Tootfinder

Quinnen Williams injury update reveals next step for Cowboys star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/quinnen-williams-injury-update-reveals-next-step-dallas-cowboys-star

Sources: Tomlin to leave Steelers after 19 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47600644/sources-mike-tomlin-step-steelers-head-coach

Raiders’ Win Over Titans: Step Forward or Fool’s Gold? https://raiderramble.com/2025/10/14/raiders-win-over-titans-step-forward-or-fools-gold/

Timothy Busfield's Location Remains Unknown, U.S. Marshals Step in to Assist Police 3 Days After Arrest Warrant Issued (People)
https://people.com/timothy-busfield-s-location-remains-unknown-u-s-marshals-step-in-to-assist-police-3-days-after-arrest-warrant-issued-11883066
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p81#a260113p81

FS-DFM: Neue Apple-KI-Modelle spucken lange Texte sehr schnell aus
Mittels "Few-Step Discrete Flow-Matching" will Apple beim Output großer Sprachmodelle den Turbo einschalten. Kooperationspartner ist eine US-Hochschule.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Madness:
🎵 One Step Beyond
#NowPlaying #Madness
https://agentdoublebylamomie.bandcamp.com/track/cover-madness-one-step-beyond
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pJbXCpZSUlYBlVa9gHTtu

Easy-to-Implement One-Step Schemes for Stochastic Integration
J. Woodfield, A. Lobbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12583

Easy-to-Implement One-Step Schemes for Stochastic Integration
Convenient, easy to implement stochastic integration methods are developed on the basis of abstract one-step deterministic order $p$ integration techniques. The abstraction as an arbitrary one step map allows the inspection of easy to implement stochastic exponential time differencing Runge-Kutta (SETDRK), stochastic integrating factor Runge-Kutta (SIFRK) and stochastic RK (SRK) schemes. Such schemes require minimal modifications to existing deterministic schemes and converging to the Stratonov…

Migration and spreading of a droplet driven by a chemical step
Zhuo Long, Peng Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12514 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12514…

Migration and spreading of a droplet driven by a chemical step
The chemical step is an elementary pattern in chemically heterogeneous substrates, featuring two regions of different wettability separated by a sharp border. Within the framework of lubrication theory, we investigate droplet motion and the contact-line dynamics driven by a chemical step, with the contact-line singularity addressed by the Navier slip condition. For both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) droplets, two successive stages are identified: the migration stage, when the …

Had to expand C:\ on a VM and I'm irritated that Windows, after decades, STILL doesn't have the built-in tooling in disk management to work around their recovery partition. You can't extend a partition if the space isn't contiguous, so you have to move the recovery partition.
Why it exists at the end instead of the beginning also doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure there is a reason. 🤷
It can be easily done IF you know how to do it. This guide was perfect.…

Move Windows Recovery Partition Correctly: A Comprehensive Guide - Unite Innovations
Move Windows Recovery Partition safely and efficiently. Follow our step-by-step guide to avoid common issues.

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
Andries Rosseau, Rapha\"el Avalos, Ann Now\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12555

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward f…

What an OG, won a superbowl and never had a losing record:
#tomlin

Ahead of WEF 2026, the IMF urges governments to step up support for young workers displaced by AI, arguing candidates could use AI "rather than compete with it" (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e2ae3ad-4cfb-4e3f-a370-702781899e05…

DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust Android Malware Detection
Daniel Pulido-Cort\'azar, Daniel Gibert, Felip Many\`a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12310

DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust Android Malware Detection
Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a machine learning model into making incorrect predictions. This research presents DeepTrust, a novel metaheuristic that arranges flexible classifiers, like deep neural networks, into an ordered sequence where the final decision is made by a single internal model…

Learning Human Motion with Temporally Conditional Mamba
Quang Nguyen, Tri Le, Baoru Huang, Minh Nhat Vu, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12573 https://

Learning Human Motion with Temporally Conditional Mamba
Learning human motion based on a time-dependent input signal presents a challenging yet impactful task with various applications. The goal of this task is to generate or estimate human movement that consistently reflects the temporal patterns of conditioning inputs. Existing methods typically rely on cross-attention mechanisms to fuse the condition with motion. However, this approach primarily captures global interactions and struggles to maintain step-by-step temporal alignment. To address thi…

Trump said Tuesday that the United States could step in to disarm Hamas
— “quickly and perhaps violently”
— if the organization did not do so itself,
a potential vulnerability in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement
that has tentatively brought an end to two years of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for nearly two decades,
has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it will disarm,
though …

Trump says U.S. will disarm Hamas if it does not do so itself
Hamas has not yet publicly agreed to or signed anything that specifies how it would disarm, but Trump suggested he had received verbal assurances.

