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Another one bites the dust.
Russia's oil & gas money machine is being demolished. Repairs were already hampered by sanctions on critical components from abroad, but skilled crews should also be in short supply by now.
https://kyivind…

Russian gas processing plant stops production following drone attack, Reuters reports
The Astrakhan gas processing plant in southern Russia has stopped production following a fire at the facility caused by a drone attack, three industry sources told Reuters.

Filing: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido doubled its valuation to $2.3B after Swiggy offloaded its 12% Rapido stake for ~$270M in a secondary share sale (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/uber-rival-rapido-dou…

Uber-rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale | TechCrunch
Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for about $270 million through two separate deals.

Jonathan Gannon Speaks With The Media Following The Cardinals Win Over The Raiders In Preseason Week 3 https://www.azcardinals.com/video/jonathan-gannon-speaks-with-the-media-following-the-cardinals-win-over-t…

Bengals LB Logan Wilson requests trade following significant decrease in playing time, per report

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

Unidentified drones spotted following humanitarian aid ships sailing to Gaza | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unidentified-drones-spotted-following-humanitarian-aid-ships-sailing-gaza

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Pranav Tiwari, Soumyodipta Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16482 https://

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordinated path following in multi-agent systems is a key challenge in robotics, with applications in automated logistics, surveillance, and collaborative exploration. Traditional formation control techniques often rely on time-parameterized trajectories and path integrals, which can result in synchronization issues and rigid behavior. In this work, we address the problem of sequential path following, where agents maintain fixed spatial separation along a common trajectory, guided by a leader …

Jerry Jones detached from reality with latest claim following Cowboys blowout loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-detached-from-reality-with-latest-claim-following-dallas-cowboys-blowout-loss

Validation of the Following Streamer mechanism for SF6 breakdown induced by floating linear metal particles
Zihao Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17716 https://

Validation of the Following Streamer mechanism for SF6 breakdown induced by floating linear metal particles
A recently proposed Following Streamer mechanism (Feng et al. 2025 Phys. Rev. Applied 23 064039) seeks to explain how floating metal particles induce SF6 streamer breakdown in the combined gap. This mechanism is derived from a 2D axisymmetric fluid model, which has limitations in describing multiple streamer events in real-world 3D scenarios. To validate the Following Streamer mechanism, we experimentally investigate the discharge morphology of SF6 streamers induced by a floating linear metal p…

“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
…
Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…

Bands pull out of UK music festival after The Mary Wallopers say they were ‘cut off’
Irish folk group displayed Palestinian flag on stage in Portsmouth

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

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BREAKING: Paul goes for another round of “Wait, wasn’t I already following them?!”

Russian gas processing plant stops production following drone attack, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/24/russian-gas-processing-plant-stops.html

This is the kind of thing the old twitter was very good at. You could make some observations, ask generally if they were correct and before long a statistician and a criminologist appeared to answer your question. Closely followed by an expert in geopolitics with Europol following behind..

Starting up Bring Her Back. Anybody seen it, opinions? Guess I'll see. Will probably get to finish most of it before wifey's done with her exam 😂
#horror

Bring Her Back (2025)
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are introduced to their new sibling by their foster mother, only to learn that she has a terrifying secret.

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in opossums) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early s…

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll addresses backup quarterback dilemma and depth around team following end of preseason https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-addresses-backup-quarterback-dilemma-and-depth-around-team-follow…

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15239…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Large language models excel at instruction-following in English, but their performance in low-resource languages like Thai remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on translations, missing cultural and domain-specific nuances needed for real-world use. We present WangchanThaiInstruct, a human-authored Thai dataset for evaluation and instruction tuning, covering four professional domains and seven task types. Created through a multi-stage quality control process with annotators, dom…

Bollywood star Aamir Khan opts to launch his films on YouTube for $1 in India following theatrical runs, instead of on global streamers; he'll get 50% of sales (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Jaguar Land Rover extends shutdown again following cyberattack https://therecord.media/jaguar-land-rover-extends-shutdown-again-cyberattack

