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Micah Parsons wants to stay with Cowboys but OK if team moves on: 'If this is the end, this is the end'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p…

https://front-end.social/@robinwhittleton/114732299673251508
I saw “violated” in scare quotes and decided this was not a serious question so I moved on with my day. Glad to see Pat is holding down the fort.

Robin Whittleton (@robinwhittleton@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image Wisdom from @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social as per usual.

End-to-End Agentic RAG System Training for Traceable Diagnostic Reasoning
Qiaoyu Zheng, Yuze Sun, Chaoyi Wu, Weike Zhao, Pengcheng Qiu, Yongguo Yu, Kun Sun, Yanfeng Wang, Ya Zhang, Weidi Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15746

End-to-End Agentic RAG System Training for Traceable Diagnostic Reasoning
Accurate diagnosis with medical large language models is hindered by knowledge gaps and hallucinations. Retrieval and tool-augmented methods help, but their impact is limited by weak use of external knowledge and poor feedback-reasoning traceability. To address these challenges, We introduce Deep-DxSearch, an agentic RAG system trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning (RL) that enables steer tracebale retrieval-augmented reasoning for medical diagnosis. In Deep-DxSearch, we first construc…

X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots
Haitong Wang, Aaron Hao Tan, Angus Fung, Goldie Nejat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14731

X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots
Existing navigation methods are primarily designed for specific robot embodiments, limiting their generalizability across diverse robot platforms. In this paper, we introduce X-Nav, a novel framework for end-to-end cross-embodiment navigation where a single unified policy can be deployed across various embodiments for both wheeled and quadrupedal robots. X-Nav consists of two learning stages: 1) multiple expert policies are trained using deep reinforcement learning with privileged observations …

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Efficient, End-to-End, and Tight DP Auditing
Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, Georgios Kaissis, Emiliano De Cristofaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16666

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Efficient, End-to-End, and Tight DP Auditing
This paper systematizes research on auditing Differential Privacy (DP) techniques, aiming to identify key insights into the current state of the art and open challenges. First, we introduce a comprehensive framework for reviewing work in the field and establish three cross-contextual desiderata that DP audits should target--namely, efficiency, end-to-end-ness, and tightness. Then, we systematize the modes of operation of state-of-the-art DP auditing techniques, including threat models, attacks,…

Joe Milton III's tight-window dime to tight end Rivaldo Fairweather goes for 25-yard gain https://www.nfl.com/videos/joe-milton-iii-s-tight-window-dime-to-tight-end-rivaldo-fairweather-goes-for-25-yard-gain

A vast concentration camp system is being opened up in our names.
And it won't close itself
Five ways that concentration camps get closed down and how we can make that happen.
Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/ho

How does this end?
The key ways that concentration camps get shut down.

Neuro-MSBG: An End-to-End Neural Model for Hearing Loss Simulation
Hui-Guan Yuan, Ryandhimas E. Zezario, Shafique Ahmed, Hsin-Min Wang, Kai-Lung Hua, Yu Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15396

Neuro-MSBG: An End-to-End Neural Model for Hearing Loss Simulation
Hearing loss simulation models are essential for hearing aid deployment. However, existing models have high computational complexity and latency, which limits real-time applications and lack direct integration with speech processing systems. To address these issues, we propose Neuro-MSBG, a lightweight end-to-end model with a personalized audiogram encoder for effective time-frequency modeling. Experiments show that Neuro-MSBG supports parallel inference and retains the intelligibility and perc…

Trump did not end wars, he just dragged the U.S. into Netanyahu's war! (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean's Report)
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-did-not-end-wars-he-just-dragged
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p42#a250622p42

No More Deaths: Call For an End to Bullfights and Bull Runs in Pamplona #AnimalRights

No More Deaths: Call For an End to Bullfights and Bull Runs in Pamplona
Urge the mayor of Pamplona to end the torturous Running of the Bulls and subsequent bullfights during the San Fermín festival in Spain.

