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Russia's top prosecutor, key figure in dissent crackdown, poised to become new Supreme Court head: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/russias-top-prosecutor-key-figure.html

‘Cheaper, More Humane’ Drones Emerge as Key Weapon in Mosquito Control from Poland to Africa https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cheaper-more-humane-drones-emerge-as-key-weapon-in-mosquito-control-from-poland-to-africa/

'Cheaper, More Humane' Drones Emerge as Key Weapon in Mosquito Control from Poland to Africa
In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it's now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing

California's Prop 50 to combat Trump's blatant rigging of our elections is listed here.
Californians: This is the whole ballgame. Vote YES on Prop 50.
✅ Key Contests This November That Will Shape the Future of Democracy - Democracy Docket
https://www.

Key Contests This November That Will Shape the Future of Democracy
Read more here.

Key Matchups: Stars must shine brighter for a Cowboys' victory https://insidethestar.com/key-matchups-stars-must-shine-brighter-for-a-cowboys-victory

Key fantasy football intel and predictions using player prop lines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6575837/2025/08/27/key-fantasy-football-intel-and-predictions-using-player-prop-lines/

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says  - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-wimp-pences-published-notes-key-evidence-case/story?id=126837443

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-wimp-pences-published-notes-key-evidence-case/story?id=126837443
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p21#a251026p21

TLGLock: A New Approach in Logic Locking Using Key-Driven Charge Recycling in Threshold Logic Gates
Abdullah Sahruri, Martin Margala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17809 https://

TLGLock: A New Approach in Logic Locking Using Key-Driven Charge Recycling in Threshold Logic Gates
Logic locking remains one of the most promising defenses against hardware piracy, yet current approaches often face challenges in scalability and design overhead. In this paper, we present TLGLock, a new design paradigm that leverages the structural expressiveness of Threshold Logic Gates (TLGs) and the energy efficiency of charge recycling to enforce key-dependent functionality at the gate level. By embedding the key into the gate's weighted logic and utilizing dynamic charge sharing, TLGLock …

X plans to retire the Twitter.com domain, prompting users to re-enroll their security keys for 2FA, and will lock accounts that are not updated by November 10 (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/using-a-security-key-on-x-re-enroll…

With government shutdown imminent, Cantwell highlights Democrats' key demand:
Stopping sharp increase in health insurance costs
Congress headed into the weekend with a government shutdown all but certain to begin on Wednesday,
as Democrats demand Republican majorities in the House and Senate act to keep health insurance costs from rising
while the White House dismissed that condition as "radical left insanity."

With government shutdown imminent, Cantwell highlights Democrats' key demand: Stopping sharp increase in health insurance costs
Sep. 26—WASHINGTON — Congress headed into the weekend with a government shutdown all but certain to begin on Wednesday, as Democrats demand Republican...

What's wrong with this #macOS launch plist?
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<key>ProgramArguments</key>
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<key>RunAtLoad</key>
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<string>Interactive</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/Users/alexandp/Library/Logs/org.gnu.Emacs.stderr.log</string>
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Black Tones:
🎵 The Key Of Black (They Want Us Dead)
#TheBlackTones
https://theblacktones.bandcamp.com/track/the-key-of-black-they-want-us-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WqITX6lcgiElH8HMFvhb7

mmKey: Channel-Aware Beam Shaping for Reliable Key Generation in mmWave Wireless Networks
Poorya Mollahosseini, Yasaman Ghasempour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19010 https://

mmKey: Channel-Aware Beam Shaping for Reliable Key Generation in mmWave Wireless Networks
Physical-layer key generation (PLKG) has emerged as a promising technique to secure next-generation wireless networks by exploiting the inherent properties of the wireless channel. However, PLKG faces fundamental challenges in the millimeter wave (mmWave) regime due to channel sparsity, higher phase noise, and higher path loss, which undermine both the randomness and reciprocity required for secure key generation. In this paper, we present mmKey, a novel PLKG framework that capitalizes on the a…

KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models
Sibo Li, Qianyue Hao, Yu Shang, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21027 https://

KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models
Robotic world models are a promising paradigm for forecasting future environment states, yet their inference speed and the physical plausibility of generated trajectories remain critical bottlenecks, limiting their real-world applications. This stems from the redundancy of the prevailing frame-to-frame generation approach, where the model conducts costly computation on similar frames, as well as neglecting the semantic importance of key transitions. To address this inefficiency, we propose KeyW…