I finally stuffed more drives into my TrueNAS box and got the covers back in place. The next step will be to get it off the floor and onto a shelf.
#TrueNAS #NAS #selfHosting

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
Jir\^o Akahori, Yusuke Ide, Tomoki Kato, Norio Konno, Shuhei Mano, Akihiro Narimatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12043

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
In this paper, we introduce hierarchical random walks at first. In this model, we use two types of random walkers, {global and local} walkers. The global walker chooses a local walker at every step, then the chosen local walker moves a single step. After that we construct the corresponding continuous-time quantum walks and discuss its spectral structures. Then we define multi-dimensional continuous-time quantum walk by taking a marginal distribution respect to the global walker.

Lingxi: Repository-Level Issue Resolution Framework Enhanced by Procedural Knowledge Guided Scaling
Xu Yang, Jiayuan Zhou, Michael Pacheco, Wenhan Zhu, Pengfei He, Shaowei Wang, Kui Liu, Ruiqi Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11838

Lingxi: Repository-Level Issue Resolution Framework Enhanced by Procedural Knowledge Guided Scaling
Driven by the advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-powered agents are making significant improvements in software engineering tasks, yet struggle with complex, repository-level issue resolution. Existing agent-based methods have two key limitations. First, they lack of procedural knowledge (i.e., how an issue is fixed step-by-step and rationales behind it) to learn and leverage for issue resolution. Second, they rely on massive computational power to blindly explore the solution sp…

PCIe update: I'm now able to parse incoming InitFC1-* DLLPs and store away the credit counts in a register (which I don't actually use for anything yet), and emit a singular InitFC1-P DLLP of my own
Next step will be writing the rest of the setup logic so I can actually fully bring up VC0, then start sending UpdateFC idle DLLPs at regular intervals to keep the link alive when I'm not sending traffic.

Bob Iger says 80% of new sign-ups to ESPN's streaming service, which was launched in August, opt for the bundle that includes Disney and Hulu (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/espn-streaming-disney-hulu-bob-iger-1236616258/
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ESPN Streaming Step-Up Going “Extremely Well,” With 80% Of Subscribers Also Taking Disney+ & Hulu, Bob Iger Says
ESPN's launch last August of a beefed-up direct-to-consumer streaming service has been "a real success for a number of reasons," Disney CEO Bob Iger told Wall Street analysts Thursday.

Good.
Never submit to #Racisn, or to the apologists of #Genocide.
#GazaGenocide

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/

STEP Fusion - Consultation
STEP Fusion’s first stage of public consultation runs from 14 January through to 11 March 2026

This may be an important step in better understanding delusions.
Ritunnano R, Littlemore J, Nelson B, Humpston CS, Broome MR (2026): Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK. The Lancet Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00341-4

Robert DeNiro says... Come out for No Kings Day 2, October 18, 2025. Step up. Stand up.
#resist

Universal behaviors of the multi-time correlation functions of random processes with renewal: the step noise case (the random velocity of a L\'evy walk)
Marco Bianucci, Mauro Bologna, Daniele Lagomarsino-Oneto, Riccardo Mannella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11747

Universal behaviors of the multi-time correlation functions of random processes with renewal: the step noise case (the random velocity of a Lévy walk)
Stochastic processes with renewal properties are powerful tools for modeling systems where memory effects and long-time correlations play a significant role. In this work, we study a broad class of renewal processes where a variable's value changes according to a prescribed Probability Density Function (PDF), $p(ξ)$, after random waiting times $θ$. This model is relevant across many fields, including classical chaos, nonlinear hydrodynamics, quantum dots, cold atom dynamics, biological motion…

Over the years I have written a lot of code. Most of my stuff is deep down networking or kernel stuff - users rarely see it.
But sometimes I have to do a user interface. I'm not good at it. But it is amazing how much better I am than so many who produce commercial tools and websites.
I usually back my user input fields with a layer that puts input into a canonical form and then validates it.
That step to create a canonical form is important - it catches bad input err…

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard quit Spotify in protest, only for an AI doppelgänger to step in https://theconversation.com/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-quit-spotify-in-protest-only-for-an-ai…

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard quit Spotify in protest, only for an AI doppelgänger to step in
Can (or will) Spotify be held legally accountable for hosting AI knockoffs of real bands? An expert explains.