Falcons, Lions, Raiders named top landing spots for $12 million starting tight end https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/falcons-lions-raiders-named-top-landing-spots-12-mil…

Rubio, Yermak lead talks on security guarantees, hope to finalize plan for Ukraine by end of next week, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/rubio-yermak-lead-talks-on.html

End-to-End Analysis of Charge Stability Diagrams with Transformers
Rahul Marchand, Lucas Schorling, Cornelius Carlsson, Jonas Schuff, Barnaby van Straaten, Taylor L. Patti, Federico Fedele, Joshua Ziegler, Parth Girdhar, Pranav Vaidhyanathan, Natalia Ares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15710

End-to-End Analysis of Charge Stability Diagrams with Transformers
Transformer models and end-to-end learning frameworks are rapidly revolutionizing the field of artificial intelligence. In this work, we apply object detection transformers to analyze charge stability diagrams in semiconductor quantum dot arrays, a key task for achieving scalability with spin-based quantum computing. Specifically, our model identifies triple points and their connectivity, which is crucial for virtual gate calibration, charge state initialization, drift correction, and pulse seq…

End-to-End Learning of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping through Importance Sampling
Shrinivas Chimmalgi, Laurent Schmalen, Vahid Aref
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16098

End-to-End Learning of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping through Importance Sampling
Probabilistic constellation shaping enables easy rate adaption and has been proven to reduce the gap to Shannon capacity. Constellation point probabilities are optimized to maximize either the mutual information or the bit-wise mutual information. The optimization problem is however challenging even for simple channel models. While autoencoder-based machine learning has been applied successfully to solve this problem [1], it requires manual computation of additional terms for the gradient which…

Just published 🚀: Updates from BUILD 2025
#artificialintelligence

We're continuing with rendering the outside of the #roundhouse walls; the new render is sheltered by damp Hessian curtains to protect it from direct sun, to prevent it drying before the lime is fully cured. This is all hard physical work and we've at least six days more of it, but it's going well.

I'm still a bit upset that the people with basically all the money in the world have decided to burn a huge chunk of the global economy, and potentially kill billions of people and end complex human society, because someone invented math that could flirt with people who, despite having basically all of the world's money and the ability to kill billions of people and end complex human society, are the most incompetent and pathetic fucking losers on the planet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Olhz2JXrll8

Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support
Mengxue Fu, Zhonghao Shi, Minyu Huang, Siqi Liu, Mina Kian, Yirui Song, Maja J. Matari\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14412

Personalized Socially Assistive Robots With End-to-End Speech-Language Models For Well-Being Support
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great potential for supplementing well-being support. However, prior studies have found that existing dialogue pipelines for SARs remain limited in real-time latency, back-channeling, and personalized speech dialogue. Toward addressing these limitations, we propose using integrated end-to-end speech-language models (SLMs) with SARs. This work 1) evaluated the usability of an SLM-enabled SAR dialogue system through a small user study, and 2) identified…

Former star tight end Jimmy Graham to retire from NFL as member of New Orleans Saints

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-star-tight-end-j…

NetIntent: Leveraging Large Language Models for End-to-End Intent-Based SDN Automation
Md. Kamrul Hossain, Walid Aljoby
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14398 ht…

NetIntent: Leveraging Large Language Models for End-to-End Intent-Based SDN Automation
Intent-Based Networking (IBN) often leverages the programmability of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to simplify network management. However, significant challenges remain in automating the entire pipeline, from user-specified high-level intents to device-specific low-level configurations. Existing solutions often rely on rigid, rule-based translators and fixed APIs, limiting extensibility and adaptability. By contrast, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) offer a promising pathway…

Cowboys' Micah Parsons delivers somber contract message: 'If this is the end, this is the end' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-micah-parsons-delivers-somber-contr…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.166…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut decompositions, introduced by Wollan (2015) as a variation of tree decompositions that is based on edge cuts instead of vertex separations. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof for Kurkofka's result (2022) that every infinite graph has a tree-cut d…

⚡ End-to-end pipeline solution that transforms document processing workflows from inefficient manual work to automated intelligent extraction
🔍 Converts complex document layouts into well-formatted structured data while maintaining context and relationships between different document elements

wooohooo, #klutshnik end-to-end tests successfully run with a peer on a xiao esp32s3 over BLE using zephyr!