Well, apparently the thug party is very upset that California has enacted, signed, and put into force the following law:
"California passes law banning ICE agents from wearing masks to hide their identities"
The ice-thugs are complaining that if they reveal their identities that the public may ostracize or send them upsetting emails or texts. Aw, the poor widdle ice-thugs, poor things. Perhaps they should think of the terror they bring to those they "detain"…

Man shot in ICE confrontation was a 'respected and admired' citizen journalist with TikTok following (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-shot-ice-confrontation-was-respected-admired-citizen-journalist-ti-rcna239202
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p138#a251023p138

A LiDAR-Driven Fallback Longitudinal Controller for Safer Following in Sudden Braking Scenarios
Mohamed Sabry, Enrico Del Re, Walter Morales-Alvarez, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16642

A LiDAR-Driven Fallback Longitudinal Controller for Safer Following in Sudden Braking Scenarios
Adaptive Cruise Control has seen significant advancements, with Collaborative Adaptive Cruise Control leveraging Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication to enhance coordination and stability. However, the reliance on stable communication channels limits its reliability. Research on reducing information dependencies in Adaptive Cruise Control systems has remained limited, despite its critical role in mitigating collision risks during sudden braking scenarios. This study proposes a novel fallback longit…

ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion
Zichao Hu, Chen Tang, Michael J. Munje, Yifeng Zhu, Alex Liu, Shuijing Liu, Garrett Warnell, Peter Stone, Joydeep Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17941

ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion
This paper considers the problem of enabling robots to navigate dynamic environments while following instructions. The challenge lies in the combinatorial nature of instruction specifications: each instruction can include multiple specifications, and the number of possible specification combinations grows exponentially as the robot's skill set expands. For example, "overtake the pedestrian while staying on the right side of the road" consists of two specifications: "overtake the pedestrian" and…

Found an app called “Octave Coffee”. It’s an opinionated timer for pourover coffee. Tells you how much to pour, then how much to wait, and so on. And it has a cute pixel art kitty.
The problem is… it negs you while doing it, and your reward at the end for following the instructions is the message, “You actually listened. Shocking.”
I did it twice. It doesn’t vary.
So… I’m deleting it, even though I found it useful, because I don’t want to be insulted first thing in the morn…

LGBTQIA Book History Bibliography by Alex Wingate: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2025/08/22/lgbtqia-book-history-bibliography/
"The following collaborative bibliography compiles and celebrates book historical work about and for LGBTQIA communiti…

TL;DR: No.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-mP4KqK0xSJq58K1XQ43SdA:a:89340020-/0

Fact-check: Has the Netherlands banned Antifa?
Calls to ban Antifa have emerged in Europe following the killing of Charlie Kirk. No links between Kirk's suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, and any …

_Do not cite the deep #memes to me, squid. I was there when they were written._
If there ever is #Internet / #Meme History 101, then this would be in it following the birth of YouTube. Though I saw it either on Slashdot or Digg…

#PositiveDisInformation

👾 Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/invasion-intensifies-on-karipuna-indigenous-land-in-the-brazilian-amazon/

Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again, Karipuna leaders told Mongabay following an alert by global nonprofit Survival International. “This year has been very difficult because there are a lot of people on our territory,” André Karipuna, the chief of the Karipuna people, […]

Good to see hairy rufty tufty kilted blokes in the crowd for #scovwal Their masculinity clearly isn't remotely threatened by following women's sport. #wrwc2025

Jerry Jones detached from reality with latest claim following Cowboys blowout loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-detached-from-reality-with-latest-claim-following-dallas-cowboys-blowout-loss

Quick Hits: Pete Carroll addresses backup quarterback dilemma and depth around team following end of preseason https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-addresses-backup-quarterback-dilemma-and-depth-around-team-follow…

GitHub outlines plans to secure npm following multiple supply-chain attacks, including deprecating legacy classic tokens and migrating users to FIDO-based 2FA (Xavier René-Corail/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-securi…

Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain
GitHub is strengthening npm's security with stricter authentication, granular tokens, and enhanced trusted publishing.

Using "AI" assistants is kinda like stating "all products surrounding us are worse than they were years ago" and following up with "and that is just great".

Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you.

