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WaterFlow: Explicit Physics-Prior Rectified Flow for Underwater Saliency Mask Generation
Runting Li, Shijie Lian, Hua Li, Yutong Li, Wenhui Wu, Sam Kwong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12605

WaterFlow: Explicit Physics-Prior Rectified Flow for Underwater Saliency Mask Generation
Underwater Salient Object Detection (USOD) faces significant challenges, including underwater image quality degradation and domain gaps. Existing methods tend to ignore the physical principles of underwater imaging or simply treat degradation phenomena in underwater images as interference factors that must be eliminated, failing to fully exploit the valuable information they contain. We propose WaterFlow, a rectified flow-based framework for underwater salient object detection that innovatively…

First of Cowboys' $180 million signings has his offseason surgery https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/13/cowboys-cb-daron-bland-has-surgery-is-tyler-smith-next/88166753007/

Collapsibility and Near Universality for Vertex Minimal Paper Tori
Peter Doyle, Richard Evan Schwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12623 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Collapsibility and Near Universality for Vertex Minimal Paper Tori
A paper torus is a piecewise linear isometric embedding of a flat torus into $\R^3$. Following up on the $8$-vertex paper tori discovered by the second author, we prove universality and collapsibility results about these objects. One corollary is that any flat torus without reflection symmetry is realized as an $8$-vertex paper torus. Another corollary is that, for any $ε>0$, there is an $8$-vertex paper torus within $ε$ of a unit equilateral triangle in the Hausdorff metric.

"the section reverses safety changes put in place following the crash between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29. According to investigators, it was difficult for the helicopter pilots to hear dispatches from National Airport’s traffic control."
National Transportation Safety Board ‘vehemently opposes’ NDAA provision
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5643440-ndaa-opposed-by-ntsboard/

Sounds easy, looks nice: Crossmodal transfer of auditory processing fluency to visual object preference https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-025-03177-5

Sounds easy, looks nice: Crossmodal transfer of auditory processing fluency to visual object preference - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Fluent (i.e., rapid and efficient) processing of perceptual objects is vital for humans to successfully navigate their environments. The experience of fluent processing per se tends to trigger positive affect; however, this affect is often misattributed by perceivers to the objects themselves, meaning that easy-to-perceive objects are judged more positively. These fluency-based preference effects have been robustly demonstrated unimodally, and specifically in situations in which fluency and pre…

John Spytek taking an 'open-minded' approach to head coach search and offseason moves https://www.raiders.com/news/john-spytek-taking-an-open-minded-approach-to-head-coach-search-and-offseason-moves

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Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
https://mailchimp.com/what-we-learned-from-the-recent-mandrill-outage/
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A European theater owners group says Netflix's Warner Bros. acquisition "represents a double risk" of fewer films being produced and getting theatrical releases (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepo…

European Theater Owners Group Opposes Netflix-Warner Bros. Megadeal
The UNIC, which represents cinema exhibitors across Europe, fears the streamer will downgrade the theatrical experience.

A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/

Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.

Jerry Jones hints at big offseason changes for Dallas Cowboys after NFL playoff miss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-hints-big-offseason-changes-dallas-cowboys-after-nfl-playoff-miss