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Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem's Shutdown Propaganda (Robert McCoy/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/201697/airports-pushing-back-kristi-noem-shutdown-propaganda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p115#a251013p115

Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…

A 1.8 km advance – 🪖 Ukrainian troops are pushing forward in DONBAS! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/a-km-advance-ukrainian-troops.html

I'd been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years because of their dead zone in the Mission but never got around to it. This boycott that begins this weekend is pushing me to finally do it
https://tmobileboycott.org/

It's time to hang up on authoritarianism. It's time to hang up on T-Mobile.
TAKE THE PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT T-MOBILE

😩 Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/05/fixing-britains-worklessness-crisis-will-cost-employers-6bn-a-year-report-says<…

Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
The Keep Britain Working review, created to tackle the rising tide of ill health pushing millions out of work, reported its findings ahead of this month’s budget

Draft plans: EU is pushing for market regulator ESMA to get supervision and authorization powers over crypto firms, shifting oversight from national regulators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/eu…

ConPoSe: LLM-Guided Contact Point Selection for Scalable Cooperative Object Pushing
Noah Steinkr\"uger, Nisarga Nilavadi, Wolfram Burgard, Tanja Katharina Kaiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08705

ConPoSe: LLM-Guided Contact Point Selection for Scalable Cooperative Object Pushing
Object transportation in cluttered environments is a fundamental task in various domains, including domestic service and warehouse logistics. In cooperative object transport, multiple robots must coordinate to move objects that are too large for a single robot. One transport strategy is pushing, which only requires simple robots. However, careful selection of robot-object contact points is necessary to push the object along a preplanned path. Although this selection can be solved analytically, …

Eine neue Staffel meiner ewigen Lieblingsserie #PushingDaisies, mit dem gesamtem Cast und wieder mit Showrunner Bryan Fuller? Das hatte ich nicht in den Karten. Yay!
https://deadline.com/2025/…

Pushing the Boundaries in CBRS Band: Robust Radar Detection within High 5G Interference
Shafi Ullah Khan, Michel Kulhandjian, Debashri Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10040 https…

Pushing the Boundaries in CBRS Band: Robust Radar Detection within High 5G Interference
Spectrum sharing is a critical strategy for meeting escalating user demands via commercial wireless services, yet its effective regulation and technological enablement, particularly concerning coexistence with incumbent systems, remain significant challenges. Federal organizations have established regulatory frameworks to manage shared commercial use alongside mission-critical operations, such as military communications. This paper investigates the potential of machine learning (ML)-based appro…

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …

Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution
“This is rogue state behavior,” one expert said.

Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback' as European Commission pushes data protection changes https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback

Interesting. The right wing bots today are pushing “do something about mental illness” instead of “don’t take away my guns”.
Lines up with the rumors of MAHA “rehabilitation farms”

A new skyrmion topological transition driven by higher-order exchange interactions in Janus MnSeTe
Megha Arya, Moritz A. Goerzen, Lionel Calmels, R\'emi Arras, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Stefan Heinze, Dongzhe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10661

A new skyrmion topological transition driven by higher-order exchange interactions in Janus MnSeTe
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals magnets offer a promising platform for pushing skyrmion technology to the single-layer limit with high tunability. While Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is often recognized as central to skyrmion formation, their stability, collapse, and topological transition in 2D materials remain largely unexplored. In particular, the effect of higher-order exchange interactions (HOI) on these phenomena is unknown. Here, using first-principles calculations and atomi…

Ampere: in July, 39% of all TV seasons and movies on US streaming platforms appeared on 2 services, while 21% of titles were on 3 services, up from 9% in 2020 (Erik Gruenwedel/Media Play News)
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/ampere-u-s-streamers-pushing-non-…

Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content - Media Play News
There’s a reason you can stream episodes of “Young Sheldon,” “NCIS” and “Suits” across multiple platforms. U.S. streamers are increasingly sharing content catalogs across third-party services. In July, 39% of domestic titles appeared on two or more services, compared with 13% in the U.K. and 8% in France over the same period, according to new … Continue reading "Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content"

NFL pushing for performance-based compensation as part of new CBA with referees https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879706/2025/12/10/nfl-referees-officials-collective-bargaining/

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-pushing-sanctioned-russian-propaganda/

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

I don't see a big conflict here. BART is right to focus on keeping the lights on, but Oakland advocates are also right to think long-term. It's good to give people a future with better BART to look forward to in the runup to the funding measure.
"BART’s fiscal crisis could close 9 stations. So why are people pushing for a new one [San Antonio] in Oakland?"

