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Two weeks into the government shutdown
with no resolution in sight,
higher ed associations and researchers say
the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers
or get new grants approved
is causing harm
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Researchers, Colleges Face Federal Shutdown Impacts
Two weeks into the government shutdown with no resolution in sight, higher ed associations and researchers say the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers or get new grants approved is causing harm.

"The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine."
Sythetic data using "AI" is such a toxic pattern that keeps being amplified (because of the structures that guide "science")
(Original title: Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!)

Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!
Medical research means dealing with ethics boards — who keep asking all these pointed questions on how you’re going to use people’s most personal data. What if we just … fake the data? Sorry,…

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites: #SatelliteCommunication: https://www.heise.de/en/news/US-Researchers-Intercept-Unencrypted-Satellite-Communication-10767672.html - US researchers have investigated satellite data traffic using commercial equipment; much of it, including security-relevant data, was unencrypted.

An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US states, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of enterprise use is for automation, and more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report

Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
To study such patterns of early AI adoption, we extend the Anthropic Economic Index along two important dimensions, introducing a geographic analysis of Claude.ai conversations and a first-of-its-kind examination of enterprise API use. We show how Claude usage has evolved over time, how adoption patterns differ across regions, and—for the first time—how firms are deploying frontier AI to solve business problems.

Marine Le Pen voit son recours contre son inéligibilité immédiate devant le Conseil d’Etat rejeté
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/10/15/marine-le-pen-voit-s…

Marine Le Pen voit son recours contre son inéligibilité immédiate devant le Conseil d’Etat rejeté
La présidente du groupe RN à l’Assemblée a été condamnée à quatre ans de prison, dont deux ferme aménagés sous bracelet électronique, et à une amende de 100 000 euros ainsi qu’à une inéligibilité immédiate de cinq ans dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires d’eurodéputés.

Resources to Learn More About the DPRK (aka North Korea)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPJjTYGBo4QRuafFkbWTA8imbpr-QP3tD_946Yv_v3A/edit?tab=t.0

NFL draft risers, questions and notes: Is Carson Beck's stock trending back up at Miami? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45531306/2026-nfl-draft-notebook-questions-latest-updates-risers-cfb-prospects

Neural Scaling Laws for Deep Regression
Tilen Cadez, Kyoung-Min Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10000 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10000

Neural Scaling Laws for Deep Regression
Neural scaling laws--power-law relationships between generalization errors and characteristics of deep learning models--are vital tools for developing reliable models while managing limited resources. Although the success of large language models highlights the importance of these laws, their application to deep regression models remains largely unexplored. Here, we empirically investigate neural scaling laws in deep regression using a parameter estimation model for twisted van der Waals magnet…

Bengals' Hendrickson, Stewart out vs. Steelers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46966893/bengals-pass-rushers-hendrickson-stewart-vs-steelers