at 12.33 p.m. on Monday, 28 April, Spain and Portugal’s grids colla…

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee alleged that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Washington, D.C., under the leadership of outgoing Chief Police Pamela Smith, manipulated crime statistics.  The new report, released Sunday, accuses Smith of pressuring department employees …

New Gallup research reveals an AI communication gap between employers and employees - with key differences among industries.

“It's always something that goes wrong,” Jamal Brown, a 41-year-old food stamp participant said, “unfortunately.”

In a memo obtained by STAT, the NIH gives specific steps on how grant reviewers can check for alignment with administration priorities.

A new study finds an increase in risk of binge drinking among 12th graders who use two or more cannabis products.

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." We've seen an absolute deluge of AI slop this year, from fake m…

arXiv:2512.11564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text entry in Virtual Reality (VR) is challenging, even when accounting for the use of controllers. Prior work has tackled this challenge head-on, improving the efficiency of input methods. These techniques have the advantage of allowing for relativel…

arXiv:2511.06634v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Cross-domain HVAC energy prediction is essential for scalable building energy management, particularly because collecting extensive labeled data for every new building is both costly and impractical. Yet, this task remains highly challenging due t…

B. Riley Financial Inc. said it filed its overdue second-quarter report with US regulators, bringing the firm closer to satisfying demands from Nasdaq that will keep the stock from being delisted. The shares gained more than 20% in extended trading.

Hunter Biden was on Monday disbarred in Connecticut after facing complaints about his convictions on gun and tax charges, over which his father, former President Biden, later pardoned him. The former president's son consented to being disbarred and admitted to attorney misconduct as part of an agree…

Attorneys who eventually quit tell LA Times they were pushed to conclude university system had violated lawAttorneys with the US Department of Justice have reportedly said they felt pressured to accuse the University of California of discriminating against Jewish students and faculty, at the urging …

The NIN mastermind offers insight into the "drummer swap" with Foo Fighters.
Trent Reznor on What Really Went Down with Josh Freese’s Return to Nine Inch Nails
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Mirelo AI GmbH, a Germany-based developer of audio generation models, today announced that it has raised $41 million in funding. Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led the seed investment. They were joined by Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. Mirelo’s flagship AI model, Mirelo SFX 1.5, is des…

Australia’s past gun reform efforts were applauded as a gold standard, until the Bondi Beach attack.

In the wake of an incredible run at The Game Awards last week, during which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking nine awards and announced a free DLC out right now, a whole lot of people are purchasing and/or downloading the game to see what all the fuss is about.

€5bn in assets withdrawn by metal and tech workers’ group

Dec 15https://twitter.com/AndySaunders_1/status/2000508028177768585QuoteAndy Saunders - Apollo Remastered@AndySaunders_1TODAY!60th ANNIVERSARY of the world's first rendezvous in space! 🚀Gemini VI-A and VIIHuman spaceFLIGHT? - Gemini is where i...

Sources tell Rolling Stone that Nick exhibited "anti-social behavior" at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party

Fans pay tribute to When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride film-maker and his wife after apparent homicideLos Angeles mourned the death of beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle on Monday morning, as police announced the arrest of their son on suspicion of murder.News of th…

arXiv:2512.11755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Online product reviews contain rich but noisy signals that overwhelm users and hinder effective decision-making. Existing LLM-based summarizers remain generic and fail to account for individual preferences, limiting their practical utility. We propose…

Because co-founder Emmanuel de Buretel celebrates the label's 20th anniversary by looking back at its history of breaking acts using a boutique approach.

The two Iowa National Guardsmen killed in an ambush attack in Syria Saturday have been identified as 29-year-old Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown and 25-year-old Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar of Des Moines. A civilian interpreter was also killed. CBS News White House reporter Willie Jam…

Gunmen killed at least 15 people Sunday during Australia's Bondi Beach Jewish community Hanukkah celebration. Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, joins CBS News with his reaction to the shooting.

We are headed for more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.

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Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs) by incorporating physical laws into the training process. However, the performance of…

Mali has restored control of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine to Barrick Mining Corp. and will return three tons of gold to the company after the two sides resolved a years-long dispute last month.

The Reiners' troubled 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested in conjunction with the killings.

Google says the reports lacked "helpful next steps."

Ethics rules generally prohibiting government workers from giving presents to their bosses or accepting gifts from non-governmental organizations are particularly relevant around the holidays.

President Trump on Monday afternoon is scheduled to participate in a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation. The medal was established to recognize service members deployed to the U.S. international border with Mexico. Watch the presentation, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EST, in the player above.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Monday that the state has the right to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) despite President Trump’s executive order last week that seeks to institute a national AI standard by pushing back on state laws.  DeSantis, who has rolled out a “Citizen Bill of Rights…

As we celebrate Pride Month, we want to introduce you to an icon in Chicago's LGBTQ+ community and nightlife: Miss Foozie.