SMTrack: End-to-End Trained Spiking Neural Networks for Multi-Object Tracking in RGB Videos
Pengzhi Zhong, Xinzhe Wang, Dan Zeng, Qihua Zhou, Feixiang He, Shuiwang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14607

SMTrack: End-to-End Trained Spiking Neural Networks for Multi-Object Tracking in RGB Videos
Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit significant potential for low-power computation, yet their application in visual tasks remains largely confined to image classification, object detection, and event-based tracking. In contrast, real-world vision systems still widely use conventional RGB video streams, where the potential of directly-trained SNNs for complex temporal tasks such as multi-object tracking (MOT) remains underexplored. To address this challenge, we propose SMTrack…

Not just NO, it is HELL NO! PDF is Portable Document Format not Pretty Dumb F*ery
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-ai-powered-pdf-end-of-an-era/

"Barcelona could suffer heat waves up to 6ºC more intense by the end of the century"
#Barcelona #Heatwaves #Climate

Barcelona could suffer heat waves up to 6ºC more intense by the end of the century
Heat waves that already affect the population of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) could significantly intensify in the future, with temperature increases of up to 6ºC and a general reduction in relative humidity in cities by the end of the century.

ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
Hanyu Lai, Xiao Liu, Yanxiao Zhao, Han Xu, Hanchen Zhang, Bohao Jing, Yanyu Ren, Shuntian Yao, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14040

ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
We introduce ComputerRL, a framework for autonomous desktop intelligence that enables agents to operate complex digital workspaces skillfully. ComputerRL features the API-GUI paradigm, which unifies programmatic API calls and direct GUI interaction to address the inherent mismatch between machine agents and human-centric desktop environments. Scaling end-to-end RL training is crucial for improvement and generalization across diverse desktop tasks, yet remains challenging due to environmental in…

The Shockingly Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End LASIK
https://scitechdaily.com/the-shockingly-simple-vision-breakthrough-that-might-end-lasik/

@… @… 😁

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/climate/trump-end-protections-for-58-million-acres-of-national-forests.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p160#a250623p160

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

It's really fucked up how when I write posts on work laptop (MacBook/Macos) vs. my own machine (Thinkpad/Linux) I end up with some many extra typos.
I don't think it's the MacBook keyboard (though it is a bit shit) it really is Macos' autocorrect.

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 585 nodes and 1755 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

There will be some 300,000 fewer federal workers on the government payroll by the end of December than there were in January,
according to the Trump administration’s top human resources official.
That amounts to the loss of about one in eight federal civilian workers,
and would be the largest single-year reduction since World War II.

Year Will End With 300,000 Fewer Federal Workers, Trump Official Says
The reduction would be the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II.

Think Like an Engineer: A Neuro-Symbolic Collaboration Agent for Generative Software Requirements Elicitation and Self-Review
Sai Zhang, Zhenchang Xing, Jieshan Chen, Dehai Zhao, Zizhong Zhu, Xiaowang Zhang, Zhiyong Feng, Xiaohong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14969

Think Like an Engineer: A Neuro-Symbolic Collaboration Agent for Generative Software Requirements Elicitation and Self-Review
The vision of End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is to empower non-professional users with full control over the software development lifecycle. It aims to enable users to drive generative software development using only natural language requirements. However, since end-users often lack knowledge of software engineering, their requirement descriptions are frequently ambiguous, raising significant challenges to generative software development. Although existing approaches utilize structured la…

Sources: CBS decided to end The Late Show on June 27, before the 60 Minutes settlement, but Colbert's agent only informed him after he taped the July 16 episode (Lesley Goldberg/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/on-vacation-colbert-didnt-know-late

On Vacation, Colbert Didn’t Know ‘Late Show’ Was Dead. His Manager Did
SCOOP: James Dixon waited two weeks to tell his star and more new details about who knew what and when, and what comes next

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Whispers:
🎵 This Is Not The End
#Whispers
https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-not-the-end
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rQyATK7pFCgIMlunfLDqq

EU president throws her full weight behind the Netanyahu & Trump attacks on Iran, while negotiations were ongoing.
Reminders:
1) Iran restarted uranium enrichment after Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
2) US intelligence recently stated that Iran did not pursue nuclear weapon development.

Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs SHA-3 vs BLAKE3
As everyone knows, "temporary fixes" are nothing but temporary.
Unfortunately, the same is true for cryptography: unless security is your core value-proposition, crypto algorithms are almost never updated, and that's how we end up with SHA1-hashed password in 2024 🤦‍♂️
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Figured out what I was doing wrong in the curve25519 refactoring: the state signal I was using to dispatch register file reads also glitched high for one cycle (not sure if this is technically a glitch since it's synchronous but whatever) at the end of each main loop iteration.
This is harmless if you have combinatorial reads, but if you have synchronous reads with latency it leads to the "read data ready" signal being asserted an extra time and some extra math operation…

#Norway is ending #coal #mining

End of the Beginning
#Ozzy

The new Earl Sweatshirt LP 'Live Laugh Love' is pretty damn good. Got an early listen yesterday and it's #NowPlaying again. Solid shit. Especially near the end.
https://www.youtube.…

Efficient Mixed-Precision Large Language Model Inference with TurboMind
Li Zhang, Youhe Jiang, Guoliang He, Xin Chen, Han Lv, Qian Yao, Fangcheng Fu, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15601

Efficient Mixed-Precision Large Language Model Inference with TurboMind
Mixed-precision inference techniques reduce the memory and computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) by applying hybrid precision formats to model weights, activations, and KV caches. This work introduces mixed-precision LLM inference techniques that encompass (i) systematic memory and compute optimization across hierarchical storage and tensor core architectures, and (ii) comprehensive end-to-end mixed-precision optimization across diverse precision formats and hardware configurati…

@… @… @… This is super cool! I’m finally getting into (low-end F0,G0) STM32 after 20 years of other MCUs. …

Bengals in contract standoff with Trey Hendrickson: Predicting when drama might end with 2024 NFL sack leader

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals…

Yeah, that's some freakishly good AI. 😜
(I think he used HeyGen & Eleven Labs, the same AI that Sara used in her video.)
▶️ The End of YouTubers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7I1-H5FUiY&si=M852fJvwYTVueYgn

"This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (…) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (…).
It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

In one respect, many leftists/liberals are no different from the right: their reflexive, fundamental opposition to everything that comes from the other camp.
Forcing an end to Iran's nuclear program and, ideally, laying the groundwork for the Iranian people to send the mullahs to hell shouldn't be a 'controversial' issue, imo.
But some rather defend a fascist-clerical regime that executes hundreds of people every year and oppresses its population.

solidarity.
https://www.turnto23.com/news/in-your-neighborhood/bakersfield/farmworkers-strike-for-dignity-amid-immigration-raids

Farmworkers strike for dignity amid immigration raids
California farmworkers launch "Strike for Dignity" in response to ICE raids targeting agricultural communities, calling for a pathway to citizenship and an end to enforcement operations.

But meanwhile the head of the genocidal Israel Air Force is welcomed to the UK, yesterday.
"UK joins call for 'immediate' end to war in Gaza, as IDF launches offensive on Deir al-Balah"
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-07-21/uk-joi

The reason why the US’ airstrikes against #Iran are at least questionable is NOT…
… that the targets were civilian (they weren't),
… that 🇮🇷 didn't violate int'l law (it did),
… that 🇮🇷's ⚛️ programme doesn't need to end (it does),
… that 🇮🇷 doesn't deserve punishment (it does),
… that 🇮🇷 isn't a fascist totalitarian dictatorship (it is),
…

We’re on a terrible path that we aren’t even aware exists: collapsing the marine food chain.
The End Permian event did that. It was ugly. Lots of fungal spores in the fossil record, not a lot of bones. Barely anything survived.
We’re having issues with phytoplankton in the #GreatLakes too. Invasive mussels have done huge damage to how the food chain (Esp. in

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic
Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study …

Good morning!

