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Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/pacific-pocket-mouse-declared-endangered-species-candidate-in-california-2025-10…

Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California
Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, granting protections for them as the state conducts a yearlong review.

Top 10 NFL MVP candidates at midseason: Drake Maye and Jonathan Taylor headline my ranking https://www.nfl.com/news/top-10-nfl-mvp-candidates-at-midseason-drake-maye-and-jonathan-taylor-headline-my-ranking

Dak Prescott named among top NFL MVP candidates amid storm of offensive injuries https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-named-top-nfl-mvp-candidates-amid-storm-offensive-injuries

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
Yibin Guo, Manuel Schneider, Takis Angelides, Karl Jansen, C. -J. David Lin, Yao Ting Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07125

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
We present a framework for preparing quantum states from matrix product states (MPS) with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices. The MPS tensors are mapped to unitary gates, which are subsequently decomposed into native gates on quantum hardware. States with periodic boundary conditions (pbc) can be represented efficiently as quantum circuits using ancilla qubits and post-selection after measurement. We derive an exact expression for the success rate of this probabilistic app…

Test-Time Graph Search for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Evgenii Opryshko, Junwei Quan, Claas Voelcker, Yilun Du, Igor Gilitschenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07257 h…

Test-Time Graph Search for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) trains policies that reach user-specified goals at test time, providing a simple, unsupervised, domain-agnostic way to extract diverse behaviors from unlabeled, reward-free datasets. Nonetheless, long-horizon decision making remains difficult for GCRL agents due to temporal credit assignment and error accumulation, and the offline setting amplifies these effects. To alleviate this issue, we introduce Test-Time Graph Search (TTGS), a lightwe…

Enhancing Self-Driving Segmentation in Adverse Weather Conditions: A Dual Uncertainty-Aware Training Approach to SAM Optimization
Dharsan Ravindran, Kevin Wang, Zhuoyuan Cao, Saleh Abdelrahman, Jeffery Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04735

Enhancing Self-Driving Segmentation in Adverse Weather Conditions: A Dual Uncertainty-Aware Training Approach to SAM Optimization
Recent advances in vision foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its successor SAM2, have achieved state-of-the-art performance on general image segmentation benchmarks. However, these models struggle in adverse weather conditions where visual ambiguity is high, largely due to their lack of uncertainty quantification. Inspired by progress in medical imaging, where uncertainty-aware training has improved reliability in ambiguous cases, we investigate two approaches to en…

Missed Opportunity: Some Social Security officials said they welcomed DOGE — the agency needs a technological overhaul — only to see DOGE ignore them and prioritize quick (often empty) wins.

Internal Revolt: Leland Dudek, the agency’s then acting chief, helped DOGE at first, then tried to resist when he saw what it was doing, Dudek said in 15 hours of candid interviews.

DOGE Lives On: Multiple former DOGErs have taken permanent roles at the Social Security Administrat…

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse.

Boundary Conditions of Warped AdS$_3$ in New Massive Gravity
S. N. Sajadi, Supakchai Ponglertsakul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06572 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Boundary Conditions of Warped AdS$_3$ in New Massive Gravity
To satisfy the Cardy formula for Warped AdS$_3$ (WAdS$_{3}$) solutions in a quadratic ensemble, a specific set of boundary conditions has been proposed in \cite{Aggarwal:2020igb}. In this paper, these boundary conditions have been investigated in the three-dimensional new massive gravity (NMG) framework. The associated solution space, asymptotic symmetries, and charge algebra have been extracted. It has been shown that the surface charges are finite, but not integrable, and the integrability of…

Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month.
Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province,
losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted …

Milei's party crushed in Argentine local elections
The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province while the left-leaning Peronist opposition secured 47%, with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. With Milei’s close associates embroiled by a gr…