"An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pollution

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack
Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are now pushing back.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ukraine war latest live: 'Nobody is pushing them to die for the sake of ruins,' Zelensky says of Pokrovsk defense: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/ukraine-war-latest-live-nobody.html

Pushing Test-Time Scaling Limits of Deep Search with Asymmetric Verification
Weihao Zeng, Keqing He, Chuqiao Kuang, Xiaoguang Li, Junxian He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06135 htt…

Pushing Test-Time Scaling Limits of Deep Search with Asymmetric Verification
Test-time compute can be scaled both sequentially and in parallel. Sequential scaling involves lengthening the generation process, while parallel scaling involves verifying and selecting among multiple candidate outputs. Combining these two strategies has led to the most powerful AI systems, such as Grok 4 Heavy and GPT-5 Pro. In certain contexts (e.g., solving Sudoku puzzles), verifying responses can be substantially easier than generating them. This property, referred to as \emph{asymmetric v…

Barriers that Programming Instructors Face While Performing Emergency Pedagogical Design to Shape Student-AI Interactions with Generative AI Tools
Sam Lau (University of California San Diego), Kianoosh Boroojeni (Florida International University), Harry Keeling (Howard University), Jenn Marroquin (Google)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09492…

Barriers that Programming Instructors Face While Performing Emergency Pedagogical Design to Shape Student-AI Interactions with Generative AI Tools
Generative AI (GenAI) tools are increasingly pervasive, pushing instructors to redesign how students use GenAI tools in coursework. We conceptualize this work as emergency pedagogical design: reactive, indirect efforts by instructors to shape student-AI interactions without control over commercial interfaces. To understand practices of lead users conducting emergency pedagogical design, we conducted interviews (n=13) and a survey (n=169) of computing instructors. These instructors repeatedly en…

Wikipedia’s rejoinder to Ted Cruz is entirely fair and accurate, but don’t kid yourself that Cruz is interested in fairness or accuracy, he’s just pushing back against the tendency of factual reporting to exhibit a liberal bias.
#wikipedia

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says
Wikipedia host’s lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works.

We found that ChatGPT made executives significantly more optimistic in their forecasts while peer discussions tended to encourage caution. Additionally, we found that the executives armed with ChatGPT made worse predictions, based on actual stock figures, than they had before they consulted the tool.”
But they'll still keep pushing it down our throats, because nobody wants to be first to get out of the bubble.

Research: Executives Who Used Gen AI Made Worse Predictions
In a recent experiment, nearly 300 executives and managers were shown recent stock prices for the chip-maker Nvidia and then asked to predict the stock’s price in a month’s time. Then, half the group was given the opportunity to ask questions of ChatGPT while the other half were allowed to consult with their peers about Nvidia’s stock. The executives who used ChatGPT became significantly more optimistic, confident, and produced worse forecasts than the group who discussed with their peers…

Pope Leo tells Catholic bishops to be 'more forceful' pushing back on this Trump policy - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/pope-leo-trump-immigration/
Since the 1970s, Catholics are often being regarded as swing voters.'
(Wikipedia)
Met zo'n 20% een belangrijke groep kiezers dus.

People having a fit about "the Democrats folding" and "we need a third party" need to chill out. It was eight. Not 45. Keep your eye on the ball. Don't get suckered by bots pushing the third-party crap.

