arXiv:2512.17043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) has traditionally focused on entity-centric queries that return a single answer entity. However, real-world queries are often relational, seeking to understand how entities are associated. In this work, we int…

Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive dataUK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of it…

The bookshop chain said the bestselling author will ‘no longer be appearing’ at a Dundee event after HarperCollins announced it won’t publish new titles by himDavid Walliams has been dropped from the Waterstones Children’s book festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The decision …

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company raised the funds entirely by sales of common stock.

TikTok Shop has rolled out a new feature that allows users to purchase digital gift cards, making it easier to help friends and family buy from the millions of products on the app.

Futures open interest rose steadily as BTC pushed higher, climbing toward $60 billion across major venues.

arXiv:2512.17689v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In real data, missing values occur frequently, which affects the interpretation with interpretable machine learning (IML) methods. Recent work considers bias and shows that model explanations may differ between imputation methods, while ignoring add…

“You walk out changed”: The intimate venue has launched careers from Garth Brooks to Taylor Swift — and continues to define Nashville's songwriting culture.

Nearly a year ago, New York City embarked on a controversial program to toll drivers entering some of Manhattan’s busiest streets. The goal of the congestion pricing plan, the first of its kind in the US, was to improve air quality and raise $15 billion to upgrade the city’s extensive — and aging  —…

The Crucial T710 is the Gen5 NVMe SSD for gamers and content creators who don't want to compromise on transfer speeds.

arXiv:2512.17131v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose Generalized Primal Averaging (GPA), an extension of Nesterov's method in its primal averaging formulation that addresses key limitations of recent averaging-based optimizers such as single-worker DiLoCo and Schedule-Free (SF) in the non-dis…

It: Chapter Two and The Wire star James Ransone has died aged 46.

I traveled with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Oppo Find X8 Ultra, but only one earned a permanent spot in my travel bag.

Honeywell expects to make a one-time cash settlement payment of $470 million related to the Flexjet lawsuit — and the stock drops.

Prof Alice Sullivan claims university failed to protect her right to freedom of expression after protest at eventA UK university faces the prospect of legal action over claims it failed to protect an academic’s right to freedom of expression who was invited to give a lecture on sex and gender.Prof A…

This little gadget claims to restore your phone to its original condition. But is it actually viable?

arXiv:2512.17815v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Motivation: The clinical efficacy of antibody therapeutics critically depends on high-affinity target engagement, yet laboratory affinity-maturation campaigns are slow and costly. In computational settings, most protein language models (PLMs) are not …

Palestinian officials condemn the actions as part of a ‘systematic policy of displacement’.

Jackson and Quincy Fuller, ages ten and seven, use AI design tools to make better, more memorable corporate swag.

arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which samplin…

arXiv:2512.17058v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We prove the last remaining implication allowing to claim the equivalence of the following conditions for a complete separable metric space $X$:
(1) The $k$-nearest neighbour classifier is (weakly) universally consistent in $X$, (2) The strong Lebes…

arXiv:2512.17270v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Role-playing models (RPMs) are widely used in real-world applications but underperform when deployed in the wild. This degradation can be attributed to distribution shifts, including user, character, and dialogue compositional shifts. Existing methods…

A new study exploring the secretive lives of feral and free-roaming cats in Wales could shed light on wildcats' return to the country.

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the uterine wall—pausing pregnancy until she senses that her fat reserves are aligned with the season. This strategy, known as embryonic diapause, is practiced by hundreds of mammals,…

Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two yearsThe UK’s biggest businesses are rolling back their public support for Pride celebrations, Guardian analysis suggests, prompting warnings that “clear signals” were n…

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and matter, researchers have built simulations that closely match real astronomical observations. These…

WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Wa…

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientif…

The consumer watchdog says weak competition between retailers is keeping profit margins up.

arXiv:2501.06935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Let $D=(V(D),A(D))$ be a digraph with at least one directed cycle. A set $F$ of arcs is a feedback arc set (FAS) if $D-F$ has no directed cycle. The FAS decomposition number ${\rm fasd}(D)$ of $D$ is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint F…

Shares of the bitcoin miner jumped higher last week on its $7 billion pact with Google-backed Fluidstack.

The main distillery will be closed for site enhancements, the company said. The pause comes after whiskey production has dropped amid a challenging year.

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz has announced
that loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian, and will be
part of the Debian 14 ("forky") release "if everything goes
along as planned". This is a bit more than two years after the initial
bootstrap of the architecture.


