Banking and finance headcounts remain largely stable, according to a Fortune report.

Newly released DoJ documents point to deep ties between influential men and late sex offender

arXiv:2512.19243v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative models can now produce photorealistic imagery, yet they still struggle with the long, multi-goal prompts that professional designers issue. To expose this gap and better evaluate models' performance in real-world settings, we introduce Long…

arXiv:2512.18359v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna users. We in…

Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.

Several regions are without power after missile and drone strikes targeted several cities.

Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.

Novo Nordisk won approval to sell a pill version of its blockbuster obesity shot Wegovy in the US, a crucial step in its effort to defend its market share from rival Eli Lilly & Co.

Novo will start selling the pill in the US in early January, the company said in a statement Monday. It is approved t…

Young actor Piper Rubio gets a special focus in the hit horror video game adaptation, which you can now rent or buy on digital platforms.

Israel is suspicious of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a longtime Islamist militant, and has provided weapons, intelligence and cash to militiamen at odds with his rule.

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Your day-ahead look for Dec. 23, 2025

Former Uruguay prop has praise for new World Cup format but wants more help for developing nationsHow did Pablo Lemoine, Chile’s head coach, react when they were drawn with Australia and New Zealand for the 2027 Rugby World Cup? The answer is perceptive and somewhat surprising.“When countries like C…

arXiv:2512.19061v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collaborative fraud, where multiple fraudulent accounts coordinate to exploit online payment systems, poses significant challenges due to the formation of complex network structures. Traditional detection methods that rely solely on high-confidence id…

The European Central Bank is in a “good place” but must be prepared to adjust its monetary-policy settings in either direction should the need arise, according to Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras.

Administration has arrested 328,000 and deported 327,000 people. Plus, Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank celebrates Christmas againGood morning.The number of people in immigration detention in the US has hit an all-time high, according to data published by Immigration and Customs Enforceme…

Airline plans to appeal ‘bizarre’ and ‘unsound’ ruling

There’s a near-perfect environment for shares in companies tied to the economic cycle, analysts say.

Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House

Urals crude tumbled to about $34 a barrel at the point of export last week, a deep discount to international benchmarks.

Clashes between the Syrian military and Kurdish-led SDF forces occurred in Aleppo.

A bill passed by parliament expands temporary powers introduced during the Gaza war to shutter outlets seen as a security threat.

Ensuring data moves smoothly across multiple disciplines, tools, and globally distributed teams.
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How rapid, comprehensive feasibility exploration enables designers to confidently evaluate IR drop, electromigration, and thermal impacts early in the design process.
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Plus, the biggest lottery jackpots ever.

arXiv:2508.06831v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Adapting person re-identification (reID) models to new target environments remains a challenging problem that is typically addressed using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods. Recent works show that when labeled data originates from sever…

From conservative personalities taking stunning swipes at each other at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference to a mass exodus from the Heritage Foundation, the ideological civil war over the future of the post-Trump right has shifted into a new stage that will set the tone for 2026. There has …

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Philippe Auclair to wrap up the big stories from around Europe as their winter breaks begin.Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on email.On the podcast tod…

US equity futures are holding their ground after a strong run as traders await some of the remaining data sets of 2025. Novo Nordisk won approval to sell a pill version of Wegovy in the US. Copper hit a fresh all-time high above $12,000 a ton amid tariff trade. Mads Pedersen of Human Edge Investment…

A love triangle forms between three tennis players.

arXiv:2512.19196v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Solving high-dimensional Fokker-Planck (FP) equations is a challenge in computational physics and stochastic dynamics, due to the curse of dimensionality (CoD) and the bottleneck of evaluating second-order diffusion terms. Existing deep learning app…

A multi-billion dollar takeover fight is being played out in Hollywood - and Premier League bosses will be watching on closely.

arXiv:2512.18032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Zoomorphic Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) offer an alternative source of social touch for individuals who cannot access animal companionship. However, current SARs provide only limited, passive touch-based interactions and lack the rich haptic cues,…

With the controversial Epstein vote in the rearview mirror, it is time for Congress to focus on the debt crisis — to avoid continued inflation and the prospect of a meltdown of the U.S. economy. The debt crisis is the premier national security issue of our time. An America First policy would focus C…

Sudan’s prime minister on Monday proposed a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force, but the United States urged both sides to accept the Trump administration’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce.

Consumers spent 3.9 percent more from Nov. 1 to Dec. 21 this year compared with last year, according to a Mastercard report on holiday spending.

