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An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/tech…

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.

Ukrainian forces repel Russian push toward Myrnohrad and Razine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukrainian-forces-repel-russian-push.html

Wat een ontzettend goede column weer van Tom-Jan Meeus.
#NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/14/de-zorgelijk-naieve-fase-waarin-de-land…

De zorgelijk naïeve fase waarin de landspolitiek is beland
Machtige Tijden: De campagne is begonnen, en de vraag is: zullen de essentiële thema’s ook aan de orde komen? Halve waarheid, uitgestelde waarheid, gemanipuleerde waarheid: een naïeve fase in de nationale politiek.

There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!
https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

BBC Newsnight spliced footage in 2022 of Trump's Jan. 6 speech and then ignored concerns; Trump's legal team says the BBC "engaged in a pattern of defamation" (Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/13/bbc-doctored-t…

Cat may need a reboot…
#caturday #catsOfMastodon #FediCats

Absolutely delighted to announce
Richard Eisenberg: @…
Karine Even-Mendoza
Emily First
Ben Hardekopf
Lindsey Kuper: @…
Stefan Marr: @…

Looking back at a dramatic Gehrenspitze and its pass (aka "Gehrenjoch")...
Another close-up impression of the pass itself (and view in the opposite direction):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115050332753156722

@… yes I think it's time!

A new koan:
If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.
If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you.
It is an ice cream koan.

🫧 Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
#atmosphere

Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
Earth is reflecting less sunlight, and absorbing more heat, than it did several decades ago. Global warming is advancing faster than climate models predicted, with observed temperatures exceeding projections in 2023 and 2024. These trends have scientists scrambling to understand why the atmosphere is letting more light in.

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,869 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.52 %

Memphis mayor says he got confirmation National Guard would be deployed from Trump's TV comments (Jonathan Mattise/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/memphis-national-guard-trump-29ffad97499a0995ea952f7a0e7b112c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p62#a250913p62

HostAfrica (#AS329184, #AS328364, #AS327813) has been acquiring and seemingly consolidating a few of the small to medium-size African

Press Releases Category Archive - HOSTAFRICA

Im #zwischerwach, immer muß ich checken, ob #vodafone mich drosselt, seit Montag hab ich das Konto beglichen! Aber nee, immer noch nicht!
https://<…

Wer kennt nicht den melodischen Gesang der #Amsel? 🎶 Ob in Gärten, Parks oder auf Friedhöfen – die Amsel ist überall präsent. Warum sind Amselweibchen besonders gefährdet und wie haben sie sich an das Stadtleben angepasst? Mehr über diesen beliebten Vogel und seinen Gesang im Artikel. 🌳🔍
#Vogelbeobachtung

Amsel (Turdus merula): Wird in Kinderliedern besungen und kann selbst auch gut singen
Informiere dich über die Amsel, ihre Verbreitung, ihre Nahrung und ihre Brutzeit

Sunflower Chimney bee (Diadasia enavata — according to iNaturalist) on a Sunflower. Chimney bees are solitary, ground dwelling pollinators common to Central and North America. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. September,2025. #laarboretum #bee

RE: #zomoko – Zonder Moreel Kompas).

The sidebar of /r/freebsd now features:
― a clearer call to action for donations
– randomly alternating with FreeBSD products (a link to the shop), Beastie, the orb, and up to nine other images.
Links to the goodies, and more, are in the FreeBSD Foundation menu.
@…

RE: https://floss.social/@9to5linux/115546266998729091
Diese Version ist buchstäblich das Meisterstück von Valve, wobei ich glaube das die Entwickler von Wine die meiste Arbeit gemacht haben.
Aber denoch hat diese Version einiges in Sich ;D

#TIL Das Sandmännchen war eine Westerfindung, wurde im Osten aber noch vor dessen Ausstrahlung entworfen, komponiert, gedreht und ausgestrahlt.
https://piefed.social/post/1370545

DDR genial: Sandmännchen, Malimo & Co. (3teil. Doku)
[Client apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

With Titans firing Brian Callahan, Cam Ward is latest No. 1 QB pick to lose coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6714089/2025/10/14/titans-brian-callahan-cam-ward-no-1-qb-trend/

BIBERT-Pipe on Biomedical Nested Named Entity Linking at BioASQ 2025
Chunyu Li, Xindi Zheng, Siqi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09725 https://arxiv.org/pd…

