Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil—a study found that fish in the Doce River were still highly contaminated by metals and other toxic substances.

The federal tax authority claims Spears underreported her income by $1.4 million. She disagrees.

Follow our live buildup and coverage ahead of our text commentary stream of the Paul-Joshua heavyweight fight in Miami.

In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from international institutions, explored the impact of mountain building and climate cooling over 30 million years ac…

Mick Jagger also makes a couple of appearances, as well as Chris Tucker and lots of Bill Clinton.
Michael Jackson Pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in Photo Drop
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The Rev. Franklin Graham on Wednesday told U.S. service members and Pentagon employees during a Christmas service that "God loves" but also that "God also hates." Graham, whose father Billy Graham served as the faith leader for several presidents, recited the Bible verse John 3:16, which states that…

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security   The Big Story Miami talks don't look promising as Putin spurns compromise Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ruled out any compromises with Ukraine ahead of talks with U.S. officials in Miami aimed endin…

The head of fast-fashion retailer Groupe Dynamite Inc. sharply criticized Quebec Premier Francois Legault, threatening again to move the company’s headquarters if the provincial government doesn’t relax its restrictive immigration policies.

arXiv:2309.04919v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In Natural Language Processing (NLP), predicting linguistic structures, such as parsing and chunking, has mostly relied on manual annotations of syntactic structures. This paper introduces an unsupervised approach to chunking, a syntactic task tha…

arXiv:2512.15956v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel, cost-effective, and scalable approach to track numerous assets distributed in forested environments using commodity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) targeting wildfire response applications. Commodity RFID systems suf…

Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals

A Toronto man has been arrested on terrorism charges related and is also facing charges for two attempted kidnappings of women

You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox's sub-$35,000 starting price.

Cheers to standing on business this year!

Wisconsin Republicans on Friday urged embattled judge Hannah Dugan to immediately resign or face impeachment proceedings after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant dodge federal authorities who planned to arrest him. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Majority Leader Tyler …

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel "precessing magnetic jet engine" model to explain the peculiar gamma-ray burst (GRB) 250702B, a rare cosmic explosion discovered on July 2, 2025.

President Trump said Friday he plans to hold a meeting with major insurance companies in the coming days in a bid to pressure them to lower prices for consumers who are set to see premium costs soar when ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies expire at the end of the year.  “I'm going to call in the insuran…

So far 14 of the 17 of largest pharmaceutical companies have agreed to lower drug prices in the US.

Chicago’s city council on Friday approved a revenue ordinance for 2026 that’s a key component of a roughly $16 billion budget for the third-largest US city.

Modern holiday chestnuts by veterans of the long-running TV talent competition.

Visitors who don't live in Rome will have to pay to view the Baroque monument up close from February.

Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.

James Steven, Warner Music Group‘s longtime chief communications officer and executive vice president is stepping down from his post. While his next destination has not been announced, multiple sources say he will be taking on a similar role at Universal Music Group, where he will rejoin Will Tanous…

The U.S. military-backed project is now on the way to integrated system testing, the company said.

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Jewish voices say an attack of this kind was entirely predictable given the surge in antisemitic attacks in Australia since 2023The sun rises early at this time of year, hitting the south of the beach first before chasing the shadows north, the gradual retreat of the darkness to the light.Hanukah, t…

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will serve as spacecraft commander and pi…

Sooner or later we will have to interface with the global market leaders, including for ID systems and the UK will be a more prosperous and secure place to live, work and do business if we do so ...

arXiv:2512.16038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces LOG.io, a comprehensive solution designed for correct rollback recovery and fine-grain data lineage capture in distributed data pipelines. It is tailored for serverless scalable architectures and uses a log-based rollback recover…

arXiv:2512.15736v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Anubuddhi, a multi-agent AI system that designs and simulates quantum optics experiments from natural language prompts without requiring specialized programming knowledge. The system composes optical layouts by arranging components from a t…

The Justice Department has released a new batch of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman has more.

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO Timmu Tõke shared in a LinkedIn post. The acquisition is part of Netflix's new games strategy, which …

TheCUBE spent 2025 talking directly with top tech executives as they worked through how computing is being rebuilt inside their organizations, driven by real-world constraints rather than abstract roadmaps. Across those conversations, a consistent shift emerged away from theory and toward execution.…

Cecilia Vega journeys to the Himalayas, trekking to Everest Base Camp. Guiding her is 19-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa, the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's highest peaks. He's part of a new generation of Nepali climbers demanding global recognition. Sunday.

