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Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.

A federal judge dismisses Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit against Fox News as a "shotgun complaint" and gives Newsmax until September 11 to refile (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/newsmax-fox-news-antitrust-complaint-1236509021/

Judge Dismisses Newsmax’s “Shotgun Complaint” Against Fox News But Will Allow New Filing
The judge will allow the case to be refiled.

SurgPub-Video: A Comprehensive Surgical Video Dataset for Enhanced Surgical Intelligence in Vision-Language Model
Yaoqian Li, Xikai Yang, Dunyuan Xu, Yang Yu, Litao Zhao, Xiaowei Hu, Jinpeng Li, Pheng-Ann Heng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10054

SurgPub-Video: A Comprehensive Surgical Video Dataset for Enhanced Surgical Intelligence in Vision-Language Model
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant potential in surgical scene analysis, yet existing models are limited by frame-level datasets and lack high-quality video data with procedural surgical knowledge. To address these challenges, we make the following contributions: (i) SurgPub-Video, a comprehensive dataset of over 3,000 surgical videos and 25 million annotated frames across 11 specialties, sourced from peer-reviewed clinical journals, (ii) SurgLLaVA-Video, a specialized VLM for…

a bit physically relieved that we managed to avoid what would have been an extinction-level event for the web (the Mozilla search deal is also deemed fine now) https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/tech/google-antitrust-ruling-chrome-android

Google will not be forced to sell off Chrome or Android, judge rules in landmark antitrust ruling
A court will not force Google to sell off its Chrome browser or Android, a federal judge said in a court filing on Tuesday. The decision serves as a significant win for the tech company, which has avoided the most extreme possible outcome from a landmark antitrust case that determined the company was operating an illegal online search monopoly.

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Shixin Song, Tingzhen Dong, Kosi Nwabueze, Julian Zanders, Andres Erbsen, Adam Chlipala, Mengjia Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08727

Securing Cryptographic Software via Typed Assembly Language (Extended Version)
Authors of cryptographic software are well aware that their code should not leak secrets through its timing behavior, and, until 2018, they believed that following industry-standard constant-time coding guidelines was sufficient. However, the revelation of the Spectre family of speculative execution attacks injected new complexities. To block speculative attacks, prior work has proposed annotating the program's source code to mark secret data, with hardware using this information to decide wh…

MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
Jinwei Zhang, Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Hang Zhang, Samuel W. Remedios, Bennett A. Landman, Peter A. Calabresi, Shiv Saidha, Scott D. Newsome, Dzung L. Pham, Jerry L. Prince, Ellen M. Mowry, Aaron Carass
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MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
In multiple sclerosis, lesions interfere with automated magnetic resonance imaging analyses such as brain parcellation and deformable registration, while lesion segmentation models are hindered by the limited availability of annotated training data. To address both issues, we propose MSRepaint, a unified diffusion-based generative model for bidirectional lesion filling and synthesis that restores anatomical continuity for downstream analyses and augments segmentation through realistic data gene…

If you're completely overwhelmed by the suffering of the world and a feeling of hopelessness,
do one small thing locally.
It's basically the antidote.
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Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social)
Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15239…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Large language models excel at instruction-following in English, but their performance in low-resource languages like Thai remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on translations, missing cultural and domain-specific nuances needed for real-world use. We present WangchanThaiInstruct, a human-authored Thai dataset for evaluation and instruction tuning, covering four professional domains and seven task types. Created through a multi-stage quality control process with annotators, dom…

MASH: A Multiplatform and Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Societal Impact of Hurricane
Ruichen Yao, Aslanbek Murzakhmetov, Raaghav Pillai, Aliya Maussymbayeva, Zelin Li, Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang, Na Wei, Ximing Cai, Dong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23627

MASH: A Multiplatform and Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Societal Impact of Hurricane
Natural disasters cause multidimensional threats to human societies, with hurricanes exemplifying one of the most disruptive events that not only caused severe physical damage but also sparked widespread discussion on social media platforms. Existing datasets for studying societal impacts of hurricanes often focus on outdated hurricanes and are limited to a single social media platform, failing to capture the broader societal impact in today's diverse social media environment. Moreover, existin…