BIBERT-Pipe on Biomedical Nested Named Entity Linking at BioASQ 2025
Entity linking (EL) for biomedical text is typically benchmarked on English-only corpora with flat mentions, leaving the more realistic scenario of nested and multilingual mentions largely unexplored. We present our system for the BioNNE 2025 Multilingual Biomedical Nested Named Entity Linking shared task (English & Russian), closing this gap with a lightweight pipeline that keeps the original EL model intact and modifies only three task-aligned components: Two-stage retrieval-ranking. We lever…

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/amazon-layoffs-pxt-hr-andy-jassy/

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say
Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

Pedoführer
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not get carceral over comedy.
#satire #potus45

Lasertag in Mixed-VR im Freien
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191794

The @… meetup is now on YouTube!
As a community, we're committed to sharing knowledge and expertise in PHP development. Our channel will feature recordings of our meetup sessions, so you can learn from the best and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends. Help us grow our community by sharing this post with your network and subscribing to our channe…

Is 3I Atlas adjusting its course towards Mars?
#3iAtlas #news
https://youtu.be/_NnccpJLxBk?si=T4X41l0yh7A62_h1

US 'behind' Ukraine in drone technology, Trump envoy Kellogg says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/us-behind-ukraine-in-drone.html

Cowboys announce DE signing moments after allowing 450 passing yards to NYG Russell Wilson https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/14/cowboys-signing-jadeveon-clowney-aft…

I posted elsewhere, but sharing here, too.
I got email from someone whose surname I recognize.
I asked if she was related to the President of the first company I ever worked for. She's his granddaughter.
I shared with her how kind he was when I was a young, entry-level "Specialist" in my first corporate job. She was gratified. Her aunt remembers me from those days.
35 years ago, and I remember it now.
Be nice to someone. It might matter for a long …

Over-Threshold Multiparty Private Set Intersection for Collaborative Network Intrusion Detection
Onur Eren Arpaci (University of Waterloo), Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo), Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12045

Over-Threshold Multiparty Private Set Intersection for Collaborative Network Intrusion Detection
An important function of collaborative network intrusion detection is to analyze the network logs of the collaborators for joint IP addresses. However, sharing IP addresses in plain is sensitive and may be even subject to privacy legislation as it is personally identifiable information. In this paper, we present the privacy-preserving collection of IP addresses. We propose a single collector, over-threshold private set intersection protocol. In this protocol $N$ participants identify the IP add…

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/business/media/netflix-spotify-pod…

Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal
Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.

Tesla knickt wohl ein: iPhone-Integration mit CarPlay angeblich in Arbeit
Tesla ist der bekannteste CarPlay-Abstinenzler. Das könnte sich einem Bericht zufolge ändern – nicht zuletzt als Versuch, die Verkäufe wieder anzukurbeln.

Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.

After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'Vibe-Coded' Screwups
Fire human, use AI, fire AI, hire human.

The capture time in the game of cops and many robbers
Miha Gyergyek, Vesna Ir\v{s}i\v{c} Chenoweth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The capture time in the game of cops and many robbers
The game of cops and robber is a pursuit-evasion game played on graphs that has been extensively studied. Traditionally the game is played with one or more cops and only one robber, but in this paper we consider the game played with multiple robbers, with rules allowing for consecutive capture of the robbers. While the cop number remains the same, the capture time can differ drastically compared to the game played with one robber. In this paper we present general upper bounds for the capture ti…

wife: "Are you eating guacamole directly from the container?"
8yo: "Yes!"
wife: "You know, I caught daddy eating the [beet] salad directly from the container."
me [yelling from the other room]: "I LEARNED IT FROM THE KIDS"

Un train stationne Š Bastille vers La Défense en répercussion d'une gêne Š la fermeture des portes de quai .
🤖 15/10 06:40

On Mori dreamness of blowups along space curves
Tiago Duarte Guerreiro, Sokratis Zikas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10148

On Mori dreamness of blowups along space curves
We study the problem of determining when the blowup $X \to \mathbb{P}^3$ along a smooth space curve $C$ is a Mori Dream Space. We obtain sufficient conditions, as well obstructions to the Mori dreamness of $X$ based on the external geometry of $C$. We furthermore find infinitely many pairs $(g,d)$ such that the corresponding Hilbert schemes $H_{g,d}^S$ admit components whose general element has these obstructions. As a consequence we show that Mori dreamness is not an open property in flat fami…

