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Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-can-integrate-with-excel-now-plus-7-oth…

Claude can integrate with Excel now - plus 7 other new connectors
Here's how you can access a raft of upgrades intended to boost the chatbot's financial prowess and access to real-time market information.

Just don’t use the internet and DHS won’t stalk you.
“What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline…or opt out?
Any individual may decline or opt out of having their information gathered…by not posting material online or limiting access to who can view their
posts.”
PDF: <…

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…

Press Forward and the Online News Association join the Rebuild Local News Coalition, a nonprofit supporting policies that strengthen local news (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/press-forward-and-the-on…

Press Forward and the Online News Association Join the Rebuild Local News Coalition
New national partners and a longtime local publisher will support efforts to strengthen community access to local news and information through nonpartisan public policy solutions.

Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28930-6 "The algorithm is suitable for real-time use in wearable sensory substitution devices and could aid the development of effective haptic hearing aids."

Update from Ukraine as the latest outrageous insult and threat are proposed as an absurdist "peace" plan.
Giorgio is on the ground in Ukraine, publishing when he gets access to electricity and an internet connection.
He shares the friend link so we can all help fight the information war by sharing truth and shining a light on the darkness that masquerades as human hearts within Trump and Putin.
Please support his work, truth, and the people of Ukraine - share the …

Access to Kupyansk closed, residents evacuate on foot: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/access-to-kupyansk-closed-residents.html

Age of Information-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks with Energy Harvesting
Georgios Smpokos, Dionysis Xenakis, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11198

Age of Information-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks with Energy Harvesting
This study investigates a cognitive shared access network with energy harvesting capabilities operating under Age of Information (AoI) constraints for the primary user. Secondary transmitters are spatially distributed according to a homogeneous Poisson Point Process (PPP), while the primary user is located at a fixed position. The primary transmitter handles bursty packet arrivals, whereas secondary users operate under saturated traffic conditions. To manage interference and energy, two distinc…

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at Government Information Days 2025 with Rebecca Lindsey of Climate.us. We'll be talking about "Defending Public Information: Resisting Censorship, Rescuing Resources, Ensuring Access" #DefendResearch #Censorship

Computational access to lattice and long-wavelength physics in quantum mutual information
Patrick M. Lenggenhager, M. Michael Denner, Doruk Efe G\"okmen, Maciej Koch-Janusz, Titus Neupert, Mark H. Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02466

Computational access to lattice and long-wavelength physics in quantum mutual information
Quantum mutual information is an important tool for characterizing correlations in quantum many-body systems, but its numerical evaluation is often prohibitively expensive. While some variants of Rényi Mutual Information (RMI) are computationally more tractable, it is not clear whether they correctly capture the long-wavelength physics or are dominated by UV effects, which is of key importance in lattice simulations. We analyze the relevance of lattice effects on the family of $α$-$z$ Rényi …

DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search
Kartik Narayan, Yang Xu, Tian Cao, Kavya Nerella, Vishal M. Patel, Navid Shiee, Peter Grasch, Chao Jia, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12801

DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in real-world applications require access to external knowledge sources and must remain responsive to the dynamic and ever-changing real-world information in order to address information-seeking and knowledge-intensive user queries. Existing approaches, such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) methods, search agents, and search equipped MLLMs, often suffer from rigid pipelines, excessive search calls, and poorly constructed search queries, which resu…

A Vision for Access Control in LLM-based Agent Systems
Xinfeng Li, Dong Huang, Jie Li, Hongyi Cai, Zhenhong Zhou, Wei Dong, XiaoFeng Wang, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11108

A Vision for Access Control in LLM-based Agent Systems
The autonomy and contextual complexity of LLM-based agents render traditional access control (AC) mechanisms insufficient. Static, rule-based systems designed for predictable environments are fundamentally ill-equipped to manage the dynamic information flows inherent in agentic interactions. This position paper argues for a paradigm shift from binary access control to a more sophisticated model of information governance, positing that the core challenge is not merely about permission, but about…

"Microsoft was an early investor in many of the latest AI companies. It ended up with a serious stake in OpenAI and benefited from early access to its models, creating Bing Chat and Copilot when Google, Meta, and Anthropic were just getting started. But now its momentum has stalled, and like everyone else, it's not making much money from its AI products. That's because no one is buying them, and that is because very few people actually find them useful, The Information reports."
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/803134194609979392?source=share

"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

Imgur has started blocking access to its site from UK users after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) threatened to fine the company over its advertising and data collection policies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/legi

Imgur shuts down website to UK users over threat of fines from the ICO
Imgur has started blocking access to its site from UK users after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) threatened to fine the company over its advertising ...

