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Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protected-areas-hit-hard-as-mekong-countries-forest-cover-shrank-in-2024/

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland, […]

JWST Discovery of Warm Dust in the #Circumgalactic Medium of the Makani Galaxy: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adee91 -> Astronomer Sylvain Veilleux helped to detect dust far outside the body of a galaxy in a reservoir of hot gas, raising questions about how these particles survived such a long and volatile journey: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/umd-led-study-discovers-warm-space-dust-distant-place

Testimony from ex-IDF officer.
Human shields / human mine detectors routinely used.
Individual soldiers decide who to shoot.
Some soldiers compete to kill the most Palestinians.
Siluetes at windows shot at without knowing who they are.
This testimony consistent with 200 collected by Israel NGO, 'Breaking the Silence'
Un exsargento israelí desplegado en Gaza: "No hay reglas claras, nosotros decidimos si disparamos a los civiles"

Un exsargento israelí desplegado en Gaza: "No hay reglas claras, nosotros decidimos si disparamos a los civiles"
Un exsargento que no quiere revelar su identidad denuncia a elDiario.es el uso de escudos humanos en lo que el ejército llama 'protocolo mosquito' y consiste en que civiles palestinos avancen por delante de las tropas por si hay explosivos o una emboscada

Pete Prisco's Week 6 NFL picks: Desperate Chiefs win shootout vs. Lions, slumping Chargers upset by Dolphins

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pete-pris…

omg parents stop getting meat pizza for your kids' bday parties.
The cheese pizza disappears in 3 seconds and everyone is left with the gross meat pizza. Every time!

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
Kangjia Yan, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Xinle Wu, Yan Zhao, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05589

Deciphering Invariant Feature Decoupling in Source-free Time Series Forecasting with Proxy Denoising
The proliferation of mobile devices generates a massive volume of time series across various domains, where effective time series forecasting enables a variety of real-world applications. This study focuses on a new problem of source-free domain adaptation for time series forecasting. It aims to adapt a pretrained model from sufficient source time series to the sparse target time series domain without access to the source data, embracing data protection regulations. To achieve this, we propose …

Kete: Predicting Known Minor Bodies in Images
D. Dahlen, Y. G. Kwon, J. R. Masiero, T. Spahr, A. K. Mainzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04666 https://arxiv.…

Kete: Predicting Known Minor Bodies in Images
Kete is an open-source software package for quickly and accurately predicting the positions and magnitudes of asteroids and comets in large-scale, all-sky surveys. It can predict observable objects for any ground or space-based telescope. Kete contains a collection of tools, including simple optical and thermal modeling, $n$-body orbit calculations, and custom multi-threaded SPICE kernel support. It can be used for observation planning, pre-discovery of detections at a large scale, and labeling…

Rachel Tashjian, most recently the fashion critic for The Washington Post, joins CNN as a senior style reporter for a new digital product (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cnn-rachel-tashjian-fashion-critic-washington-p…

CNN Hire Washington Post Fashioin Critic Rachel Tashjian
CNN hires Rachel Tashjian, who has been fashion critic at The Washington Post, as the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet seeks new digital presence

Modulation Discovery with Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Christopher Mitcheltree, Hao Hao Tan, Joshua D. Reiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06204 https://

Modulation Discovery with Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Modulations are a critical part of sound design and music production, enabling the creation of complex and evolving audio. Modern synthesizers provide envelopes, low frequency oscillators (LFOs), and more parameter automation tools that allow users to modulate the output with ease. However, determining the modulation signals used to create a sound is difficult, and existing sound-matching / parameter estimation systems are often uninterpretable black boxes or predict high-dimensional framewise …

The Discovery of a Large Active Wind from the Milky Way's Central #BlackHole: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10615 -> Missing wind from Milky Way’s giant black hole finally found: https://www.science.org/content/article/missing-wind-milky-way-s-giant-black-hole-finally-found - astronomers may have glimpsed a long-predicted wind of gas blowing out from Sagittarius A*.