Why doesn’t #Valve add analog triggers to their controllers? Analog triggers are way cooler… specially the adaptive ones like the DualSense
Edit: apparently Steam Controller ones are in fact analog, the Steam Frame ones aren’t analog so I assumed the Steam Controller ones would also be just two-step. Why not having analog triggers on the frame too then tho? Two-step is really confusing to use…

🦾 Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-robots-automatic-fabric-muscle-commercialization.html

Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory alloy coil yarn—thinner than a human hair—into lightweight and flexible "fabric muscle" suitable for large-scale production.

Yesterday I tried out Mistral OCR and… wow. I didn’t know that OCR of PDFs with complex layouts, tables, images and everything is basically a solved problem now? Will likely have it run OCR on a 250 page PDF to extract the full text and tables soon, at a cost of roughly 25 cents, if I read the pricing grid correctly. The initial test on a few representative pages was very promising. Next step is to give it a few pages of my terrible handwriting and see what happens 😅.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
The Notwist:
🎵 One Step Inside Doesn’t Mean You Understand
#TheNotwist
https://open.spotify.com/track/0I5bxlsb9m1mMhfXhGgzbt

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.
*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

from my link log —
How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever.
http://m.nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-to-solve-the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever
saved 2021-05-04

How to Solve the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random.

Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0d424625-f4f8-4646-9f6e-927c8cbe0e3e

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/4]:
- DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust An...
Daniel Pulido-Cort\'azar, Daniel Gibert, Felip Many\`a

#Wordle 1,609 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 <1% of 226,291 (16)
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 5% of 58 (5)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 25% of 4 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 8% of 24
WordleBot
Skill 70/99
Luck 54/99
I've had a bunch of 4's recently and I've been enjoying them because each step is a clue in the puzzle as I narrow down the answer. 2's & 3's feel like more luck and 5's and 6's are getting nerve racking.
4's are par, but also the sweet spot for fun!
And as it turns out, I was a little lucky today to get it on my 4th guess.
Bot was unintentionally funny on guess 2. I'll put that in my reply to this w/ the starting word under the CW.

How to plan a trip to the USA in two simple steps:
Step 1: Don't go
Step 2: See Step 1
#Travelhacks

S-D-RSM: Stochastic Distributed Regularized Splitting Method for Large-Scale Convex Optimization Problems
Maoran Wang, Xingju Cai, Yongxin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10133 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10133 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10133
arXiv:2511.10133v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks, compressed sensing, and so on. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants are commonly employed to solve such problems. However, existing algorithms often rely on vanishing step sizes, strong convexity assumptions, or entail substantial computational overhead to ensure convergence or obtain favorable complexity. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, we integrate consensus optimization and operator splitting techniques (see Problem Reformulation) to develop a novel stochastic splitting algorithm, termed the \emph{stochastic distributed regularized splitting method} (S-D-RSM). In practice, S-D-RSM performs parallel updates of proximal mappings and gradient information for only a randomly selected subset of agents at each iteration. By introducing regularization terms, it effectively mitigates consensus discrepancies among distributed nodes. In contrast to conventional stochastic methods, our theoretical analysis establishes that S-D-RSM achieves global convergence without requiring diminishing step sizes or strong convexity assumptions. Furthermore, it achieves an iteration complexity of $\mathcal{O}(1/\epsilon)$ with respect to both the objective function value and the consensus error. Numerical experiments show that S-D-RSM achieves up to 2--3$\times$ speedup compared to state-of-the-art baselines, while maintaining comparable or better accuracy. These results not only validate the algorithm's theoretical guarantees but also demonstrate its effectiveness in practical tasks such as compressed sensing and empirical risk minimization.
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Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Anand Srinivasan, Jean-Jacques Slotine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12639 https://arx…

Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Recently, the vanishing-step-size limit of the Sinkhorn algorithm at finite regularization parameter $\varepsilon$ was shown to be a mirror descent in the space of probability measures. We give $L^2$ contraction criteria in two time-dependent metrics induced by the mirror Hessian, which reduce to the coercivity of certain conditional expectation operators. We then give an exact identity for the entropy production rate of the Sinkhorn flow, which was previously known only to be nonpositive. Exam…

PolygMap: A Perceptive Locomotion Framework for Humanoid Robot Stair Climbing
Bingquan Li, Ning Wang, Tianwei Zhang, Zhicheng He, Yucong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12346 http…

PolygMap: A Perceptive Locomotion Framework for Humanoid Robot Stair Climbing
Recently, biped robot walking technology has been significantly developed, mainly in the context of a bland walking scheme. To emulate human walking, robots need to step on the positions they see in unknown spaces accurately. In this paper, we present PolyMap, a perception-based locomotion planning framework for humanoid robots to climb stairs. Our core idea is to build a real-time polygonal staircase plane semantic map, followed by a footstep planar using these polygonal plane segments. These …

“The US State Department’s Font Flip-Flop: Guest Article by Dr. Aina G. Irbe on A Step Backward for Accessibility”
https://www.lflegal.com/2026/01/font-flip-flop/
The guest author worked for the State Department when it replaced Times New Roman in 2023.

The US State Department's Font Flip-Flop
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administratio

Poillievre's shrinking caucus made it to the BBC. It might be an interesting leadership review in January, but I honestly don’t see anyone else ready to step into his position if he was forced into a leadership race.
"Polling shows Poilievre remains popular with the majority of Conservatives, though that margin is shrinking. An Angus Reid poll released on Thursday revealed 58% of recent Conservative voters back Poilievre, down from 68% in August.”
#CanPoli #CPC #CdnPoli

It's the latest in a series of moves by Trump acolytes at the Department of Justice
who are transforming the voting section of the agency from an office focused on protecting Americans’ voting rights
to one that is in lockstep with an election denial movement
that incessantly demands investigations and drastic reductions in access to the polls
based on Donald Trump’s lies about elections.

Just learned that Symfony 7.4 ships with Multi -Step form support.
That's exactly what I need for my current project. Nice!
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-multi-step-forms

New in Symfony 7.4: Multi-Step Forms (Symfony Blog)
Symfony 7.4 introduces form flows, a new way to build and manage multi-step forms using the same familiar concepts as regular Symfony forms.

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
Evelyne Ringoot, Rabab Alomairy, Alan Edelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12705 https:…

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
The reduction of a banded matrix to a bidiagonal form is a crucial step in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), a cornerstone of scientific computing and AI. Despite being a highly parallel algorithm, it was previously believed to be unsuitable for GPU computation because it is memory bandwidth-bound. Recent developments in GPU hardware, including larger L1 memory per Streaming Multiprocessor/Compute Unit, have changed that. We present the first GPU algorithm for reducing a banded matrix to …

Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters (Kyle Clark/KUSA-TV)
https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/trump-administration-free-tina-peters/73-ebd88246-28c3-4ea7-a742-278c7f7509a6
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p135#a251114p135

"As of January 1, 2026, #ACM completed its transition to full #openaccess: all ACM-published articles and related research artifacts in the DL are freely available worldwide without barriers to reading or reuse. This is a significant step forward for the

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Battles:
🎵 Titanium 2 Step (feat. Sal Principato)
#Battles
https://battles.bandcamp.com/track/titanium-2-step
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ddMlDaOhtrXMgESmfPlRL

Black Google workers one step closer to $50 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/black-google-workers-one-step-closer-to-50-million-settlement-in-discrimination-lawsuit/

I've taken a big step away from #Spotify and installed #qobuz because it's a European alternative (@…) and they pay artists much better…

Lossless Derandomization for Undirected Single-Source Shortest Paths and Approximate Distance Oracles
Shuyi Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12598 https://ar…

Lossless Derandomization for Undirected Single-Source Shortest Paths and Approximate Distance Oracles
A common step in algorithms related to shortest paths in undirected graphs is that, we select a subset of vertices as centers, then grow a ball around each vertex until a center is reached. We want the balls to be as small as possible. A randomized algorithm can uniformly sample $r$ centers to achieve the optimal (expected) ball size of $Θ(n/r)$. A folklore derandomization is to use the $O(\log n)$ approximation for the set cover problem in the hitting set version where we want to hit all the …

