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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Heliozoans are a group of amoeboid protists found commonly in both fresh and saltwater. They were termed sun-animalcules due to their spherical shape and distinctive radiating microtubules, which support axiopods used to capture food and facilitate movement. Some will also capture symbiotic algal cells which provide energy through photosynthesis. Heliozoa is &quo…

1/2: Eeek!
https://blog.google/products/chrome/store-reviews/
Just me, or is this a horrifying prospect? The SEO wars and the Amazon homepage have taught us that businesses will do anything - ANYTHING, ethics be damned, to game their online reputations. This …

Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shopping and other popular review websites to provide people with helpful insights when shopping on e-commerce sites.Just click the icon to the left of the web address and you can access an AI-generated summary of reviews. The description will cover topics like customer service, product quality, shipping, pricing and returns, helping…

Charged wormholes can be long-lived
Jose Luis Bl\'azquez-Salcedo, Luis Manuel Gonz\'alez-Romero, Fech Scen Khoo, Jutta Kunz, Pablo Navarro Moreno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11406

Charged wormholes can be long-lived
Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes suffer from an unstable radial mode. Here we investigate the evolution of the unstable mode(s) for charged wormholes. We show that the instability remains in the presence of charge, but exhibits a very fast decrease to zero, suggesting that wormholes that approach a near-extremal metric could be long-lived. For so-called supercritical wormholes, two purely imaginary unstable modes merge and continue with degenerate imaginary parts and opposite real parts. By analogy, w…

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
Generich H. Capuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09530

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
The environments of severe thunderstorms that produced hail were examined using 171 proximity soundings (2005-2024) archived in the 3rd Data Release of Project SWAP. These soundings were categorized based on their geographical occurrence into three hail-prone environments across Luzon, Philippines. For each case, key parameters describing instability, vertical wind structure, and moisture were calculated to assess their relationship to hail formation. The probability of hail occurrence, express…

Mixed Christoffel-Minkowski problems for bodies of revolution
Leo Brauner, Georg C. Hofst\"atter, Oscar Ortega-Moreno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09794 https://

Mixed Christoffel-Minkowski problems for bodies of revolution
The mixed Christoffel-Minkowski problem asks for necessary and sufficient conditions for a Borel measure on the Euclidean unit sphere to be the mixed area measure of some convex bodies, one of which, appearing multiple times, is free and the rest are fixed. In the case where all bodies involved are symmetric around a common axis, we provide a complete solution to this problem, without assuming any regularity. In particular, we refine Firey's classification of area measures of figures of revolut…

Regulator and gauge dependence of the Abelian gauge coupling in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Maksym Riabokon, Marc Schiffer, Fabian Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03563

Regulator and gauge dependence of the Abelian gauge coupling in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Both General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics are not UV complete. General Relativity is perturbatively non-renormalizable, while the Standard Model features Landau poles, where couplings are predicted to diverge at finite energies, e.g., in the Abelian gauge sector. Asymptotically safe quantum gravity may resolve both of these issues at the same time. In this paper, we assess the systematic uncertainties associated with this scenario, in particular with the gravitationally…

Pragyaan: Designing and Curating High-Quality Cultural Post-Training Datasets for Indian Languages
Neel Prabhanjan Rachamalla, Aravind Konakalla, Gautam Rajeev, Ashish Kulkarni, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07000

Pragyaan: Designing and Curating High-Quality Cultural Post-Training Datasets for Indian Languages
The effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) depends heavily on the availability of high-quality post-training data, particularly instruction-tuning and preference-based examples. Existing open-source datasets, however, often lack multilingual coverage, cultural grounding, and suffer from task diversity gaps that are especially pronounced for Indian languages. We introduce a human-in-the-loop pipeline that combines translations with synthetic expansion to produce reliable and diverse Indic…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that
nothing is "off the table" for cities with high crime rates
and that others could see federal law enforcement on their streets
— including in Republican-led states
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Trump's threats to crack down on Chicago without a request from the state is an "effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction."
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is laying…

Noem: More cities could see federal law enforcement on streets, even in red states
"Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer," Noem said Sunday.

Advancing the CMS Level-1 Trigger: Jet Tagging with DeepSets at the HL-LHC
Stella Schaefer, Christopher Brown, Duc Hoang, Sioni Summers, Sebastian Wuchterl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24371

Advancing the CMS Level-1 Trigger: Jet Tagging with DeepSets at the HL-LHC
At the High Luminosity LHC, selecting important physics processes such as (di-) Higgs production will be a high priority. The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger will reconstruct particle candidates and use pileup mitigation for the 200 simultaneous proton-proton interactions. A fast cone algorithm will reconstruct jets from these particles, providing access to jet constituents for the first time. We introduce a new multi-class jet tagger with a small, quantized DeepSets neural network. …

Practical and Private Hybrid ML Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Sayan Biswas, Philippe Chartier, Akash Dhasade, Tom Jurien, David Kerriou, Anne-Marie Kerrmarec, Mohammed Lemou, Franklin Tranie, Martijn de Vos, Milos Vujasinovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01253

Practical and Private Hybrid ML Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables inference directly on encrypted inputs, but its practicality is hindered by expensive bootstrapping and inefficient approximations of non-linear activations. We introduce Safhire, a hybrid inference framework that executes linear layers under encryption on the server while offloading non-linearities to the client i…