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Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training | TechCrunch
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

"How are we to live as people of faith and morals in such a world? As we come upon All Saints Day again this year, I am seeking answers by dwelling in the great cloud of witnesses, looking to my ancestors and to their stories."
—YDS Associate Dean Vicki Flippin '08 M.Div. in her new "Faith Matters" column for the New Haven Independent.

fev-bench: A Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting
Oleksandr Shchur, Abdul Fatir Ansari, Caner Turkmen, Lorenzo Stella, Nick Erickson, Pablo Guerron, Michael Bohlke-Schneider, Yuyang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26468

fev-bench: A Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting
Benchmark quality is critical for meaningful evaluation and sustained progress in time series forecasting, particularly given the recent rise of pretrained models. Existing benchmarks often have narrow domain coverage or overlook important real-world settings, such as tasks with covariates. Additionally, their aggregation procedures often lack statistical rigor, making it unclear whether observed performance differences reflect true improvements or random variation. Many benchmarks also fail to…

'Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen': How social media drove the Citywest riots (Conor Lally/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/10/25/amplified-hateful-content-how-online-anger-was-stoked-into-rioting-at-citywest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p18#a251025p18

First Ask Then Answer: A Framework Design for AI Dialogue Based on Supplementary Questioning with Large Language Models
Chuanruo Fu, Yuncheng Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08308

First Ask Then Answer: A Framework Design for AI Dialogue Based on Supplementary Questioning with Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to deliver accurate and actionable answers when user-provided information is incomplete or ill-specified. We propose a new interaction paradigm, First Ask Then Answer (FATA), in which, through prompt words, LLMs are guided to proactively generate multidimensional supplementary questions for users prior to response generation. Subsequently, by integrating user-provided supplementary information with the original query through sophisticated prompting te…

ICE agents raiding Los Angeles are wearing masks.
They hide their badges.
They snatch people off the streets in silence.
They disregard the mayor of LA.
They disregard the governor of California.
They answer only to Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump.
We’re not going to let that happen in the dark anymore.
The Save America Movement is acquiring a fleet of sprinter vans,
hiring camera crews,
and we’re going to follow ICE raids …

I just gave to the Save America Movement!
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Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive (Adrienne So/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/review/oakley-meta-vanguard-smart-glasses/

The Oakley Meta Vanguard Are the Do-It-All Smart Glasses
Meta's second collaboration with Oakley look good, sound great, and might just replace your action cam.

É preciso chamar os bois pelos nomes.
A "lei da burka" é fascista.
É fascista porque restringe a liberdade individual (de TODOS) em nome da segurança.
É fascista porque se apoia em preconceitos xenófobos da população para ganhar apoio e ocultar que o seu verdadeiro objetivo é outro.
É fascista porque possibilita a repressão da manifestação pacífica, e esse é o seu verdadeiro objetivo.
Em última anšlise, até uma mšscara anti-covid passa a ser proibida. …

What do we mean by stellar mass? The impact of the pre-main sequence on the mass to light ratio of young and intermediate age stellar populations
Elizabeth R. Stanway (University of Warwick, UK), Conor M. Byrne (University of Warwick, UK), Ankur Upadhyaya (University of Warwick, UK)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16394

What do we mean by stellar mass? The impact of the pre-main sequence on the mass to light ratio of young and intermediate age stellar populations
Stellar population synthesis models are an essential tool with which galaxy physical parameters are extracted from observations. However they are built on assumptions designed for use in the local Universe, and not always appropriate to high redshift galaxies. Here we consider the impact of including the hitherto-neglected stellar pre-main sequence delay timescale on the interpretation of composite stellar populations at ages of <1 Gyr. We find that doing so has an impact on the optical luminos…

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
Yumi Iwashita, Haakon Moe, Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar, Georgios Georgakis, Adrian Stoica, Kazuto Nakashima, Ryo Kurazume, Jim Torresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11817

Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
As global efforts to explore the Moon intensify, the need for high-quality 3D lunar maps becomes increasingly critical-particularly for long-distance missions such as NASA's Endurance mission concept, in which a rover aims to traverse 2,000 km across the South Pole-Aitken basin. Kaguya TC (Terrain Camera) images, though globally available at 10 m/pixel, suffer from altitude inaccuracies caused by stereo matching errors and JPEG-based compression artifacts. This paper presents a method to improv…