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Potenziell drastische Folgen: China sanktioniert Export weiterer Seltener Erden
Chinas Führung hat drastische Exportkontrollen für die verbleibenden Seltenen Erden angekündigt, die Folgen für die Halbleiterindustrie könnten drastisch sein.

"Food waste is a daunting problem – but we each hold a key to the solution in our own home"
#FoodWaste #Environment

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Wenting Zhao, Pranjal Aggarwal, Swarnadeep Saha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06870

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Scaling up test-time compute, by generating multiple independent solutions and selecting or aggregating among them, has become a central paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on challenging reasoning tasks. While most prior work relies on simple majority voting or reward model ranking to aggregate solutions, these approaches may only yield limited benefits. In this work, we propose to learn aggregation as an explicit reasoning skill: given a set of candidate solutions, we train an…

Student test scores are sliding, reaching new lows (Laura Meckler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/school-test-scores-sliding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p76#a250909p76

Neglected solutions in quadratic gravity
Breno L. Giacchini, Ivan Kol\'a\v{r}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07317 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07317

Neglected solutions in quadratic gravity
We report on several previously overlooked families of static spherically symmetric solutions in quadratic gravity. Our main result concerns the existence of solutions whose leading exponents depend on the ratio ${ω=α/(3β)}$ of the four-derivative couplings. We demonstrate that the space of models with ${ω>1}$ contains a dense set that admits non-Frobenius solutions ${(s_*, 2 - 3 s_*)_0}$ (in standard Schwarzschild coordinates), with certain rational numbers $s_*(ω)$. These solutions corre…

Looking out for text salting - abuse and scamming via hidden CSS and HTML
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/too-salty-to-handle-exposing-cases-of-css-abuse-for-hidden-text-salting

Too salty to handle: Exposing cases of CSS abuse for hidden text salting
A simple yet effective tactic, known as hidden text salting, is increasingly used by cybercriminals over the past few months to evade even the most advanced email security solutions, including those powered by machine learning and large language models.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Salt‐N‐Pepa:
🎵 Push It
#SaltNPepa
https://newbreed.bandcamp.com/track/saltnpepa-push-it-dj-tonka-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6sT9MWlJManry3EQwf4V80

This venomous fish is invading the Mediterranean.
One solution? Eat them.

While the Mediterranean,
like any sea,
teems with non-native species,
the ⭐️lionfish is almost singularly damaging,
and it has the potential to upend a vast marine environment that has sustained civilizations for millennia.
It devours shrimp, crabs and smaller fish,
its stomach swelling 30-fold during a feeding frenzy.
It is also a hardened survivor, capable of g…

This venomous fish is invading the Mediterranean. One solution? Eat them.
Lionfish have no natural predators and reproduce on a massive scale. Can the Mediterranean diet adapt to help limit their spread?

Palantir wehrt sich: Datenabfluss "technisch ausgeschlossen"
Sollten deutsche Polizeien eine Datenanalyse-Software aus den USA nutzen? Kritiker warnen vor Datenabfluss. Jetzt kontert Palantir.
https://w…

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-reveal-clues-to-the-evolution-of-complex-life-20250908/

Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.