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"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

OBsmith: Testing JavaScript Obfuscator using LLM-powered sketching
Shan Jiang, Chenguang Zhu, Sarfraz Khurshid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10066 https://arx…

OBsmith: Testing JavaScript Obfuscator using LLM-powered sketching
JavaScript obfuscators are widely deployed to protect intellectual property and resist reverse engineering, yet their correctness has been largely overlooked compared to performance and resilience. Existing evaluations typically measure resistance to deobfuscation, leaving the critical question of whether obfuscators preserve program semantics unanswered. Incorrect transformations can silently alter functionality, compromise reliability, and erode security-undermining the very purpose of obfusc…

Unlocking the initial neutron density distribution from the two-pion HBT correlation function in heavy-ion collisions
Pengcheng Li, Manzi Nan, Haojie Zhang, Junhuai Xu, Xilong Xiang, Yijie Wang, Yongjia Wang, Gaochan Yong, Tadaaki Isobe, Zhigang Xiao, Qingfeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12226

Unlocking the initial neutron density distribution from the two-pion HBT correlation function in heavy-ion collisions
Revealing the neutron density distribution in the nucleus is one of the crucial tasks of nuclear physics. Within the framework of the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamic model followed by a correlation afterburner program, we investigate the effects of the initial neutron density distribution on the charged-pion yield ratio $π^{-}/π^{+}$, the two-pion momentum correlation function, and the emission source dimension. It is found that the $π^{-}/π^{+}$ ratio is sensitive to the initia…

Towards polarization-enhanced PET: Study of random background in polarization-correlated Compton events
Ana Marija Ko\v{z}uljevi\'c, Tomislav Bokuli\'c, Darko Gro\v{s}ev, Siddharth Parashari, Luka Paveli\'c, Marinko Rade, Marijan \v{Z}uvi\'c, Mihael Makek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11504

Towards polarization-enhanced PET: Study of random background in polarization-correlated Compton events
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging modality that utilizes positron-emitting isotopes, such as Ga-68 and F-18, for many diagnostic purposes. The positron annihilates with an electron from the surrounding area, creating two photons of 511 keV energy and opposite momenta, entangled in their orthogonal polarizations. When each photon undergoes a Compton scattering process, the difference of their azimuthal scattering angles reflects the initial orthogonality of their polarizati…

Integrated Localization, Mapping, and Communication through VCSEL-Based Light-emitting RIS (LeRIS)
Rashid Iqbal, Dimitrios Bozanis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Christos K. Liaskos, Muhammad Ali Imran, George K. Karagiannidis, Hanaa Abumarshoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08071

Integrated Localization, Mapping, and Communication through VCSEL-Based Light-emitting RIS (LeRIS)
This paper presents a light-emitting reconfigurable intelligent surface (LeRIS) architecture that integrates vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) to jointly support user localization, obstacle-aware mapping, and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication in programmable wireless environments (PWEs). Unlike prior light-emitting diode (LED)-based LeRIS designs with diffuse emission or LiDAR-assisted schemes requiring bulky sensing modules, the proposed VCSEL-based approach exploits narrow…

Real-VulLLM: An LLM Based Assessment Framework in the Wild
Rijha Safdar, Danyail Mateen, Syed Taha Ali, Wajahat Hussain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04056 https://

Real-VulLLM: An LLM Based Assessment Framework in the Wild
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional progress in multiple areas including software engineering, however, their capability for vulnerability detection in the wild scenario and its corresponding reasoning remains underexplored. Prompting pre-trained LLMs in an effective way offers a computationally effective and scalable solution. Our contributions are (i)varied prompt designs for vulnerability detection and its correspondin…

Characterization of the Trans-Alfv\'enic Region Using Observations from Parker Solar Probe
Subash Adhikari, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Joshua Goodwill, William H. Matthaeus, David Ruffolo, Panisara Thepthong, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Sohom Roy, Francesco Pecora, Rohit Chhiber, Rayta Pradata, Arcadi Usmanov, Michael Stevens, Samuel Badman, Orlando Romeo, Jiaming Wang, Melvyn L. Goldstein

Characterization of the Trans-Alfvénic Region Using Observations from Parker Solar Probe
Close to Earth the solar wind is usually super-Alfvénic, i.e. the speed of the solar wind is much larger than the Alfvén speed. However, in the lower coronal regions, the solar wind is mostly sub-Alfvénic. With the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) crossing the boundary between the sub- and super-Alfvénic flow, Bandyopadhyay et al. (2022) performed a turbulence characterization of the sub-Alfvénic solar wind with initial data from encounters 8 and 9. In this study, we re-examine the turbulence prop…

"If George Boole is the 19th century’s AI scientist, then his contemporary machine learning engineers were Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. The Difference Engine, which would be frequently cited as the first example of a (mechanical) programmable digital computer if it had been built at the time, was explicitly designed to _replace_ rather than _augment_ human thought. Just as modern software engineering managers use Jira to avoid thinking about process engineering."

Douglas Hofstadter
You may be worried that I am going to talk about an author of books that are not about programming, and you are correct and incorrect. Correct, in that Hofstadter's books are not about programming (the intellectually hollow like to claim that they are not about anything at all, or that if you think you know what they are about then you did not understand them; this is untrue). Incorrect, in that Hofstadter's books and computer programs themselves are about the same thing.

Artificial Intelligence-Powered Assessment Framework for Skill-Oriented Engineering Lab Education
Vaishnavi Sharma, Rakesh Thakur, Shashwat Sharma, Kritika Panjanani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25258

Artificial Intelligence-Powered Assessment Framework for Skill-Oriented Engineering Lab Education
Practical lab education in computer science often faces challenges such as plagiarism, lack of proper lab records, unstructured lab conduction, inadequate execution and assessment, limited practical learning, low student engagement, and absence of progress tracking for both students and faculties, resulting in graduates with insufficient hands-on skills. In this paper, we introduce AsseslyAI, which addresses these challenges through online lab allocation, a unique lab problem for each student, …

AI-Driven Self-Evolving Software: A Promising Path Toward Software Automation
Liyi Cai, Yijie Ren, Yitong Zhang, Jia Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00591 https://

AI-Driven Self-Evolving Software: A Promising Path Toward Software Automation
Software automation has long been a central goal of software engineering, striving for software development that proceeds without human intervention. Recent efforts have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance software automation with notable progress. However, current AI functions primarily as assistants to human developers, leaving software development still dependent on explicit human intervention. This raises a fundamental question: Can AI move beyond its role as an assistant to b…