Tootfinder

Hmong are victims of discrimination in Laos to the point that they have to hide their ethnic identity. Hmong people are in Minnesota because they helped the USA in the Vietnam War. They are valuable and contributing members of the community.
https://www.startribune.com/…

heise | Diffusers: Wie Sie Bilder mit Python und KI lokal generieren und verändern
Mit der freien Bibliothek Diffusers von Hugging Face kann Python lokal neue Bilder erzeugen, vorhandene in einem anderen Stil ausgeben oder sie bearbeiten.

Transcript: Dr. Mehmet Oz on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 3, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-mehmet-oz-cms-administrator-face-the-nation-08-03-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p51#a250803p51

A US district judge rules that Amazon must face a class action lawsuit involving 288M customers over claims it overcharged for products sold by third parties (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/a

Putin, Zelensky not ready for face-to-face meeting, Erdogan says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/putin-zelensky-not-ready-for.html

NFL Training Camp News: Broncos break the bank, Tua gets executive power, Bucs still without Mayfield, Cowboys bring back familiar face https://www.sportingnews.c…

Wrong Face, Wrong Move: The Social Dynamics of Emotion Misperception in Agent-Based Models
David Freire-Obreg\'on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00080 https://

Wrong Face, Wrong Move: The Social Dynamics of Emotion Misperception in Agent-Based Models
The ability of humans to detect and respond to others' emotions is fundamental to understanding social behavior. Here, agents are instantiated with emotion classifiers of varying accuracy to study the impact of perceptual accuracy on emergent emotional and spatial behavior. Agents are visually represented with face photos from the KDEF database and endowed with one of three classifiers trained on the JAFFE (poor), CK+ (medium), or KDEF (high) datasets. Agents communicate locally on a 2D toroida…

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-31/as-u-s-fleet-patrols-off-coast-venezuelans-face-uncertainty…

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
Long-suffering Venezuelans face new potential crisis as the U.S. sends navy vessels off its coast and increased pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.

Aaron Glenn is the Jets’ antidote to the Aaron Rodgers era https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592800/2025/09/03/aaron-glenn-aaron-rodgers-face-of-jets-franchise/

MuteSwap: Silent Face-based Voice Conversion
Yifan Liu, Yu Fang, Zhouhan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

MuteSwap: Silent Face-based Voice Conversion
Conventional voice conversion modifies voice characteristics from a source speaker to a target speaker, relying on audio input from both sides. However, this process becomes infeasible when clean audio is unavailable, such as in silent videos or noisy environments. In this work, we focus on the task of Silent Face-based Voice Conversion (SFVC), which does voice conversion entirely from visual inputs. i.e., given images of a target speaker and a silent video of a source speaker containing lip mo…

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Do we need memes for each gop member of Congress with their face, name and the words “destroyer of Medicaid, SNAP and the Affordable Care Act,” then paper their districts with them?
Because they need to own this for the rest of their careers.
#USpol #Indivisible

Kremlin denies Trump, Putin ever agreed on face-to-face Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/kremlin-denies-trump-putin-ever.html

This giving circle is keeping a few people alive in Gaza, and they’ve stalled out really frustratingly close to their goal. If you want to feel like you did something good today in the face of all the awful, maybe consider chipping in a little.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

#Apple has taken a lot of heat for the controversial changes to #macOS design. I think it's possible to strike a balance* between appealing to Gen Z users, and honoring the old style. Therefore it is my belief that Apple should adopt Sigma Finder as soon as possible.
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Ed Yong is one of, if not the top science writers in the world today. Here’s his latest blog entry. https://buttondown.com/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-unbreaking/
Recommended.

The Ed's Up - Unbreaking
My face all the time I hope you’re all hanging in there. In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people knew that the coronavirus that reached the...

