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Four takeaways from Wednesday, from offensive "ownership" to happy returns as they prepare for Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/news/four-takeaways-from-wednesday-from-offensive-owner…

49ers place George Kittle on injured reserve: Star tight end to miss at least four games with hamstring injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers…

Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

Hybrid A* Path Planning with Multi-Modal Motion Extension for Four-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots
Runjiao Bao, Lin Zhang, Tianwei Niu, Haoyu Yuan, Shoukun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06115

Hybrid A* Path Planning with Multi-Modal Motion Extension for Four-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots
Four-wheel independent steering (4WIS) systems provide mobile robots with a rich set of motion modes, such as Ackermann steering, lateral steering, and parallel movement, offering superior maneuverability in constrained environments. However, existing path planning methods generally assume a single kinematic model and thus fail to fully exploit the multi-modal capabilities of 4WIS platforms. To address this limitation, we propose an extended Hybrid A* framework that operates in a four-dimension…

physician_trust: Physician trust network (1966)
A network of trust relationships among physicians in four midwestern (USA) cities in 1966. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts or asks for advice from node j. Each of the four components represent the network within a given city.
This network has 241 nodes and 1098 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

It’s exactly four weeks ago today that the Jeffrey Epstein story broke,
or re-broke in its current form.
On Friday, July 11, the world learned of the tense meeting that took place at the White House that previous Wednesday,
in which FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files.
Bongino was so incensed that he didn’t go to work that Friday
and threatened to resign.
He has, at least for now…

On Epstein, Even MAGA World Can Smell That Trump Is Hiding Something
We’re four weeks into the current iteration of the Epstein scandal. And there is no way it’s going away.

Consistent Four-derivative Heterotic Truncations and the Kerr-Sen Solution
Liang Ma, Yi Pang, Robert J. Saskowski, Minghao Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07069 https://

Consistent Four-derivative Heterotic Truncations and the Kerr-Sen Solution
Four-derivative heterotic supergravity (without gauge fields) reduced on a $p$-dimensional torus leads to half-maximal supergravity coupled to $p$ vector multiplets, and it is known that removing the vector multiplets is a consistent truncation of the theory. We find a new consistent truncation of four-derivative heterotic supergravity on a torus that keeps the vector multiplets and precisely reproduces the bosonic action of heterotic supergravity (with heterotic gauge fields). We show that bot…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gang of Four:
🎵 Life! It's a Shame
#GangofFour
https://lcars.bandcamp.com/track/life-its-a-shame-gang-of-four
https://open.spotify.com/track/52NxZVmduCrB2ey20vdaTn

My latest discovery: Four ear mashups.
Yes, that's right: four ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYpCy61c8JE

from my link log —
A queer history of computing: Peter Landin.
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/06/queer-history-computing-part-four/
saved 2025-07-18

When any four solutions are independent
James Freitag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08387 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08387

When any four solutions are independent
We show that if any four distinct solutions of a rational difference equation are algebraically independent, then any number of distinct solutions to the equation are independent. A nontrivial variant of this result is given for autonomous difference equations or algebraic dynamical systems, where we show the degree of nonminimality is at most one. The results have a natural interpretation in terms of invariant or periodic subvarieties of algebraic dynamical systems and $σ$-varieties. Surprisi…

"Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes
Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have tested various types of heat pumps in existing buildings across Germany over four years, finding that the systems achieved seasonal performance factors between 2.6 and 5.4. The team also showed that PV-driven heat pumps can boost self-consumption rates, particularly when paired with battery storage.

CardiacFlow: 3D t Four-Chamber Cardiac Shape Completion and Generation via Flow Matching
Qiang Ma, Qingjie Meng, Mengyun Qiao, Paul M. Matthews, Declan P. O'Regan, Wenjia Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05754

CardiacFlow: 3D+t Four-Chamber Cardiac Shape Completion and Generation via Flow Matching
Learning 3D+t shape completion and generation from multi-view cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images requires a large amount of high-resolution 3D whole-heart segmentations (WHS) to capture shape priors. In this work, we leverage flow matching techniques to learn deep generative flows for augmentation, completion, and generation of 3D+t shapes of four cardiac chambers represented implicitly by segmentations. Firstly, we introduce a latent rectified flow to generate 3D cardiac shapes for data a…

