Tootfinder

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…

Not really newsworthy, but this announcement from Leaseweb feels a bit 20th century:
[...] an upcoming update to the Customer Portal Secret Management page. We have introduced a new feature that restricts the use of certain special characters in key names for improved security.
Allowed special characters: ,_ . / - ? & =
(Alphanumeric characters remain fully supported.)
Examples:
* Allowed: Key&123
* Not allowed: Key@123
* Not allowed: Key#123

"COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém"
#COP30 #Climate #ClimateSummit

COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...

Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript (Flavia Krause-Jackson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/witkoff-discusses-ukraine-plans-with-key-putin-aide-transcript?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDEwMTcyMiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0NzA2NTIyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkFGR1dLSkg2VkwwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGMUM1Mzc1OEY5Qjg0MDZCOUJCNzMyODRDN0RBMEY3QyJ9.R55A7wfpKrimqSTKzT8ij6J3HqjPMIFE84iKN_Bp9Q0
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p102#a251125p102

What's wrong with this #macOS launch plist?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true />
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.gnu.Emacs</string>
<key>AssociatedBundleIdentifiers</key>
<string>org.gnu.Emacs</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Application/Emacs30.2.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProcessType</key>
<string>Interactive</string>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
<string>/Users/alexandp/Library/Logs/org.gnu.Emacs.stderr.log</string>
<key>StandardOutPath</key>
<string>/Users/alexandp/Library/Logs/org.gnu.Emacs.stdout.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

After courting coal miners during his campaign,
Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
Many miners in Appalachia thought they would finally see a commitment to solving the issue of black lung.
Last year, on April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final rule,
"Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection",
which aimed to reduce miners’ exposure to an airborne co…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

Is anyone are of good tools for "the attacker knows the key but not the system" cryptanalysis?
I'm thinking scenarios like "I've dumped external flash and efuses off a target with encrypted firmware, but I don't know the algorithm or image format".
So ciphertext and key are believed to be known, but bit ordering, endianness, algorithm, headers, etc are unknown.

"Outrage as #Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief
Niamh #Sweeney was announced in September as the pick for third commissioner for Ireland's already highly-controversial Data Protection Commission (DPC), rounding out its three-person leadership team.
Howev…

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/

my link log mostly works as an external memory, provided i can remember the keywords in the headline
i edit headlines to stuff in extra keywords that make them easier to retrieve: implicit tags without the hash
but sometimes it can be a little frustrating
just now i was trying to remember something to do with numerical? analogies? sizes? units?
took me about 10 minutes to remember the other key word was “bio”
after which i was reminded the key words i had not-qu…

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

⚡ Frozen Russian assets are the key to pressure on the Kremlin #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/frozen-russian-assets-are-the.html

Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

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…

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/

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

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-…

Really good wrap up for UCLA football fans on what's going on with the transfer portal the team's coaching staff.
✅ Five Things: Analyzing coaching shakeups, roster changes and key returnees for UCLA football - Daily Bruin
https://da…

Five Things: Analyzing coaching shakeups, roster changes and key returnees for UCLA football - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Dec. 23 at 1:45 p.m. While little has been confirmed since UCLA football head coach Bob Chesney’s introductory press conference on Dec.

new #klutshnik website dropped a few days ago, but it described a few - back then - vaporware things, which are all real now. if you ever wondered wtf this #klutshnik thing is, but were to busy to watch a video, or read an academic paper, here is a website, you'll be to busy to read:

"AI in the guise of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, GenerativeAI (GenAI), or Large Language Models (LLMs)... can be very useful in certain application areas such as recognising or generating patterns in large data sets. However, their key drawback is that any correctness arguments will be inherently probabilistic as they are usually based on unknown data distributions and are therefore susceptible to errors (sometimes termed “hallucinations”). "

#TuneTuesday (Nov 25)
#Lizzo’s “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” is such a bop and I can’t help liking its infectious energy! It certainly gives me 80s vibes because of the use of synths and especially with the key change for the final chorus. 🎧

