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Transfer Learning under Group-Label Shift: A Semiparametric Exponential Tilting Approach
Manli Cheng, Subha Maity, Qinglong Tian, Pengfei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22268 htt…

Transfer Learning under Group-Label Shift: A Semiparametric Exponential Tilting Approach
We propose a new framework for binary classification in transfer learning settings where both covariate and label distributions may shift between source and target domains. Unlike traditional covariate shift or label shift assumptions, we introduce a group-label shift assumption that accommodates subpopulation imbalance and mitigates spurious correlations, thereby improving robustness to real-world distributional changes. To model the joint distribution difference, we adopt a flexible exponenti…

Towards Shift-Up: A Framework and a Prestudy on High-Value Activities in GenAI Native Software Development
Vlad Stirbu, Mateen Ahmed Abbasi, Teerath Das, Jesse Haimi, Niko Iljin, Pyry Kotilainen, Petrus Lipsanen, Niko M\"akitalo, Maiju Sipil\"a, Venla Veijalainen, Tommi Mikkonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24485

Towards Shift-Up: A Framework and a Prestudy on High-Value Activities in GenAI Native Software Development
Generative AI (GenAI) has significantly influenced software engineering. Associated tools have created a shift in software engineering, where specialized agents, based on user-provided prompts, are replacing human developers. In this paper, we propose a framework for GenAI native development that we call \textit{shift-up}, which helps software teams focus on high-value work while being supported by GenAI. Furthermore, we also present a preliminary study testing these ideas with current GenAI to…

"Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order"
#FossilFuels #Energy

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order
The global shift toward renewable energy is challenging old geopolitical power structures. So where does Australia stand?

One-sided Hom shifts
Marie-Pierre B\'eal, Alexi Block Gorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24754 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24754

One-sided Hom shifts
We prove that it is decidable whether a one-sided shift of finite type is conjugate to a one-sided Hom-shift, and whether a tree-shift of finite type is conjugate to a Hom tree-shift. The proof uses Williams's theory for one-sided shifts

Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called
“a truly startling argument”
from the government
that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.
The case focused on a policy shift announced during the first week of Trump’s second term
that authorized the Department of Homeland Security to launch quick deportations,
across the country and without court proceedings,
of undocumented immigrants who cannot prove…

Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.

There are siblings of $\chi$ which are permutations for $n$ even
Bj\"orn Kriepke (University of Rostock), Gohar Kyureghyan (University of Rostock)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24839

There are siblings of $χ$ which are permutations for $n$ even
Let $1$ be the all-one vector and $\odot$ denote the component-wise multiplication of two vectors in $\mathbb F_2^n$. We study the vector space $Γ_n$ over $\mathbb F_2$ generated by the functions $γ_{2k}:\mathbb F_2^n \to \mathbb F_2^n, k\geq 0$, where $$ γ_{2k} = S^{2k}\odot(1+S^{2k-1})\odot(1+S^{2k-3})\odot\ldots\odot(1+S) $$ and $S:\mathbb F_2^n\to\mathbb F_2^n$ is the cyclic left shift function. The functions in $Γ_n$ are shift-invariant and the well known $χ$ function used in several …

Sources: Gayle King, who has anchored CBS News' morning show for over a decade, is expected to leave the program next year; her existing contract expires in May (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-cbs-mornings-anchor-out-1236565036/

Gayle King Expected to Depart as 'CBS Mornings' Anchor
Gayle King is expected to depart as 'CBS Mornings' anchor when her contract expires next spring. She may shift to a different role at CBS News.

Trump's Ukraine rhetoric shift signals reduced US involvement, Poland's Tusk says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/trumps-ukraine-rhetoric-shift-signals.html

🕯️ Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
https://theconversation.com/social-scientists-have-long-found-women-tend-to-be-more-religious-th…

Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
The religion gap between American men and women may be narrowing, a scholar explains – reflecting a seeming ‘God gap’ in US politics.

"A shift in food taxes could cut emissions and make diets healthier, researchers say"
#Emissions #Food #Health

Can a food tax help fix diets and the climate crisis?
Putting a tax on climate-intensive food could reduce impact, new study shows

Robust Majorana Platform Driven by a Meissner-Induced Anisotropic Doppler Shift
Xiao-Hong Pan, Si-Qi Yu, Li Chen, Fu-Chun Zhang, Xin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24686 https:/…

Robust Majorana Platform Driven by a Meissner-Induced Anisotropic Doppler Shift
The realization of robust Majorana zero modes (MZMs), a cornerstone for fault-tolerant quantum computing, is hindered by the challenge of creating a platform that simultaneously offers a large topological gap, high tunability, and resilience to disorder. A system unifying these properties has remained elusive. Here, we propose and validate a novel platform that harnesses the Meissner effect in a topological insulator (TI) nanowire partially covered by a superconducting (SC) layer. Under an exte…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How an NYT reporter almost fell for a scam,
--Hackers increasingly take aim at small-town water systems,
--Citizens must shift their threat models under Trump's regime,
--Even the most innocent AI model can spew out dark material,