Part 2: A deep dive into simulation, validation, and compliance, answering 30 advanced, real-world questions engineers face when bringing PCIe-based systems to life.
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Last week a request for comments (RFC) was issued around establishing an LLVM AI Tool Use Policy. The proposed policy would allow AI-assisted contributions to be made to this open-source compiler codebase but that there would need to be a "human in the loop" and the contributor versed enough to be a…

arXiv:2505.09017v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Most of the dynamic graph representation learning methods involve dividing a dynamic graph into discrete snapshots to capture the evolving behavior of nodes over time. Existing methods primarily capture only local or global structures of each node…

arXiv:2512.19522v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in neural rendering have achieved impressive results on photorealistic shading and relighting, by using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) as a regression model to learn the rendering equation from a real-world dataset. Such methods show pr…

Political backbiting has led to accusations Fifa is running the show as tournament switches to four-year cycleIt was a decision that took many by surprise, although not those who have been watching closely since February 2020. Members of the Confederation of African Football’s (Caf) executive commit…

Nearly 3,000 detainees to be released under latest prisoner swap deal reached during talks in Oman.

For their heroics after a wave of bomb threats in New Jersey on Election Day, more than two dozen dogs were presented with an award from the state attorney general.

Luis Angel Argote Rodriguez, MSF Fed coordinator, is out guest.

Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon are out of Australia's squad for the fourth Ashes test, while Steve Smith returns to captain.

Aubrey O'Day discusses the disturbing witness affidavit involving Sean "Diddy" Combs in a "CBS Mornings" interview on Tuesday.

arXiv:2508.01171v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce SPFSplat, an efficient framework for 3D Gaussian splatting from sparse multi-view images, requiring no ground-truth poses during training or inference. It employs a shared feature extraction backbone, enabling simultaneous prediction …

Strikes kill several people and leave some regions in the dark as winter temperatures drop

arXiv:2512.18586v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spectral bias implies an imbalance in training dynamics, whereby high-frequency components may converge substantially more slowly than low-frequency ones. To alleviate this issue, we propose a cross-attention-based architecture that adaptively reweigh…

arXiv:2512.18918v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Although the automation and digitisation of anti-financial crime investigation has made significant progress in recent years, detecting insider trading remains a unique challenge, partly due to the limited availability of labelled data. To address thi…

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Claim by a senior US attorney about US president appears in latest batch of justice department documentsUS politics live – latest updatesA newly released batch of the so-called Epstein files includes many references to Donald Trump, including a claim by a senior US attorney that the US president was…

arXiv:2505.17196v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Finetuning large language models (LLMs) enables user-specific customization but introduces critical safety risks: even a few harmful examples can compromise safety alignment. A common mitigation strategy is to update the model more strongly on exa…

Christmas is just around the corner, and you might be wondering how to spend those long, lazy afternoons. If you're tired of the same old Monopoly, perhaps it's time to try Settlers of Catan.

Director of cricket Rob Key says he is "gutted, disappointed and sorry" regarding England's dismal Ashes performance - the series having been lost with two Tests still to play.

Tensions high as an end-of-year deadline to incorporate the Kurdish-led SDF into the Syrian armed forces approaches.

The Ukraine “peace trade” delivered stellar returns in markets in 2025, lifting assets that theoretically stand to benefit from an end to the war. Polish bank stocks, the Czech koruna and Ukrainian debt are among those to have rallied to close out the year.

Researchers have used a cutting-edge robotic system capable of synthesizing hundreds of metal complexes to develop a possible antibiotic candidate—offering fresh hope in the global fight against drug-resistant infections.

Germany’s centrist establishment has long scorned the far left, but it is increasingly reliant on leftists to outmaneuver the far right in crucial votes in Parliament.

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer has confirmed the runtimes for all Season 5 Volume 2 episodes, including the finale.

For those currently owning an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A motherboard, Linux sensor monitoring support will be in place for the next kernel release...

arXiv:2512.18988v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autonomous buses run on fixed routes but must operate in open, dynamic urban environments. Disengagement events on these routes are often geographically concentrated and typically arise from planner failures in highly interactive regions. Such policy-…

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro warns Trump administration may ‘destabilise the entire region’ amid rising tensionsWhile all eyes are on the four-month-long US military campaign against Venezuela, the White House has been quietly striking security agreements with other countries to deploy US troops acros…

An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are working to make its complicated delivery much more practical

arXiv:2512.19651v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis (ACSA) provides granular insights by identifying specific themes within reviews and their associated sentiment. While supervised learning approaches dominate this field, the scarcity and high cost of annotated data f…

The Pentagon sees quantum computing as a new Manhattan Project. China is “nanoseconds” behind. And these stocks are still cheap.

