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xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk’s xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI. The suit accuses OpenAI of “inducing” recruits that it poached to steal trade secrets from the company.

Bundesinnenminister will "Abwehrschläge" gegen Cyberangriffe ermöglichen
Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt möchte das Gesetz ändern, um sich besser gegen Cyberangriffe zu wehren – konkret gehe es um "Abwehrschläge".

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„Technologieoffenheit ist keine Industriepolitik“ – MAN-Chef Alexander Vlaskamp
https://www.electrive.net/2025/10/23/technologieoffenheit-ist-keine-industriepolitik-man-chef-alexander-vlaskamp-im-interview/…

„Technologieoffenheit ist keine Industriepolitik“ – MAN-Chef Alexander Vlaskamp - electrive.net
Bundeskanzler Merz lud diesen Monat zum Auto-Gipfel und brachte dort das griffige Zitat, dass „das E-Auto auf der Hauptstraße fährt“. Und wo fährt der E-Lkw?

Online Adaptation via Dual-Stage Alignment and Self-Supervision for Fast-Calibration Brain-Computer Interfaces
Sheng-Bin Duan, Jian-Long Hao, Tian-Yu Xiang, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Mei-Jiang Gui, Xiao-Liang Xie, Shi-Qi Liu, Zeng-Guang Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19403

Online Adaptation via Dual-Stage Alignment and Self-Supervision for Fast-Calibration Brain-Computer Interfaces
Individual differences in brain activity hinder the online application of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI) systems. To overcome this limitation, this study proposes an online adaptation algorithm for unseen subjects via dual-stage alignment and self-supervision. The alignment process begins by applying Euclidean alignment in the EEG data space and then updates batch normalization statistics in the representation space. Moreover, a self-supervised loss is designed …

Mirroring Users: Towards Building Preference-aligned User Simulator with User Feedback in Recommendation
Tianjun Wei, Huizhong Guo, Yingpeng Du, Zhu Sun, Chen Huang, Dongxia Wang, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18142

Mirroring Users: Towards Building Preference-aligned User Simulator with User Feedback in Recommendation
User simulation is increasingly vital to develop and evaluate recommender systems (RSs). While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising avenues to simulate user behavior, they often struggle with the absence of specific domain alignment required for RSs and the efficiency demands of large-scale simulation. A vast yet underutilized resource for enhancing this alignment is the extensive user feedback inherent in RSs. However, directly leveraging such feedback presents two significant challeng…

Alignment-Sensitive Minimax Rates for Spectral Algorithms with Learned Kernels
Dongming Huang, Zhifan Li, Yicheng Li, Qian Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20294 https://

Alignment-Sensitive Minimax Rates for Spectral Algorithms with Learned Kernels
We study spectral algorithms in the setting where kernels are learned from data. We introduce the effective span dimension (ESD), an alignment-sensitive complexity measure that depends jointly on the signal, spectrum, and noise level $σ^2$. The ESD is well-defined for arbitrary kernels and signals without requiring eigen-decay conditions or source conditions. We prove that for sequence models whose ESD is at most $K$, the minimax excess risk scales as $σ^2 K$. Furthermore, we analyze over-par…

SGAligner : Cross-Modal Language-Aided 3D Scene Graph Alignment
Binod Singh, Sayan Deb Sarkar, Iro Armeni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20401 https://arxiv.o…

SGAligner++: Cross-Modal Language-Aided 3D Scene Graph Alignment
Aligning 3D scene graphs is a crucial initial step for several applications in robot navigation and embodied perception. Current methods in 3D scene graph alignment often rely on single-modality point cloud data and struggle with incomplete or noisy input. We introduce SGAligner++, a cross-modal, language-aided framework for 3D scene graph alignment. Our method addresses the challenge of aligning partially overlapping scene observations across heterogeneous modalities by learning a unified join…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine in WordPress lawsuit, alleging trademark misuse | TechCrunch
Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine, alleging that the company — backed by private equity firm Silver Lake — misused WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, misled users, and undermined the open source community.

“Openness to technology is not industrial policy” – interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp
https://www.electrive.com/2025/10/23/openness-to-technology-is-not-industrial-policy-interviw-with-man-ceo-alexander-vl…

“Openness to technology is not industrial policy” – interview with MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp - electrive.com
German Chancellor Merz hosted an auto summit this month and delivered the catchy line that “the electric car drives on the main road”. But where does the