Topological energy pumping in a quasi-periodically driven four-level system
Vansh Kaushik, Sayan Choudhury, Tanay Nag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06043 https://

Topological energy pumping in a quasi-periodically driven four-level system
We investigate a quasi-periodically driven four-level system that serves as a temporal analog of topological phenomena found in four-band models with intertwined spin and orbital degrees of freedom. Under a two-tone drive in the strong-driving regime, the system realizes a two-dimensional synthetic Floquet lattice, thus facilitating the realization of topological energy pumping. For a temporal quantum spin Hall insulator, we find that the rates of emission and absorption of energy between the t…

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
Yu Zeng, Mehdi Ghaffarzadeh, Mohsen Ghasemi, Dongfang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08221 https://…

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
For an irreducible complex character \(χ\) of a finite group \(G\), the \emph{codegree} of \(χ\) is defined as the ratio \(|G : \ker(χ)| / χ(1)\), where \(\ker(χ)\) represents the kernel of \(χ\). In this paper, we provide a detailed characterization of finite groups of non-prime power order that have exactly four irreducible character co-degrees.

"The Librarians" @ BBC Four Storyville
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kkmj
"A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within."

I'm really looking forward to seeing this: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/anchor-me-don-mcglashan-story-2025

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"
If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 inches, then the employee must propose, perform and consummate a marriage to the customer.
Bigots are gonna try to deflect while going more broke.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

Eagles 4 straight tush pushes lead to touchdown vs. Giants, frustrate viewers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6705271/2025/10/09/eagles-giants-four-straight-tush-pushes/

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/ZWBq4

'Incubation', the unconscious process that leads to creativity #creativity

Quantum Mpemba effect in a four-site Bose-Hubbard model
Asad Ali, M. I. Hussain, Hamid Arian Zad, H. Kuniyil, M. T. Rahim, Saif Al-Kuwari, Saeed Haddadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06937

Quantum Mpemba effect in a four-site Bose-Hubbard model
We investigated the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) in a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model across clean and disordered regimes using exact numerical technique of a four-site lattice under Lindblad dynamics with local dephasing noise. By systematically varying hopping strength, onsite interactions, Stark potentials, and random disorder, we probe relaxation dynamics toward a common steady state using trace distance, relative entropy, entanglement asymmetry, and $\ell_1$-norm of coherence metrics. Ou…

Pew: 62% of US parents say their child under 2 watches YouTube and 84% say their child age 2-4 does; daily use for ages 2-4 grew from 38% in 2020 to 51% in 2025 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/10/08/how-parents-manage-s…

How Parents Manage Screen Time for Kids
About four-in-ten parents say they could be doing better at managing their kid’s screen time. A larger share – 58% – say they’re doing the best they can.

Four Ukrainian soldiers rescued after hiding in occupied territory for years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/four-ukrainian-soldiers-rescued-after.html

On asymmetric hyperbolic L-space knots of braid index four
Kenneth L. Baker, Masakazu Teragaito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

On asymmetric hyperbolic L-space knots of braid index four
A knot is called an L-space knot if it admits a positive Dehn surgery yielding an L-space. In the SnapPy census, there are exactly 9 asymmetric L-space knots. Among them, the knot t12533 is the only known example of braid index 4. We generalize this knot, and give the first infinite family of asymmetric hyperbolic L-space knots of braid index 4.

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

why is soup four fucking dollars? what am I, A KING?

Linear stability of the blowdown Ricci shrinker in 4D
Keaton Naff, Tristan Ozuch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05470 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05470

Linear stability of the blowdown Ricci shrinker in 4D
We prove that the four-dimensional blowdown shrinking Ricci soliton constructed by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf is linearly stable in the sense of Cao-Hamilton-Ilmanen. This provides the first known example of a non-cylindrical linearly stable shrinking Ricci soliton. This offers new insights into the topological behavior of generic solutions to the Ricci flow in four dimensions: on top of reversing connected sums and handle surgeries, they should also undo complex blow-ups. The proof starts from an…

Panama’s ocean lifeline vanishes for the first time in 40 years #Panama

Panama’s ocean lifeline vanishes for the first time in 40 years
Every year, Panama’s Pacific coast benefits from powerful seasonal winds that drive nutrient-rich waters to the surface, sustaining fisheries and protecting coral reefs. But in 2025, for the first time in at least four decades, this crucial upwelling did not occur. Scientists suspect weakened trade winds linked to climate disruption played a role, leaving cooler waters absent and fisheries under stress.