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Xiao Mao, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Guohua Wu, Willem van Jaarsveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17870

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several time slots for their maintenance task, from which the OEM must select one. This decision needs to be made promptly to support customers' planning. At the end of each day, routes for service engineers are planned to fulfill the tasks scheduled for the following …

On Deligne's conjecture for Hecke characters
Yubo Jin, Dongwen Liu, Binyong Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18921 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18921

Generalized DP-colorings of digraphs
Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta, Michael Stiebitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17471

Generalized DP-colorings of digraphs
In this paper we consider the following three coloring concepts for digraphs. First of all, the generalized coloring concept, in which the same colored vertices of a digraph induce a subdigraph that satisfies a given digraph property. Second, the concept of variable degeneracy, introduced for graphs by Borodin, Kostochka and Toft in 2000; this allows to give a common generalization of the point partition number and the list dichromatic number. Finally, the DP-coloring concept as introduced for …

Breaking: 'Ukraine is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back' — Trump says following meeting with Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/breaking-ukraine-is-in-a.html

The Trinity-One PeV-Neutrino Telescope
David A. Raudales O., A. Nepomuk Otte, D. R. Bergman, J. Bogdan, A. M. Brown, M. Doro, M. Fedkevych, F. Giordano, C. Hao, D. Kieda, M. Mariotti, Y. Onel, E. Schapera, D. Soldin, W. Springer, S. Stepanoff, I. Taboada, K. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18237

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
Lingyu Peng, Chang Ge, Liying Long, Xin Li, Xiao Hu, Pengda Lu, Qingchuan Li, Jiangyue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16579 h…

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
This artwork presents an interdisciplinary interaction installation that visualizes collective online mourning behavior in China. By focusing on commemorative content posted on Sina Weibo following the deaths of seven prominent Chinese authors, the artwork employs data scraping, natural language processing, and 3D modeling to transform fragmented textual expressions into immersive digital monuments. Through the analysis of word frequencies, topic models, and user engagement metrics, the system …

Interesting blog about creating a fully encrypted cloud storage on nextcloud.
https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/encrypted-private-nextcloud-VPS-and-storagebox

Nextcloud with fully encrypted storage
This tutorial shows how to setup your own Nextcloud following the recommended AIO approach, storing data encrypted on disk and using Hetzner's Storage Box.

Squares, scales and lines
James Cummings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16755

Squares, scales and lines
We use hypotheses from PCF theory to construct a linear ordering which has cardinality the successor of a singular cardinal of countable cofinality, and is incompact in the following sense: the ordering is not sigma-scattered, but every smaller subordering is sigma-wellordered. Such orderings were first constructed by Todorcevic using Jensen's square principle.

gotta make some of u bitches regret not following me five years ago

YouTube adds a "hide" button to let users dismiss recommendation pop-ups that appear at the end of videos, following user feedback that pop-ups were distracting (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/784774/youtube-end-screen-videos-hide

YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens
YouTube is rolling out the ability for users to “hide” end screens, which often cover your screen with content recommendations at the end of a video.

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Commanders vs. Raiders: Where to watch NFL Week 3, odds, promos, prediction following Jayden Daniels injury

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

An illustrated introduction to the coarse topology of lamplighters
Anthony Genevois
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18941

Wie frustrierend das als #BundespolizistIn wohl sein muss, so einen scheiß Job ausführen zu müssen (!) und dann auch noch niemanden zu finden
#Grenzkontrollen #Schengen

Jon Worth (@jon@gruene.social)
Angehängt: 2 Bilder In Kehl trying to work out what’s happening with #Schengen A TGV to Stuttgart was controlled and delayed 15 min. The following TER to Offenburg wasn’t

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 12 October - 19 October
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode explaining the history and following of a "Boodle Boy" also found online the Dot Com!
https://humanmeme.com/boodle-boy-a-brief-history-of-time

Disney Says 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' to Return After Backlash (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/disney-says-jimmy-kimmel-live-to-return-following-backlash
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p101#a250922p101

'Your Party later said in a post on [!!!??] X: "For those who joined under the previous system last week, please be assured your data and membership is secure and will be migrated across. There is nothing more for you to do at this stage."'
Which, together with Corbyn's ref to the roadmap, which Zarah was following is as close as she'll get to being vindicated.
Let's hope that's an end to it.
Jeremy Corbyn sorry for 'confusion' as new…

Jeremy Corbyn sorry for 'confusion' as new party membership launched
The former Labour leader admits the new party has faced some "fraught days in the last week".