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/20/25
How an NYT reporter almost fell for a scam, Hackers increasingly take aim at small-town water systems, Citizens must shift their threat models under Trump's regime, Even the most innocent AI model can spew out dark material, Building a pipeline for scraping CTI content from Telegram

MobileLLM-R1: Exploring the Limits of Sub-Billion Language Model Reasoners with Open Training Recipes
Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Zechun Liu, Chia-Jung Chang, Wei Wen, Chen Lai, Rick Cao, Yuandong Tian, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24945

MobileLLM-R1: Exploring the Limits of Sub-Billion Language Model Reasoners with Open Training Recipes
The paradigm shift in large language models (LLMs) from instinctive responses to chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has fueled two prevailing assumptions: (1) reasoning capabilities only emerge in sufficiently large models, and (2) such capabilities require training on massive datasets. While the first assumption has already been challenged by recent sub-billion-parameter reasoning models such as Qwen3-0.6B and DeepSeek distilled variants, the second remains largely unquestioned. In this work, we…

Python -> Curses -> Verständnisfrage:
key = screen.getkey()
Warum ist Tab == "\t"?
Warum ist Shift Tab == "KEY_BTAB"?
Warum gibt es nicht "KEY_TAB"?
Nein, ich möchte nicht den Hinweis bekommen, daß screen.getch() vermutlich hübscher ist. Interessiert mich nicht, weiß ich schon.
#python

I read the Bill Gates memo and it makes sense to me?! Am I missing something here? Or is the problem that the outrage machine of the far right and anti-climate-change lobby is misconstruing what he is calling for?
He's clearly saying that getting emissions down is still a priority that's already on track! In contrast global health and poverty are issues that appear to be slowing down or on hold and need more focused attention *now*. Therefore we need a shift in funding!

INTRODUCTION AUX SYSTEMES QUANTIQUES NON-HERMITIQUES: PT-sym\'etrie et pseudo Hermiticit\'e
Maamache Mustapha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23420 https://

INTRODUCTION AUX SYSTEMES QUANTIQUES NON-HERMITIQUES: PT-symétrie et pseudo Hermiticité
In recent decades, an important shift has taken place with the growing role of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics. What makes this framework remarkable is that the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonians involved can still be real, just as in the Hermitian case. Before turning to non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, we will first review some basic ideas and mathematical tools from the standard Hermitian formulation. This review is intended as a survey: most results will be stated without proof and without goi…

Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Primitives to Support LLM-Scale Applications
Yaman Jandali, Ruisi Zhang, Nojan Sheybani, Farinaz Koushanfar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25072 https:…

Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Primitives to Support LLM-Scale Applications
Privacy-preserving technologies have introduced a paradigm shift that allows for realizable secure computing in real-world systems. The significant barrier to the practical adoption of these primitives is the computational and communication overhead that is incurred when applied at scale. In this paper, we present an overview of our efforts to bridge the gap between this overhead and practicality for privacy-preserving learning systems using multi-party computation (MPC), zero-knowledge proofs …

Curriculum Imitation Learning of Distributed Multi-Robot Policies
Jes\'us Roche, Eduardo Sebasti\'an, Eduardo Montijano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25097 https://

Curriculum Imitation Learning of Distributed Multi-Robot Policies
Learning control policies for multi-robot systems (MRS) remains a major challenge due to long-term coordination and the difficulty of obtaining realistic training data. In this work, we address both limitations within an imitation learning framework. First, we shift the typical role of Curriculum Learning in MRS, from scalability with the number of robots, to focus on improving long-term coordination. We propose a curriculum strategy that gradually increases the length of expert trajectories du…

Lou Anarumo: Colts vs. Raiders, Week 5 https://www.colts.com/video/lou-anarumo-colts-vs-raiders-week-5

Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI
Cindy Peng, Alice Qian, Linghao Jin, Jieneng Chen, Evans Xu Han, Paul Pu Liang, Hong Shen, Haiyi Zhu, Jane Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24167

Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI
Recent generative AI advances present new possibilities for supporting visual art creation, but how such promise might assist novice artists during early-stage processes requires investigation. How novices adopt or resist these tools can shift the relationship between the art community and generative systems. We interviewed 13 artists to uncover needs in key dimensions during early stages of creation: (1) quicker and better access to references, (2) visualizations of reference combinations, (3)…

Even before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.

European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.

Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam
European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.

