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The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

Raiders Get Honest Words on Pete Carroll, Geno Smith’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-geno-smith-honest-words/?adt_ei=[email]

Well, that's two ways of putting it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
Xiaoji Zheng, Ziyuan Yang, Yanhao Chen, Yuhang Peng, Yuanrong Tang, Gengyuan Liu, Bokui Chen, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12560

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving models trained solely with imitation learning (IL) often suffer from poor generalization. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) promotes exploration through reward maximization but faces challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable convergence. A natural solution is to combine IL and RL. Moving beyond the conventional two-stage paradigm (IL pretraining followed by RL fine-tuning), we propose CoIRL-AD, a competitive dual-policy framework that enables IL an…

🏈 How name, image, and likeness policies boost college football's competitive balance
#sports

How name, image, and likeness policies boost college football's competitive balance
A study published in Management Science challenges conventional wisdom about name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies in college football, demonstrating they actively enhance competitive balance and broaden opportunities for athletes.

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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

Jones: 'Important' for Cowboys to be competitive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47325296/jerry-jones-important-cowboys-compete-final-3-games

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

Im still "e-learning" how to generate aura and hype moments at a market-competitive rate so bear with me

“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
…

Grifts ‘R’ Us.
#MAGAcorruption #KristiNoem
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

RLRF: Competitive Search Agent Design via Reinforcement Learning from Ranker Feedback
Tommy Mordo, Sagie Dekel, Omer Madmon, Moshe Tennenholtz, Oren Kurland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04096

RLRF: Competitive Search Agent Design via Reinforcement Learning from Ranker Feedback
Competitive search is a setting where document publishers modify them to improve their ranking in response to a query. Recently, publishers have increasingly leveraged LLMs to generate and modify competitive content. We introduce Reinforcement Learning from Ranker Feedback (RLRF), a framework that trains LLMs using preference datasets derived from ranking competitions. The goal of a publisher (LLM-based) agent is to optimize content for improved ranking while accounting for the strategies of co…

Accelerated Price Adjustment for Fisher Markets with Exact Recovery of Competitive Equilibrium
He Chen, Chonghe Jiang, Anthony Man-Cho So
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07759 https:…

Accelerated Price Adjustment for Fisher Markets with Exact Recovery of Competitive Equilibrium
The canonical price-adjustment process, tâtonnement, typically fails to converge to the exact competitive equilibrium (CE) and requires a high iteration complexity of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(1/ε)$ to compute $ε$-CE prices in widely studied linear and quasi-linear Fisher markets. This paper proposes refined price-adjustment processes to overcome these limitations. By formulating the task of finding CE of a (quasi-)linear Fisher market as a strongly convex nonsmooth minimization problem, we devel…

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Nathan Hancart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12653

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Two identical firms compete to attract and hire from a pool of candidates of unknown productivity. Firms simultaneously post a selection procedure which consists of a test and an acceptance probability for each test outcome. After observing the firms' selection procedures, each candidate can apply to one of them. Both firms have access to a limited set of feasible tests. The firms face two key considerations when choosing their selection procedure: the statistical properties of their test and t…

ArenaBencher: Automatic Benchmark Evolution via Multi-Model Competitive Evaluation
Qin Liu, Jacob Dineen, Yuxi Huang, Sheng Zhang, Hoifung Poon, Ben Zhou, Muhao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08569

ArenaBencher: Automatic Benchmark Evolution via Multi-Model Competitive Evaluation
Benchmarks are central to measuring the capabilities of large language models and guiding model development, yet widespread data leakage from pretraining corpora undermines their validity. Models can match memorized content rather than demonstrate true generalization, which inflates scores, distorts cross-model comparisons, and misrepresents progress. We introduce ArenaBencher, a model-agnostic framework for automatic benchmark evolution that updates test cases while preserving comparability. G…

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
Andries Rosseau, Rapha\"el Avalos, Ann Now\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12555

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward f…

Combining Blotto Networks and Voter Models to Simulate Voter Behavior in Response to Competitive Election Spending
Renee Jerome
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09697 https://

Combining Blotto Networks and Voter Models to Simulate Voter Behavior in Response to Competitive Election Spending
In the past, the Voter Model has been explicitly used to model the impact of propaganda on a dynamic, interconnected population, and certain factors have been identified that influence the behavior of voters when under outside influence. The Blotto Game has also been explicitly used to study information wars between two opposing parties, whether in regards to a political issue or advertising war. Both the graph theory behind the Voter Model and the game theory aspects of the Blotto Game are rel…