Distribution Testing in the Presence of Arbitrarily Dominant Noise with Verification Queries
Hadley Black, Christopher Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17269 https://

Distribution Testing in the Presence of Arbitrarily Dominant Noise with Verification Queries
We study distribution testing without direct access to a source of relevant data, but rather to one where only a tiny fraction is relevant. To enable this, we introduce the following verification query model. The goal is to perform a statistical task on distribution $\boldsymbol{p}$ given sample access to a mixture $\boldsymbol{r} = λ\boldsymbol{p} + (1-λ)\boldsymbol{q}$ and the ability to query whether a sample was generated by $\boldsymbol{p}$ or by $\boldsymbol{q}$. In general, if $m_0$ sa…

Instruction-Following Evaluation in Function Calling for Large Language Models
Nikolai Skripko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18420 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukraine-hungary-spat-highlights-tensions.html

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

Caleb Williams headlines Bears' studs and duds following epic Week 3 win over Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/bears/news/caleb-williams-headlines-bears-studs-and-duds-following-epic-week-3-win-over-cowboys

Raiders Release Stern Statement on Christian Wilkins Following Release News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/christian-wilkins-release-statement-contract/?adt_ei=[email]

From finding a spanning subgraph $H$ to an $H$-factor
Allan Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18832

Ukrainian MP, businessman Yaroslav Rushchyshyn dies in motorcycle accident: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/ukrainian-mp-businessman-yaroslav-rushchyshyn.html

YouTube adds a "hide" button to let users dismiss recommendation pop-ups that appear at the end of videos, following user feedback that pop-ups were distracting (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/784774/youtube-end-screen-videos-hide

YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens
YouTube is rolling out the ability for users to “hide” end screens, which often cover your screen with content recommendations at the end of a video.

Congruences modulo powers of 2 and 3 for overpartition $k$-tuples
G. Kavya Keerthana, S. Ananya, Ranganatha D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17705 https://arxi…

Congruences modulo powers of 2 and 3 for overpartition $k$-tuples
Let $\overline{p}_{k}(n)$ denote the number of overpartition $k$-tuples of $n$. In 2023, Saikia \cite{saikia} conjectured the following congruences: \begin{align*} \overline{p}_{q}(8n+2)& \equiv 0 \pmod{4},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+3)\equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+4) \equiv 0 \pmod{2},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+5)& \equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+6) \equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+7)\equiv 0 \pmod{32}, \end{align*} where $n\geq0$ and $q$ is prime. Recently, Sell…

A Solovay-like model at $\aleph_\omega$
Alejandro Poveda, Sebastiano Thei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18991

A Solovay-like model at $\aleph_ω$
Assuming the consistency of ZFC with appropriate large cardinal axioms we produce a model of ZFC where $\aleph_ω$ is a strong limit cardinal and the inner model $L(\mathcal{P}(\aleph_ω))$ satisfies the following properties: (1) Every set $A\subseteq (\aleph_ω)^ω$ has the $\aleph_ω$-PSP. (2) There is no scale at $\aleph_ω$. (3) The Singular Cardinal Hypothesis (SCH) fails at $\aleph_ω$. (4) Shelah's Approachability property (AP) fails at $\aleph_ω$. (5) The Tree Property (TP) holds at $\…

This Week in Sports Trivia: October 23, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6740733/2025/10/23/this-week-in-sports-trivia-october-23-2025/

Auto giant Stellantis investigating data breach following ‘unauthorized access’ https://therecord.media/stellantis-investigates-cyber-incident

On finite groups with exactly one noncommutator
Saveliy V. Skresanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17587