To Grok: What key insights have long-term users of The vOICe sensory substitution shared? #BCI

Replacing animals in science #AnimalRights

Replacing animals in science - Human Relevant Science
The UK Government has (11.11.2025) published its strategy for “Replacing animals in science”, to deliver on a key pledge from the Labour Party’s election manifesto to set out a clear plan to reduce and ultimately phase out the use of animals in research. The Alliance for Human Relevant Science welcomes this turning point in government-led […]

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

👭 The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
#sports

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ORAC: I see no point in continuing this conversation.
VILA: Now, don't start sulking again, or I shall switch you off and throw away the key.
ORAC: Soon, that will be no longer a problem.
VILA: Eh?

Trump frequently campaigned with coal miners during his 2016 presidential run,
and has since continued to participate in photo-ops using miners as a symbolic backdrop for his energy policies while campaigning and serving in office.
However, despite the president courting the CEOs of the mining industry heavily during his campaign,
miners themselves feel neglected and left behind.
Days after the executive order, on April 11,
just before coal mines were expected t…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

I think it is fair to say that most well-to-do people would not uproot generational homelands and livelihood to take a chance being an unknown in a foreign landscape, even if one has connections there, and yet, this current migration dwarfs the post-WWII flux. Sure, maybe I myself set out on the horizon in search of (mild) adventure, but I find it hard to believe 4% of humanity are crazy like me.
That alone speaks volumes at how successful we are at governing the planet, assuming, of course, that data matters in the least, which, presently, it does not.
Migration and Human Mobility: Key Figures
https://www.migrationdataportal.org/key-figures

#Wordle 1,588 2/6*
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ <1% of 226,229 (10)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 21% of 14
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 93/99
Whoa, haven't seen a 2 in a while. That was a key letter.

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…

Does anyone have any #recommendations for an ergonomic #keyboard and mouse / combo?
I currently have a ProtoArc EKM01 combo - but the mouse scroll wheel died a few months ago and recently the left shift key keeps popping off when I'm mid flow.
I like that it's bluetooth with no need for USB dongles, that they're both USB-C rechargeable, and has a num pad.
Do I just replace it near like-for-like with the EKM01 Plus and give ProtoArc a second chance? Is the Logitech Ergo K860 _really_ the best option (at ~£180 for both keyboard and mouse, and non-rechargeable)?
Help appreciated! #HelpMe

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…

my link log mostly works as an external memory, provided i can remember the keywords in the headline
i edit headlines to stuff in extra keywords that make them easier to retrieve: implicit tags without the hash
but sometimes it can be a little frustrating
just now i was trying to remember something to do with numerical? analogies? sizes? units?
took me about 10 minutes to remember the other key word was “bio”
after which i was reminded the key words i had not-qu…

Metaphors for Biology: Sizes
A series of quantitative metaphors on the sizes and shapes of biomolecules and organisms.

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…

Why Nvidia Struck a $20 Billion Megadeal with Groq
Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Miles Davis:
🎵 Spanish Key
#MilesDavis
https://azarfromspace.bandcamp.com/track/spanish-key-azar-rework

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…

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…

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…

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

WISER: Segmenting watermarked region - an epidemic change-point perspective
Soham Bonnerjee, Sayar Karmakar, Subhrajyoty Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21160 https://

WISER: Segmenting watermarked region - an epidemic change-point perspective
With the increasing popularity of large language models, concerns over content authenticity have led to the development of myriad watermarking schemes. These schemes can be used to detect a machine-generated text via an appropriate key, while being imperceptible to readers with no such keys. The corresponding detection mechanisms usually take the form of statistical hypothesis testing for the existence of watermarks, spurring extensive research in this direction. However, the finer-grained prob…

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 …

❗️20 points of peace: Zelenskyy reveals key political document of the war #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/points-of-peace-zelenskyy-reveals.html

