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“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Multi-Robot Distributed Optimization for Exploration and Mapping of Unknown Environments using Bioinspired Tactile-Sensor
Roman Ibrahimov, Jannik Matthias Heinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06085

Multi-Robot Distributed Optimization for Exploration and Mapping of Unknown Environments using Bioinspired Tactile-Sensor
This project proposes a bioinspired multi-robot system using Distributed Optimization for efficient exploration and mapping of unknown environments. Each robot explores its environment and creates a map, which is afterwards put together to form a global 2D map of the environment. Inspired by wall-following behaviors, each robot autonomously explores its neighborhood based on a tactile sensor, similar to the antenna of a cockroach, mounted on the surface of the robot. Instead of avoiding obstacl…

Dnipro largely without electricity and water following explosion: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/dnipro-largely-without-electricity-and.html

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara’s 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California’s insurance crisis
but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.
Under Lara’s watch, the state’s insurer of last resort exploded
from 123,657 policies in 2019 to over 645,000,
leaving January wildfire victims underinsured.
Six of nine insurers filing under new rules
add zero new policies in high-risk zones
-…

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara's 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California's insurance crisis but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.

Improving Discrete Diffusion Unmasking Policies Beyond Explicit Reference Policies
Chunsan Hong, Seonho An, Min-Soo Kim, Jong Chul Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05725 https://…

Improving Discrete Diffusion Unmasking Policies Beyond Explicit Reference Policies
Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have recently emerged as a novel framework for language modeling. MDMs generate sentences by iteratively denoising masked sequences, filling in [MASK] tokens step by step. Although MDMs support any-order sampling, performance is highly sensitive to the choice of which position to unmask next. Prior work typically relies on rule-based schedules (e.g., max-confidence, max-margin), which provide ad hoc improvements. In contrast, we replace these heuristics with a lea…

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought #environment

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought
Scientists have discovered that wildfires release far more air-polluting gases than previously estimated. Many of these hidden emissions can transform into fine particles that are dangerous to breathe. The study shows wildfire pollution rivals human-made emissions in some parts of the world. This helps explain why wildfire smoke can linger and worsen air quality long after the flames are gone.

French media on Americans migrating to Ireland, fleeing Trump.
9,600 so far in 2025, 26k applications. Mostly affluent, some with trans kids, English makes it easier.
#mastodaoine

REPORTAGE. "On aurait dû faire ça il y a des années" : ces Américains qui s'installent en Irlande sur fond d'i
En 2025, près de 9 600 Américains ont posé leurs valises en Irlande, un chiffre qui a explosé depuis l'élection de Donald Trump. Mais ceux qui peuvent se permettre de partir sont souvent les plus aisés.

Cryogenic growth of aluminum: structural morphology, optical properties, superconductivity and microwave dielectric loss
Wilson J. Y\'anez-Parre\~no, Teun A. J. van Schijndel, Anthony P. McFadden, Kaixuan Ji, Susheng Tan, Yu Wu, Sergey Frolov, Stefan Zollner, Raymond W. Simmonds, Christopher J. Palmstr{\o}m
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0…

Cryogenic growth of aluminum: structural morphology, optical properties, superconductivity and microwave dielectric loss
We explore the molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of superconducting aluminum thin films grown on c-plane sapphire substrates at cryogenic temperatures of 6 K and compare their behavior with films synthesized at room temperature. We demonstrate that cryogenic growth increases structural disorder, producing crystalline grains that modify the optical, electrical, and superconducting properties of aluminum. We observe that cryogenic deposition changes the color of aluminum from fully reflective to y…

The Hidden Stat That Explains Why Dallas Folds Under Pressure https://insidethestar.com/the-hidden-stat-that-explains-why-dallas-folds-under-pressure

#Explosions, loud noises and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the #Venezuelan capital of #Caracas,
amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country.
In the early hours of Sat…