Every Mario game you can currently play on Switch, plus the Mario games and upgrades coming to the Switch 2.

TikTok has agreed to sell its U.S. operations to a consortium of investors. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady joins to assess the potential implications.

A data-driven approach identifies stars with interesting infrared emission without relying on computationally expensive modeling.
The post Searching Five Million Stars for Disks, Debris, and Dyson Spheres appeared first on AAS Nova.

Roee Partoush et al 2024 ApJ 970 119 A new method helps researchers study light echoes: the late-arriving light from an astrophysical object that has been scattered off dust in the object’s vicinity.
The post SpectAcLE: An Improved Method for Modeling Light Echo Spectra appeared first on AAS Nova.

The London Assembly is pushing for stricter data center construction rules to mitigate the threat of a residential power drain.

The Trump administration said this week that it plans to “review” the nation’s wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries. The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) posted a directive on its website this week in which agency director Brian Nesvik ordered the review. It said that officials should “look for refug…

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Nine more drug companies cut deals with White House Nine pharmaceutical companies said they have cut “most favored nation” pricing deals with the White House, the largest group the administration has announced to…

Manchester’s top police officer says there are reports some people celebrated the Bondi killings. Meanwhile, a video with false claims highlights the challenge of separating threats from misinformation.

Club remain bemused by head coach creating speculation he has issues with the hierarchy who want to avoid drama at all costsOne of the theories doing the rounds this week is that Enzo Maresca is behaving like someone who wants to be sacked. He has stumbled into a fight he cannot win. It did not go d…

We can put the conspiracy theories to bed.

This week on Build Mode, Startup Battlefield editor Isabelle Johannessen spoke to two founders who are working to make progress in industries ripe for disruption, despite the regulatory headaches that might have deterred many other people.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the lead author of the law requiring the Justice Department to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein, is sounding early alarms about the agency’s initial disclosures. In a Zoom call with reporters on Friday afternoon, Khanna questioned the “quality” of the information;…

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, published in Science Advances, begins to untangle the role of an ancient viral DNA element called M…

Starting on Feb. 1, Rome will charge tourists a fee to go down into the basin of the famed 18th-century fountain. Not every one is happy (except Romans, who won’t have to pay).

Energy-efficient AI, battery storage systems, and renewed interest in nuclear have reshaped how data centers generate, consume, and manage energy.

The companies say the deal will allow them to boost data handling in hybrid cloud environments.

Presented by the Bank Policy Institute — {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   PRESENTED BY THE BANK POLICY INSTITUTE The Big Story  Sports betting makes more fans less trustful: Poll A growing number of U.S. adults are losing trust in pro and college sports, thanks to the proliferation o…

Nick has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder

arXiv:2508.21641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The growing integration of renewable energy sources into power systems requires planning models to account for not only demand variability but also fluctuations in renewable availability during operational periods. Capturing this temporal de…

US official describes strikes as large-scale response to recent attack that killed two US Army soldiers and interpreterThe US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on US personnel, two US officials said on Friday.The atta…

The U.S. military conducted strikes against several Islamic State group sites in Syria on Friday, retaliating a week after two U.S. service members and one civilian were killed by a gunman tied to ISIS in an ambush attack.  U.S. forces, as part of “Operation Hawkeye Strike,” eliminated ISIS fighters…

Anuradha Mittal was ejected from the board of the ice cream maker this week.

Golden Gate Capital is raising about $1.8 billion from investors including Ardian, Neuberger Berman and Apollo Global Management’s S3 in a deal that will let some investors cash out of its evergreen fund.

arXiv:2507.21503v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recently Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved considerable advancements in vision-language tasks, yet produce potentially harmful or untrustworthy content. Despite substantial work investigating the trustworthiness of language mo…

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democrats on Friday accused the Trump Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act if it does not make all the documents and records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein available to the public by Friday’s dea…

A lower-court judge had invalidated the package, saying shareholders had not been properly informed about the plan. Friday’s ruling means the pay deal, worth about $139 billion now, can proceed.

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A federal judge has acquitted one of the two alleged killers

CBS News reporters and producers are poring through thousands of newly released documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News justice reporter Jake Rosen joins with the latest details.

The Justice Department on Friday released some files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports. Then, journalist Barry Levine, who has covered Epstein for years, joins with analysis.

It took 27 years, but Cytokinetics secured its first U.S. drug approval.