Ukraine parliament approves resignation of security service chief in major reshuffle https://therecord.media/ukraine-parliament-approves-resignation-sbu-chief

UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning
Jinchuan Tian, Sang-gil Lee, Zhifeng Kong, Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Wenliang Dai, Zihan Liu, Hanrong Ye, Shinji Watanabe, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Rafael Valle, Wei Ping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12000

UALM: Unified Audio Language Model for Understanding, Generation and Reasoning
Recent advances in the audio language modeling (ALM) domain tackle audio understanding and text-to-audio generation as separate tasks. Very few studies attempt to unify these tasks -- an essential step toward advanced multimodal reasoning. This paper introduces U}nified Audio Language Model (UALM), which aims to unify audio understanding, text-to-audio generation, and multimodal reasoning in a single model. To achieve this goal, we first present UALM-Gen, a text-to-audio language model that dir…

This isn't the first transfer to aws.eu. This is the most visible and overt shift in assets by the big U.S. cloud providers I'm aware of. Others (e.g., Google and Microsoft) talk about doing more in the EU and providing isolation, but as far as I can tell Amazon's separation is going a step further.
https://

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"A100 ROW Inc" transferred: 51.72.0.0/15, 2a11:/29, 51.0.128.0/17 (Taken from 51.0.0.0/16), 51.0.0.0/19 (Taken from 51.0.0.0/16), 193.202.192.0/19, 83.118.240.0/20 to "Amazon Data Services European Sovereign Cloud GmbH" (Estimated Market Value: $2.66 M)

Nanoscale surface morphology controls charge storage at stepped Pt-water interfaces
Matthew T. Darby, Muhammad Saleh, Marialore Sulpizi, Clotilde S. Cucinotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12176

Nanoscale surface morphology controls charge storage at stepped Pt-water interfaces
Platinum step edges dominate electrocatalytic activity in fuel cells and electrolysers, yet their atomistic electrochemical behaviour remains poorly understood. Here, we employ \textit{ab initio} molecular dynamics under controlled electrode potentials to model a realistic stepped Pt--water interface incorporating experimentally observed (111)$\times$(111) and (111)$\times$(100) edge motifs. This allows us to resolve, for the first time, the site-specific structure, charge distribution, and ele…

Hypothesis testing for the dimension of random geometric graph
Mingao Yuan, Feng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11844 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11844

Hypothesis testing for the dimension of random geometric graph
Random geometric graphs (RGGs) offer a powerful tool for analyzing the geometric and dependence structures in real-world networks. For example, it has been observed that RGGs are a good model for protein-protein interaction networks. In RGGs, nodes are randomly distributed over an $m$-dimensional metric space, and edges connect the nodes if and only if their distance is less than some threshold. When fitting RGGs to real-world networks, the first step is probably to input or estimate the dimens…

Complementarity of gravitational wave analyses and di-Higgs production in the exploration of the Electroweak Phase Transition dynamics in the RxSM
Johannes Braathen, Sven Heinemeyer, Carlos Pulido Boatella, Alain Verduras Schaeidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12569

Complementarity of gravitational wave analyses and di-Higgs production in the exploration of the Electroweak Phase Transition dynamics in the RxSM
The real singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM), RxSM, is one of the simplest Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) theories that can accommodate a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). We survey the possible thermal histories of the early Universe in the RxSM, and find that a SFOEWPT can occur in this model as single- or two-step phase transitions. We investigate complementary approaches to probe such scenarios experimentally: either via searches for a stochastic backgroun…

Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/13/employer-crackdown-so…

How companies are cracking down on workers’ social media activity
Fervor over employee posts about Charlie Kirk’s death is leading companies to adjust policies and step up monitoring of workers’ online conduct.