Prediction: #BCI companies currently focusing on developing an implantable visual prosthesis will soon shift their focus toward more general #neuromodulation use cases to reach economy of scale and recoup investments. #NeuroTech

BCI companies currently focusing on developing an implantable visual prosthesis will soon shift their focus toward more general neuromodulation use cases to reach economy of scale and recoup investments.
The claim that BCI (brain-computer interface) companies specializing in implantable visual prostheses are poised to pivot toward broader neuromodulation applications—for conditions like depression, chronic pain, Parkinson's, or cognitive enhancement—aligns with emerging industry trends. This shift would indeed help achieve economies of scale by targeting larger patient populations and accelerating investment recovery, as visual restoration remains a niche market (affecting an estimated 2.2 …

Embedding calculus and Vassiliev spectral sequence
Syunji Moriya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23766

Embedding calculus and Vassiliev spectral sequence
Vassiliev spectral sequence and Sinha spectral sequence are both related to cohomology of the space of long knots $\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}^3$. Although they have different origins, the Vassiliev $E_1$-page and the Sinha $E_2$-page are isomorphic (up to a degree shift). In this paper, we prove that they have isomorphic $E_\infty$-pages if the coefficient ring is a field. Together with degeneracy of the Sinha sequence, this implies that the Vassiliev sequence degenerates at $E_1$-page over $\mat…

Microsoft warns of ransomware gang shifting to steal cloud data, lock companies out of systems https://therecord.media/ransomware-gangs-shift-to-stealing-cloud-data

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/1]:
- DNN-Based Precoding in RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Systems With Practical Phase Shift
Po-Heng Chou, Ching-Wen Chen, Wan-Jen Huang, Walid Saad, Yu Tsao, Ronald Y. Chang

Continuation strategies to mitigate convergence to low-performing local optima in dynamic topology optimization
Tom De Weer, Vanessa Cool, Elke Deckers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24667

Continuation strategies to mitigate convergence to low-performing local optima in dynamic topology optimization
Solving dynamic topology optimization problems often yields low-performing local optima. Instead of converging towards a design that exploits dynamic mechanisms, a less interesting, mass-driven solution is often generated. This necessitates repeated and computationally expensive optimization reruns before a suitable optimum is found. In this work, an overview of three strategy classes that reduce the need for such reruns is presented: exclusion strategies, frequency shift methods and relaxation…

Rydberg Atomic Receivers for Wireless Communications: Fundamentals, Potential, Applications, and Challenges
Yin Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Bokai Xu, Yuanbin Chen, Zhilong Liu, Jiakang Zheng, Enyu Shi, Ziheng Liu, Tierui Gong, Wei E. I. Sha, Chau Yuen, Shi Jin, Bo Ai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22909

Rydberg Atomic Receivers for Wireless Communications: Fundamentals, Potential, Applications, and Challenges
Rydberg atomic receivers (RARs) leverage the quantum coherence of highly excited atoms to overcome the intrinsic physical limitations of conventional radio frequency receivers (RFRs), particularly in sensitivity, and bandwidth. This innovative technology represents a paradigm shift in wireless communication systems. This paper systematically explains the fundamental sensing mechanisms of RARs, contrasts their differences from RFRs in working principles and architectures. We explore their advant…

Grouped Satisficing Paths in Pure Strategy Games: a Topological Perspective
Yanqing Fu, Chao Huang, Chenrun Wang, Zhuping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23157 https://

Grouped Satisficing Paths in Pure Strategy Games: a Topological Perspective
In game theory and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), each agent selects a strategy, interacts with the environment and other agents, and subsequently updates its strategy based on the received payoff. This process generates a sequence of joint strategies $(s^t)_{t \geq 0}$, where $s^t$ represents the strategy profile of all agents at time step $t$. A widely adopted principle in MARL algorithms is "win-stay, lose-shift", which dictates that an agent retains its current strategy if it ac…

Mitigating Distribution Shift in Stock Price Data via Return-Volatility Normalization for Accurate Prediction
Hyunwoo Lee, Jihyeong Jeon, Jaemin Hong, U Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20108

Mitigating Distribution Shift in Stock Price Data via Return-Volatility Normalization for Accurate Prediction
How can we address distribution shifts in stock price data to improve stock price prediction accuracy? Stock price prediction has attracted attention from both academia and industry, driven by its potential to uncover complex market patterns and enhance decisionmaking. However, existing methods often fail to handle distribution shifts effectively, focusing on scaling or representation adaptation without fully addressing distributional discrepancies and shape misalignments between training and t…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
[1/1]:
- DNN-Based Precoding in RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Systems With Practical Phase Shift
Po-Heng Chou, Ching-Wen Chen, Wan-Jen Huang, Walid Saad, Yu Tsao, Ronald Y. Chang

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/CV8ld5Y
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lucy Dacus:
🎵 Night Shift
#LucyDacus
https://lucydacus.bandcamp.com/track/night-shift
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yYlpGuBiRRf33e1gY61bN

Directly Probing Neutrino Interactions through CMB Phase Shift Measurements
Gabriele Montefalcone, Subhajit Ghosh, Kimberly K. Boddy, Daven Wei Ren Ho, Yuhsin Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20363