New Yorkers will save an estimated $600 million per year
The post Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Ending 100 Foot Rule appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Roborock chief says innovations such as robotic arms and dog excrement recognition are key to survival

Two years after jurors found Karl Jordan, Jr. guilty in the rap icon's 2002 slaying, a judge took the rare step of acquitting him due to a lack of evidence.

The folk-rock legend will once again take Rough and Rowdy Ways on tour in 2026, with stops throughout smaller cities and venues

arXiv:2512.16683v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We describe the Lockchain Protocol, a lightweight Bitcoin meta-protocol that enables highly efficient transaction discovery at zero marginal block space cost, and data verification without introducing any new on-chain storage mechanism. The protocol r…

arXiv:2512.08854v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: It has been hypothesized that human-level visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder. Yet today's most successful vision models are non-generative, relying on an encoder that …

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arXiv:2512.15996v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel Lyapunov-based Adaptive Transformer (LyAT) controller for stochastic nonlinear systems. While transformers have shown promise in various control applications due to sequential modeling through self-attention mechanisms, the…

NASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. At the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are testing the tools and developing training approaches for luna…

President Trump’s name was put on The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

arXiv:2512.15764v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform many NLP tasks well, but fully fine-tuning them is expensive and requires a lot of memory. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA reduce this cost by adding small low-rank updates to frozen…

arXiv:2507.03631v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Discovering governing equations that describe complex chaotic systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and neuroscience. Here, we introduce the PEM-UDE method, which combines the prediction-error method with universal differential equati…

Trove of documents related to late sex offender published after bipartisan pressure forced Trump to give his consent

As an addiction medicine doctor, I see patients like Nick every day.

arXiv:2410.19931v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite their empirical success, the internal mechanism by which transformer models align tokens during language processing remains poorly understood. This paper provides a mechanistic and theoretical explanation of token alignment in LLMs. We fir…

arXiv:2512.16428v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Since Generative AI came out it has quickly embedded itself in our social fabric, triggering lots of discussions, predictions, and efforts from research, industry, government and capital market to experiment and embrace the technology. The question fo…

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December 17, 2025; Originally published by Bridge Michigan In a long-awaited decision released Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that federal pipeline safety law leaves Michigan no room to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. US District Judge Robert Jonker issued the ruling in r…

arXiv:2512.16381v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agentic systems, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), assist network engineers with network configuration synthesis and network troubleshooting tasks. For network troubleshooting, progress is hindered by the absence of standardized and accessible …

arXiv:2512.16841v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automatic radiology report generation is a promising application of multimodal deep learning, aiming to reduce reporting workload and improve consistency. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) systems - such as Multimodal AI for Radiology Applicati…

George Parker puts our panel to the test

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the start of an effort to “eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure and weapons sites” in Syria after the deaths of three US citizens.

Today on the Big Take: Why Disney cut a deal with OpenAI after decades of safeguarding its intellectual property, what it stands to gain — and why now.

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.

Cher will be the second-oldest musical guest in SNL's 50-year-plus history.

arXiv:2512.16037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Big Data has become central to modern applications in finance, insurance, and cybersecurity, enabling machine learning systems to perform large-scale risk assessments and fraud detection. However, the increasing dependence on automated analytics intro…

Release of documents from DoJ investigation comes after Trump reverses and signs bill into lawUS politics live – latest updatesThe Department of Justice has released a long-awaited and huge tranche of documents related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Epstein’s ca…

arXiv:2512.15791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In Artificial Intelligence (AI), language models have gained significant importance due to the widespread adoption of systems capable of simulating realistic conversations with humans through text generation. Because of their impact on society, develo…

Steven M. Silverberg et al 2025 AJ 169 177 Twenty years of observations show a consistently hot temperature for the plasma surrounding HL Tau, similar to what is seen for other protostars in the same evolutionary stage.
The post Long-Term X-Ray Variability on the Benchmark YSO HL Tau appeared first …

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for plot points in “The Housemaid,” now in theaters. For fans of Freida McFadden’s thriller novel “The Housemaid,” watching the Lionsgate adaptation movie was a bit of a different experience — we went in knowing the twist. While most of the largest…

The decision to settle was reached after a two-month civil trial in a wrongful death lawsuit.

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.

Millions of people with an Affordable Care Act health plan face a massive jump in premiums next year — this chart shows just how much.

Pebblebee's Clip 5 finder tag attaches to a key ring, works with both iOS and Android devices, and makes a loud sound.