The Stephen King adaptation wrapped up its first season on HBO last night with plenty of mayhem and a few plot contortions.

Bryony Worthington says the media should not be pushing a western attitude to climate strategies to the detriment of African nations. Plus letters from Prof Hugh Hunt, Dr Portia Adade Williams and Angela Churie KallhaugeYour editorial (8 December) says that it is “hard to disagree” with calls to ban…

Visible light can be used to create electrodes from conductive plastics completely without hazardous chemicals. This is shown in a new study carried out by researchers at Linköping and Lund universities, Sweden. The electrodes can be created on different types of surfaces, which opens up a new type …

The Christmas hit has now spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on the songs tally.

If you've been waiting for AI promises to materialize, 2026 may be your year - and this unexpected element could be why.

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Abstract: Modern deep learning methods have achieved impressive results across tasks from disease classification, estimating continuous biomarkers, to generating realistic medical images. Most of these approaches are trained to model conditional distributio…

arXiv:2506.14855v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Model Predictive Path Integral control is a powerful sampling-based approach suitable for complex robotic tasks due to its flexibility in handling nonlinear dynamics and non-convex costs. However, its applicability in real-time, highfrequency robo…

Chevron Corp, lowered the price of Venezuelan crude offered to US refiners after a tanker was seized by American forces in the Caribbean and as global prices drifted lower.

Weak retail sales and spending-averse households are pushing China toward targeted stimulus — including offering digital-yuan incentives — but the results have been mixed.

Companies are suing to lock down the billions of dollars they might be owed if the Supreme Court rules against President Trump's tariffs. Why it matters: Implementing the sprawling levies at the center of Trump's economic agenda looks simple relative to the chaos of trying to undo it.This is one of …

Crypto lawyer Irina Heaver said the ruling reinforces limits on exchange liability and rejects claims tied to speculative future gains following BSV’s delisting

arXiv:2512.11443v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For any symmetric discrete memoryless channel with input and output alphabet of size $q$, where $q$ is a prime power, we prove that there exist error-correcting codes approaching channel capacity encodable by arithmetic circuits (with weighted additio…

arXiv:2511.20369v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Implementation bugs threaten the soundness of algorithmic software verifiers. Generating correctness certificates for correct programs allows for efficient independent validation of verification results, and thus helps to reveal such bugs. Automat…

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Tories accuse Vince of ‘morally repugnant statement’ after he says Israeli government is partly responsible for rising antisemitismWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attackThe green entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince has faced condemnation for saying the Israeli government is partly re…

As a Pop!_OS veteran, I've not been this excited about a release since I first started using System76's in-house distribution.

NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be up to 3.5 miles in size.

The singer, who has a long history of legal problems, is facing new criminal charges for allegedly destroying hookahs and assaulting a man.

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Between The Game Awards and showcases like Day of the Devs, Wholesome Snack, Latin American Games and Women-Led Games, there’s been a ton of video game news over the last week (I need Control Resonant ASAP, please and thank yo…

The FBI and police are asking anyone who may have more video evidence or tips relating to the deadly shooting at Brown University. A person of interest was released Sunday night. CBS News law enforcement contributor Rodney Harrison has more.

Inside the hardcore band’s radical reimagining of big-stage touring, community energy, and what it means to stay true at scale.

T-Mobile is giving away free Samsung Galaxy S25 phones if you switch to the T-Mobile Essentials promo plan this holiday season.

Several Republican lawmakers publicly rebuked President Trump on Monday for suggesting acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner was killed alongside his wife, Michele, this weekend because of Reiner’s disdain for the president — what Trump terms “Trump derangement syndrome.” The GOP blowback came lar…

President Trump torpedoed MAGA influencers' calls for compassion after the killing of director Rob Reiner, mocking the longtime liberal activist as a victim of "Trump derangement syndrome."Why it matters: Many MAGA influencers vowed after the assassination of Charlie Kirk that they would never celeb…

Bose's holiday deals are back, giving you up to $300 dollars in savings.

Winter is here, and for those of us in northern New England, so are all of its friends: frigid temperatures, snow, and, of course, cute little Winter Wrens bopping around the forest.

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The close call underscores the need for improved coordination between satellite operators, Starlink’s vice president of engineering said.

Korea Zinc will start by acquiring two mining complexes and the only US zinc smelter, which is in Tennessee.

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Abstract: Despite rapid progress in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems, current benchmarks fall short in evaluating their scalability, robustness, and coordination capabilities in complex, dynamic, real-world tasks. Existing environments t…

The organization offered support for this idea of an AI marketplace, and suggested several guiding principles.