So far, we have manually bu…

arXiv:2511.21029v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Music-to-dance generation aims to translate auditory signals into expressive human motion, with broad applications in virtual reality, choreography, and digital entertainment. Despite promising progress, the limited generation efficiency of existi…

arXiv:2506.12287v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at a low c…

Major incident declared as 50-metre-long breach opens up and discharges water on to surrounding landTen people have been helped to safety after a sinkhole opened up in a Shropshire canal, pulling in boats and discharging large volumes of water on to surrounding land.Emergency services declared a maj…

arXiv:2304.05697v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce a novel, logic-independent framework for the study of sequent-style proof systems, which covers a number of proof-theoretic formalisms and concrete proof systems that appear in the literature. In particular, we introduce a generalized…

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We should have outgrown all of this loony-tune nonsense. It is now 2025, after all.

arXiv:2507.23358v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as general-purpose knowledge sources, but they rely on parametric knowledge, limiting explainability and trustworthiness. In task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, this separation is explicit, using an e…

More moderate alcohol habits rather than total abstention appear to have driven fallPeople in Britain are drinking less alcohol than in previous years, according to reports.The average UK adult consumed 10.2 alcoholic drinks a week last year, the lowest figure since data collection began in 1990 and…

Waymo has resumed its robo-taxi service in San Francisco after a power outage stranded vehicles around the city, CNBC reported. The blackout, caused by a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) substation fire, caused traffic light disruptions that affected Waymo's automated driving systems. 
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The largest U.S. bank is exploring spot and derivatives services for hedge funds and pensions as regulatory clarity improves, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

arXiv:2512.17855v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work proposes a methodology to develop new numerical integration algorithms for ordinary differential equations based on state quantization, generalizing the notions of Linearly Implicit Quantized State Systems (LIQSS) methods. Using this idea, t…

The film is the third in the sci-fi fantasy franchise from Hollywood director, James Cameron.

From peeling sprouts to pouring drinks, there’s an art to being genuinely useful during festive cooking• Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast“Anything I can do to help?” If ever a line was guaranteed to incense the person in charge of cooking for a crowd, it is this one: uttered in see…

The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its "exit bonus" offered to undocumented migrants who voluntarily leave the United States by Dec. 31, 2025.

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Samsung phones are packed with smart features, but many people overlook them. Here are a few that make a big impact.

Thomas Lee's ETH treasury firm acquired nearly 99,000 tokens last week as crypto markets slid.

Matthew Duckworth Kirksey added that "there is new music on the way and I think it’s the best thing we’ve done in ages"

Millions of Americans face a chaotic holiday travel rush at airports and on the roads as weather could disrupt some plans. Plus, tensions escalate as the U.S. seizes a second oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles with wary concern. The phenomenon of cavitation—the formation and collapse of tiny gas bubbles due to changes in pressure—was considered an undesirable and largely uncontrollable side effect. But in 20…

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arXiv:2511.22046v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Due to the limited permissions for upgrading dualside (i.e., server-side and client-side) loss tolerance schemes from the perspective of CDN vendors in a multi-supplier market, modern large-scale live streaming services are still using the automat…

A spectacular bicycle kick earned royal approval for Ayoub El Kaabi as host Morocco opened the 35th Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Comoros on Sunday. Morocco Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who greeted the players before kickoff, and home fans had endured a frustrating game as island nation C…

NVIDIA engineer Igor Stoppa presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) earlier this month around using Linux in safety-critical environments like automobiles and the current shortcomings of the upstream Linux kernel and the challenges on achieving Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certi…

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a push from the Trump administration.

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Just as Einstein said it would.

A masterful introduction to the economics of our most basic asset‘The landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth … his sole function, his chief pride, is the consumption of wealth produced by others.” It was 1909, and a liberal politician was launching an assault on a class of people who –…

Firms agree deals with Beijing-based Baidu to take self-driving cabs to UK capitalChinese robotaxis are due to be on the streets of London next year after the US ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber announced tie-ups with Beijing-based Baidu to deploy its self-driving technology.Lyft is the third fi…

Your mobile carrier may offer better access than the airport's Wi-Fi, according to tests by Ookla, but results will vary across airports.

arXiv:2512.17678v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling. However, most existing feature selection approaches either operate as m…

Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do. Plus, was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?Good morning.A document among the tranche of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files casts fresh light on psychological tri…

Accelerator could be used to generate an intense beam of neutrinos
The post Russia plans to revive abandoned Soviet-era particle accelerator appeared first on Physics World.

Muslim co-workers accused the garment factory worker of blasphemy and dragged him into the street, where an angry mob murdered him.

