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Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Colts to activate Rivers for Seattle game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47293673/sources-colts-activate-philip-rivers-ahead-seahawks-game

‼️ Eine vielzitierte Studie zur Unbedenklichkeit von #Glyphosat wurde 25 Jahre nach Veröffentlichung zurückgezogen.
Laut dem Fachverlag #Elsevier bestehen Zweifel an der Unabhängigkeit der Autoren und der Rolle von

Monsanto: Fachzeitschrift zieht zentrale Glyphosat-Studie nach 25 Jahren zurück
Eine Studie zur Sicherheit des Pestizids Glyphosat, auf die sich der frühere Hersteller Monsanto berufen hatte, wurde zurückgezogen. Die Unabhängigkeit steht infrage.

Quahogs are VERY long-lived clams. This wise one was born 100 before Shakespeare. Cherish them. If you eat them, venerate their little clam bodies, first.
From "New Scientist", Tom Gauld comic.
#AncientWisdom equals #GoodEating

TWIBS: Soccer Player Elizabeth Eddy Says Trans and Intersex People Shouldn’t be Allowed to Play Soccer — Assigned
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/twibs-elizabeth-eddy

Elizabeth Holmes
— who, not incidentally, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors
— is lobbying for a pardon from President Trump.
And why not?
Game knows game. Grift knows grift.
Of all the powers a president wields, few match his awesome pardon authority.
It is sweeping and life-changing. Idiosyncratic, resting wholly on personal whim, and irrevocable.
Once granted, it is impossible to reverse.
The power to pardon is also, like a…

"Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines"
#Philippines #Bats #Animals

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines
Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named after their unique nostrils that protrude from the snout. All the specimens were collected from either primary or secondary forests, currently threatened by mining and shifting agriculture, the authors write in a new study. “These bats are notoriously elusive, so the […]

Thin Trees via $k$-Respecting Cut Identities
Mohit Daga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12050

Thin Trees via $k$-Respecting Cut Identities
Thin spanning trees lie at the intersection of graph theory, approximation algorithms, and combinatorial optimization. They are central to the long-standing \emph{thin tree conjecture}, which asks whether every $k$-edge-connected graph contains an $O(1/k)$-thin tree, and they underpin algorithmic breakthroughs such as the $O(\log n/\log\log n)$-approximation for ATSP. Yet even the basic algorithmic task of \emph{verifying} that a given tree is thin has remained elusive: checking thinness requir…

Interpreting LLM-as-a-Judge Policies via Verifiable Global Explanations
Jasmina Gajcin, Erik Miehling, Rahul Nair, Elizabeth Daly, Radu Marinescu, Seshu Tirupathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08120

Interpreting LLM-as-a-Judge Policies via Verifiable Global Explanations
Using LLMs to evaluate text, that is, LLM-as-a-judge, is increasingly being used at scale to augment or even replace human annotations. As such, it is imperative that we understand the potential biases and risks of doing so. In this work, we propose an approach for extracting high-level concept-based global policies from LLM-as-a-Judge. Our approach consists of two algorithms: 1) CLoVE (Contrastive Local Verifiable Explanations), which generates verifiable, concept-based, contrastive local expl…

“The fact that copyrighted works aren’t eligible unless they’ve formally registered feels like a lawyerly dodge: a legal maneuver to help Anthropic reduce the size of its payout pool, and thereby keeping the company from getting rendered down into its component parts during bankruptcy proceedings.”
— @…

A right to copy. — ethanmarcotte.com
This is one author’s short, failed journey to file a claim in Anthropic’s copyright lawsuit. (Oops. Spoilers, sorry.)