Soft-Decoding Reverse Reconciliation in Discrete-Modulation CV-QKD
Marco Origlia, Marco Secondini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Soft-Decoding Reverse Reconciliation in Discrete-Modulation CV-QKD
In continuous-variable quantum key distribution, information reconciliation is required to extract a shared secret key from correlated random variables obtained through the quantum channel. Reverse reconciliation (RR) is generally preferred, since the eavesdropper has less information about Bob's measurements than about Alice's transmitted symbols. When discrete modulation formats are employed, however, soft information is available only at Bob's side, while Alice has access only to hard inform…

System Password Security: Attack and Defense Mechanisms
Chaofang Shi, Zhongwen Li, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10…

System Password Security: Attack and Defense Mechanisms
System passwords serve as critical credentials for user authentication and access control when logging into operating systems or applications. Upon entering a valid password, users pass verification to access system resources and execute corresponding operations. In recent years, frequent password cracking attacks targeting system passwords have posed a severe threat to information system security. To address this challenge, in-depth research into password cracking attack methods and defensive …

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

NPR lost access to the Pentagon because they will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document,
which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees that has not been officially approved for release.
That policy prevents press from doing our job.
Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.…

MH-LVC: Multi-Hypothesis Temporal Prediction for Learned Conditional Residual Video Coding
Huu-Tai Phung, Zong-Lin Gao, Yi-Chen Yao, Kuan-Wei Ho, Yi-Hsin Chen, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Alessandro Gnutti, Wen-Hsiao Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12479

MH-LVC: Multi-Hypothesis Temporal Prediction for Learned Conditional Residual Video Coding
This work, termed MH-LVC, presents a multi-hypothesis temporal prediction scheme that employs long- and short-term reference frames in a conditional residual video coding framework. Recent temporal context mining approaches to conditional video coding offer superior coding performance. However, the need to store and access a large amount of implicit contextual information extracted from past decoded frames in decoding a video frame poses a challenge due to excessive memory access. Our MH-LVC ov…

Towards Precise Channel Knowledge Map: Exploiting Environmental Information from 2D Visuals to 3D Point Clouds
Yancheng Wang, Chuan Huang, Songyang Zhang, Guanying Chen, Wei Guo, Shenglun Lan, Lexi Xu, Xinzhou Cheng, Xiongyan Tang, Shuguang Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08140

Towards Precise Channel Knowledge Map: Exploiting Environmental Information from 2D Visuals to 3D Point Clouds
The substantial communication resources consumed by conventional pilot-based channel sounding impose an unsustainable overhead, presenting a critical scalability challenge for the future 6G networks characterized by massive channel dimensions, ultra-wide bandwidth, and dense user deployments. As a generalization of radio map, channel knowledge map (CKM) offers a paradigm shift, enabling access to location-tagged channel information without exhaustive measurements. To fully utilize the power of …

Aggregate Modeling of Air-Conditioner Loads Under Packet-based Control with Both On and Off Grid Access Requests
Mohammad Hassan, Mads R. Almassalkhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10651

Aggregate Modeling of Air-Conditioner Loads Under Packet-based Control with Both On and Off Grid Access Requests
Coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) can engender flexibility necessary to improve grid reliability. Packetized Energy Management (PEM) is a method for coordinating DERs, such as thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) and electric vehicles, within customer quality-of-service (QoS) limits. In PEM, a DER uses local information to offer flexibility by sending a request to the DER coordinator to turn-ON or turn-OFF. Much work has focused on modeling and analyzing aggregations of DE…

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

An app just ask permission to access my phone information. WTF? Why do you need that? My answer is NO.
Contact app, phone app are the two I allow that access, no one else needs that.

AD-NODE: Adaptive Dynamics Learning with Neural ODEs for Mobile Robots Control
Shao-Yi Yu, Jen-Wei Wang, Maya Horii, Vikas Garg, Tarek Zohdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05443 htt…

AD-NODE: Adaptive Dynamics Learning with Neural ODEs for Mobile Robots Control
Mobile robots, such as ground vehicles and quadrotors, are becoming increasingly important in various fields, from logistics to agriculture, where they automate processes in environments that are difficult to access for humans. However, to perform effectively in uncertain environments using model-based controllers, these systems require dynamics models capable of responding to environmental variations, especially when direct access to environmental information is limited. To enable such adaptiv…

I was looking for my dishwasher manual. I noticed next to the manual, a link that said "Free Open Source Software". Curious, I clicked on it, and it's a long list of licenses and copyright information that is used in the dishwasher. Ctrl-F, and sure enough - my name's on the list.
I feel like I should have gotten a discount on the dishwasher, or at the very least access to its firmware source code! 🤠

Dairy Farmers of America confirms June cyberattack leaked personal data https://therecord.media/dairy-farm-leaked-info-ransomware

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-30/national/socialAffairs/Coupang-data-breach-affecting-virtually-every-user-draws-apology-from-CEO/2466421
Korea continue…

Coupang data breach affecting virtually every user draws apology from CEO
A major vulnerability in the database of popular online shopping platform Coupang allowed an intruder to access the personal information of more than 30 million users without a valid login, with CEO Park Dae-joon offering an apology to the public.

Federal lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
demanding information on any plans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has
to use Graphite, a spyware program that can access
— without the owner’s knowledge or consent
— a phone’s location data, photos, and encrypted applications, including WhatsApp and Signal.
Last year, the Biden administration paused the contract with Paragon Solutions, which operates Graphite,
while it …

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…

CardRewriter: Leveraging Knowledge Cards for Long-Tail Query Rewriting on Short-Video Platforms
Peiyuan Gong, Feiran Zhu, Yaqi Yin, Chenglei Dai, Chao Zhang, Kai Zheng, Wentian Bao, Jiaxin Mao, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10095

CardRewriter: Leveraging Knowledge Cards for Long-Tail Query Rewriting on Short-Video Platforms
Short-video platforms have rapidly become a new generation of information retrieval systems, where users formulate queries to access desired videos. However, user queries, especially long-tail ones, often suffer from spelling errors, incomplete phrasing, and ambiguous intent, resulting in mismatches between user expectations and retrieved results. While large language models (LLMs) have shown success in long-tail query rewriting within e-commerce, they struggle on short-video platforms, where p…

The Mechanical Yes-Man: Emancipatory AI Pedagogy in Higher Education
Linda Rocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10176 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10176

The Mechanical Yes-Man: Emancipatory AI Pedagogy in Higher Education
The proliferation of Large Language Models in higher education presents a fundamental challenge to traditional pedagogical frameworks. Drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of intellectual emancipation, this paper examines how generative AI risks becoming a "mechanical yes-man" that reinforces passivity rather than fostering intellectual autonomy. Generative AI's statistical logic and lack of causal reasoning, combined with frictionless information access, threatens to hollow out cognitive proc…

Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/e…

Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers | TechCrunch
Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.

Rapid event extraction and tensorial event adaption: Libraries for efficient access and generic reweighting of parton-level events and their implementation in the MadtRex module
Stefan Roiser, Robert Sch\"ofbeck, Zenny Wettersten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05100

Rapid event extraction and tensorial event adaption: Libraries for efficient access and generic reweighting of parton-level events and their implementation in the MadtRex module
We present Rex and teaRex, C++17 libraries for efficient management of parton-level hard scattering event information and completely generic reweighting of such events, respectively. Rex is primarily an interfacing and I/O library for Les Houches Event format files and provides an internal event format designed with data parallelism in mind, and teaRex extends this format to provide full parton-level reweighting functionality with minimal code needing to be written by the end user. These librar…

Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents
Jinyeop Song, Jeff Gore, Max Kleiman-Weiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22504 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents
As language model (LM) agents become more capable and gain broader access to real-world tools, there is a growing need for scalable evaluation frameworks of agentic capability. However, conventional benchmark-centric evaluations are costly to design and require human designers to come up with valid tasks that translate into insights about general model capabilities. In this work, we propose information-theoretic evaluation based on empowerment, the mutual information between an agent's actions …

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People
Xinyun Cao, Kexin Phyllis Ju, Chenglin Li, Venkatesh Potluri, Dhruv Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06573

RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People
As virtual 3D environments become prevalent, equitable access is crucial for blind and low-vision (BLV) users who face challenges with spatial awareness, navigation, and interactions. To address this gap, previous work explored supplementing visual information with auditory and haptic modalities. However, these methods are static and offer limited support for dynamic, in-context adaptation. Recent work in generative AI enables users to query and modify 3D scenes via natural language, introducin…

You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models
Richard A. Dubniczky, Bertalan Borsos, Tihanyi Norbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761

You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models
The widespread use of preprint repositories such as arXiv has accelerated the communication of scientific results but also introduced overlooked security risks. Beyond PDFs, these platforms provide unrestricted access to original source materials, including LaTeX sources, auxiliary code, figures, and embedded comments. In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence. In this work, we present the first lar…

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Fran\c{c}ois Ledoyen, Ga\"el Dias, Jeremie Pantin, Alexis Lechervy, Fabrice Maurel, Youssef Chahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00662

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Simplifying complex texts is essential for ensuring equitable access to information, especially for individuals with cognitive impairments. The Easy-to-Read (ETR) initiative offers a framework for making content accessible to the neurodivergent population, but the manual creation of such texts remains time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this work, we investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to automate the generation of ETR content. To address the scarcity of aligned corp…

I have discovered that the Amazon Fire Stick with Fire OS 5 if I disable the launcher and install custom launcher I loose access to the settings. I don't think there are many things i can do in the settings anyway but I can at least see my storage information.
It just stupid that its tied to the stock ad launcher.
Amazon devices might be the worst android

Since Ghislaine Maxwell’scontroversial transfer to a low-security prison camp this summer,
her time at Texas’s FPC Bryan has prompted uproar over alleged favorable treatment
– including claims this week that she was provided custom-made meals and access to a puppy
Some of the recent accusations were in a 9 November letter that Jamie Raskin sent to Donald Trump.
The Democratic representative’s letter, which cited whistleblower information, demanded answers about Maxwel…

The Defense Department says that journalists "are not required to submit their writings" before publication, in a revised draft of restrictions for press access (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/business/media/trum…

Pentagon Relaxes Press Access Rules
Under new guidelines, journalists will not need approval from the Defense Department before publishing articles containing information not officially released.

Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces
John Gkountouras, Ivan Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26594 https://a…

Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces
Recent text-only models demonstrate remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities. Extending these to visual domains requires vision-language models to translate images into text descriptions. However, current models, trained to produce captions for human readers, often omit the precise details that reasoning systems require. This creates an interface mismatch: reasoners often fail not due to reasoning limitations but because they lack access to critical visual information. We propose Adaptive…

Model-based Deep Learning for Joint RIS Phase Shift Compression and WMMSE Beamforming
Alexander James Fernandes, Ioannis Psaromiligkos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05438 https://

Model-based Deep Learning for Joint RIS Phase Shift Compression and WMMSE Beamforming
A model-based deep learning (DL) architecture is proposed for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communications to reduce the overhead of transmitting phase shift information from the access point (AP) to the RIS controller. The phase shifts are computed at the AP, which has access to the channel state information, and then encoded into a compressed binary control message that is sent to the RIS controller for element configuration. To help reduce beamformer mismatches…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/1]:
- On the Capacity of Vector Linear Computation over a Noiseless Quantum Multiple Access Channel wit...
Yuhang Yao, Syed A. Jafar

APRIL: API Synthesis with Automatic Prompt Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
Hua Zhong, Shan Jiang, Sarfraz Khurshid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25196 https://

APRIL: API Synthesis with Automatic Prompt Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
APIs are central to modern software development, yet composing new APIs from large libraries is difficult due to the exponential search space; traditional component-based synthesis relies on costly exploration and hand-crafted specifications. While large language models (LLMs) can generate implementations from natural language, hallucinations and limited access to up-to-date contextual information often yield incorrect code. In this paper, we present APRIL, an approach that combines LLM-based s…

Look Less, Reason More: Rollout-Guided Adaptive Pixel-Space Reasoning
Xuchen Li, Xuzhao Li, Jiahui Gao, Renjie Pi, Shiyu Hu, Wentao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01681 https:…

Look Less, Reason More: Rollout-Guided Adaptive Pixel-Space Reasoning
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet they frequently struggle with tasks requiring precise understanding and handling of fine-grained visual elements. This is mainly due to information loss during image encoding or insufficient attention to critical regions. Recent work has shown promise by incorporating pixel-level visual information into the reasoning process, enabling VLMs to access high-resolution visual details during their thought process. However, this pixel-…

Russia is forcing Ukrainians trapped in the illegally seized areas of Ukraine to adopt Russian citizenship or loose access to everything necessary for life.
Information control just as often means information deprivation.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy on the ground in Ukraine, where it is getting harder and harder to find electricity and an internet connection.
Friend link bypasses the paywall, please share and support Giorgio and Ukraine:

[Thread] Trump Media sues 19 media companies including The Guardian and Dow Jones in a Florida court, saying they published false financial info to hurt TMTG (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1989388414836208021

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
The Trump Media & Technology Group sued 19 media companies in a Florida court on Wednesday, accusing them of "deliberately or recklessly [publishing] false financial information to damage TMTG’s reputation, degrade the firm’s financial standing, freeze its access to capital,

a16z hires ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram as general partner overseeing AI infrastructure and growth investments and as a managing partner, replacing Scott Kupor (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ben-horow…

Ben Horowitz Hires His ‘Jensen’; Vercel Starts a Venture Fund
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz says only a small subset of AI companies, such as portfolio companies Safe Superintelligence Inc. and Thinking Machines Labs, need massive compute contracts. But many AI startups still need help getting access to bottlenecked resources, like chips to ...

T-duality and bosonization as examples of continuum gauging and disentangling
Gertian Roose, Erez Zohar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24630 https://arxiv.org/…

T-duality and bosonization as examples of continuum gauging and disentangling
Dualities and duality transformations form a well established methodology in various aspects of quantum many body physics and quantum field theories, allowing one to exploit equivalence between models which may naively seem completely different in order to gain access to further physical regimes, either analytically, numerically or experimentally. Recently, in the context of condensed matter physics and quantum information, it was shown that dualities can be understood very well through a gaugi…

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data
Stephen Meisenbacher, Svetlozar Nestorov, Peter Norlander
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01470

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data
Data from online job postings are difficult to access and are not built in a standard or transparent manner. Data included in the standard taxonomy and occupational information database (O*NET) are updated infrequently and based on small survey samples. We adopt O*NET as a framework for building natural language processing tools that extract structured information from job postings. We publish the Job Ad Analysis Toolkit (JAAT), a collection of open-source tools built for this purpose, and demo…

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

Bandits roaming Hilbert space
Josep Lumbreras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24569

Bandits roaming Hilbert space
This thesis studies the exploration and exploitation trade-off in online learning of properties of quantum states using multi-armed bandits. Given streaming access to an unknown quantum state, in each round we select an observable from a set of actions to maximize its expectation value. Using past information, we refine actions to minimize regret; the cumulative gap between current reward and the maximum possible. We derive information-theoretic lower bounds and optimal strategies with matching…

MPs and peers have been told they face “a covert and calculated” attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.
After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those “with access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/mi5-issues-alert-to-mps-and-peers-over-chinese-espionage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
Lakshadeep Naik, Adam Fischer, Daniel Duberg, Danica Kragic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04171

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
In Mobile Manipulation, selecting an optimal mobile base pose is essential for successful object grasping. Previous works have addressed this problem either through classical planning methods or by learning state-based policies. They assume access to reliable state information, such as the precise object poses and environment models. In this work, we study base pose planning directly from top-down orthographic projections of the scene, which provide a global overview of the scene while preservi…

There were actually a lot of good recommendations from that Committee report, the one on PR was just the final one! Here's a few more.. including some that local #Fediverse proponents could dig into! @… was on the Committee.
—>FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “The Committee heard about a number of issues related to
the electoral information environment. Members recommend
that the provincial government collaborate with Elections
BC and the federal government to review existing legislative
and regulatory measures related to misinformation,
disinformation, and hate speech during elections, including
**mechanisms to ensure the timely removal of harmful content** (**emphasis added)”
—> FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “To better address challenges associated with social media and emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence, Members recommend establishing a working group to propose amendments to BC’s privacy and election legislation. To better protect all users, the Committee recommends requiring digital platforms to act with a duty of care and establish clear safety-related requirements such as data privacy, platform design, and content policy. The Committee also heard about concerns regarding foreign interference, and recommends that these be considered by the Electoral Integrity Working Group.”
—The Committee heard about the critical importance of
civic education to ensure the public’s understanding of
democratic institutions, processes, and participation. The
Committee recommends strengthening civic education
in the K-12 school system with input from experts and a
greater emphasis on applied learning.
— the Committee suggests enhancing data collection by requiring proactive enumeration on an annual basis and ensuring that registered parties and candidates can access poll-by-poll results. Elections BC should review and improve
voter registration practices and communication, as well as
access to and public awareness of voting opportunities. With respect to expanding voter eligibility, the Committee supports further examination of extending voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds as well as permanent residents in BC.
— Committee Members recommend modernizing the candidate nominator verification process, requiring Elections BC to collect and share voters’ contact information with registered political parties and candidates, and strengthening measures related to access to multi-unit buildings for candidates and their campaigns.
Full report to the Legislature: #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization

Arbitrary Total Angular Momentum Vectorial Holography Using Bi-Layer Metasurfaces
Joonkyo Jung, Hyeonhee Kim, Jonghwa Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24139 https://

Arbitrary Total Angular Momentum Vectorial Holography Using Bi-Layer Metasurfaces
Advanced holographic techniques are increasingly demanded for high-capacity and secure information processing. In this context, orbital angular momentum (OAM) stands out as a powerful resource for optical multiplexing, offering access to an unbounded set of orthogonal modes. To harness this potential, metasurfaces, with their considerable ability to control light, have emerged as key platforms for OAM-multiplexed holography. Nevertheless, conventional OAM holography suffers from limited polariz…

Noise-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Three Users
Erkin Yapici, Yusuf Islam Tek, Ertugrul Basar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23407 https://arxiv.or…

Noise-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Three Users
In this study, we propose a novel three-user noise-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (ND-NOMA) scheme by introducing the correlation as a new dimension besides mean and variance quantities used in two-user ND-NOMA. The new three-user ND-NOMA scheme includes both uplink and downlink scenarios, with detectors designed to decode the information embedded in mean, variance, and correlation. Our theoretical analysis and simulation results under Rician fading channels show that the proposed system…

MCM-DPO: Multifaceted Cross-Modal Direct Preference Optimization for Alt-text Generation
Jinlan Fu, Shenzhen Huangfu, Hao Fei, Yichong Huang, Xiaoyu Shen, Xipeng Qiu, See-Kiong Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00647

MCM-DPO: Multifaceted Cross-Modal Direct Preference Optimization for Alt-text Generation
The alt-text generation task produces concise, context-relevant descriptions of images, enabling blind and low-vision users to access online images. Despite the capabilities of large vision-language models, alt-text generation performance remains limited due to noisy user annotations, inconsistent standards, and MLLMs' insensitivity to contextual information. Previous efforts to fine-tune MLLMs using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) have struggled, as SFT relies on accurate target annotations, whic…

Amazon rolls out Alexa on the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, letting Alexa Early Access users request obscure information or complex recommendations (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813102/amazon-music-alexa-plus-ai-integration

Amazon is building Alexa Plus into its Music app
The AI assistant can make nuanced song recommendations and build you a vibe-based playlist.

In-situ X-ray imaging of reduction-nitridation in ferric oxide under high Pressure
Yu Tao, Depu Liu, Chunyin Zhou, Xv Jia, Jingyi Liu, Xue Chang, Yangbin Wang, Li Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24289

In-situ X-ray imaging of reduction-nitridation in ferric oxide under high Pressure
The investigation of high-pressure chemical reaction dynamics has long been constrained by the absence of effective in-situ characterization methods. Here we performed the state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation in-situ X-ray imaging based on large-volume press (LVP) technology to uncover the crucial information on the dynamics of the underlying phenomena of the formation of iron-based spherical product in the high-pressure solid-state metathesis reaction (HSM). We successfully give access to th…

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats
Aengus Lynch, Benjamin Wright, Caleb Larson, Stuart J. Ritchie, Soren Mindermann, Ethan Perez, Kevin K. Troy, Evan Hubinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05179

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats
We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In the scenarios, we allowed models to autonomously send emails and access sensitive information. They were assigned only harmless business goals by their deploying companies; we then tested whether they would act against these companies either when facing replacement with an updated version, or when their assigned goal c…

The MUG-10 Framework for Preventing Usability Issues in Mobile Application Development
Pawel Weichbroth, Tomasz Szot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21914 https://

