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Le Monde joins more than 20 publishers in offering NYT subscriptions to some subscribers at no extra cost, exposing NYT to new audiences (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/new-york-times-le-monde-bundle-ai-translation-onbackground/

Can The New York Times Be the ‘Essential’ Newspaper for the Entire World?
A new subscription bundle with Le Monde, coupled with the promise of AI translation, underscore its untapped international audience

In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

💧 Supercritical subsurface fluids open a window into the world
#geology

Supercritical subsurface fluids open a window into the world
Researchers have built on past studies and introduced new methods to explore the nature and role of subsurface fluids, including water, in the instances and behaviors of earthquakes and volcanoes. Their study suggests that water, even heavy rainfall, can play a role in or even trigger seismic events. This could potentially lead to better early warning systems.

We just attended another travel show. This time: #mountainbiking in #ligurien from Harald Philipp.
The visuals were pretty cool. And riding such trails UPHILL was pretty impressive, too. Definitely only doable with an ebike.

world's greatest speakers (this was preloaded on the phone BTW) #tech #shanzhai

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Saurabh Khanna, Xinxu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11557 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11557

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Large Language Models are trained on massive multilingual corpora, yet this abundance masks a profound crisis: of the world's 7,613 living languages, approximately 2,000 languages with millions of speakers remain effectively invisible in digital ecosystems. We propose a critical framework connecting empirical measurements of language vitality (real world demographic strength) and digitality (online presence) with postcolonial theory and epistemic injustice to explain why linguistic inequality i…

I just discovered something wonderful (for anyone with an HBO streaming subscription)
https://www.hbomax.com/shows/how-its-made/ef833c95-bddf-4204-8e34-bc231327ec4a

Watch How It's Made | HBO Max
Watch How It's Made on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Explore the fascinating world of how everyday items are manufactured and produced. From aluminum foil to contact lenses, discover how many of the things we buy and use are made.

ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh Shakery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10774

ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Persian Language, despite being spoken by over 100 million people worldwide, remains severely underrepresented in high-quality speech corpora, particularly for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis applications. Existing Persian speech datasets are typically smaller than their English counterparts, which creates a key limitation for developing Persian speech technologies. We address this gap by introducing ParsVoice, the largest Persian speech corpus designed specifically for TTS applications. We crea…

Principles of Safe AI Companions for Youth: Parent and Expert Perspectives
Yaman Yu, Mohi, Aishi Debroy, Xin Cao, Karen Rudolph, Yang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11185 http…

Principles of Safe AI Companions for Youth: Parent and Expert Perspectives
AI companions are increasingly popular among teenagers, yet current platforms lack safeguards to address developmental risks and harmful normalization. Despite growing concerns, little is known about how parents and developmental psychology experts assess these interactions or what protections they consider necessary. We conducted 26 semi structured interviews with parents and experts, who reviewed real world youth GenAI companion conversation snippets. We found that stakeholders assessed risks…

SpecGuard: Spectral Projection-based Advanced Invisible Watermarking
Inzamamul Alam, Md Tanvir Islam, Khan Muhammad, Simon S. Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07302 https://

SpecGuard: Spectral Projection-based Advanced Invisible Watermarking
Watermarking embeds imperceptible patterns into images for authenticity verification. However, existing methods often lack robustness against various transformations primarily including distortions, image regeneration, and adversarial perturbation, creating real-world challenges. In this work, we introduce SpecGuard, a novel watermarking approach for robust and invisible image watermarking. Unlike prior approaches, we embed the message inside hidden convolution layers by converting from the spa…