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🔥 Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to water systems
https://theconversation.com/grand-canyons-dragon-bravo-megafire-shows-the-growing-wildfire-threat-to-water-systems-263104…

Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to water systems
Water systems are vulnerable to melting plastic components, toxic contamination and failures that can leave firefighters without flowing water.

Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
Chenyang Wang, Liang Wen, Shousheng Jia, Xiangzheng Zhang, Liang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03178

Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
While advancements in the reasoning abilities of LLMs have significantly enhanced their performance in solving mathematical problems, coding tasks, and general puzzles, their effectiveness in accurately adhering to instructions remains inconsistent, particularly with more complex directives. Our investigation identifies lazy reasoning during the thinking stage as the primary factor contributing to poor instruction adherence. To mitigate this issue, we propose a comprehensive framework designed …

Geno Smith on Raiders' doubters: 'Let them sleep. I don't want them to see us coming' https://www.nfl.com/news/geno-smith-on-raiders-doubters-let-them-sleep-i-don-t-want-them-to-see-us-coming

Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-plat…

Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
Nepal's government says it is blocking most social media platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube, because they failed to register with the government. Nepal's Minister for Communication and Information said about two dozen platforms were repeatedly notified to register. TikTok, Viber, and three other platforms are allowed to operate because they have registered. The government has introduced a bill in parliament to ensure social platforms are managed responsibly. Rights groups criticize th…

Uspol
"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
#USPol

Feit's conjecture, the canonical Brauer induction formula, and Adams operations
Robert Boltje, Gabriel Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03179 https://

Feit's conjecture, the canonical Brauer induction formula, and Adams operations
This paper is motivated by a strong version of Feit's conjecture, first formulated by the authors in joint work with A. Kleshchev and P. H. Tiep in 2025, concerning the conductor $c(χ)$ of an irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group $G$. We connect the conjecture with the following construction: For any positive integer $n$ dividing the exponent of $G$ and for any character $χ$ of $G$, we introduce an integer-valued invariant $S(G,χ,n)$ which can be defined as the sum of certain coeffici…

Existence of ghost-eliminating constraints in multivielbein theory
J. Flinckman, S. F. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03014 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Existence of ghost-eliminating constraints in multivielbein theory
We perform a Hamiltonian constraint analysis of the multivielbein theory proposed in arXiv:1804.09723. The analysis shows that the secondary constraints have the correct form to constrain the dynamical variables, thereby eliminating the problematic ghost modes that generally plague theories of interacting spin-2 fields. Under mild restrictions on the solution space, we also identify the tertiary constraints and show that these eliminate the canonical momenta associated with the ghost modes. Our…

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Gut Feeling: Cowboys-Jets staff predictions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/gut-feeling-cowboys-jets-staff-predictions

Mind the Gap: Linguistic Divergence and Adaptation Strategies in Human-LLM Assistant vs. Human-Human Interactions
Fulei Zhang, Zhou Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02645 https://

Mind the Gap: Linguistic Divergence and Adaptation Strategies in Human-LLM Assistant vs. Human-Human Interactions
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in customer-facing applications, a critical yet underexplored question is how users communicate differently with LLM chatbots compared to human agent. In this study, we present empirical evidence that users adopt distinct communication styles when users interact with chatbots versus human agents. Our analysis reveals significant differences in grammatical fluency, politeness, and lexical diversity in user language between the two setting…