The Guardian’s picture editors highlight the work of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have made an impact and contributed to our journalism during 2025Over the course of 2025, millions of images have been filed through our picture system from agencies who cover news …

Continuing the series where writers pick their go-to mood-lifting films is a look back to the inspiring sports documentaryIt feels apt following a 2026 World Cup draw featuring tiny island debutants Curacao and Cape Verde to revisit Next Goal Wins, an underdog story I adopted upon first watch as if …

Cambodia and Thailand agreed to discuss conditions for a ceasefire later this week, after foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations met in Kuala Lumpur in a fresh bid to end deadly border clashes between the two neighbors.

The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Python’s type system and developer tooling. With 1,241 responses (a 15% increase from last year), the survey captures the evolvin…

Mani's coffin was carried out of Manchester Cathedral by Liam Gallagher and his Stone Roses bandmates.

University researchers presented Rex at this month's Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for "safe and usable" Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality...

It’s far from obvious why President Trump would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug at a time when we are learning the many ways it is more dangerous than thought.

The Nintendo Switch 2 supports a wide range of controllers, from Nintendo’s own Pro Controller to many Bluetooth gamepads you might already have. Whether you’re setting up your new console for the first time or adding extra controllers for multiplayer games, pairing them is simple as long as you kno…

arXiv:2505.20680v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Continual learning (CL) enables deep networks to acquire new knowledge while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. The powerful generalization ability of pre-trained models (PTMs), such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model, has …

Channel 4 said Kimmel would deliver a "deeply personal and characteristically jovial address"

The world record holder on his remarkable year, that viral kiss and why he’s serious about music Plenty of sports stars strive for perfection. In 2025, Mondo Duplantis achieved it. He broke the pole vault world record four times. Retained his world indoor and outdoor titles. Won all 16 competitions …

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That's the conclusion of a new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, of red giant star R Doradus. The result overturns a long-held idea about…

Class identity, which is how individuals view their economic and social positions in relation to others, has wide-ranging effects on people's well-being, thoughts, and behavior. Previous studies have shown that people who identify with a higher class have better physical and emotional health, tend t…

arXiv:2512.17137v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Clinical MRI encompasses diverse imaging protocols--spanning anatomical targets (cardiac, brain, knee), contrasts (T1, T2, mapping), sampling patterns (Cartesian, radial, spiral, kt-space), and acceleration factors--yet current deep learning reconstru…

President Trump, who has long said he wants to “get” the semiautonomous Danish territory, tapped Louisiana’s governor for the new position. Officials in Greenland and Denmark expressed outrage.

Mayor of La Bañeza says big win in the annual Christmas event ‘is something that has fallen from the heavens’When the village of La Bañeza in Castilla y León was engulfed in one of the worst forest fires in Spanish history, the rain came too late to save it.But now the Christmas lottery has showered…

A South African court rejected a 54 billion-rand ($3.2 billion) settlement between the nation’s energy regulator and electricity provider over a tariff-calculation mistake that would have seen power prices raised by more than previously permitted, Moneyweb reported.

The U.S. seized another oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast over the weekend and a U.S. official says the Coast Guard is pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker. Willie James Inman has more.

The Wildlife Trusts say its is 'flabbergasted' by the sighting of the highest number of octopuses since 1950

Answers to each clue for the December 22, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Trump and the Fed both want to spray the markets with extra rounds of cash.

The US says it’s pursuing a third tanker off Venezuela’s coast as part of its naval blockade of Venezuelan oil.

Morgan Stanley analysts across various products identify areas where they think the market consensus may be proven wrong.

arXiv:2512.17577v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The primary objective of this thesis is to develop novel algorithmic approaches for Graph Representation Learning of static and single-event dynamic networks. In such a direction, we focus on the family of Latent Space Models, and more specifically on…

MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.

Prosecutors accuse the official, named as Fahad A, of torturing dozens of prisoners in jail run by Syrian intelligence.

An unprecedented flood of support from Mexico’s government this year led to a windfall for Petroleos Mexicanos debt investors.

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A large elevation differential is a crucial feature of the proposed Carrizo Four Corners project. The project’s upper reservoir would be located near the top of the Carrizo Mountains, seen here on Navajo Nation land near Beclabito. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue
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Are Japanese planners like the Hobonichi really better than American planners? Here’s where they differ and why you might want to switch.

arXiv:2512.16978v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-form multimodal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-range reasoning. Existing benchmarks emphasize either temporal length or multimodal richness, but rarely both and while some incorporate…

arXiv:2512.17409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Analyzing machine learning model performance stratified by patient and recording properties is becoming the accepted norm and often yields crucial insights about important model failure modes. Performing such analyses in a statistically rigorous manne…