Gay Times CEO Tag Warner says his outlet is facing "good old-fashioned discrimination" from advertisers amid DEI criticism; other LGBTQ publishers agree (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/31/lgbtq-media-advertisin…

Needless to say, don’t let these fuckers scan your face. https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-Sz4wqO5-S2O_A8Yxqr6d1A:a:4082434389-/0

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act. Spotify is …

Pete Carroll vs. Mike Vrabel: Raiders Face Brutal Week 1 Test In Foxborough https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/01/pete-carroll-vs-mike-vrabel-raiders-face-brutal-week-1-test-in-foxborough/

I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…

Delivery drivers face continuing heat danger with Trump's OSHA pick | The Week
https://theweek.com/politics/delivery-drivers-heat-osha

Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt https://www.404media.co/shein-luigi-mangione-ai-generated-listing-shirt/

shapewear for your face

“But it’s less immersive!”
Bitch, I’m watching a video on a phone. Do you think I can’t see the bezel, or the coffee mug it’s resting against as I shovel my lunch into my face?
Just give me the fucking buttons back.

Bi-Level Optimization for Self-Supervised AI-Generated Face Detection
Mian Zou, Nan Zhong, Baosheng Yu, Yibing Zhan, Kede Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22824 https://

Bi-Level Optimization for Self-Supervised AI-Generated Face Detection
AI-generated face detectors trained via supervised learning typically rely on synthesized images from specific generators, limiting their generalization to emerging generative techniques. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a self-supervised method based on bi-level optimization. In the inner loop, we pretrain a vision encoder only on photographic face images using a set of linearly weighted pretext tasks: classification of categorical exchangeable image file format (EXIF) tags, ranking o…

Went out for a quick #hiking loop near #Lenggries between some rain showers and before visiting friends.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Ps: I really like my my hiking umbrella!
#nature

Get rotated, idiot
#ef29 #eurofurence

Accelerating MPGP-type Methods Through Preconditioning
Jakub Kru\v{z}\'ik, David Hor\'ak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00617 https://

Accelerating MPGP-type Methods Through Preconditioning
This work investigates the acceleration of MPGP-type algorithms using preconditioning for the solution of quadratic programming problems. The preconditioning needs to be done only on the free set so as not to change the constraints. A variant of preconditioning restricted to the free set is the preconditioning in face. The inner preconditioner in preconditioning in face needs to be recomputed or updated every time the free set changes. Here, we investigate an approximate variant of precondition…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nick Drake:
🎵 Strange Face – Take 1 – November 1968
#NickDrake

I need someone to hit my face with brick or something so I can fall asleep 🙃

Here's one Eagles star who is glad not to face Micah Parsons this week: Why Philly won't miss Dallas playmaker

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (Clément Delangue/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-became-an-american-…

Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

The enshittification of frontier models begins...
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/anthropic-users-face-a-new-choice-opt-out-or-share-your-data-for-ai-training/

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training | TechCrunch
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action.

CBS Deceptively Edits Secretary Noem's Answers, Cutting More than 23% of Footage from Face the Nation Interview (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/31/cbs-deceptively-edits-secretary-noems-answers-cutting-more-23-footage-face-nation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p50#a250901p50

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

What Challenges Do Developers Face When Using Verification-Aware Programming Languages?
Francisco Oliveira, Alexandra Mendes, Carolina Carreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23696

What Challenges Do Developers Face When Using Verification-Aware Programming Languages?
Software reliability is critical in ensuring that the digital systems we depend on function correctly. In software development, increasing software reliability often involves testing. However, for complex and critical systems, developers can use Design by Contract (DbC) methods to define precise specifications that software components must satisfy. Verification-Aware (VA) programming languages support DbC and formal verification at compile-time or run-time, offering stronger correctness guarant…

TransGAT: Transformer-Based Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Dimensional Automated Essay Scoring
Hind Aljuaid, Areej Alhothali, Ohoud Al-Zamzami, Hussein Assalahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01640

