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Lions-Falcons preseason game suspended following injury to Detroit safety Morice Norris https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-falcons-preseason-game-suspended-following-injury-to-detroit-safety-morice-norris

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
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Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

the safety advice following the recent npm phishing attacks reminds me of an old rant https://dotat.at/@/2016-10-19-domain-transfers-are-shocking.html
i hope things have improved since then (happily i have not needed to do any domain transfers recently)…

Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests

Nepal protests: Media outlets torched and journalists injured in deadly unrest - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nepali authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering protests in the Himalayan nation, following reports the offices of at least two media outlets were set on fire and four journalists were injured in the unrest. Violent protests erupted in Kathmandu and other parts...

Jalen Carter suspension: Eagles star receives disciplinary action following his spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/jalen-carter-suspension-…

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications
Jiachen Cai, Alexander Kotz, Hugo Larocque, Chengli Wang, Xinru Ji, Junyin Zhang, Daniel Drayss, Xin Ou, Christian Koos, Tobias J. Kippenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06265

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications
Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing increasingly rely on the Pockels effect. For instance, wafer-scale bonding of lithium niobate films onto ultralow loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits provides heterogeneous integrated devices with low modulation voltages operating at higher speeds than silicon photonics. However, in spite of its excellent electro-optic mo…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen, Haiwei Chen, Yajie Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06392 https:…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has enabled realistic 3D models from dense image captures, yet challenges persist with sparse views, often leading to artifacts in unseen areas. Recent works leverage Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) to generate dense observations, filling the gaps when only sparse views are available for 3D reconstruction tasks. A significant limitation of these methods is their slow sampling speed when using VDMs. In this paper, we present FVGen, a novel framework that addres…

Factuality Beyond Coherence: Evaluating LLM Watermarking Methods for Medical Texts
Rochana Prih Hastuti, Rian Adam Rajagede, Mansour Al Ghanim, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07755 …

Factuality Beyond Coherence: Evaluating LLM Watermarking Methods for Medical Texts
As large language models (LLMs) adapted to sensitive domains such as medicine, their fluency raises safety risks, particularly regarding provenance and accountability. Watermarking embeds detectable patterns to mitigate these risks, yet its reliability in medical contexts remains untested. Existing benchmarks focus on detection-quality tradeoffs, overlooking factual risks under low-entropy settings often exploited by watermarking's reweighting strategy. We propose a medical-focused evaluation w…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.soft. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.soft/new
[1/1]:
- Space-filling discrete helices
Jayanth R. Banavar, Achille Giacometti, Trinh X. Hoang, Amos Maritan, Tatjana \v{S}krbi\'c

PAC Learnability in the Presence of Performativity
Ivan Kirev, Lyuben Baltadzhiev, Nikola Konstantinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08335 https://arxiv.org/p…

PAC Learnability in the Presence of Performativity
Following the wide-spread adoption of machine learning models in real-world applications, the phenomenon of performativity, i.e. model-dependent shifts in the test distribution, becomes increasingly prevalent. Unfortunately, since models are usually trained solely based on samples from the original (unshifted) distribution, this performative shift may lead to decreased test-time performance. In this paper, we study the question of whether and when performative binary classification problems are…