How the Raiders Can Flip the Scripts vs. Chiefs https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-travis-kelce-kansas-city-chiefs-patrick-graham

Has Joe Burrow soured on Bengals? Ja'Marr Chase hasn't seen a change https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47280932/cincinnati-bengals-joe-burrow-remains-competitive

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

xLSTM Scaling Laws: Competitive Performance with Linear Time-Complexity
Maximilian Beck, Kajetan Schweighofer, Sebastian B\"ock, Sebastian Lehner, Sepp Hochreiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02228 …

xLSTM Scaling Laws: Competitive Performance with Linear Time-Complexity
Scaling laws play a central role in the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling the prediction of model performance relative to compute budgets prior to training. While Transformers have been the dominant architecture, recent alternatives such as xLSTM offer linear complexity with respect to context length while remaining competitive in the billion-parameter regime. We conduct a comparative investigation on the scaling behavior of Transformers and xLSTM along the following lines, prov…

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

Former Google CEO Says US Tech Workers Must Match China's 996 Schedule To Remain Competitive - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/26/2359224/former-google-ceo-says-us-tech-workers-must-match-chinas-996-schedule-to-remain-competitive

"we affirm that no country should conduct or
support ICT-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential
business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or
commercial sectors." (G20-Communiqué 2015)
Passt nicht nur zu den KI-Lumpen - auch seit 2015 wissen wir, dass kommerzielle Infrastrukturdienste für die Wissenschaft vollgepfropft sind mit Tracking-Tools, die Informationen abschöpfen…

MPCitH-based Signatures from Restricted Decoding Problems
Michele Battagliola, Sebastian Bitzer, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Violetta Weger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11224 https://

MPCitH-based Signatures from Restricted Decoding Problems
Threshold-Computation-in-the-Head (TCitH) and VOLE-in-the-Head (VOLEitH), two recent developments of the MPC-in-the-Head (MPCitH) paradigm, have significantly improved the performance of digital signature schemes in this framework. In this note, we embed the restricted decoding problem within these frameworks. We propose a structurally simple modeling that achieves competitive signature sizes. Specifically, by instantiating the restricted decoding problem with the same hardness assumption und…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- PPA-Game: Characterizing and Learning Competitive Dynamics Among Online Content Creators
Renzhe Xu, Haotian Wang, Xingxuan Zhang, Bo Li, Peng Cui

Filing: Paramount's outside partners for its WBD bid include Saudi Arabia's PIF, Abu Dhabi's L'imad, Qatar Investment Authority, and Jared Kushner's Affinity (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/paramount-warner-netflix-hostile

Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.

From various rumors and sources it appears that Open AI - a company organized under Delaware law but with HQ in California - is the cause of the tripling of computer memory prices and shortages.
Word is that Open AI bought up all of the large wafers from Samsung and Hynix that are used to make memory. The intention seems to be to corner the market in order to hobble Open AI's competition.
I am not an expert in either Federal or State laws on anti-competitive practices.

The 'situational masters' who help make the NFL's most crucial calls https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6880984/2025/12/12/nfl-situational-game-management-experts/

Legislature passes new map in Utah, creating two more competitive seats (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/utah-new-map-redistricting-00595076
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p149#a251006p149

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

Combinatorial Philosopher Inequalities
Enze Sun, Zhihao Gavin Tang, Yifan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10039 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10039

Combinatorial Philosopher Inequalities
In online combinatorial allocation, agents arrive sequentially and items are allocated in an online manner. The algorithm designer only knows the distribution of each agent's valuation, while the actual realization of the valuation is revealed only upon her arrival. Against the offline benchmark, Feldman, Gravin, and Lucier (SODA 2015) designed an optimal $0.5$-competitive algorithm for XOS agents. An emerging line of work focuses on designing approximation algorithms against the (computational…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.MA. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MA/new
[1/1]:
- Offline Fictitious Self-Play for Competitive Games
Jingxiao Chen, Weiji Xie, Weinan Zhang, Yong yu, Ying Wen

"Here’s a problem that’s highly likely going to get much worse, people [are] outsourcing their thinking to AI. “Many people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate some of the most basic aspects of daily life. A colleague suggested that we might even call the most extreme users “LLeMmings”"
Brilliant. From the Crank.
Read it Now

The Dice — 041
The design of competitive Paris, Jack into ᑕ¥βєяรקค¢є, a signal for world revolution, seeking silence and a clear view without Akutaq. Frito is real, and it’s the scariest movie of 2025.

Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Competitive Programming
Dongyijie Primo Pan, Ji Zhu, Lan Luo, Zhiqi Gao, Xin Tong, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15867 ht…

Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Competitive Programming
This paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) are reshaping competitive programming. The field functions as an intellectual contest within computer science education and is marked by rapid iteration, real-time feedback, transparent solutions, and strict integrity norms. Prior work has evaluated LLMs performance on contest problems, but little is known about how human stakeholders -- contestants, problem setters, coaches, and platform stewards -- are adapting their workflows and conte…

Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country

The surprisingly competitive race
in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District
is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.
https://www.washingtonpo…

Why Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country
The surprisingly competitive race in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.

Heute feiert unser #Partnerverband #DeutschesCompetitiveIntelligenceForum (#dcif) sein 20-jähriges Bestehen – zwei Jahrzehnte voller Wissen, Austausch, Engagement…

Game-theoretic Social Distancing in Competitive Bi-Virus SIS Epidemics
Benjamin Catalano, Keith Paarporn, Sebin Gracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02269 https://

Game-theoretic Social Distancing in Competitive Bi-Virus SIS Epidemics
Numerous elements drive the spread of infectious diseases in complex real-world networks. Of particular interest is social behaviors that evolve in tandem with the spread of disease. Moreover, recent studies highlight the importance of understanding how multiple strains spread simultaneously through a population (e.g. Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2). In this paper, we propose a bi-virus SIS epidemic model coupled with a game-theoretic social distancing behavior model. The behaviors ar…

Why Pete Carroll Can’t Fix the Raiders’ Biggest Problems https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-cant-fix-biggest-problems

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Batu El, James Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how information is created and disseminated, from companies using them to craft persuasive advertisements, to election campaigns optimizing messaging to gain votes, to social media influencers boosting engagement. These settings are inherently competitive, with sellers, candidates, and influencers vying for audience approval, yet it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior. We show that optimizing LLMs …

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[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Beyond Surface Reasoning: Unveiling the True Long Chain-of-Thought Capacity of Diffusion Large Language Models
Qiguang Chen, Hanjing Li, Libo Qin, Dengyun Peng, Jinhao Liu, Jiangyi Wang, Chengyue Wu, Xie Chen, Yantao Du, Wanxiang Che
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09544

Beyond Surface Reasoning: Unveiling the True Long Chain-of-Thought Capacity of Diffusion Large Language Models
Recently, Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) have offered high throughput and effective sequential reasoning, making them a competitive alternative to autoregressive LLMs (ALLMs). However, parallel decoding, which enables simultaneous token updates, conflicts with the causal order often required for rigorous reasoning. We first identify this conflict as the core Parallel-Sequential Contradiction (PSC). Behavioral analyses in both simple and complex reasoning tasks show that DLLMs exhibit g…

OpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive conduct by "entrenched companies" in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI Warns EU Antitrust Watchdogs of Big Tech’s Data Dominance
OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

Enhanced thermal stability of inverted perovskite solar cells by bulky passivation with pyridine-functionalized triphenylamine
Ekaterina A. Ilicheva, Irina A. Chuyko, Lev O. Luchnikov, Polina K. Sukhorukova, Nikita S. Saratovsky, Anton A. Vasilev, Luiza Alexanyan, Anna A. Zarudnyaya, Dmitri Yu. Dorofeev, Sergey S. Kozlov, Andrey P. Morozov, Dmitry S. Muratov, Yuriy N. Luponosov, Danila S. Saranin

Enhanced thermal stability of inverted perovskite solar cells by bulky passivation with pyridine-functionalized triphenylamine
Despite competitive efficiency compared to Si solar cells and relevant stability at near room temperatures the rapid degradation at elevated temperatures remains the critical obstacle for exploitation of perovskite photovoltaics. In this work, a 4-(pyridin-4-yl)triphenylamine (TPA-Py) with pyridine anchor group was employed for inter-grain bulk modification of double-cation CsCH(NH2)2PbI3 perovskite absorbers to enhance thermal stability. Through coordination and dipole-dipole interactions, nit…

Ah, a free update on the state of the legacy IP address market, from a spammer:
Subject: Spanish IPs ranges available
We currently have a very competitive offer on IP sales, with the following prices:
• €27/IP for ranges from /24 to /22
• €26/IP for ranges of /21 and larger