[2025-09-15 Mon (UTC), 8 new articles found for astro-ph.SR Solar and Stellar Astrophysics]
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Derived mapping spaces of $\infty$-categories
Kensuke Arakawa, Daniel Carranza, Chris Kapulkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Derived mapping spaces of $\infty$-categories
We prove the Derived Mapping Space Lemma, which generalizes the central theorem of Cisinski's work on calculus of fractions for $\infty$-categories, and allows us to provide a unified framework for analyzing mapping spaces in localizations of ($\infty$-)categories. As an application, we give a sufficient condition for when a cubical or simplicial category is the localization of its underlying category at homotopy equivalences.

😅 When indoor plants go overboard: Too much greenery can raise stress levels, research finds
#stress

When indoor plants go overboard: Too much greenery can raise stress levels, research finds
Indoor greenery enhances well-being, but new research shows that too much can overwhelm people. The findings could guide the design of healthier indoor environments.

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/business/media/netflix-spotify-pod…

Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal
Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.

#Artikelupdate:
#Stadtbäume gewinnen an Bedeutung für die #Klimaanpassung in Städten.
Aber sie leiden auch unter dem

Stadtbäume: Wie sie unsere Städte kühlen und schützen
Stadtbäume machen Städte nicht nur grün und angenehmer im Erscheinungsbild, sie haben auch eine Schutzfunktion für Menschen. Ohne ihren Schatten und die Wasserverdunstung heizen sich die Städte aka. Betonwüsten nämlich...

»Israelische Spyware-Firma angeblich an Hollywood-Produzenten verkauft:
Das bekannteste Produkt der NSO Group ist die Spähsoftware Pegasus, mit der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten überwacht wurden.«
Was wohl Hollywood nun an Propaganda mittels Spyware verbreitet?!?? Verwunderlich ist dies mMn nicht aber um so mehr sollte die Welt das Auge auf Spyware-Services, egal welche von wo, offen haben.
🤨

Israelische Spyware-Firma angeblich an Hollywood-Produzenten verkauft
Das bekannteste Produkt der NSO Group ist die Spähsoftware Pegasus, mit der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten überwacht wurden.

Howard Lutnick Says Elon Musk Got DOGE 'Backward' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/howard-lutnick-says-elon-musk-got-doge-backward-federal-worker2025-9

[2025-10-15 Wed (UTC), no new articles found for q-fin.TR Trading and Market Microstructure]
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Is He Lying or Crazy? Does It Matter? (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lying-or-crazy-does-it-matter-trump-posting-no-kings-rallies-israel-gaza-university-compact-nobel
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p56#a251014p56

Ukraine’s strikes devastate Feodosia oil terminal, crippling Crimea’s fuel supply: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukraines-strikes-devastate-feodosia-oil.html

Okay, also bisher funktioniert der "Balkonkühlschrank" sehr gut. 😁
Geringe #Kühlvorräte, Vorratskochgut parkt auch auf dem #Balkon, erstmal keine Großeinkäufe mehr, die nur zu Bunkern führen.
So weit, so gut.
Gespart bisher 12 kWh.
(Die

Spotify's video podcasts deal with Netflix will bring 16 shows to the platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, and Serial Killers (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-14/netflix-partnership-the-ringer…

Spotify Studios and The Ringer Video Podcasts Are Coming to Netflix — Spotify
Early next year, your favorite video podcasts are getting a bigger stage. Spotify and Netflix are teaming up to bring sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix to complement the streamer’s existing programming and unlock new audiences and wider distribution for the shows.  Audiences will be...

Broncos vs. Colts: 4 takeaways from Indianapolis' 29-28 comeback win to improve to 2-0 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6626826/2025/09/14/broncos-colts-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…

Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded With Bad Reviews
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.

Ukrainian Security Service foils sabotage plots in Odesa and Lviv, detains eight alleged Russian agents: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/ukrainian-security-service-foils-sabotage.html

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/2]:
- Feedback-Driven Tool-Use Improvements in Large Language Models via Automated Build Environments
Ye, Jiang, Du, Xu, Yao, Xi, Fan, Zhang, Gui, Huang, Chen

Hash chaining degrades security at Facebook
Thomas Rivasseau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12665 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12665

Hash chaining degrades security at Facebook
Modern web and digital application password storage relies on password hashing for storage and security. Ad-hoc upgrade of password storage to keep up with hash algorithm norms may be used to save costs but can introduce unforeseen vulnerabilities. This is the case in the password storage scheme used by Meta Platforms which services several billion monthly users worldwide. In this paper we present the first example of an exploit which demonstrates the security weakness of Facebook's password st…

ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, v. €4.9B est., as the AI spending boom boosts demand for its EUV machines to produce the most sophisticated AI chips (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/asml-order…

Yellow flowers of the kind that you find up and down Fall Creek in Monkey Run
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Sevastopol under attack – Drones strike Russian Black Sea Fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/sevastopol-under-attack-drones-strike.html

Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/e…

Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers | TechCrunch
Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799492/youtube-new-video-player-update-changes

YouTube has a new video player
YouTube is introducing a bunch of changes, including a new look for the video player and animations for liking a video.

The 13yo just told me to turn down my music. Kids these days!
(it was Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls)

Effects of harmonic magnetic field boundary conditions in mean-field solar dynamo
V. V. Pipin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

Effects of harmonic magnetic field boundary conditions in mean-field solar dynamo
We consider effects of the harmonic magnetic field boundary conditions at the top of the dynamo domain on the dynamo stability inside the solar convection zone. These boundary conditions allow us to quantify the helical properties of the coronal magnetic field that stems from the dynamo region. In sewing the tangential component of the mean electric field we are able to take into account the effect the diffusive properties of the stellar corona on the dynamo instability. The model shows that ef…

How a 'delusional' backup quarterback helped the Bengals stun the Jaguars after Joe Burrow's injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-a-d

Polish deaths from Russian drones would trigger NATO’s Article 5, Foreign Minister Sikorski tells the Kyiv Independent: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/polish-deaths-from-russian-drones.html

DeepDive: Advancing Deep Search Agents with Knowledge Graphs and Multi-Turn RL
Rui Lu, Zhenyu Hou, Zihan Wang, Hanchen Zhang, Xiao Liu, Yujiang Li, Shi Feng, Jie Tang, Yuxiao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10446

DeepDive: Advancing Deep Search Agents with Knowledge Graphs and Multi-Turn RL
Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with browsing tools substantially improves their potential as deep search agents to solve complex, real-world tasks. Yet, open LLMs still perform poorly in such settings due to limited long-horizon reasoning capacity with browsing tools and the lack of sufficiently difficult supervised data. To address these challenges, we present DeepDive to advance deep search agents. First, we propose a strategy to automatically synthesize complex, difficult, and hard-…

Noisy Neighbor: Exploiting RDMA for Resource Exhaustion Attacks in Containerized Clouds
Gunwoo Kim, Taejune Park, Jinwoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12629 https://

Noisy Neighbor: Exploiting RDMA for Resource Exhaustion Attacks in Containerized Clouds
In modern containerized cloud environments, the adoption of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) has expanded to reduce CPU overhead and enable high-performance data exchange. Achieving this requires strong performance isolation to ensure that one container's RDMA workload does not degrade the performance of others, thereby maintaining critical security assurances. However, existing isolation techniques are difficult to apply effectively due to the complexity of microarchitectural resource manage…

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2025/10/14/a-paralegals-ai-best-friend/…

A Paralegal’s AI Best Friend
Plus: Tech leaders propound the dead internet theory.

Trump believes that the war in Ukraine is distracting the world from the real threat #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/trump-believes-that-the-war.html

Sources: Jack Ma has returned to Alibaba's campuses after disappearing from public view during China's 2020 tech crackdown, influencing Alibaba's pivot to AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Is In-Context Learning Learning?
Adrian de Wynter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10414…

Is In-Context Learning Learning?
In-context learning (ICL) allows some autoregressive models to solve tasks via next-token prediction and without needing further training. This has led to claims about these model's ability to solve (learn) unseen tasks with only a few shots (exemplars) in the prompt. However, deduction does not always imply learning, as ICL does not explicitly encode a given observation. Instead, the models rely on their prior knowledge and the exemplars given, if any. We argue that, mathematically, ICL does c…

Watch live: Charlie Kirk's widow speaks out after assassination (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5501788-watch-live-erika-kirk-charlie-kirk-killing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p142#a250912p142

US not sure Russia deliberately launched drones into Poland, Rubio says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/us-not-sure-russia-deliberately.html

IP-Augmented Multi-Modal Malicious URL Detection Via Token-Contrastive Representation Enhancement and Multi-Granularity Fusion
Ye Tian, Yanqiu Yu, Liangliang Song, Zhiquan Liu, Yanbin Wang, Jianguo Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12395

IP-Augmented Multi-Modal Malicious URL Detection Via Token-Contrastive Representation Enhancement and Multi-Granularity Fusion
Malicious URL detection remains a critical cybersecurity challenge as adversaries increasingly employ sophisticated evasion techniques including obfuscation, character-level perturbations, and adversarial attacks. Although pre-trained language models (PLMs) like BERT have shown potential for URL analysis tasks, three limitations persist in current implementations: (1) inability to effectively model the non-natural hierarchical structure of URLs, (2) insufficient sensitivity to character-level o…

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/marke…

Indian fintech Pine Labs rises in trading debut after $440m offering
Payments company had earlier slashed IPO over valuation concerns

Benchmark of stylistic variation in LLM-generated texts
Ji\v{r}\'i Mili\v{c}ka, Anna Marklov\'a, V\'aclav Cvr\v{c}ek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10179 https://…

Benchmark of stylistic variation in LLM-generated texts
This study investigates the register variation in texts written by humans and comparable texts produced by large language models (LLMs). Biber's multidimensional analysis (MDA) is applied to a sample of human-written texts and AI-created texts generated to be their counterparts to find the dimensions of variation in which LLMs differ most significantly and most systematically from humans. As textual material, a new LLM-generated corpus AI-Brown is used, which is comparable to BE-21 (a Brown fam…

YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799492/youtube-new-video-player-update-changes

YouTube has a new video player
YouTube is introducing a bunch of changes, including a new look for the video player and animations for liking a video.

🌖 Ex-cybersecurity staffers charged with moonlighting as hackers
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/04/world/crime-legal/ex-cybersecurity-staffers-hackers/
🆓

Ex-cybersecurity staffers charged with moonlighting as hackers
Three cybersecurity employees spent years launching ransomware attacks to extort millions of dollars from victims around the U.S., prosecutors alleged.

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
Dominik Schwarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11837 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11…

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
The security of Large Language Model (LLM) applications is fundamentally challenged by "form-first" attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking, where malicious instructions are embedded within user inputs. Conventional defenses, which rely on post hoc output filtering, are often brittle and fail to address the root cause: the model's inability to distinguish trusted instructions from untrusted data. This paper proposes Countermind, a multi-layered security architecture intended to shift def…

Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3bac2c02-4c59-4010-934d-2c0e2106d74a

The NBA takes full control of NBA TV and the NBA App for the first time since 2008, after ending its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/new-nba-tv-nba-app-2025-…

NBA Sets Reimagined NBA TV and NBA App
The league is taking full control over its cable channel and streaming platform, 17 years after Turner Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery first began running the operation.

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
Zikang Guo, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu, Wentao Hong, Xiaorui Wang, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09734

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal open standard, designed to enhance agent-tool integration and interoperability, and is positioned to unlock a new era of powerful, interconnected, and genuinely utilitarian agentic AI. However, despite MCP's growing adoption, existing benchmarks often fail to capture real-world agent performance within this new paradigm, leading to a distorted perception of their true operational value and an inability to reliably differentiate p…

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C in equity and debt, after raising a $80M Series B in 2024 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-robotics-startup-dexory-raises-165m/

A meta-analysis on the performance of machine-learning based language models for sentiment analysis
Elena Rohde, Jonas Klingwort, Christian Borgs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09728

A meta-analysis on the performance of machine-learning based language models for sentiment analysis
This paper presents a meta-analysis evaluating ML performance in sentiment analysis for Twitter data. The study aims to estimate the average performance, assess heterogeneity between and within studies, and analyze how study characteristics influence model performance. Using PRISMA guidelines, we searched academic databases and selected 195 trials from 20 studies with 12 study features. Overall accuracy, the most reported performance metric, was analyzed using double arcsine transformation and …

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