In this edition of Entre Nous we meet an illustrator, interpreter, comic book author and historian of typography. He's put all of those things together in a series of delightful books that make perfect gifts for the holidays or just about any time. David Rault tells us about his new book that's out …

Paul Doyle had previous convictions for serious violence and was described as a ‘live wire’ by a Royal Marines colleagueThe sound was sickening: a thud, thud, thud as bodies bounced violently off the bumper. Inside Paul Doyle’s two-tonne vehicle, the scene was perhaps even more shocking.Dashcam foot…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a "very workable" peace plan to end the war in Ukraine could be presented to Russia within days.

arXiv:2512.12633v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved impressive performance on a variety of vision-language tasks, yet their fine-grained visual perception and precise spatial reasoning remain limited. In this work, we introduce DiG (Differential Grounding)…

Monday once again emerges as a pressure point for bitcoin, aligning ETF outflows with recurring bitcoin lows.

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Black youth in the United States disproportionately experience fatal drowning at rates up to five times higher than their white peers. These statistics relate to historical and structural barriers Black youth face in learning to swim.

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Paul Doyle struck more than 130 people when he plowed his car through fans leaving a jubilant victory parade for Liverpool F.C.

The ultimate goal of materials scientists is to design and create materials with precise structures and tailored properties. Predictive technologies have advanced significantly with the rise of AI, yet the delicate nature of chemistry, where even the smallest change can alter a material's behavior, …

Despite President Trump's claims of an "A+++++" economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significant challenges that need to be addressed.

Police said Paul Doyle, 54, used his vehicle ‘as a weapon’ in a moment of rage at a victory parade in the city on 25 MayA former Royal Marine has been jailed for more than 21 years for mowing down dozens of Liverpool football fans in a “truly shocking” act that “defies ordinary understanding”.Paul D…

After months of negotiations, Howard Stern said he’s staying with SiriusXM, where his show has aired since 2006, for another three years. Stern announced that he had reached a deal renewal with the satellite-radio broadcaster on “The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday. “I’m happy to announce that I figured …

arXiv:2509.09810v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Autoformalization has emerged as a term referring to the automation of formalization - specifically, the formalization of mathematics using interactive theorem provers (proof assistants). Its rapid development has been driven by progress in deep l…

Ketchup maker says current CEO will not have a management role when the group splits in two next year

Thailand and Cambodia have had disputes over land going back generations, Al Jazeera's Victoria Gatenby breaks it down.

The war in Ukraine has pushed defence issues to the top of the agenda in Germany, where the federal government has confirmed that a military call-up will return as early as next year. All young men born from 2008 onwards will have to register and undergo medical exams, starting in 2027. To begin wit…

arXiv:2512.12713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Control policies in deep reinforcement learning are often implemented with fixed-capacity multilayer perceptrons trained by backpropagation, which lack structural plasticity and depend on global error signals. This paper introduces the Self-Motivated …

"Your heart is strong", Anthony Albanese tells the father-of-two, calling him "a true Australian hero".

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arXiv:2512.13576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR model's erro…

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Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump draws rare GOP pushback ▪ Obstacle ahead for health care vote ▪ US, Zelensky talk security guarantees ▪ Why Trump is handling Venezuela differently The rifts within President Trump’s coalition grew Monday as memb…

S&P 500 stocks may be expensive relative to their historical averages, but many are cheaper than they were at the start of the quarter.

Perfection is a hard, a soft, a blue, a sheep and a goat’s, say our panel of experts, but three to four generous wedges will do the trickWhat should I serve on my Christmas cheeseboard?David, via emailIt will come as no surprise that Mathew Carver, founder of Pick & Cheese, The Cheese Barge and Rind…

arXiv:2512.11831v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in few-step diffusion models have demonstrated their efficiency and effectiveness by shortcutting the probabilistic paths of diffusion models, especially in training one-step diffusion models from scratch (a.k.a. shortcut models). Howe…

arXiv:2405.07293v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Effective monitoring of unusual transportation behaviors, such as wrong-way cycling (i.e., riding a bicycle or e-bike against designated traffic flow), is crucial for optimizing law enforcement deployment and traffic planning. However, accurately …

Treasuries inched up before the US reports jobs data, with investors seeking to gauge the scope for interest-rate cuts next year.

We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for

Bangkok says Phnom Penh must be first to declare a ceasefire and cooperate 'sincerely' on demining the border.