LOL
https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-PkYIgglgSmqDJSMRBSBWfw:a:3199692-/0

'It's the golden age of spreadsheet geekery'
"Who doesn't want to be the spreadsheet champion?" That is what the co-founders of the UK Microsoft Excel chapter said when explaining how the everyday computer programme Microsoft Excel became a competitive e-sport. For a few years now, spreadsheet masters have been working hard to get their hands …

The EU just opened the funding floodgates for clean energy innovation.
The European Commission launched €5.2bn in new funding opportunities targeting net-zero tech, low-carbon hydrogen, and industrial decarbonization. The goal: hit 2030 climate targets while keeping European industry competitive and resilient on the path to climate neutrality by 2050.

European Commission launches $6.06bn clean transition funding opportunities
The European Commission (EC) has launched three new funding opportunities under the Innovation Fund, backed by €5.2bn ($6.06bn) sourced from EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenues focusing on net-zero technologies, low-carbon hydrogen, and decarbonising industrial process heat.

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Sayantika Mandal, Harman Agrawal, Swaprava Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11253 https://

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Firms (businesses, service providers, entertainment organizations, political parties, etc.) advertise on social networks to draw people's attention and improve their awareness of the brands of the firms. In all such cases, the competitive nature of their engagements gives rise to a game where the firms need to decide how to distribute their budget over the agents on a network to maximize their brand's awareness. The firms (players) therefore need to optimize how much budget they should put on t…

call me crazy but I don't think competitive sports should have moneyback guarantees. if you only support your club when you're winning you should just stick to watching sports films
#fedifc

LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?
Kaijian Zou, Aaron Xiong, Yunxiang Zhang, Frederick Zhang, Yueqi Ren, Jirong Yang, Ayoung Lee, Shitanshu Bhushan, Lu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09595

LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?
Competitive programming problems increasingly serve as valuable benchmarks to evaluate the coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) due to their complexity and ease of verification. Yet, current coding benchmarks face limitations such as lack of exceptionally challenging problems, insufficient test case coverage, reliance on online platform APIs that limit accessibility. To address these issues, we introduce LiveOIBench, a comprehensive benchmark featuring 403 expert-curated Olympiad…

Dynamical Systems Models for Market Evolution: A Mechanistic Alternative to Autoregressive Methods
Aparna Komarla, Max Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06778 https://

Dynamical Systems Models for Market Evolution: A Mechanistic Alternative to Autoregressive Methods
We present a novel approach to modeling market dynamics using ordinary differential equations that explicitly incorporates product competitiveness and consumer behavior. Our framework treats market segments as interacting populations in a dynamical system analogous to predator-prey models, where competitive advantages drive market share transitions through mechanistic modeling of market flows including new product adoption, refresh cycles, and obsolescence dynamics.

Joe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
Baher Mohammad, Magauiya Zhussip, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04738

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
We introduce MAVE (Mamba with Cross-Attention for Voice Editing and Synthesis), a novel autoregressive architecture for text-conditioned voice editing and high-fidelity text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, built on a cross-attentive Mamba backbone. MAVE achieves state-of-the-art performance in speech editing and very competitive results in zero-shot TTS, while not being explicitly trained on the latter task, outperforming leading autoregressive and diffusion models on diverse, real-world audio. By i…

Least Energy Solutions for Cooperative and Competitive Schr\"odinger Systems with Neumann Boundary Conditions
Simone Mauro, Delia Schiera, Hugo Tavares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18835

Least Energy Solutions for Cooperative and Competitive Schrödinger Systems with Neumann Boundary Conditions
We study the following gradient elliptic system with Neumann boundary conditions \begin{equation*} -Δu + λ_1 u = u^3 + βuv^2, \ -Δv + λ_2 v = v^3 + βu^2 v \ \text{in } Ω,\qquad \frac{\partial u}{\partial ν} = \frac{\partial v}{\partial ν} = 0 \ \text{on } \partial Ω, \end{equation*} where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N $ is a bounded $ C^2$ domain with $ N \leq 4 $, and $ ν$ denotes the outward unit normal on the boundary. We investigate the existence of non-constant least energy solutions …

NFL Week 14 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games with this season's most surprising teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6857546/2025/12/05/nfl-week-14-schedule-bears-packers-colts-jaguars/

SPICE: Simple and Practical Image Clarification and Enhancement
Alexander Belyaev, Pierre-Alain Fayolle, Michael Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08358 https://

