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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"

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

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

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, …

Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a…

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

What if dinner was public infrastructure - again?
"food charity Nourish Scotland are pushing for the reintroduction of public diners to Scotland: diners subsidised by the state to provide affordable, nutritious, and filling meals that are accessible to everyone regardless of their financial status.
“There's an element of universality, dignity, and quality that comes with something being a public institution or a part of public infrastructure,” said Anna Chworow"

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.

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…

About 20 years ago, I was part of the Neighborhood Network - people concerned about good planning and good governance. The Mayor's office was pushing to allow more nmarket rate housing. When Jim Meko and I met with the then housing czar, he explained supply and demand. When I argued commodity vs luxury item and profit motive, he admitted that unrestricted building would reduce prices by maybe 3%. Very close to the current conclusion.

S.F. upzoning would lead to $75 to $125 decrease in monthly rent, city economist says
Citywide zoning changes would have modest effects on housing construction and affordability, but big boost to GDP

About 20 years ago, I was part of the Neighborhood Network - people concerned about good planning and good governance. The Mayor's office was pushing to allow more nmarket rate housing. When Jim Meko and I met with the then housing czar, he explained supply and demand. When I argued commodity vs luxury item and profit motive, he admitted that unrestricted building would reduce prices by maybe 3%. Very close to the current conclusion.

S.F. upzoning would lead to $75 to $125 decrease in monthly rent, city economist says
Citywide zoning changes would have modest effects on housing construction and affordability, but big boost to GDP

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

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. @…

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/trump-kennedy-alliance-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p68#a250829p68

Jaguars Receive Strong Message Before Raiders Game in Week 9 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jaguars-strong-message-before-week9/?adt_ei=[email]

Day 6: Kamome Shirahama
Before I wander much father afield, I'd be remiss not to include at least one Mangaka (I've got 8 on my planning list; if you think Manga is pushing it just wait until you see what the next few days have in store).
I'm currently following "Witch Hat Atelier," and it's absolutely amazing in several dimensions: first class world-building, deep philosophical themes, nuanced diverse cast, tightly-constructed interwoven plots, deep mysteries that keep everything churning and show up in unexpected places, absolutely stellar art both in terms of in-panel depictions and page layouts (some are Watchmen-quality), especially if you are sartorially inclined, and general kindness of its core messages. This is a series I wish every programmer would read, because it includes excellent advice about software design in multiple ways (did I mention there's an intricate and logical magic system within which the main character innovates in legible-to-the-reader-as-innovation ways?). Also, I bet I would have enjoyed this just a much as a 10-year-old as I'm enjoying it in my 30's, which is something that takes well-honed skill to pull off.
Shirahama is a master of her craft, and I'm honestly kinda surprised to see Witch Hat is only her second series. Definitely thinking how I can get my hands on her earlier work in English.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Structural and thermodynamic stability of hexagonal-diamond $\text{Si}_{1 - x - y}\,\text{Ge}_{x}\,\text{B}_{y}$ alloys
Marc T\'unica, Francesca Chiodi, Michele Amato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23741

Structural and thermodynamic stability of hexagonal-diamond $\text{Si}_{1 - x - y}\,\text{Ge}_{x}\,\text{B}_{y}$ alloys
Pushing dopant concentrations beyond the solubility limit in semiconductors -- a process known as hyperdoping -- has been demonstrated as an effective strategy for inducing superconductivity in cubic-diamond Si and SiGe materials. Additionally, previous studies have reported that several polytypes of Si may exhibit a type-I superconducting state under high pressure. In this work, we employ ground-state Density Functional Theory simulations to investigate the effects of both low and high B dopin…

Sim2Field: End-to-End Development of AI RANs for 6G
Russell Ford, Hao Chen, Pranav Madadi, Mandar Kulkarni, Xiaochuan Ma, Daoud Burghal, Guanbo Chen, Yeqing Hu, Chance Tarver, Panagiotis Skrimponis, Vitali Loseu, Yu Zhang, Yan Xin, Yang Li, Jianzhong Zhang, Shubham Khunteta, Yeswanth Guddeti Reddy, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva, Mahantesh Kothiwale, Davide Villa
htt…