Heavily indebted utility puts back ‘retention payments’ for 21 executives until new year amid search for rescue dealThames Water has deferred awarding bosses retention payments totalling £2.5m, avoiding a potentially damaging pre-Christmas row as the heavily indebted utility scrambles to agree a mul…

A Paris labour court on Tuesday ordered Paris St Germain football club to pay former player Kylian Mbappé 60 million euros ($70.6 million) in unpaid salary and bonuses, bringing a partial end to one of the most acrimonious disputes in French football.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanita…

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Benin on Tuesday jailed around 30 people, most of whom were soldiers, linked to an attempt to oust President Patrice Talon, legal sources said. The attempted coup was defeated by loyalist army forces with the help of the Nigerian air force and French special forces.

arXiv:2509.05915v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities, but their practical deployment is hindered by significant computational costs. While adaptive computation methods like early-exiting promise to reduce these costs, they introduce a funda…

After killing the boy and his mother, he took her Apple watch and drove her BMW to the family home where he stabbed the boy's father to death.

arXiv:2512.12881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural population activity often exhibits regime-dependent non-stationarity in the form of switching dynamics. Learning accurate switching dynamical system models can reveal how behavior is encoded in neural activity. Existing switching approaches hav…

Researchers have found evidence for monster stars in the early universe. These giants collapsed directly into the earliest supermassive black holes.
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Research by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has found that the number of women working in the technology sector has continued to rise at a snail’s pace over the past five years

A reported close approach between a Starlink satellite and a recently launched Chinese spacecraft highlights the challenges of coordinating spacecraft operations and verifying potential close calls in orbit.
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Jim Chanos says he’s not a fan of AI data centers, as he warns that the risk of a dot-com 2.0 is building.

The 32-year-old Nick Reiner was arrested several hours after his parents were found dead in their home in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood.

Investors are selling off individual stocks of companies that seem to be overextended, but they are broadly bullish on stocks as a whole.

Companies such as Udio, Suno and Klay will let you use AI to make new music based on existing artists’ work. It could mean more royalties – but many are worriedThis was the year that AI-generated music went from jokey curiosity to mainstream force. Velvet Sundown, a wholly AI act, generated millions…

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Four of the nation's top retail stores failed to promptly pull contaminated ByHeart infant formula from their shelves, federal health officials said in warning letters.

The family of a police sergeant who died in the line of duty are calling for a change in UK government policy on the issuing of bravery awards.

Combined with softer than expected October data, this morning's numbers point to at least a modestly weaker jobs market as the economy heads into the end of the year.

Even the greatest sides can be reeled in like farmed salmon, assisted by a series of newish laws that can transform momentum quicker than you can say ‘Usain Bolt’They won’t always say so publicly but every journalist is familiar with the concept of a “reverse ferret”. In the heyday of printed newspa…

Bitcoin and ether extended losses alongside weak equities, while oversold signals offered a tentative glimmer of hope for battered altcoins.

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Crypto is on a path to inclusion in retirement plans — if it can get past company plan sponsors

arXiv:2512.11891v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generalizing across diverse robotic manipulation tasks. However, deploying these models in unstructured environments remains challenging due to the critical need for simu…

It’s been fewer than 100 days since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It will take years to know the implications of one of the most historically significant events of 2025, but the early returns are not encouraging. Two data points from this week: 1) Kirk’s widow, Erika, had a summit with one of …

A lack of regulation can leave bettors vulnerable to manipulation.

arXiv:2512.11841v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short-term mobility forecasting is a core requirement for proactive handover (HO) in cellular networks. Real-world mobility is highly non-stationary: abrupt turns, rapid speed changes, and unpredictable user behavior cause conventional predictors to d…

The Guardian's Jonathan Liew visits the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace to explore how the game went from the working men's clubs to the world stage, what the next 10 years looks like, and how it continues to have a ever-developing cultural impact around the world Continue reading...

The city and surrounding region have some of the highest levels of flu-like illness in the United States.

Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...

Some firefighter gear is manufactured with chemicals called brominated flame retardants that could pose a risk to firefighter health, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how scientists identify drug targets for complex conditions.

iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal…

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arXiv:2503.11250v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Sequential design of real and computer experiments via Gaussian Process (GP) models has proven useful for parsimonious, goal-oriented data acquisition purposes. In this work, we focus on acquisition strategies for a GP model that needs to be…

Quote from: John Kerslake on Today at 08:53 amIncreasin the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen increase the thrust in some rocket engins.Increasin the ratop of hydrogen to oxygen increas the specific impulse.Tr...

Medline Inc.’s long-delayed initial public offering is on track to raise the most of any listing this year, as investors keen on the medical supply company’s business model look past its rocky path back to the public markets.

arXiv:2507.14839v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: With rapid advancements in quantum computing, it is widely believed that there will be quantum hardware capable of compromising classical cryptography and hence, the internet and the current information security infrastructure in the coming …

Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a more nuanced and contextual approach.

