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Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance (Saeed Azhar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/go…

Tyler Smith, Cowboys agree to terms on massive contract extension https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-cowboys-agree-to-terms-on-massive-contract-extension

Data-independent Beamforming for End-to-end Multichannel Multi-speaker ASR
Can Cui, Paul Magron, Mostafa Sadeghi, Emmanuel Vincent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10234 https://

Data-independent Beamforming for End-to-end Multichannel Multi-speaker ASR
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular sectors based on their spherical polar coordinates before applying an end-to-end multichannel, multi-speaker ASR system. This method is data-independent and training-free. We demonstrate that using a group of beamformed signals improves ASR performance compare…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Niederlande sagen 90 Millionen Euro für Drohnen für Ukraine zu
Der niederländische Verteidigungsminister Ruben Brekelmans dringt auf effizientere Mittel für den Abschuss von Drohnen als den Einsatz von F-35-Kampfjets.
Zudem werde sein Land 90 Millionen Euro für Drohnen für die Ukraine ausgeben. Mehr NATO-Länder sollten ihre Beiträge zum Paket an militärischer Ausrüstung und Munition für die Ukraine…
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NATO-Staaten erwarten neuen Druck der USA bei Treffen in Brüssel
Beim heutigen Treffen der NATO-Verteidigungsminister in Brüssel dürfte ein Thema wieder im Mittelpunkt stehen: Die aus US-Sicht zu niedrigen Rüstungsausgaben der Europäer. Auch Vereinbarungen zur Ukraine-Unterstützung bergen Zündstoff.

This Year’s Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-years-nice-rice-price-marks-an-18-year-low-amid-a-doubling-of-per-acre-yield/

This Year's Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield
Humanity continues to make advancements with even the most primitive technologies, epitomized by this year's incredible Asian rice crop. 

I upgraded an old Acer laptop to the latest #mxlinux. It didn't take much work and went smoothly. I still have to put a guest user on and then tweak waht runs, but the basics are there.

An investment consortium including BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft plans to acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7f0457a-df43-44a2-bfa8-4e3d7dbcf2b8

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- DeepTrust: Multi-Step Classification through Dissimilar Adversarial Representations for Robust An...
Daniel Pulido-Cort\'azar, Daniel Gibert, Felip Many\`a