Sim2Field: End-to-End Development of AI RANs for 6G
Following state-of-the-art research results, which showed the potential for significant performance gains by applying AI/ML techniques in the cellular Radio Access Network (RAN), the wireless industry is now broadly pushing for the adoption of AI in 5G and future 6G technology. Despite this enthusiasm, AI-based wireless systems still remain largely untested in the field. Common simulation methods for generating datasets for AI model training suffer from "reality gap" and, as a result, the perfo…

Data-Driven Discrete Geofence Design Using Binary Quadratic Programming
Keisuke Otaki, Akihisa Okada, Tadayoshi Matsumori, Hiroaki Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24679 https…

Data-Driven Discrete Geofence Design Using Binary Quadratic Programming
Geofences have attracted significant attention in the design of spatial and virtual regions for managing and engaging spatiotemporal events. By using geofences to monitor human activity across their boundaries, content providers can create spatially triggered events that include notifications about points of interest within a geofence by pushing spatial information to the devices of users. Traditionally, geofences were hand-crafted by providers. In addition to the hand-crafted approach, recent …

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
MIT Hardness Group, Josh Brunner, Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine, Jenny Diomidova, Della Hendrickson, Jayson Lynch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19759

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
We prove PSPACE-completeness of Push-1: given a rectangular grid of 1 x 1 cells, each possibly occupied by a movable block, can a robot move from a specified location to another, given the ability to push up to one block at a time? In particular, we remove the need for fixed (unmovable) blocks in a previous result (FUN 2022), which seems to require a completely different reduction. This fundamental model of block pushing, introduced in 1999, abstracts the mechanics of many video games. It was s…

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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]

California governor signs bills pushing back on federal immigration enforcement | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-governor-signs-bills-pushing-back-on-federal-immigration-enforcement/

The Apple Watch does a great job at encouraging you to workout. Closing that exercise ring as often as I can helps me know I’m pushing myself a little bit.

Cowboys' Trevon Diggs doesn't feel like he has 'any limitations' after training on his own, pushing for Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

"MEPs vote for report pushing auto sector to recycle of end-of-use parts "
#Cars #Vehicles #Recycling

MEPs vote for report pushing auto sector to recycle of end-of-use parts 
New law incentivises more sustainable design, recycling, and reuse of car parts while reducing waste and raw material dependency. #EuropeNews

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://…

10 villages in a week: Ukraine liberates Novomykhailivka and pushes Russian forces back near Zelenyi Hai: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/villages-in-a-week-ukraine.html

Welcome, #UK #publichealth, to the 1990s. The last kids where I grew up (Ontario, Canada) to not receive the #chickenpox vaccine as part of the standard childhood regimen are pushing 40 by n…

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed "EU-style" regulation is "bad for users and bad for developers", "undermines" privacy and security, and "hampers" innovation (Chris Vallance/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgj9kjmvzzo

Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulation
The iPhone maker is pushing back against proposed changes required by the UK competition watchdog

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

@…: Reform is spewing more lies. This time it’s using attacks against women as a cover for attacks on migrants. We can’t let it stand. Email Reform. #Goodlawproject

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back it up. Reform MP Sarah Pochin suggested that migrants have a “warped view of their right to sexually assault women”. She claimed that men from “predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan” hold a “medieval view of women’s rights” and that “women are at risk of sexual assaul…

Brian Schottenheimer 'not pushing the panic button' after second preseason loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-not-pushing-the-panic-button-after-second-preseason-loss

Are Companies Taking AI Risks Seriously? A Systematic Analysis of Companies' AI Risk Disclosures in SEC 10-K forms
Lucas G. Uberti-Bona Marin, Bram Rijsbosch, Gerasimos Spanakis, Konrad Kollnig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19313

Are Companies Taking AI Risks Seriously? A Systematic Analysis of Companies' AI Risk Disclosures in SEC 10-K forms
As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly central to corporate strategies, concerns over its risks are growing too. In response, regulators are pushing for greater transparency in how companies identify, report and mitigate AI-related risks. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) repeatedly warned companies to provide their investors with more accurate disclosures of AI-related risks; recent enforcement and litigation against companies' misleading AI claims reinforce thes…

Here comes the Sun! ☀️
After a 6-month guest appearance in the exhibition “What the Quantum?!” in the Göttingen science museum @… , our model of the Sun is back home. Thanks for safely transporting the Sun through Göttingen.

