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Just trying to get more details:
I have heard it said that Adobe's recent "AI" enabled versions of the Acrobat Reader upload a copy of the document to Adobe for the AI analysis and processing.
How much truth is there to this?

Toward Green Code: Prompting Small Language Models for Energy-Efficient Code Generation
Humza Ashraf, Syed Muhammad Danish, Zeeshan Sattar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09947 https…

Toward Green Code: Prompting Small Language Models for Energy-Efficient Code Generation
There is a growing concern about the environmental impact of large language models (LLMs) in software development, particularly due to their high energy use and carbon footprint. Small Language Models (SLMs) offer a more sustainable alternative, requiring fewer computational resources while remaining effective for fundamental programming tasks. In this study, we investigate whether prompt engineering can improve the energy efficiency of SLMs in code generation. We evaluate four open-source SLMs…

Toward Accessible Dermatology: Skin Lesion Classification Using Deep Learning Models on Mobile-Acquired Images
Asif Newaz, Masum Mushfiq Ishti, A Z M Ashraful Azam, Asif Ur Rahman Adib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04800

Toward Accessible Dermatology: Skin Lesion Classification Using Deep Learning Models on Mobile-Acquired Images
Skin diseases are among the most prevalent health concerns worldwide, yet conventional diagnostic methods are often costly, complex, and unavailable in low-resource settings. Automated classification using deep learning has emerged as a promising alternative, but existing studies are mostly limited to dermoscopic datasets and a narrow range of disease classes. In this work, we curate a large dataset of over 50 skin disease categories captured with mobile devices, making it more representative o…

Non-Normal Eigenvector Amplification in Multi-Dimensional Kesten Processes
Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11763 https://arxiv.o…

Non-Normal Eigenvector Amplification in Multi-Dimensional Kesten Processes
Heavy-tailed fluctuations and power law statistics pervade physics, finance, and economics, yet their origin is often ascribed to systems poised near criticality. Here we show that such behavior can emerge far from instability through a universal mechanism of non-normal eigenvector amplification in multidimensional Kesten processes $x_{t+1}=A_t x_t+η_t$, where $A_t$ are random interaction matrices and $η_t$ represents external inputs, capturing the evolving interdependence among $N$ coupled c…

Another passenger plane is lost in Russia.
This is the third since the war began. The other two were the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine and the Azerbaijan Airlines plane shot full of shrapnel over Grozny.
Can’t imagine why today’s plane would have been shot at considering it was in the Far East… but we’ll see.
Not sure why anyone would take the risk to fly to a Russian airport these days.
#russiaUkraineWar #russia #airtravel
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/world/russian-rescuers-find-missing-plane

Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Chihiro Taguchi, Seng Mai, Keita Kurabe, Yusuke Sakai, Georgina Agyei, Soudabeh Eslami, David Chiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20511

Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Multilingual machine translation (MT) benchmarks play a central role in evaluating the capabilities of modern MT systems. Among them, the FLORES+ benchmark is widely used, offering English-to-many translation data for over 200 languages, curated with strict quality control protocols. However, we study data in four languages (Asante Twi, Japanese, Jinghpaw, and South Azerbaijani) and uncover critical shortcomings in the benchmark's suitability for truly multilingual evaluation. Human assessments…

Sometimes innovation is quite simple 🙂
""Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"
#solarpanels

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic pilot project in the Danish countryside.