CHOIR: A Chatbot-mediated Organizational Memory Leveraging Communication in University Research Labs
Sangwook Lee, Adnan Abbas, Yan Chen, Young-Ho Kim, Sang Won Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20512

CHOIR: A Chatbot-mediated Organizational Memory Leveraging Communication in University Research Labs
University research labs often rely on chat-based platforms for communication and project management, where valuable knowledge surfaces but is easily lost in message streams. Documentation can preserve knowledge, but it requires ongoing maintenance and is challenging to navigate. Drawing on formative interviews that revealed organizational memory challenges in labs, we designed CHOIR, an LLM-based chatbot that supports organizational memory through four key functions: document-grounded Q&A, Q&A…

Frontline report: Kazakhstan cuts off key supply route for Russia's war machine with new export controls - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/23/frontline-report-2025-12-23-2/

"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.

Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good? | Molecularist
The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

Many #Terraform providers using SSH do not check the SSH host key... they just run with ssh.InsecureIgnoreHostKey...
And to be honest, it is partly the fault of the SSH standard library which makes it super easy to ignore the host key and does not provide any useful builtin key verification function. People are lazy. ssh.FixedHostKey is niche.
So I implemented a small library to v…

sshhostkey
Provides a SSH HostKeyCallback builder to check keys with known_hosts files, entries or SSHFP (over classic DNS, DoT and DoH)

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

Admiral's Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves Key Command in Turmoil (Nick Turse/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/military-southcom-alvin-holsey-hegseth-trump-boat-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p44#a251024p44

Hey nurses! Did you vote for Trump?
Well, congratulations! You're no longer classified as having a 'professional' degree... meaning you're no longer eligible for various types of GOVERNMENT AID.
You did this.
https://www.

Pro-Trump Nurse Shocked He Removed Career From ‘Professional’ Degree List
Under the revamped definition of “professional" degree programs, nursing and other key health care jobs were excluded.

Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-04e3ab28?st=r…

Traders Are Flooding Markets With Risky Bets. Robinhood’s CEO Is Their Cult Hero.
Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company’s success

Coverages, edge play, key battles for Cowboys in Wk 12 against Eagles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/23/red-zone-play-3-key-battles-dallas-cowboys-week-12-eagles/873993960…

Prisco's Week 17 NFL picks: Bills beat Eagles in shootout, Packers eliminate Ravens, Raiders win and lose

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/priscos-week-17-nfl-picks-best-bets-p…

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…

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…

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

@… 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

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…

ImaginationPolicy: Towards Generalizable, Precise and Reliable End-to-End Policy for Robotic Manipulation
Dekun Lu, Wei Gao, Kui Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20841 https://

ImaginationPolicy: Towards Generalizable, Precise and Reliable End-to-End Policy for Robotic Manipulation
End-to-end robot manipulation policies offer significant potential for enabling embodied agents to understand and interact with the world. Unlike traditional modular pipelines, end-to-end learning mitigates key limitations such as information loss between modules and feature misalignment caused by isolated optimization targets. Despite these advantages, existing end-to-end neural networks for robotic manipulation--including those based on large VLM/VLA models--remain insufficiently performant f…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping,
who told Trump that Taiwan's "return to China" is a key part of Beijing's vision for the world order.
The call between Trump and Xi came weeks after the two leaders met in South Korea, where they agreed to a "framework" for a trade deal that has yet to be finalized

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

Dak Prescott says he'd 'fight' Brian Schottenheimer over key Cowboys decision https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-fight-brian-schottenheimer-key-dallas-cowboys-decision

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…

How Dak Prescott's MVP-level chemistry with Brian Schottenheimer and CeeDee Lamb has fueled the Cowboys' rise

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dak-presco…

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said Unions are gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026
– and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans.
In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers,
-- and filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken unions and worker protections.
“People were …