And many thanks for the opportunity to shine as part of the exhibition!

Once in a blue moon, discipline of fascists happens:
ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/nyregion/ice-officer-investigation-woman-shoved.html

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…

BiNoMaP: Learning Category-Level Bimanual Non-Prehensile Manipulation Primitives
Huayi Zhou, Kui Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21256 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

BiNoMaP: Learning Category-Level Bimanual Non-Prehensile Manipulation Primitives
Non-prehensile manipulation, encompassing ungraspable actions such as pushing, poking, and pivoting, represents a critical yet underexplored domain in robotics due to its contact-rich and analytically intractable nature. In this work, we revisit this problem from two novel perspectives. First, we move beyond the usual single-arm setup and the strong assumption of favorable external dexterity such as walls, ramps, or edges. Instead, we advocate a generalizable dual-arm configuration and establis…

Pushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115…

Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image East Wing ballroom construction at the White House “will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of.” - President Trump, July 31, 2025

Creative director, designer, and illustrator Arsh Raziuddin on developing a solid foundation https://thecreativei…

Creative director, designer, and illustrator Arsh Raziuddin on developing a solid foundation – The Creative Independent
Creative director Arsh Raziuddin discusses playing to her strengths, getting clarity about her motivations, and effectively pushing back on censorship and bureaucracy within mainstream media.

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…

People complain about Windows pushing logging in to a Microsoft account, and I'm one of them, but on my work mac I refuse to sign in to the app store I swear I get a pop up multiple times a day to sign in to the fucking app store. no fuck you apple.

#Amazon has kept pushing back the date when they say they will enable CDK CLI anonymous telemetry collection. Current enable date is Oct 1, 2025.
Lots of comments suggesting it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
https://git…

❗ NOTICE: CDK CLI will begin to collect anonymous telemetry data on or after Oct 1st, 2025 · Issue #34892 · aws/aws-cdk
Status In-Progress. Doc page on CLI Telemetry: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/cli-telemetry.html Last communication on 8/29/25: Hi all, I'm updating the launch date on this thread to say ...

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.

Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet pushing Kenneth Walker III for bigger role entering third year: 'He's just a stud'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Pushing the Limits of Frequency Analysis in Leakage Abuse Attacks
Nathaniel Moyer, Charalampos Papamanthou, Evgenios Kornaropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11563 https://

Pushing the Limits of Frequency Analysis in Leakage Abuse Attacks
Searchable encryption (SE) is the most scalable cryptographic primitive for searching on encrypted data. Typical SE constructions often allow access-pattern leakage, revealing which encrypted records are retrieved in the server's responses. All the known generic cryptanalyses assume either that the queries are issued uniformly at random or that the attacker observes the search-pattern leakage. It remains unclear what can be reconstructed when using only the access-pattern leakage and knowledge …

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate

Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.

For most of my 30 year career in Information Technology in the USA, I've been concerned about H1B visa workers replacing me, or at least pushing wages down. So, you might think I'd be in favor of POTUS47's H1B visa changes.
Too few characters here to get into the full story, but the short answer is, no. Making it harder to hire H1B visas will long-term push more jobs overseas where they will be completely unattainable by myself.

Brian Schottenheimer 'not pushing the panic button' after second preseason loss https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-not-pushing-the-panic-button-after-second-preseason-loss

Pushing the Limits of End-to-End Diarization
Samuel J. Broughton, Lahiru Samarakoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14737 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14737

Pushing the Limits of End-to-End Diarization
In this paper, we present state-of-the-art diarization error rates (DERs) on multiple publicly available datasets, including AliMeeting-far, AliMeeting-near, AMI-Mix, AMI-SDM, DIHARD III, and MagicData RAMC. Leveraging EEND-TA, a single unified non-autoregressive model for end-to-end speaker diarization, we achieve new benchmark results, most notably a DER of 14.49% on DIHARD III. Our approach scales pretraining through 8-speaker simulation mixtures, ensuring each generated speaker mixture conf…

We need this to gain more widespread adoption asap. PayPal is heavily pushing shops and restaurants to offer their Payment method. This must not be accepted as they are evil fuckers. https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115065835725739378

Which drink pairs best with pushing to PROD on Friday on your way out?

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
https://muz4now.com/2024/meditations-on-pushing-a-creative-project-too-far/

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Zach Charbonnet pushing Kenneth Walker III for timeshare in Seahawks backfield https://www.nfl.com/news/zach-charbonnet-pushing-kenneth-walker-iii-for-timeshare-in-seahawks-backfield

(YouTube) This is how Neuralink built a human head for surgical practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evdImdnqG0A Very helpful in preparing for a motor cortex implant. Will it also be realistic enough for practicing pushing the occipital lobes aside and such for Neuralink Blindsight?

The FCC's Brendan Carr says "local TV stations" "stood up" to a national programmer by preempting Kimmel and that "we need to keep empowering local TV stations" (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tv-at

Trump’s TV Attack Dog Doubles Down on Kimmel Ahead of Return
Controversial regulator Brendan Carr wants to see more local stations pushing back.

AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals
https://fpf.org/blog/global/ai-regulation-in-latin-america-overview-and-emerging-trends-in-key-proposals/
@…

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…

'Unconstitutional': Trump under fire for pushing jail time for flag burning - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-flag-burning/

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

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

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, …

When it comes to international conflict, Donald Trump learns everything the hard way.
On issue after issue
—North Korea, Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, and more
—Trump begins by bucking conventional wisdom and insisting that a bold new approach will yield breakthroughs.
Implied, and often said outright, is that past officials who worked on the matter were feeble, inept, and craven.
Trump insists that his determination and powers of persuasion will force seismic change—…

Ahead of His U.N. Speech, Remember That Trump Is Learning Geopolitics in Real Time
A guide to pushing the U.S. president more quickly up his learning curve.

SupCLAP: Controlling Optimization Trajectory Drift in Audio-Text Contrastive Learning with Support Vector Regularization
Jiehui Luo, Yuguo Yin, Yuxin Xie, Jinghan Ru, Xianwei Zhuang, Minghua He, Aofan Liu, Zihan Xiong, Dongchao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21033

SupCLAP: Controlling Optimization Trajectory Drift in Audio-Text Contrastive Learning with Support Vector Regularization
Contrastive language-audio pretraining, which aims to unify multimodal representations in a shared embedding space, serves as a cornerstone for building a wide range of applications, from cross-modal retrieval to cutting-edge multimodal large language models. However, we find that the perpendicular component of the pushing force from negative samples in contrastive learning is a double-edged sword: it contains rich supplementary information from negative samples, yet its unconstrained nature ca…

Last year after I broke my ankle, I discovered that not all piano playing requires the sustain pedal...
Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
#CreativeLife #piano

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Washington AG pushing new law to protect workers from immigration raids • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/14/washington-ag-pushing-new-law-to-protect-workers-from-immigration-raids/

Eagles keep pushing around the competition, but it's not because of controversial play they have perfected

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: 'There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere' (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/maggie-haberman-says-pushing-back-on-trump-risky-for-dems-there-is-a-crime-problem-everywhere/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p86#a250813p86

Russia's summer offensive stalls as key objectives go unmet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/russias-summer-offensive-stalls-as.html

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

SMC-X: A Distributed Scalable Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Chemically Complex Alloys
Xianglin Liu, Kai Yang, Fanli Zhou, Pengxiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20949 https…

SMC-X: A Distributed Scalable Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Chemically Complex Alloys
To predict the complex chemical evolution in multicomponent alloys, it is highly desirable to have accurate atomistic simulation methods capable of reaching sufficiently large spatial and temporal scales. In this work, we advance the recently proposed SMC-X method through distributed computation on either GPUs or CPUs, pushing both spatial and temporal scales of atomistic simulation of chemically complex alloys to previously inaccessible scales. This includes a 16-billion-atom HEA system extend…

Jessie Price and David Pocock in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
#JessiePrice #DavidPocock

Cowboys Pushing to Land $106 Million Superstar in Blockbuster Trade: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/maxx-crosby-trade-rumors-las-vegas-raiders/?adt_ei=[email]

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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

