arXiv:2512.07829v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual represent…

A group of moderate Republicans signed a petition to force a House vote on extending health care tax credits for three years, a major blow to Speaker Mike Johnson.

Policymaker set to meet Donald Trump on Wednesday for interview to be next chair of US central bank

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The Soyuz launched on Nov. 27, 2025 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

While the UK may never rejoin the European Union, it has now been confirmed that the country will return to the Erasmus program it left during Brexit. This means EU students can study in the UK without major bureaucratic hurdles, and British students will have the same opportunities to study across …

This week's STATus Report takes on the CDC's new hepatitis B vaccine guidance for newborns. Host Alex Hogan dives into the controversial recommendation.

Consequence readers voted to highlight Haylee Williams, Rosalía, Sinners, Severance, Pluribus, and more as the best of the best from 2025.
Consequence Readers’ Survey Results: Your Picks for the Best Music, Film, and TV of 2025
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Myanmar's military government has charged over 200 people with violating the country's strict election law ahead of a general election at the end of this month

Immediate bonus points for acknowledging that cabling will still exist and will inevitably end up in the habitable volume, and that no matter how nice sweeping curves and soft surfaces and wood effect panels etc look; you will still end up having to sh...

Quote from: yg1968 on 11/24/2025 10:45 pmhttps://twitter.com/joroulette/status/1993092300210122921Hmmm... another Joey Roulette story that contains about 50% facts and 50% assumptions and opinions.What Joe...

arXiv:2512.14653v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has seen remarkable advancements in recent years. However, compared to speech and general audio data, publicly available singing datasets remain limited. In practice, this data scarcity often leads to performance degradat…

Canadian Centre for Architecture, MontrealThe birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different storyIn 1954, an issue of Manhua, a state-sponsored satirical magazine in China, decl…

Can the latest flavor of LCD screen technology finally beat OLED?

arXiv:2512.13975v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The present article is dedicated to the forward and backward solution of a transient one-phase Stefan problem. In the forward problem, we compute the evolution of the initial domain for a Stefan problem where the melting temperature varies over time. …

Still searching for the perfect holiday gift? Amazon Books editorial director Sarah Gelman shares a list of books that make the best presents.

An enterprise 5G deployment requires extensive planning. This guide helps you understand 5G use cases and deployment options as well as the latest advances in wireless technology.

10 years ago, the Rockland Water Coalition stopped a harmful desalination plant pushed by a corporate water giant. Here’s how.
The post How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Moviegoing frequency by Gen Z audiences is up in 2025, according to Cinema United’s new “Strength of Theatrical Exhibition” report. Published on Wednesday, the annual analysis seeks to make sense of key industry metrics beyond traditional box-office performance.  “Weekend box office is important, bu…

The US has increasingly looked abroad to fill teaching shortages. But some educators fear uncertainty under Trump.

Software giant suffers renewed declines after backer Blue Owl pulls out of $10bn project

Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of both his father and his mother. Solange Mougin has more.

Get your first month of the DirecTV Signature Entertainment package for $50 through Jan. 6 in first-ever flash holiday sale.

Nick Reiner is set to be arraigned on murder charges for allegedly killing his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi has the latest.

The fanout and choreography patterns are two common approaches to event-driven architecture, each offering its own advantages for modern distributed systems.

The US president wants a blockade of oil tankers under sanctions to stop them entering and leaving VenezuelaAnalysis: Maduro says the real reason for Trump’s fixation is oil – is he right?Donald Trump has intensified pressure on Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his government in a major es…

NASA’s commercial partners are actively demonstrating next-generation satellite relay capabilities for spaceflight missions, marking a significant step toward retiring the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system and adopting commercial services. The demonstrations – ranging from rea…

arXiv:2512.14180v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radiance field methods (e.g. 3D Gaussian Splatting) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for novel view synthesis, yet their appearance modeling often relies on Spherical Harmonics (SH), which impose fundamental limitations. SH struggle with high-frequ…

Article Protecting the High Seas: Ensuring Strong, Effective MPAs Under the BBNJ Agreement By Elle Bent | December 17, 2025 Exactly one month from today, on January 17, 2026, the UN agreement on the conservation of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, or BBNJ Agreement (also referred to as the…

New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.

Crypto-linked stocks pulled back, with miners like MARA Holdings (MARA) down 4.8% and Core Scientific (CORZ) down 6%.