Directly Probing Neutrino Interactions through CMB Phase Shift Measurements
Perturbations in the cosmic neutrino background produce a characteristic phase shift in the acoustic oscillations imprinted in the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), providing a unique observational probe of neutrino physics. In this work, we explore how this phase shift signature is altered in the presence of neutrino interactions with temperature-dependent scattering rates, motivated by physical constructions for neutrino self-interactions and neutrino-dark matter coupling…

Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns
Ben Britton, Tianbi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns
We present a simple 'shift-and-add' based improvement in the angular resolution of single electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) patterns. Sub-pixel image registration is used to measure the (sub-pixel) difference in projection parameters for patterns collected within a map, and then the pattern is shifted and added together. The resultant EBSD-pattern is shown to contain more angular information than a long-exposure single pattern, via 2D Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based analysis. In partic…

Emergent Isotropic-Nematic Transition in 3D Semiflexible Active Polymers
Twan Hooijschuur, Ehsan Irani, Antoine Deblais, Sara Jabbari-Farouji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21599 ht…

Emergent Isotropic-Nematic Transition in 3D Semiflexible Active Polymers
Active semiflexible filament collectives, ranging from motor-driven cytoskeletal filaments to slender organisms such as cyanobacteria and worm aggregates, abound in nature, yet how activity and flexibility jointly govern their organization, especially Isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition, remains poorly understood. Using large-scale Brownian dynamics simulations of 3D active semiflexible polymers with varying flexibility degrees, we show that tangential active forces systematically shift the I-N …

Mitigating MRI Domain Shift in Sex Classification: A Deep Learning Approach with ComBat Harmonization
Peyman Sharifian, Mohammad Saber Azimi, AliReza Karimian, Hossein Arabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20300

Mitigating MRI Domain Shift in Sex Classification: A Deep Learning Approach with ComBat Harmonization
Deep learning models for medical image analysis often suffer from performance degradation when applied to data from different scanners or protocols, a phenomenon known as domain shift. This study investigates this challenge in the context of sex classification from 3D T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans using the IXI and OASIS3 datasets. While models achieved high within-domain accuracy (around 0.95) when trained and tested on a single dataset (IXI or OASIS3), we demonstrat…

The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure
Recent announcements at major publications have seen critics losing their positions, an ongoing shift that we should all be alarmed by https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/a

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p86#a251028p86

Mix, Align, Distil: Reliable Cross-Domain Atypical Mitosis Classification
Kaustubh Atey, Sameer Anand Jha, Gouranga Bala, Amit Sethi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20745 https://

Mix, Align, Distil: Reliable Cross-Domain Atypical Mitosis Classification
Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are important histopathological markers yet remain challenging to identify consistently, particularly under domain shift stemming from scanner, stain, and acquisition differences. We present a simple training-time recipe for domain-robust AMF classification in MIDOG 2025 Task 2. The approach (i) increases feature diversity via style perturbations inserted at early and mid backbone stages, (ii) aligns attention-refined features across sites using weak domain label…

I need to go volunteer for another shift at the dorms this afternoon. I feel like I just recovered from the last one.

Jordan Love continues to emerge as one of NFL's most reliable passers: Week 8 Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6758810/2025/10/29/nfl-quick-outs-jordan-love-ravens-eagles/

Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality
Ethan Chen, Sushant Kondguli, Carl Marshall, Yuhao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23489

Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality
We introduce a gaze-tracking--free method to reduce OLED display power consumption in VR with minimal perceptual impact. This technique exploits the time course of chromatic adaptation, the human visual system's ability to maintain stable color perception under changing illumination. To that end, we propose a novel psychophysical paradigm that models how human adaptation state changes with the scene illuminant. We exploit this model to compute an optimal illuminant shift trajectory, controlling…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[7/8]:
- Recursive Training Loops in LLMs: How training data properties modulate distribution shift in gen...
Grgur Kova\v{c}, J\'er\'emy Perez, R\'emy Portelas, Peter Ford Dominey, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
…

Domestic Workers Exempted from Federal Minimum Wage Requirements in Policy Shift - GeneOnline News
https://www.geneonline.com/domestic-workers-exempted-from-federal-minimum-wage-requirements-in-policy-shift/

Knight shift measurements probing Fermi surface changes under pressure in CeRhIn$_5$
Y. -H. Nian, C. Chaffey, P. Sherpa, L. Santillan, K. Nagashima, Peter Klavins, V. Taufour, N. J. Curro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19634

Knight shift measurements probing Fermi surface changes under pressure in CeRhIn$_5$
We report nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Knight shift measurements of the In(1) and In(2) sites in CeRhIn$_5$ as a function of pressure. In contrast to the $c$ axis, the in-plane components of the In(1) Knight shift tensor exhibit little to no pressure dependence. These results indicate that the dipolar component of the tensor is strongly suppressed at the In(1) site, while it remains constant with pressure at the In(2) site. We analyze the hyperfine coupling in terms of a tight binding model…