Siemens and nVent have entered into a collaboration aimed at developing a liquid cooling and power reference architecture specifically engineered to support hyperscale AI workloads. As AI applications continue to expand in scale, intensity, and geographic distribution, data center infrastructure mus…

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs…

The company is abandoning plans for a brand new all-electric pickup truck codenamed "T3" and ending production of the battery-only Lightning.

Morocco has earned itself a spot in the FIFA Arab Cup final after soundly defeating the UAE 3-0 in Monday’s semi-final.

Australia is reeling from a deadly terror attack on Jews celebrating the opening night of Hanukkah Sunday. CBS News' Anna Coren and Sam Vinograd have more.

Quote from: sstli2 on Today at 07:37 pmQuote from: Starshipdown on Today at 04:47 pmJust as a reminder we did see a very advanced in production forward and aft module during th...

60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and convict…

The race to become the Federal Reserve’s next chair appeared almost over just a couple of weeks ago, but it’s now back to looking like a real competition.

https://twitter.com/EShoreSpaceflt/status/2000620135393136807QuoteEasternShoreSpaceflight@EShoreSpacefltRocket Lab Electron launch update for Wallops Island, Virginia: STP-S30 (DiskSat). A few days ago, NAV warnings were posted, and today the TFRs...

Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm. Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows o…

“Point Break” is smacking the lip once more, as AMC Networks is developing a TV adaptation of the 1991 surf action, Variety has confirmed. The series is set in 2026, 35 years after the events of the original film that starred Patrick Swayze as a beachy bank robber and Keanu Reeves as an undercover F…

arXiv:2512.10977v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present TritorX, an agentic AI system designed to generate functionally correct Triton PyTorch ATen kernels at scale for emerging accelerator platforms. TritorX integrates open-source large language models with a custom linter, JIT compilation, and…

arXiv:2506.22199v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Relational databases (RDBs) are widely regarded as the gold standard for storing structured information. Consequently, predictive tasks leveraging this data format hold significant application promise. Recently, Relational Deep Learning (RDL) has …

arXiv:2509.02447v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Efficient and reliable detection of generated images is critical for the responsible deployment of generative models. Existing approaches primarily focus on improving detection accuracy and robustness under various image transformations and advers…

Computing power and tech profits are set to explode. Here’s your multiyear strategy — depending on your risk tolerance.

President Trump's national security trade actions are delivering real results, as evidenced by increased investment in the U.S., new jobs, and stronger local economies, due to tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Google's Nick Fox rejected a news API proposal, acknowledged publisher struggles, and explained what's delaying Personal Context.

Arguably the poster-boy for Bazball, England’s vice-captain is in dire need of an innings of substance in Adelaide“They were shocking shots. I’ll admit that every day of the week. Especially the one in Perth. It was nearly a bouncer and I’ve tried to drive it. It was just bad batting. The one in Bri…

A leaked teaser trailer seemingly reveals that another major Avenger is making their return.

Quote from: yg1968 on 12/13/2025 03:11 pmMoonbound - Charting the course:https://plus.nasa.gov/video/moonbound-charting-the-course/https://x.com/NASA/status/1999853609152901290A Dedicated thread has been ...

One of Rob Reiner’s last projects before his death was the release of a new book about “Spinal Tap,” his memorable 1984 music mockumentary, and the book has returned to Amazon’s bestsellers charts following the writer and director’s passing. “This Is Spinal Tap” was Reiner’s feature directorial debu…

arXiv:2512.11507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Abutment design is a critical step in dental implant restoration. However, manual design involves tedious measurement and fitting, and research on automating this process with AI is limited, due to the unavailability of large annotated datasets. Altho…

arXiv:2512.11223v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The testing phase is an essential part of software development, but manually creating test cases can be time-consuming. Consequently, there is a growing need for more efficient testing methods. To reduce the burden on developers, various automated tes…

arXiv:2511.04501v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We are interested in time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an impenetrable obstacle in a medium where the wavenumber is constant in an exterior unbounded subdomain and is possibly heterogeneous in a bounded subdomain. The associated Helmholtz bound…

arXiv:2512.10987v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In recent years, the landscape of federated learning has witnessed significant advancements, particularly in decentralized methodologies. This research paper presents a comprehensive comparison of Centralized Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) with…

Congress should be commended for passing this key authorization bill before the end of the calendar year. The bill makes our military stronger and sends a strong signal that more money is needed to modernize and rebuild the war stocks of our military.
The post 2026 Defense Policy Bill Again Shows C…

President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress for posting that director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed due to "Trump Derangement Syndrome."Why it matters: It's a rare break between the president and his party in Congress, some members …