An AI-generated fake video circulated on #Facebook, falsely claiming a coup d’état in #France. Alerted by a concerned African counterpart, Emmanuel #Macron criticised Facebook after the platform refused to remove the misleading content.

Sylvester Stallone reflects on his iconic roles as Rocky Balboa and John Rambo, his rough upbringing, and the legacy he hopes to leave in a touching "CBS Mornings" interview.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s response to the death of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner was “not the way I would have done it.” “I’m asked to give running commentary on everything the president says every five minutes of the day, a…

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Heavy rain and strong winds are causing buildings weakened by Israeli bombardment to collapse across Gaza.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted the Pentagon’s ongoing probe into him Tuesday. “This is all a bunch of bulls---,” Kelly told reporters on Capitol Hill. The Defense Department said Monday it is escalating its review into Kelly, a retired Navy captain, over a Nov. 18 video in which and other Democr…

BlackRock Inc. will match government contributions to “Trump accounts” for its employees, making it one of the first major US companies to lay out plans for supporting the early-childhood savings program.

The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after BrexitThe UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, five years after the country pulled out following Brexit. The move will allow UK institutions to tap int…

Peter Lawwell is to stand down as Celtic chairman at the end of December, citing "abuse and threats from some sources".

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The Bluesky contact matching feature is opt-in and your data won't be used to spam your friends, the social network says.

The DJI Power 2000 portable power station is on sale at Amazon for $699, down from the list price of $1,299. That's a 46% discount.

At SEMA, we heard Trump-like talking points but saw skateboard chassis, too.

Robinhood stands to gain more from prediction markets than Coinbase as users plan to deploy fresh capital rather than sell existing crypto, the bank said.

"The Taliban now post guards at UN offices to prevent women from going to their jobs."

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers developed an expressive architecture that provides better state tracking and sequential reasoning in LLMs over long texts.

The Justice Department is suing more than a dozen landlords on allegations of sexual harassment, a problem one top department official called "traumatic for the victims" and "inappropriate and illegal."

Arbitration service hosts talks in effort to resolve dispute as medics in England strike for 14th time over pay and jobsUK politics live – latest updatesTalks have started at the conciliation service, Acas, to resolve the resident doctors’ strike.The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service ha…

The Nato chief said Nato countries' pledge to spend 5% of GDP on defence is Donald Trump's "biggest foreign policy success".

He was best known for playing the title character in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.

New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for...

arXiv:2512.11844v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose Love First, Know Later: a paradigm shift in computational matching that simulates interactions first, then assesses compatibility. Instead of comparing static profiles, our framework leverages LLMs as text world engines that operate in …

“Fraud became an integral component of Tricolor’s business strategy,” U.S. prosecutors said.

It's the latest e-bike company to seek bankruptcy protection after pandemic-era excitement for the category wore off.

Oil rose from a four-and-a-half-year low after the US signaled tougher measures against Russia to spur a peace deal in Ukraine after declaring a blockade of Venezuelan oil exports. Gold rose, approaching record levels, as investors looked ahead to US inflation data and monitored escalating tensions …

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander was one of the most scandalous trials of the Jazz Age. 100 years later, it reads as a tragedy about the country’s original sin.

It's the latest effort by GOP lawmakers and President Trump to restrict care for transgender youth.

arXiv:2512.13999v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vizing's theorem states that every simple undirected graph can be edge-colored using fewer than $\Delta + 1$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the graph's maximum degree. The original proof was given through a polynomial-time algorithmic procedure that iterat…

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The dressings, including the popular Hidden Valley Ranch, were distributed to retailers across the country.

iHeartRadio is delivering a star-studded show for its live Jingle Ball event. Here’s who to expect and how to stream the show without cable

The Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and industry to bridge the gap between discovery and care.

Comprehensive global e-learning platform Coursera Inc. today announced a merger agreement with prominent online education platform Udemy, Inc. According to Reuters, Coursera will buy Udemy in an all-stock deal. Based on the closing prices of the companies’ common stock on Dec. 16, the combined compa…

Google's Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.

Since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 a while back as a Xeon 6900 series 2U server platform to replace the failed Intel AvenueCity reference server, I have been getting caught-up in fresh Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarks with the latest software updates over the past year. I've provided fre…

Composers Ludwig Göransson and Stephen Schwartz led the SCL Awards with three nominations apiece. Göransson, who scored the music for Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” landed nominations for outstanding original score for a studio film, plus two for outstanding original song for a dramatic or documentary vi…

Celtic winless in three under new manager NancyLawwell will leave club at the end of DecemberCeltic’s chair, Peter Lawwell, has announced he is to stand down, citing “intolerable” treatment from a section of the club’s support. Lawwell’s exit will intensify a sense of crisis around the Scottish cham…

Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his prosecutions of President Trump in a closed-door deposition with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, from Kennedy Space Cener in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 17, 2025.

