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

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.

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation around datacentres changed during 2025

The real issue is how to address overall cost. Haggling over Obamacare subsidies or what might replace them isn’t the solution.

Hotels and lodges will welcome back visitors to the Grand Canyon's South Rim after the national park fixed multiple breaks in a water pipeline that led to the halting of overnight stays for more than a week​.

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

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…

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…

Gaston, the swole villain from Beauty and the Beast, will reportedly be the next Disney baddie to get the live-action movie treatment.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, U.S. officials said December 15 following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. But although there is reason to be optimist about talk…

arXiv:2507.06233v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Point tracking models often struggle to generalize to real-world videos because large-scale training data is predominantly synthetic--the only source currently feasible to produce at scale. Collecting real-world annotations, however, is prohibitiv…

Researchers have found evidence for monster stars in the early universe. These giants collapsed directly into the earliest supermassive black holes.
The post Astronomers see monster stars from the cosmic dawn first appeared on EarthSky.

arXiv:2512.05948v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Public-use microdata samples (PUMS) from the United States (US) Census Bureau on individuals have been available for decades. However, large increases in computing power and the greater availability of Big Data have dramatically increased the prob…

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.
The post SpaceX claims close approach to Starlink satellite by payload from Chinese launch a…

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.

India’s central bank injected $5 billion through a foreign-exchange swap auction, deploying the tool for the first time since March as signs of liquidity strain emerge among lenders.

arXiv:2503.10043v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Image super-resolution (SR) aims to recover low-resolution images to high-resolution images, where improving SR efficiency is a high-profile challenge. However, commonly used units in SR, like convolutions and window-based Transformers, have limit…

In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but by radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system.  The flight landed safely, but it was one of thous…

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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Paul Sutter, Univ Today After the first protons and neutrons formed, after the first light elements formed, the universe…wasn't really all that great. It spent hundreds of thousands...

arXiv:2510.08808v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Graphs provide a universal framework for representing complex relational systems, and inferring their structural properties is a core challenge in graph analysis and reasoning. While large language models have recently demonstrated emerging abilit…

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.

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.

Find the best running earbuds at Amazon. Save 22% on the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 at Amazon.

Employers should assess health IT vendors that can tailor GLP-1 coverage pathways, provide lifestyle support and guide users discontinue use.

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…

GoFundMe has launched a hub of verified fundraisers for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Australia's deadliest in 30 years.

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

Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4 is finally here, and it makes a long list of gameplay and balance changes, as well as CPU/GPU improvements, load reduction, and the optimization of "PC-specific processes and addition of options and presets to reduce processing load." Check out the patch notes in …

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...

Quantum physicist and entrepreneur Ilana Wisby on the legacy of this year’s laureates
The post From quantum curiosity to quantum computers: the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics appeared first on Physics World.

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, December 16: French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Marseille to discuss the fight against drugs, one month after the murder of Mehdi Kessaci, the brother of a well-known anti-drug crime activist. Staying on the topic, a deadly new drug is spreading in Philadelphia. Als…

Keysight Technologies and KT SAT complete successful handover from a live GEO connection to an emulated LEO link, creating a dependable way to study real NTN behaviour before constellations are deployed

The prosecution is to present its closing case in the trial of the French cement manufacturer Lafarge, accused of financing terorrism. Eight former executives are suspected of having paid jihadist groups in Syria until 2014 - including the Islamic State Group to keep the company's activity in the co…

Memo to skeptics waiting for Corporate America’s growth engine to stall out: There’s still fuel in the tank.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b, which orbits a star similar to the sun, may still have an atmosphere, despite orbiting extremely close to its host.

GeV-scale bremsstrahlung from an electron accelerator can be used to produce copper-64 and copper-67
The post Leftover gamma rays produce medically important radioisotopes appeared first on Physics World.

Chile has just elected its first far-right leader, Jose Antonio Kast, since the fall of the dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1990. The arch conservative politician was elected on an anti-crime and anti-immigration platform, which won over 60% of voters. But "Kast has also been leading the fight against …

How to watch NBA for free. Live stream New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Cup final for free from anywhere in the world.

Aura’s digital photo frames outshine the competition left and right, and you can score them on sale this holiday season.

Portugal will return to the F1 calendar in 2027 and 2028, with a race held at the Algarve International Circuit near Portimao.

Ford Motor Co.’s decision to take a nearly $20 billion charge as it shifts to hybrids from electric vehicles had little impact on the automaker’s stock but did send shares of battery makers lower.

UBS Group AG is set to grow earnings per share at the fastest sequential pace of any bank globally, according to analysts at Bank of America Corp.

Does some moderator take issue with contributors transcribing the text shown on the ULA video images into ... text?

An ongoing record of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2.

arXiv:2512.12183v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances have introduced diffusion models for probabilistic streamflow forecasting, demonstrating strong early flood-warning skill. However, current implementations rely on recurrent Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) backbones and single-step train…

Linkoping University 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...

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:2512.12987v1 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 “…

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…

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

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

US says talks with Ukraine in Berlin have resolved 90% of difficult issues – but no sign Putin willing to compromiseEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals negotiated with US officials on a peace deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be finalised within days, after which A…

arXiv:2511.03132v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper presents the first AI/ML system for automating building damage assessment in uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery to be deployed operationally during federally declared disasters (Hurricanes Debby and Helene). In response to major dis…

International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients.

arXiv:2512.12121v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce MixtureKit, a modular open-source framework for constructing, training, and analyzing Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models from arbitrary pre-trained or fine-tuned models. MixtureKit currently supports three complementary methods: (i) \emph{Tr…

Research finds standalone private 5G networks well-positioned to become predominant wireless connectivity medium for Industry 4.0 applications in manufacturing and process industries, as well as critical communications

The drug failed to slow the progression of early Alzheimer’s. Experts are trying to understand why.

