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Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cybereason-levelblue-acquistion/

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital forensics. 

WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
Akshat Pandey, Karun Kumar, Raphael Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10452 …

WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen vocabulary and parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only adaptation. We propose WhisTLE, a deeply supervised, text-only adaptation method for pretrained encoder-decoder ASR models. WhisTLE trains a variational autoencoder (VAE) to model encoder outputs from text and fine-tunes the decoder using the learned…

Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News issue a joint statement declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements: "the policy is without precedent" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/media/pentagon-hegseth-pre…

Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules
The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

Weil ich sie grade in der Hand hatte: Eine Alpha #G4M3R #Tastatur von #WorldSpawnsKeebs:

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Yuta Kobayashi, Zilin Jing, Jiayu Yao, Hongseok Namkoong, Shalmali Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12624 https://

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Active feature acquisition (AFA) is a sequential decision-making problem where the goal is to improve model performance for test instances by adaptively selecting which features to acquire. In practice, AFA methods often learn from retrospective data with systematic missingness in the features and limited task-specific labels. Most prior work addresses acquisition for a single predetermined task, limiting scalability. To address this limitation, we formalize the meta-AFA problem, where the goal…

The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsmax and others said their journalists would not agree to the Defense Department’s policies on news gathering ahead of a Tuesday deadline.
https://bsky.app/profile/jayrosen.bsky.social/post/3m34nq6fuf226

Mehrere französische #Medienhäuser protestieren gegen die unautorisierte Nutzung ihrer Inhalte durch #KI-Systeme.
Besonders im Fokus stehen frei zugängliche Datenbanken wie #CommonCrawl, …

Durch Urheberrecht geschützt: Frankreichs Medien protestieren gegen die illegale Nutzung von Inhalten durch die KI
Französische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften protestieren gegen die illegale Nutzung ihrer Inhalte durch KI-Programme.

Testing for LLM response differences: the case of a composite null consisting of semantically irrelevant query perturbations
Aranyak Acharyya, Carey E. Priebe, Hayden S. Helm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10963

Testing for LLM response differences: the case of a composite null consisting of semantically irrelevant query perturbations
Given an input query, generative models such as large language models produce a random response drawn from a response distribution. Given two input queries, it is natural to ask if their response distributions are the same. While traditional statistical hypothesis testing is designed to address this question, the response distribution induced by an input query is often sensitive to semantically irrelevant perturbations to the query, so much so that a traditional test of equality might indicate …

@… It’s in preparation for a medical exam; there’s no indication whether milk substitutes are permitted, so I’m playing it safe.
Regarding oat milk, I tried a number of different products over the summer, and I agree, it’s become a very good alternative both wrt. taste and to consistency.

The NYT, WSJ, WaPo, NPR, The Atlantic, Guardian, CNN, and others say they will not sign the Pentagon's new press restrictions ahead of a Tuesday deadline (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/pentagon-restrictions-new…

Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions
The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsmax and others said their journalists would not agree to the Defense Department’s policies on news gathering ahead of a Tuesday deadline.