SPICE: Simple and Practical Image Clarification and Enhancement
We introduce a simple and efficient method to enhance and clarify images. More specifically, we deal with low light image enhancement and clarification of hazy imagery (hazy/foggy images, images containing sand dust, and underwater images). Our method involves constructing an image filter to simulate low-light or hazy conditions and deriving approximate reverse filters to minimize distortions in the enhanced images. Experimental results show that our approach is highly competitive and often sur…

"Biodiversity Improves Tree Defenses Against Hungry Herbivores"
#Biodiversity #Trees #Nature #Environment

Biodiversity Improves Tree Defenses Against Hungry Herbivores | Happy Eco News
Biodiversity improves tree defenses through associational resistance. Tree seedlings in 15-species plots resisted deer and insect attacks better than monocultures. Selective browsing on competitive species and protection from unpalatable neighbors drove the benefit. The findings highlight how herbivores shape forest composition, resilience, and biodiversity’s protective power.

Minimizing the Weighted Makespan with Restarts on a Single Machine
Aflatoun Amouzandeh, Klaus Jansen, Lis Pirotton, Rob van Stee, Corinna Wambsganz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09589

Minimizing the Weighted Makespan with Restarts on a Single Machine
We consider the problem of minimizing the weighted makespan on a single machine with restarts. Restarts are similar to preemptions but weaker: a job can be interrupted, but then it has to be run again from the start instead of resuming at the point of interruption later. The objective is to minimize the weighted makespan, defined as the maximum weighted completion time of jobs. We establish a lower bound of 1.4656 on the competitive ratio achievable by deterministic online algorithms. For the…

Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications
Abhinav Rastogi, Adam Yang, Albert Q. Jiang, Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Am\'elie H\'eliou, Am\'elie Martin, Anmol Agarwal, Andy Ehrenberg, Andy Lo, Antoine Roux, Arthur Darcet, Arthur Mensch, Baptiste Bout, Baptiste Rozi\`ere, Baudouin De Monicault, Chris Bamford, Christian Wallenwein, Christophe Renaudin, Cl\'emence Lanfranchi, Cl\'ement Denoix, Corentin Barreau, Darius Dabert Devon …

Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications
We introduce Devstral-Small, a lightweight open source model for code agents with the best performance among models below 100B size. In this technical report, we give an overview of how we design and develop a model and craft specializations in agentic software development. The resulting model, Devstral-Small is a small 24B model, fast and easy to serve. Despite its size, Devstral-Small still attains competitive performance compared to models more than an order of magnitude larger.

Self-driving cars: Are we there yet?
Merve Atasever, Zhuochen Liu, Qingpei Li, Akshay Hitendra Shah, Hans Walker, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Rahul Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22754

Self-driving cars: Are we there yet?
Autonomous driving remains a highly active research domain that seeks to enable vehicles to perceive dynamic environments, predict the future trajectories of traffic agents such as vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists and plan safe and efficient future motions. To advance the field, several competitive platforms and benchmarks have been established to provide standardized datasets and evaluation protocols. Among these, leaderboards by the CARLA organization and nuPlan and the Waymo Open Dataset …

Open Opportunities in AI Safety, Alignment, and Ethics (AI SAE)
Dylan Waldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24065

Open Opportunities in AI Safety, Alignment, and Ethics (AI SAE)
AI safety research has emphasized interpretability, control, and robustness, yet without an ethical substrate these approaches may remain fragile under competitive and open-ended pressures. This paper explores ethics not as an external add-on, but as a possible structural lens for alignment, introducing a \emph{moral problem space} $M$: a high-dimensional domain in which moral distinctions could, in principle, be represented in AI systems. Human moral reasoning is treated as a compressed and su…

Global weak martingale solutions to a stochastic two-sidedly degenerate aggregation-diffusion equation issued from biology
Mostafa Bendahmane, Mohamed Mehdaoui, Mouhcine Tilioua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03947

Global weak martingale solutions to a stochastic two-sidedly degenerate aggregation-diffusion equation issued from biology
The purpose of this paper is to establish the well-posedness of martingale (probabilistic weak) solutions to stochastic degenerate aggregation--diffusion equations arising in biological and public health contexts. The studied equation is of a stochastic degenerate parabolic type, featuring a nonlinear two-sidedly degenerate diffusion term accounting for repulsion, a locally Lipschitz reaction term representing competitive interactions, and a stochastic perturbation term capturing environmental …

After IECharge, which has set up fast #EV charging stations at their solar battery locations (with the lowest price in the French market: €0.25/kWh), there's now another French network offering green electricity directly from the source (also very competitive at €0.30/kWh).

