Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday boasted of Russian military advances in Ukraine and ruled out any compromises with Kyiv ahead of meetings with U.S. officials in Miami this weekend aimed at agreeing to terms to end Moscow’s nearly four-year war.  Putin was speaking at his annual, end-of-ye…

Also, the case for another banner year for emerging-market stocks and how six young traders each made a killing

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who’s poised to become the No. 2 Senate Democrat after the midterms, called for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to release its autopsy report of the 2024 election. “I believe the DNC should release the report because 1) that’s what they said they were going to d…

Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)

Video producer Matt Fornwald takes us on a mind-bending journey through (mostly) every 2025 Hallmark holiday movie to discover the formula behind what draws so many people to Hallmark holiday movies every year.

arXiv:2512.15925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characters. Yet, computational models of reader response are limited, preventing nuanced analyses. To address t…

The latest version of iPadOS feels more Mac-like with all the cool new multitasking features. Here's why you may not need a Mac if you're a multitasker.

arXiv:2512.16269v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a numerical framework for reconstructing the potential in two dimensional semilinear elliptic PDEs with power type nonlinearities from the nonlinear Dirichlet to Neumann map. By applying higher order linearization method, we compute the F…

arXiv:2507.05859v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) enables immersive 3D experiences, but efficient compression of dynamic 3D representation remains a major challenge. Existing dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting methods couple reconstruction with optimization-dependent compres…

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

A devastating roof collapse in Gaza leaves one dead, six injured, and a family struggling for survival amid winter.

The US Justice Department begins the release of several hundred thousand documents Friday from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with more files to be published over coming weeks. The publication marks the clearest opportunity yet to shed light on a politically explosive…

Ugandan law requires public servants to remain politically neutral and bars them from active politics.

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

arXiv:2510.15610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We revisit random search for stochastic optimization, where only noisy function evaluations are available. We show that the method works under weaker smoothness assumptions than previously considered, and that stronger assumptions enable imp…

arXiv:2511.07503v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The increased availability of genetic data has transformed genomics research, but raised many privacy concerns regarding its handling due to its sensitive nature. This work explores the use of language models (LMs) for the generation of synthetic …

The company is working on an image and video model and new text-based model, which aids with coding.

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US stocks climbed Friday morning as traders grappled with a record options expiration and assessed gains by tech firms including Oracle Corp., which is leading a group to buy TikTok.

Police in Australia are investigating a trip made by the suspects of the Bondi Beach anti-Semitic terrorist attack to the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, just weeks before they shot and killed 15 people and wounded dozens more. The region has long grappled with Islamist militancy, but Presi…

The attacker, who threw smoke grenades inside a train station in Taiwan’s capital, later continued his rampage nearby and died in falling from a building.

Officials say suspect, who died after falling from a building during police chase, carried out 'indiscriminate attacks'.

Apple TV’s sci-fi hit is nearing the end of its first season, but there’s still so much story to tell.

The deal will gives Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, more code review and debugging capabilities

Using an executive order, he opened up research possibilities and eased taxes for businesses. But does it go far enough?

arXiv:2512.15738v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Financial market prediction is a challenging application of machine learning, where even small improvements in directional accuracy can yield substantial value. Most models struggle to exceed 55--57\% accuracy due to high noise, non-stationarity, and …

US consumer sentiment rose in December by less than expected, remaining depressed amid lingering affordability concerns.

DOT has support in the $1.72-$1.74 zone.

Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting the president’s financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration holds sway.

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The crypto industry is ever-growing and ever-changing. It would be difficult to summarize it in 50 names. Here are a few final individuals and entities we wanted to make note of this year.

Singer-songwriter and actress Teyana Taylor joins "CBS Mornings" to give an update on her whirlwind year, celebrating her first-ever Golden Globe nomination for her role in "One Battle After Another" and her return to music with fourth studio album "Escape Room," which earned her a Grammy nod for Be…

Pacific Investment Management Co. and Witkoff Group, the real estate developer founded by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, are in default on a $400 million-plus loan tied to a luxury apartment complex in Santa Monica, California, according to a notice filed with Los Angeles County.

The news that the EU will be loaning Ukraine €90 billion for the next two years is good news for the country, who is spends most of its tax revenue on defence to fight off the Russian invasion. Volodymyr Zelensky said the money will help the country invest in ramping up the production of innovative …

Let's explore what's next for the year's surprise odd couple: Trump Media's merger with TAE Technologies, a company trying to commercialize fusion.Why it matters: The deal injects new cash into TAE as fusion — long more science fiction than energy reality — moves closer to commercial scale. The merg…

The Colorado River Compact was negotiated in 1922 to end the fighting over the river's use, and the current round of negotiations is just as important, as more than 40 million people rely on the river for water security, and the Upper Basin states have put forward serious measures to stabilize the r…

Your weekly roundup of promotions, hires and exits across music. This go-round? Big departures at Warner Classics and [PIAS], and a wave of promotions at UTA.

