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“The EU’s most senior diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the bloc would keep ‘options on the table’ to pressure Israel’s government if there was no improvement in the ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian situation in Gaza. According to several diplomatic sources she did not endorse any one of 10 sanctions options drawn up by her team, after an earlier EU review found ‘indications’ Israel was in breach of human rights commitments.”

MI5 admits it unlawfully obtained communications data from ex-BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney's mobile phone in 2006 and 2009 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s

1. Ben & Jerry to Unilever: This is not the Ben & Jerry’s that we founded.
2. Unilever to Ben & Jerry: This is not the Ben & Jerry's that you own.
I made up the second one, but you know someone at Unilever said that.
#BenAndJerrys #Unilever #business

Learning from Uncertain Similarity and Unlabeled Data
Meng Wei, Zhongnian Li, Peng Ying, Xinzheng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11984 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Learning from Uncertain Similarity and Unlabeled Data
Existing similarity-based weakly supervised learning approaches often rely on precise similarity annotations between data pairs, which may inadvertently expose sensitive label information and raise privacy risks. To mitigate this issue, we propose Uncertain Similarity and Unlabeled Learning (USimUL), a novel framework where each similarity pair is embedded with an uncertainty component to reduce label leakage. In this paper, we propose an unbiased risk estimator that learns from uncertain simil…

Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
Jason H. Steffen (UNLV), Cody Shakespeare (UNLV), Robert Royer (UNLV), David Rice (Open University of Israel), Allona Vazan (Open University of Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10942

Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
We couple a simplified model for the galactic chemical evolution, with software that models the condensation of dust in protoplanetary disks and software that models the interior structure of planets in order to estimate the effects that the galactic chemical evolution has on the properties of planets as they form over time. We find that the early abundance of elements formed from the evolution and death of high-mass stars (such as Oxygen, Silicon, and Magnesium) yields planets with larger mant…

Graph-based Fingerprint Update Using Unlabelled WiFi Signals
Ka Ho Chiu, Handi Yin, Weipeng Zhuo, Chul-Ho Lee, S. -H. Gary Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11038

Graph-based Fingerprint Update Using Unlabelled WiFi Signals
WiFi received signal strength (RSS) environment evolves over time due to movement of access points (APs), AP power adjustment, installation and removal of APs, etc. We study how to effectively update an existing database of fingerprints, defined as the RSS values of APs at designated locations, using a batch of newly collected unlabelled (possibly crowdsourced) WiFi signals. Prior art either estimates the locations of the new signals without updating the existing fingerprints or filters out the…

Immigrants file class-action lawsuit against Trump over ‘unlawful’ ICE arrests inside courthouses | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lawsuit-ice-arrests-inside-courthouses-b2790476.html

Two men are snuggling in the back of the presidential limousine. One is a convicted felon and the other is under an international arrest warrant for unlawful deportation and transfer of children to a foreign country. Guess which is which?

"Apparently OPM did a final rule directly without having a notice and comment period" which makes it unlawful
OPM's new rules on probationary employees : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1mrwhwh/opms_new_rules_on_probationary_employees/

”The Supreme Court has made clear enough by way of its emergency docket that it will overrule judicially granted relief respecting hirings and firings within the executive, not just in this case but in others,” he wrote.
Court finds OPM unlawfully directed mass firings, tells agencies to update personnel files
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/09/court-finds-opm-unlawfully-directed-mass-firings-tells-agencies-to-update-personnel-files/?readmore=1