Don't agree with everything here but it's a welcome optimistic take: there's still work to do but trajectory is clear
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change: The Inevitable End of Fossil Fuels | Ep221
https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/end-of-fossil-fuels-2065-tWtKAuDZ

Maxx Crosby named No. 22 on NFL's Top 100 Players of 2025 https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-no-22-nfl-top-100-players-of-2025-raiders-defensive-end

Fiserv aims to launch its own stablecoin by 2025's end, and partners with PayPal and Circle to develop new products for financial institutions and merchants (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mobile-Agent-v3: Foundamental Agents for GUI Automation
Jiabo Ye, Xi Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Haowei Liu, Junyang Wang, Zhaoqing Zhu, Ziwei Zheng, Feiyu Gao, Junjie Cao, Zhengxi Lu, Jitong Liao, Qi Zheng, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Ming Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15144

Mobile-Agent-v3: Foundamental Agents for GUI Automation
This paper introduces GUI-Owl, a foundational GUI agent model that achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source end-to-end models on ten GUI benchmarks across desktop and mobile environments, covering grounding, question answering, planning, decision-making, and procedural knowledge. GUI-Owl-7B achieves 66.4 on AndroidWorld and 29.4 on OSWorld. Building on this, we propose Mobile-Agent-v3, a general-purpose GUI agent framework that further improves performance to 73.3 on AndroidWorld…

ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yueh-Hua Wu, Min-Hung Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16815

ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Vision-language-action (VLA) reasoning tasks require agents to interpret multimodal instructions, perform long-horizon planning, and act adaptively in dynamic environments. Existing approaches typically train VLA models in an end-to-end fashion, directly mapping inputs to actions without explicit reasoning, which hinders their ability to plan over multiple steps or adapt to complex task variations. In this paper, we propose ThinkAct, a dual-system framework that bridges high-level reasoning wit…

Emmanuel Macron has said
Europe is to make Iran a comprehensive offer to end its war with Israel
that would include an Iranian move to zero uranium enrichment,
restrictions on its ballistic missile programme
and an end to Tehran’s funding of terrorist groups.
The proposals are surprisingly broad, spanning a range of complex issues beyond Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
One proposal recently aired is for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment for the duration of …

The war will END! TRUMP's loud statement at a meeting with Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/the-war-will-end-trumps.html

LLaSO: A Foundational Framework for Reproducible Research in Large Language and Speech Model
Yirong Sun, Yizhong Geng, Peidong Wei, Yanjun Chen, Jinghan Yang, Rongfei Chen, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15418

LLaSO: A Foundational Framework for Reproducible Research in Large Language and Speech Model
The development of Large Speech-Language Models (LSLMs) has been slowed by fragmented architectures and a lack of transparency, hindering the systematic comparison and reproducibility of research. Unlike in the vision-language domain, the LSLM field suffers from the common practice of releasing model weights without their corresponding training data and configurations. To address these critical gaps, we introduce LLaSO, the first fully open, end-to-end framework for large-scale speech-language …

Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion (Laura Curtis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/global-mail-services-halt-us-deliveries-ahead-of-de-minimis-end?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NTkxNDA4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzU2NTE4ODg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMUNSRFJHT1QwSkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOUU0RDg4NjE3MkM0Nzc3QUVFMDk3NTdCODRDQTlBRCJ9.4E3F82ohY-XPids-J2dL9C9j6Qw7p5a0FmIpSzU49Ec
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p139#a250822p139

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html

The National Association of Broadcasters and several broadcasting companies urge the FCC to end its rule capping the number of TV stations an entity can own (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/broadcaster-fcc-abolish-nation…

Broadcasters Call for FCC to Abolish National TV Ownership Rule
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several broadcast companies called for a repel of the FCC's national TV ownership rule.