TransGAT: Transformer-Based Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Dimensional Automated Essay Scoring
Essay writing is a critical component of student assessment, yet manual scoring is labor-intensive and inconsistent. Automated Essay Scoring (AES) offers a promising alternative, but current approaches face limitations. Recent studies have incorporated Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into AES using static word embeddings that fail to capture contextual meaning, especially for polysemous words. Additionally, many methods rely on holistic scoring, overlooking specific writing aspects such as grammar…

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Scarlett Raine, Tobias Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01878 https://

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Marine ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate change, driving the need for scalable, AI-powered monitoring solutions. This paper examines the rapid emergence of underwater AI as a major research frontier and analyzes the factors that have transformed marine perception from a niche application into a catalyst for AI innovation. We identify three convergent drivers: environmental necessity for ecosystem-scale monitoring, democratization of underwater datasets through citizen science p…

Cybersecurity Issues in Local Energy Markets
Al Hussein Dabashi, Sajjad Maleki, Biswarup Mukherjee, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple, Charalambos Konstantinou, Subhash Lakshminarayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01536

Cybersecurity Issues in Local Energy Markets
Local Energy Markets (LEMs), though pivotal to the energy transition, face growing cybersecurity threats due to their reliance on smart grid communication standards and vulnerable Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled devices. This is a critical issue because such vulnerabilities can be exploited to manipulate market operations, compromise participants' privacy, and destabilize power distribution networks. This work maps LEM communication flows to existing standards, highlights potential impacts of …

Probabilities of Causation and Root Cause Analysis with Quasi-Markovian Models
Eduardo Rocha Laurentino, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, Denis Deratani Maua, Daniel Angelo Esteves Lawand, Davi Goncalves Bezerra Coelho, Lucas Martins Marques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02535

Probabilities of Causation and Root Cause Analysis with Quasi-Markovian Models
Probabilities of causation provide principled ways to assess causal relationships but face computational challenges due to partial identifiability and latent confounding. This paper introduces both algorithmic simplifications, significantly reducing the computational complexity of calculating tighter bounds for these probabilities, and a novel methodological framework for Root Cause Analysis that systematically employs these causal metrics to rank entire causal paths.

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Irene Zeng, Neda Barbazi, Ji Youn Shin, Gurumurthy Hiremath, Carlye Anne Lauff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02537

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) often face challenges that require them to understand complex medical information from an early age in order to support lifelong care and improve health outcomes. However, prior research has rarely included young children in designing and evaluating digital tools to support health education using developmentally appropriate strategies. This study is part of a multi-phase research involving participatory design (PD), user testing, and iterative develo…

On-chip photon entanglement-assisted topology loading and transfer
Haoqi Zhao, Yichi Zhang, Isaac Nape, Shuang Wu, Yaoyang Ji, Chenjie Zhang, Yijie Shen, Andrew Forbes, Liang Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01834

On-chip photon entanglement-assisted topology loading and transfer
Topological protection offers a robust solution to the challenges of noise and loss in physical systems. By integrating topological physics into optics, loading and encoding quantum states into topological invariants can provide resilience to information systems in the face of environmental disruptions. Here, we demonstrate on-chip loading and entanglement-assisted transfer of photon topology, where the topological structure is coherently encoded in a single-photon spin-textured quantum state, …

Immigration officers were caught on video -- celebrating proudly -- after using chokeholds and a stun gun to arrest two undocumented immigrants in Florida.
The owner of the video,
an 18-year-old American citizen,
was threatened and charged
after he refused to delete the footage revealing the harsh tactics used by immigration authorities
to meet the Trump administration's mass deportation goals.
Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was on his way to work on the mor…

This U.S. citizen recorded an immigration arrest. Officers told him to delete it or face charges.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.