Kallista Energy inaugure la première station de recharge raccordée à des éoliennes
Producteur indépendant d’énergies renouvelables, Kallista Energy a diversifié ses activités en 2022 en lançant le réseau de recharge rapide Yaway...

Based on the current congressional map, Inside Elections rates 64 House seats nationwide as being at least somewhat competitive, with a dozen considered toss-ups.
The Cook Political Report,another gold-plated handicapper, rates 72 seats competitive or having the potential to be so, with 18 toss-ups.
Both agree that two of those coin-flip races are in California, where Democrats Adam Gray and Derek Tran are fighting to hang onto seats they narrowly won in, respectively, the Central…

Barabak: Here's why the redistricting fight is raging. And why it may be moot
The partisan passions suggest control of the House will be decided next year by just a few seats, one way or the other. But that's typically not the case.

💥 Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
#sports

Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
It might seem counterintuitive in a sport built around speed, but the world governing body for competitive cycling wants to slow elite riders down.

Dr. Bias: Social Disparities in AI-Powered Medical Guidance
Emma Kondrup, Anne Imouza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09162

Dr. Bias: Social Disparities in AI-Powered Medical Guidance
With the rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs), the general public now has easy and affordable access to applications capable of answering most health-related questions in a personalized manner. These LLMs are increasingly proving to be competitive, and now even surpass professionals in some medical capabilities. They hold particular promise in low-resource settings, considering they provide the possibility of widely accessible, quasi-free healthcare support. However, evaluations that …

A Hierarchical Variational Graph Fused Lasso for Recovering Relative Rates in Spatial Compositional Data
Joaquim Valerio Teixeira, Ed Reznik, Sudpito Banerjee, Wesley Tansey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20636

A Hierarchical Variational Graph Fused Lasso for Recovering Relative Rates in Spatial Compositional Data
The analysis of spatial data from biological imaging technology, such as imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) or imaging mass cytometry (IMC), is challenging because of a competitive sampling process which convolves signals from molecules in a single pixel. To address this, we develop a scalable Bayesian framework that leverages natural sparsity in spatial signal patterns to recover relative rates for each molecule across the entire image. Our method relies on the use of a heavy-tailed variant of th…

The 'situational masters' who help make the NFL's most crucial calls https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6880984/2025/12/12/nfl-situational-game-management-experts/

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
Jihun Lim, Sungwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07338 https://

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
To facilitate the widespread adoption of renewable energy, dispatchable, zero-emission power sources are essential for grid stability. This work performs a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of a self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system, an architecture that integrates solar charging to function as a standalone power generation asset. Using theory-based models for air-bridge InGaAs and Si diode cells, our analysis reveals that while the system is not currently competitive from a pur…

Pursuing decarbonization and competitiveness: a narrow corridor for European green industrial transformation
Alice Di Bella, Toni Seibold, Tom Brown, Massimo Tavoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08199

Pursuing decarbonization and competitiveness: a narrow corridor for European green industrial transformation
This study analyzes how Europe can decarbonize its industrial sector while remaining competitive. Using the open-source model PyPSA-Eur, it examines key energy- and emission-intensive industries, including steel, cement, methanol, ammonia, and high-value chemicals. Two development paths are explored: a continued decline in industrial activity and a reindustrialization driven by competitiveness policies. The analysis assesses cost gaps between European green products and lower-cost imports, and …

Varun Shetty, OpenAI's media partnerships head, says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it didn't want to "be at a competitive disadvantage" (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/openais-sora-2-heralds-the-ai-era

OpenAI's Sora 2 Heralds the AI Era for Social Media & the ‘Attention Economy'
Plus, Ex-Sequoia partner Matt Miller launches a London-based fund & Mira Murati's AI lab releases its first product

A Polylogarithmic Competitive Algorithm for Stochastic Online Sorting and TSP
Andreas Kalavas, Charalampos Platanos, Thanos Tolias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26073 https://

A Polylogarithmic Competitive Algorithm for Stochastic Online Sorting and TSP
In \emph{Online Sorting}, an array of $n$ initially empty cells is given. At each time step $t$, an element $x_t \in [0,1]$ arrives and must be placed irrevocably into an empty cell without any knowledge of future arrivals. We aim to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of elements placed in consecutive array cells, seeking an online placement strategy that results in a final array close to a sorted one. An interesting multidimensional generalization, a.k.a. the \emph{Online T…