Minds behind 'Madden NFL 26' pushing for lifelike football realism -- and thinking bigger than gaming https://www.nfl.com/news/minds-behind-madden-nfl-26-pushing-for-lifelike-football-realism-and-thinking-bigger-than…

“The net worth of the average Black family is not even $5,000, (and) by 2030, we're headed towards zero net worth”
‘That’s a lie!’ CEO shut down on CNN after pushing false claims on Black wealth - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/economy-2673913214/

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

We're wandering down this afternoon to the Jessie Price Keep Bean on the map: Reconnecting Our Supporter Community!
Enjoy a democracy sausage BBQ.
Jessie and David Pocock will be in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
Tuggeranong Park Stage, 2-4pm and a…

Eagles benefit from forward progress whistle to negate Jalen Hurts' tush push fumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6751506/2025/10/26/eagles-tush-push-fumble-forward-progress/

'Not pushing the panic button,' Cowboys HC Schottenheimer not pulling plug on QB Milton https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/18/schottenheimer-cowboys-qb-milton-struggles-ravens…

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/

European rearmament is pushing Trump into irrelevance on Ukraine (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/19/for-all-the-noise-trump-is-ever-less-relevant-on-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p84#a250820p84

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, angling for future arms sales
The fastest way to fortify Taiwan’s military is by directly shipping U.S. arms,
a process known as Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA.
The Biden administration approved three such packages for Taiwan while in office, alongside another round of long-term military aid, totaling more than $2 billion.

Trump has promised a more transactional U.S. foreign policy and does not support sendin…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Trump declined to approve more than $400 million in military aid to Taiwan this summer,
as he tries to negotiate a trade deal and potential summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The decision, which may still be reversed, marks a U-turn in U.S. policy toward the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory.

Two people familiar with the matter said the package was worth more than $400 million and would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan…

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid, pushing future arms sales
President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer, favoring future arms sales to the self-governing island China claims.

Brady defends ethics against 'distrust' over roles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46366003/tom-brady-defends-ethics-distrust-raiders-fox-roles

Ex-Arizona State star Cam Skattebo pushing to be New York Giants' No. 1 RB https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2025/09/15/cam-skattebo-new-york-giants-rb1-potential/86170878007/

Source: OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on AI chips co-developed with Broadcom than on chips from Nvidia, which is notoriously backlogged on GPU orders (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas is pushing to gerrymander congressional maps to add as many as five seats for Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-redistricting-voter-maps-democrats-e…

The unusual GOP alliance pushing earmarks in this fall's funding fight (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/18/republicans-government-shutdown-earmarks-00512878
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p4#a250818p4

A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/the-military-wasnt-built-to-fight-crime/6…

The Military Wasn’t Built to Fight Crime
A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.

TN high school football coach suspended after pushing religion on kids during game
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/tn-high-school-football-coach-suspended

Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearms (Matthew Boyle/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/04/justice-department-considering-pushing-ban-transgendered-people-owning-firearms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p72#a250904p72

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube
that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm.
Built on open standards and federation,
it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server.
https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7…

Decentralized YouTube Alternative Adds Live Streame Scheduling Option in Latest Release
Also adds multilingual emails, improved admin tools, and session management.

No, Lamar Jackson pushing Bills fan wasn't justified. But it was a teaching moment for NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6611581/2025/09/08/lamar-jackson-push-bills-fan-nfl/

'Citizens United 2.0': GOP Pushing a Pair of Supreme Court Cases That Would Further Legalize Bribery | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-scotus-legalize-bribery-sirota

'Dak's gotta be able to run': How will Prescott's hamstring affect his usage in 2025? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46031777/nfl-dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-hamstring

“Public reports indicate that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing senior Department of Defense (DoD) officials to increase operational coordination in law enforcement activities,”
reads the letter, which TNR obtained.
It warns that this “continues to erode the line between defense activities and law enforcement.”
The defense secretary surely will throw this letter in the garbage.
But, as hopeless as the prospects for real congressional oversight look …

“Alarming”: Trump’s Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier
Top Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon release documentation of internal conversations about future militarization of domestic law enforcement.

Stick to politics? How Donald Trump is using sports to advance his agenda https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567254/2025/08/22/trump-sports-politics-white-house-influence/