Criteria for Credible AI-assisted Carbon Footprinting Systems: The Cases of Mapping and Lifecycle Modeling
Shaena Ulissi, Andrew Dumit, P. James Joyce, Krishna Rao, Steven Watson, Sangwon Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00240

Criteria for Credible AI-assisted Carbon Footprinting Systems: The Cases of Mapping and Lifecycle Modeling
As organizations face increasing pressure to understand their corporate and products' carbon footprints, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted calculation systems for footprinting are proliferating, but with widely varying levels of rigor and transparency. Standards and guidance have not kept pace with the technology; evaluation datasets are nascent; and statistical approaches to uncertainty analysis are not yet practical to apply to scaled systems. We present a set of criteria to validate AI-a…

Beautiful colors and textures of Fallenbacherspitze (2723m) in the cool evening light of the last day of August... Timeless, yet a distinct feel of autumn quickly approaching...
The reds & browns are chert and radiolarite, key aspects of the larger Feuerspitze group this mountain is part of...
#MountainMonday

Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.

Is the Copilot icon supposed to resemble a frog face 🐸 or a bee from the side 🐝?

I received my new national identity card today. The process of getting it was very easy. I went to the library last week, said I'd lost my id card, the librarian looked me up on the database, checked that my face matched the photo in the database, confirmed that my address hadn't changed. Then she ordered me a new card (no cost).
I really don't understand why the English think this is so threatening.

I'm not even putting a politics warning here, the shitheads in the U.S. government made The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) shut down due to lack of funding and NPR will face similar cuts, etc, really making some rural areas in the USA lose access to news. I grew up loving Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and this is beyond fucked.
I hope the useless garbage assholes who allowed this to happen are happy with themselves. Fuck everything that led to this.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end operations after federal cuts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.

Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/tinder-face-check-safety

Exclusive: Tinder to require Face Check for new users in California
The video selfie feature aims to curb impersonation.

MoFRR: Mixture of Diffusion Models for Face Retouching Restoration
Jiaxin Liu, Qichao Ying, Zhenxing Qian, Sheng Li, Runqi Zhang, Jian Liu, Xinpeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19770

MoFRR: Mixture of Diffusion Models for Face Retouching Restoration
The widespread use of face retouching on social media platforms raises concerns about the authenticity of face images. While existing methods focus on detecting face retouching, how to accurately recover the original faces from the retouched ones has yet to be answered. This paper introduces Face Retouching Restoration (FRR), a novel computer vision task aimed at restoring original faces from their retouched counterparts. FRR differs from traditional image restoration tasks by addressing the co…

Raiders Could Face Patriots Without Star Player After Injury Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/las-vegas-patriots-christian-gonzalez-update/?adt_ei=[email]

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Fang Kang, Yin Cao, Haoyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19225 https://

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting: given a face image and text to speak, generating both talking face animation and its corresponding speeches. Accordingly, we propose a novel framework, Face2VoiceSync, with several novel contributions: 1) Voice-Face Alignment, ensuring generated voices match fa…

She Came Face to Face With the Park Avenue Gunman and Survived https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/nyregion/park-avenue-shooting-sebije-nelovic.html

Dynamic Speculative Agent Planning
Yilin Guan, Wenyue Hua, Qingfeng Lan, Sun Fei, Dujian Ding, Devang Acharya, Chi Wang, William Yang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01920 https…

Dynamic Speculative Agent Planning
Despite their remarkable success in complex tasks propelling widespread adoption, large language-model-based agents still face critical deployment challenges due to prohibitive latency and inference costs. While recent work has explored various methods to accelerate inference, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations: they either fail to preserve performance fidelity, require extensive offline training of router modules, or incur excessive operational costs. Moreover, they provid…

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way:
GOP governors.
Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation,
red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care
— even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar hole…

GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States - KFF Health News
In 2017, when President Donald Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors helped turn Congress against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, Republican governors — whose constituents stand to lose federal funding and health coverage — have gone quiet on the health consequences.