Stealing AI Model Weights Through Covert Communication Channels
Valentin Barbaza, Alan Rodrigo Diaz-Rizo, Hassan Aboushady, Spyridon Raptis, Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00151

Stealing AI Model Weights Through Covert Communication Channels
AI models are often regarded as valuable intellectual property due to the high cost of their development, the competitive advantage they provide, and the proprietary techniques involved in their creation. As a result, AI model stealing attacks pose a serious concern for AI model providers. In this work, we present a novel attack targeting wireless devices equipped with AI hardware accelerators. The attack unfolds in two phases. In the first phase, the victim's device is compromised with a hardw…

New Colts QB Philip Rivers to take Daniel Jones' jersey number as he comes out of retirement, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-philip-rivers-daniel-jones-jersey…

NFL Announces Punishment for Colts Player in Win Over Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-announces-punishment-colts-player/?adt_ei=[email]

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Xingyu Chen, Yue Chen, Yuliang Xiu, Andreas Geiger, Anpei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26645 https://arxi…

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Modern Recurrent Neural Networks have become a competitive architecture for 3D reconstruction due to their linear-time complexity. However, their performance degrades significantly when applied beyond the training context length, revealing limited length generalization. In this work, we revisit the 3D reconstruction foundation models from a Test-Time Training perspective, framing their designs as an online learning problem. Building on this perspective, we leverage the alignment confidence betw…

On Listwise Reranking for Corpus Feedback
Soyoung Yoon, Jongho Kim, Daeyong Kwon, Avishek Anand, Seung-won Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00887 https://a…

On Listwise Reranking for Corpus Feedback
Reranker improves retrieval performance by capturing document interactions. At one extreme, graph-aware adaptive retrieval (GAR) represents an information-rich regime, requiring a pre-computed document similarity graph in reranking. However, as such graphs are often unavailable, or incur quadratic memory costs even when available, graph-free rerankers leverage large language model (LLM) calls to achieve competitive performance. We introduce L2G, a novel framework that implicitly induces documen…

Cowboys need bold performances to escape Thanksgiving with a victory https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-need-bold-performances-to-escape-thanksgiving-with-a-victory

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

'There's an energy and a competitive spirit to Stef': Why Diggs has boosted Patriots https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46886093/new-england-patriots-stefon-diggs-leadership

A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features
Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric Brachmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00978

A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features
Visually localizing an image, i.e., estimating its camera pose, requires building a scene representation that serves as a visual map. The representation we choose has direct consequences towards the practicability of our system. Even when starting from mapping images with known camera poses, state-of-the-art approaches still require hours of mapping time in the worst case, and several minutes in the best. This work raises the question whether we can achieve competitive accuracy much faster. We …

Cowboys need bold performances to escape Thanksgiving with a victory https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-need-bold-performances-to-escape-thanksgiving-with-a-victory/

He's never held public office or donned a judge's robes,
but an arch-conservative Los Angeles County attorney is racing toward confirmation on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals,
accelerating the once-liberal court's sharp rightward turn under President Trump.
A competitive target shooter with a background in cryptocurrency,
Eric Tung was approached by the White House Counsel's Office on March 28 to replace Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta,
a Bush appoin…

Trump taps 'Tough Patriot' — L.A. lawyer known for crypto, guns — as 9th Circuit judge
President Trump's pick to fill a vacant seat on the West Coast's federal appeals court is a Pasadena attorney who is anti-abortion, pro-gun and has a backgro...

BEFT: Bias-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Baichuan Huang, Ananth Balashankar, Amir Aminifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15974 https://arxiv.org/pd…

BEFT: Bias-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Fine-tuning all-bias-terms stands out among various parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques, owing to its out-of-the-box usability and competitive performance, especially in low-data regimes. Bias-only fine-tuning has the potential for unprecedented parameter efficiency. However, the link between fine-tuning different bias terms (i.e., bias terms in the query, key, or value projections) and downstream performance remains unclear. The existing approaches, e.g., based on the magnitude o…

TVS Sidekick: Challenges and Practical Insights from Deploying Large Language Models in the Enterprise
Paula Reyero Lobo, Kevin Johnson, Bill Buchanan, Matthew Shardlow, Ashley Williams, Samuel Attwood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26482