"World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate

Key fantasy football intel and predictions using player prop lines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6575837/2025/08/27/key-fantasy-football-intel-and-predictions-using-player-prop-lines/

Free agent pickups: Key adds ahead of the trade deadline https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46745215/fantasy-football-free-agent-pickups-waiver-wire-nfl-week-9

Here‘s a little tip if you’re using (the latest version of) Helix Editor:
Add the following keybinding to your config (if you don’t use Ctrl b for page up, that is; otherwise, change the key):
[keys.normal]
C-b = ":echo %sh{git blame -L %{cursor_line}, 1 %{buffer_name}}"
Now, when you press Crtl b in the editor, you’ll see the git blame for the line you’re on. Very useful for seeing which commit the line last changed in and, for teams, who committed the chang…

Using Generative AI to Uncover What Drives Player Enjoyment in PC and VR Games
Hisham Abdelqader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16596 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Using Generative AI to Uncover What Drives Player Enjoyment in PC and VR Games
As video games continue to evolve, understanding what drives player enjoyment remains a key challenge. Player reviews provide valuable insights, but their unstructured nature makes large-scale analysis difficult. This study applies generative AI and machine learning, leveraging Microsoft Phi-4 LLM and XGBoost, to quantify and analyze game reviews from Steam and Meta Quest stores. The approach converts qualitative feedback into structured data, enabling comprehensive evaluation of key game desig…

Reuters launches its Arabic website, the company's third dedicated language platform after English and Japanese, and says it will provide 100 stories daily (Reuters)
https://reutersagency.com/media-centre/reuters-launches-a…

Reuters launches Arabic website as key part of its Middle East expansion
Reuters launches Arabic website as key part of its Middle East expansion

Coming up on Friday Beyond Growth conference in the Spanish parliament.
Good to see mention of key concepts, #EmergencyBrake and societal #Collapse.
#Degrowth takes the stage

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Activar el freno de emergencia o colapsar: el decrecimiento toma la palabra en el Congreso
Académicos, políticos, sindicalistas, intelectuales y representantes de la sociedad civil debatieron este viernes sobre cómo activar de forma colectiva un freno de emergencia al modelo que está llevando al planeta a un colapso ecológico y social.

Green spaces are essential for marginalized communities to combat record heat. Addressing inequities in cooling technologies is crucial for well-being during extreme heat events. #climatechange #climatesolutions

"Green Spaces Are Key To Combating Record Heat In Marginalized Communities"
"Keith Lambert and his family cope with the extreme heat of summertime Chicago by going in and out of their house as quickly as possible and making sure their insulated shades are always drawn."

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
https://flip.it/v_K3lx

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.

[Edited to be more direct]
While it is probably not possible for an app the same sort & size as Signal to serve *everyone* (an ambitious goal...) well, they are an extreme case.
If you are NOT Signal and want to avoid depending on a 3rd party but want broadly-dispersed infra, you need to do things for staff that AWS/MS/Google won’t.

Doctor Memory (@blank.org)
This, I think, is the key point that a lot of people miss. For a small company to try to roll their own global infrastructure, step one is that you need to hire a bunch of people _who could probably get hired at an existing cloud provider_ and you almost certainly can't match AWS/GCP's pay scale. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Ooaaaarh the key change! #totp

〰️ Researchers make key gains in unlocking the promise of compact X-ray free-electron lasers
#laser

Researchers make key gains in unlocking the promise of compact X-ray free-electron lasers
New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of smaller and more affordable X-ray free-electron lasers one step closer to reality.

Globally Stable Discrete Time PID Passivity-based Control of Power Converters: Simulation and Experimental Results
Alessio Moreschini, Wei He, Romeo Ortega, Yiheng Lu, Tao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18719

Globally Stable Discrete Time PID Passivity-based Control of Power Converters: Simulation and Experimental Results
The key idea behind PID Passivity-based Control (PID-PBC) is to leverage the passivity property of PIDs (for all positive gains) and wrap the PID controller around a passive output to ensure global stability in closed-loop. However, the practical applicability of PID-PBC is stymied by two key facts: (i) the vast majority of practical implementations of PIDs is carried-out in discrete time -- discretizing the continuous time dynamical system of the PID; (ii) the well-known problem that passivity…

New article about “watching electrons” during a chemical reaction at Stanford. Amazing.
Article by Dr. Haiwang Yong:
#Lasers

Neuerdings beschäftige ich mich musikalisch immer eine Woche lang mehr oder weniger mit einem Album, um damit an meine Jugendzeit anzuknüpfen, wo ich mir im Monat bestenfalls zwei neue Platten kaufen konnte und damit entsprechend viel Zeit verbrachte. Album der vergangenen Woche war "Vaudeville 8:45" der Band "The Trackers". Hauptakteure: die Jazzmusiker Gary Husband (dr, key) und Alf Terje Hana (git, key), das Album ist ein Jazzrock-Fusion-Feuerwerk.

Key moments in Cowboys' blowout loss centered on self-inflicted wounds, mental errors https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/27/mental-mi…

Off to Detroi to see Deltron 3030 at the Majestic!
We’re checked into the Ferry St. Inn, in this stately old mansion, one of four tucked behind the DIA. We’re in the maid’s quarters, a third story walk up. We’ve stayed here before.

🔧 Key Features
Character Consistency
Maintains appearance of characters or objects across multiple prompts and edits. Enables placing the same character in different environments, showcasing products from multiple angles, or generating consistent brand assets.
✏️ Targeted Transformations
Precise local edits using natural language commands:
Blur backgrounds
Remove objects or stains
Remove people from photos
Alter poses
Add color to black and whit…

Modelling the effect of stellar metallicity on the XUV evolution of low-mass stars and its impact on exoplanet atmospheres/habitability
Victor See, Charlotte Fairman, Louis Amard, Oliver Hall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21276

Modelling the effect of stellar metallicity on the XUV evolution of low-mass stars and its impact on exoplanet atmospheres/habitability
Understanding how exoplanet atmospheres evolve is a key question in the context of habitability. One key process governing this evolution is atmospheric evaporation by stellar X-ray and EUV emission (collectively, XUV). As such, the evolution of exoplanet atmospheres is closely tied to the evolution of the host star's magnetic activity. Many studies have modelled the combined evolution of exoplanet atmospheres and their host stars. However, to date, the impact of the host star's metallicity on …

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: Aren't you curious about it?
MUTOID: No.
TRAVIS: I find that hard to believe.
MUTOID: Memory is an encumbrance. All trace of it is removed and with it all trace of identity.
TRAVIS: And it doesn't concern you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/381

Why YouTube is key to Google's success in AI, with YouTube's AI enhancements making video content more monetizable than text-based content in Search (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-youtube-tip-of-the-google-spear/

The YouTube Tip of the Google Spear
I’ve come to appreciate Google’s amorphous nature; what makes me bullish is the clarity of YouTube’s AI opportunity.

Chiefs vs. Raiders: Key takeaways from the NFL’s fiercest division rivalry https://raiderramble.com/2025/10/23/chiefs-vs-raiders-key-takeaways-from-the-nfls-fiercest-division-rivalry/

RoofSeg: An edge-aware transformer-based network for end-to-end roof plane segmentation
Siyuan You, Guozheng Xu, Pengwei Zhou, Qiwen Jin, Jian Yao, Li Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19003

RoofSeg: An edge-aware transformer-based network for end-to-end roof plane segmentation
Roof plane segmentation is one of the key procedures for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) building models at levels of detail (LoD) 2 and 3 from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds. The majority of current approaches for roof plane segmentation rely on the manually designed or learned features followed by some specifically designed geometric clustering strategies. Because the learned features are more powerful than the manually designed features, the deep learning-bas…

Demario Davis, Cam Jordan's leadership pivotal for 0-3 Saints https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46368518/demario-davis-cam-jordan-new-orleans-saints-nfl-leadership-key-2025

Enabling MoE on the Edge via Importance-Driven Expert Scheduling
Guoying Zhu, Meng Li, Haipeng Dai, Xuechen Liu, Weijun Wang, Keran Li, Jun xiao, Ligeng Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18983 …

Enabling MoE on the Edge via Importance-Driven Expert Scheduling
The Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a key technique for scaling Large Language Models by activating only a subset of experts per query. Deploying MoE on consumer-grade edge hardware, however, is constrained by limited device memory, making dynamic expert offloading essential. Unlike prior work that treats offloading purely as a scheduling problem, we leverage expert importance to guide decisions, substituting low-importance activated experts with functionally similar ones a…

Texas Tech gender discussion edict spur fear, confusion | The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/texas-tech-university-system-transgender-identity-restrictions/

Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom
Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.

Consensus!
Shared spaces don't work - separate cars, bikes and pedestrians.
https://road.cc/content/news/bollards-and-kerbs-key-safe-streets-316491

Physical separation between cyclists, pedestrians and motorists key to safer streets, research shows
The study also found that bad behaviour is the biggest contributing factor towards streets hostile to walking and wheeling

From BERT to LLMs: Comparing and Understanding Chinese Classifier Prediction in Language Models
ZiqiZhang, Jianfei Ma, Emmanuele Chersoni, Jieshun You, Zhaoxin Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18253

From BERT to LLMs: Comparing and Understanding Chinese Classifier Prediction in Language Models
Classifiers are an important and defining feature of the Chinese language, and their correct prediction is key to numerous educational applications. Yet, whether the most popular Large Language Models (LLMs) possess proper knowledge the Chinese classifiers is an issue that has largely remain unexplored in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) literature. To address such a question, we employ various masking strategies to evaluate the LLMs' intrinsic ability, the contribution of different sent…

What’s new in #JUnit 6: Key Changes and Improvements
https://medium.com/javarevisited/whats-new-in-junit-6-key-changes-and-improvements-551a84d7ed1f

@… so random idea: do you think your tdr tamper sensor could be used to key a puf? Like wrapping keys in a device with a tdr derived key so the response changes and the key becomes garbage if you mess with it

Towards a user-centric HPC-QC environment
Aleksander Wennersteen, Matthieu Moreau, Aurelien Nober, Mourad Beji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20525 https://arx…

Towards a user-centric HPC-QC environment
Robust execution environments are important for addressing key challenges in quantum computing, such as application development, portability, and reproducibility, and help unlock the development of modular quantum programs, driving forward hybrid quantum workflows. In this work, we show progress towards a basic, but portable, runtime environment for developing and executing hybrid quantum-classical programs running in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments enhanced with Quantum Processin…

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Moldova bans 2 pro-Russian parties on eve of key election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/moldova-bans-prorussian-parties-on.html

AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals
https://fpf.org/blog/global/ai-regulation-in-latin-america-overview-and-emerging-trends-in-key-proposals/
@…

Interleaving Large Language Models for Compiler Testing
Yunbo Ni, Shaohua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18955 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18955

Interleaving Large Language Models for Compiler Testing
Testing compilers with AI models, especially large language models (LLMs), has shown great promise. However, current approaches struggle with two key problems: The generated programs for testing compilers are often too simple, and extensive testing with the LLMs is computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a novel compiler testing framework that decouples the testing process into two distinct phases: an offline phase and an online phase. In the offline phase, we use LLMs to generate …

Key GOP senator offers proposal to pay essential and furloughed workers during shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5575688-ron-johnson-gop-pay-federal-workers-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p136#a251027p136

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket successfully launched
after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days.
The success of this 10th flight showed the spacecraft had overcome its past failures
key to the Mars rocket’s reusable design.
The stainless steel behemoth,
403ft (123 meters) tall,
lifted Off from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT),
to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed.
This …

"Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

IBM says it was able to run a key quantum computing algorithm in real-time on commonly available field programmable gate array chips made by AMD (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-says-key-quantum…

One Key Raider Might Be Unhappy With Current Role, per Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jackson-powers-johnson-unhappy-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

Public Key Encryption with Equality Test from Tag-Based Encryption
Masayuki Tezuka, Keisuke Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17722 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Public Key Encryption with Equality Test from Tag-Based Encryption
Public key encryption with equality test (PKEET), proposed by Yang et al. (CT-RSA 2010), is a variant of public key encryption that enables an equality test to determine whether two ciphertexts correspond to the same plaintext. This test applies not only for ciphertexts generated under the same encryption key but also for those generated under different encryption keys. To date, several generic constructions of PKEET have been proposed. However, these generic constructions have the drawback of …

Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian government allows men aged 18-22 to go abroad: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-government.html

Key fantasy football questions for Week 8: Is Lamar Jackson returning? Is Rome falling? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742265/2025/10/23/key-fantasy-football-questions-week-8-lamar-jackson/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sun Atoms:
🎵 Ceiling Tiles
#SunAtoms
https://sunatoms.bandcamp.com/track/tower-of-song-in-the-key-of-jamc
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LqJZ0bI70xo0xpp2sQ5PF

A Single Neuron Works: Precise Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Qinqin He, Jiaqi Weng, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21008 https://

A Single Neuron Works: Precise Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Text-to-image models exhibit remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, they also pose safety risks of generating harmful content. A key challenge of existing concept erasure methods is the precise removal of target concepts while minimizing degradation of image quality. In this paper, we propose Single Neuron-based Concept Erasure (SNCE), a novel approach that can precisely prevent harmful content generation by manipulating only a single neuron. Specifically, we train a Sparse Autoe…

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

⚙️ Easy Integration: Requires #NodeJS 18 , npm, and #CodexCLI on PATH with straightforward configuration via absolute paths in config files
🧪 Development Ready: Complete build system with lint, test, and E2E demo capabilities requiring OPENAI_API_KEY for automated verification
🌐

GLARE: Agentic Reasoning for Legal Judgment Prediction
Xinyu Yang, Chenlong Deng, Zhicheng Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

GLARE: Agentic Reasoning for Legal Judgment Prediction
Legal judgment prediction (LJP) has become increasingly important in the legal field. In this paper, we identify that existing large language models (LLMs) have significant problems of insufficient reasoning due to a lack of legal knowledge. Therefore, we introduce GLARE, an agentic legal reasoning framework that dynamically acquires key legal knowledge by invoking different modules, thereby improving the breadth and depth of reasoning. Experiments conducted on the real-world dataset verify the…

A Group-Theoretic Perspective on the PPT and Realignment Entanglement Criteria
Tobias C. Sutter, Christopher Popp, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18393 https://

A Group-Theoretic Perspective on the PPT and Realignment Entanglement Criteria
Entanglement is a key feature in many quantum technologies, including secure communication protocols and quantum computing. However, detecting it in mixed quantum states remains a challenging task. While the PPT and realignment criteria are well-established tools for entanglement detection in general, and are especially effective in Bell-diagonal states, their connection to the underlying group structure of this state family has not been fully explored. In this work, we analyze the PPT and real…

Understanding Subword Compositionality of Large Language Models
Qiwei Peng, Yekun Chai, Anders S{\o}gaard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17953 https://arxiv.or…

Understanding Subword Compositionality of Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) take sequences of subwords as input, requiring them to effective compose subword representations into meaningful word-level representations. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of experiments to probe how LLMs compose subword information, focusing on three key aspects: structural similarity, semantic decomposability, and form retention. Our analysis of the experiments suggests that these five LLM families can be classified into three distinct groups, likel…

$8.5M All-Pro says conditioning key to W1 status, has no issue with Cowboys med staff https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/26/cowboys-trevon-diggs-discusses-health-mia…

Build Your Own Database
https://www.nan.fyi/database

Raiders' Deland McDullough Gives Key Insight on RB Room https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-deland-mcdullough-ashton-jeanty-pete-carroll-raheem-mostert

LIVE 24/7: Key News from Ukraine & World Updates: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/live-key-news-from-ukraine.html

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
Masayuki Tezuka, Keisuke Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17709 https://arxiv.or…

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
An ordered multi-signature scheme allows multiple signers to sign a common message in a sequential manner and allows anyone to verify the signing order of signers with a public-key list. In this work, we propose an ordered multi-signature scheme by modifying the sequential aggregate signature scheme by Chatterjee and Kabaleeshwaran (ACISP 2020). Our scheme offers compact public parameter size and the public-key aggregation property. This property allows us to compress a public-key list into a s…

InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
Weiyun Wang, Zhangwei Gao, Lixin Gu, Hengjun Pu, Long Cui, Xingguang Wei, Zhaoyang Liu, Linglin Jing, Shenglong Ye, Jie Shao, Zhaokai Wang, Zhe Chen, Hongjie Zhang, Ganlin Yang, Haomin Wang, Qi Wei, Jinhui Yin, Wenhao Li, Erfei Cui, Guanzhou Chen, Zichen Ding, Changyao Tian, Zhenyu Wu, Jingjing Xie, Zehao Li, Bowen Yang, Yuchen Duan, Xuehui Wang, Songze Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Haodong Duan, Nianche…

InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
We introduce InternVL 3.5, a new family of open-source multimodal models that significantly advances versatility, reasoning capability, and inference efficiency along the InternVL series. A key innovation is the Cascade Reinforcement Learning (Cascade RL) framework, which enhances reasoning through a two-stage process: offline RL for stable convergence and online RL for refined alignment. This coarse-to-fine training strategy leads to substantial improvements on downstream reasoning tasks, e.g.…

Pete Carroll Confident In Raiders’ Depth Across Key Positions https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/25/pete-carroll-confident-in-raiders-depth-across-key-positions/

Entanglement distillation on symmetric two-qutrit entangled states of rank five
Zihua Song, Lin Chen, Yongge Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21258 https://…

Entanglement distillation on symmetric two-qutrit entangled states of rank five
Entanglement distillation is a key step in quantum information, both theoretically and practically. It has been proven that non-positive-partial transpose (NPT) entangled states of rank at most four is 1-distillable under local operation and classical communications. In this paper we investigate the distillation of a more complex family of NPT entangled states, namely a family of symmetric two-qutrit states $\r$ of rank five with given eigenvectors. We explicitly construct five families of such…

Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion
Jo\~ao Abrantes, Robert Tjarko Lange, Yujin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16204 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion
Model merging is a powerful technique for integrating the specialized knowledge of multiple machine learning models into a single model. However, existing methods require manually partitioning model parameters into fixed groups for merging, which restricts the exploration of potential combinations and limits performance. To overcome these limitations, we propose Model Merging of Natural Niches (M2N2), an evolutionary algorithm with three key features: (1) dynamic adjustment of merging boundarie…

Tool Calling for Arabic LLMs: Data Strategies and Instruction Tuning
Asim Ersoy, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar, Kareem Darwish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20957 https://

Tool Calling for Arabic LLMs: Data Strategies and Instruction Tuning
Tool calling is a critical capability that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with external systems, significantly expanding their utility. However, research and resources for tool calling are predominantly English-centric, leaving a gap in our understanding of how to enable this functionality for other languages, such as Arabic. This paper investigates three key research questions: (1) the necessity of in-language (Arabic) tool-calling data versus relying on cross-lingual transfer…

Cardinals QB Kyler Murray makes key adjustment in his seventh season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46355546/nfl-cardinals-kyler-murray-marvin-harrison-tnf

Cowboys-Broncos Key Matchup: No. 1 pressure defense ve No. 1 pass pro unit https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/25/dallas-cowboys-biggest-challenge-2025-season-…

Bengaluru, home to about 33% of India's 1,800 GCCs and key to the $300B tech industry, struggles as its infrastructure lags behind rapid tech sector growth (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c3ff0433-1736-4146-ab6b-cf9344108d54

The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
Over the past two decades, Bengaluru has seen explosive growth in its tech sector. But the city’s infrastructure is not keeping up with the expansion

The Unwinnable Arms Race of AI Image Detection
Till Aczel, Lorenzo Vettor, Andreas Plesner, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21135 https://arxi…

The Unwinnable Arms Race of AI Image Detection
The rapid progress of image generative AI has blurred the boundary between synthetic and real images, fueling an arms race between generators and discriminators. This paper investigates the conditions under which discriminators are most disadvantaged in this competition. We analyze two key factors: data dimensionality and data complexity. While increased dimensionality often strengthens the discriminators ability to detect subtle inconsistencies, complexity introduces a more nuanced effect. Usi…

What the movement sorely needs is a bipartisan imprimatur.
There must be Republicans who still believe in the democratic values that Bush voiced in his second Inaugural, 20 years ago.
“Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?”
Their continued silence puts sand in the movement’s gears

Federation of Agents: A Semantics-Aware Communication Fabric for Large-Scale Agentic AI
Lorenzo Giusti, Ole Anton Werner, Riccardo Taiello, Matilde Carvalho Costa, Emre Tosun, Andrea Protani, Marc Molina, Rodrigo Lopes de Almeida, Paolo Cacace, Diogo Reis Santos, Luigi Serio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20175…

Federation of Agents: A Semantics-Aware Communication Fabric for Large-Scale Agentic AI
We present Federation of Agents (FoA), a distributed orchestration framework that transforms static multi-agent coordination into dynamic, capability-driven collaboration. FoA introduces Versioned Capability Vectors (VCVs): machine-readable profiles that make agent capabilities searchable through semantic embeddings, enabling agents to advertise their capabilities, cost, and limitations. Our aarchitecturecombines three key innovations: (1) semantic routing that matches tasks to agents over shar…

Pete Carroll notes one key characteristic Raiders are looking for in adding a quarterback https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/24/pete-carroll-key-characteristic-raiders-quarte…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
Muhammad Arsalan Ali Akbar, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18546 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
We present a novel approach to chiral discrimination using gate-based quantum processors, addressing a key challenge in adapting conventional control techniques using modern quantum computing. Schemes such as stimulated rapid adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and shortcuts to adiabaticity (STAP) have shown strong potential for enantiomer discrimination; their reliance on analog and continuous-time control makes them incompatible with digital gate-based quantum computing architectures. Here, we adapt t…