Natural language processing for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

Natural language processing for African languages
Recent advances in word embeddings and language models use large-scale, unlabelled data and self-supervised learning to boost NLP performance. Multilingual models, often trained on web-sourced data like Wikipedia, face challenges: few low-resource languages are included, their data is often noisy, and lack of labeled datasets makes it hard to evaluate performance outside high-resource languages like English. In this dissertation, we focus on languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa where all the …

Transcript: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 31, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-democrat-face-the-nation-transcript-08-31-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p60#a250831p60

VTS-Guided AI Interaction Workflow for Business Insights
Sun Ding (Ati), Ude Enebeli (Ati), Atilhan (Ati), Manay, Ryan Pua, Kamal Kotak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00347

VTS-Guided AI Interaction Workflow for Business Insights
Modern firms face a flood of dense, unstructured reports. Turning these documents into usable insights takes heavy effort and is far from agile when quick answers are needed. VTS-AI tackles this gap. It integrates Visual Thinking Strategies, which emphasize evidence-based observation, linking, and thinking, into AI agents, so the agents can extract business insights from unstructured text, tables, and images at scale. The system works in three tiers (micro, meso, macro). It tags issues, links t…

Dallas Cowboys open 2025 season with unflattering honor for Week 1 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-open-2025-nfl-season-with-unflattering-honor-week-1

A Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Home Devices and Mitigation Techniques
Mohammed K. Alzaylaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01018 http…

A Systematic Review of Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Home Devices and Mitigation Techniques
Smart homes that integrate Internet of Things (IoT) devices face increasing cybersecurity risks, posing significant challenges to these environments. The study explores security threats in smart homes ecosystems, categorizing them into vulnerabilities at the network layer, device level, and those from cloud-based and AI-driven systems. Research findings indicate that post-quantum encryption, coupled with AI-driven anomaly detection, is highly effective in enhancing security; however, computatio…

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…

Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.

AC-DiT: Adaptive Coordination Diffusion Transformer for Mobile Manipulation
Sixiang Chen, Jiaming Liu, Siyuan Qian, Han Jiang, Lily Li, Renrui Zhang, Zhuoyang Liu, Chenyang Gu, Chengkai Hou, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Shanghang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01961

AC-DiT: Adaptive Coordination Diffusion Transformer for Mobile Manipulation
Recently, mobile manipulation has attracted increasing attention for enabling language-conditioned robotic control in household tasks. However, existing methods still face challenges in coordinating mobile base and manipulator, primarily due to two limitations. On the one hand, they fail to explicitly model the influence of the mobile base on manipulator control, which easily leads to error accumulation under high degrees of freedom. On the other hand, they treat the entire mobile manipulation …

Simulating Quantum State Transfer between Distributed Devices using Noisy Interconnects
Marvin Bechtold, Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann, Alexander Mandl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01683

Simulating Quantum State Transfer between Distributed Devices using Noisy Interconnects
Scaling beyond individual quantum devices via distributed quantum computing relies critically on high-fidelity quantum state transfers between devices, yet the quantum interconnects needed for this are currently unavailable or expected to be significantly noisy. These limitations can be bypassed by simulating ideal state transfer using quasiprobability decompositions (QPDs). Wire cutting, for instance, allows this even without quantum interconnects. Nevertheless, QPD methods face drawbacks, req…

"I’m reminded of the final scene in the Academy Award–winning 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg. ... [T]he film makes a vital point about the corrosive, long-term effect of any judicial willingness to suspend the rule of law."
Trump’s Supreme Court Enablers Will Face History’s Verdict
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-supreme-court-enablers-will-face-verdict-of-history

Strata-Sword: A Hierarchical Safety Evaluation towards LLMs based on Reasoning Complexity of Jailbreak Instructions
Shiji Zhao, Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu, Xiaojun Jia, Fengxiang Wang, Cheng Wei, Ruoxi Cheng, Yong Xie, Chang Liu, Qing Guo, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue, Xingxing Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01444…