TVS Sidekick: Challenges and Practical Insights from Deploying Large Language Models in the Enterprise
Many enterprises are increasingly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make internal processes more competitive and efficient. In response to public concern and new regulations for the ethical and responsible use of AI, implementing AI governance frameworks could help to integrate AI within organisations and mitigate associated risks. However, the rapid technological advances and lack of shared ethical AI infrastructures creates barriers to their practical adoption in businesses. This paper…

Game Preview: Broncos set for prime-time tilt with division rival Raiders https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/game-preview-broncos-set-for-prime-time-tilt-with-division-rival-raiders

Are the Ravens hopeless? Do the Jets or Giants have it worse? Our NFL experts' Week 5 takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6691685/2025/10/05/nfl-takeaways-week-5-scores-results/

Degree-bounded Online Bipartite Matching: OCS vs. Ranking
Yilong Feng, Haolong Li, Xiaowei Wu, Shengwei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00965 https://arxiv…

Degree-bounded Online Bipartite Matching: OCS vs. Ranking
We revisit the online bipartite matching problem on $d$-regular graphs, for which Cohen and Wajc (SODA 2018) proposed an algorithm with a competitive ratio of $1-2\sqrt{H_d/d} = 1-O(\sqrt{(\log d)/d})$ and showed that it is asymptotically near-optimal for $d=ω(1)$. However, their ratio is meaningful only for sufficiently large $d$, e.g., the ratio is less than $1-1/e$ when $d\leq 168$. In this work, we study the problem on $(d,d)$-bounded graphs (a slightly more general class of graphs than $d…

A conservative federal judge just resigned after 4 decades of service
and warned us that
Trump is “uniquely dangerous”.
He said he’s so deeply disturbed by Trump’s assault on the rule of law that he had to speak out.
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲?
I’m Fred Wellman,
a 22-year Army Veteran and aviator running for Congress
in one of the most competitive districts in the country.
Congresswoman Ann Wagner has never stood up to Trump. <…

nnFilterMatch: A Unified Semi-Supervised Learning Framework with Uncertainty-Aware Pseudo-Label Filtering for Efficient Medical Segmentation
Yi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19746

nnFilterMatch: A Unified Semi-Supervised Learning Framework with Uncertainty-Aware Pseudo-Label Filtering for Efficient Medical Segmentation
Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm in medical image segmentation, offering competitive performance while substantially reducing the need for extensive manual annotation. When combined with active learning (AL), these strategies further minimize annotation burden by selectively incorporating the most informative samples. However, conventional SSL_AL hybrid approaches often rely on iterative and loop-based retraining cycles after each annotation round, incurring si…

What Chargers Loss Said About the Pete Carroll-Era Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-chargers-loss-said-about-pete-carroll-era

Giants see success for Jaxson Dart if he can avoid injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47154291/new-york-giants-success-jaxson-dart-stay-healthy-2025

Online Firefighting on Cactus Graphs
Max Hugen, Bob Krekelberg, Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22277…

Online Firefighting on Cactus Graphs
It is known that the online firefighting is 2-competitive on trees (Coupechoux et al. 2016), which suggests that the problem is relatively easy on trees. We extend the study to graphs containing cycles. We first show that the presence of cycles gives a strong advantage to the adversary: cycles create situations where the algorithm and the optimal solution operate on different game states, and the adversary can exploit the uncertainty in the firefighter sequence to trap the algorithm. Specifical…

Where to watch Chargers vs. Titans: TV channel, kickoff time, odds, prediction, spread

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-chargers-vs-…

Ravens receive $100,000 fine for incorrectly listing Lamar Jackson as full practice participant before Week 8

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-lam…

Even with several improvements, Raiders need to find a way to 'not make it so hard on ourselves' https://www.raiders.com/news/even-with-several-improvements-raiders-need-to-find-a-way-to-not-make-it-so-hard-on-ourse…

NFC East roundtable: Can the defending champs take the division crown again? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46683318/nfc-east-roundtable-2025-week-7-eagles-cowboys-commanders-giants

Inside the Lines: What's at stake in Cardinals vs. Seahawks Week 4 Thursday Night Football game

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/ins

Jerry skeptical Dallas is '1 player away on defense' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46740452/cowboys-jerry-jones-willing-deal-trade-deadline-not-convinced-one-move-help-defense

Hard-core hoops, laughs and love for 'tough dudes': The friendship of Dan Morgan, Brandon Beane and Joe Schoen https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6745157/2025/10/24/dan-morgan-brandon-beane-joe-schoen-bills-pant…