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Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25 (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64065ad7-2f41-44b2-b58c-f5c122f5b923

As recently as Thursday, Vladimir Putin told a Kremlin demographic conference that increasing births was “crucial” for Russia.
Putin has launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children -- from free school meals for large families to awarding Soviet-style “hero-mother” medals to women with 10 or more children.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven, eight, and even more children,” Putin said in 2023.
“Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful…

Russia's population is getting smaller and older. Putin sees that as a national security threat
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security. Yet despite efforts like cash incentives and family-friendly policies, the number of deaths now outpaces births. Economic uncertainty, restrictions on immigration and the war in Ukraine are making the crisis worse. Desperate to reverse the trend, Russian authorities are also rolling out a wave of restrictive laws, such as banning "child-free propagand…

Well well well. Organizing works. They will hold off on rewriting that part of tenant laws
There’s a lot more shit coming down the pipe from the conservatives but I’ll take that win.
#ontario

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles (Andy Newman/New York Times)
https://www.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

Fast-Convergent Proximity Graphs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Binhong Li, Xiao Yan, Shangqi Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05975 https://arxiv.or…

Fast-Convergent Proximity Graphs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional metric spaces is a fundamental problem with many applications. Over the past decade, proximity graph (PG)-based indexes have demonstrated superior empirical performance over alternatives. However, these methods often lack theoretical guarantees regarding the quality of query results, especially in the worst-case scenarios. In this paper, we introduce the α-convergent graph (α-CG), a new PG structure that employs a carefully designe…

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

French Prime Minister
Sébastien Lecornu has spoken to reporters,
about an hour after announcing his resignation.
“I was ready to compromise,
but each political party wanted the other political party to adopt its entire program,”
he said from the courtyard of Matignon Palace, the prime minister’s headquarters

Binance receives three licenses from Abu Dhabi's financial regulator, allowing comprehensive operations across its exchange, clearing, and brokerage arms (Alex Dooler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-0…

Room-temperature magnetic semiconductor with superhigh hole mobility and ferrotoroidicity
Jianyuan Qi, Shijie Xiong, Beining Ma, Xinghai Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09327 ht…

Room-temperature magnetic semiconductor with superhigh hole mobility and ferrotoroidicity
The design and fabrication of room-temperature magnetic semiconductors are recognized worldwide as a great challenge, and of both theoretical and practical importance in the field of spintronics. Compared with diluted magnetic semiconductors, intrinsic room-temperature magnetic semiconductors have rarely been developed. Reported herein is a magnetic semiconductor film formed by supramolecular self-assembly based on uranyl and cyclodextrin, with the Curie temperature above room temperature. The …

we are the clapton, always anti-fascist, fuck the terf FA, LET THEM PLAY
#claptoncfc #ccfc #ftfa #fedifc