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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…

California Supreme Court rejects free speech challenge to LGBT protections in nursing homes
A 2017 California law is meant to protect the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients

How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
Apoorv Khandelwal, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01685 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01685

How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
While large language models (LLMs) appear to be increasingly capable of solving compositional tasks, it is an open question whether they do so using compositional mechanisms. In this work, we investigate how feedforward LLMs solve two-hop factual recall tasks, which can be expressed compositionally as $g(f(x))$. We first confirm that modern LLMs continue to suffer from the "compositionality gap": i.e. their ability to compute both $z = f(x)$ and $y = g(z)$ does not entail their ability to compu…

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

Self-lensing binaries in globular clusters - predictions for ELT
Self-lensing (SL) represents a powerful technique for detecting compact objects in binary systems through gravitational microlensing effects, when a compact companion transits in front of its luminous partner. We present the first comprehensive study of SL probability within globular cluster (GC) environments, utilizing synthetic stellar populations from MOCCA simulations to predict detection rates for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Our analysis incorporates finite-size lens effects for w…

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…

BlackRock-linked tokenization firm Securitize to go public via SPAC deal
Founded in 2017, Securitize filed on Tuesday to go public through a SPAC deal that values its business at $1.25 billion.

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

Passive harmonic mode-locked laser on lithium niobate integrated photonics
Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) are essential for a wide range of photonic applications, such as frequency metrology, biological imaging, and high-bandwidth coherent communications. The growing demand for compact and scalable photonic systems is driving the development of MLLs on various integrated photonics material platforms. Along these lines, developing MLLs on the emerging thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform holds the promise to greatly broaden the application space of MLLs by harnessing T…

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…

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
Progress in understanding the growth of accreting black holes remains hampered by a lack of sensitive coordinated multiwavelength observations. In particular, the mid-infrared (MIR) regime remains ill-explored except for jet-dominant states. Here, we present comprehensive follow-up of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 during a disc-dominated state in its 2023/24 outburst as part of a multi-wavelength campaign coordinated around JWST/MIRI. The X-ray properties are fairly typical of soft accre…

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

Attention as a Compass: Efficient Exploration for Process-Supervised RL in Reasoning Models
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Process-Supervised RL (PSRL) has emerged as a more effective paradigm compared to outcome-based RL. However, existing PSRL approaches suffer from limited exploration efficiency, both in terms of branching positions and sampling. In this paper, we introduce a novel PSRL framework (AttnRL), which enables efficient exploration for reasoning models. Motivated by prelimin…

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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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Von der Leyens Flugzeug wird Ziel von GPS-Störung ++
Das GPS-System eines Flugzeug mit EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen an Bord wurde absichtlich gestört - offenbar durch Russland. Die Ukraine vermutet, dass Russland an der Ermordung des Abgeordneten Parubij beteiligt war.

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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…

Noisy Timing Behavior is a Feature of Central Compact Object Pulsars
We present a timing study of the three known central compact object (CCO) pulsars, isolated cooling neutron stars in supernova remnants, using Chandra, XMM-Newton and NICER observations spanning two decades. Relative to canonical young pulsars, CCOs are spinning down at a very slow rate $|\dot f| <10^{-15}$ s$^{-2}$, implying a surface dipole magnetic field strength $B_s < 10^{11}$ G that is too weak to account for their X-ray emitting hot spots. Two CCO pulsars with sufficiently long…