On finite groups with exactly one noncommutator
An element $x$ of a group $G$ is a commutator if it can be expressed in the form $x = a^{-1}b^{-1}ab$ for some $a, b \in G$. In 2010 MacHale posed the following problem in the Kourovka notebook: does there exist a finite group $G$, with $|G| > 2$, such that there is exactly one element of $G$ which is not a commutator? We answer this question in the affirmative and provide an infinite series of such groups, the smallest group in our construction having size $16609443840$.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Scholar: 23 June - 30 June
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Call for Chapter Submissions: New Perspectives in Africana Studies Call for Chapter…
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Raiders coach Pete Carroll to speak following loss to Commanders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-coach-pete-carroll-to-speak-following-loss-to-commanders-3463926/

Precoloring extension with demands on paths
Arun Kumar Das, Michal Opler, Tom\'a\v{s} Valla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18936 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Precoloring extension with demands on paths
Let $G$ be a graph with a set of precolored vertices, and let us be given an integer distance parameter $d$ and a set of integer demands $d_1,\dots,d_c$. The Distance Precoloring Extension with Demands (DPED) problem is to compute a vertex $c$-coloring of $G$ such that the following three conditions hold: (i) the resulting coloring respects the colors of the precolored vertices, (ii) the distance of two vertices of the same color is at least $d$, and (iii) the number of vertices colored by colo…

Cowboys promote two cornerbacks following multiple secondary injuries https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-promote-two-cornerbacks-following-multiple-secondary-injuries

Tracking every NFL trade before the deadline: Brownlee to Jets, Bigsby to Eagles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46306378/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-updates-latest-news-deals

HOGraspFlow: Exploring Vision-based Generative Grasp Synthesis with Hand-Object Priors and Taxonomy Awareness
Yitian Shi, Zicheng Guo, Rosa Wolf, Edgar Welte, Rania Rayyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16871

HOGraspFlow: Exploring Vision-based Generative Grasp Synthesis with Hand-Object Priors and Taxonomy Awareness
We propose Hand-Object\emph{(HO)GraspFlow}, an affordance-centric approach that retargets a single RGB with hand-object interaction (HOI) into multi-modal executable parallel jaw grasps without explicit geometric priors on target objects. Building on foundation models for hand reconstruction and vision, we synthesize $SE(3)$ grasp poses with denoising flow matching (FM), conditioned on the following three complementary cues: RGB foundation features as visual semantics, HOI contact reconstructio…

NYC's Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani cancels a planned town hall with WABC News following ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show (Ethan Stark-Miller/AM New York)
https://www.amny.com/news/mamdani-pull-abc-town-hall-jimmy-kimmel-suspension…

EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of

List Coloring the Cartesian Product of a Complete Graph and Complete Bipartite Graph
Hemanshu Kaul, Leonardo Marciaga, Jeffrey A. Mudrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16733 https:…

List Coloring the Cartesian Product of a Complete Graph and Complete Bipartite Graph
We study the list chromatic number of the Cartesian product of a complete graph of order $n$ and a complete bipartite graph with partite sets of size $a$ and $b$, denoted $χ_{\ell}(K_n \square K_{a,b})$. At the 2024 Sparse Graphs Coalition's Workshop on algebraic, extremal, and structural methods and problems in graph colouring, Mudrock presented the following question: For each positive integer $a$, does $χ_{\ell}(K_n \square K_{a,b}) = n+a$ if and only if $b \geq (n+a-1)!^a/(a-1)!^a$? In th…

Introduction to the relative Langlands program
Rapha\"el Beuzart-Plessis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18062 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18062

Introduction to the relative Langlands program
The aim of these notes is to give an overview of several aspects of what has come to be called the relative Langlands program, a theme that takes its origin in the study of automorphic periods and their relations to particular cases of Langlands functoriality and special values of (automorphic) $L$-functions. Following the work of Sakellaridis and Sakellaridis-Venkatesh, we emphasize the unifying role played by spherical varieties and harmonic analysis on them. We also review various instances …

Raiders' O'Connell exits with right wrist injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46061296/las-vegas-raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-exits-wrist-injury

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CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions, but current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with following fine-grained commands despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary natural language instructions to robot actions. One cause for this is a lack of semantic diversity and language grounding in existing robot datasets and, specifically, a lack of fine-grained task diversity for similar observations. To address this, we presen…

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