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Apple and Home Office agree to drop legal claim over encryption backdoor
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366632561/Apple-and-Home-Office-agree-to-drop-legal-claim-over-encryption-backdoor

Apple and Home Office agree to drop legal claim over encryption backdoor
Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules that Apple’s appeal against the Home Office will no longer proceed because of a ‘change in circumstances’

Knowledge-Decoupled Functionally Invariant Path with Synthetic Personal Data for Personalized ASR
Yue Gu, Zhihao Du, Ying Shi, Jiqing Han, Yongjun He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10401

Knowledge-Decoupled Functionally Invariant Path with Synthetic Personal Data for Personalized ASR
Fine-tuning generic ASR models with large-scale synthetic personal data can enhance the personalization of ASR models, but it introduces challenges in adapting to synthetic personal data without forgetting real knowledge, and in adapting to personal data without forgetting generic knowledge. Considering that the functionally invariant path (FIP) framework enables model adaptation while preserving prior knowledge, in this letter, we introduce FIP into synthetic-data-augmented personalized ASR mo…

Took the family to see Erasure's Andy Bell in Hollywood last night.
Poor kid's been dragged to OMD, Howard Jones & ABC so far...
...but his ol' man did also get the family box seats to the "AJR" concert for him, so he's got nothing to complain about. 😌
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#erasure

Coming home from #DectWorld, this was successful: Three teams that are interested in working on a #FLOSS implementation of DECT nr have talked, and agree that it makes sense to pool resources.
What is nr , in 284 chars remaining?
It's a relatively low-power radio in the 1.9GHz band (where …

Smart-Home-Hub für die Wand: Aqara S1 Plus mit Siri- und AirPlay-Anbindung
Aqara hat sein Smart-Home-Kontrollzentrum für Apple-Nutzer aufgerüstet – bevor Apple voraussichtlich selbst ein solches Produkt auf den Markt bringt.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/115699682952591075
'Het wordt wel interessant om te zien of het EDIC zelf het goede voorbeeld gaat geven, zegt Hubert. "Hosten ze video's bijvoorbeeld op PeerTube in plaats van op YouTube? Gaan ze werken met Microsoft-formulieren voor inschrijvingen of hebben ze een alternatief? Wordt hun website gehost bij Amazon Azure of in eigen beheer?'
Terechte vraag van @… ... Niet alleen woorden doen er toe.

Dual Data Scaling for Robust Two-Stage User-Defined Keyword Spotting
Zhiqi Ai, Han Cheng, Yuxin Wang, Shiyi Mu, Shugong Xu, Yongjin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10740 https:/…

Dual Data Scaling for Robust Two-Stage User-Defined Keyword Spotting
In this paper, we propose DS-KWS, a two-stage framework for robust user-defined keyword spotting. It combines a CTC-based method with a streaming phoneme search module to locate candidate segments, followed by a QbyT-based method with a phoneme matcher module for verification at both the phoneme and utterance levels. To further improve performance, we introduce a dual data scaling strategy: (1) expanding the ASR corpus from 460 to 1,460 hours to strengthen the acoustic model; and (2) leveraging…

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Shirley Kokane, Akshara Prabhakar, Jielin Qiu, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08439

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle on complex tasks. Static escalation rules and keyword heuristics under-utilize this spectrum and fail to adapt across task types. We present xRouter, a tool-calling-based routing system in which a learned router can either answer directly or invoke one or more external models. The router is trained end-to-end with re…

I came home to a letter addressed to both of us by name and I assumed it was mortgage since few things address both of us. I left it for J to indulge her childlike pleasure of opening mail.
It was actually a campaign letter from Reform UK. I assure you neither of us are members so I can only assume they got our names from the edited electoral roll.
I can't remember any other party ever writing to me by name before, it's always just been "occupant" or similar.

Jordan Bardella se pose en homme providentiel dans un livre supposé prendre le pouls du pays « réel »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/10/29/jordan-bardella-…

Jordan Bardella se pose en homme providentiel dans un livre supposé prendre le pouls du pays « réel »
Un an à peine après la sortie de son premier ouvrage, le président du Rassemblement national fait mine de céder la parole à vingt Français pour asseoir ses ambitions personnelles. Un livre qui acte aussi son émancipation face à Marine Le Pen.