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RadarQA: Multi-modal Quality Analysis of Weather Radar Forecasts
Xuming He, Zhiyuan You, Junchao Gong, Couhua Liu, Xiaoyu Yue, Peiqin Zhuang, Wenlong Zhang, Lei Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12291

RadarQA: Multi-modal Quality Analysis of Weather Radar Forecasts
Quality analysis of weather forecasts is an essential topic in meteorology. Although traditional score-based evaluation metrics can quantify certain forecast errors, they are still far from meteorological experts in terms of descriptive capability, interpretability, and understanding of dynamic evolution. With the rapid development of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), these models become potential tools to overcome the above challenges. In this work, we introduce an MLLM-based weather …

Op-Fed: Opinion, Stance, and Monetary Policy Annotations on FOMC Transcripts Using Active Learning
Alisa Kanganis, Katherine A. Keith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13539 https://…

Op-Fed: Opinion, Stance, and Monetary Policy Annotations on FOMC Transcripts Using Active Learning
The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) regularly discusses and sets monetary policy, affecting the borrowing and spending decisions of millions of people. In this work, we release Op-Fed, a dataset of 1044 human-annotated sentences and their contexts from FOMC transcripts. We faced two major technical challenges in dataset creation: imbalanced classes -- we estimate fewer than 8% of sentences express a non-neutral stance towards monetary policy -- and inter-sentence dependence -- 65% of …

"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-show…

WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.

https://san.com/cc/millions-of-cars-at-risk-from-flipper-zero-key-fob-hack-experts-warn/
Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn

Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn
Hackers are using a custom Flipper Zero firmware to bypass security protections in automotive key fobs, putting millions of vehicles at risk.

Understanding Expert Exploration in EHR Visualization Tools: The ParcoursVis Use Case
Ambre Assor, Jean-Daniel Fekete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10081 https://

Understanding Expert Exploration in EHR Visualization Tools: The ParcoursVis Use Case
We introduce our ongoing work toward an insight-based evaluation methodology aimed at understanding practitioners' mental models when exploring medical data. It is based on ParcoursVis, a Progressive Visual Analytics system designed to visualize event sequences derived from Electronic Health Records at scale (millions of patients, billions of events), developed in collaboration with the Emergency Departments of 16 Parisian hospitals and with the French Social Security. Building on prior usabili…

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Government analysis reveals projected increases in home cooling costs — here's how to beat quickly rising utility prices
As millions of homeowners watch their electricity bills rise with the blazing temperatures, experts have a recommendation to keep costs low — create a personal power plant with solar energy.

Letitia James, New York’s Democratic attorney general,
has formally announced her intention to intervene in a Texas attempt to penalize a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines,
escalating one of the most consequential fights in the US abortion wars.
The move on Monday tees up a showdown between states that ban abortion and those that protect it
– one that, legal experts say, challenges fundamental constitutional issues and will probably …

AesBiasBench: Evaluating Bias and Alignment in Multimodal Language Models for Personalized Image Aesthetic Assessment
Kun Li, Lai-Man Po, Hongzheng Yang, Xuyuan Xu, Kangcheng Liu, Yuzhi Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11620

AesBiasBench: Evaluating Bias and Alignment in Multimodal Language Models for Personalized Image Aesthetic Assessment
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly applied in Personalized Image Aesthetic Assessment (PIAA) as a scalable alternative to expert evaluations. However, their predictions may reflect subtle biases influenced by demographic factors such as gender, age, and education. In this work, we propose AesBiasBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate MLLMs along two complementary dimensions: (1) stereotype bias, quantified by measuring variations in aesthetic evaluations across demograph…

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that
people who enter the country without authorization must be detained throughout their removal proceedings
-- a process that can take years.
The decision stems from the case of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado,
a Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States in 2022.
In 2024, he was granted Temporary Protected Status, which expired in April;
He was subsequently arrested.
At…

DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings
The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained.