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The Motion Picture Association calls on OpenAI to take "immediate and decisive action" to prevent copyright infringement on its Sora 2 service (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mpa-ch…

MPA Chief: Open AI “Needs to Take Immediate and Decisive Action” to Prevent IP Infringement On Sora
The lobbying group, which counts all the major studios, called on the tech giant to at least acknowledge that it needs to follow established copyright law.

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/c

Image-based modelling of rock non-linear deformation under low-stress levels
Rui Li, Yi Yang, Wenbo Zhan, Jianhui Yang, Yingfang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11228 https://…

Image-based modelling of rock non-linear deformation under low-stress levels
Rock geophysical properties are widely reported to exhibit non-linear behaviours under low-stress conditions (below 10-20 MPa) before transitioning to the linear elastic stage, primarily due to the closure of microcracks and grain interfaces. Image-based modelling of rock deformation struggles to effectively characterise the microcrack closure effect because of the partial-volume effect, where image voxels are larger than microcracks and contain both pore and solid phases. This study presents a…

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/c

Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta supported the bill while Netflix and MPA opposed it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-law-online-age…

Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters
Mark R. Lovell (ICC Durham, Durham Physics, University of Iceland), Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA), Christoph Engler (MPIA), Dylan Nelson (Heidelberg), Rahul Ramesh (Heidelberg), Volker Springel (MPA), Lars Hernquist (ITP Harvard)
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Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters
The stellar haloes and intra-cluster light around galaxies are crucial test beds for dark matter (DM) physics and galaxy formation models. We consider the role that the numerical resolution plays in the modelling of these systems by studying the stripping of satellites in the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations. We focus on host haloes of total halo mass $M_\mathrm{200c}=10^{12-15}M_{\odot}$ and satellites of stellar mass $>10^{7}$$M_{\odot}$, and compare stellar halo / satellite properties a…

Hydrogen-induced fast fracture in a 1.5 GPa dual-phase steel
Rama Srinivas Varanasi, Motomichi Koyama, Shuya Chiba, Saya Ajito, Eiji Akiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06323 htt…

Hydrogen-induced fast fracture in a 1.5 GPa dual-phase steel
This study clarifies the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behavior in a 1.5 GPa ferrite-martensite dual-phase (DP) steel. Hydrogen pre-charging (3.8 mass ppm diffusible hydrogen), followed by slow strain tensile testing (10-4 s-1), resulted in a brittle fracture at 900 MPa within the elastic regime. Fractographic studies indicated that surface crack initiation consists of intergranular and quasi-cleavage morphology; site-specific transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations revealed sub-sur…

Ampd: premium VOD added 1.5M net new subscribers in Q2 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Netflix, Viu and iQiyi drove 60% of growth (Sara Merican/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/southeast-asia-streaming-new-…

Southeast Asia Adds 1.5 Million Net New Subscribers Across Premium VOD In Q2, Nearly Doubling Q1’s Growth — Report
The premium video-on-demand market in Southeast Asia has seen a bumper quarter, adding more than 1.5 million net new subscribers in Q2 2025, nearly double the first quarter's growth.

A Yin-Yang Galaxy Cluster Merger in Abell 1914 Revealed by XRISM
Annie Heinrich (UChicago), Congyao Zhang (Masaryk Univ, UChicago), Irina Zhuravleva (UChicago), Eugene Churazov (MPA), Hannah McCall (UChicago), Reinout J. van Weeren (Leiden Univ), William R. Forman (CfA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19449…

A Yin-Yang Galaxy Cluster Merger in Abell 1914 Revealed by XRISM
Hierarchical mergers of galaxy clusters play a key role in converting gravitational energy into thermal and kinetic energy in the local universe. Understanding this process requires the reconstruction of cluster merger geometry, with careful consideration of projection effects. With its unprecedented spectral resolution, XRISM enables the disentanglement of merging cluster components along the line-of-sight via X-rays for the first time. In this letter, we focus on the massive cluster A1914, a …

Comparing fine-tuning strategies of MACE machine learning force field for modeling Li-ion diffusion in LiF for batteries
Nada Alghamdi, Paolo de Angelis, Pietro Asinari, Eliodoro Chiavazzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05020

Comparing fine-tuning strategies of MACE machine learning force field for modeling Li-ion diffusion in LiF for batteries
Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are transforming materials science and engineering by enabling the study of complex phenomena, such as those critical to battery operation. In this work, we benchmark the MACE machine learning model against a well-trained DeePMD potential for predicting interstitial lithium diffusivity in LiF, a key component in the solid electrolyte interphase in Li ion batteries. Our results demonstrate that the MACE-MPA-0 foundational model achieves comparable …

"Community efforts yield new marine protected area in the Philippines"
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Community efforts yield new marine protected area in the Philippines
The Philippines has officially designated a new marine protected area after an 18-year campaign by local communities, fisher associations, civil society organizations and government agencies, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced Aug. 13. The newly created Bitaug Marine Protected Area (MPA), which covers nearly 150 hectares (about 370 acres), is the largest MPA in Siquijor province […]

Neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
Georg G. Raffelt (MPP), Hans-Thomas Janka (MPA), Damiano F. G. Fiorillo (DESY)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16306 https://

Neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
The core of a massive star (M > 8 Msun) eventually collapses. This implosion usually triggers a supernova (SN) explosion that ejects most of the stellar envelope and leaves behind a neutron star (NS) with a mass of up to about 2 Msun. Sometimes the explosion fails and a black hole forms instead. The NS radiates its immense binding energy (some 10% of its rest mass or $2-4\times10^{53}$ erg) almost entirely as neutrinos and antineutrinos of all flavors with typical energies of some 10 MeV. This …

High-quality Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Fabricated in an Extremely Low-oxygen Furnace Environment
Vishwa Krishna Rajan, Ken Araki, Robert Y. Wang, Liping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01956

High-quality Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Fabricated in an Extremely Low-oxygen Furnace Environment
This work reports the fabrication and characterization of high-quality tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide (WxV1-xO2, x = 0~3 at. %) by thermal oxidation of sputtered tungsten-vanadium alloyed thin films with different atomic percentages and high-temperature annealing in an extremely low oxygen atmosphere (5 to 20 ppm) along with reduction of surface over-oxides in high vacuum (1 mPa). Oxidation parameters such as temperature, time and nitrogen purging rate are first optimized for obtaining high qu…