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Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users

iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users
iOS 26 is turning out to be a dud — adoption among iPhone users trails way behind what's typical months after an Apple OS release. Here's why.

VA-Adapter: Adapting Ultrasound Foundation Model to Echocardiography Probe Guidance
Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhenguo Sun, Shiji Song, Gao Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06809

VA-Adapter: Adapting Ultrasound Foundation Model to Echocardiography Probe Guidance
Echocardiography is a critical tool for detecting heart diseases. Recently, ultrasound foundation models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in cardiac ultrasound image analysis. However, obtaining high-quality ultrasound images is a prerequisite for accurate diagnosis. Due to the exceptionally high operational difficulty of cardiac ultrasound, there is a shortage of highly skilled personnel, which hinders patients from receiving timely examination services. In this paper, we aim to adapt…

There are finally real USB3 (not Thunderbolt, not USB4 PCIe Tunneling) 10GbE NICs!
RTL8159 chipset-based, it uses the generic cdc_ncm driver on Linux.
Also seems to work on macOS and iOS.
TCP throughput between GPD Pocket 4 and MacBook Pro M1 seems a bit low at ~6.2 GBit/s, but that might also be due to the connected devices (both sides are using the same adapter).
I don't have another 10GBit/s device here right now, sorry.
Don't have a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 de…

Ukrainian one-way attack drones adopt AI-assisted targeting while keeping humans in control: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/ukrainian-oneway-attack-drones-adopt.html

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative AI Tools
Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, Amanda K. Hall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06224

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative AI Tools
With recent advancements in multi-agent generative AI (Gen AI), technology organizations like Microsoft are adopting these complex tools, redefining AI agents as active collaborators in complex workflows rather than as passive tools. In this study, we investigated how early adopters and developers conceptualize multi-agent Gen AI tools, focusing on how they understand human-AI collaboration mechanisms, general collaboration dynamics, and transparency in the context of AI tools. We conducted sem…

Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the
💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals,
one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
Last week, in a highly unusual move,
👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach
in announcing that it is revi…

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

Beyond Static Knowledge Messengers: Towards Adaptive, Fair, and Scalable Federated Learning for Medical AI
Jahidul Arafat, Fariha Tasmin, Sanjaya Poudel, Ahsan Habib Tareq, Iftekhar Haider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06259

Beyond Static Knowledge Messengers: Towards Adaptive, Fair, and Scalable Federated Learning for Medical AI
Medical AI faces challenges in privacy-preserving collaborative learning while ensuring fairness across heterogeneous healthcare institutions. Current federated learning approaches suffer from static architectures, slow convergence (45-73 rounds), fairness gaps marginalizing smaller institutions, and scalability constraints (15-client limit). We propose Adaptive Fair Federated Learning (AFFL) through three innovations: (1) Adaptive Knowledge Messengers dynamically scaling capacity based on hete…

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Few-Shot Adaptation Benchmark for Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models
Karim El Khoury, Maxime Zanella, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Benoit Macq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07135

Few-Shot Adaptation Benchmark for Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models
Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models (RSVLMs) have shown remarkable potential thanks to large-scale pretraining, achieving strong zero-shot performance on various tasks. However, their ability to generalize in low-data regimes, such as few-shot learning, remains insufficiently explored. In this work, we present the first structured benchmark for evaluating few-shot adaptation methods on RSVLMs. We conduct comprehensive experiments across ten remote sensing scene classification datasets, applyi…

After Kyiv’s uncrewed fleet succeeded in curbing the movements of Russia’s once-dominant Black Sea navy
The commander of sea-drone operations for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency
says more complex strikes against Russian forces are expected next year
In an interview with The Associated Press, the head of the specialized maritime drone unit, Group 13,
said Ukraine’s attacks have forced Russia to adapt,
limiting opportunities for major Black Sea strikes seen…

Ukraine's sea drone commander says AI targeting will add pressure on Russia
A top Ukrainian sea-drone commander says more complex attacks on Russian forces are expected next year as Kyiv’s uncrewed fleet continues to restrict the once-dominant Black Sea navy. The officer, known as “13th,” told The Associated Press that Russia has adapted by keeping ships in port and operating at greater distances, reducing opportunities for high-profile strikes. The defense intelligence agency's Group 13 operates Magura drones that have played a key role in limiting Russian movem…