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Russian troops step up pressure on Mirnohrad as Ukraine reinforces defenses and supply corridors: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/russian-troops-step-up-pressure.html

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-i…

The community in Sololo, Papua New Guinea, is safeguarding their rainforest by partnering with Cool Earth to resist logging and oil palm expansion, ensuring a sustainable future and preserving vital ecosystems. https://www.coolearth.org/news/best-rainforest-protectio…

How one community is protecting 16,500 hectares of rainforest
Local people have safeguarded the Papua New Guinea rainforest for generations. With a steady income stream, communities can refuse loggers and invest in what they most need.

heise | heise Update vom 31. Oktober 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise mit Quantencomputer vs. Verschlüsselung, Programmieren lernen, Ethernet-Switches, DIY-Wasserabschalter, Raumfahrtrecht

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11064 https://arx…

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Gender stereotypes in introductory programming courses often go unnoticed, yet they can negatively influence young learners' interest and learning, particularly under-represented groups such as girls. Popular tutorials on block-based programming with Scratch may unintentionally reinforce biases through character choices, narrative framing, or activity types. Educators currently lack support in identifying and addressing such bias. With large language models~(LLMs) increasingly used to generate …

J'ai fait ce parcours du combattant contre un PV injustifié. Conclusion d'un juriste d'affaires: La procédure est une présomption de culpabilité très très dur Š renverser, administré par des tribunaux de police complètement surchargés et dépassés. Cela s'appelle un déni de justice.
Heureusement pour la France, les sommes ne sont pas suffisantes pour une procédure devant la CEJ ou la CEDH. La France pays des Droits de l'homme?

REPORTAGE. "C'est chez moi que les amendes arrivent" : l'enfer des victimes de fraude à la plaque d'immatricul
Pour lutter contre les fraudes à la plaque d'immatriculation, le gouvernement doit annoncer, prochainement, un plan ministériel. Les victimes de la "doublette", elles, attendent toujours une solution.

The funding cliff for the telehealth and home-hospital care programs is separate from shutdown negotiations,
but both programs are caught up waiting for congressional action.
Some providers have been warning patients for months that their appointments may no longer be reimbursed,
while others are remaining hopeful that Congress will come through with a last-minute funding plan.
The biggest impact would be in urban and suburban areas, according to medical groups,

Millions of seniors could lose access to telehealth without deal in Congress
Millions of American seniors could see major disruptions to health services amid a government shut down. 

Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Yulei Qin, Xiaoyu Tan, Zhengbao He, Gang Li, Haojia Lin, Zongyi Li, Zihan Xu, Yuchen Shi, Siqi Cai, Renting Rui, Shaofei Cai, Yuzheng Cai, Xuan Zhang, Sheng Ye, Ke Li, Xing Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22601

Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the dominant paradigm for sharpening strategic tool use capabilities of LLMs on long-horizon, sparsely-rewarded agent tasks, yet it faces a fundamental challenge of exploration-exploitation trade-off. Existing studies stimulate exploration through the lens of policy entropy, but such mechanical entropy maximization is prone to RL training instability due to the multi-turn distribution shifting. In this paper, we target the progressive exploration-exploitation bala…

One thing I like about #BrightSpace: I can import a calendar of events for a class/module, and if I change something, delete everything and reimport in a few clicks.
Pattern: manage your data outside the web app, import easily, remain in control.
All it needs is a calendar program outside that can export ICS format (and do it programmatically for a defined subset).