Investment firm GLP Pte has selected banks for a Hong Kong initial public offering that may take place as soon as the first half of 2026, according to people familiar with the situation.

arXiv:2510.15119v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative models in medical imaging. However, it remains a major challenge to combine these data-driven models with domain knowledge to guide brain imaging problems. In neuroimaging, Bayesian inv…

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

Airlines on track for the biggest holiday season getaway in history as industry braces for record demand

WH Smith Plc is under investigation by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority over the accounting error in its North American business that triggered a stock slump and the resignation of its chief executive officer.

arXiv:2512.15945v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reddit is a major venue for mental-health information interaction and peer support, where privacy concerns increasingly surface in user discourse. Thus, we analyze privacy-related discussions across 14 mental-health and regulatory subreddits, comprisi…

Coty Inc. is selling the remainder of its stake in Wella to KKR & Co. for $750 million and the right to a share of future proceeds from a sale or initial public offering of the haircare brand.

The Bank of France raised its growth forecasts as the euro area’s second-largest economy shows resilience to prolonged political turbulence and fiscal uncertainty.

Protesters torch several buildings in Dhaka after Sharif Osman Hadi, who was shot last week, succumbs to his injuries.

The European Union has imposed asset freezes totalling hundreds of billions of dollars on at least 31 countries.

arXiv:2512.15955v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Decision-tree methods are widely used on structured tabular data and are valued for interpretability across many sectors. However, published studies often list the predictors they use (for example age, diagnosis codes, location). Privacy laws increasi…

arXiv:2512.15782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed behind safety guardrails such as system prompts and content filters, especially in settings where product teams cannot modify model weights. In practice these guardrails are typically hand-tuned, …

Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge A Reform UK mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean” has suggested that at least eight other politicians from minority ethnic backgrounds do not have a primary…

arXiv:2510.13302v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Computational stylometry studies writing style through quantitative textual patterns, enabling applications such as authorship attribution, identity linking, and plagiarism detection. Existing supervised and contrastive approaches often rely on da…

arXiv:2512.16784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Datasets are essential to train and evaluate computer vision models used for traffic analysis and to enhance road safety. Existing real datasets fit real-world scenarios, capturing authentic road object behaviors, however, they typically lack precise …

FTAV goes hedge fund headhunting through the ages

Lynsey Addario is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting conflict from Afghanistan to Sudan. She tells The Mishal Husain Show why her job is to "bear witness." This interview contains descriptions of abduction, violence and sexual assault which some v…

arXiv:2512.15742v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) face a fundamental memory wall: their learned basis functions create parameter counts that impose extreme bandwidth demands, hindering deployment in memory-constrained environments. We show that Vision KANs exhibit a …

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said late Thursday the Trump administration will pause the diversity visa lottery program, which she said was used by alleged Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.

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arXiv:2512.16250v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) such as GPT-4o and Qwen3-Omni show strong perception but struggle in multi-speaker, dialogue-centric settings that demand agentic reasoning tracking who speaks, maintaining roles, and grounding events ac…

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…

arXiv:2512.16101v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In recent years, user generated content (UGC) has become the dominant force in internet traffic. However, UGC videos exhibit a higher degree of variability and diverse characteristics compared to traditional encoding test videos. This variance challen…

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…

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.

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

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

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

arXiv:2512.16649v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning for large language models have converged on increasing complexity: multi-stage training pipelines, dynamic hyperparameter schedules, and curriculum learning strategies. This raises a fundamental question: \tex…

The International Monetary Fund expects a gradual recovery in Mali’s economy next year on higher mining output, after the government resolved a two-year dispute with Barrick Mining Corp.

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Zambian rapper Sampa the Great - and AI - with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.

"But which science fiction does Elon Musk want to turn into reality???", as if this is some mystery when Elon Musk just tells you the answer upfront: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001740667605958950QuoteThe robots and AI will build whatever house ...

