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Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America.
Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The tech and market revolutions of recent decades have created riches on an unprecedented scale.
Changing norms on executive compensation and lower-tax policies under Republican and Democratic administrations have helped insul…

It’s not just Trump. Billionaires dominate politics more than ever.
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

When a massive Xbox fan like Klobrille unleashes fury over recent Xbox policies & changes... ouch.
Poor Phil. None of this lays at his feet.
https://x.com/klobrille/status/1981330985527677168

Virtual Consistency for Audio Editing
Matthieu Cervera, Francesco Paissan, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem Subakan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17219 https://arxiv.org/…

Virtual Consistency for Audio Editing
Free-form, text-based audio editing remains a persistent challenge, despite progress in inversion-based neural methods. Current approaches rely on slow inversion procedures, limiting their practicality. We present a virtual-consistency based audio editing system that bypasses inversion by adapting the sampling process of diffusion models. Our pipeline is model-agnostic, requiring no fine-tuning or architectural changes, and achieves substantial speed-ups over recent neural editing baselines. Cr…

Good Morning #Canada
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Years ago I found myself shopping for my wife's Christmas present on December 23rd. Never again. For those of you still shopping it's inevitable that you're going to be standing in front of the Gift Card rack and mentally convincing yourself that the recipient will love a full gas tank or a Timmies coffee and donut. Canadians will buy close to $12 billion in Gift Cards in 2025, with a lot of that in the next 5 days. Recent changes to legislation have made it illegal to charge processing or activation fees on cards purchased with cash and there is no expiry date. That last point is important because companies are betting that a certain percentage of cards are never redeemed and it's estimated that approximately 40% of all cards are never used. I personally like getting a gift card as it allows me to choose something I want, and I always thank the gifter once I've used it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GiftCards
YES, I love giving and receiving Gift Cards
NO, I'm not happy when I have to buy or get a Gift Card

Betting buzz: Patrick Mahomes new MVP fave after Week 6, Drake Maye's odds surge https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-indu…

WSJ: during a recent Washington visit, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump admin officials that if Paramount bought WBD, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1998206606857715774

Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) on X
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said. Trump has

Tom Brady's recent comments signal some changes coming for the Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-bradys-recent-comments-signal-some-changes-coming-raiders/2124…

Give me your suggestions for "assassinated revolutionaries" missing from this #Wikipedia category.
#crowdsourcing

MSHT Approximate N3LO PDFs: Updates and Consequences for Phenomenology
T. Cridge, L. A. Harland-Lang, R. S. Thorne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09321 https://

MSHT Approximate N3LO PDFs: Updates and Consequences for Phenomenology
We present updates to the MSHT approximate N3LO PDFs focusing upon recent developments, examining the impacts of newly determined splitting function and transition matrix element calculations, performed since the public MSHT20aN3LO PDF set was released. We observe only small changes to the output PDFs, at most of similar size to their quoted uncertainties and typically notably less. Finally, we also present the impacts on the PDF luminosities, where changes are generally further reduced.

Sources: Meta angered FAIR staff by requiring extra review of research before publishing; Yann LeCun considered resigning over Meta's broader AI changes (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-change-publishing-research-…

A Meta Change on Publishing Research Causes a Stir in Its AI Group
In recent weeks, Meta Platforms made a change to its Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research lab that rubbed members of the group the wrong way: FAIR, as the group is known, would have to undergo additional review of its research before publishing it, according to two people familiar with ...

"Hundreds of staff working across Transport for London and the wider rail network could face deportation under recent changes to Skilled Worker visa rules."
RMT transport workers at No 10 demand end to deportation threat | Morning Star
https://morningstaronl…

"I find Bandcamp's recent changes in their payment method deeply intrusive -- requiring all my personal, credit, and banking information including complete social security account information -- I have decided to close my account here. "

AgentPack: A Dataset of Code Changes, Co-Authored by Agents and Humans
Yangtian Zi, Zixuan Wu, Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki, Jonathan Bell, Arjun Guha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21891

AgentPack: A Dataset of Code Changes, Co-Authored by Agents and Humans
Fine-tuning large language models for code editing has typically relied on mining commits and pull requests. The working hypothesis has been that commit messages describe human intent in natural language, and patches to code describe the changes that implement that intent. However, much of the previously collected data is noisy: commit messages are terse, human-written commits commingle several unrelated edits, and many commits come from simple, rule-based bots. The recent adoption of softwar…

MV-Performer: Taming Video Diffusion Model for Faithful and Synchronized Multi-view Performer Synthesis
Yihao Zhi, Chenghong Li, Hongjie Liao, Xihe Yang, Zhengwentai Sun, Jiahao Chang, Xiaodong Cun, Wensen Feng, Xiaoguang Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07190

MV-Performer: Taming Video Diffusion Model for Faithful and Synchronized Multi-view Performer Synthesis
Recent breakthroughs in video generation, powered by large-scale datasets and diffusion techniques, have shown that video diffusion models can function as implicit 4D novel view synthesizers. Nevertheless, current methods primarily concentrate on redirecting camera trajectory within the front view while struggling to generate 360-degree viewpoint changes. In this paper, we focus on human-centric subdomain and present MV-Performer, an innovative framework for creating synchronized novel view vid…

Cowboys Breakout WR Named Trade Chip Leading Up to Deadline https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wr-jalen-tolbert-could-be-traded/?adt_ei=[email]

Metals versus Non-metals: Chemical Evolution of Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes in the Milky Way
James W. Johnson, Miqaela K. Weller, Ryan J. Cooke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08689

Metals versus Non-metals: Chemical Evolution of Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes in the Milky Way
Star formation drives changes in the compositions of galaxies, fusing H and He into heavier nuclei. This paper investigates the differences in abundance evolution between metal and non-metal isotopes using recent models of Galactic chemical evolution appropriate for the thin disk epoch. A strong degeneracy arises between metal yields from stellar populations and the mean Galactocentric radial velocity of the interstellar medium (ISM). Similar metallicities arise when increases (decreases) in me…

Drones that Think on their Feet: Sudden Landing Decisions with Embodied AI
Diego Ortiz Barbosa, Mohit Agrawal, Yash Malegaonkar, Luis Burbano, Axel Andersson, Gy\"orgy D\'an, Henrik Sandberg, Alvaro A. Cardenas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00167

Drones that Think on their Feet: Sudden Landing Decisions with Embodied AI
Autonomous drones must often respond to sudden events, such as alarms, faults, or unexpected changes in their environment, that require immediate and adaptive decision-making. Traditional approaches rely on safety engineers hand-coding large sets of recovery rules, but this strategy cannot anticipate the vast range of real-world contingencies and quickly becomes incomplete. Recent advances in embodied AI, powered by large visual language models, provide commonsense reasoning to assess context a…

Tensor time series change-point detection in cryptocurrency network data
Andreas Anastasiou, Ivor Cribben
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06211 https://arxiv.or…

Tensor time series change-point detection in cryptocurrency network data
Financial fraud has been growing exponentially in recent years. The rise of cryptocurrencies as an investment asset has simultaneously seen a parallel growth in cryptocurrency scams. To detect possible cryptocurrency fraud, and in particular market manipulation, previous research focused on the detection of changes in the network of trades; however, market manipulators are now trading across multiple cryptocurrency platforms, making their detection more difficult. Hence, it is important to cons…

Leveraging Vision Transformers for Enhanced Classification of Emotions using ECG Signals
Pubudu L. Indrasiri, Bipasha Kashyap, Pubudu N. Pathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05826

Leveraging Vision Transformers for Enhanced Classification of Emotions using ECG Signals
Biomedical signals provide insights into various conditions affecting the human body. Beyond diagnostic capabilities, these signals offer a deeper understanding of how specific organs respond to an individual's emotions and feelings. For instance, ECG data can reveal changes in heart rate variability linked to emotional arousal, stress levels, and autonomic nervous system activity. This data offers a window into the physiological basis of our emotional states. Recent advancements in the field d…

Response to dynamic shape changes in suspensions of hard rectangles
Denis Dertli, Thomas Speck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24885 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Response to dynamic shape changes in suspensions of hard rectangles
While the autonomous assembly of hard nanoparticles with different shapes has been studied extensively both in experiment and simulations, little is known about systems where particle shape can be dynamically altered. DNA origami nanostructures offer an alternative route to synthesize nanoparticles that can change their shape on demand. Motivated by recent experiments, here we study the structure and dynamics of suspensions of hard squares in response to an elongation into a rectangle. Performi…

Lattice-allocated Real-time Line Segment Feature Detection and Tracking Using Only an Event-based Camera
Mikihiro Ikura, Arren Glover, Masayoshi Mizuno, Chiara Bartolozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06829

Lattice-allocated Real-time Line Segment Feature Detection and Tracking Using Only an Event-based Camera
Line segment extraction is effective for capturing geometric features of human-made environments. Event-based cameras, which asynchronously respond to contrast changes along edges, enable efficient extraction by reducing redundant data. However, recent methods often rely on additional frame cameras or struggle with high event rates. This research addresses real-time line segment detection and tracking using only a modern, high-resolution (i.e., high event rate) event-based camera. Our lattice-a…

Cowboys must let 2024 leading WR walk in free agency, commit to breakout star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-let-2024-leading-wr-walk-nfl-free-agency-commit-breakout-star

Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Two-level Systems directly after Cryogenic Alternating Bias
V. Iaia, E. S. Joseph, S. Im, N. Hagopian, S. O'Kelley, C. Kim, N. Materise, S. Patra, V. Lordi, M. A. Eriksson, P. M. Voyles, K. G. Ray, Y. J. Rosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19223

How the Pro Football Hall of Fame will vote on Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft and others https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6859003/2025/12/04/hall-of-fame-selection-nfl-belichick-kraft/

Beyond Redundancy: Toward Agile Resilience in Optical Networks to Overcome Unpredictable Disasters
Toru Mano, Hideki Nishizawa, Takeo Sasai, Soichiroh Usui, Dmitrii Briantcev, Devika Dass, Brandt Bashaw, Eoin Kenny, Marco Ruffini, Yoshiaki Sone, Koichi Takasugi, Daniel Kilper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24038