The White House is getting ready to announce more deals with drugmakers aimed at lowering drug prices.

All eyes were on Brussels as EU leaders met for a make-or-break summit  to find a way to lend billions of euros to Ukraine. But as Belgium pushed back against the use of frozen Russian assets, demanding guarantees against potential repercussions from Russia, the EU settled on another plan: a €90 bil…

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming useful tools of scientific discovery

Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it hard to breathe.

5G telematics and ThingSpace IoT management services enable autonomous vehicle technology operating model and manage massive amounts of data generated from its driverless trucks

"The Thinking Machine" was just crowned the FT and Schroders business book of the year because Witt got deep inside the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Man known as ‘John’ expected to be eligible for $50,000 reward from FBI for providing details on the suspectThe authorities dealing with the mass shooting at Brown University hailed on Friday a member of the public who came forward with information that helped crack the case and lead to the suspect.…

The aggressive crackdown of I.C.E. raids have turned the average American street into a battlefield.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have also released their official Christmas card and renamed their charity.

The Trump administration is planning to announce an overhaul to the childhood immunization schedule early next year, recommending fewer shots and aligning U.S. policy with that of Denmark. A source familiar with the matter told News Nation correspondent Libbey Dean that a new vaccination schedule to…

The suspect's spree began at Taipei's main metro station before he moved to another station nearby.

A new twist on bromine-based flow batteries could make large-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and far longer-lasting. Bromine-based flow batteries store and release energy through a chemical reaction involving bromide ions and elemental bromine. This approach offers several advantages, including…

The release of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s Christmas card this week provided momentary relief from the horror“I don’t like the ‘nepo baby’ term,” said Kate Winslet in an interview with BBC News last week to promote her directorial debut, Goodbye June – the Christmas movie written by her 21-y…

“I am 55 and my former spouse is 67.”

LG will allow users to delete shortcuts for Microsoft Copilot that popped up on their smart TVs.

Clave Especial talks about new music for 2026 with Fuerza Regida and shares why they enjoy working with JOP. Alex from Clave Especial: For 2026 we have a lot of new music planned. We don’t have a title yet, but there are good tracks coming, good songs and I know that my people are going […]

arXiv:2512.16251v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce the \textit{Consensus-Bottleneck Asset Pricing Model} (CB-APM), a partially interpretable neural network that replicates the reasoning processes of sell-side analysts by capturing how dispersed investor beliefs are compressed into asset…

arXiv:2512.16175v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding the magnetic field environment around Mars and its response to upstream solar wind conditions provide key insights into the processes driving atmospheric ion escape. To date, global models of Martian induced magnetosphere have been exc…

John F. Bentivegna, the chief master sergeant of the Space Force, joined CBS News as the branch celebrates its sixth birthday.

arXiv:2512.16447v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models promise to transform the way research is conducted, potentially offering unprecedented opportunities to augment scholarly workflows. However, effectively integrating AI into research re…

Man, 27, from northern Taiwan reported to have fallen to his death in police chase after rampage through capitalAt least four people have died in a rare mass stabbing incident in central Taipei after an attacker used smoke grenades to cause chaos as he went on a violent rampage through Taiwan’s capi…

arXiv:2503.08453v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The new class of alternating-conjugate splitting methods is presented and analyzed. They are obtained by concatenating a given composition involving complex coefficients with the same composition but with the complex conjugate coefficients. We sho…

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arXiv:2512.16247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: One of many impediments to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to large-scale real-world graph data is the challenge of centralized training, which requires aggregating data from different organizations, raising privacy concerns. Federated graph lea…

Deputy attorney-general Todd Blanche says thousands more will be unveiled in ‘next couple of weeks’

Photos, data and videos show increasing military pressure on Nicolás Maduro after US president refuses to rule out war

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, December 19: A new batch of Epstein files includes photos of famous men, chat screenshots and "Lolita" quotes written on a woman's body. Next, Kristin Cabot, the HR boss caught on the Coldplay kiss cam, speaks out in an exclusive interview. Finally, we bring you some Christmas…

At his annual press conference on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the ball was in Kyiv and its allies' court to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin chief also said he was certain that Moscow would take more cities and towns in eastern Ukraine before the end of the year.

When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and if there is any chance at all that he is suffering from dementia, it’s everyone’s business.

The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of “Bug,” about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.