Volumes edged down 0.1 per cent after analysts predicted a rise

"I know there are a lot harder jobs, but this is not an easy job to do," the late-night host acknowledged

Newly crowned Sports Personality of the Year winner Rory McIlroy says he has "a lot more I want to achieve" after an "incredible" 2025.

arXiv:2512.16148v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Disaggregated memory (DM) is a promising data center architecture that decouples CPU and memory into independent resource pools to improve resource utilization. Building on DM, memory-disaggregated key-value (KV) stores are adopted to efficiently mana…

European Central Bank Governing Council member Madis Muller said it’s too soon to say where borrowing costs may go next.

arXiv:2507.03558v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Brain stroke is a leading cause of mortality and long-term disability worldwide, underscoring the need for precise and rapid prediction techniques. Computed Tomography (CT) scan is considered one of the most effective methods for diagnosing brain …

“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)

arXiv:2507.00788v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: [Context] AI assistants, like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, are transforming software engineering. While several studies highlight productivity improvements, their impact on maintainability requires further investigation. [Objective] This study inves…

UN estimates that 55,000  families have been affected by rain in enclave where reconstruction is a distant prospect

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Abstract: This paper proposes a training data augmentation pipeline that combines synthetic image data with neural style transfer in order to address the vulnerability of deep vision models to common corruptions. We show that although applying style transfe…

An unlikely partnership could allow Tokyo and Seoul to counter China.

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem pauses high-profile visa program, saying shooting suspect Claudio Neves Valente gained green card in 2017The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it allowed t…

arXiv:2512.16093v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce TurboDiffusion, a video generation acceleration framework that can speed up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200x while maintaining video quality. TurboDiffusion mainly relies on several components for acceleration: (1) Attention ac…

One in four Americans, or 64 million people, has had a package stolen at some point, and 9 million adults have had a package stolen in just the last 3 months.

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

UK government borrowing fell in November as the economy continued to generate healthy tax receipts and debt costs declined, a modest boost for Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves weeks after she unveiled a difficult budget.

arXiv:2512.15824v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Circular economy (CE) triage is the assessment of products to determine which sustainable pathway they can follow once they reach the end of their usefulness as they are currently being used. Effective CE triage requires adaptive decisions that balanc…

arXiv:2306.13273v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent research efforts indicate that federated learning (FL) systems are vulnerable to a variety of security breaches. While numerous defense strategies have been suggested, they are mainly designed to counter specific attack patterns and lack ad…

Transport groups warn of unprecedented congestion as commuters, shoppers and holidaymakers travel at onceBritain’s roads and runways will take a festive pounding on Friday as traffic peaks before Christmas and record numbers head to the skies.Motoring organisations are forecasting exceptionally busy…

See the moon phase expected for December 19, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Officials identified a man from Portugal as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor. The police said on Thursday he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

England are pushed towards the precipice of the fastest Ashes series defeat in more than 100 years as a Travis Head century maintains Australia's grip on the third Test in Adelaide.

Keith Lee took home the highest honors at the first-ever U.S. TikTok awards.

CASA and Space Agency formalise cooperationThe agreement formalises cooperation between the two agencies to support efforts to enhance the safety of spaceflight and air navigation.It establishes a framework for stronger regulatory cooperation ...

arXiv:2512.15907v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating the quality of tables generated by large language models (LLMs) remains an open challenge: existing metrics either flatten tables into text, ignoring structure, or rely on fixed references that limit generalization. We present TabReX, a ref…

Things weren’t looking good for Vestas Wind Systems A/S in January, with the return of Donald Trump and his anti-renewables policies after an already difficult stretch for the turbine maker.

Medical professionals and some in conservative circles feel argument of Lee Jae Myung may be a bit thinSouth Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness has become a “matter of surviva…

Malaysia’s Sunway Healthcare Holdings Bhd. will start gauging investor interest as soon as January for an initial public offering that may raise around $700 million, according to people familiar with the matter.

arXiv:2510.23596v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on thinking models that externalize intermediate steps and allocate extra test-time compute, with think-twice strategies showing that a deliberate second pass can elicit stronger reasoning. In contras…

Really? Ask Chuck what he thinks of your "rules"

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…

"This is the closest we have been to realizing the science fiction vision of expanding across the Solar System."