"From landfill to luxury: how a designer uses scraps from Hermès and Chanel to make leather goods"
#Textiles #Fashion

Lammy slowly emerging from a long sleep?
David Lammy 'appalled and sickened' by civilian suffering in Gaza - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjg993670jo

David Lammy 'appalled and sickened' by civilian suffering in Gaza
The UK foreign secretary also criticises Israel's rejection of an international statement calling for the war to end.

China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025 (Ling Xin/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/ar

Exclusive | Trouble in orbit? China’s Starlink rival faces long delays amid rocket shortage
A shortage of rockets and competition for launch resources appear to be putting the mega-constellation’s targets in doubt.

Sonya Chalil intercepts Giovanna Ortiz in the end zone https://www.nfl.com/videos/sonya-chalil-intercepts-giovanna-ortiz-in-the-end-zone

NATO to maintain $50 billion in Ukraine military aid this year: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/nato-to-maintain-billion-in.html

MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
Zijian Zhou, Ao Qu, Zhaoxuan Wu, Sunghwan Kim, Alok Prakash, Daniela Rus, Jinhua Zhao, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Paul Pu Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15841

MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents
Modern language agents must operate over long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where they retrieve external information, adapt to observations, and answer interdependent queries. Yet, most LLM systems rely on full-context prompting, appending all past turns regardless of their relevance. This leads to unbounded memory growth, increased computational costs, and degraded reasoning performance on out-of-distribution input lengths. We introduce MEM1, an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework …

Raiders' Crosby Gives Thoughts on Defensive End Market https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-trey-hendrickson-bengals-george-karlaftis-kansas-city-chiefs

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new
[2/2]:
- GEMINUS: Dual-aware Global and Scene-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Chi Wan, Yixin Cui, Jiatong Du, Shuo Yang, Yulong Bai, Yanjun Huang

Swalwell: You were promised lower prices on day one. How many of you are feeling those lower prices?
You were promised an end to all wars on day one. How many of you have seen an end to those wars?
Donald Trump is 0 for 150. He made those promises on day one—and now we’re on day 150.
https://

Bengals seem fed up with Shemar Stewart negotiation: Predicting when drama might end with first-rounder

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

Memo: The Washington Post's Matt Murray says Krissah Thompson, head of WP Ventures, the paper's "third newsroom", will leave the company at the end of the month (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1947644470293631273

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray says WP Ventures head Krissah Thompson is leaving The Washington Post

"If you speak against me, I'm coming to your home. If you speak against me, you may end up in jail. If you speak against me, you're going to incur millions of dollars in legal fees, so keep your mouth shut.”
"If you're a university and you teach things I don't like, I'm going to take your funding,” "
**Worst-case scenario' unfolding as Trump sends new 'message' to critics: legal expert** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673910670/

Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fundraising-round-softbank-sam-altman/

OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round
OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.

"German battery storage hits 22.1 GWh in H1"
#Germany #Batteries #Energy

German battery storage hits 22.1 GWh in H1
Germany’s battery storage capacity is rapidly expanding, nearing 2 million installations by the end of the first half of 2025.

Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Bozhou Zhang, Jingyu Li, Nan Song, Li Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11488 https://

Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. Existing methods primarily follow a perception-planning paradigm, where perception and planning are executed sequentially within a fully differentiable framework for planning-oriented optimization. We further advance this paradigm through a perception-in-plan framework design, which integrates perception into the planning process. This design facilitates targeted perception guided by evolving planning objectives…

CodeDiffuser: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion Policy via VLM-Generated Code for Instruction Ambiguity
Guang Yin, Yitong Li, Yixuan Wang, Dale McConachie, Paarth Shah, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Huan Zhang, Katherine Liu, Yunzhu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16652

