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McClatchy is eliminating its real-time national news operation, closing its Washington bureau, and withdrawing from the White House press pool (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-layoffs-dc-bureau

McClatchy’s Quiet Cuts
McClatchy, the 168-year-old newspaper chain, has gutted its national news operation—another reminder of how once-towering newspaper giants are struggling to survive.

On the Exact Sum PDF and CDF of {\alpha}-{\mu} Variates
Fernando Dar\'io Almeida Garc\'ia, Francisco Raimundo Albuquerque Parente, Michel Daoud Yacoub, Jose C\^andido Silveira Santos Filho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03850

On the Exact Sum PDF and CDF of α-μ Variates
The sum of random variables (RVs) appears extensively in wireless communications, at large, both conventional and advanced, and has been subject of longstanding research. The statistical characterization of the referred sum is crucial to determine the performance of such communications systems. Although efforts have been undertaken to unveil these sum statistics, e.g., probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF), no general efficient nor manageable solutions ca…

TridentServe: A Stage-level Serving System for Diffusion Pipelines
Yifei Xia, Fangcheng Fu, Hao Yuan, Hanke Zhang, Xupeng Miao, Yijun Liu, Suhan Ling, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02838

TridentServe: A Stage-level Serving System for Diffusion Pipelines
Diffusion pipelines, renowned for their powerful visual generation capabilities, have seen widespread adoption in generative vision tasks (e.g., text-to-image/video). These pipelines typically follow an encode--diffuse--decode three-stage architecture. Current serving systems deploy diffusion pipelines within a static, manual, and pipeline-level paradigm, allocating the same resources to every request and stage. However, through an in-depth analysis, we find that such a paradigm is inefficient …

Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
Qin Shi, Amber Yijia Zheng, Qifan Song, Raymond A. Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02302 https://ar…

Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are available. This problem is motivated by growing concerns about model provenance and unauthorized replication through distillation. To address this task, we introduce a model-agnostic framework that combines data-free input synthesis and statistical score computation f…

Le gouvernement indien réprime sévèrement la lutte des habitants du Ladakh pour réclamer des droits
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/09/29/le-gouverne…

Le gouvernement indien réprime sévèrement la lutte des habitants du Ladakh pour réclamer des droits
Le visage de la contestation de cette région himalayenne sous tutelle de Delhi, Sonam Wangchuk, en grève de la faim, a été arrêté et transporté dans une prison au Rajasthan.

Reminder - Call for Proposals: Western Jewish Studies Association 2026 Conference, University of Denver (March 22–23) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129751/reminder-call-proposals-western-jewish-studies-assoc…

The teachings of Falun Gong stem entirely from its enigmatic leader,
Li Hongzhi, whom followers view as a “God-like figure.”
Since settling in the United States in the late 1990s, Li has remained reclusive, but his beliefs shape the core tenets of Falun Gong and its many tendrils:
in addition to traditional Buddhist practices like qigong, a type of movement-based meditation,
Falun Gong also teaches that homosexuality creates “bad karma” and is “comparable to organize…

La Belle Epoch | Los Angeles Review of Books
Arielle Gordon traces the rise of “The Epoch Times” through her grandmother’s text messages.

Is GW190521 a gravitational wave echo of wormhole remnant from another universe? #Wormhole Linking Universes: https://www.sciencealert.com/unusual-gravitational-wave-may-be-sign-of-wormhole-linking-universes -> Wormhole echoes shatter our reality - scientists catch ghost signal from parallel world: https://x.com/WIONews/status/1971066689753112859 (Indian TV news clip).

It’s easy to forget that these days we may have colleagues in the software industry for whom an iPad was their first ever computing device.
So just to remind you: The idea that software should come from a central authority is new, it’s radical, and it’s wrong.
https://guild.pmdcollab.org/@StaticR/1…