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Federal agents in Trump's crime crackdown set up checkpoint in popular D.C. nightlife area (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/national-guard-troops-washington-dc-trump-police-checkpoint-protesters-rcna224842
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p37#a250814p37

Braucht ihr Audio- oder Bühnenequipment? Wir kaufen viel bei DJ-checkpoint.de (vor allem Lampen, Kabel, aber die haben auch Mikrofone und alles andere)— mit dem Code DARKK gibt es da 5 % Rabatt (wir kriegen davon nichts). Chef Daniel ist einfach ein guter Typ, kann man supporten.
Vielleicht habt ihr ein paar Musikanten-FreundInnen, die das interessiert. 🚀

GDNSQ: Gradual Differentiable Noise Scale Quantization for Low-bit Neural Networks
Sergey Salishev, Ian Akhremchik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14004 https://

GDNSQ: Gradual Differentiable Noise Scale Quantization for Low-bit Neural Networks
Quantized neural networks can be viewed as a chain of noisy channels, where rounding in each layer reduces capacity as bit-width shrinks; the floating-point (FP) checkpoint sets the maximum input rate. We track capacity dynamics as the average bit-width decreases and identify resulting quantization bottlenecks by casting fine-tuning as a smooth, constrained optimization problem. Our approach employs a fully differentiable Straight-Through Estimator (STE) with learnable bit-width, noise scale an…

MCPoison – a vulnerability in the Cursor IDE allows arbitrary code to be executed via MCP: https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/cursor-vulnerability-mcpoison/
Cursor fixed the vulnerability on 29 July with version 1.3. Users should update to this version. We als…

Cursor IDE's MCP Vulnerability - Check Point Research
Identified Cursor IDE's vulnerability allows attackers to modify MCP configuration files after its one-time approval system

#uspol

Pseudo-Label Enhanced Cascaded Framework: 2nd Technical Report for LSVOS 2025 VOS Track
An Yan, Leilei Cao, Feng Lu, Ran Hong, Youhai Jiang, Fengjie Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14901

Pseudo-Label Enhanced Cascaded Framework: 2nd Technical Report for LSVOS 2025 VOS Track
Complex Video Object Segmentation (VOS) presents significant challenges in accurately segmenting objects across frames, especially in the presence of small and similar targets, frequent occlusions, rapid motion, and complex interactions. In this report, we present our solution for the LSVOS 2025 VOS Track based on the SAM2 framework. We adopt a pseudo-labeling strategy during training: a trained SAM2 checkpoint is deployed within the SAM2Long framework to generate pseudo labels for the MOSE tes…

Checkpoint 1 closes in about 1 hour. A bunch of riders very close and another 11 about 7 to 8 km away.
#tcrno11

Koi, which is developing a centralized protection layer for enterprise endpoints, raised a $38M Series A, taking its total funding to $48M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syoe1xjslx

Cyber startup Koi raises $38M Series A to build a central checkpoint for enterprise software
The startup, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, was born from a VSCode hack and aims to give enterprises control over every application installed on their endpoints.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation
Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Tianle Sun, Yingyi Hao, Rong Chen, Mingcong Han, Jinyu Gu, Haibo Chen

The SChISM study: Cell-free DNA size profiles as predictors of progression in advanced carcinoma treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors
Linh Nguyen Phuong (COMPO), Frederic Fina (COMPO, APHM), Laurent Greillier (COMPO, APHM), Pascale Tomasini (APHM, COMPO), Jean-Laurent Deville (TIMONE), Romain Zakrasjek (COMPO), Lucie Della-Negra (COMPO), Audrey Boutonnet (COMPO), Fr\'ed\'eric Ginot (COMPO), Jean-Charles Garcia (COMPO), S\'ebastien Benzekry (COMPO), S\'ebastien Sala…

The SChISM study: Cell-free DNA size profiles as predictors of progression in advanced carcinoma treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors
Background: Many advanced cancer patients experience progression under immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) size profiles offer a promising noninvasive multi-cancer approach to monitor and predict immunotherapy response. Methods: In the SChISM (Size CfDNA Immunotherapy Signature Monitoring) study (NCT05083494), pre-treatment plasmatic cfDNA size profiles from 126 ICI-treated advanced carcinomas were quantified using the BIABooster device. Fragmentomederived var…

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
Raaghav Ravishankar, Sandeep Kulkarni, Nitin H Vaidya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06404 https:/…