CodeDiffuser: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion Policy via VLM-Generated Code for Instruction Ambiguity
Natural language instructions for robotic manipulation tasks often exhibit ambiguity and vagueness. For instance, the instruction "Hang a mug on the mug tree" may involve multiple valid actions if there are several mugs and branches to choose from. Existing language-conditioned policies typically rely on end-to-end models that jointly handle high-level semantic understanding and low-level action generation, which can result in suboptimal performance due to their lack of modularity and interpret…

Russia strengthens hand in potential peace talks with steady advances in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/russia-strengthens-hand-in-potential.html

Pair of Raiders back-end WRs shine at practice with roster cuts looming https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/20/pair-of-raiders-back-end-wrs-shine-with-roster-cuts-looming/857…

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/health/pepfar-shutdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p85#a250723p85

Alex Rivera tip-toes into the end zone for RFP Bills' first TD of 14U Boys Semifinal https://www.nfl.com/videos/alex-rivera-tip-toes-into-the-end-zone-for-rfp-bills-first-td-of-14u-boys-semifinal

TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $1.21B, ad revenue down 5%, operating expenses down 9%, and 10M ViX subscribers, up from ~7M at 2023's end (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/televisaunivision-cuts-expense…

TelevisaUnivision Cuts Expenses to Boost Q2 Profit Amid Revenue Dip
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision took a tough hand on operating expenses in a bid to boost second quarter profit even as key revenue fell

Optimist...
https://bsky.app/profile/wardqnormal.bsky.social/post/3ls7qb227jk2s

Rationalizing Transformer Predictions via End-To-End Differentiable Self-Training
Marc Brinner, Sina Zarrie{\ss}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11393 https://a…

Rationalizing Transformer Predictions via End-To-End Differentiable Self-Training
We propose an end-to-end differentiable training paradigm for stable training of a rationalized transformer classifier. Our approach results in a single model that simultaneously classifies a sample and scores input tokens based on their relevance to the classification. To this end, we build on the widely-used three-player-game for training rationalized models, which typically relies on training a rationale selector, a classifier and a complement classifier. We simplify this approach by making …

Dolphins activate Darren Waller off PUP list, Miami tight end to join practice 'sooner rather than later'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin…

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration
Yuntao Ma, Yang Liu, Kaixian Qu, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16986

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration
Throwing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to manipulate objects in ways that extend beyond the reach of their arms. We present a control framework that combines learning and model-based control for prehensile whole-body throwing with legged mobile manipulators. Our framework consists of three components: a nominal tracking policy for the end-effector, a high-frequency residual policy to enhance tracking accuracy, and an optimization-based module to improve end-effector acceleration co…

Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in "cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions"; users can still start new chats (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p161#a250722p161

Appeals court finds Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-birthright-citizenship-16658c712cf6a3141f168c7557c0628d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p166#a250723p166

Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites -- and reduce the number of early voting locations,
amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
The 3-2 vote on Tuesday by commissioners in Tarrant County, 💥which includes Fort Worth,
came one day after Donald Trump vowed to end the use of mail-in ballots.
The president lacks the unilateral power to decid…

A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Why Does Anyone Think Trump Will Uphold His End of a Bargain With Columbia? (Suresh Naidu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p177#a250723p177

The end of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ has implications beyond late-night TV
The facts are these: The highest-rated show on late night was nominated for an Emmy on Tuesday. On Thursday, Paramount/CBS announced its cancellation.
Stephen Colbert announced at the Thursday evening taping of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that he’d found out, only the night before, that his show would be canceled at the end of the season, in May 2026,
and that no one would be replacing him. “I…

The end of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ has implications beyond late-night TV
Stephen Colbert announced at the Thursday evening taping of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that his show would be canceled at the end of the season.

Mail-in voting backed by most Americans despite Trump push to end it (Lauren Floyd/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/mail-in-voting-trump-pew-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p48#a250823p48

Federal appeals court issues another blow to Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/federal-appeals-court-birthright-citizenship
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p180#a250723p180