Strata-Sword: A Hierarchical Safety Evaluation towards LLMs based on Reasoning Complexity of Jailbreak Instructions
Large language models (LLMs) have gained widespread recognition for their superior comprehension and have been deployed across numerous domains. Building on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) ideology, Large Reasoning models (LRMs) further exhibit strong reasoning skills, enabling them to infer user intent more accurately and respond appropriately. However, both LLMs and LRMs face the potential safety risks under jailbreak attacks, which raise concerns about their safety capabilities. Current safety evalua…

Transcript: Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 31, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-homeland-security-face-the-nation-transcript-08-31-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p75#a250831p75

DSGC-Net: A Dual-Stream Graph Convolutional Network for Crowd Counting via Feature Correlation Mining
Yihong Wu, Jinqiao Wei, Xionghui Zhao, Yidi Li, Shaoyi Du, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02261

DSGC-Net: A Dual-Stream Graph Convolutional Network for Crowd Counting via Feature Correlation Mining
Deep learning-based crowd counting methods have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, in complex crowd scenarios, existing models still face challenges when adapting to significant density distribution differences between regions. Additionally, the inconsistency of individual representations caused by viewpoint changes and body posture differences further limits the counting accuracy of the models. To address these challenges, we propose DSGC-Net, a Dual-Stream Graph Convolutio…

How Real Is AI Tutoring? Comparing Simulated and Human Dialogues in One-on-One Instruction
Ruijia Li, Yuan-Hao Jiang, Jiatong Wang, Bo Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01914 htt…

How Real Is AI Tutoring? Comparing Simulated and Human Dialogues in One-on-One Instruction
Heuristic and scaffolded teacher-student dialogues are widely regarded as critical for fostering students' higher-order thinking and deep learning. However, large language models (LLMs) currently face challenges in generating pedagogically rich interactions. This study systematically investigates the structural and behavioral differences between AI-simulated and authentic human tutoring dialogues. We conducted a quantitative comparison using an Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) coding scheme a…

US warns China 'should be ready' to face 100% tariffs over Russian oil purchases: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/us-warns-china-should-be.html

MultiStream-LLM: Bridging Modalities for Robust Sign Language Translation
Marshall Thomas, Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00030 https://

MultiStream-LLM: Bridging Modalities for Robust Sign Language Translation
Despite progress in gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT), monolithic end-to-end models consistently fail on two critical components of natural signing: the precise recognition of high-speed fingerspelling and the integration of asynchronous non-manual cues from the face. Recent progress in Automated Sign Language Translation with Large Language Models has side stepped this challenge, forcing a single network to learn these simultaneously resulting in poor performance when tasked with tran…

Cowboys kicking tires on former star OT, familiar face amid injury woes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-kicking-tires-offensive-tackle-lael-collins-amid-injury-woes

PREE: Towards Harmless and Adaptive Fingerprint Editing in Large Language Models via Knowledge Prefix Enhancement
Xubin Yue, Zhenhua Xu, Wenpeng Xing, Jiahui Yu, Mohan Li, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00918

PREE: Towards Harmless and Adaptive Fingerprint Editing in Large Language Models via Knowledge Prefix Enhancement
Addressing the intellectual property protection challenges in commercial deployment of large language models (LLMs), existing black-box fingerprinting techniques face dual challenges from incremental fine-tuning erasure and feature-space defense due to their reliance on overfitting high-perplexity trigger patterns. Recent work has revealed that model editing in the fingerprinting domain offers distinct advantages, including significantly lower false positive rates, enhanced harmlessness, and su…

PI-WAN: A Physics-Informed Wind-Adaptive Network for Quadrotor Dynamics Prediction in Unknown Environments
Mengyun Wang, Bo Wang, Yifeng Niu, Chang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00816

