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Alexandru Stan, founder of the software marketplace Tekpon, has acquired The Next Web media and events brands from The Financial Times (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/exclusive-marketplace-owner-acquires-the-next-web

Exclusive: Software marketplace owner acquires The Next Web, plans relaunch

In Erinnerung an den herausragenden Architekten, Künstler, Designer Frank Gehry. Er verstarb am 05.12.2025 mit 96 Jahren
https://www.ad-magazin.de/artikel/frank-o-gehry-schaffen-aussergewoehnliche-haeuser

Frank O. Gehry: Das sind seine außergewöhnlichen Häuser – für eine widersprüchliche Welt
Frank O. Gehry, kanadischer Architekt, prägte die moderne Architektur maßgeblich. Wir beleuchten seine Bedeutung, seinen Stil und seine berühmtesten Werke.

Moody Urbanity - UP 🆙
情绪化城市 - 上面 🆙
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

NASA’s Management of the #Dragonfly Project: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/audit-reports/nasas-management-of-the-dragonfly-project/ -> After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/after-early-struggles-nasas-ambitious-mission-to-titan-is-on-track-for-launch/ -> "A new independent report finds that although NASA's ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency's management rather than the program itself."

ALICE: An Interpretable Neural Architecture for Generalization in Substitution Ciphers
Jeff Shen, Lindsay Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07282 https://ar…

ALICE: An Interpretable Neural Architecture for Generalization in Substitution Ciphers
We present cryptogram solving as an ideal testbed for studying neural network generalization in combinatorially complex domains. In this task, models must decrypt text encoded with substitution ciphers, choosing from 26! possible mappings without explicit access to the cipher. We develop ALICE (an Architecture for Learning Interpretable Cryptogram dEcipherment): a simple encoder-only Transformer that sets a new state-of-the-art for both accuracy and speed on this decryption problem. Surprisingl…

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
Nhat M. Hoang, Do Xuan Long, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Min-Yen Kan, Luu Anh Tuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06640

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
State Space Models (SSMs) have recently emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformer-Based Models (TBMs) for long-sequence processing, offering linear scaling and lower memory use. Yet, how contextual information flows across layers and tokens in these architectures remains understudied. We present the first unified, token- and layer-level analysis of representation propagation in SSMs and TBMs. Using centered kernel alignment, stability metrics, and probing, we characterize how representat…

Cocoon: A System Architecture for Differentially Private Training with Correlated Noises
Donghwan Kim, Xin Gu, Jinho Baek, Timothy Lo, Younghoon Min, Kwangsik Shin, Jongryool Kim, Jongse Park, Kiwan Maeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07304

Cocoon: A System Architecture for Differentially Private Training with Correlated Noises
Machine learning (ML) models memorize and leak training data, causing serious privacy issues to data owners. Training algorithms with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-SGD, have been gaining attention as a solution. However, DP-SGD adds a noise at each training iteration, which degrades the accuracy of the trained model. To improve accuracy, a new family of approaches adds carefully designed correlated noises, so that noises cancel out each other across iterations. We performed an extensive…

GPT-5 Model Corrected GPT-4V's Chart Reading Errors, Not Prompting
Kaichun Yang, Jian Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

GPT-5 Model Corrected GPT-4V's Chart Reading Errors, Not Prompting
We present a quantitative evaluation to understand the effect of zero-shot large-language model (LLMs) and prompting uses on chart reading tasks. We asked LLMs to answer 107 visualization questions to compare inference accuracies between the agentic GPT-5 and multimodal GPT-4V, for difficult image instances, where GPT-4V failed to produce correct answers. Our results show that model architecture dominates the inference accuracy: GPT5 largely improved accuracy, while prompt variants yielded only…

Wikipedia’s rejoinder to Ted Cruz is entirely fair and accurate, but don’t kid yourself that Cruz is interested in fairness or accuracy, he’s just pushing back against the tendency of factual reporting to exhibit a liberal bias.
#wikipedia

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says
Wikipedia host’s lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works.

A Tasmanian woman aboard a second pro-Palestinian aid flotilla intercepted by Israel will be “indefinitely detained” in an Israeli prison unless she agrees to sign a waiver.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…