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Thankfully, the United States has only ever had good experiences deploying troops to the Middle East.
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https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaz

US sending about 200 troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire deal
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players. That's according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that weren't authorized for release. They said Thursday that U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow…

Scaling Spoken Language Models with Syllabic Speech Tokenization
Nicholas Lee, Cheol Jun Cho, Alan W Black, Gopala K. Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26634 https://

Scaling Spoken Language Models with Syllabic Speech Tokenization
Spoken language models (SLMs) typically discretize speech into high-frame-rate tokens extracted from SSL speech models. As the most successful LMs are based on the Transformer architecture, processing these long token streams with self-attention is expensive, as attention scales quadratically with sequence length. A recent SSL work introduces acoustic tokenization of speech at the syllable level, which is more interpretable and potentially more scalable with significant compression in token len…

Teaching Machines to Speak Using Articulatory Control
Akshay Anand, Chenxu Guo, Cheol Jun Cho, Jiachen Lian, Gopala Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05619 https://

Teaching Machines to Speak Using Articulatory Control
Current speech production systems predominantly rely on large transformer models that operate as black boxes, providing little interpretability or grounding in the physical mechanisms of human speech. We address this limitation by proposing a new framework: speech generation through explicit articulatory control. This reframes speech as a motor control task similar to robotic manipulation. Our approach uses reinforcement learning to train a policy that directly controls the movements of vocal t…

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round (Rafaela Lindeberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Einride Valuation Tops $1 Billion as Truck Startup Raises Funds
Einride AB raised about $100 million in funds in a round that values the Swedish driverless truck startup at more than $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity discussing private information.

Wow.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lzkmh6jvfk22

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)
As President Macron walked down the US street onlookers smiled and even took selfies with him; many of them happy to experience seeing a real president in the United States after months of the demonic autocratic clown show emanating out of the White House.

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
The Environmental Protection Agency has 💥ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research,
according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week
⚠️and instru…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

So what, are the US armed forces a mercenary force working for a billionaire now? Are they literally potus and friends’ private army, navy, air force, coast guard and space force?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me. How is this anywhere near legal?

Pentagon accepts anonymous $130M gift for payroll amid shutdown
The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown. The announcement Friday raises ethical questions after President Donald Trump had said a friend offered the gift to defray any shortfalls. While large and unusual, the gift amounts to a small contribution toward the billions needed to cover service member paychecks. The Trump administration told Congress last week that it used $6.5 billion to make payroll. …

Investigation of perception inconsistency in speaker embedding for asynchronous voice anonymization
Rui Wang, Liping Chen, Kong Aik Lee, Zhengpeng Zha, Zhenhua Ling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05718

Investigation of perception inconsistency in speaker embedding for asynchronous voice anonymization
Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the inconsistency between machine and human perceptions of the speaker attribute within the speaker embedding remains unexplored, limiting its performance in asynchronous voice anonymization. To this end, this study investigates this inconsistency via modifications to s…

Speaker Anonymisation for Speech-based Suicide Risk Detection
Ziyun Cui, Sike Jia, Yang Lin, Yinan Duan, Diyang Qu, Runsen Chen, Chao Zhang, Chang Lei, Wen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22148

Speaker Anonymisation for Speech-based Suicide Risk Detection
Adolescent suicide is a critical global health issue, and speech provides a cost-effective modality for automatic suicide risk detection. Given the vulnerable population, protecting speaker identity is particularly important, as speech itself can reveal personally identifiable information if the data is leaked or maliciously exploited. This work presents the first systematic study of speaker anonymisation for speech-based suicide risk detection. A broad range of anonymisation methods are invest…

“Hey everybody! I’m gathering all our most senior military commanders of the US military in one place at one time, so don’t, like ya know, bomb this one place or anything at 38.979896 North and 77.422607 West at about 10:30 in the morning on Tuesday. Thanks!”
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Hegseth abruptly summons top military commanders to meeting next week
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week. The directive doesn't offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers. Confirmation comes from three people familiar with the matter who weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive plans and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon’s top spokesman confirms that Hegseth “w…