The MUG-10 Framework for Preventing Usability Issues in Mobile Application Development
Nowadays, mobile applications are essential tools for everyday life, providing users with anytime, anywhere access to up-to-date information, communication, and entertainment. Needless to say, hardware limitations and the diverse needs of different user groups pose a number of design and development challenges. According to recent studies, usability is one of the most revealing among many others. However, few have made the direct effort to provide and discuss what countermeasures can be applied…

Collusion-Resistant Quantum Secure Key Leasing Beyond Decryption
Fuyuki Kitagawa, Ryo Nishimaki, Nikhil Pappu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04754 https://arxi…

Collusion-Resistant Quantum Secure Key Leasing Beyond Decryption
Secure key leasing (SKL) enables the holder of a secret key for a cryptographic function to temporarily lease the key using quantum information. Later, the recipient can produce a deletion certificate, which proves that they no longer have access to the secret key. The security guarantee ensures that even a malicious recipient cannot continue to evaluate the function, after producing a valid deletion certificate. Most prior work considers an adversarial recipient that obtains a single leased …

Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…

AI Cloud Provider Aiding Google’s Chip Push Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one ...

#Fediverse #Blocklists: #Moderation in Noncapitalist #SocialMedia

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The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron) https://www.404media.co/the-crackdown-on-ice-spotting-apps-with-joshua-aaron/

Amazon rolls out Alexa on the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, letting Alexa Early Access users request obscure information or complex recommendations (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813102/amazon-music-alexa-plus-ai-integration

Amazon is building Alexa Plus into its Music app
The AI assistant can make nuanced song recommendations and build you a vibe-based playlist.

Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

Inclusive Easy-to-Read Generation for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Fran\c{c}ois Ledoyen, Ga\"el Dias, Alexis Lechervy, Jeremie Pantin, Fabrice Maurel, Youssef Chahir, Elisa Gouzonnat, M\'elanie Berthelot, Stanislas Moravac, Armony Altinier, Amy Khairalla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00691

Inclusive Easy-to-Read Generation for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
Ensuring accessibility for individuals with cognitive impairments is essential for autonomy, self-determination, and full citizenship. However, manual Easy-to-Read (ETR) text adaptations are slow, costly, and difficult to scale, limiting access to crucial information in healthcare, education, and civic life. AI-driven ETR generation offers a scalable solution but faces key challenges, including dataset scarcity, domain adaptation, and balancing lightweight learning of Large Language Models (LLM…

Bridging Technical Capability and User Accessibility: Off-grid Civilian Emergency Communication
Karim Khamaisi, Oliver Kamer, Bruno Rodrigues, Jan von der Assen, Burkhard Stiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22568

Bridging Technical Capability and User Accessibility: Off-grid Civilian Emergency Communication
During large-scale crises disrupting cellular and Internet infrastructure, civilians lack reliable methods for communication, aid coordination, and access to trustworthy information. This paper presents a unified emergency communication system integrating a low-power, long-range network with a crisis-oriented smartphone application, enabling decentralized and off-grid civilian communication. Unlike previous solutions separating physical layer resilience from user layer usability, our design mer…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
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- Noise-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Erkin Yapici, Yusuf Islam Tek, Ertugrul Basar

Electrical Readout of Spin Environments in Diamond for Quantum Sensing
Olga Rubinas, Michael Petrov, Emilie Bourgeois, Jaroslav Hruby, Akhil Kuriakose, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Milos Nesladek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26570

Electrical Readout of Spin Environments in Diamond for Quantum Sensing
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond are a key platform for quantum sensing and quantum information, combining long coherence times with controllable spin-spin interactions. Most of current quantum algorithms rely on optical access, which limit device integration and applicability in opaque or miniaturized settings. Here we demonstrate an all-electrical approach, photocurrent double electron-electron resonance (PC-DEER), permitting exploiting local dipolar interactions between individual NV…

Joint Communication and Parameter Estimation in MIMO Channels
G\"okhan Y{\i}lmaz, Franz Lampel, Hamdi Joudeh, Giuseppe Caire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26365 https://

Joint Communication and Parameter Estimation in MIMO Channels
We study a joint communication and sensing setting comprising a transmitter, a receiver, and a sensor, all equipped with multiple antennas. The transmitter sends an encoded signal over the channel with the dual purpose of communicating an information message to the receiver, and enabling the sensor to estimate a target parameter vector by generating back-scattered signals. We assume that the transmitter and sensor are co-located, or fully connected, giving the latter access to the transmitted s…