Investigation of Parasitic Two-Level Systems in Merged-Element Transmon Qubits
Etienne Daum, Benedikt Berlitz, Steffen Deck, Alexey V. Ustinov, J\"urgen Lisenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22593 …

Investigation of Parasitic Two-Level Systems in Merged-Element Transmon Qubits
In conventional transmon qubits, decoherence is dominated by a large number of parasitic two-level systems (TLS) residing at the edges of its large area coplanar shunt capacitor and junction leads. Avoiding these defects by improvements in design, fabrication and materials proved to be a significant challenge that so far led to limited progress. The merged-element transmon qubit (''mergemon''), a recently proposed paradigm shift in transmon design, attempts to address these issues by engineerin…

Agentic Services Computing
Shuiguang Deng, Hailiang Zhao, Ziqi Wang, Guanjie Cheng, Peng Chen, Wenzhuo Qian, Zhiwei Ling, Jianwei Yin, Albert Y. Zomaya, Schahram Dustdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24380

Agentic Services Computing
The rise of LLM-powered agents is driving a fundamental transformation in services computing: from static, request-response functions to dynamic, goal-oriented, and autonomous multi-agent ecosystems. In response to this shift, we introduce Agentic Service Computing (ASC), a new paradigm that reimagines services as intelligent, self-adaptive, and socially embedded entities. This comprehensive survey presents a lifecycle-driven framework for ASC, structured around four core phases: Design, Deploy…

Rule of thumb:
Anytime you see the term "vibe shift", replace it in your mind with "dead internet".
https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-20…

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

Jim Bob Cooter: Colts vs. Raiders, Week 5 https://www.colts.com/video/jim-bob-cooter-colts-vs-raiders-week-5

Claudia Sheinbaum made history when she became Mexico’s first woman president — and the first of Jewish heritage. But on the night of September 15, she made history again. Standing on the Palacio Nacional balcony, clad in white, royal purple and gold, flanked by an all-female military honor guard and wearing a sash created for her by female military officers, she gripped the bell rope and, as required of the ritual, shouted. Normally soft-spoken and measured, the tone was a shift for the climate scientist, who visibly trembled under the weight of the task, but not as big a shift as what she shouted:
“¡Mexicanas! ¡Mexicanos!”
The inclusion of the feminine “Mexicanas,” and naming them FIRST matters.
#GoodThingsInTheWorld #Mexico #progressive
https://alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-mexicanas-first

Rescue Operators' Perspectives on KIRETT Wearable Technology: A Qualitative Study
Mubaris Nadeem, Johannes Zenkert, Lisa Bender, Christian Weber, Madjid Fathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24831

Rescue Operators' Perspectives on KIRETT Wearable Technology: A Qualitative Study
In emergencies, treatment needs to be fast, accu-rate and patient-specific. For instance, in emergency scenarios, obstacles like treatment environments and medical difficulties can lead to bad outcomes for patients. Additionally, a drastic change of health vitals can force paramedics to shift to a different treatment in the ongoing treatment of the patient in order to save a patient's life. The KIRETT (engl.: 'Artificial intelligence in rescue operations') demonstrator is developed to provide a…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
C.A. TWO: Unlike the youngsters. So what do we do?
C.A. ONE: Evacuation.
FRANTON: It's probably Auron's only chance now.
C.A. ONE: Why aren't you at the replication plant?
FRANTON: Off shift, unfortunately.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/129

Axions, Three-Forms, and M-Theory
Florian Niedermann, Ziqi Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18451 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18451

Axions, Three-Forms, and M-Theory
Scalar fields with masses protected by global shift symmetries, commonly referred to as axions, are abundantly used in effective field theories in cosmology and particle physics. However, global symmetries cannot be expected to be protected at the fundamental level. Finding consistent ultra-violet completions for axions is therefore a necessity. In this work, we identify the axion with the position mode of a charged 3-brane in (4+1)-dimensions. The shift symmetry of the axion is then a residual…

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.

The early warning system at command center Serpukhov-15, loudly alerting of a nuclear attack from the United States, was of course modern and up-to-date. Stanislav Petrov was in charge, working his second shift in place of a colleague who was ill.