LLM Output Homogenization is Task Dependent
Shomik Jain, Jack Lanchantin, Maximilian Nickel, Karen Ullrich, Ashia Wilson, Jamelle Watson-Daniels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21267

LLM Output Homogenization is Task Dependent
A large language model can be less helpful if it exhibits output response homogenization. But whether two responses are considered homogeneous, and whether such homogenization is problematic, both depend on the task category. For instance, in objective math tasks, we often expect no variation in the final answer but anticipate variation in the problem-solving strategy. Whereas, for creative writing tasks, we may expect variation in key narrative components (e.g. plot, genre, setting, etc), beyo…

Barnwell makes sense of a blowout-filled Week 8: One key takeaway from each of Sunday's 11 games https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46734402/2025-nfl-week-8-barnwell-blowout-wins-lessons-taylor-barkley-garrett-…

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
Noam Schmitt (IP Paris, TSP, ENS Paris Saclay), Marc Antoine Lacoste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20395 htt…

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
This paper investigates the trade-off between centralized and decentralized security management in constellations of satellites to balance security and performance. We highlight three key AI architectures for automated security management: (a) centralized, (b) distributed and (c) federated. The centralized architecture is the best option short term, providing fast training, despite the hard challenge of the communication latency overhead across space. Decentralized architectures are better alte…

xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk’s xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI. The suit accuses OpenAI of “inducing” recruits that it poached to steal trade secrets from the company.

UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatial and Timestep Decomposition
Guojun Lei, Rong Zhang, Chi Wang, Tianhang Liu, Hong Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Weiwei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21086

UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatial and Timestep Decomposition
We propose a novel architecture UniTransfer, which introduces both spatial and diffusion timestep decomposition in a progressive paradigm, achieving precise and controllable video concept transfer. Specifically, in terms of spatial decomposition, we decouple videos into three key components: the foreground subject, the background, and the motion flow. Building upon this decomposed formulation, we further introduce a dual-to-single-stream DiT-based architecture for supporting fine-grained contro…

Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia's Voronezh Oblast, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-key-rail.html

Dynamic rerouting and interruption resilience of quantum communication via single-photon-based resynchronization
Jan Krause, Stephanie Renneke, Jonas Hilt, Oliver Peters, Peter Hanne, Andy Schreier, Ronald Freund, Nino Walenta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17770

Dynamic rerouting and interruption resilience of quantum communication via single-photon-based resynchronization
We present a resynchronization method for quantum key distribution (QKD) systems that enables rapid and reliable recovery from interruptions of the quantum channel and changes of its optical path length. By periodically transmitting short fixed pulse patterns over the quantum channel, our approach achieves swift clock offset recovery, typically within a few hundred milliseconds. We implemented this method in our time-bin-phase BB84 QKD system, demonstrating successful resynchronization after mu…

Behind RoPE: How Does Causal Mask Encode Positional Information?
Junu Kim, Xiao Liu, Zhenghao Lin, Lei Ji, Yeyun Gong, Edward Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21042 https://

Behind RoPE: How Does Causal Mask Encode Positional Information?
While explicit positional encodings such as RoPE are a primary source of positional information in Transformer decoders, the causal mask also provides positional information. In this work, we prove that the causal mask can induce position-dependent patterns in attention scores, even without parameters or causal dependency in the input. Our theoretical analysis indicates that the induced attention pattern tends to favor nearby query-key pairs, mirroring the behavior of common positional encoding…

Donald Trump’s overall approval ratings are as abysmal as they were back in July,
but now even his handling of key campaign issues is also taking a pounding.
Latest polls show that since the beginning of September, net approval stands at
-3.4 percent on immigration,
-14.1 percent on the economy,
-18.9 percent on trade, and
-30.4 percent on inflation.
Grim results, given that immigration and the economy polled as two of his most significant leads a…

Trump Hit by Devastating Polls on Issues That Won Him the Election
The president is getting shredded on everything from immigration to the economy.