It’s down to 12 teams in this year’s College Football Playoff. Here’s how to stream every game online

Will Arnett and director Bradley Cooper turn a sad-dad-turned-stand-up story into a totally unexpected, left-field triumph

Bitcoin bulls are putting up a fight on Friday to break this week's choppy action that has capped all advances at around $90,000.

An offshore fund is buying about $6 billion of Colombian local bonds on Friday through a direct negotiation with the government.

arXiv:2501.15108v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) in biological-medical applications has highlighted a gap between their potential and the limited scale and often low quality of available open-source annotated textual datasets. In addition, th…

Collection agencies will buy debts for pennies on the dollar, but what does that mean for your rights?

Leaders on the continent should be wary of beating the drums of war too loudly

On December 19, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelinsky both gave addresses. In the morning, the Russian president spoke during his annual press conference, broadcast on television. He once again blamed the Ukrainian authorities for the war that has been raging for four years. A few hours later, it w…

arXiv:2512.16707v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We formalize two independent computational limitations that constrain algorithmic intelligence: formal incompleteness and dynamical unpredictability. The former limits the deductive power of consistent reasoning systems while the later bounds long-ter…

arXiv:2512.15743v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a framework for generating physically realizable assembly instructions from natural language descriptions. Unlike unconstrained text-to-3D approaches, our method operates within a discrete parts vocabulary, enforcing geometric validity, con…

The Kennedy Center began updating its signage on Friday, a day after the institution’s board voted to update the name to include President Trump. One image showed a sign outside the building including part of Trump’s name. Images shared online showed a blue tarp draped over the front of the building…

It is a blunt admission that Canada has run out of room to hide a systemic failure that has long undermined both its national defense and its value as an ally.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, the suspected gunman in the recent Brown University and MIT shootings, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility on Thursday night. Authorities told reporters that Neves Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident at Brown University on Saturday…

The fast-fashion giant welcomed the judgement and said its priority remains protecting French consumers.

The artificial intelligence money scramble continues all the way into the end of the year, as OpenAI may raise $10 billion from Amazon, perhaps part of as much as $100 billion from a range of investors, at a valuation of $750 billion. And Databricks is doing a $4 billion Series L round — first time …

arXiv:2512.15767v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Simulating complex unsteady physical phenomena relies on detailed mathematical models, simulated for instance by using the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, these models often exhibit discrepancies from the reality due to unmodeled effects or simp…

We need young people to gain experience that makes the world of work intelligible and builds skills and confidence

Russia's leader said during a four-hour TV marathon that claims that an attack on Europe was planned were "nonsense".

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …

Suspect Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead in New Hampshire storage facility after five-day manhuntInvestigators turned on Friday to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the pri…

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim condemns the "sense of entitlement" at the club and says players should use criticism as fuel to prove him wrong.

The man suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Brown University was found dead, officials said on Thursday. 

The Portuguese national is also suspected of having killed an MIT professor three days before the Brown University attack. Authorities said both men had previously attended the same u…

The Yunobo Legend of Zelda amiibo and the Donkey Kong and Pauline amiibo have both hit their lowest prices yet at Amazon. Grab the former for $8 and the latter for $20.

The United States is poised on December 19 to pry open one of its most closely guarded case files, as President Donald Trump's administration prepares to release a long-suppressed cache of records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is anticipated that the documents will include subst…

The cruise operator’s earnings report spotlighted strong pricing and bookings trends.

The accidental bite happened as they were running lines before filming the climactic scene.
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Taken together, the Yale Youth Poll does not depict a generation defined by ideological extremism or cultural obsession. It depicts a generation navigating scarcity, instability, and institutional drift. Young Americans are not asking politics to perfect society. They are asking it to function.
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arXiv:2508.09358v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Designing effective user interfaces (UIs) for virtual reality (VR) is essential to enhance user immersion, usability, comfort, and accessibility in virtual environments. Despite the growing adoption of VR across domains, there is a noticeable lack…

Anyone looking for a new job in the past year knows first-hand how challenging the job market is. From getting rejected by a company’s ATS (applicant tracking system) to getting ghosted by recruiters after the initial screening call, job seekers with years of experience are still struggling to secur…

The recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is this year's Long Term Support version. As such it's sure to a see a lot of enterprise and hyperscaler uptake in being the annual LTS kernel version. While Linux 6.12 LTS will be maintained at least through the end of next year, upgrading to Linux 6.18 LTS c…

French cement-giant Lafarge is on trial, accused of having paid millions of euros to terrorist organisations operating in Syria between 2012 and 2014, including the Islamic State group. The goal was to keep the group's activities running, allowing trucks to move and employees to come into work. The …

arXiv:2512.16624v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational resources a…