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An internal BBC review finds that documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, narrated by the child of a Hamas minister, breached an editorial rule on accuracy (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone-re…

BBC Review Finds ‘Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone’ Broke Accuracy Rule In “Serious” Editorial Failure
BBC publishes internal review into editorial failings on 'Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,' which was narrated by the child of a Hamas minister.

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Ning Gao, Yilun Chen, Shuai Yang, Xinyi Chen, Yang Tian, Hao Li, Haifeng Huang, Hanqing Wang, Tai Wang, Jiangmiao Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10966

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Robotic manipulation in real-world settings remains challenging, especially regarding robust generalization. Existing simulation platforms lack sufficient support for exploring how policies adapt to varied instructions and scenarios. Thus, they lag behind the growing interest in instruction-following foundation models like LLMs, whose adaptability is crucial yet remains underexplored in fair comparisons. To bridge this gap, we introduce GenManip, a realistic tabletop simulation platform tailore…

Interaction enhanced inter-site hoppings for holons and interlayer exciton insulators in moir\'e correlated insulators
Zijian Ma, Hongyi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10847 …

Interaction enhanced inter-site hoppings for holons and interlayer exciton insulators in moiré correlated insulators
In moiré-patterned van der Waals structures of transition metal dichalcogenides, correlated insulators can form under integer and fractional fillings, whose transport properties are governed by various quasiparticle excitations including holons, doublons and interlayer exciton insulators. Here we theoretically investigate the nearest-neighbor inter-site hoppings of holons and interlayer exciton insulators. Our analysis indicates that these hopping strengths are significantly enhanced compared …

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Zhanhong He, David Cooper, Defeng Huang, Roberto Togneri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07751 https://arxiv.o…

Filling MIDI Velocity using U-Net Image Colorizer
Modern music producers commonly use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to store their musical compositions. However, MIDI files created with digital software may lack the expressive characteristics of human performances, essentially leaving the velocity parameter - a control for note loudness - undefined, which defaults to a flat value. The task of filling MIDI velocity is termed MIDI velocity prediction, which uses regression models to enhance music expressiveness by adjusting only th…

A Generative Imputation Method for Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
Reihaneh Hassanzadeh, Anees Abrol, Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh, Vince D. Calhoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09271

A Generative Imputation Method for Multimodal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
Multimodal data analysis can lead to more accurate diagnoses of brain disorders due to the complementary information that each modality adds. However, a major challenge of using multimodal datasets in the neuroimaging field is incomplete data, where some of the modalities are missing for certain subjects. Hence, effective strategies are needed for completing the data. Traditional methods, such as subsampling or zero-filling, may reduce the accuracy of predictions or introduce unintended biases.…

Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe — Scientific American
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Amanda Montañez Math Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling. If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/tech/nvidia-ceo-china-us-ai-chip-exports

Nvidia will stop including China in its forecasts amid US chip export controls, CEO says
Chipmaker Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts following the imposition of tough US restrictions on chip sales to China, its CEO said Thursday.

First images of Antares photosphere from spectropolarimetry
Quentin Pilate, Eric Josselin, Agn\`es L\`ebre, Arturo L\'opez Ariste, Philippe Mathias, Alexis Lavail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08614

First images of Antares photosphere from spectropolarimetry
Antares is the closest red supergiant (RSG) to Earth. The discovery of linear polarization in the atomic lines of the star opens the path to produce direct images of the photosphere, hence probing the dynamics at the surface. We analyze this linear polarization signals following the same scheme as has been previously done for the RSG Betelgeuse, and find that they are comparable in all its details. This allows us to use the same models for the analysis of these polarization signals in both star…

RationalVLA: A Rational Vision-Language-Action Model with Dual System
Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Wenxue Li, Xu He, Han Zhao, Pengxiang Ding Shiyan Su, Feilong Tang, Xuelian Cheng, Donglin Wang, Zongyuan Ge, Xinhu Zheng, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang, Yunhui Liu, Haoang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10826

RationalVLA: A Rational Vision-Language-Action Model with Dual System
A fundamental requirement for real-world robotic deployment is the ability to understand and respond to natural language instructions. Existing language-conditioned manipulation tasks typically assume that instructions are perfectly aligned with the environment. This assumption limits robustness and generalization in realistic scenarios where instructions may be ambiguous, irrelevant, or infeasible. To address this problem, we introduce RAtional MAnipulation (RAMA), a new benchmark that challen…