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…

Really good wrap up for UCLA football fans on what's going on with the transfer portal the team's coaching staff.
✅ Five Things: Analyzing coaching shakeups, roster changes and key returnees for UCLA football - Daily Bruin
https://da…

Radiation of "breathing" vortex electron packets in magnetic field
G. V. Zmaga, G. K. Sizykh, D. V. Grosman, Qi Meng, Liping Zou, Pengming Zhang, D. V. Karlovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21195

Radiation of "breathing" vortex electron packets in magnetic field
When a vortex electron with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) enters a magnetic field, its quantum state is described with a nonstationary Laguerre-Gaussian (NSLG) state rather than with a stationary Landau state. A key feature of these NSLG states is oscillations of the electron wave packet's root-mean-square (r.m.s.) radius, similar to betatron oscillations. Classically, such an oscillating charge distribution is expected to emit photons. This raises a critical question: does this radiation c…

DAGDiff: Guiding Dual-Arm Grasp Diffusion to Stable and Collision-Free Grasps
Md Faizal Karim, Vignesh Vembar, Keshab Patra, Gaurav Singh, K Madhava Krishna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21145

DAGDiff: Guiding Dual-Arm Grasp Diffusion to Stable and Collision-Free Grasps
Reliable dual-arm grasping is essential for manipulating large and complex objects but remains a challenging problem due to stability, collision, and generalization requirements. Prior methods typically decompose the task into two independent grasp proposals, relying on region priors or heuristics that limit generalization and provide no principled guarantee of stability. We propose DAGDiff, an end-to-end framework that directly denoises to grasp pairs in the SE(3) x SE(3) space. Our key insigh…

The EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against th
“unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation,
a European Commission spokesperson has said.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of
“coercion and intimidation”,
after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.
Justifying the visa bans, the US secr…

Dak Prescott says he'd 'fight' Brian Schottenheimer over key Cowboys decision https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-fight-brian-schottenheimer-key-dallas-cowboys-decision

What to Know About the Nearly 10% Climb in a Key Medicare Expense for 2026 (Mark Miller/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/what-to-know-about-the-nearly-10-climb-in-a-key-medicare-expense-for-2026.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p35#a251122p35

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…

Broncos use fourth-down bluff, clutch TD to down Chiefs in yet another one-possession win https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-use-fourth-down-bluff-clutch-td-to-down-chiefs-in-yet-another-one-possession-win

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…

Really good wrap up for UCLA football fans on what's going on with the transfer portal the team's coaching staff.
✅ Five Things: Analyzing coaching shakeups, roster changes and key returnees for UCLA football - Daily Bruin
https://da…

In one of his wildest moves to date, Trump is now offering companies access to plutonium from America’s arsenal of cold war nuclear missiles.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes
— a little under 42,000 pounds
— of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipmen…

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Ukrainian partisans sabotage key railway hub in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/ukrainian-partisans-sabotage-key-railway.html

A Review on Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus
Tobias Fischbach, Pierre Talbot, Pascal Bourvry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20663 https://arxiv.o…

A Review on Quantum Circuit Optimization using ZX-Calculus
Quantum computing promises significant speed-ups for certain algorithms but the practical use of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era computers remains limited by resources constraints (e.g., noise, qubits, gates, and circuit depth). Quantum circuit optimization is a key mitigation strategy. In this context, ZX-calculus has emerged as an alternative framework that allows for semantics-preserving quantum circuit optimization. We review ZX-based optimization of quantum circuits, …

Flight Dynamics to Sensing Modalities: Exploiting Drone Ground Effect for Accurate Edge Detection
Chenyu Zhao, Jingao Xu, Ciyu Ruan, Haoyang Wang, Shengbo Wang, Jiaqi Li, Jirong Zha, Weijie Hong, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xinlei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21085