Personnel is policy, and this is the number one reason the MAHA agenda has been stymied.

On motorbikes or in small trucks, dozens of Syrians risk their lives daily to smuggle fuel between territories held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and those under government control. Driven by a deepening economic crisis, this business continues to grow despite the deadly risks in…

BlackRock and shipping group MSC consider walking away from talks

We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite that recently suffered an anomaly in orbit, thanks to Vantor's WorldView-3 spacecraft.

Unexpected change rewards those who are quick to adjust, but all aspects of a system must be adjusted to keep growth going.
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Ken Goodall's haul of Irish international caps were taken from his home in Londonderry in 1987.

arXiv:2507.20688v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In light of increasing privacy concerns and stringent legal regulations, using secure multiparty computation (MPC) to enable collaborative GBDT model training among multiple data owners has garnered significant attention. Despite this, existing MP…

And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.

Enough with the drama.

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Southern California is bracing for mudslides and other hazards during the holiday week.

Children can be investigated by police, charged with a crime and put on trial from age 10, the joint lowest age in EuropeThe former president of the supreme court Lady Hale is urging ministers to change the law so that children as young as 10 can no longer be charged as adults.Along with Lady Butler…

The Federal Communications Commission says it's banning new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones out of the U.S. market.

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

arXiv:2502.12489v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The burgeoning growth of video-to-music generation can be attributed to the ascendancy of multimodal generative models. However, there is a lack of literature that comprehensively combs through the work in this field. To fill this gap, this …

Trendline from record highs capped BTC's recovery attempt Monday.

It takes travel, time and money.

Shakhmurat Mutalip has countered offer from Shukhrat Ibragimov for stake in miner

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Monday that the United States won't take over Greenland and demanded respect for their territorial integrity after President Donald Trump ‍​announced ​the appointment of a ‌special envoy to the semi-autonomous territory.

A few weeks ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Kyverno community had the opportunity to participate in ContribFest, one of the most energizing and community-driven initiatives in the cloud-native ecosystem. While ContribFest...

Industrial metal has passed $12,000 a tonne as rally continues

On what’s looking like another record day for precious metals, Yardeni Research is now saying will reach $6,000 by the end of 2026.

arXiv:2512.19376v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding intraventricular hemodynamics requires compact and physically interpretable representations of the underlying flow structures, as characteristic flow patterns are closely associated with cardiovascular conditions and can support early …

Spending limits for 2025 to be extended into new year but officials warn new budget is needed to finance investments

This normalization of gun violence in the US – who is it serving? Why can we not collectively make this not normal again?On her first day of fourth grade, wearing her magenta spectacles, my daughter Anna arrived to the Big School where she couldn’t reach the drinking fountains. She was small for her…

The company expanded its USD buffer runway beyond 2027, supporting dividends and reduces refinancing risk ahead of the next bitcoin halving.

As funds deliver mediocre returns and sheds investors, the industry is struggling to unload 31,000 investments, an increase over this time last year.

Starting around 1900, coyotes began expanding their range east and have now colonized nearly all of eastern North America.

US economic growth is set to accelerate with cheaper oil. Federal Reserve rate cuts are likely with inflation cooling. Stock pickers are looking for alternatives to artificial intelligence plays and the American consumer continues to spend.

arXiv:2512.18746v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-evolving memory systems are unprecedentedly reshaping the evolutionary paradigm of large language model (LLM)-based agents. Prior work has predominantly relied on manually engineered memory architectures to store trajectories, distill experience,…

The transitional government's proposal would see RSF forces give up territory and weapons, to bring an end to the war.

VanEck data shows declining bitcoin mining activity has historically preceded strong returns in bitcoin.

arXiv:2512.18368v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While imitation learning has shown impressive results in single-task robot manipulation, scaling it to multi-task settings remains a fundamental challenge due to issues such as suboptimal demonstrations, trajectory noise, and behavioral multi-modality…

ICE has turned green card interviews into nightmares for some families, as immigrants leave in handcuffs instead of with paths to legal status.Why it matters: For years, people felt safe showing up for court cases and green card interviews as ICE targeted "the worst of the worst" for arrests. But fe…