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
We focus on the problem of checkpointing in fully replicated weakly consistent distributed databases, which we refer to as Distributed Transaction Consistent Snapshot (DTCS). A typical example of such a system is a main-memory database that provides strong eventual consistency. This problem is important and challenging for several reasons: (1) eventual consistency often creates anomalies that the users do not anticipate. Hence, frequent checkpoints to ascertain desired invariants is highly bene…

Instability in Downstream Task Performance During LLM Pretraining
Yuto Nishida, Masaru Isonuma, Yusuke Oda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04848 https://arxiv.o…

Instability in Downstream Task Performance During LLM Pretraining
When training large language models (LLMs), it is common practice to track downstream task performance throughout the training process and select the checkpoint with the highest validation score. However, downstream metrics often exhibit substantial fluctuations, making it difficult to identify the checkpoint that truly represents the best-performing model. In this study, we empirically analyze the stability of downstream task performance in an LLM trained on diverse web-scale corpora. We find …

Please help Nour and her kids, if you can.
They are stuck in North Gaza.
A message I got from her on Signal, just now: “The situation is getting worse. The tanks are approaching the checkpoint, and there are preparations to close the road. My family and I cannot evacuate due to lack of money, and our lives are hanging in the balance. Please help me and my daughters. We haven’t slept from the intense fear. Our lives are in danger every moment.”
Please help and share if you c…

#Wartezimer-toot

Puh, das wird echt knapp am Checkpoint 2. Könnte mir vorstellen, dass da einige den Cutoff knapp verpassen. 😬
#TCRNo11

How does an AI Weather Model Learn to Forecast Extreme Weather?
Rebecca Baiman, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Ankur Mahesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10639 https://…

How does an AI Weather Model Learn to Forecast Extreme Weather?
In a warming climate with more frequent severe weather, artificial intelligence (AI) weather models have the potential to provide cheaper, faster, and more accurate forecasts of high- impact weather events. To realize this potential, there is a need for more research on how models learn extreme events and how that learning might be improved. We investigate how a spherical Fourier neural operator model (SFNO) learns extreme weather by saving every checkpoint throughout training and analyzing a c…

Mal wieder eine Partie #RoboRally mit der Frau. 🥰 #Brettspiele

10 lost works of Canadian art you'll wish you could see

Kinda thinking that at least one of these could see a comeback - albeit maybe not as an art installation so much as a reflection of a new Canadian-US relationship
via
https://flipboard.com/@cbc…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bilderbuch:
🎵 Checkpoint (Nie Game Over)
#NowPlaying #Bilderbuch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ICPQARHre4MjKSPaKCmII

First stamp at checkpoint 3 goes to #tcrno10Cap46 Nicolas Chatelet
#tcrno11

@… ist auf dem Tourmalet angekommen! 🥳
Jetzt geht es nur noch bergab zum Checkpoint. Das sollte in der Zeit zu schaffen sein!
Danach sind 3 Tage Zeit bis zum CP 3.
#tcrno11

Predictive Significance of CD276/B7-H3 Expression in Baseline Biopsies of Advanced Prostate Carcinoma
Adam Yusuf, Paramahansa Pramanik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09373 https://

Predictive Significance of CD276/B7-H3 Expression in Baseline Biopsies of Advanced Prostate Carcinoma
At the time of diagnosis, prostate cancer can appear deceptively mild or already display signs of widespread disease. Predicting long-term outcomes is often uncertain. This research focused on measuring CD276/B7-H3, an immune checkpoint protein linked to tumor development, in diagnostic tissue samples from 248 men. Participants included both those with cancer confined to the prostate and those with confirmed metastases. Analysis showed that patients with metastatic disease were more likely to e…

Convergence and Divergence of Language Models under Different Random Seeds
Finlay Fehlauer (ETH Zurich), Kyle Mahowald (University of Texas at Austin), Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26643

Convergence and Divergence of Language Models under Different Random Seeds
In this paper, we investigate the convergence of language models (LMs) trained under different random seeds, measuring convergence as the expected per-token Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence across seeds. By comparing LM convergence as a function of model size and training checkpoint, we identify a four-phase convergence pattern: (i) an initial uniform phase, (ii) a sharp-convergence phase, (iii) a sharp-divergence phase, and (iv) a slow-reconvergence phase. Further, we observe that larger mode…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation
Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Tianle Sun, Yingyi Hao, Rong Chen, Mingcong Han, Jinyu Gu, Haibo Chen

Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
[1/1]:
- PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation
Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Tianle Sun, Yingyi Hao, Rong Chen, Mingcong Han, Jinyu Gu, Haibo Chen