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Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App https://www.404media.co/congress-pushes-dhs-for-details-on-ices-new-facial-recognition-app/

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.

SPARC: Spine with Prismatic and Revolute Compliance for Quadruped Robot
Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01984 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01984

SPARC: Spine with Prismatic and Revolute Compliance for Quadruped Robot
We present SPARC, a compact, open-source 3-DoF sagittal-plane spine module that combines revolute (pitch) and prismatic (axial) motion with programmable task-space impedance for quadruped robots. The system integrates three torque-controlled actuators, a custom 1 kHz control board, and a protected power unit in a 1.26 kg package, enabling closed-loop stiffness and damping shaping along x, z, and theta. We develop an RNEA-based computed-acceleration controller with smooth Stribeck friction compe…

The Command Line GUIde: Graphical Interfaces from Man Pages via AI
Saketh Ram Kasibatla, Kiran Medleri Hiremath, Raven Rothkopf, Sorin Lerner, Haijun Xia, Brian Hempel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01453 …

The Command Line GUIde: Graphical Interfaces from Man Pages via AI
Although birthed in the era of teletypes, the command line shell survived the graphical interface revolution of the 1980's and lives on in modern desktop operating systems. The command line provides access to powerful functionality not otherwise exposed on the computer, but requires users to recall textual syntax and carefully scour documentation. In contrast, graphical interfaces let users organically discover and invoke possible actions through widgets and menus. To better expose the power of…

Maven-Lockfile: High Integrity Rebuild of Past Java Releases
Larissa Schmid, Elias Lundell, Yogya Gamage, Benoit Baudry, Martin Monperrus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00730 https:…

Maven-Lockfile: High Integrity Rebuild of Past Java Releases
Modern software projects depend on many third-party libraries, complicating reproducible and secure builds. Several package managers address this with the generation of a lockfile that freezes dependency versions and can be used to verify the integrity of dependencies. Yet, Maven, one of the most important package managers in the Java ecosystem, lacks native support for a lockfile. We present Maven-Lockfile to generate and update lockfiles, with support for rebuilding projects from past version…

RAG-PRISM: A Personalized, Rapid, and Immersive Skill Mastery Framework with Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring
Gaurangi Raul, Yu-Zheng Lin, Karan Patel, Bono Po-Jen Shih, Matthew W. Redondo, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Jesus Pacheco, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00646

RAG-PRISM: A Personalized, Rapid, and Immersive Skill Mastery Framework with Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring
The rapid digital transformation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) systems is reshaping workforce needs, widening skill gaps, especially for older workers. With growing emphasis on STEM skills such as robotics, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and security, large-scale re-skilling and up-skilling are required. Training programs must address diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and motivations to improve persistence and success, while ensuring rapid, cost-effective workforce develo…

Little Red Dots Are Nurseries of Massive Black Holes
Fabio Pacucci, Lars Hernquist, Michiko Fujii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Little Red Dots Are Nurseries of Massive Black Holes
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a previously unknown population of compact, red galaxies at $z \sim 5$, known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs). With effective radii of $\sim 100$ pc and stellar masses of $10^9-10^{11} \, \rm M_\odot$, a purely stellar interpretation implies extreme central densities, $ρ_\star\sim10^4-10^5 \, \rm M_\odot \, pc^{-3}$ and in some cases up to $\sim 10^9 \, \rm M_\odot \, pc^{-3}$, far exceeding those of globular clusters. At such densities, the dynam…

An Empirical Study of Vulnerable Package Dependencies in LLM Repositories
Shuhan Liu, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, David Lo, Xiaohu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21417 https://

An Empirical Study of Vulnerable Package Dependencies in LLM Repositories
Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years, revolutionizing various fields. Despite their widespread success, LLMs heavily rely on external code dependencies from package management systems, creating a complex and interconnected LLM dependency supply chain. Vulnerabilities in dependencies can expose LLMs to security risks. While existing research predominantly focuses on model-level security threats, vulnerabilities within the LLM dependency supply chain have been overl…

Orbital Magnetization in Correlated States of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Xiaoyu Liu, Chong Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ting Cao, Di Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01727

Orbital Magnetization in Correlated States of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Recent observations of quantum anomalous Hall effects in moiré systems have revealed the emergence of interaction-driven ferromagnetism with significant orbital contributions. To capture this physics, we extend the modern theory of orbital magnetization to Hartree-Fock states and show that the standard expression remains valid with Hartree-Fock orbitals and Hamiltonians. We then benchmark our theory against the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in a weak field, which yields excellent agreement with dire…

Integrating Generative AI into Cybersecurity Education: A Study of OCR and Multimodal LLM-assisted Instruction
Karan Patel, Yu-Zheng Lin, Gaurangi Raul, Bono Po-Jen Shih, Matthew W. Redondo, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Jesus Pacheco, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02998

Integrating Generative AI into Cybersecurity Education: A Study of OCR and Multimodal LLM-assisted Instruction
This full paper describes an LLM-assisted instruction integrated with a virtual cybersecurity lab platform. The digital transformation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) systems is reshaping workforce needs, widening skill gaps, especially among older workers. With rising emphasis on robotics, automation, AI, and security, re-skilling and up-skilling are essential. Generative AI can help build this workforce by acting as an instructional assistant to support skill acquisition during experien…