Many officers facing the same situation would have called their superiors to alert them of the need f…

DoSReMC: Domain Shift Resilient Mammography Classification using Batch Normalization Adaptation
U\u{g}urcan Aky\"uz, Deniz Katircioglu-\"Ozt\"urk, Emre K. S\"usl\"u, Burhan Kele\c{s}, Mete C. Kaya, Gamze Durhan, Meltem G. Akp{\i}nar, Figen B. Demirkaz{\i}k, G\"ozde B. Akar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15452

DoSReMC: Domain Shift Resilient Mammography Classification using Batch Normalization Adaptation
Numerous deep learning-based solutions have been developed for the automatic recognition of breast cancer using mammography images. However, their performance often declines when applied to data from different domains, primarily due to domain shift - the variation in data distributions between source and target domains. This performance drop limits the safe and equitable deployment of AI in real-world clinical settings. In this study, we present DoSReMC (Domain Shift Resilient Mammography Class…

Model Science: getting serious about verification, explanation and control of AI systems
Przemyslaw Biecek, Wojciech Samek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20040 https://

Model Science: getting serious about verification, explanation and control of AI systems
The growing adoption of foundation models calls for a paradigm shift from Data Science to Model Science. Unlike data-centric approaches, Model Science places the trained model at the core of analysis, aiming to interact, verify, explain, and control its behavior across diverse operational contexts. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for a new discipline called Model Science, along with the proposal for its four key pillars: Verification, which requires strict, context-aware evaluation…

Cowboys legends reveal origin of iconic 'Landry Shift' victory formation https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-legends-reveal-origin-iconic-landry-shift-victory-formation

Lol - John Carpenter's 1988 They Live.
Starring famed 80s wrestler Roddy Piper - who coined "I'm here to kick ass and chew gum and Im all outa gum!" - who discovers a pair of special sunglasses that show the world as it really is: we are subliminally controlled by aliens using global warming to make Earth's atmosphere similar to their homeworld, depleting its resources
`DISRUPT! SHIFT PARADIGMS! MOVE FAST BREAK THINGS!`

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

'Paradigm shift' — Denmark to buy its first long-range arms to counter Russian threat: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/paradigm-shift-denmark-to-buy.html

#GNOME 48 with #Debian13 #Trixie and #Wayland: Has anybody an idea how to enable horizontal window scrolling via Shift T…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/HLshS8b
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail when the tide comes in
And I cast my fate to the wind
I shift my course round with the breeze
Won't sail upwind on memories
The empty sky is my best friend
And I cast my fate to the wind
Set sail with the tide
Shift course with the breeze
Let dreams blow away
Those sad memories
Well, now I'm old, I'm wise, I'm smart
Just a man with h…

Mitigating the Noise Shift for Denoising Generative Models via Noise Awareness Guidance
Jincheng Zhong, Boyuan Jiang, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Mingsheng Long
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12497

Mitigating the Noise Shift for Denoising Generative Models via Noise Awareness Guidance
Existing denoising generative models rely on solving discretized reverse-time SDEs or ODEs. In this paper, we identify a long-overlooked yet pervasive issue in this family of models: a misalignment between the pre-defined noise level and the actual noise level encoded in intermediate states during sampling. We refer to this misalignment as noise shift. Through empirical analysis, we demonstrate that noise shift is widespread in modern diffusion models and exhibits a systematic bias, leading to …

Diese Zwischenabfrage ist dann eigentlich überflüssig. Ohnehin ist unklar, wie ich auf dem Handy shift drücken soll und dabei klicke.
Cc @…

How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is "full of bugs" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d5d5b7fb-30fc-4f32-86d2-7499bcc433b6

‘Full of bugs’: how the world’s biggest carmakers fell behind in software
The shift from a manufacturing model to a digital one is proving difficult and expensive for many of the industry’s traditional companies

Blind Deconvolution of Nonstationary Graph Signals over Shift-Invariant Channels
Ali Zare, Yao Shi, Qiyu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17210 https://arxiv…

Blind Deconvolution of Nonstationary Graph Signals over Shift-Invariant Channels
In this paper, we investigate blind deconvolution of nonstationary graph signals from noisy observations, transmitted through an unknown shift-invariant channel. The deconvolution process assumes that the observer has access to the covariance structure of the original graph signals. To evaluate the effectiveness of our channel estimation and blind deconvolution method, we conduct numerical experiments using a temperature dataset in the Brest region of France.

Efficient Inference under Label Shift in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Seong-ho Lee, Yanyuan Ma, Jiwei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17780 https://arxiv…

Efficient Inference under Label Shift in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
In many real-world applications, researchers aim to deploy models trained in a source domain to a target domain, where obtaining labeled data is often expensive, time-consuming, or even infeasible. While most existing literature assumes that the labeled source data and the unlabeled target data follow the same distribution, distribution shifts are common in practice. This paper focuses on label shift and develops efficient inference procedures for general parameters characterizing the unlabeled…

Sources: publishers are considering moving from flat-fee AI content licensing deals with companies to usage-based deals; Perplexity is developing such a model (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/news-p…

News Publishers Shift AI Licensing Focus to Usage-Based Deals
Signs that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are generating ever-increasing revenues are getting attention—from news publishers who want to get their piece of the action. Publishers that have struck deals to license their content to AI firms for training large language models are ...