With ​a blend of retro-futurism, moral ambiguity and monster-filled wastelands, Fallout became an unlikely prestige television favourite. Now there is something a bigger, stranger and funnier journey ahead• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Fallout TV series returns …

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Quote from: spacenut on Today at 02:56 pmCould comets be made to crash into Mars for more water and possible eventual terraforming?  This was done on Startrek as mentioned in the show "Enterprise". There ...

Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York City, and is promising to lower costs and make life easier for New Yorkers through rent freezes, free childcare, and non-profit city owned grocery stores, funded by tax increases on corporations and wealthy residents.

Warner Bros. Discovery called Paramount's offer "illusory" and said that the company had misled shareholders about its financing.

Cliff is being given a state memorial as a Jamaican hero. His eldest daughter, Odessa Chambers, remembers him as an even more powerful father.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. named Edward Byun global head of technology equity capital markets and Tegh Kapur the head of technology ECM in the Americas.

The $40m film – directed by Brett Ratner, who has been accused of sexual misconduct – follows Melania Trump in the days before the 2025 inaugurationAmazon has released the first trailer for next year’s documentary on Melania Trump.The film will follow the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 in…

arXiv:2512.14010v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The Stefan problem is a classical free-boundary problem that models phase-change processes and poses computational challenges due to its moving interface and nonlinear temperature-phase coupling. In this work, we develop a physics-informed neural ne…

The box office has a new king. As 2025 draws to a close, Jonathan Bailey is the year’s highest-grossing actor, thanks to his roles in “Jurassic World Rebirth” (which made some $869 million globally) and “Wicked: For Good” ($468.3 million to date).  Neither of these movies were sold solely on Bailey’…

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 pop tours of 2025, featuring Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars and more.

arXiv:2504.09554v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve optimal utility when their responses are grounded in external knowledge sources. However, real-world documents, such as annual reports, scientific papers, and clinical guidelines, frequently combine extensive n…

Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

Six Sunderland players are off to the tournament but Chelsea, Arsenal and Aston Villa are not losing anyoneBy Opta AnalystThe Africa Cup of Nations begins on Sunday in Morocco. Thirty-two Premier League players have been selected to represent their national teams at the tournament but some clubs wil…

arXiv:2512.14514v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Embedded applications often use a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to access hardware. Improper use of the HAL can lead to incorrect hardware operations, resulting in system failure and potentially serious damage to the hardware. The question is how o…

The Justice Department has until Friday to release its files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law on Nov. 19, gives DOJ 30 days to release its documents, setting the deadline for Dec. 19. The legislation passed both chambers …

The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps.

‘I wanted to make a perfect square with my body. My back hurt for days afterwards. People often want to know if the kitten is real’I’ve thought a lot about the time I made this image. In my 20s, I was living in New York. Then I broke up with my long-term partner in 2019 and I sort of didn’t really k…

arXiv:2503.20047v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in 2D medical image analysis, but extending them to 3D remains challenging due to the high computational demands of volumetric data and the difficulty of aligning 3D spatial features with clinical t…

Blake Shelton has the most victories, with nine winning contestants.

Leaves crunched underfoot as the team made its way through thickets of mugwort, multiflora rose, and porcelain vine. 

“Believe it or not, this area used to be an orchard,” quipped John...

Officials released a video timeline on Tuesday showing the movements of the suspected shooter at Brown University as they again appealed to the public to come forward with any relevant information. (Source: Bloomberg)

Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency medical treatment, and accused of working with Israel, her family said.

Strong selling pressure overwhelmed positive Coinbase integration news as the psychological $1.90 level failed to hold.

Agents have gone to work. Software application development in the artificial intelligence space has delivered a new cohort of digital workers for in the form of agentic AI services, which now ...

The Facebook parent company headlines Rosenblatt’s list of top first-half stock picks, but Applied Optoelectronics and Magnite shares also make the cut with major upside projected.

Get the best coffee machine deal at Amazon. As of Dec. 17, get $350 off the KitchenAid Espresso Machine at Amazon.

As of Dec. 17, save $350 on the DJI Power 1000 portable power station at Amazon.