split each step of the way

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

Natural transformations between braiding functors in the Fukaya category
Yujin Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10462 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10462
arXiv:2511.10462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the space of $A_\infty$-natural transformations between braiding functors acting on the Fukaya category associated to the Coulomb branch $\mathcal{M}(\bullet,1)$ of the $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ quiver gauge theory. We compute all cohomologically distinct $A_\infty$-natural transformations $\mathrm{Nat}(\mathrm{id}, \mathrm{id})$ and $\mathrm{Nat}(\mathrm{id}, \beta_i^-)$, where $\beta_i^-$ denotes the negative braiding functor. Our computation is carried out in a diagrammatic framework compatible with the established embedding of the KLRW category into this Fukaya category. We then compute the Hochschild cohomology of the Fukaya category using an explicit projective resolution of the diagonal bimodule obtained via the Chouhy-Solotar reduction system, and use this to classify all cohomologically distinct natural transformations. These results determine the higher $A_\infty$-data encoded in the braiding functors and their natural transformations, and provide the first step toward a categorical formulation of braid cobordism actions on Fukaya categories.
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DiffEM: Learning from Corrupted Data with Diffusion Models via Expectation Maximization
Danial Hosseintabar, Fan Chen, Giannis Daras, Antonio Torralba, Constantinos Daskalakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12691

DiffEM: Learning from Corrupted Data with Diffusion Models via Expectation Maximization
Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for high-dimensional inverse problems, yet learning them when only corrupted or noisy observations are available remains challenging. In this work, we propose a new method for training diffusion models with Expectation-Maximization (EM) from corrupted data. Our proposed method, DiffEM, utilizes conditional diffusion models to reconstruct clean data from observations in the E-step, and then uses the reconstructed data to refine the cond…

FlashVSR: Towards Real-Time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super-Resolution
Junhao Zhuang, Shi Guo, Xin Cai, Xiaohui Li, Yihao Liu, Chun Yuan, Tianfan Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12747

FlashVSR: Towards Real-Time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super-Resolution
Diffusion models have recently advanced video restoration, but applying them to real-world video super-resolution (VSR) remains challenging due to high latency, prohibitive computation, and poor generalization to ultra-high resolutions. Our goal in this work is to make diffusion-based VSR practical by achieving efficiency, scalability, and real-time performance. To this end, we propose FlashVSR, the first diffusion-based one-step streaming framework towards real-time VSR. FlashVSR runs at appro…

Not only was Coupang's CEO forced to step down today but police raided the company's headquarters for a second time too.
Police raid Coupang headquarters for 2nd day over massive data breach
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251210004400315

Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm
Shuo Chen, Zonggen Li, Zhen Han, Bailan He, Tong Liu, Haokun Chen, Georg Groh, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11851

Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm
Deep Research (DR) agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform complex, multi-step research by decomposing tasks, retrieving online information, and synthesizing detailed reports. However, the misuse of LLMs with such powerful capabilities can lead to even greater risks. This is especially concerning in high-stakes and knowledge-intensive domains such as biosecurity, where DR can generate a professional report containing detailed forbidden knowledge. Unfortunately, we have found su…

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

League says Ravens TE Isaiah Likely lost control of ball before third step on overturned TD https://www.nfl.com/news/league-says-ravens-te-isaiah-likely-lost-control-of-ball-before-third-step-on-overturned-td

Stay angry, and also have a dose of level-headedness.
❝We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party — not one that is more right or left but one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So I’m going to take this big step in the right direction I’ve seen over the last month and pocket it and move on to the next battle. Meanwhile, keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.❞ https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115527953925050812

Improved Central Limit Theorem and Bootstrap Approximations for Linear Stochastic Approximation
Bogdan Butyrin, Eric Moulines, Alexey Naumov, Sergey Samsonov, Qi-Man Shao, Zhuo-Song Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12375

Improved Central Limit Theorem and Bootstrap Approximations for Linear Stochastic Approximation
In this paper, we refine the Berry-Esseen bounds for the multivariate normal approximation of Polyak-Ruppert averaged iterates arising from the linear stochastic approximation (LSA) algorithm with decreasing step size. We consider the normal approximation by the Gaussian distribution with covariance matrix predicted by the Polyak-Juditsky central limit theorem and establish the rate up to order $n^{-1/3}$ in convex distance, where $n$ is the number of samples used in the algorithm. We also prov…

Improving Generative Behavior Cloning via Self-Guidance and Adaptive Chunking
Junhyuk So, Chiwoong Lee, Shinyoung Lee, Jungseul Ok, Eunhyeok Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12392

Improving Generative Behavior Cloning via Self-Guidance and Adaptive Chunking
Generative Behavior Cloning (GBC) is a simple yet effective framework for robot learning, particularly in multi-task settings. Recent GBC methods often employ diffusion policies with open-loop (OL) control, where actions are generated via a diffusion process and executed in multi-step chunks without replanning. While this approach has demonstrated strong success rates and generalization, its inherent stochasticity can result in erroneous action sampling, occasionally leading to unexpected task …

Well that took a bit longer than I hoped thanks to some derps on my part, but I'm parsing incoming PCIe DLLPs and validating their checksums.
Next step will be to figure out that a type 0x40 DLLP with payload 074040 is actually an InitFC1-P DLLP for virtual circuit 0 for 29 headers and 1024 data bytes.
And do something useful with that information.