ETF inflows can remain positive even during market drawdowns because they reflect allocation decisions rather than near-term trading signals, one trader said.

The US House member says president’s rhetoric about her and Somali Americans could have dangerous consequencesUS congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous conseque…

arXiv:2512.12703v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, some human parts in many video frames cannot be seen due to off-screen captures or occlusions. It brings a dilem…

Puccini’s opera returns to Covent Garden in a vivid staging that, although 40 years old, still feels fresh and fun. David Levene had exclusive access to rehearsals to witness the severed heads, the sumptuous costumes – and the executioner going greenAndrei Șerban’s staging, with dazzling designs by …

Agentic exposure management startup Dux Technologies Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $9 million in funding to grow its U.S. go-to-market organization and accelerate development of its platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation a…

The Army, built for sustained heavy occupation, cannot deploy a brigade in under a month. The Marines, in contrast, are designed to deploy within 24 hours.

DTEK boss Maxim Timchenko says the intensity of Russian strikes is so frequent there is no time to recover.

arXiv:2512.12952v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Over the past few years, per-title and per-shot video encoding techniques have demonstrated significant gains as compared to conventional techniques such as constant CRF encoding and the fixed bitrate ladder. These techniques have demonstrated that …

Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…

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The drugmaker revised its revenue guidance for 2025, saying it now expects $62 billion in revenue for the year.

US equity futures decline ahead of the release of the delayed November payrolls report. Oil drops amid growing indications that supply is outpacing demand. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the US has agreed to make security guarantees legally binding through a vote in Congress as talks c…

Chile’s central bank will probably resume interest rate cuts on Tuesday, reducing its benchmark by a quarter-point as policymakers seize on an improving inflation outlook.

IG Group shares rallied by the third-highest percentage of the year on Tuesday after revealing strong demand from U.S. options traders as well as an acquired platform targeting retail investors in the U.K.

Fast food has won back price-sensitive customers with discounts, but some other restaurants have so far resisted. The solution to expensive slop bowls? Less slop for less money. Bloomberg's Deena Shanker explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

In a CEO search, small moments can end a candidacy instantly.

Tributes are pouring in for the 15 people killed in a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

arXiv:2512.12960v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We construct $3$-query relaxed locally decodable codes (RLDCs) with constant alphabet size and length $\tilde{O}(k^2)$ for $k$-bit messages. Combined with the lower bound of $\tilde{\Omega}(k^3)$ of [Alrabiah, Guruswami, Kothari, Manohar, STOC 2023] o…

arXiv:2512.12650v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Software engineering educators strive to continuously improve their courses and programs. Understanding the current state of practice of software engineering higher education can empower educators to critically assess their courses, fine-tune them by …

Latin American airline strikes deal to be leading provider of satellite-powered broadband inflight service in region

Quote from: jstrotha0975 on 12/12/2025 02:36 pmNeutron needs a purpose to survive, it needs a satellite constellation.Neutron's purpose is launching payloads to orbit. There is no need for a 'killer app', an...

arXiv:2512.12987v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper proposes two new algorithms for the lane keeping system (LKS) in autonomous vehicles (AVs) operating under snowy road conditions. These algorithms use deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to handle uncertainties and slippage. They include Acti…

If you read enough articles about planets in binary star systems, you’ll realize almost all of them make some sort of reference to Tatooine, the fictional home of Luke Skywalker (and Darth Vader) in the Star War saga. Since that obligatory reference is now out of the way, we can talk about the new “…

The transmission system’s inability to absorb extra power has forced suspensions of renewables plants at an alarming rate

arXiv:2506.20487v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Humanoid robots are drawing significant attention as versatile platforms for complex motor control, human-robot interaction, and general-purpose physical intelligence. However, achieving efficient whole-body control (WBC) in humanoids remains a fu…

arXiv:2512.11881v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: From the relative scarcity of training data to the lack of standardized benchmarks, the development of foundation models for polymers face significant and multi-faceted challenges. At the core, many of these issues are tied directly to the structura…

Jonathan Hall KC warns of people being wrongly investigated and of impact on journalists and thinktanksEspionage offences in the UK’s new National Security Act are so broadly defined that they “will result in cases of real harm” with people wrongly investigated, according to the first review of stat…

Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe says it is a "horrible feeling" to not know what he is going to get from his side.

Everbloom has also developed a chemical process to transform waste fibers and feathers into upcycled materials that resemble everything from polyester to cashmere.