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🎣 Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/feds-seize-15-billion-from-alleged-forced-labor-scam-built-on-human-suffering/

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

"Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/02/motorcyclist-on-shopping-trip-arrested-london-amid-labours-crac…

Refactoring Towards Microservices: Preparing the Ground for Service Extraction
Rita Peixoto, Filipe F. Correia, Thatiane Rosa, Eduardo Guerra, Alfredo Goldman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03050

Refactoring Towards Microservices: Preparing the Ground for Service Extraction
As organizations increasingly transition from monolithic systems to microservices, they aim to achieve higher availability, automatic scaling, simplified infrastructure management, enhanced collaboration, and streamlined deployments. However, this migration process remains largely manual and labour-intensive. While existing literature offers various strategies for decomposing monoliths, these approaches primarily focus on architecture-level guidance, often overlooking the code-level challenges …

Masked Autoencoder Pretraining and BiXLSTM ResNet Architecture for PET/CT Tumor Segmentation
Moona Mazher, Steven A Niederer, Abdul Qayyum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02602 https…

Masked Autoencoder Pretraining and BiXLSTM ResNet Architecture for PET/CT Tumor Segmentation
The accurate segmentation of lesions in whole-body PET/CT imaging is es-sential for tumor characterization, treatment planning, and response assess-ment, yet current manual workflows are labor-intensive and prone to inter-observer variability. Automated deep learning methods have shown promise but often remain limited by modality specificity, isolated time points, or in-sufficient integration of expert knowledge. To address these challenges, we present a two-stage lesion segmentation framework …

Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum
https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-heist-arrests-2e78cbea4bc44c39348eedf8baf138ed

In the UK, you can now get arrested under the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt against Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Paul Laverty is to be charged under section 13 of the Terrorist Act for wearing a T-shirt with the words: “Genocide in Palestine, time to take Action”, thought to show support for activist group Palestine Action, proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Labour government for painting fighter jets in a protest.

Hyperdimensional Probe: Decoding LLM Representations via Vector Symbolic Architectures
Marco Bronzini, Carlo Nicolini, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Andrea Passerini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25045

Hyperdimensional Probe: Decoding LLM Representations via Vector Symbolic Architectures
Despite their capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain opaque with limited understanding of their internal representations. Current interpretability methods, such as direct logit attribution (DLA) and sparse autoencoders (SAEs), provide restricted insight due to limitations such as the model's output vocabulary or unclear feature names. This work introduces Hyperdimensional Probe, a novel paradigm for decoding information from the LLM vector space. It combines ideas from symbolic repre…

"A group of about two hundred protestors, waving the union jack and St George's flags and carrying placards opposing the government's digital ID plans, had to be separated from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators by police."
That is a sentence that I never expected to read!
https://www.bb…

Arrests at protest supporting Palestine Action near Labour conference
Merseyside Police says arrests were made on suspicion of supporting the proscribed group.

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025…

Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”
Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

Multi-modal Liver Segmentation and Fibrosis Staging Using Real-world MRI Images
Yang Zhou, Kunhao Yuan, Ye Wei, Jishizhan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26061 https://

Multi-modal Liver Segmentation and Fibrosis Staging Using Real-world MRI Images
Liver fibrosis represents the accumulation of excessive extracellular matrix caused by sustained hepatic injury. It disrupts normal lobular architecture and function, increasing the chances of cirrhosis and liver failure. Precise staging of fibrosis for early diagnosis and intervention is often invasive, which carries risks and complications. To address this challenge, recent advances in artificial intelligence-based liver segmentation and fibrosis staging offer a non-invasive alternative. As a…