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Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tinder…

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

can I please also get a masters degree in Being A Fan of Football #fedifc

Right-Wingers Celebrate Flawed Study Claiming a "Decline" in Trans Identity | Them
https://www.them.us/story/eric-kaufmann-center-heterodox-decline-trans-queer-identities-study

Contribution of Thermal Tides to Venus Upper Cloud-Layer Superrotation: #Venus Identified: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/key-driver-of-extreme-winds-on-venus-identified - a new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously thought.

Identifying Biggest Surprise From Raiders' Week 16 Loss https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-identifying-biggest-surprise-from-week-16-loss

Giants name Jaxson Dart starting QB: What's next for Russell Wilson in New York? Identifying new landing spots

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/gia…

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

Automatic Intermodal Loading Unit Identification using Computer Vision: A Scoping Review
Emre G\"ulsoylu, Alhassan Abdelhalim, Derya Kara Boztas, Ole Grasse, Carlos Jahn, Simone Frintrop, Janick Edinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17707

Automatic Intermodal Loading Unit Identification using Computer Vision: A Scoping Review
The standardisation of Intermodal Loading Units (ILUs), such as containers, semi-trailers and swap bodies, has revolutionised global trade yet their efficient and robust identification remains a critical bottleneck in high-throughput ports and terminals. This paper reviews 63 empirical studies that propose computer vision (CV) based solutions. It covers the last 35 years (1990-2025), tracing the field's evolution from early digital image processing (DIP) and traditional machine learning (ML) to…

DIVERS-Bench: Evaluating Language Identification Across Domain Shifts and Code-Switching
Jessica Ojo, Zina Kamel, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17768 https:/…

DIVERS-Bench: Evaluating Language Identification Across Domain Shifts and Code-Switching
Language Identification (LID) is a core task in multilingual NLP, yet current systems often overfit to clean, monolingual data. This work introduces DIVERS-BENCH, a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art LID models across diverse domains, including speech transcripts, web text, social media texts, children's stories, and code-switched text. Our findings reveal that while models achieve high accuracy on curated datasets, performance degrades sharply on noisy and informal inputs. We also in…

Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company "proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected 'scam centers'" in Myanmar (James Reddick/The Record)
https://therecord.media/spacex-disables-starlink-kits-…

SpaceX disables more than 2,000 Starlink devices used in Myanmar scam compounds
Lauren Dreyer, the vice-president of Starlink’s business operations, said in a post on X Tuesday night that the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers’” in Myanmar.