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North Korea on Thursday displayed apparent progress in the construction of a
nuclear-powered submarine,
with state media photos showing a largely completed hull,
as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the North describes as
an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine,
which the leader has called a…

North Korea shows progress on nuclear-powered submarine
North Korea displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday said Kim had visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the North describes as an 8,700-ton-class nuclear-propelled submarine, which he has previously called a crucial step in the moderniz…

Inside OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD, in which Sam Altman largely relied on his executive team, with little input from outside advisors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/967b0d78-62df-4eea-a441-8ce3a5d03564

""The judge in this case is saying that James and Comey ... cannot face these charges because the prosecutor was invalid and is basing that largely upon the Trump case," she added."
'Nail in the coffin': Judge uses pro-Trump ruling to throw out Comey and James prosecutions - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/lindsey-halligan-comey-james/

Vegan (plant-based) diet beats Mediterranean for weight loss even with potatoes and grains #nutrition <…

Vegan diet beats Mediterranean for weight loss even with potatoes and grains
Participants lost more weight on a low-fat vegan diet than on the Mediterranean diet, largely due to eliminating animal foods and reducing oils and nuts. Increased intake of plant foods, even “unhealthy” ones, was strongly associated with greater weight loss.

the "woke games detector"'s ULTRAKILL problem: there are some games they don't like just because the developer is vaguely progressive and the fandom is largely queer and makes a lot gay fanart of the characters but they have to come up with some 4d chess problem with the game itself
like ah yes the game about robot killing demons in hell and extracting their blood is woke because there's a blahaj easter egg and not because there's shitload of V1 x Gabriel yao…

CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21150 https://

CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a foundational component of industrial prototyping, where models are defined not by raw coordinates but by construction sequences such as sketches and extrusions. This sequential structure enables both efficient prototype initialization and subsequent editing. Text-guided CAD prototyping, which unifies Text-to-CAD generation and CAD editing, has the potential to streamline the entire design pipeline. However, prior work has not explored this setting, largely becau…

SoM-1K: A Thousand-Problem Benchmark Dataset for Strength of Materials
Qixin Wan, Zilong Wang, Jingwen Zhou, Wanting Wang, Ziheng Geng, Jiachen Liu, Ran Cao, Minghui Cheng, Lu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21079

SoM-1K: A Thousand-Problem Benchmark Dataset for Strength of Materials
Foundation models have shown remarkable capabilities in various domains, but their performance on complex, multimodal engineering problems remains largely unexplored. We introduce SoM-1K, the first large-scale multimodal benchmark dataset dedicated to evaluating foundation models on problems in the strength of materials (SoM). The dataset, which contains 1,065 annotated SoM problems, mirrors real-world engineering tasks by including both textual problem statements and schematic diagrams. Due to…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lou Ragland:
🎵 Understand Each Other
#LouRagland
https://louragland.bandcamp.com/album/is-the-conveyor-understand-each-other
https://open.spotify.com/track/5l0ALYNkNb6BBgc782NyDz

Trump's pardon of Rudi Guilliani
could wind up having a huge effect on election conspirators like Matthew Alan Laiss,
who is accused of voting in both Pennsylvania and Florida in the 2020 election.
According to a federal indictment handed down in September,
Laiss moved from Pennsylvania to Florida in August of 2020 and voted first with a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania and then in person in Florida on election day.
Both votes were for Trump, Laiss’ lawyers …

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…

Changes to the agency that helps secure elections lead to midterm worries
The federal agency that oversees the security of election systems was largely absent from planning before elections this month in several states. That's leading many state election officials to be concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be for next year’s midterms. Officials are citing the shifting priorities of the Trump administration, as well as staffing reductions and budget cut. Some officials say they've begun scrambling to fill the anticipa…