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Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's "competitive intelligence manager" Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abd988f6-e524-48d9-8433-27c…

New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal
HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

Sonnet 121 - CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses re…

A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models: An Action Tokenization Perspective
Yifan Zhong, Fengshuo Bai, Shaofei Cai, Xuchuan Huang, Zhang Chen, Xiaowei Zhang, Yuanfei Wang, Shaoyang Guo, Tianrui Guan, Ka Nam Lui, Zhiquan Qi, Yitao Liang, Yuanpei Chen, Yaodong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01925

A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models: An Action Tokenization Perspective
The remarkable advancements of vision and language foundation models in multimodal understanding, reasoning, and generation has sparked growing efforts to extend such intelligence to the physical world, fueling the flourishing of vision-language-action (VLA) models. Despite seemingly diverse approaches, we observe that current VLA models can be unified under a single framework: vision and language inputs are processed by a series of VLA modules, producing a chain of \textit{action tokens} that …

#GiffordFire
Today is expected to be another active day,
particularly as the fire aligns with topographical features
along grass and brush-covered hillsides.
The main priorities for today include improving containment
lines on the northern flank to prevent the fire from progressing toward the Manchaca Wilderness,
continuing efforts in Cuyama Valley to keep the fire on…

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Sooo it’s gonna rain a bit

Equivariant Flow Matching for Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcation Problems
Fleur Hendriks, Ond\v{r}ej Roko\v{s}, Martin Do\v{s}k\'a\v{r}, Marc G. D. Geers, Vlado Menkovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03340

Equivariant Flow Matching for Symmetry-Breaking Bifurcation Problems
Bifurcation phenomena in nonlinear dynamical systems often lead to multiple coexisting stable solutions, particularly in the presence of symmetry breaking. Deterministic machine learning models struggle to capture this multiplicity, averaging over solutions and failing to represent lower-symmetry outcomes. In this work, we propose a generative framework based on flow matching to model the full probability distribution over bifurcation outcomes. Our method enables direct sampling of multiple val…

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

Solutions of the spray flamelet equations in a non-monotonic mixture fraction space
Felipe Huenchuguala, Luis Fuenzalida, Oscar Orellana, Arne Scholtissek, Christian Hasse, Eva Gutheil, Hernan Olguin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00146

Solutions of the spray flamelet equations in a non-monotonic mixture fraction space
Solving the spray flamelet equations in composition space is very challenging, which is attributable to the fact that the maximum value of the mixture fraction, $Z_\mathrm{max}$, is a priori unknown in such flames. In this work, an analytical solution for this quantity is proposed, which allows its determination in spray flames subject to imposed quadratic evaporation profiles. It is then illustrated how the proposed approach allows to effectively cover the solution space of the spray flamelet …

Conductive domain walls in ferroelectrics as tunable coherent THz radiation source
Ramaz Khomeriki, Kathrin D\"orr, Jamal Berakdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01542 https://…

Conductive domain walls in ferroelectrics as tunable coherent THz radiation source
THz emission associated with currents in conductive domains in BiFeO$_3$ following infrared radiation is theoretically investigated. This experimentally observed phenomenon is explained by the domain wall stripes acting as metallic resonators with the oscillating charge accumulation being at the domain wall edges. The charge oscillation frequency is related to the plasma frequency inside the domain wall. The value of plasma frequency determines both the frequency and the amplitude of the emissi…

Evidence for shape coexistence in $^{120}$Sn from the first $0^ _3$ lifetime measurement
F. Wu, C. Andreoiu, V. Karayonchev, C. M. Petrache, J. -M. R\'egis, A. Esmaylzadeh, C. Michelagnoli, M. Beuschlein, P. Spagnoletti, G. Colombi, J. M. Daugas, L. Domenichetti, P. E. Garrett, J. Jolie, M. Ley, S. Pannu, E. Taddei
https://arxiv.org/ab…

Evidence for shape coexistence in $^{120}$Sn from the first $0^+_3$ lifetime measurement
The lifetime of the $0^+_3$ state in $^{120}$Sn was measured for the first time applying the fast-timing technique following thermal neutron capture. The mean lifetime of $τ= 50(7)$~ps leads to a $E0$ transition strength of $10^3\times ρ^2(E0;0^+_3\rightarrow0^+_2) = 120(50)$, suggesting shape coexistence and a high degree of mixing between the $0^+_2$ and $0^+_3$ states. With the newly measured lifetime, the $B(E2;0^+_3\rightarrow 2^+_1)$ value is 0.50(7)~W.u., which reveals that the $ρ^2(E…