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LOOK: Patriots' unveiling of Tom Brady statue leaves legendary QB feeling 'deeply grateful' and 'kind of old'

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Tom Brady viciously roasts the Jets in speech at Patriots statue unveiling https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-roasts-jets-speech-patriots-statue-unveiling/d6f91a7ae25b7b9359…

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association says he has resigned after his board told him to pull out of a lawsuit supporting Chicago-area journalists (Mary Randolph/Local News Initiative)
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SparkUI-Parser: Enhancing GUI Perception with Robust Grounding and Parsing
Hongyi Jing, Jiafu Chen, Chen Rao, Ziqiang Dang, Jiajie Teng, Tianyi Chu, Juncheng Mo, Shuo Fang, Huaizhong Lin, Rui Lv, Chenguang Ma, Lei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04908

SparkUI-Parser: Enhancing GUI Perception with Robust Grounding and Parsing
The existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for GUI perception have made great progress. However, the following challenges still exist in prior methods: 1) They model discrete coordinates based on text autoregressive mechanism, which results in lower grounding accuracy and slower inference speed. 2) They can only locate predefined sets of elements and are not capable of parsing the entire interface, which hampers the broad application and support for downstream tasks. To address the a…

"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

❝Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers as it enters this next chapter within the Qualcomm family.❞ https://ar…

Qualcomm is buying Arduino, releases new Raspberry Pi-esque Arduino board
Qualcomm claims Arduino will keep its own branding and “open source ethos.”…

Stochastic Compartment Model of Epidemic Spreading in Complex Networks with Mortality and Resetting
Thomas M. Michelitsch, Bernard Collet, Michael Bestehorn, Alejandro P. Riascos, Andrzej F. Nowakowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06039

Stochastic Compartment Model of Epidemic Spreading in Complex Networks with Mortality and Resetting
We propose an epidemic compartment model, which includes mortality caused by the disease, but excludes demographic birth and death processes. Individuals are represented by random walkers, which are in one of the following states (compartments) S (susceptible to infection), E (exposed: infected but not infectious corresponding to the latency period), I (infected and infectious), R (recovered, immune), D (dead). The disease is transmitted with a certain probability at contacts of I to S walkers.…

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…

Structuring Polarization States of Light in Space and Time
Danilo Gomes Pires, Jiaren Tan, Hooman Barati Sedeh, Natalia M. Litchinitser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05848 https://…

Structuring Polarization States of Light in Space and Time
The spatiotemporal sculpturing of light beams with arbitrary phase and polarization topologies has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential to advance optical technologies and reveal novel physical phenomena. Examples of spatiotemporal beams include space-time wave packets, flying donuts, tilted pulse fronts, X-waves, Airy pulses, and spatiotemporal optical vortices. Here, we introduce and demonstrate a new class of spatiotemporal polarization states of light. We prop…

WATCH: Raiders QB Geno Smith Speaks Following Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-tom-brady-training-camp-pete-carroll