Thanks to @… for republishing our piece on resilience org:
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? - resilience
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Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.

Ein internationales #Forschungsteam hat die Langzeitstabilität von #Perowskit-#Solarzellen deutlich verbessert.
Durch eine neuartige Fluorverbindung als Zwischenschicht bleibt ein

Long-term stability for perovskite solar cells: a big step forward
A Teflon-like layer between the perovskite and the top contact ensures exceptional stability: even after 1,200 hours under a standard sun, the high efficiency does not decrease.

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes steps down from her role but will remain on staff as editor-at-large; she joined the paper as the first female editor in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/business/nanc…

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes to step down
In a note to the Globe newsroom, Barnes said she is stepping down at the end of next week and will stay on staff as an editor-at-large.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Disclosure:
🎵 Watch Your Step (feat. Kelis)
#Disclosure
https://karenwangsound.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-kelis-watch-your-step-dj-beats-123-track-24
https://open.spotify.com/track/7G24eVWGQFcDP5DxXGgCSj

As mentioned yesterday, I think I changed now all startscreens and default searches to qwant.com
I used Bing for a long time (and it was ways better than I often heard) and changed to Ecosia last year. Which was also absolutely fine.
Now I try a (European) company that doesn't only focus on privacy but also builds on an own index (I know they still mix in bing and need bing for monetization). One step at a time...

The end-of-year holidays seem like a good time for those of us who are "computer-wise" to help family and friends moving away from #Windows.
For this purpose I'd strongly recommend going around with a #ZorinOS bootable USB and

Dual Boot Zorin OS and Windows A Step-by-Step Guide
Dual boot Zorin OS and Windows with this easy guide Step-by-step instructions for installing Zorin OS alongside your Windows 10 installation. Get the best of bo

(YouTube) This neural implant may be the first step toward digital immortality | Matt Angle (Paradromics) #BCI

Russian troops step up pressure on Mirnohrad as Ukraine reinforces defenses and supply corridors: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/russian-troops-step-up-pressure.html

> In truth, Democrats were winning with this strategy, until the centrists in their caucus cut a deal to ensure that the party – and 20 million Americans on individual insurance plans – would lose.
https://zeteo.com/p/senate-democrats-schumer-shutdown-surrender

Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.

Cowboys firing Matt Eberflus is just first step toward improving the defense https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-firing-matt-eberflus-just-first-step-improving-defense/0b1961…

HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities
Xiaoxue Ren, Penghao Jiang, Kaixin Li, Zhiyong Huang, Xiaoning Du, Jiaojiao Jiang, Zhenchang Xing, Jiamou Sun, Terry Yue Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12200

HackWorld: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents on Exploiting Web Application Vulnerabilities
Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While language model agents show promise in cybersecurity, modern web applications demand visual understanding, dynamic content handling, and multi-step interactions that only computer-use agents (CUAs) can perform. Yet, their ability to discover and exploit vulnera…

Unpacking Tre Tucker's Next Step in Raiders' Development on Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-unpacking-tre-tucker-next-step-development-offense

An inexact semismooth Newton-Krylov method for semilinear elliptic optimal control problem
Shiqi Chen, Xuesong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10058 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10058 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10058
arXiv:2511.10058v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An inexact semismooth Newton method has been proposed for solving semi-linear elliptic optimal control problems in this paper. This method incorporates the generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method, a type of Krylov subspace method, to solve the Newton equations and utilizes nonmonotonic line search to adjust the iteration step size. The original problem is reformulated into a nonlinear equation through variational inequality principles and discretized using a second-order finite difference scheme. By leveraging slanting differentiability, the algorithm constructs semismooth Newton directions and employs GMRES method to inexactly solve the Newton equations, significantly reducing computational overhead. A dynamic nonmonotonic line search strategy is introduced to adjust stepsizes adaptively, ensuring global convergence while overcoming local stagnation. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that the algorithm achieves superlinear convergence near optimal solutions when the residual control parameter $\eta_k$ approaches to 0. Numerical experiments validate the method's accuracy and efficiency in solving semilinear elliptic optimal control problems, corroborating theoretical insights.
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'He's the best pass rusher': How Nik Bonitto's first step has helped him become an NFL star https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46859882/nik-bonitto-broncos-first-step-pass-rush-defensive-player-year-candidate