Flight Dynamics to Sensing Modalities: Exploiting Drone Ground Effect for Accurate Edge Detection
Drone-based rapid and accurate environmental edge detection is highly advantageous for tasks such as disaster relief and autonomous navigation. Current methods, using radars or cameras, raise deployment costs and burden lightweight drones with high computational demands. In this paper, we propose AirTouch, a system that transforms the ground effect from a stability "foe" in traditional flight control views, into a "friend" for accurate and efficient edge detection. Our key insight is that analy…

Chiefs vs. Cowboys prediction: Can Patrick Mahomes keep pace with Dak Prescott and the potent Dallas offense?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-vs-cowbo…

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 …

Is the Key to Cowboys' Season Their Young Players? | Cowboys Break https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNM9YqV-Pg

Quantum Algorithm for Subcellular Multiscale Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Margot Lockwood, Nathan Wiebe, Connah Johnson, Johannes M\"ulmenst\"adt, Jaehun Chun, Gregory Schenter, Margaret S. Cheung, Xiangyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20668

Quantum Algorithm for Subcellular Multiscale Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Computational modeling of cellular systems, where reactants are governed by biochemical equations and physical representations, requires extensive classical computing resources. These limitations significantly constrain the system size and spatiotemporal scales of simulations. A key challenge lies in the "curse of dimensionality", where the number of possible reaction terms grows exponentially with the number of species, and the computation of reaction rates involving many-body interactions bec…

Matchup rankings: Upgrade Harold Fannin Jr., downgrade Jameson Williams https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47389017/fantasy-football-rankings-tips-nfl-week-17-matchups-qb-rb-wr-te

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…

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth without midwives or doctors present.
It is led by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark,
ex-doulas turned social media influencers who have gained a global following through the FBS podcast, which has been downloaded millions of times.
FBS profits from sales of its instructional video guide to freebirthing, and access to a paid-for membership group for pregnant …

How the Cowboys could address their biggest needs early in the NFL Draft https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916492/2025/12/24/cowboys-nfl-draft-expert-needs/

Panthers Beat Buccaneers in Key N.F.C. South Matchup https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010603476/panthers-beat-buccaneers-in-key-nfc-south-matchup.html

Cowboys Get Bad News on 6-foot-8, 327-Pound Former First Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bad-news-offensive-tackle-tyler-guyton/?adt_ei=[email]

It is not clear whether the National Capital Planning Commission was consulted or received any meaningful insight prior to the White House’s demolition,
particularly as it has been closed since the government shut down 23 days ago.
“The decisions were made in complete secrecy and undertaken without public disclosure or proper consultation,” 
the ranking members on the House Oversight and Natural Resources committees and the subcommittee on energy on mineral resources wrote T…

Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants
Leavitt dodged a key question on the limits to Donald Trump’s abilities to renovate.

NFL Week 8 Injury Report, Inactives: QBs Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels Out https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-8-injury-report-and-inactives

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election
-- after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system.
The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios,
an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable, con…

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…

NFL Thanksgiving picks, predictions against spread: Lions stuff Packers, Chiefs whip Cowboys, Ravens roast Bengals https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-thanksgiving-picks-predictions-against-spread/00ef464f1fcf5d88c3627092…

NFL picks, predictions for Thanksgiving: Lions edge Packers, Chiefs top Cowboys in thriller, Ravens knock out Bengals https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-picks-predictions-thanksgiving/610a2e66b5f65747b894f92f

ICE says the computer ate its records the day after it was sued for abuse.
404 Media reports that after ICE’s Broadview Detention Center outside Chicago was sued October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees,
the agency said that 💥two weeks of video footage that could have shown how immigration detainees are treated in the facility was lost in a “system crash” 💥 on October 31.*
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the …

ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”

Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,

Oversight visit brings Rep. McIver back to migrant jail at center of her criminal case - BLKNewsNow.com
NEWARK — Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall, Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.

The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Trump,
has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.
That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones.
Judge Cannon could again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case,
this one…

As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
The prosecutor running an inquiry into those who investigated President Trump has established a grand jury under Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whose scuttling of the documents case made her a White House favorite.

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