A broadband study of FRB20240114A with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope
P. Limaye, L. G. Spitler, N. Manaswini, J. Ben\'a\v{c}ek, F. Eppel, M. Kadler, L. Nicotera, J. Wongphechauxsorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08367

A broadband study of FRB20240114A with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope
We present Effelsberg 100-m telescope observations of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240110A, discovered by CHIME/FRB in January 2024. Using the Ultra BroadBand (UBB) receiver, spanning 1.3-6.0 GHz, we detected over 700 unique bursts across four observing epochs. A comprehensive analysis of their temporal and spectral properties reveals four distinct spectro-temporal morphologies, including simple, complex and frequency-drifting structures. No bursts were detected acros…

♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html

Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may have occurred on Earth about four billion years ago, producing the first molecular precursors for the emergence of life.

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @imcivicaction@instagram.com @…
#Trump wants to invoke the

"I wouldn't have done this three months ago, four months ago, I certainly wouldn't have done it a year ago."
He didn't do it from 2017 to 2020, either -- and who was 'in charge' then?

Had a lovely evening while playing an experimental board game on post-quantum #cryptography with people from Tampere University, the OpenSSL Foundation and Cybernetica.
A fitting end for the 2025 #OpenSSL Conference.

Xia & Lindell have also published a response (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518837122) – unsurprisingly, we don’t agree with most of their arguments. What puzzles us most is their claim that the re-analysis (their Table 1) "strengthens [their] conclusions." On the contrary:
In the Polysynthesis analysis, Small_Family has a minuscule averaged effect estimate (0.02) with a standard error more than four times larger (0.085). Together with a posterior inclusion probability (PIP) of just 0.085, this means the variable is rarely included in the best-supported models and its estimated effect is highly uncertain – essentially indistinguishable from zero. We therefore still struggle to see how this could be taken as support for their earlier statement that "different measures of language isolation – social, physical and *phylogenetic* – are important predictors of polysynthesis."

https://rudhar.com/sfreview/4waylist.htm

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
AVON: This won't hold it for long.
TARRANT: Have we shaken any of them off?
SOOLIN: [Looking at monitor] Not exactly.
VILA: Not remotely. There's four more coming on zero two three.
https://…

Hey everyone,
Today @… and I had video chats over Signal with four people from Gaza who, along with their families, are struggling to survive Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
I’d like to welcome them all to Gaza Verified.
• @…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils the new Mali G1-Ultra GPU (Ben Funk/HotHardware)
https://hothardware.com/news/arm-lumex-compute-subsystem-on-device-ai

Arm Unveils Lumex Compute Subsystem For Powerful, Efficient On-Device AI
Arm's new Lumex compute subsystem brings a big boost to on-device AI, graphics, and general compute tasks to flagship smartphones

Aaron Rodgers dismisses Jets in New York return, tosses four touchdowns in Steelers debut https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-dismisses-jets-in-new-york-return-tosses-four-touchdowns-in-steelers-debut

had someone just tell me "but the four hoursemen of the apocalypse aren't going to like announce themselves!" and i had the most dead eyed stare for a minute

we drove to negaunee ("iron city") and shopped a little. (i bought a 1963 henry mancini record and a 1930 pamphlet, "how to throw a party.")
negaunee has some cool old buildings.