🔪 A scalpel that can diagnose? Scientists unveil a 'Lab-on-a-Scalpel' for real-time surgical insights
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-scalpel-scientists-unveil-lab-real.html

A scalpel that can diagnose? Scientists unveil a 'Lab-on-a-Scalpel' for real-time surgical insights
Imagine a surgeon in the middle of a complex operation, able to get instant biochemical feedback not from a lab down the hall, but from the very tool in their hand. This vision is now one step closer to reality thanks to researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague).

Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5% (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustai…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton
In the series Prospects for Degrowth
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-can-degrow…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Clairo:
🎵 Bags
#Clairo
https://jesusfreak3000.bandcamp.com/track/clairo-bags-cjfs-rough-hinge-match-2-step-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56NEihhw1BsIgBBzfvcE76

Minimizing smooth Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz functions via generalized descent methods: Convergence rate and complexity
Masoud Ahookhosh, Susan Ghaderi, Alireza Kabgani, Morteza Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10414 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10414
arXiv:2511.10414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the generalized descent algorithm (DEAL) for minimizing smooth functions, which is analyzed under the Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (KL) inequality. In particular, the suggested algorithm guarantees a sufficient decrease by adapting to the cost function's geometry. We leverage the KL property to establish the global convergence, convergence rates, and complexity. A particular focus is placed on the linear convergence of generalized descent methods. We show that the constant step-size and Armijo line search strategies along a generalized descent direction satisfy our generalized descent condition. Additionally, for nonsmooth functions by leveraging the smoothing techniques such as forward-backward and high-order Moreau envelopes, we show that the boosted proximal gradient method (BPGA) and the boosted high-order proximal-point (BPPA) methods are also specific cases of DEAL, respectively. It is notable that if the order of the high-order proximal term is chosen in a certain way (depending on the KL exponent), then the sequence generated by BPPA converges linearly for an arbitrary KL exponent. Our preliminary numerical experiments on inverse problems and LASSO demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods, validating our theoretical findings.
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Pick Six: Receiving corps expected to step up against Denver Broncos https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-receiving-corps-expected-to-step-up-against-denver-broncos

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/house-passe…

House Passes Bill to Limit China’s Remote Access to U.S. Chips
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies’ ability to remotely access advanced American AI chips at data centers outside China. The bill, the Remote Access Security Act, is the latest step in Washington’s effort to limit China’s use of critical U.S. technologies due to national security concerns. It is

Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists (emptywheel)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/stephen-millers-big-shift-mother-shooting-goons-replace-va-nurses-and-psychologists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p11#a260111p11

(Adaptive) Scaled gradient methods beyond locally Holder smoothness: Lyapunov analysis, convergence rate and complexity
Susan Ghaderi, Morteza Rahimi, Yves Moreau, Masoud Ahookhosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10425
arXiv:2511.10425v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions whose gradients are locally Holder continuous. Building on these results, we analyze the Scaled Gradient Algorithm (SGA) under local smoothness assumptions, proving its global convergence and iteration complexity. Furthermore, under local strong convexity and the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz (KL) inequality, we establish linear convergence rates and provide explicit complexity bounds. In particular, we show that when the gradient is locally Lipschitz continuous, SGA attains linear convergence for any KL exponent. We then introduce and analyze an adaptive variant of SGA (AdaSGA), which automatically adjusts the scaling and step-size parameters. For this method, we show global convergence, and derive local linear rates under strong convexity.
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Pick Six: Receiving corps expected to step up against Denver Broncos https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-receiving-corps-expected-to-step-up-against-denver-broncos

Source: CB Alexander stepping away from football https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46934445/source-eagles-jaire-alexander-28-stepping-away-nfl