PI-WAN: A Physics-Informed Wind-Adaptive Network for Quadrotor Dynamics Prediction in Unknown Environments
Accurate dynamics modeling is essential for quadrotors to achieve precise trajectory tracking in various applications. Traditional physical knowledge-driven modeling methods face substantial limitations in unknown environments characterized by variable payloads, wind disturbances, and external perturbations. On the other hand, data-driven modeling methods suffer from poor generalization when handling out-of-distribution (OoD) data, restricting their effectiveness in unknown scenarios. To addres…

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/poll-shows-decline-belief-blacks-asians-face-racial-discrimination-rcna222217
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p72#a250731p72

Rodgers downplays facing Jets: 'It's Week 1' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46149554/aaron-rodgers-downplays-facing-jets-steelers-opener

Raiders Pushed to Reunite With Veteran Free Agent WR https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/amari-cooper-free-agent-rumors-latest/?adt_ei=[email]

HiVA: Self-organized Hierarchical Variable Agent via Goal-driven Semantic-Topological Evolution
Jinzhou Tang, Jusheng Zhang, Qinhan Lv, Sidi Liu, Jing Yang, Chengpei Tang, Keze Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00189

HiVA: Self-organized Hierarchical Variable Agent via Goal-driven Semantic-Topological Evolution
Autonomous agents play a crucial role in advancing Artificial General Intelligence, enabling problem decomposition and tool orchestration through Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing paradigms face a critical trade-off. On one hand, reusable fixed workflows require manual reconfiguration upon environmental changes; on the other hand, flexible reactive loops fail to distill reasoning progress into transferable structures. We introduce Hierarchical Variable Agent (HiVA), a novel framew…

ADVMEM: Adversarial Memory Initialization for Realistic Test-Time Adaptation via Tracklet-Based Benchmarking
Shyma Alhuwaider, Motasem Alfarra, Juan C. Perez, Merey Ramazanova, Bernard Ghanem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02182

ADVMEM: Adversarial Memory Initialization for Realistic Test-Time Adaptation via Tracklet-Based Benchmarking
We introduce a novel tracklet-based dataset for benchmarking test-time adaptation (TTA) methods. The aim of this dataset is to mimic the intricate challenges encountered in real-world environments such as images captured by hand-held cameras, self-driving cars, etc. The current benchmarks for TTA focus on how models face distribution shifts, when deployed, and on violations to the customary independent-and-identically-distributed (i.i.d.) assumption in machine learning. Yet, these benchmarks fa…

Cowboys' Week 1 opponent prepares for predicted butt-whooping with new sponsor https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-week-1-opponent-prepares-predicted-butt-whooping-new-sponsor

This U.S. Citizen Recorded an Immigration Arrest. Officers Told Him To Delete It or Face Charges.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.
https://youtu.be/nX7I4znDOKk

Large Language Model-Driven Closed-Loop UAV Operation with Semantic Observations
Wenhao Wang, Yanyan Li, Long Jiao, Jiawei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01930

Large Language Model-Driven Closed-Loop UAV Operation with Semantic Observations
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized robotic autonomy, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of LLMs for translating human instructions into executable control code for UAV operations. However, LLMs still face challenges from logical reasoning and complex decision-making, leading to concerns about the reliability of LLM-driven UAV operations. In this paper, we propose a LLM-driven closed-loop control framework that enables reliable…

VULSOVER: Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Driven Constraint Solving
Xiang Li, Yueci Su, Jiahao Liu, Zhiwei Lin, Yuebing Hou, Peiming Gao, Yuanchao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00882

VULSOVER: Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Driven Constraint Solving
Traditional vulnerability detection methods rely heavily on predefined rule matching, which often fails to capture vulnerabilities accurately. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), leveraging their ability to understand code semantics has emerged as a promising direction for achieving more accurate and efficient vulnerability detection. However, current LLM-based approaches face significant challenges: instability in model outputs, limitations in context length, and hallucination. As a…

FreeMorph: Tuning-Free Generalized Image Morphing with Diffusion Model
Yukang Cao, Chenyang Si, Jinghao Wang, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01953 ht…