Four drummers, Snarky Puppy? FOUR?
Isn't that a bit of overkill?
#music
https://youtu.be/f0GB_r-0J80

Agent-in-the-Loop: A Data Flywheel for Continuous Improvement in LLM-based Customer Support
Cen (Mia), Zhao (Wayne), Tiantian Zhang (Wayne), Hanchen Su (Wayne), Yufeng (Wayne), Zhang (Elaine), Shaowei Su (Elaine), Mingzhi Xu (Elaine), Yu (Elaine), Liu, Wei Han, Jeremy Werner, Claire Na Cheng, Yashar Mehdad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0…

Agent-in-the-Loop: A Data Flywheel for Continuous Improvement in LLM-based Customer Support
We introduce an Agent-in-the-Loop (AITL) framework that implements a continuous data flywheel for iteratively improving an LLM-based customer support system. Unlike standard offline approaches that rely on batch annotations, AITL integrates four key types of annotations directly into live customer operations: (1) pairwise response preferences, (2) agent adoption and rationales, (3) knowledge relevance checks, and (4) identification of missing knowledge. These feedback signals seamlessly feed ba…

Graph-based Integrated Gradients for Explaining Graph Neural Networks
Lachlan Simpson, Kyle Millar, Adriel Cheng, Cheng-Chew Lim, Hong Gunn Chew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07648

Graph-based Integrated Gradients for Explaining Graph Neural Networks
Integrated Gradients (IG) is a common explainability technique to address the black-box problem of neural networks. Integrated gradients assumes continuous data. Graphs are discrete structures making IG ill-suited to graphs. In this work, we introduce graph-based integrated gradients (GB-IG); an extension of IG to graphs. We demonstrate on four synthetic datasets that GB-IG accurately identifies crucial structural components of the graph used in classification tasks. We further demonstrate on t…

People who love sausages or music should never watch either being made 😅
Rehearsal tape: JACK Quartet on John Cage's Four
http://archive.soundamerican.org/sa_archive/sa3/sa3-jack-quartet-on-john-cage-s-four.html
#johncage #musicanship #yesbutwhatdidthecomposerMEAN

Do LLMs exhibit the same commonsense capabilities across languages?
Ivan Mart\'inez-Murillo, Elena Lloret, Paloma Moreda, Albert Gatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06401 https:…

Do LLMs exhibit the same commonsense capabilities across languages?
This paper explores the multilingual commonsense generation abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). To facilitate this investigation, we introduce MULTICOM, a novel benchmark that extends the COCOTEROS dataset to four languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, and Valencian. The task involves generating a commonsensical sentence that includes a given triplet of words. We evaluate a range of open-source LLMs, including LLaMA, Qwen, Gemma, EuroLLM, and Salamandra, on this benchmark. Our evaluation co…

Yes it is a funky little dial. I don't have enough characters to fully explain it here without starting a thread, so I cheated and shoved it all in the alt text. 🤷
#WristCheck (but not really, since it is a pocket watch).

Cortex-Synth: Differentiable Topology-Aware 3D Skeleton Synthesis with Hierarchical Graph Attention
Mohamed Zayaan S
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06705 https://

Cortex-Synth: Differentiable Topology-Aware 3D Skeleton Synthesis with Hierarchical Graph Attention
We present Cortex Synth, a novel end-to-end differentiable framework for joint 3D skeleton geometry and topology synthesis from single 2D images. Our architecture introduces three key innovations: (1) A hierarchical graph attention mechanism with multi-scale skeletal refinement, (2) Differentiable spectral topology optimization via Laplacian eigen decomposition, and (3) Adversarial geometric consistency training for pose structure alignment. The framework integrates four synergistic modules: a …

Forget about nation-states for a moment: The top four items in today's Metacurity all deal with serious cybersecurity threats emanating from teen hackers.
Don't miss today's issue for the complete run-down of infosec developments you should know, including
--ShinyHunters threatens to release data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms,
--Salesforce refuses to pay ShinyHunters ransom,
--Qantas braces for the release of its data,
--Two teens busted for…

ShinyHunters threatens to release data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms
Salesforce refuses to pay ShinyHunters ransom, Qantas braces for the release of its data, Two teens busted for Kido nurseries cyberattack, Qilin claims attack on Asahi, Chinese hackers infiltrated Williams & Connolly, DPRK hackers have stolen $2b in crypto so far in 2025, much more

Dangerous City du Jour - Whims of the Mad Despot: Four red states are worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

For over four months, masked federal officers have been arresting and disappearing immigrants attending their mandatory asylum court dates.
Photojournalists in New York City fought to maintain their First Amendment right to observe the chaotic, cruel, and often violent breach of due process occurring daily in NYC’s immigration courts.
https://

ICED out of America
For over four months, journalists have been bearing witness to America’s cruel and unusual treatment of immigrants and Trump’s militarized war against them. There seems to be no end in sight.

