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Eagles acquire CB Jakorian Bennett from Raiders in exchange for DT Thomas Booker https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-acquire-cb-jakorian-bennett-from-raiders-in-exchange-for-dt-thomas-booker

Rams, RB Kyren Williams agree to terms on three-year, $33 million contract extension https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-rb-kyren-williams-agree-to-terms-contract-extension

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

A Comprehensive Analysis of Evolving Permission Usage in Android Apps: Trends, Threats, and Ecosystem Insights
Ali Alkinoon, Trung Cuong Dang, Ahod Alghuried, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Soohyeon Choi, Manar Mohaisen, An Wang, Saeed Salem, David Mohaisen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02008

A Comprehensive Analysis of Evolving Permission Usage in Android Apps: Trends, Threats, and Ecosystem Insights
The proper use of Android app permissions is crucial to the success and security of these apps. Users must agree to permission requests when installing or running their apps. Despite official Android platform documentation on proper permission usage, there are still many cases of permission abuse. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the Android permission landscape, highlighting trends and patterns in permission requests across various applications from the Google Play Store. By dis…

Guiding an Automatic Speech Recognition Decoder Using Large Language Models
Eyal Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University), Joseph Keshet (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02228

Guiding an Automatic Speech Recognition Decoder Using Large Language Models
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) consists of an acoustic model (AM) and a language model (LM). The AM estimates the probability of an acoustic signal based on a sequence of linguistic units, typically phones, characters, or tokens, while the LM assesses the likelihood of a specific sequence of words or tokens. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential across various tasks, integrating them into ASR remains an open challenge. By decomposing the maximum a pos…

Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage
Siddhant Arora, Haidar Khan, Kai Sun, Xin Luna Dong, Sajal Choudhary, Seungwhan Moon, Xinyuan Zhang, Adithya Sagar, Surya Teja Appini, Kaushik Patnaik, Sanat Sharma, Shinji Watanabe, Anuj Kumar, Ahmed Aly, Yue Liu, Florian Metze, Zhaojiang Lin
https://arxiv.…

Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage
End-to-end speech-in speech-out dialogue systems are emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines, generating more natural, expressive responses with significantly lower latency. However, these systems remain prone to hallucinations due to limited factual grounding. While text-based dialogue systems address this challenge by integrating tools such as web search and knowledge graph APIs, we introduce the first approach to extend tool use directly into speech-in speech-…

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An Evacuation Warning has been requested for Gaviota State Beach, per Incident Command. The fire is 1/2 to 1 acre in medium brush w/ moderate rate of spread, burning under the influence of a north wind & is burning towards the south, per Incident Command.
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Nik Bonitto, Broncos agree to four-year extension worth up to $120 million https://www.nfl.com/news/nik-bonitto-broncos-four-year-extension-worth-up-to-120-million

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound,
--FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices,
--Hacking Team successor surfaces,
--Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices,
--Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior,
--Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident,
--CBP searches more devices than ever,
--ICE …

Thai police blew up a Myanmar cyberscam compound
FCC blocks more Chinese-made devices, Hacking Team successor surfaces, Aisuru botnet overhauled to rent out IoT devices, Herodotus Android trojan mimics human behavior, Ad giant's subsidiary exposed data in cyber incident, CBP searches more devices than ever, ICE is becoming a spymaster, much more

Synergy between Roman and PRIMA imaging capabilities for large extragalactic surveys
M\'ed\'eric Boquien (Universit\'e C\^ote d'Azur, Observatoire de la C\^ote d'Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France), Laure Ciesla (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France), Roman Amestoy (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France), Jason Glenn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States), Carlotta Gruppioni (Istituto Naz…

Synergy between Roman and PRIMA imaging capabilities for large extragalactic surveys
The Roman Space Telescope will be instrumental for characterizing the physical properties of galaxies and understanding their evolution across time. However, a complete view of galaxy star formation activity will only be possible with the addition of far-infrared observations that a telescope such as PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) will be able to provide. Indeed, PRIMA's far-infrared camera will be highly sensitive to dust emission, whereas Roman will probe the stellar emis…