Productivity Commission recommends waiting three years to establish review into technology after furious response from creative industriesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Productivity Commission has abandoned a propo…

arXiv:2512.15825v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Block-Based Programming (BBP) platforms, such as Snap!, have become increasingly prominent in K-12 computer science education due to their ability to simplify programming concepts and foster computational thinking from an early age. While these platfo…

Rambling, badly drafted government proposals are leading to late nights and endless scrutiny

Quote from: thespacecow on 12/18/2025 09:24 amRelated: https://x.com/StockSavvyShay/status/2001391832241181103QuoteElon Musk told xAI staff that winning the AI race comes down to surviving the next 2–3 years &amp...

arXiv:2512.16763v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A complex system comprises multiple interacting entities whose interdependencies form a unified whole, exhibiting emergent behaviours not present in individual components. Examples include the human brain, living cells, soft matter, Earth's climate, e…

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…

Wind farm expansion is threatening Sami land rights, livelihoods and an Indigenous way of life.

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The initiative forms part of Laneway’s ongoing Solar Slice fund, which channels $1 from every ticket sold into sustainability and charitable projects.

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-…

Atmospheric research should be under NOAA and not under NASA.  NASA should be totally space oriented.  Just my opinion.  NOAA should handle anything under the Karman line.  NASA above.  It is just my opinion.  Many government agencies overlap.

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 …

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

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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1643 on December 19 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

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.

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…

Third Test, day three: Australia 371 & 271-4; England 286Hosts amass 356-run lead to leave England’s hopes hanging by a threadThere were flickers of hope for England on the third day in Adelaide but like some of the murmurs thrown up by Snicko during this pivotal third Ashes Test, they were never en…

arXiv:2512.16029v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study introduces an innovative multilingual bias evaluation framework for assessing bias in Large Language Models, combining explicit bias assessment through the BBQ benchmark with implicit bias measurement using a prompt-based Implicit Associati…

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028 at the organization's annual youth conference.

arXiv:2512.16816v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Nowadays, Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational components of modern software systems. As their influence grows, concerns about fairness have become increasingly pressing. Prior work has proposed metamorphic testing to detect fairness issues, …

Nike Inc. warned that sales will decline this quarter amid persistent weakness in China and at its Converse brand. The world’s largest sportswear company expects revenue to be down in the low-single digits in the three months that started Dec. 1, a surprising turn after two straight periods of growt…

arXiv:2509.24639v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper explores stability properties of periodic solutions of (nonlinear) fractional-order differential equations (FODEs). As classical Caputo-type FODEs do not admit exactly periodic solutions, we propose a framework of Liouville-Weyl-type FO…

Insight with Haslinda Amin, a daily news program featuring in-depth, high-profile interviews and analysis to give viewers the complete picture on the stories that matter. The show features prominent leaders spanning the worlds of business, finance, politics and culture. (Source: Bloomberg)

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-…

arXiv:2512.15949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have yielded increasingly powerful models, yet their perceptual capacities remain poorly characterized. In practice, most model families scale language component while reusing nearly identica…

Let's hope Isaacman can get the money for all of NASA's projects.  Let's also hope he limits SLS/Orion by using new and existing rockets to do the work cheaper.  Maybe de-orbiting ISS can save some money for lunar projects.  We need to replace the ISS ...

arXiv:2512.15728v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) sets the federal funds rate, shaping monetary policy and the broader economy. We introduce \emph{FedSight AI}, a multi-agent framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to simulate FOMC deliberations and…

Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded by future space observatories.

arXiv:2512.16414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Democracy relies on making collective decisions through voting. In addition, voting procedures have further applications, for example in the training of artificial intelligence. An essential criterion for determining the winner of a fair election is t…

Borrowing - the difference between public spending and tax income - was £11.7bn last month.

Quote from: TrevorMonty on 12/18/2025 10:54 pmQuote from: AndrewM on 12/18/2025 05:48 pmIt will also be interesting to see which of the 4 options Rocket Lab & Stoke take....