The Game of Graph Nim on graphs with four edges
Sayar Karmakar, Moumanti Podder, Souvik Roy, Soumyarup Sadhukhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05064 https://a…

The Game of Graph Nim on graphs with four edges
This work is concerned with the study of the Game of Graph Nim -- a class of two-player combinatorial games -- on graphs with $4$ edges. To each edge of such a graph is assigned a positive-integer-valued edge-weight, and during each round of the game, the player whose turn it is to make a move selects a vertex, and removes a non-negative integer edge-weight from each of the edges incident on that vertex, such that the remaining edge-weight on each of these edges is a non-negative integer, and t…

Multiparameter quantum metrology at Heisenberg scaling for an arbitrary two-channel linear interferometer with squeezed light
Atmadev Rai, Danilo Triggiani, Paolo Facchi, Vincenzo Tamma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07574

Multiparameter quantum metrology at Heisenberg scaling for an arbitrary two-channel linear interferometer with squeezed light
We present a framework for simultaneously estimating all four real parameters of a general two-channel unitary U(2) with Heisenberg-scaling precision. We derive analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and show that all parameters attain the 1/N scaling in the precision by using experimentally feasible Gaussian probes such as two-mode squeezed states or two single-mode squeezed states. Our results extend multiparameter metrology to its most general two-mode setting and e…

8 Reasons the Cowboys’ 37–22 Win Over the Jets Changes Everything https://insidethestar.com/8-reasons-the-cowboys-37-22-win-over-the-jets-changes-everything

I might start a new hobby of SD card collecting (Like stamp collecting, but *edgier*!). There are so many cute little designs.

"Peanuts at 75" @ BBC Radio Four Illuminated #podcast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kfkb
"On the 75th anniversary of the iconic comic strip

Classification of standard Manin triples in dimension 4 4
Ladislav Hlavat\'y, Petr Novotn\'y, Ivo Petr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05638 https://arx…

Classification of standard Manin triples in dimension 4+4
Four- and six-dimensional Drinfeld doubles were classified in the past in terms of Manin triples. We provide an important step towards classification of eight-dimensional Drinfeld doubles by presenting an extensive list of Manin triples formed by pairs of four-dimensional Lie algebras. Due to the high complexity of the classification we focus on Manin triples formed by algebras in a certain standard form. The list contains 188 non-isomorphic Manin triples plus their duals. To apply the result…

Nepalese "Gen Z" protestors set fire to the offices of daily newspaper Annapurna Post and of Kantipur Media Group, housing its print, TV, and radio divisions (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/09/nepal-protests

Nepal protests: Media outlets torched and journalists injured in deadly unrest - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nepali authorities to ensure the safety of journalists covering protests in the Himalayan nation, following reports the offices of at least two media outlets were set on fire and four journalists were injured in the unrest. Violent protests erupted in Kathmandu and other parts...

Amazon's House of David season two included 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70 in S1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazons-house-of…

Amazon’s ‘House of David’ Used Over 350 AI Shots in Season 2. Its Creator Isn’t Sorry
The show, which follows David’s ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/yellow-fever-deaths-reported-among-threatened-captive-monkeys-in-colombia/

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia
An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight deaths among four monkey species in southern Colombia’s Putumayo department, researchers note. Six of the individuals were in captivity: one white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons), […]

The Trump administration wants the last four digits of every voter’s Social Security number
—as part of its sweeping efforts to compile a federal voting database
The administration could use the database to investigate claims of noncitizen voting,
an obsession of Trump and other Republicans who claimed the 2020 election had been stolen through massive voter fraud.
In reality, the only ones concocting a scheme to fake votes in that election were in Donald Trump’s camp.

In Disturbing Move, Trump’s DOJ Demands Voting Data From States
It’s part of a sweeping project led by election deniers. Voting rights advocates are alarmed.