SD3.5-Flash: Distribution-Guided Distillation of Generative Flows
Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay, Rahim Entezari, Jim Scott, Reshinth Adithyan, Yi-Zhe Song, Varun Jampani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21318

SD3.5-Flash: Distribution-Guided Distillation of Generative Flows
We present SD3.5-Flash, an efficient few-step distillation framework that brings high-quality image generation to accessible consumer devices. Our approach distills computationally prohibitive rectified flow models through a reformulated distribution matching objective tailored specifically for few-step generation. We introduce two key innovations: "timestep sharing" to reduce gradient noise and "split-timestep fine-tuning" to improve prompt alignment. Combined with comprehensive pipeline optim…

Stochastic Modeling of a Memory-Assisted Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution System in Free-Space Metropolitan Environments
Fares Nada, Amber Hussain, Tasmi R. Ahmed, Connor Kupchak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14983

Stochastic Modeling of a Memory-Assisted Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution System in Free-Space Metropolitan Environments
On the pathway to quantum key distribution on a global scale, will be the realization of metropolitan-sized Memory Assisted Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MA-MDI-QKD) systems. Here, we present a simplistic and intuitive stochastic model to predict key distribution rates in a MA-MDI-QKD scheme that addresses the real-world parameters inherent to free-space quantum communication channels. Specific to our algorithm, the memory-assisted based system allows us to leverage t…

3 immediate ways Tyler Booker's injury is going to impact Cowboys' plans on offense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/24/three-key-impacts-of-tyler-bookers-…

Better Language Model-Based Judging Reward Modeling through Scaling Comprehension Boundaries
Meiling Ning, Zhongbao Zhang, Junda Ye, Jiabao Guo, Qingyuan Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18212

Better Language Model-Based Judging Reward Modeling through Scaling Comprehension Boundaries
The emergence of LM-based judging reward modeling, represented by generative reward models, has successfully made reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF) efficient and scalable. To further advance this paradigm, we propose a core insight: this form of reward modeling shares fundamental formal consistency with natural language inference (NLI), a core task in natural language understanding. This reframed perspective points to a key path for building superior reward models: scaling the mod…

Sigma: Semantically Informative Pre-training for Skeleton-based Sign Language Understanding
Muxin Pu, Mei Kuan Lim, Chun Yong Chong, Chen Change Loy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21223

Sigma: Semantically Informative Pre-training for Skeleton-based Sign Language Understanding
Pre-training has proven effective for learning transferable features in sign language understanding (SLU) tasks. Recently, skeleton-based methods have gained increasing attention because they can robustly handle variations in subjects and backgrounds without being affected by appearance or environmental factors. Current SLU methods continue to face three key limitations: 1) weak semantic grounding, as models often capture low-level motion patterns from skeletal data but struggle to relate them …

CLaw: Benchmarking Chinese Legal Knowledge in Large Language Models - A Fine-grained Corpus and Reasoning Analysis
Xinzhe Xu, Liang Zhao, Hongshen Xu, Chen Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21208

CLaw: Benchmarking Chinese Legal Knowledge in Large Language Models - A Fine-grained Corpus and Reasoning Analysis
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly tasked with analyzing legal texts and citing relevant statutes, yet their reliability is often compromised by general pre-training that ingests legal texts without specialized focus, obscuring the true depth of their legal knowledge. This paper introduces CLaw, a novel benchmark specifically engineered to meticulously evaluate LLMs on Chinese legal knowledge and its application in reasoning. CLaw comprises two key components: (1) a comprehensive, fi…

The Dallas Cowboys lost the game to the Chicago Bears on four key possessions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/22/the-dallas-cowboys-lost-to-the…

Automated Classification of Normal and Atypical Mitotic Figures Using ConvNeXt V2: MIDOG 2025 Track 2
Yosuke Yamagishi, Shouhei Hanaoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18831 https://…

Automated Classification of Normal and Atypical Mitotic Figures Using ConvNeXt V2: MIDOG 2025 Track 2
This paper presents our solution for the MIDOG 2025 Challenge Track 2, which focuses on binary classification of normal mitotic figures (NMFs) versus atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) in histopathological images. Our approach leverages a ConvNeXt V2 base model with center cropping preprocessing and 5-fold cross-validation ensemble strategy. The method addresses key challenges including severe class imbalance, high morphological variability, and domain heterogeneity across different tumor types, s…

WAVECLIP: Wavelet Tokenization for Adaptive-Resolution CLIP
Moshe Kimhi, Erez Koifman, Ehud Rivlin, Eli Schwartz, Chaim Baskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21153 https://

WAVECLIP: Wavelet Tokenization for Adaptive-Resolution CLIP
We introduce WAVECLIP, a single unified model for adaptive resolution inference in CLIP, enabled by wavelet-based tokenization. WAVECLIP replaces standard patch embeddings with a multi-level wavelet decomposition, enabling the model to process images coarse to fine while naturally supporting multiple resolutions within the same model. At inference time, the model begins with low resolution tokens and refines only when needed, using key-value caching and causal cross-level attention to reuse com…