Engineering Non-Gaussian Bosonic Gates through Quantum Signal Processing
Pak-Tik Fong, Hoi-Kwan Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Engineering Non-Gaussian Bosonic Gates through Quantum Signal Processing
Non-Gaussian operations are essential for most bosonic quantum technologies. Yet, realizable non-Gaussian gates are rather limited in type and generally suffer from accuracy-duration trade-offs. In this work, we propose to use quantum signal processing (QSP) techniques to engineer non-Gaussian gates on hybrid qumode-qubit systems. For systems with dispersive coupling, our scheme can generate a new non-Gaussian gate that produces a phase shift depending on the modulus of the boson number. This g…

Ukrainians fear Trump will shift responsibility for ending war onto Kyiv after failed talks with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/ukrainians-fear-trump-will-shift.html

🐗 A major shift in the US landscape: 'Wild' disturbances are overtaking human-directed changes
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-major-shift-landscape-wild-disturbances.html

A major shift in the US landscape: 'Wild' disturbances are overtaking human-directed changes
If it feels like headlines reporting 100 or 1,000-year floods and megafires seem more frequent these days, it's not your imagination.

$F$-term Multi-Field Inflation in Supergravity without Stabiliser Superfields
Jinn-Ouk Gong, Sergei V. Ketov, Takahiro Terada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20194 https://

$F$-term Multi-Field Inflation in Supergravity without Stabiliser Superfields
Realising $F$-term slow-roll inflation in supergravity is non-trivial due to the well-known $η$-problem. The common strategy to solve the problem is to impose a shift symmetry on the Kähler potential, but this often leads to a negative potential in the large-field regime. To avoid negative potentials, an additional superfield called the stabiliser is usually added with a desired interaction. An alternative mechanism in supergravity, avoiding the use of a stabiliser superfield, was earlier pro…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126096/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
Andrew Duncan, Murray Elder, Lisa Frenkel, Mengfan Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22239 https://arx…

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
We prove that the \emph{permutation closure} of a multiple context-free language is multiple context-free, which extends work of Okhotin and Sorokin [LATA 2020] who showed closure under \emph{cyclic shift}, and complements work of Brandstädt [1981, RAIRO Inform. Théor.] (resp. Brough \emph{et al.} [2016, Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.]) who showed the same result for regular, context-sensitive, recursively enumerable (resp. EDT0L and ET0L) languages. In contrast to Okhotin and Sorokin who…

Low-exposure, high-quality multimodal speckle X-ray imaging via an intrinsic gradient-flow approach
Jayvan Liu, Samantha J. Alloo, Max Langer, Konstantin M. Pavlov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20209

Low-exposure, high-quality multimodal speckle X-ray imaging via an intrinsic gradient-flow approach
We present a new approach for retrieving dark-field, attenuation, and phase shift from speckle-based X-ray images. Speckle-based X-ray imaging (SBXI) images and quantifies how a sample modifies a reference near-field speckle pattern, which is generated by a randomly structured mask. Phase-shift images are useful because they reveal how materials in a sample refract the X-ray beam, providing contrast between similar low-density structures that are difficult to visualise in attenuation images. Da…

DRR-MDPF: A Queue Management Strategy Based on Dynamic Resource Allocation and Markov Decision Process in Named Data Networking (NDN)
Fatemeh Roshanzadeh, Hamid Barati, Ali Barati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20272

DRR-MDPF: A Queue Management Strategy Based on Dynamic Resource Allocation and Markov Decision Process in Named Data Networking (NDN)
Named Data Networking (NDN) represents a transformative shift in network architecture, prioritizing content names over host addresses to enhance data dissemination. Efficient queue and resource management are critical to NDN performance, especially under dynamic and high-traffic conditions. This paper introduces DRR-MDPF, a novel hybrid strategy that integrates the Markov Decision Process Forwarding (MDPF) model with the Deficit Round Robin (DRR) algorithm. MDPF enables routers to intelligently…

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/public-broadcast-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p21#a250826p21

Cosmological constraints on Galileon dark energy with broken shift symmetry
William J. Wolf, Pedro G. Ferreira, Carlos Garc\'ia-Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17586

Cosmological constraints on Galileon dark energy with broken shift symmetry
Current cosmological data seem to show that dark energy is evolving in time and that it possibly crossed the phantom divide in the past. So far the only theories that lead to such a behavior involve a non-trivial coupling between dark energy, in the form of a scalar field, and the gravitational or matter sector. We show that there is another possibility involving both a non-trivial kinetic sector in a cubic Galileon theory and a scalar field potential that breaks the Galileon shift symmetry, wh…

AbideGym: Turning Static RL Worlds into Adaptive Challenges
Abi Aryan, Zac Liu, Aaron Childress
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

AbideGym: Turning Static RL Worlds into Adaptive Challenges
Agents trained with reinforcement learning often develop brittle policies that fail when dynamics shift, a problem amplified by static benchmarks. AbideGym, a dynamic MiniGrid wrapper, introduces agent-aware perturbations and scalable complexity to enforce intra-episode adaptation. By exposing weaknesses in static policies and promoting resilience, AbideGym provides a modular, reproducible evaluation framework for advancing research in curriculum learning, continual learning, and robust general…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126093/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