FreeMorph: Tuning-Free Generalized Image Morphing with Diffusion Model
We present FreeMorph, the first tuning-free method for image morphing that accommodates inputs with different semantics or layouts. Unlike existing methods that rely on finetuning pre-trained diffusion models and are limited by time constraints and semantic/layout discrepancies, FreeMorph delivers high-fidelity image morphing without requiring per-instance training. Despite their efficiency and potential, tuning-free methods face challenges in maintaining high-quality results due to the non-lin…

Cowboys vs Eagles referee assignments for Week 1 of 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-philadelphia-eagles-referee-assignments-week-one-2025-nfl-season

FGO-SLAM: Enhancing Gaussian SLAM with Globally Consistent Opacity Radiance Field
Fan Zhu, Yifan Zhao, Ziyu Chen, Biao Yu, Hui Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01547 https://

FGO-SLAM: Enhancing Gaussian SLAM with Globally Consistent Opacity Radiance Field
Visual SLAM has regained attention due to its ability to provide perceptual capabilities and simulation test data for Embodied AI. However, traditional SLAM methods struggle to meet the demands of high-quality scene reconstruction, and Gaussian SLAM systems, despite their rapid rendering and high-quality mapping capabilities, lack effective pose optimization methods and face challenges in geometric reconstruction. To address these issues, we introduce FGO-SLAM, a Gaussian SLAM system that emplo…

Got a yard sign at the Evanston Main Street Fair from @katmabu.bsky.social.
Really respect her hustle in this campaign. Just out there at everything, meeting voters face to face. Her platform seems solid, and it would be great to have her enthusiasm and energy representing the 9th.
The best way to support her campaign is to donate

Sources: Google is set to face a modest EU antitrust fine over adtech practices, in an investigation triggered by a complaint by the European Publishers Council (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

Pro Picks: Eagles will beat the Cowboys by double digits to kick off the NFL season https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-eagles-will-beat-the-cowboys-by-double-digits-to-kick-off-the-nfl-season

Democrats face an increasingly frustrated base over redistricting (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/01/dems-redistricting-pressure-00537176
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p44#a250901p44

A Lightweight Face Quality Assessment Framework to Improve Face Verification Performance in Real-Time Screening Applications
Ahmed Aman Ibrahim, Hamad Mansour Alawar, Abdulnasser Abbas Zehi, Ahmed Mohammad Alkendi, Bilal Shafi Ashfaq Ahmed Mirza, Shan Ullah, Ismail Lujain Jaleel, Hassan Ugail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15961

A Lightweight Face Quality Assessment Framework to Improve Face Verification Performance in Real-Time Screening Applications
Face image quality plays a critical role in determining the accuracy and reliability of face verification systems, particularly in real-time screening applications such as surveillance, identity verification, and access control. Low-quality face images, often caused by factors such as motion blur, poor lighting conditions, occlusions, and extreme pose variations, significantly degrade the performance of face recognition models, leading to higher false rejection and false acceptance rates. In th…

The White House announced an attempt to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid funds without congressional approval,
drawing the ire of Democrats and appropriators and increasing the chances of a shutdown. 
Such a move had not been made in nearly a half-century,
and it is expected to face legal challenges.
It also comes two months after GOP lawmakers approved the first rescissions package worth $9 billion
that targeted global aid programs and the Corporation for…

Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb on Playing Packers' Micah Parsons: 'Going to Be Weird' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-playing-packers-micah-parsons-its-going-weird

Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case,
🔥Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151301

Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question #ELB
The Supreme Court just issued this order: Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, as it had been found to face Section 2 VRA liability for not creating that district. … Continue reading Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question →

Vance's potential 2028 Democratic rivals want him to be the face of the megabill (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/vance-one-big-beautiful-bill-2028-00436041
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p166#a250701p166

4th-year Cowboys DE shows hunger, patience in angling for new deal https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/03/cowboys-sam-williams-approach-return-injury/85943136007/