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US-Staatsanwalt untersucht KI-Chatbots von Meta und Character.ai
KI-Chatbots können vor allem Heranwachsenden schaden, das meint ein Staatsanwalt aus Texas. Er hat Untersuchungen eingeleitet.
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Christoph Schneider, Prime Video Germany's Country Director since 2022, is leaving Amazon after 13 years due to an internal restructure that eliminates his role (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/prime-video-germany-christoph-s…

Prime Video Germany’s Long-Serving Chief Christoph Schneider Stepping Down
Christoph Schneider, Prime Video's country chief in Germany, is leaving Amazon after 13 years.

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
Gang Cheng, Xin Gao, Li Hu, Siqi Hu, Mingyang Huang, Chaonan Ji, Ju Li, Dechao Meng, Jinwei Qi, Penchong Qiao, Zhen Shen, Yafei Song, Ke Sun, Linrui Tian, Feng Wang, Guangyuan Wang, Qi Wang, Zhongjian Wang, Jiayu Xiao, Sheng Xu, Bang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xindi Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Jingren Zhou, Lian Zhuo

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the character in the video to generate high-fidelity character videos. Alternatively, it can integrate the animated character into the reference video to replace the original character, replicating the scene's lighting and color tone to achieve seamless environmental i…

Rare Event Simulation of Quantum Error-Correcting Circuits
Carolyn Mayer, Anand Ganti, Uzoma Onunkwo, Tzvetan Metodi, Benjamin Anker, Jacek Skryzalin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13678

Rare Event Simulation of Quantum Error-Correcting Circuits
We describe a practical approach for accessing the logical failure rates of quantum error-correcting (QEC) circuits under low physical (component) failure rate regimes. Standard Monte Carlo is often the de facto approach for studying the failure rates of quantum circuits. However, in the study of fault-tolerant error-correcting circuits, the ability to extend this approach to low physical failure rates is limited. In particular, the use of Monte Carlo to access circuits that are relatively larg…

🌡️ Scientists develop technology to grow semiconductor single crystals at temperatures exceeding 2,200°C
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientists-technology-semiconductor-crystals-temperatures.html

Scientists develop technology to grow semiconductor single crystals at temperatures exceeding 2,200°C
The single crystals currently used in semiconductors, electronic devices, and optical devices can't take the heat. This is because the materials typically used to make them—such as iridium and platinum—have a melting point below 2,200°C. Creating single crystals that can withstand these extreme temperatures is a challenge that has been unmet until now.

The DOJ has charged alleged Scattered Spider member Thalha Jubair, a UK national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.
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United Kingdom National Charged in Connection with Multiple Cyber Attacks, Including on Critical Infrastructure
A complaint filed in the District of New Jersey was unsealed today charging Thalha Jubair, a United Kingdom national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.

What drives 'psycho' Christian McCaffrey, whose return has rejuvenated the 49ers? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6642128/2025/09/19/christian-mccaffrey-49ers-healthy-2025/

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Circuit-based chatacterization of finite-temperature quantum phases and self-correcting quantum memory
Ruochen Ma, Vedika Khemani, Shengqi Sang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15204 …

Circuit-based chatacterization of finite-temperature quantum phases and self-correcting quantum memory
Quantum phases at zero temperature can be characterized as equivalence classes under local unitary transformations: two ground states within a gapped phase can be transformed into each other via a local unitary circuit. We generalize this circuit-based characterization of phases to systems at finite-temperature thermal equilibrium described by Gibbs states. We construct a channel circuit that approximately transforms one Gibbs state into another provided the two are connected by a path in param…

🪏 Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-dismantles-hundreds-of-illegal-dredges-in-major-amazon-mining-crackdown/

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said officers dismantled 277 floating mining rafts worth an estimated $6.8 million. […]