VERNIER: an open-source software pushing marker pose estimation down to the micrometer and nanometer scales
Patrick Sandoz, Antoine N. Andr\'e, Guillaume J. Laurent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02791

VERNIER: an open-source software pushing marker pose estimation down to the micrometer and nanometer scales
Pose estimation is still a challenge at the small scales. Few solutions exist to capture the 6 degrees of freedom of an object with nanometric and microradians resolutions over relatively large ranges. Over the years, we have proposed several fiducial marker and pattern designs to achieve reliable performance for various microscopy applications. Centimeter ranges are possible using pattern encoding methods, while nanometer resolutions can be achieved using phase processing of the periodic frame…

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

Ever felt that your PC needed more power? Just push the "power" button. You surely won't regret pushing the "power" button!
#WordPlay

Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @…
https://crookedtimber.org/20…

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

The return of the night train?
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s08iwB5C-moGnNy6v-ff4d0

Cowboys Pushing Decision on Jadeveon Clowney for Week 3 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/pushing-decision-jadeveon-clowney-week-3/?adt_ei=[email]

Machine Learning Techniques to Distinguish Giant Stars from Dwarf Stars Using Only Photometry -- Pushing Redwards
Keyi Ding, Carrie Filion, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Evan N. Kirby, Itsuki Ogami, Masashi Chiba, Yutaka Komiyama, L\'aszl\'o Dobos, Alexander S. Szalay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07005

Machine Learning Techniques to Distinguish Giant Stars from Dwarf Stars Using Only Photometry -- Pushing Redwards
We present our photometric method, which combines Subaru/HSC $NB515$, g, and i band filters to distinguish giant stars in Local Group galaxies from Milky Way dwarf contamination. The $NB515$ filter is a narrow-band filter that covers the MgI+MgH features at $5150$ Å, and is sensitive to stellar surface gravity. Using synthetic photometry derived from large empirical stellar spectral libraries, we model the $NB515$ filter's sensitivity to stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances. …

Bin Packing and Covering: Pushing the Frontier on the Maximin Share Fairness
Bo Li, Ankang Sun, Zunyu Wang, Yu Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04425 https://

Bin Packing and Covering: Pushing the Frontier on the Maximin Share Fairness
We study a fundamental fair allocation problem, where the agent's value is determined by the number of bins either used to pack or cover the items allocated to them. Fairness is evaluated using the maximin share (MMS) criterion. This problem is not only motivated by practical applications, but also serves as a natural framework for studying group fairness. As MMS is not always satisfiable, we consider two types of approximations: cardinal and ordinal. For cardinal approximation, we relax the re…

Companies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymark…

Polymarket Bets on OpenAI, Google Raise Insider Trading Suspicions
Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their ...

China has shifted the world to renewables while Trump is pushing to sell his fossil fuels
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

We had a little rain last night.
#venusflytap #carnivorousplant

DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively
Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu, Qiujie Xie, Qiyao Sun, Zhen Lin, Sifan Liu, Yue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26603

DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively
While previous AI Scientist systems can generate novel findings, they often lack the focus to produce scientifically valuable contributions that address pressing human-defined challenges. We introduce DeepScientist, a system designed to overcome this by conducting goal-oriented, fully autonomous scientific discovery over month-long timelines. It formalizes discovery as a Bayesian Optimization problem, operationalized through a hierarchical evaluation process consisting of "hypothesize, verify, …

@… I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.
You gotta find a better way.

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/27/25
How the internet radicalizes young men, The real-life damage of porn deepfakes, The JLR attack damaged local communities, Amazon is pushing into the police tech market, Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist

Super Bowl champion Leonard Fournette loves watching Giants rookie Cam Skattebo, pushing for one more NFL shot

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super…

Now Kurzgesagt are doing an "AI is killing the Internet" thing.
There have been many of these lately from a lot of serious and "Internet famous" sources. All of them have much the same take as I do: Right now we're heading into a "dustbowl" of "AI slop", but there are actual valid uses that don't get a lot of press.
This overuse is a byproduct of the AI "gold rush" where a number of excessively funded companies are pushing o…

I notice that the new "Media Bias" website that El Cheato is pushing is feeding tracking information on those making reports to Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Google, and others.

🍚 Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/new-rice-crop-competition/
🆓

Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
Competition to secure new-crop rice is intensifying, pushing up the provisional payments that agricultural cooperatives advance to growers.

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…

Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn't an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world's number one jailer.”

The EU is pushing to scan ALL private messages, even encrypted ones, endangering privacy, security, and fundamental freedoms across 450 million people.
This is mass surveillance disguised as child protection, and it breaks encryption, risks false accusations, and threatens democracy worldwide.
Learn more & act NOW: https://fightchatcontrol…

Recent advances in perturbative QCD at high density
Pablo Navarrete, Aleksi Vuorinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08215

Recent advances in perturbative QCD at high density
In these conference proceedings, we discuss recent progress in high-order perturbative studies of the thermodynamic and transport properties of dense quark matter. Special emphasis is placed on the introduction of a promising new computational tool, thermal Loop Tree Duality, which enables pushing the existing weak-coupling calculations to higher perturbative orders.

This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…

ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
The European Union wants to force tech companies to scan your private messages & images, even in your favorite encrypted apps.
— by @…
🕵️

ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
The EU is pushing legislation that would scan all our private messages, even in encrypted apps.

Sharing my findings from a recent workshop with the Climate Psychology Alliance: https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-emerging-what-is-in-the-way?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.

@… Thought you might enjoy this #ui #ux post.
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Am I the only one who thinks that the timing of this backsliding & heel-dragging about climate action is driven specifically by trying to appease Trump, by responding directly to his pushing of American LNG?
Any concrete evidence?
#mastodaoine

LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels
Martin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda - „Erzähl mir was vom Pferd“ – sagt der User, und der Bot antwortet mit russischem Staatsfernsehen. WIRED zeigt, wie KI plötzlich geopolitische Märchenstunde spielt. Vielleicht braucht der Algorithmus doch mal Medienkompetenzunterricht. @…

Trump Ally Pushing Conspiracy Case Says Grand Jury Review Coming (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-ally-pushing-conspiracy-case-says-grand-jury-review-coming
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p39#a251022p39

RF-LSCM: Pushing Radiance Fields to Multi-Domain Localized Statistical Channel Modeling for Cellular Network Optimization
Bingsheng Peng, Shutao Zhang, Xi Zheng, Ye Xue, Xinyu Qin, Tsung-Hui Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13686

RF-LSCM: Pushing Radiance Fields to Multi-Domain Localized Statistical Channel Modeling for Cellular Network Optimization
Accurate localized wireless channel modeling is a cornerstone of cellular network optimization, enabling reliable prediction of network performance during parameter tuning. Localized statistical channel modeling (LSCM) is the state-of-the-art channel modeling framework tailored for cellular network optimization. However, traditional LSCM methods, which infer the channel's Angular Power Spectrum (APS) from Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements, suffer from critical limitations: the…

Cowboys Pushing to Land Projected $133 Million Star in Blockbuster NFL Trade: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-trade-rumors-trey-hendrickson-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]

I'm originally from Texas. There are times I'm not really proud to say that.
Why is it always the Decalogue they want posted? Why isn't ever the Beatitudes?
And if posting the Decalogue makes people behave, why aren't churches the safest places around?
https://www.friendlyath…

Texas families file class action lawsuit to halt Ten Commandments display in every school district
As Attorney General Ken Paxton urges districts to disobey federal rulings, church/state watchdogs are pushing for a statewide injunction

Pretty Fit
A podcast for those who love training, running and pushing their limits...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

Manifolds and Modules: How Function Develops in a Neural Foundation Model
Johannes Bertram, Luciano Dyballa, T. Anderson Keller, Savik Kinger, Steven W. Zucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07869
arXiv:2512.07869v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models have shown remarkable success in fitting biological visual systems; however, their black-box nature inherently limits their utility for under- standing brain function. Here, we peek inside a SOTA foundation model of neural activity (Wang et al., 2025) as a physiologist might, characterizing each 'neuron' based on its temporal response properties to parametric stimuli. We analyze how different stimuli are represented in neural activity space by building decoding man- ifolds, and we analyze how different neurons are represented in stimulus-response space by building neural encoding manifolds. We find that the different processing stages of the model (i.e., the feedforward encoder, recurrent, and readout modules) each exhibit qualitatively different representational structures in these manifolds. The recurrent module shows a jump in capabilities over the encoder module by 'pushing apart' the representations of different temporal stimulus patterns; while the readout module achieves biological fidelity by using numerous specialized feature maps rather than biologically plausible mechanisms. Overall, we present this work as a study of the inner workings of a prominent neural foundation model, gaining insights into the biological relevance of its internals through the novel analysis of its neurons' joint temporal response patterns.
toXiv_bot_toot

from my link log —
3-way FTP: Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/18/ftp/
saved 2020-02-18 https://…

Aaron Rodgers does not need left wrist surgery; Steelers QB pushing to play Sunday vs. Bears https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-does-not-need-left-wrist-surgery-steelers-qb-pushing-to-play-sunday-vs-bears

The Shorts format on YouTube gets me 30 times more views and 2 to 3 times more new subscribers. It's fascinating. I think I could post any nonsense as a Short, and I'll still break my previous "record" :/
* I don't believe this is only due to the algo pushing hard the format (although it's a significant part of it). Besides conditioning people to favour Shorts so they would see "less" adverts, YouTube is tapping at a larger audience that would eventu…

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA)
is pushing back against GOP criticism of his effort to release Jeffrey Epstein files,
arguing that his Republican colleagues are “obsessed” with him
due to their frequent attacks.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674356578/…

'Why so obsessed?' Dem lawmaker says he will 'punch back harder' after GOP Epstein attacks
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is pushing back against GOP criticism of his effort to release Jeffrey Epstein files, arguing that his Republican colleagues are “obsessed” with him due to their frequent attacks.As the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Garcia has helped lead the push t...

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/13]:
- Pushing LLMs to Their Logical Reasoning Bound: The Role of Data Reasoning Intensity
Bi, Hu, Yang, Chen, Deng, Xue, Yang, Shen, Liu, Zhao, Zhang, Lou

My mayor:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-chicagoland-sets-the-example-for-countering-trump-s-abuses-251256389962

Maddow: Chicagoland sets the example for countering Trump's abuses
Rachel Maddow salutes the bravery and resourcefulness of people of Evanston, Illinois, who have not only activated to help protect their neighbors against the abuses of Donald Trump's ICE agents, but have rallied to collect food to help struggling neighbors as Trump's Republicans try leverage food assistance to force their budget to pass. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss talks with Rachel Maddow about his community's activism and pushing back against federal agents going too far.

Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algori…

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.

Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds https://therecord.media/dutch-court-meta-violated-european-law-social-feeds

Texas Republicans in some counties are pushing to count ballots by hand in next year's primary (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-republicans-counties-are-pushing-count-ballots-hand-years-primar-rcna239342
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p76#a251119p76

Anita Bryant would absolutely line up behind Trump, and not because of policy nuance, but because they’re united by the same obsession: pushing LGBTQIA people out of public life.
Bryant built an entire career on vilifying queer people in the 1970s, weaponizing her orange juice smile as a mask for hate. Trump, decades later, recycled the same homophobia and transphobia at a national scale, wrapping it up in authoritarianism and reactionary politics. They’re cut from the same cloth, one…

Inside a Camp for Aspiring N.F.L. Kickers https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010575641/inside-a-camp-for-aspiring-nfl-kickers.html

Maryland is pushing ahead with efforts to potentially redraw its congressional map to favor Democrats in time for the 2026 midterm elections,
Gov. Wes Moore announced on Tuesday.
“While other states are determining whether or not they have fair maps, so will Maryland,”
Mr. Moore, a Democrat and a possible presidential candidate in 2028, said in a video statement.
Mr. Moore’s gambit sets up a potential clash with the legislature,
given that Bill Ferguson, the Stat…

Maryland Will Explore Redrawing Its Congressional Map
Gov. Wes Moore said in a statement on Tuesday that the state would “explore every avenue possible to make sure Maryland has fair and representative maps.”

These goofs want to use "drones that would fly up to 150 feet and eventually deliver some of the orders that today are transported by the company’s drivers."
We have a technology that efficiently delivers goods to homes in an urban neighborhood. It's called bicycles. https://

DoorDash wants to test drones in the Mission. Some are pushing back. 
DoorDash plans to launch a drone testing site on Folsom Street, but the Teamsters Union Local No. 665 is pushing back. 

Viola Ford Fletcher,
one of last survivors of Tulsa race massacre,
dies aged 111
Fletcher spent years pushing for justice
after the deadly racial attack on a thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921
https://www.theguardian.com/us…

Rick Scott pushing Republicans on Affordable Care Act alternative (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/rick-scott-republicans-affordable-care-act
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p160#a251202p160

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-super

Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools
As part of Meta's big bet on superintelligence, it's steering its AI teams to new tools like Vercel and GitHub, as revealed by internal memos.

🤦‍♂️ COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cop30-climate-pledges-favor-unrealistic.html

COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
An analysis of national climate plans released today at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil warns that countries are failing to carry out core work required to reduce emissions by halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation, and are instead pushing unrealistic carbon removal schemes, such as large-scale tree planting.

U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign Trump's "peace deal" by Thanksgiving or lose support

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday with a version of the 28-point plan Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff recently drafted with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

That plan, leaked to the news media and confirmed by several officials, includes several red lines for Ukraine,
including a significant reduction of its army…

U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support
The U.S. is sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Steve Witkoff.

The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-1d32bd61-9974-408…

Axios Pro Rata

Aaron Rodgers won't need surgery on wrist fracture, Steelers' QB pushing to play against Bears

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-injury-updates-steelers…

Behind the scenes, some of the most powerful people around Trump have been trying to persuade him to attack Venezuela
— and remove its president, Nicolšs Maduro
— in what would be an extraordinary escalation of months-long military build-up in the Caribbean.
Those in favour of the strikes say they could bring democracy and prosperity to Venezuela
and provide a way for the eight million people who have fled the country in the past ten years to return.
These includ…

Will Trump invade Venezuela — and what comes next?
Pressure is ramping up on Maduro’s regime, amid reports Trump has spoken to the leader by phone. Inside the White House, advisers are pushing for the US to do more

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/ai-pac-trump-congress-midterms.html

AI super PAC launches $10 million campaign pushing 'uniform' national policy
The PAC is mobilizing as President Donald Trump's White House and congressional Republicans are working to suppress states' ability to implement AI laws.

DOGE was never about efficiency.
It was the shotgun marriage of Project 2025 and
“We need something for Elon to do.”
America’s veterans paid the heaviest price for this Frankenstein’s monster,
which spent months clumsily strip-mining the federal government in order to make the rich richer.
Three stories illustrate how DOGE damaged our veterans most of all.
First, the early warning signs:
firing veteran federal employees en masse, pushing GI Bill mortg…

The Greatest Victims of Trump’s Greatest Grift Are America’s Greatest Heroes
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) no longer exists, but its negative impact on veterans will last for decades.

Anthropic plans to triple its global workforce and expand its applied AI team 5x in 2025, after growing its business clients from ~1K to 300K in two years (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/anthropic-global-ai-hiring-spree.html

Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push
Anthropic is accelerating its global enterprise expansion, tripling its international headcount and pushing deployment of Claude’s AI models across industries.

Trump has ramped up efforts to deploy the justice department to target his enemies.
He has pledged to crack down on leftwing groups in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing and has repeatedly singled out George Soros, a major funder of liberal groups, as a target.
“We’re going to look into Soros, because I think it’s a Rico case against him and other people,” Trump said on 12 September,
using an acronym to refer to racketeering charges. “Because this is more than like protest…

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground (Pratik Bhakta/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

Smaller UPI players nibble at veterans’ transactions share
The race for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) market share is heating up, with smaller fintechs ramping up volumes and pushing into territory long dominated by PhonePe and Google Pay. Navi, Super.Money and Bhim have seen their UPI payment volumes surge by 50 to 100% over the past six months

Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20