49ers put TE George Kittle on IR, out at least four games: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6613551/2025/09/09/george-kittle-injury-ir-49ers/

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
KELDAN CONTROL: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. The ship is an unmanned ore carrier on Computer Flight Coordination.
NOVA QUEEN PILOT: I hope you're sure about that, Keldan, it's still on zero-four-zero.

baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/

Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition via Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Models and Hyper-Parameter Optimisation
Aryan Golbaghi, Shuo Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07052 https://

Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition via Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Models and Hyper-Parameter Optimisation
We propose a workflow for speech emotion recognition (SER) that combines pre-trained representations with automated hyperparameter optimisation (HPO). Using SpeechBrain wav2vec2-base model fine-tuned on IEMOCAP as the encoder, we compare two HPO strategies, Gaussian Process Bayesian Optimisation (GP-BO) and Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE), under an identical four-dimensional search space and 15-trial budget, with balanced class accuracy (BCA) on the German EmoDB corpus as the objective.…

Modelling Intertextuality with N-gram Embeddings
Yi Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06637 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06637…

Modelling Intertextuality with N-gram Embeddings
Intertextuality is a central tenet in literary studies. It refers to the intricate links between literary texts that are created by various types of references. This paper proposes a new quantitative model of intertextuality to enable scalable analysis and network-based insights: perform pairwise comparisons of the embeddings of n-grams from two texts and average their results as the overall intertextuality. Validation on four texts with known degrees of intertextuality, alongside a scalability…

"Giraffe is now officially four species"
#Giraffe #Animals
https://news.monga…

Giraffe is now officially four species
The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, now officially recognizes four distinct giraffe species, it announced on Aug. 21. Until recently, giraffes across Africa were classified as a single species with eight to 11 subspecies. However, since 2016, when the giraffe’s threat status was last assessed for the IUCN Red List as vulnerable, several studies […]

A rightwing influencer accompanied officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Chicago on Sunday
as the agency ramps up arrests in the city. Ice agents arrested four people on the city’s south-west side.
Ben Bergquam, the rightwing internet personality, was with agents,
filming and making content as well as getting into altercations with local residents along the way

Down four starters on the OL, Dak Prescott's trust in team remained the same because of his own experiences https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/down-four-starters-on-the-ol-dak-prescott-s-trust-in-team…

B12 - The Keeper
AVON: True, but let us assume that the keeper of the secret is somewhere down there on the planet Goth, and that the keeper is a royal personage.
JENNA: Lurgen's brain print is on a thong around a chief's neck. That's what Docholli said.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/5

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning at the Edge: An Energy Perspective
Fernanda Fam\'a, Roberto Pereira, Charalampos Kalalas, Paolo Dini, Lorena Qendro, Fahim Kawsar, Mohammad Malekzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08374

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning at the Edge: An Energy Perspective
While contrastive learning (CL) shows considerable promise in self-supervised representation learning, its deployment on resource-constrained devices remains largely underexplored. The substantial computational demands required for training conventional CL frameworks pose a set of challenges, particularly in terms of energy consumption, data availability, and memory usage. We conduct an evaluation of four widely used CL frameworks: SimCLR, MoCo, SimSiam, and Barlow Twins. We focus on the practi…

A bipartisan measure to block the Trump administration’s lethal strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers fell short in the Senate on Wednesday night,
in what Democratic lawmakers framed as a failure of Congress to assert its constitutional role to decide whether the country enters war.

In the past two months, the U.S. military has struck at least four boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 21 people.
Military officials in multiple classified briefings have not defin…

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate
A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

Down four starters on the OL, Dak Prescott's trust in team remained the same because of his own experiences https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/down-four-starters-on-the-ol-dak-prescott-s-trust-in-team…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Overview of the Plagiarism Detection Task at PAN 2025
Andr\'e Greiner-Petter, Maik Fr\"obe, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp, Akiko Aizawa, Martin Potthast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06805

