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FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

Bengals veteran Wilson addresses benching https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46597458/bengals-defensive-stalwart-logan-wilson-addresses-benching

Warnungen vorm Platzen der KI-Blase nehmen zu
Banken, Investoren, Gelsinger, Zuckerberg, Altman – fast alle sprechen von einer platzenden KI-Blase. Nur Jensen Huang nicht.
https://www.heise.de/ne…

Should I Run My Cloud Benchmark on Black Friday?
S\"oren Henning, Adriano Vogel, Esteban Perez-Wohlfeil, Otmar Ertl, Rick Rabiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12397 https://

Should I Run My Cloud Benchmark on Black Friday?
Benchmarks and performance experiments are frequently conducted in cloud environments. However, their results are often treated with caution, as the presumed high variability of performance in the cloud raises concerns about reproducibility and credibility. In a recent study, we empirically quantified the impact of this variability on benchmarking results by repeatedly executing a stream processing application benchmark at different times of the day over several months. Our analysis confirms th…

ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
Yicheng Xu, Yue Wu, Jiashuo Yu, Ziang Yan, Tianxiang Jiang, Yinan He, Qingsong Zhao, Kai Chen, Yu Qiao, Limin Wang, Manabu Okumura, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11606

ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold promise for accelerating scientific discovery by interpreting complex experimental procedures. However, their true capabilities are poorly understood, as existing benchmarks neglect the fine-grained and long-horizon nature of authentic laboratory work, especially in wet-lab settings. To bridge this gap, we introduce ExpVid, the first benchmark designed to systematically evaluate MLLMs on scientific experiment videos. Curated from peer-reviewed video…

Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs
Shreya Havaldar, Sunny Rai, Young-Min Cho, Lyle Ungar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11563 https://

Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs
Existing benchmarks that measure cultural adaptation in LLMs are misaligned with the actual challenges these models face when interacting with users from diverse cultural backgrounds. In this work, we introduce the first framework and benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs in realistic, multicultural conversational settings. Grounded in sociocultural theory, our framework formalizes how linguistic style - a key element of cultural communication - is shaped by situational, relational, and cultural …

PayPal says it has filed applications to establish PayPal Bank to provide loans more efficiently to US small businesses and reduce its reliance on third parties (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/paypal<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Benjamin Britten, Chris Parkes, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Staples & Daniel Harding:
🎵 Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
#BenjaminBritten
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AwtoOFBOK9ySZ3Gv0zz8W

Sparkassen dringen auf Wero statt digitalem Euro
Europa will auch beim Bezahlen unabhängiger von den USA werden. Banken treiben jetzt den Zahldienst Wero – sehen sich aber von einer EZB-Initiative gebremst.
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Überweisungen hängen fest: Die Tücken der Empfängerverifikation
Sie sollte mehr Sicherheit bringen – doch die Empfängerverifikation sorgt vor allem für Verunsicherung, Banken kämpfen mit der Umsetzung.
ht…