A new study maps the unusual genomes of Asia-Pacific Balanophora species, offering new insights into the evolution of parasitic plants and revealing an unconventional role for plastids. At the foot of moss-covered trees in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan, as well as within the subtropical…

The U.S. is preparing to seize more sanctioned oil-filled tankers off Venezuela as the Trump administration opens a new phase of its pressure campaign on Nicolas Maduro's regime, officials tell Axios.That new phase also could soon include "land strikes on Venezuela," President Trump said Friday.Why …

arXiv:2512.13515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The study presents the outcomes of research and experimental validation in the domain of automated codebase migration, with a focus on addressing challenges in transitioning SQL-based systems. The proposed method for migration essentially appears as a…

arXiv:2511.20179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Scalable assessments of mental illness, the leading driver of disability worldwide, remain a critical roadblock toward accessible and equitable care. Here, we show that human-computer interactions encode mental health with state-of-the-art b…

arXiv:2502.18582v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: $\Phi$-equilibria -- and the associated notion of $\Phi$-regret -- are a powerful and flexible framework at the heart of online learning and game theory, whereby enriching the set of deviations $\Phi$ begets stronger notions of rationality. …

arXiv:2506.22035v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent research has focused on accelerating stencil computations by exploiting emerging hardware like Tensor Cores. To leverage these accelerators, the stencil operation must be transformed to matrix multiplications. However, this transformation i…

Quote from: hektor on Today at 09:18 amWhere did you get that the ESM is based on the ATV bus ? Yeah, that's a common misconception. And therefore hardly surprising that RadicalModerate made the mistake o...

Hiring and unemployment data for November will offer a snapshot of a cooling job market buffeted by President Trump’s policies.

Following up on this, I read this to mean that STMicroelectronics could supply 5 billion RF chips a year in the next two years.  5 billion chips per year results in roughly 10 million terminals per year (assuming 500 RF chips per terminal on average).

arXiv:2509.11584v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present a model predictive control (MPC) framework for nonlinear stochastic systems that ensures safety guarantee with high probability. Unlike most existing stochastic MPC schemes, our method adopts a set-erosion that converts the probabilisti…

The Nordic Web closes $6M Fund III.

Ethan Siegel, Big Think Gravitational lensing occurs whenever a massive foreground object, distorting and curving the fabric of space where it's positioned, causes the light from background...

arXiv:2512.12443v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI model documentation is fragmented across platforms and inconsistent in structure, preventing policymakers, auditors, and users from reliably assessing safety claims, data provenance, and version-level changes. We analyzed documentation from five fr…

Strikes on three alleged narco-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed eight people on Monday, according to the US military, as part of an ongoing campaign that has ended more than 90 lives.

Bournemouth rallied to split the points with Manchester United, denying the Red Devils a chance to move up the ladder.

Hogshaw, Derbyshire: They’re in our paintings, in our folklore. A little opportunistic planting and I’ve got them in my gardenAs I cleared our garden of dead vegetation, including many old teasels, I realised that the latter were still shedding seeds and luring goldfinches to them. Not wishing to de…

arXiv:2507.01131v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: $\rm{SO}(3)$-equivariant networks are the dominant models for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). The key operation of such networks is the Clebsch-Gordan (CG) tensor product, which is computationally expensive. To accelerate the comp…

Where did you get that the ESM is based on the ATV bus ?

arXiv:2509.16339v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We investigate imbalanced regression with tabular data that have an imbalance ratio larger than 1,000 ("highly imbalanced"). Accurately estimating the target values of rare instances is important in applications such as forecasting the intensity o…

I think NS5 and Karman Line will fly which hasn't flown since June (NS-33)

The European Union is set to propose softening emissions rules for new cars, scrapping an effective ban on combustion engines following months of pressure from the automotive industry.
Bloomberg's Craig Trudell explains how this proposal will affect carmakers and the rollout of electric vehicles in …

When you next bite into a chicken sandwich, consider this: 2,400 of these birds are being slaughtered somewhere in the world every second. From street stalls in Mumbai to supermarkets in Beijing, chicken has become the world's most consumed meat. In 2023 alone, humans slaughtered an astonishing 76 b…

The best we can hope for is that Paul does not get seriously hurt. Joshua, Netflix and the sport itself should know betterPrecisely 85 years ago, one of the most fearsome heavyweight boxers in history stunk out the joint. Joe Louis was in the midst of his “Bum of the Month club”: a staggering run of…

High court rules whole cooked cool-down chickens should be subject to standard 20% tax rate for hot foodBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK supermarket chain Morrisons faces a £17m tax bill after losing a lengthy court battle against HMRC over the charging of value added tax (VAT) on rotisserie chi…

arXiv:2509.24561v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Symmetric kernel matrices are a well-researched topic in the literature of kernel based approximation. In particular stability properties in terms of lower bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of such symmetric kernel matrices are thoroughly investig…

arXiv:2512.12921v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being readily and rapidly adopted, increasingly permeating critical domains: from consumer platforms and enterprise software to networked systems with embedded agents. While this has unlocked potential for huma…

Mears, which provides services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, made more profit than its contracts allow.