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#Paradromics blog post: Think fast - Setting new standards and new records for brain-computer interfaces https://www.paradromics.com/blog/bci-benchmarking

Think Fast | Setting new standards and new records for brain-computer interfaces
Paradromics Connexus BCI sets new records with the SONIC benchmark, achieving 200+ bps and low latency, defining a new standard for BCIs.

Putin wirft Frankreich "Piraterie" vor
Nach der Festsetzung eines mutmaßlich in Verbindung zu Russland stehenden Öltankers durch das französische Militär hat der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin Frankreich der "Piraterie" beschuldigt. "Der Tanker ist in neutralen Gewässern ohne jegliche Rechtfertigung beschlagnahmt worden", sagte Putin in der russischen Schwarzmeerstadt Sotschi. Es habe sich keine…
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Putin wirft Frankreich wegen Festsetzung von Tanker Piraterie vor
Nachdem Frankreichs Militär wohl einen Tanker von Russlands Schattenflotte gestoppt hat, spricht Kreml-Chef Putin von Piraterie. Drohungen richtet er gegen Europas größtes Atomkraftwerk - und äußert sich zur deutschen Armee.

Fire TV: Amazon sperrt künftig Piraterie-Apps
Auf Fire-TV-Geräten per Sideloading installierte Piraterie-Apps werden anhand einer Blacklist der Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment unbenutzbar gemacht.
https://www.

Meta-Pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition in Low-Resource Philippine Languages
David Demitri Africa, Suchir Salhan, Yuval Weiss, Paula Buttery, Richard Diehl Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02160

Meta-Pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition in Low-Resource Philippine Languages
Named-entity recognition (NER) in low-resource languages is usually tackled by finetuning very large multilingual LMs, an option that is often infeasible in memory- or latency-constrained settings. We ask whether small decoder LMs can be pretrained so that they adapt quickly and transfer zero-shot to languages unseen during pretraining. To this end we replace part of the autoregressive objective with first-order model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML). Tagalog and Cebuano are typologically similar …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Riley Mulherkar:
🎵 King Porter Stomp
#RileyMulherkar
https://rileymulherkar.bandcamp.com/track/king-porter-stomp
https://open.spotify.com/track/0viKfSaENhrHhgKO8Tf6Df

The White House’s former top Latin America official has said
he fears the US could stumble into a protracted guerrilla war in Venezuela
after Donald Trump ordered a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea,
killing 11 alleged drug traffickers.
Tuesday’s controversial strike off the Venezuelan coast – which was reportedly carried out by an attack helicopter or Reaper drone – came after Trump ordered a major naval deployment to the region,
ostensibly to comb…

How Does the Pretraining Distribution Shape In-Context Learning? Task Selection, Generalization, and Robustness
Wa\"iss Azizian, Ali Hasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01163 …

How Does the Pretraining Distribution Shape In-Context Learning? Task Selection, Generalization, and Robustness
The emergence of in-context learning (ICL) in large language models (LLMs) remains poorly understood despite its consistent effectiveness, enabling models to adapt to new tasks from only a handful of examples. To clarify and improve these capabilities, we characterize how the statistical properties of the pretraining distribution (e.g., tail behavior, coverage) shape ICL on numerical tasks. We develop a theoretical framework that unifies task selection and generalization, extending and sharpeni…

Perturbations of Minkowski spacetime with regular conformal compactification
Andrea N\"utzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01964 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Perturbations of Minkowski spacetime with regular conformal compactification
We construct perturbations of Minkowski spacetime in general relativity, when given initial data that decays inverse polynomially to initial data of a Kerr spacetime towards spacelike infinity. We show that the perturbations admit a regular conformal compactification at null and timelike infinity, where the degree of regularity increases linearly with the rate of decay of the initial data to Kerr initial data. In particular, the compactification is smooth if the initial data decays rapidly to K…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Veilburner:
🎵 Da'ath Ye Shadow Portrait
#Veilburner
https://veilburnerband.bandcamp.com/track/daath-ye-shadow-portrait
https://open.spotify.com/track/58UXBzz3ovboIwZaIFxAGN

First-Order Axial Perturbation of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om Metric In a Possible Chern-Simons Gravity Background
Abhishek Rout, Brett Altschul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01106

First-Order Axial Perturbation of the Reissner-Nordström Metric In a Possible Chern-Simons Gravity Background
We axial perturbations of Reissner-Nordström black holes within the framework of Chern-Simons modified gravity, a theory with includes parity violation. We derive the governing equations for the perturbations, focusing on the radial function $R(r)$ and its behavior across distinct regions: near the singularity ($r \rightarrow 0$), between the inner and outer Reissner-Nordström horizons ($r_-< r< r_+$), and in the asymptotic regime ($r \rightarrow \infty$). Using a combination of analytical an…