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➤ Our newest OpenOlat release 20.1 is now ready for download
20.1 adds improvements to the new Course Planner module, features a redesigned Coaching Tool and adds overall new features and improvement, e.g. in the topic broker, the assessment scheduling, the catalog management, the blog comment subscription, the digital signing of badges and much more.

OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping
Jianyu Dou, Yinan Deng, Jiahui Wang, Xingsi Tang, Yi Yang, Yufeng Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01228

OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping
Multi-agent distributed collaborative mapping provides comprehensive and efficient representations for robots. However, existing approaches lack instance-level awareness and semantic understanding of environments, limiting their effectiveness for downstream applications. To address this issue, we propose OpenMulti, an open-vocabulary instance-level multi-agent distributed implicit mapping framework. Specifically, we introduce a Cross-Agent Instance Alignment module, which constructs an Instance…

Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K video clips (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/new-ai-model-turn…

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats
Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.

When assholes ask traffic police "why aren't you out there catching real criminals?" many cops think they have a point.
‘Shocking’: Some roads policing gardaí ‘openly hostile’ towards doing their jobs, review finds
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‘Shocking’: Some roads policing gardaí ‘openly hostile’ towards doing their jobs, review finds
Report also finds some Garda managers ‘afraid’ to tackle poor performance in force

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
#OpenAccess

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders (Alan Feuer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p106#a250804p106

The best proof of how the modern #democracy works is how often people support initiatives going against their own interest. In particular, whenever they vote for politicians that openly claim that these people should not have the right to vote.
#politics

skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms: Russian parliament member Andrei Gurulev said that Russia will soon attack #Poland and that fortifying the border with mines will not help it.
Putin regularly lies that he is not going to attack NATO countries. However, all his politicians and propagandists openly say that Russia destroy Western democracies.
Listen to the KGB-cold blooded killers. Death to these cockroaches.
https://sfba.social/@skykiss/114798422842387005

In the FreshRSS discussion section on GH someone suggested also including OPML files that can be easily imported by others.
I didn't even know FreshRSS has a custom OPML extension to include those configs, but that's amazing!
Added some already now! https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/freshrss-fulltext-settings

OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market (Dan Swinhoe/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/silicon-pho…