Beyond Redundancy: Toward Agile Resilience in Optical Networks to Overcome Unpredictable Disasters
Resilience in optical networks has traditionally relied on redundancy and pre-planned recovery strategies, both of which assume a certain level of disaster predictability. However, recent environmental changes such as climate shifts, the evolution of communication services, and rising geopolitical risks have increased the unpredictability of disasters, reducing the effectiveness of conventional resilience approaches. To address this unpredictability, this paper introduces the concept of agile r…

How the Pro Football Hall of Fame will vote on Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft and others https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6859003/2025/12/04/hall-of-fame-selection-nfl-belichick-kraft/

Space-time geometry of small and large collision systems at LHC energies
Thomas A. Trainor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05314 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0531…

Space-time geometry of small and large collision systems at LHC energies
Identified-hadron (PID) spectra from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and $p$-$p$ collisions are analyzed via a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. The Pb-Pb TCM is adopted with minor changes from a recent analysis of PID hadron spectra from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions. The object of study is evidence for jet suppression in small and large collision systems as indicating quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation there. Conventional methods have included Pb-Pb cent…

Protocode: Prototype-Driven Interpretability for Code Generation in LLMs
Krishna Vamshi Bodla, Haizhao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25247 https://arxiv.…

Protocode: Prototype-Driven Interpretability for Code Generation in LLMs
Since the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs), they have been widely adopted for various tasks such as text summarization, question answering, speech-to-text translation, and more. In recent times, the use of LLMs for code generation has gained significant attention, with tools such as Cursor and Windsurf demonstrating the ability to analyze massive code repositories and recommend relevant changes. Big tech companies have also acknowledged the growing reliance on LLMs for code generati…

NewtonGen: Physics-Consistent and Controllable Text-to-Video Generation via Neural Newtonian Dynamics
Yu Yuan, Xijun Wang, Tharindu Wickremasinghe, Zeeshan Nadir, Bole Ma, Stanley H. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21309

NewtonGen: Physics-Consistent and Controllable Text-to-Video Generation via Neural Newtonian Dynamics
A primary bottleneck in large-scale text-to-video generation today is physical consistency and controllability. Despite recent advances, state-of-the-art models often produce unrealistic motions, such as objects falling upward, or abrupt changes in velocity and direction. Moreover, these models lack precise parameter control, struggling to generate physically consistent dynamics under different initial conditions. We argue that this fundamental limitation stems from current models learning moti…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze, Shaikh Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01312 https://arxiv.org/p…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
In the light of the recent Particle Data Group (PDG) release, we revisit the running quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, together with the quark mixing parameters, across a range of energy scales. The 2024 PDG determinations of low-energy fermion masses feature significantly smaller uncertainties, resulting from a reduced estimate of systematic errors compared to the more conservative treatment in the 2022 analysis. To assess the impact of these changes, we present running parameters obtained us…

Raiders Mailbag: How can rookies see more playing time down the stretch? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-how-can-rookies-see-more-playing-time-down-the-stretch

CoRaCMG: Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Commit Message Generation
Bo Xiong, Linghao Zhang, Chong Wang, Peng Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18337 https://

CoRaCMG: Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Commit Message Generation
Commit messages play a key role in documenting the intent behind code changes. However, they are often low-quality, vague, or incomplete, limiting their usefulness. Commit Message Generation (CMG) aims to automatically generate descriptive commit messages from code diffs to reduce developers' effort and improve message quality. Although recent advances in LLMs have shown promise in automating CMG, their performance remains limited. This paper aims to enhance CMG performance by retrieving simila…

Frequency-domain Multi-modal Fusion for Language-guided Medical Image Segmentation
Bo Yu, Jianhua Yang, Zetao Du, Yan Huang, Chenglong Li, Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19719

Frequency-domain Multi-modal Fusion for Language-guided Medical Image Segmentation
Automatically segmenting infected areas in radiological images is essential for diagnosing pulmonary infectious diseases. Recent studies have demonstrated that the accuracy of the medical image segmentation can be improved by incorporating clinical text reports as semantic guidance. However, the complex morphological changes of lesions and the inherent semantic gap between vision-language modalities prevent existing methods from effectively enhancing the representation of visual features and el…

Covariance-Adaptive Bouncy Particle Samplers via Split Lagrangian Dynamics
Augustin Chevallier, Erik Raab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24847 https://arxiv.or…

Covariance-Adaptive Bouncy Particle Samplers via Split Lagrangian Dynamics
Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs) provide a powerful framework for continuous-time Monte Carlo, with the Bouncy Particle Sampler (BPS) as a prominent example. Recent advances through the Metropolised PDMP framework allow local adaptivity in step size and effective path length, the latter acting as a refreshment rate. However, current PDMP samplers cannot adapt to local changes in the covariance structure of the target distribution. We extend BPS by introducing a position-depend…

Raiders Mailbag: How can rookies see more playing time down the stretch? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-how-can-rookies-see-more-playing-time-down-the-stretch