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From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump
The United Kingdom is preparing to single out Apple and Google under its new Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act.

DESIGNER: Design-Logic-Guided Multidisciplinary Data Synthesis for LLM Reasoning
Weize Liu, Yongchi Zhao, Yijia Luo, Mingyu Xu, Jiaheng Liu, Yanan Li, Xiguo Hu, Yuchi Xu, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12726

DESIGNER: Design-Logic-Guided Multidisciplinary Data Synthesis for LLM Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many natural language tasks but still struggle with complex, multi-step reasoning, particularly across diverse disciplines. Existing reasoning datasets often either lack disciplinary breadth or the structural depth necessary to elicit robust reasoning behaviors. We propose DESIGNER: a DESIGN-logic-guidEd Reasoning data synthesis pipeline that leverages naturally available, extensive raw documents (book corpus and web corpus) to ge…

Sketchar: Supporting Character Design and Illustration Prototyping Using Generative AI
Long Ling, Xinyi Chen, Ruoyu Wen, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ray LC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12333

Sketchar: Supporting Character Design and Illustration Prototyping Using Generative AI
Character design in games involves interdisciplinary collaborations, typically between designers who create the narrative content, and illustrators who realize the design vision. However, traditional workflows face challenges in communication due to the differing backgrounds of illustrators and designers, the latter with limited artistic abilities. To overcome these challenges, we created Sketchar, a Generative AI (GenAI) tool that allows designers to prototype game characters and generate imag…

Cowboys Pushing Decision on Jadeveon Clowney for Week 3 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/pushing-decision-jadeveon-clowney-week-3/?adt_ei=[email]

Defending Colts starting Daniel Jones at QB: Projection model loves decision to bench Anthony Richardson

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/defendi

TypedSchematics: A Block-based PCB Design Tool with Real-time Detection of Common Connection Errors
Jorge Garza, Steven Swanson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14576 https://

TypedSchematics: A Block-based PCB Design Tool with Real-time Detection of Common Connection Errors
Within PCB design, the reuse of circuit design blocks is a major preventing factor inhibiting beginners from reusing designs made by experts, a common practice in software but non-existent in circuit design at large. Despite efforts to improve reusability (e.g. block-based PCB design) by platforms such as SparkFun ALC and Altium Upverter, they lack merging techniques that safely guide users in connecting different circuit blocks without requiring assistance from third-party engineers. In this p…

Report: OpenAI has considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a pin and signed a deal with Luxshare to assemble at least one of its devices (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/19/openai-and-jony-…

OpenAI and Ive poach Apple designers, target suppliers for hardware push - 9to5Mac
A new report details OpenAI and Jony Ive's plans and efforts for its AI-powered hardware push. Here are the details.

ClearFairy: Capturing Creative Workflows through Decision Structuring, In-Situ Questioning, and Rationale Inference
Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Juho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14537

ClearFairy: Capturing Creative Workflows through Decision Structuring, In-Situ Questioning, and Rationale Inference
Capturing professionals' decision-making in creative workflows is essential for reflection, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, yet existing methods often leave rationales incomplete and implicit decisions hidden. To address this, we present CLEAR framework that structures reasoning into cognitive decision steps-linked units of actions, artifacts, and self-explanations that make decisions traceable. Building on this framework, we introduce ClearFairy, a think-aloud AI assistant for UI design …