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The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

from my link log —
$1,000,000 worth of invalid EV certificates revoked.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/extended-validation-not-so-extended/
saved 2019-09-14

Extended Validation not so... extended? How I revoked $1,000,000 worth of EV certificates!
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to a normal certificate. Turns out, that doesn't

WBD confirms that it received a revised bid from Paramount to acquire the company, but says it still recommends that shareholders vote for Netflix's deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It’s Reviewing Sweetened Paramount Bid
The global streaming giant revised its takeover offer after a recent amended bid by Paramount.

Vikings, RB Aaron Jones agree to revised contract to keep him in Minnesota for 2026 season https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-rb-aaron-jones-agree-to-revised-contract-for-2026-season

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/5]:
- Beyond In-Distribution Success: Scaling Curves of CoT Granularity for Language Model Generalization
Ru Wang, Wei Huang, Selena Song, Haoyu Zhang, Qian Niu, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18273 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114069031700102129
- Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech
Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao, Sarah Ebling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00780 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114267149909002069
- Cultural Biases of Large Language Models and Humans in Historical Interpretation
Fabio Celli, Georgios Spathulas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114278467094094490
- BRIDGE: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Understanding Real-world Clinical Practice Text
Jiageng Wu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114420036189999973
- Understanding the Anchoring Effect of LLM with Synthetic Data: Existence, Mechanism, and Potentia...
Yiming Huang, Biquan Bie, Zuqiu Na, Weilin Ruan, Songxin Lei, Yutao Yue, Xinlei He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114550277171100272
- Just as Humans Need Vaccines, So Do Models: Model Immunization to Combat Falsehoods
Raza, Qureshi, Farooq, Lotif, Chadha, Pandya, Emmanouilidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17870 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114572956853819813
- LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
Fu, Jiang, Hong, Li, Guo, Yang, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14493 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114703502552989170
- GHTM: A Graph-based Hybrid Topic Modeling Approach with a Benchmark Dataset for the Low-Resource ...
Farhana Haque, Md. Abdur Rahman, Sumon Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00605 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114969875643478303
- Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Lobm\"uller, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115020938764936882
- AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
Huang, Cao, Zhang, Kang, Wang, Wang, Luo, Zheng, Qian, Chen, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16952 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253526588472475
- Multi-View Attention Multiple-Instance Learning Enhanced by LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortio...
Jun Seo Kim, Hyemi Kim, Woo Joo Oh, Hongjin Cho, Hochul Lee, Hye Hyeon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253586227941157
- Dual-Space Smoothness for Robust and Balanced LLM Unlearning
Han Yan, Zheyuan Liu, Meng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23362 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115293308293558024
- The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
Tadesse Destaw Belay, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25477 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115298213432594791
- Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Reco...
Srivastav, Zheng, Bezzam, Le Bihan, Koluguri, \.Zelasko, Majumdar, Moumen, Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115343748052193267
- Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115349533441895984
- CLMN: Concept based Language Models via Neural Symbolic Reasoning
Yibo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10063 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115372392366793754
- Schema for In-Context Learning
Chen, Chen, Wang, Leong, Fung, Bernales, Aspuru-Guzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13905 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115389057899856601
- Evaluating Latent Knowledge of Public Tabular Datasets in Large Language Models
Matteo Silvestri, Fabiano Veglianti, Flavio Giorgi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115428615784704418
- LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data
Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115457025096322944
- Surfacing Subtle Stereotypes: A Multilingual, Debate-Oriented Evaluation of Modern LLMs
Muhammed Saeed, Muhammad Abdul-mageed, Shady Shehata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115491321130591723
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> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/5]:
- POTSA: A Cross-Lingual Speech Alignment Framework for Speech-to-Text Translation
Li, Cui, Wang, Ge, Huang, Li, Peng, Lu, Tashi, Wang, Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09232 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115541846907664054
- Beyond Elicitation: Provision-based Prompt Optimization for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
Yunzhe Xu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Zhe Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115547607561282911
- $\pi$-Attention: Periodic Sparse Transformers for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10696 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115564418836654965
- Based on Data Balancing and Model Improvement for Multi-Label Sentiment Classification Performanc...
Zijin Su, Huanzhu Lyu, Yuren Niu, Yiming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14073 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115575715073023141
- HEAD-QA v2: Expanding a Healthcare Benchmark for Reasoning
Alexis Correa-Guill\'en, Carlos G\'omez-Rodr\'iguez, David Vilares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15355 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115581410328165116
- Towards Hyper-Efficient RAG Systems in VecDBs: Distributed Parallel Multi-Resolution Vector Search
Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16681 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115603508442305146
- Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Transla...
Marii Ojastu, Hele-Andra Kuulmets, Aleksei Dorkin, Marika Borovikova, Dage S\"arg, Kairit Sirts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115604083224487885
- A Systematic Study of In-the-Wild Model Merging for Large Language Models
O\u{g}uz Ka\u{g}an Hitit, Leander Girrbach, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115621178703846052
- CREST: Universal Safety Guardrails Through Cluster-Guided Cross-Lingual Transfer
Lavish Bansal, Naman Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02711 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115655090475535157
- Multilingual Medical Reasoning for Question Answering with Large Language Models
Pietro Ferrazzi, Aitor Soroa, Rodrigo Agerri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115683267711014189
- OnCoCo 1.0: A Public Dataset for Fine-Grained Message Classification in Online Counseling Convers...
Albrecht, Lehmann, Poltermann, Rudolph, Steigerwald, Stieler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09804 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115700409397020978
- Does Tone Change the Answer? Evaluating Prompt Politeness Effects on Modern LLMs: GPT, Gemini, an...
Hanyu Cai, Binqi Shen, Lier Jin, Lan Hu, Xiaojing Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12812 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115729149622659403
- Beg to Differ: Understanding Reasoning-Answer Misalignment Across Languages
Ovalle, Ross, Ruder, Williams, Ullrich, Ibrahim, Sagun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115808161882146194
- Activation Steering for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Adi Shnaidman, Erin Feiglin, Osher Yaari, Efrat Mentel, Amit Levi, Raz Lapid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24143 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115819533211103315
- JMedEthicBench: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Safety in Japanese L...
Liu, Li, Niu, Zhang, Xun, Hou, Wang, Iwasawa, Matsuo, Hatakeyama-Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01627 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115847901607405421
- FACTUM: Mechanistic Detection of Citation Hallucination in Long-Form RAG
Dassen, Kotula, Murray, Yates, Lawrie, Kayi, Mayfield, Duh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05866 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115881545684182376
- {\dag}DAGGER: Distractor-Aware Graph Generation for Executable Reasoning in Math Problems
Zabir Al Nazi, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sudipta Kar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06853 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115887753245730019
- Symphonym: Universal Phonetic Embeddings for Cross-Script Name Matching
Stephen Gadd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06932 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115887767008671765
- LLMs versus the Halting Problem: Revisiting Program Termination Prediction
Sultan, Armengol-Estape, Kesseli, Vanegue, Shahaf, Adi, O'Hearn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18987 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972010510378715
- MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues
Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao, Xixun Lin, Chuan Zhou, Hao Peng, Yanan Cao, Yanbing Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20451 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115977891530875024
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Trial By Wine
Schmidty, Swanny and Clarky revisit crimes and run them through their jury of three, debating both sides of the case to agree an appropriate (if totally fictitious) sentence...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/trial-by-win…

Vikings, RB Aaron Jones agree to revised contract for next season: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7087365/2026/03/11/aaron-jones-vikings-nfl-free-agency-2026/