The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…
How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
Apoorv Khandelwal, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01685 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01685
Self-lensing binaries in globular clusters - predictions for ELT
Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Matthew Middleton, Mirek Giersz, Adam Ingram, Adam McMaster, Abbas Askar, Lucas Hellstr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02751
Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/-blackrock-link…
Passive harmonic mode-locked laser on lithium niobate integrated photonics
Yu Wang, Guanyu Han, Jan-Philipp Koester, Hans Wenzel, Wei Wang, Wenjun Deng, Ziyao Feng, Meng Tian, Andrea Al\`u, Andrea Knigge, Qiushi Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03522
Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries
P. Gandhi, D. M. Russell, M. C. Baglio, Y. Bhargava, R. Duncan, A. G\'urpide, C. O. Heinke, C. Knigge, K. S. Long, T. J. Maccarone, G. Mastroserio, T. D. Russell, A. W. Shaw, A. J. Tetarenko, F. M. Vincentelli, E. S. Borowski, D. A. H. Buckley, P. Casella, C. Dashwood Brown, G. C. Dewangan, R. I. Hynes, S. Markoff, J. A. Tomsick, K. Alabarta, F. Carot…
Attention as a Compass: Efficient Exploration for Process-Supervised RL in Reasoning Models
Runze Liu, Jiakang Wang, Yuling Shi, Zhihui Xie, Chenxin An, Kaiyan Zhang, Jian Zhao, Xiaodong Gu, Lei Lin, Wenping Hu, Xiu Li, Fuzheng Zhang, Guorui Zhou, Kun Gai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26628
EU-Kommission bestätigt GPS-Störung bei von der Leyens Flug
Ein Flugzeug mit EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen an Bord ist mutmaßlich Ziel einer absichtlichen Störung des satellitenbasierten Navigationssystems GPS durch Russland geworden.
"Wir können tatsächlich bestätigen, dass es GPS-Störungen gegeben hat", sagte Kommissionssprecherin Arianna Podesta in Brüssel. Bulgarische Behörden hätten die Vermutung geäuße…
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Noisy Timing Behavior is a Feature of Central Compact Object Pulsars
K. I. Perez, E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02233 https://ar…