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"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

Electrotech, not fossil fuels, will power the future
During a recent parliamentary committee meeting, Bloc Quebecois MP Patrick Bonin grilled Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about climate change. Her answers were evasive — although she conceded that the planet is warming. Bonin asked if she thought humans were the main factor in Earth’s recent heating. “I don't know the answer to that. I'm not a scientist,” she replied.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/us/dna-test-fertility-fraud

How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception
Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old deception that has ensnared multiple families across the country.

When a HuffPost reporter asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt who chose Budapest for the next Trump-Putin meeting, she replied "Your mom did" (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-leavitt-your-mom_n_68f66989e4b0dbac…

Karoline Leavitt Shares Screenshot Of Texts With HuffPost... Somehow Thinking It Helps Her Case
The press secretary still didn't answer the question we asked her, either.

The Role of Logic and Automata in Understanding Transformers
Anthony W. Lin, Pablo Barcelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24024 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2402…

The Role of Logic and Automata in Understanding Transformers
The advent of transformers has in recent years led to powerful and revolutionary Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite this, our understanding on the capability of transformers is still meager. In this invited contribution, we recount the rapid progress in the last few years to the question of what transformers can do. In particular, we will see the integral role of logic and automata (also with some help from circuit complexity) in answering this question. We also mention several open problems…

Adapting and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Self-Management: A Divide and Conquer Framework
Zhaolong Wu, Pu Luo, Jason Pui Yin Cheung, Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11645

Adapting and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Self-Management: A Divide and Conquer Framework
This study presents the first comprehensive evaluation of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) self-management. We constructed a database of approximately 3,000 anteroposterior X-rays with diagnostic texts and evaluated five MLLMs through a `Divide and Conquer' framework consisting of a visual question-answering task, a domain knowledge assessment task, and a patient education counseling assessment task. Our investigation revealed limitations of MLL…

Bhaasha, Bhasa, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia -- Current Stage and Challenges
Sampoorna Poria, Xiaolei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11570 https:/…

Bhaasha, Bhasa, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia - Current Stage and Challenges
Rapid developments of large language models have revolutionized many NLP tasks for English data. Unfortunately, the models and their evaluations for low-resource languages are being overlooked, especially for languages in South Asia. Although there are more than 650 languages in South Asia, many of them either have very limited computational resources or are missing from existing language models. Thus, a concrete question to be answered is: Can we assess the current stage and challenges to info…

My late father had a lot of old (c. 2000?) Macintosh books. Are these of interest to anyone?
I can't guarantee I'd be able to dig up any CD-ROMs that came with them, but it's possible. And you'll need to be patient because they're located 100 miles from me.

Host-atom-driven transformation of a honeycomb oxide into a dodecagonal quasicrystal
Martin Haller, Julia Hewelt, V. Y. M. Rajesh Chirala, Loi Vinh Tran, Ankur Bhide, Muriel Wegner, Stefan F\"orster, Wolf Widdra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11426

Host-atom-driven transformation of a honeycomb oxide into a dodecagonal quasicrystal
Dodecagonal oxide quasicrystals (OQCs) have so far been limited to a few elemental systems, with no general formation mechanism established. Here, we demonstrate a versatile approach to OQC formation via a host-atom-induced transformation of a metal-oxide honeycomb (HC) network. Adsorption of Ba, Sr, or Eu onto the HC layer triggers its reorganization into a dodecagonal tiling, as revealed by low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy. Full conversion occurs when 73% of t…