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Hegseth will Krieg für Russland teurer machen
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Kriegs erhöht US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth den Druck auf den Kreml. Falls es nicht bald Frieden gebe, würden die Vereinigten Staaten gemeinsam mit ihren Verbündeten die notwendigen Schritte unternehmen, um den Krieg für Russland richtig teuer zu machen, sagte der Minister beim NATO-Verteidigungsministertreffen i…
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Selenskyj spricht mit Trump: "Tomahawks" für die Ukraine?
Schon zum zweiten Mal in zwei Tagen haben die Präsidenten Selenskyj und Trump miteinander gesprochen. Themen waren Luftverteidigung, Energiesektor und mögliche Friedensvermittlungen. Der Kreml kritisiert mögliche "Tomahawk"-Lieferungen.

'When did our ideas become so fragile?' Pentagon official slams boss' new policy - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2673857192/

DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving
Yingyan Li, Shuyao Shang, Weisong Liu, Bing Zhan, Haochen Wang, Yuqi Wang, Yuntao Chen, Xiaoman Wang, Yasong An, Chufeng Tang, Lu Hou, Lue Fan, Zhaoxiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12796

DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving
Scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on large-scale data offers a promising path to achieving a more generalized driving intelligence. However, VLA models are limited by a ``supervision deficit'': the vast model capacity is supervised by sparse, low-dimensional actions, leaving much of their representational power underutilized. To remedy this, we propose \textbf{DriveVLA-W0}, a training paradigm that employs world modeling to predict future images. This task generates a dense, self-supe…

Fine urban photo by Antonio Olmos/The Observer
Reminds me a bit of the work of Charles Lafrance of Montreal

Hybrid Terrain-Aware Path Planning: Integrating VD--RRT\(^{*}\) Exploration and VD--D\(^{*}\) Lite Repair
Akshay Naik, William R. Norris, Dustin Nottage, Ahmet Soylemezoglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12169

Hybrid Terrain-Aware Path Planning: Integrating VD--RRT\(^{*}\) Exploration and VD--D\(^{*}\) Lite Repair
Autonomous ground vehicles operating off-road must plan curvature-feasible paths while accounting for spatially varying soil strength and slope hazards in real time. We present a continuous state--cost metric that combines a Bekker pressure--sinkage model with elevation-derived slope and attitude penalties. The resulting terrain cost field is analytic, bounded, and monotonic in soil modulus and slope, ensuring well-posed discretization and stable updates under sensor noise. This metric is evalu…

Investigating Language Model Capabilities to Represent and Process Formal Knowledge: A Preliminary Study to Assist Ontology Engineering
Hanna Abi Akl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10249

Investigating Language Model Capabilities to Represent and Process Formal Knowledge: A Preliminary Study to Assist Ontology Engineering
Recent advances in Language Models (LMs) have failed to mask their shortcomings particularly in the domain of reasoning. This limitation impacts several tasks, most notably those involving ontology engineering. As part of a PhD research, we investigate the consequences of incorporating formal methods on the performance of Small Language Models (SLMs) on reasoning tasks. Specifically, we aim to orient our work toward using SLMs to bootstrap ontology construction and set up a series of preliminar…

Russia blasts 'freaks' at Time magazine over cover that Trump hated (Seb Starcevic/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-slams-freaks-time-magazine-donald-trump-cover-photo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p163#a251014p163

Natively Trainable Sparse Attention for Hierarchical Point Cloud Datasets
Nicolas Lapautre, Maria Marchenko, Carlos Miguel Pati\~no, Xin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10758 ht…

Natively Trainable Sparse Attention for Hierarchical Point Cloud Datasets
Unlocking the potential of transformers on datasets of large physical systems depends on overcoming the quadratic scaling of the attention mechanism. This work explores combining the Erwin architecture with the Native Sparse Attention (NSA) mechanism to improve the efficiency and receptive field of transformer models for large-scale physical systems, addressing the challenge of quadratic attention complexity. We adapt the NSA mechanism for non-sequential data, implement the Erwin NSA model, and…

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze, John March-Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10091 …

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
The thermal confinement phase transition (PT) in $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory is first-order for $N\geq 3$, with bounce action scaling as $N^2$. Remarkably, lattice data for the action include a small coefficient whose presence likely strongly alters the PT dynamics. We give evidence, utilizing insights from softly-broken SUSY YM models, that the small coefficient originates from a deconfined phase instability just below the critical temperature. We predict the maximum achievable supercooling in $…

Trump knüpft Sanktionen an härteres Vorgehen Europas
US-Präsident Donald Trump macht mögliche US-Sanktionen gegen Russland von einem härteren Vorgehen Europas abhängig. "Die europäischen Strafmaßnahmen sind nicht hart genug. Ich bin bereit zu handeln, aber Europa muss nachziehen und seine Maßnahmen auf mein Niveau anheben", sagte Trump.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine meldet Ausfall von Starlink ++
Die Ukraine hat einen erneuten vorübergehenden Ausfall des Satelliten-Kommunikationsdienstes Starlink beklagt. Laut Präsident Selenskyj rücken die ukrainischen Streitkräfte in den Grenzgebieten der nördlichen Region Sumy vor.