Overview of the Plagiarism Detection Task at PAN 2025
The generative plagiarism detection task at PAN 2025 aims at identifying automatically generated textual plagiarism in scientific articles and aligning them with their respective sources. We created a novel large-scale dataset of automatically generated plagiarism using three large language models: Llama, DeepSeek-R1, and Mistral. In this task overview paper, we outline the creation of this dataset, summarize and compare the results of all participants and four baselines, and evaluate the resul…

2025 NFL MVP odds: Why Baker Mayfield provides great value, plus four other long-shot options

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-…

Conformal four-point ladder integrals in diverse dimensions and polylogarithms
S. E. Derkachov, A. P. Isaev, L. A. Shumilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04235 https://

Conformal four-point ladder integrals in diverse dimensions and polylogarithms
In the paper, the family of conformal four-point ladder diagrams in arbitrary space-time dimensions is considered. We use the representation obtained via explicit calculation using the operator approach and conformal quantum mechanics to study their properties, such as symmetries, loop and dimensional shift identities. In even integer dimensions, latter allows one to reduce the problem to two-dimensional case, where the notable factorization holds. Additionally, for a specific choice of propaga…

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Omarion Hampton injury update: Chargers RB (ankle) joins Najee Harris on IR, will miss at least four games

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

Current and ex-Meta employees submitted documents and affidavits to Congress alleging that Meta suppressed research on child safety risks in its VR platforms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-r…

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Raiders release linebacker Pratt after 4 games https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46511761/raiders-release-lb-germaine-pratt-four-games

Four key NFL matchups to watch this weekend, plus Cowboys-Eagles takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6602246/2025/09/05/four-key-nfl-matchups-week-1-watch-cowboys-eagles/

Law enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades
after Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of "homeless encampments" in the nation’s capital.
Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning.
He said officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial a…

Decades-long peace vigil outside White House is dismantled
Law enforcement officials have removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital. Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning, He says officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial as a shelter. The White House…

Are the Dallas Cowboys playing today? NFL Week 10 schedule, matchups, teams on a bye https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/09/cowboys-playing-today-nfl-week-10/87077062007/

Four key NFL matchups to watch this weekend, plus Cowboys-Eagles takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6602246/2025/09/05/four-key-nfl-matchups-week-1-watch-cowboys-eagles/

Nik Bonitto, Broncos agree to four-year extension worth up to $120 million https://www.nfl.com/news/nik-bonitto-broncos-four-year-extension-worth-up-to-120-million

Cowboys place DT Perrion Winfrey on injured reserve https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-place-dt-perrion-winfrey-on-injured-reserve

After several missed kicks, the pressure is on Rams kicking unit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46542454/los-angeles-rams-joshua-karty-missed-kicks-pressure-on

NFL Preseason Week 1 Game Recap: Los Angeles Rams 31, Dallas Cowboys 21 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-preseason-week-1-game-recap-los-angeles-rams-31-dallas-cowboys-21-2025

Colts DT DeForest Buckner (neck) placed on injured reserve, will miss at least four games https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-dt-deforest-buckner-neck-placed-on-injured-reserve

HIGHLIGHTS: QB Stetson Bennett rushes for 4 yards to extend Rams' drive on 4th down in matchup with Cowboys https://www.therams.com/video/stetson-bennett-rushes-4-yards-rams-4th-down-matchup-cowboys-preseason

Ex-Dolphins CB Xavien Howard: Colts forced Tua Tagovailoa into 'panic mode' https://www.nfl.com/news/ex-dolphins-cb-xavien-howard-colts-forced-tua-tagovailoa-into-panic-mode

Dallas Cowboys' final injury report for Week 6 confirms 4 starters out vs Panthers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-final-injury-report-nfl-week-6-confirms-4-starters-out-panthers

Seahawks DT Reed (wrist, thumb) placed on IR https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46896978/seahawks-jarran-reed-wrist-thumb-put-ir-least-4-games

Trey Hendrickson, Alvin Kamara headline 8 notable NFL trade candidates ahead of Nov. 4 deadline https://www.nfl.com/news/trey-hendrickson-alvin-kamara-headline-8-notable-nfl-trade-candidates-ahead-of-nov-4-deadline…

Building the perfect Jets rebuild: Four fantasy NFL Draft hauls, including a Sayin-Smith combo for Gang Green

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