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The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500
– and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing war and persecution from around the world

Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-missed-financial-t…

StubHub Missed Financial Targets Ahead of IPO
Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn’t expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The ...

Persistent Autoregressive Mapping with Traffic Rules for Autonomous Driving
Shiyi Liang, Xinyuan Chang, Changjie Wu, Huiyuan Yan, Yifan Bai, Xinran Liu, Hang Zhang, Yujian Yuan, Shuang Zeng, Mu Xu, Xing Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22756

Persistent Autoregressive Mapping with Traffic Rules for Autonomous Driving
Safe autonomous driving requires both accurate HD map construction and persistent awareness of traffic rules, even when their associated signs are no longer visible. However, existing methods either focus solely on geometric elements or treat rules as temporary classifications, failing to capture their persistent effectiveness across extended driving sequences. In this paper, we present PAMR (Persistent Autoregressive Mapping with Traffic Rules), a novel framework that performs autoregressive c…

Guide to the NFL's rookie class: Who is flying under the radar? Who will win OROY, DROY? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45979912/2025-nfl-rookies-guide-fantasy-picks-stat-projections-top-qbs-roy

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22558

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities for solving Operations Research (OR) problems. While reinforcement learning serves as a powerful paradigm for LLM training on OR problems, existing works generally face two key limitations. First, outcome reward suffers from the credit assignment problem, where correct final answers can reinforce flawed reasoning. Second, conventional discriminative process supervision is myopic, failing to evaluate the interdependent steps of OR mo…

#SIGBOVIK is at it again: "Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer"
"[…] in this paper, I will appear to succeed at factoring by failing with style"
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Sources: after earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, Trump is set to be interviewed for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/31/2025/trump-to…

Trump to sit with CBS News in first interview after lawsuit
The US president is set to sit down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell on Friday afternoon, Semafor has learned.

Brilliant week in Bristol.
Especially invigorating to present the invited talk, 'Private Education Capital: Beyond Caste-based Educational Exclusion as "Tradition"' at Centre for International Research in Education. I also gave a Roundtable Presentation, 'Epistemic Humility as Experienced Provocation' for doctoral students.
Grateful to wonderful colleagues who took such care, asked such thoughtful questions, and showed me beautiful Bristol with scrumpt…

Sliced Space-filling Design with Mixtures
Zikang Xiong, Hong Qin, Yuning Huang, Jianhui Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21827 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21…

Sliced Space-filling Design with Mixtures
In this paper, we proposes the construction methods of sliced space-filling design when the quantitative factors are mixture components. Leveraging the representative points framework for distribution and energy distance decomposition theory, this paper proposes three methods for constructing sliced representative points and establishes their distributional convergence. Furthermore, one-shot and sequential algorithms for generating sliced space-filling mixture design for experiments with proces…

Public defender’s office seeks removal of Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-29/public-defender-moves-to-disqualify-bill-essayli

Public defender's office seeks to remove L.A.'s top federal prosecutor
In a filing Friday, the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles argued acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli should be removed because he is unlawfully occupying his post.