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EU considering proposals to speed Russian gas phaseout by 1 year, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/eu-considering-proposals-to-speed.html

Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
Akshay Kelshiker (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Susan Cheng (Independent Researcher), Jivan Achar (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine), Jane Bambauer (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Leo Anthony Celi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Divya Jain (University of Washington Sch…

Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
As wearable health technologies have grown more sophisticated, the distinction between "wellness" and "medical" devices has become increasingly blurred. While some features undergo formal U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, many over-the-counter tools operate in a regulatory grey zone, leveraging health-related data and outputs without clinical validation. Further complicating the issue is the widespread repurposing of wellness devices for medical uses, which can introduce safety ri…

@… As a former lawyer, I agree that the Court is now lawless. I don't know how one practices law these days, given the insanity spewed out by this Court.

Steelers, DeShon Elliott officially agree to new three-year contract for safety to remain in Pittsburgh

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Return of the clocked burster GS~1826$-$238
Tomoshi Takeda, Toru Tamagawa, Teruaki Enoto, Wataru Iwakiri, Akira Dohi, Tatehiro Mihara, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Chin-Ping Hu, Amira Aoyama, Naoyuki Ota, Satoko Iwata, Takuya Takahashi, Kaede Yamasaki, Takayuki Kita, Soma Tsuchiya, Yosuke Nakano, Mayu Ichibakase, Nobuya Nishimura
https://arxiv.org…

Return of the clocked burster GS~1826$-$238
We report the discovery of an exceptionally short burst recurrence time in the well-known clocked burster GS~1826$-$238, observed with the CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSat. The source had remained in a persistent soft spectral state since its hard-to-soft transition in 2015 July until a soft-to-hard transition occurred in 2025 May. On 2025 June 23, NinjaSat began monitoring GS~1826$-$238 in the hard state and continued until the source returned to a steady soft state. During this period, we d…

Raiders agree to terms with veteran Pro Bowl safety on eve of camp https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-agree-to-terms-with-veteran-pro-bowl-safety-on-eve-of-camp-3399328/

Dzisiejsi programiści: "zgoda? po co nam zgoda, po prostu nadpiszemy ci wszystkie menadżery paczek Pythona — naszą paczką. Co może pójść nie tak?!"
A dowcip w tym taki, że ja nawet tego tak naprawdę nie zainstalowałem — tylko robiłem przypadkowe poprawki, i uruchomiłem testy w venvie.
https://github…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13062 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMM_…

Hearing from Silence: Reasoning Audio Descriptions from Silent Videos via Vision-Language Model
Humans can intuitively infer sounds from silent videos, but whether multimodal large language models can perform modal-mismatch reasoning without accessing target modalities remains relatively unexplored. Current text-assisted-video-to-audio (VT2A) methods excel in video foley tasks but struggle to acquire audio descriptions during inference. We introduce the task of Reasoning Audio Descriptions from Silent Videos (SVAD) to address this challenge and investigate vision-language models' (VLMs) c…

Had to time-shift #LFC because of a meeting. 😠 But now I've gone FT and, wow! There is so much to unpack.
Firstly, I agree with Slot's comments. It was certainly very intense, but quality football was not possible. Newcastle seemingly poured all their frustrations about the Isak situation and wanting to be a top club into this, making it an absolute powder keg. As if winning would somehow…

From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
Luca Grillotti (AIRL, Imperial College London), Lisa Coiffard (AIRL, Imperial College London), Oscar Pang (AIRL, Imperial College London), Maxence Faldor (AIRL, Imperial College London), Antoine Cully (AIRL, Imperial College London)
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From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
Autonomous skill discovery aims to enable robots to acquire diverse behaviors without explicit supervision. Learning such behaviors directly on physical hardware remains challenging due to safety and data efficiency constraints. Existing methods, including Quality-Diversity Actor-Critic (QDAC), require manually defined skill spaces and carefully tuned heuristics, limiting real-world applicability. We propose Unsupervised Real-world Skill Acquisition (URSA), an extension of QDAC that enables rob…