Something has definitely changed in Democratic rhetoric just in the last couple of weeks.
Officials are now suggesting that ICE agents are committing crimes and should be held accountable
— which is very different from simply objecting to a policy shift.
It’s fair to say this is a result not only of the street-level thuggery that has been so apparent,
but the mounting evidence that top Trump officials feel unconstrainedby the law, judges, or any established authorit…

ICE is out of control and beyond repair
This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

Sources: Microsoft will use Anthropic's models for some AI features in Office 365 apps, after finding Claude Sonnet 4 outperforms GPT-5 in some tasks (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-buy-ai-anthropic-shift-op…

Microsoft to Buy AI From Anthropic in Partial Shift From OpenAI
Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI’s artificial intelligenceby embracing the startup’s bitter rival Anthropic to power its most important software business. Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s technology for some AI features in Office 365 apps, according to two ...

"Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness"
#Arctic #Environment
https://phys.org/…

Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness
In Alaska's Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems.

Survey of Specialized Large Language Model
Chenghan Yang, Ruiyu Zhao, Yang Liu, Ling Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1966…

Survey of Specialized Large Language Model
The rapid evolution of specialized large language models (LLMs) has transitioned from simple domain adaptation to sophisticated native architectures, marking a paradigm shift in AI development. This survey systematically examines this progression across healthcare, finance, legal, and technical domains. Besides the wide use of specialized LLMs, technical breakthrough such as the emergence of domain-native designs beyond fine-tuning, growing emphasis on parameter efficiency through sparse comput…

Position: Human-Robot Interaction in Embodied Intelligence Demands a Shift From Static Privacy Controls to Dynamic Learning
Shuning Zhang, Hong Jia, Simin Li, Ting Dang, Yongquan `Owen' Hu, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19041

Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure, as the Chicago Tribune cut its film critic job, VF fired its film critic, and the NYT reassigned four arts critics (Jesse Hassenger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/26/movie-reviews-c…

On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Antero Taivalsaari, Tommi Mikkonen, Cesare Pautasso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19834 https://…

On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Software development is currently under a paradigm shift in which artificial intelligence and generative software reuse are taking the center stage in software creation. Earlier opportunistic software reuse practices and organic software development methods are rapidly being replaced by "AI Native" approaches in which developers place their trust on code that has been generated by artificial intelligence. This is leading to a new form of software reuse that is conceptually not all that differen…

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to head MI5,
has passed away.
The Daily Express obituary highlights her trailblazing career.
Appointed director general in 1992, she was globally recognized as the first female head of an intelligence agency.
Rimington joined MI5 in 1967 as a part-time typist at the British High Commission in New Delhi,
transitioning from what she described as a “bored housewife”.
Throughout her career, she confronted Russian spie…

Press Review - Serious mood and fewer perks: Silicon Valley enters its 'hard tech' era
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, August 5: As the plastic pollution summit begins in Geneva, Libération highlights the little-known but devastating scourge of plastic pellets ravaging the planet. Also, Silicon Valley’s shift into a new “hard tech” era reflects a changing political climate; former CNN journalist Jim Acosta sparks controversy after interviewing an AI avatar of a school massacre victim. And, the press pays tribute to Stella Rimington, the first woman chief of MI5.

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

"From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain"
#India #SolarPower #Energy

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain
On remote river islands in eastern India’s Assam state, solar power is helping children access education more reliably, reports Mongabay India’s Shailesh Shrivastava. Schools in Assam’s Brahmaputra River Valley recently introduced digital classroom infrastructure, bringing audio-visual learning to children. For some students, this shift from chalkboard-only teaching has been a game changer. “Until last year, […]

Can Ukraine’s oil strikes shift Russia's war?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/can-ukraines-oil-strikes-shift.html

Q&A with Tristan Werkmeister, Reuters' first social-first video reporter, on what the role looks like, how it was created, its challenges, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-not-

“It’s not just younger people making the shift”: Meet Reuters’ first social-first video reporter
"Stories need to be either boiled down to the essentials, or reframed to put all the attention on the most social-friendly angle."

A look at the surge in US states introducing AI bills, as the states shift from comprehensive AI laws to focus on narrower issues, like mental health (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/whats-up-with-the-states

What's up with the States?
A check-in

"Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea #FossilFuels

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alibaba-baidu-adopt-ai-chips-m…

Alibaba and Baidu Adopt Their Own AI Chips in Major Shift for Chinese Tech
Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their artificial intelligence models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia, according to four people with direct knowledge of the moves. The move is the latest sign that a decoupling of ...

Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/arts/halo-playstation-microsoft-xbox.h…

With Halo: Campaign Evolved, Microsoft Brings Prized Xbox Game to PlayStation
As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.