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The Grand Canyon Lodge,
the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim,
was consumed by the flames,
park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning.
https://bsky.app/profile/pbsnews.org/post/3lturjh5k2a2h…

The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
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--US is the top investor in global spyware,
--Kenyan authorities accused of installing spyware on filmmakers' phones,
--GOP senators press Zuckerberg on WhatsApp whistleblower's claims,
--Wyden accuses Microsoft of negligence in Ascension attack,
--CISA says CVE shoul…

DOGE killed $324 million in grants for cybersecurity diversity, global partners
US is the top investor in global spyware, Kenyan authorities accused of installing spyware on filmmakers' phones, GOP senators press Zuckerberg on WhatsApp whistleblower's claims, Wyden accuses Microsoft of negligence in Ascension attack, CISA says CVE should remain public, much more

Perhaps worth noting usxports, past references, if the same function, appear to have been under .mil names
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115191994244102322

Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

In-Context Learning as Nonparametric Conditional Probability Estimation: Risk Bounds and Optimality
Chenrui Liu, Falong Tan, Chuanlong Xie, Yicheng Zeng, Lixing Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08673

In-Context Learning as Nonparametric Conditional Probability Estimation: Risk Bounds and Optimality
This paper investigates the expected excess risk of In-Context Learning (ICL) for multiclass classification. We model each task as a sequence of labeled prompt samples and a query input, where a pre-trained model estimates the conditional class probabilities of the query. The expected excess risk is defined as the average truncated Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the predicted and ground-truth conditional class distributions, averaged over a specified family of tasks. We establish a ne…

ODYSSEY: Open-World Quadrupeds Exploration and Manipulation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Kaijun Wang, Liqin Lu, Mingyu Liu, Jianuo Jiang, Zeju Li, Bolin Zhang, Wancai Zheng, Xinyi Yu, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08240

ODYSSEY: Open-World Quadrupeds Exploration and Manipulation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Language-guided long-horizon mobile manipulation has long been a grand challenge in embodied semantic reasoning, generalizable manipulation, and adaptive locomotion. Three fundamental limitations hinder progress: First, although large language models have improved spatial reasoning and task planning through semantic priors, existing implementations remain confined to tabletop scenarios, failing to address the constrained perception and limited actuation ranges of mobile platforms. Second, curre…

There has been so much Saharan dust in the air that it’s odd for people to be talking about seeding.
Experts Reject Cloud Seeding Link to Central Texas Floods https://ground.news/article/controversy-erupts-over-weather-modification-following-texas-flooding_bc9a76

Some remarks on the exponential separation and dimension preserving approximation for sets and measures
Saurabh Verma, Ekta Agrawal, Megala M
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07692 ht…

Some remarks on the exponential separation and dimension preserving approximation for sets and measures
In the dimension theory of sets and measures, a recent breakthrough happened due to Hochman, who introduced the exponential separation condition and proved the Hausdorff dimension result for invariant sets and measures generated by similarities on the real line. Following this groundbreaking work, we make a modest contribution by weakening the condition. We also define some sets in the class of all nonempty compact sets using the Assouad and Hausdorff dimensions and subsets of measures in the B…